# Who dislikes their child so much at birth...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 8, 2008, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544 "2008-05-08T10:16:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/21 "2008-05-08T14:27:05Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E]
Someone should make a baby name site that tells you the origin and meaning of names as well as how much the child will be teased if you give them that name.
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Note that in **QED** ’s link there’s a link for “Drawbacks”. That particular issue is addressed.
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/22 "2008-05-08T14:28:48Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E]
Someone should make a baby name site that tells you the origin and meaning of names as well as how much the child will be teased if you give them that name.
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If the name is common where you live, the child is much less likely to be teased, don’t you think?
LaTrina is very common here. I doubt that people are thinking of latrine when they encounter it. Ya never know, it might have been her grandmother’s name.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/23 "2008-05-08T14:30:07Z")
You think that’s bad, wait till you hear what they called little Oranjello’s sister…
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/24 "2008-05-08T14:36:57Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu]
\*Making a mental note to never name my future son (should I have one) "Richard."It would be playground beating time when the kids made the connection between the diminutive “Dick” in conjuction with my last name.
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Dick Mu? 😕
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### Author:  [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/25 "2008-05-08T14:39:11Z")
Nancy Dick, former lieutenant governor of Colorado, named her son [Timber](http://media.www.duclarion.com/media/storage/paper481/news/2008/04/22/News/Timber.Dick.Dies.In.Car.Crash-3341609.shtml). Note the sad irony of his death.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/26 "2008-05-08T14:44:39Z")
[QUOTE=sandra\_nz]
I once worked with a Heather Leather.
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That’s hot.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/27 "2008-05-08T14:52:26Z")
Don’t forget [Dick Butkus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Butkus).
(Isn’t there also a sports announcer named something like Dick Shaft?)
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/28 "2008-05-08T14:54:50Z")
I think you mean Dick Schaap. But Dick Shaft is funnier.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/29 "2008-05-08T14:57:30Z")
[QUOTE=Sigmagirl]
I think you mean Dick Schaap. But Dick Shaft is funnier.
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And then there’s [Dick Head](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Head).
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/30 "2008-05-08T15:12:56Z")
[QUOTE=sandra\_nz]
I once worked with a Heather Leather. That was her married name, which she chose to take.
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There was a waitress at a local IHOP that we all knew as Leather Heather. But that was more wishful thinking than anything else.
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/31 "2008-05-08T15:20:56Z")
We’ve got three Latrinas in this company, placing in the “uncommon, but not rare” category.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/32 "2008-05-08T15:21:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sigmagirl]
I think you mean Dick Schaap. But Dick Shaft is funnier.
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That’s the one. It still probably got him _called_ Dick Shaft in grade school, though.
**Q.E.D.** , isn’t “Richard Head” the name of Butthead’s stepfather?
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### Author:  [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/33 "2008-05-08T15:27:00Z")
Wasn’t there a football player named Fair Hooker?
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/34 "2008-05-08T15:28:58Z")
“You changed your name…_to_ Latrine?”
“Yeah. Used to be Shithouse!”
“…Good change. That’s a good change.”
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### Author:  [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/35 "2008-05-08T15:42:04Z")
[QUOTE=Daithi Lacha]
Wasn’t there a football player named Fair Hooker?
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There was indeed! He played for the Browns.
[http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HookFa00.htm](http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HookFa00.htm)
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/36 "2008-05-08T15:42:59Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
**Q.E.D.** , isn’t “Richard Head” the name of Butthead’s stepfather?
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Possibly. I’m not a fan.
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### Author:  [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/37 "2008-05-08T16:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=Daithi Lacha]
Wasn’t there a football player named Fair Hooker?
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There was a girl on my floor freshman year in college named Candy Hooker.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/38 "2008-05-08T16:10:56Z")
Let us not forget Rudi Pecker, who was so successful that Misys gave him a [head job in Asia](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1101709/posts).
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/39 "2008-05-08T16:13:59Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht]
The parents probably just didn’t know what the word meant and thought Latrina sounded like Laetitia, or something.
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“Lay-a-titty-a”? That’s any better?
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### Author:  [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-dislikes-their-child-so-much-at-birth/448544/40 "2008-05-08T16:22:22Z")
I know an Analy. Her family is not originally from the US. It is pronounced as if it were AnnaLee.
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