# You named your kid WHAT!?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2001, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305 "2001-10-09T11:18:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/61 "2001-10-10T02:06:46Z")
Once of my dearest friends is a labor and delivery nurse who passes on the following jewels: A baby girl named ABCDE pronounced absedee The couple named King who named their son Nosmo. Do you get it? Nosmo King? No Smoking? What a laugh riot. Sadistic assholes. Of course I wish my parents had at least a little bit of originality. -John ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/62 "2001-10-10T02:07:34Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Dale The Bold \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Oh please tell me this was in southern Wisconsin (during the 80’s). I know of a Pajama (with that pronounciation) from there. I hate to think there are two. \*\* She was from Minneapolis, MN. Truth be told, she wasn’t very literate, and she saw the word in a magazine and thought it would make a neat name…even after she was told what it meant. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/63 "2001-10-10T02:17:37Z")
A boy in my daughter’s class is named Semaj. It’s his daddy’s name spelled backwards. I also know of a boy named Ether. Really. As for names you’re afraid to pronounce out loud, I once had to make sales calls. Two of the men on the list were Mike Litt (oh, the horror) and John Dodo (I wasn’t sure if it was “doe-doe” or “doo-doo”, but either way I didn’t want to ask for him). ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/64 "2001-10-10T02:40:30Z")
My friend and I used to make up names to amuse ourselves. A sampling: Abcessa Abortina Abysma Acetalene Adenoma Amnesia Amnesty Anemia Angioma Apathy Avarice Bovina Cacophany Cayenne Chemise Chimera Clorene Churlisha Commodity Complicity Concertina Connifer Doldra Flotilla Droola Epiphany Eppie Faustina Fluenza Gluttany Hostility Inanity Javelina Labyrinthine Latrina Mahogany Malaria Menstretta Miasma Mongrella Polly Ethyl Lynn Rotunda Sardonica Spirulina Tamponya Tundra Twinklette Ubiquity Uvula Urethra Vacuity Velveetah Veranda Volatilla Vulvette Wenchetta Zitzy ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/65 "2001-10-10T02:56:18Z")
I had a friend in college named Wendy 9 \_\_\_\_\_\_. Not “Nine”, but “9”. She went by 9, of course. She was an excellent hockey player, care to guess her number? One of her brothers was 7. She wasn’t the 9th child, he wasn’t the 7th, it’s just their names. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/66 "2001-10-10T03:13:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw24 \* > **"Mother, why was I named Rose?" > "Well… a single rose petal flew through the window and landed right on your forehead.** All joking aside (well… most of it maybe), it’s good to see traditional naming methods still being used in this modern world. My sister-in-law (a nurse) told me about a little boy she knows who was named from the label on something in the delivery room. I guess it could have been much worse. **Hewlett-Packard** is quite a nice name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/67 "2001-10-10T05:02:39Z")
My nephew is named Nathan Kali. Why would they name a boy after the goddess of death, rebirth, and menstruation? ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/68 "2001-10-10T07:05:30Z")
Knew a guy named Bryian. His mother couldn’t decide whether to spell it with a Y or an I, so she used both. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/69 "2001-10-10T07:37:41Z")
I named my son Vincent Blackshadow, after the Vincent Blackshadow motorcycle. Of course, he goes by Vinnie or Vincent, so he doesnt get crap from the kids at school. When he was born, one of the people from the hospital thought that Blackshadow was my last name, and therefore the kids last name. I guess that just assumed it was a Native American name or something. They had to go back and correct the paperwork. ---
**Author:** ![Damhna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Damhna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damhna)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/70 "2001-10-10T09:30:47Z")
Okay. Friend of mine works as an air hostess. Her name:Siobhan. Correct pronunciation: Shivon She was tralking to an American customer ona flight one day and was told “well goodness my daughters name is Sio-ba-han too!” Took her a while to figure out. Somewhere out there there’s a little girl who is in for a shock one day. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/71 "2001-10-10T11:25:53Z")
Years ago when I first began teaching preschool I had twin girls who were named Destiny and Ecstasy. By now they are pushing 30, I wonder how they’ve done with those names, especially Ecstasy. Then there is the old hippie family in the neighborhood who named their children, both boys, Passion and Zenith. Judging from personal experience, I don’t think that\* having\* an unusual moniker is nearly as unfortunate as having either a cutesy and/or difficult _spelling_ of the name. In day-to-day life, an unusual name can be pleasurable, but the potential practicalities of spelling it can be troublesome. ---
**Author:** ![teigra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@teigra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teigra)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/72 "2001-10-10T11:40:05Z")
My sisters name is Kille. (think it means “boy” in swedish) yeah-yeah… put an “r” in the end… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![teigra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@teigra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teigra)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/73 "2001-10-10T11:43:12Z")
One more question: would you consider Triinu a female/male name? How would you pronounce it? ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/74 "2001-10-10T12:19:17Z")
I own a delightful book called “Remarkable Names of Real People” by John Train, with illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan. It contains, as the title suggests, odd names of real people. Unfortunately, I’ve misplaced it. Here are some of the names that I can remember: Iona Victory Bond Boo, Moo, Goo and Little Miss May (quads) Original Bug Dr Zoltan Ovary (gyno) Laryngitis Jackson Chanda Lear ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/75 "2001-10-10T12:29:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by teigra \* > \*\* > My sisters name is Kille. > (think it means “boy” in swedish) > \*\* Sort of. A better translation would by **guy**. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/76 "2001-10-10T12:53:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\* Example: I went to school with a kid named Ketal, pronounced “kettle.” Which is a nice enough Indian name, but his poor sister was named Shittel. \*\* …until they get to organic chem… Wry - Semaj has some company - that’s how Red Sox SS Nomar Garciaparra got his name - his father’s reversed… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/77 "2001-10-10T12:59:08Z")
My best friend’s mother works in the maternity ward of a Chicago-area hospital, and one interesting name she came across was: “Shi’thead,” apparently pronounced “shuh-TAYD” She mispronounced it and was summarily corrected by the mother… ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/78 "2001-10-10T13:20:12Z")
I once handed a university ID card to one Dikshit Patel. I pity the man, I really, really do. But then again, people will always get saddled with nicknames that are even worse than what people have here. For a long while I was known as Fucking [last name]. Right now I’m The [last name]. ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/79 "2001-10-10T15:03:29Z")
I’m just going to take an issue with the supposed weird spelling of “Aleksander”. All of the people with this name that I know personally spell it exactly this way. The shortening of this name is either to Alek or Alec (no s sound at the end). Didn’t you ever read “The Black Stallion”? For you to imply that this is an “unusual spelling” is very strange to me. My name is Melania, which gets annoying because people don’t like names with four syllables. My parents are Aija and Egils so I guess I lucked out, though. ---
**Author:** ![evilskippy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@evilskippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilskippy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305/80 "2001-10-10T15:38:24Z")
Friends of a friend named their son Steel. (not too bad) They plan on naming their next son Titanium. (Tit?) They named thier daughter Sapphire Blue. Also, other friends neighbors have daughters Chablis, Chardonny, Champaigne and Merlot. What are some people thinking? 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-named-your-kid-what/86305.md?page=5)