Whoops - I thought she was on the menu

What’s with celebrity baby names? Nic Kidman has had her baby girl and named it Sunday Rose. I had to read it twice because I thought the headline read “Sunday Roast”. That said, when I have another child, it’s Wheatgrass Curly Fries for us. :stuck_out_tongue:

Celebrity baby names are no more unusual than non-celebrity baby names. You just hear about them more often, because they’re celebrities.

I knew a girl in college whose name was Sundae, so Kidman’s kid’s name actually sounded normal. It’s no Pilot Inspektor, at least.

Someone in the office read out the child’s name and I had the same reaction.

Mum’s cooking a lamb roast! :smiley:

Bah, this has going on forever. Just ask Moon Unit and Dweezle Zappa (born 1967 and 1969 respectively). I’m sure there are much more venerable examples than these.

ETA: and how could I forget Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa and Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa? Shame on me.

I recently had to write a business letter to someone with the first name “Sundae.”

After the letter went out, I asked the property manager to confirm the gender of this person, because I wasn’t sure. Male, as it turned out.

I’m so glad that I had opted for the stuffy and impersonal “Dear Council President,” instead of committing to “Ms.” as the most likely honorific for the salutation.

I don’t really know any of the language, but isn’t Sun Dae a plausible Korean name?

I don’t know, but this fellow wasn’t Korean.

Who would have thought that of the two celebrities to have babies on Monday, Matthew McConaughey would be the one to name his child something normal (Levi)? I was shocked. Especially considering that Kidman’s other two children have very nice names (Connor and Isabella). Poor little Sunday. At least she has Rose to fall back on.

So if Anthony Hopkins turns up at Nics house for Sunday lunch he’s gonna be mightily disappointed

Slight hijack: that doesn’t mean it’s not a Korean name. My hubby’s name is Egyptian, in spite of being of English/German descent. His grandfather was a professor of Egyptology, and gave my FIL an Egyptian name because of that. My hubby then inherited the name, along with the numeral II.

He suspects that there have been times he hasn’t been called for a job interview because people reviewing his resume assume he’s a “furriner” based on his name. On the plus side, we can always tell whether the people calling here for him really know him or not. Those who don’t know him never know how to pronounce his name. [/hijack]

Huh? What’s wrong with those? :wink:

As far as oddball celeb names go, “Sunday Rose” is practically normal.

Levi is a good Biblical name, but in this case I suspect that Matthew named the kid after his pants.

If that’s the case then I would have guessed that Quiksilver Boardshort McConaughey would have been more appropriate.

Ha! Good one! And sadly, this is probably true.

Sunday Rose Kidman Urban sounds like a line of very bad poetry or an sentence in a bad novel. Not as bad as some celebrities but definitely giggle territory for me.

Urban! Now there’s an old-fashioned name that needs reviving.

It was good enough for popes and baseball players (remember the fabulous Urban Shocker?), so why not 21st century kiddies?

“Levi! You and Lee and Docker get outta that pool!”

My cousin’s name is Sundae, so it didn’t faze me at all.