Okay, so my dad was in the hospital for reasons relating to his cancer. We went to pick him up today, and found out that the name of one of his nurses was Lolita! :eek:
I mean, I’ve heard of some names that made me cringe, but that just seems like a bad idea for so many reasons…
“Lolita”, as horrifying a name as it is for a new baby, doesn’t even compare to the horror that so many of today’s parents are inflicting on future teachers everywhere.
I love how the birth announcement pages contain more Ks and Ys stuffed into the kid’s first name than a sex lube factory.
Not to mention the ridiculous spellings. “Kaitlynne” “Bradleigh” “Kylahh” et al.
Makes me yearn for the Heathers and Jasons of yesteryear. Of course now they would be Heythrre and Jaysynn.
My daughter started a new school this year. One of her teachers had each student in the class tell their name and share something about it. One of her new classmates is named Precious. Their speeches that day went like this:
“Hi, my name is Kathryn. There has been a Kathryn in my mom’s family as far back as they have been able to trace so I’m it for this generation. So, I’m Katy - not to be confused with my cousin Kathy, my Aunt Kath, or my great Aunt Kate.”
“Hi, my name is Precious. Yes - it IS my real name.
No - I don’t know what my parents were thinking. I’m hoping drugs were involved because I’d hate to think they did this to me while they were sober.”
My oldest daughter is named Mary, after my grandmother. I went to Catholic school so every girl I knew growing up was name some variation of Mary, be it Mary Anne, Mary Catherine, Merilee, etc. Often there would be several Marys in the same family.
My daughter was the only Mary in her entire grade school. There are maybe three in her high school. Jennifers a-plenty but hardly any Marys.
I predict that in a few years, a common sound on the playground will be:
“Caligula! Give the ball back to Agamemnon!”
My birthday is on Christmas to, but my parents only named me David.
Re: Stupid Spellings.
Last week, looking over the birth notices in the paper, I saw a baby boy named Aleksander. “That’s the stupidest spelling of Alexander I’ve ever seen”, I thought.
Three days later, I saw a notice for a baby girl named Aleksandra.
People, this is just wrong. Look at it. It’s not right! Don’t ever do this. Sure, it might be an accepted spelling in some parts of the world, but it’s not in Australia!
Again, I must mention the girl working at a local department store. Every time I go through her check-out, I stare in horrified facination at her name tag… “Maranda”. Ugh. Just so wrong.
I love the Unusual and Creative Names website, but some of the entries make me cringe…
Examples:
Abbruzzese (AB-RUU-ZAY-ZEE) - Girl’s name
Adragon (Add-dreg-en) - Girl’s name
Angel - Boy’s name
Binx - Boy’s name
Oh, and you have to love this touching story:
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*Diezel - I have a son named DIEZEL and I love it, he’s named after a national champion boxer (dog) . I named him that because I had a special bond with a dog named Diesel, I just put in the z for some zest! *
I highly recommend this site. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll think… You’ll also come to fear the phrase “…with a twist!”
I’d swear someone around here has a neice named Crystal Jade or something. Poor girl, I see (exotic) dancing in her future.
When I was a teacher (previous life) I had 3 girls in a class with names spelled. T-A-M-A-R-A. Of course, they had three different pronounciations.
Tamara - Tam- uh - ruh
Tamara - Tam - are - uh
Tamara - Tam - air - uh
And don’t mix them up.
I do feel badly for some of these little children. What a burden of all those letters to carry around. I often joke (not to them, of course) that they won’t be able to spell their own names until their 7 years old!
But what do I know? I wanted to name The Littlest Doper[sup]TM[/sup] “Alice Cooper Spritle” if a girl or “Justin Case Spritle” if a boy. Thank goodness Mrs. Spritle is wiser than I.
So, what’s eating you? It’s a perfectly normal spelling in Slavonic languauges.
A friend of mine named her baby, Daisy Sue. Thank God that Sue is the middle name, not part of the first name! Whenever I talk about my friend’s baby to someone and the name comes up, they cringe, so I guess it’s not just me.
Angel is a common male name in Spain and Latin American countries.
My sister and I went to a high school graduation a couple of years ago. We were shocked when they announced the name: (get ready for this…)
Blenda Margarita Jones
I am not kidding. She came to the pharmacy where I worked last year, wrote a check for a purchase, and I had to look at her driver’s liscense. I couldn’t help but giggle at her as she walked away. Who would name their child this? I probably still have the graduation program somewhere if someone desires the proof.
My Little Sister (with BB/BS) goes to school with people named:
Fabulous
Money
He Man
Swiggy
They make me smile every time I hear them (though I would never inflict one of them on a child of mine).
I knew a girl back at school who was named “Sharon Lolita [last name omitted]” and she decided to go by Lolita. I thought that was a little weird, considering “Sharon” doesn’t have quite the negative connotations that “Lolita” does.
Did I mention that she was one of those Bible-thumpers that was constantly trying to convert people on campus to her particular denomination? That makes it even weirder, IMHO.
Um…
Dave Abbruzzese was the drummer for Pearl Jam. Back in the Ten era. Maybe that explains the genesis of this? (Not condoning it, you understand; it’s loathsome to do that to a child.)
I,personally, don’t really like “plain” names. Now I think I’ll name my child Agamemnon. I’ll call him Ag for short. I see nothing wrong with naming your kid something different as long as you give him/her an alternative name to go by if they don’t like it. Seriously, I’m going to name my girl Circe. I think it sounds pretty. If she doesn’t like her name then I’ll just call her Jennifer. hehe.
I know… some of these people need to really think when they name their kids. I distinctly remember when I was younger the little kid next door was named Texas… I still think of that as a weird name for a kid.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that people take Celtic guys names and change them around to make them a girls name. EG Kaelin is a boy name but in my Guide troop we have a Kaylin.
I substitute-taught a kindergarten class several years ago in a primarily Hispanic town here in California. Before class started, I noticed one of the kids was called “Chuy”. I didn’t think this was highly unusual, as I believe “Chuy” is used as a nickname for the name “Jesus”- which is a common name in the culture.
It wasn’t until I looked at the attendance sheet that I found “Chuy” wasn’t short for “Jesus”; it was short for Chewbacca! Better yet, his middle name was Yoda!
His parents had named him “Chewbacca Yoda Hernandez*”!!
*not his real last name
Oh my! May the force be with him.
I can one-up the “Precious” story. In my daughter’s daycare class, there were twins. Precious and Princess.
What’s absolutely horrifying is that this is not the first Princess that I have known. In the very small town where I grew up, there was a Princess. She was an adult when I was a teenager, so I suppose she’d be in her late 40s or early 50s by now.
Well, my English teacher apparently knew someone named Jorma Jortikka. While that doesn’t sound like much in English language, but naming a kid like that in Finland would be the same as naming an American kid “Dick Schlong”. I believe parents give their children stupid names as a final, lasting revenge for that one contraceptive broken.