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Yes, I thought of that too. And I hope we don't seem too terribly insensitive. Surely the parents know that the names are unusual and will draw attention. Honestly some of them are really very nice....and some of them are just very unusual.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
While I am sensitive to names with clear ethnic attachment, the names I post do not tend to have those characteristics...particularly in comparison to the parents' names.
But, I am not understanding of parents deliberately making a decision to take their kids out of society's mainstream at birth. I believe a parent's role is to give their kids the best opportunities available...
If the kid wants to adopt an unusual nickname later in life, that's fine - their choice...but the parents making that decision, with the inevitable effect of stigmatizing the kid for life in a large portion of society, I personally am saddened.
- Hemi D?
- Aroma Cleopatra?
- Rocco Diesel?
- Kloe spelled so someone needs to ask if it's pronouned like "Joe" -
I hope these parents do google the name and figure out what they've done!
Self esteem is hard enough to maintain...harder when you start with a deficit! I really do hope these parents raise resilent, self-respecting, well adjusted kids.
Born this week in Evansville Indiana:
- Ka'Chyia Fern born to Holly and Leonard Moore...make it a "Cha" rather than a "Ka" and you have a TV jingle...cha cha cha chia
- Jenesys Jo born to Ashley Rogers and Jared Jackson...Jenesys...must be a FIRST child
- Malaysia Antanae born to Larhonda and Anthony Stinson...a potential career in asian broadcasting??
I'm getting cynical...I'm going to have to stop doing this:eek:
Ok, so I keep saying that I'll quit looking but I can't :o
This week's additions are just interesting:
Cody C - middle name is just the letter "C" anyone else see much of that?
Remington Guage (first and middle names) - do you think the newspaper made a typo?
Regrettably, noQuote:
Originally Posted by silver
Only by leaving out the first middle name, "Twelve." :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by silver
The circumstances were tragic (a young man shot) . . . but check out the name:
“A similar description of the shooting was given by Precious Blood, 16, who said she heard about 10 shots fired.”
OK so I heard an interview on the radio about choosing names. Basically the most popular 5 (i think that's right) names in the 60s & 70s were given to about 60% of kids. Now the most popular names are given to less than 10% each year.
So these guys researched how kids with unusual names turned out as adults. The found a correlation between unusual - hard to pronounce, spell or just unusual - names and depression as adults and suicide. They also found that people with the most common (boring!) names typically earnt more than those with unusual names.
So two good reasons to choose more mainstream names in my book.
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Originally Posted by nomummytummy
THERE! I'm vindicated in my cynicism!;)
I read this thread and constantly wonder what people would say about what DH and I want to name a boy. We love the name Axel. Not from Guns N Roses, try the Tour de France!! Of course I told a co-worker and she immediately told me how horrible the name was. :( We still have it as our number one name when we have a kiddo.
I think that is a great name - Eddy obviously thought so too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama
I actually like unusual names but not ones that are so unusual that they are weird. Precious Blood:eek: :eek: WTF!!!
My three boys all have unusual names by Australian standards but they are definitely not weird.
Axel can be a cute name... ;)
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Ahhh...KG that is where it came from! Back in 2004 I watched the Tour the first time with DH. I have always had a fascination with names, so you can imagine how intrigued I was at the riders names. Those Basque riders really amuse me with the names because they are so uncommon! Anyway, I saw/heard of Axel for the first time and decided it is a cool name despite people my age wanting to insinuate I must have been a big GNR fan. I always clarify that is actually Axl.
Now back to the weird names- Precious Blood?!?!
Aggie Ama, I like Axel. I also like Cadence. Heck, I even like Madone.
I wanted to name our girl, Karlynn. But people said that it would be associated with the rude comic George Carlen, who (or is it whom) I'd never heard of previously. Then I wanted to name her Anna Lise. Not so common back in '90 when she was born but pretty common now. We named her the traditional Allison and I can't imagine any other name.
Our son is named first name after his grandfather and middle name after his father. Mr. had suggested his middle name after my father but I think that's a really old fashioned name. I wasn't happy with the choice, so I was going to try to come up with something new about 3 weeks before he was due. Mr. was out of town and I went and bought a baby book, thinking that I'd have several choices to present when he got back. Well, I ended up going into labor that night, calling Mr. home and having William the next day. His grandfather is called Bill and we always thought that William would be Will, but it never stuck, and he's still William and it's a perfect fit.
Turns out William ended up being really popular, think it was Lady Diana naming her son that? When he was in 2 year old church preschool in a class for 12 kids, there were 3 Williams. They had to call them each by full first and last names.
Oh, made me think of something that happened in DD's preschool one year. There were two Taylors. One boy , one girl. the kids ended up calling them "Taylor the girl" and "Taylor the boy"
So somehow we ended up with some pretty traditional names.
My last name is Nutt. Oh man, it was hard naming our kids. We liked the name Jordan...but Jordan Nutt was too much like jordan almonds. I also like the name Tanner....but Tanner Nutt??? lol
I thought I did well with my first son when I signed the birth certificate. We named him Juwan (pronounced with a long u sound). Got the name from Juwan Howard, the pro basketball player that's been in the NBA for many years now. Great name, right? We were SO proud of ourselves for successfully giving our firstborn a carefully-chosen name, so that no kids would make fun, etc.
Until my best friend pointed out that, combined with his middle name initial, it was doom in waiting: Juwan A. Nutt. She was quick to notice and joke that it sounds like you're asking the question "You wanna nut?" in a slightly Hispanic-sounding accent. Good thing we're raising him with a great sense of humor (he's ten now). :D
We did much better with our other two -- Kaleb Avery and Gillienne Stefanee....a bit original, but not outlandish (or er..pardon me....nutt-y!). :p
~BikeMomma
I didn't know is was Axl. It's always written as Axel here (and on his facebook page. :) His wife is from Kelowna and he has a house here. I saw in in the LBS last week in fact! Too bad I'm not strong enough to do the Sunday ride because he sometimes joins them...Quote:
Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama
William is an eternally popular name, I've found. Same thing happened with Jacob (my first born). Had 3 Jacobs on one baseball team one year.
Our youngest son is Will, short for William, which is a nod to my dad, Bill, whose name is really Billie, and who has 2 GIRLS named for him.
Karen
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Turns out William ended up being really popular, think it was Lady Diana naming her son that? When he was in 2 year old church preschool in a class for 12 kids, there were 3 Williams. They had to call them each by full first and last names.
My husband and I like Cadence as well. It is actually a very pretty name.Quote:
Originally Posted by silver
No, the cyclist is Axel. The former singer from Guns n Roses is Axl. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by kelownagirl
Ahh, I is confused. :rolleyes: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama
OK, GNR = Guns and Rose. Got it. I'm slow.
Urethra Champayne- tried to convince the mom that she had the spelling wrong but she insisted that was how you spell Aretha (as in Aretha Franklin). Ugh!
Ta-Rod and Ta-Ron-twin boys
Kilo-yeah his dad was a dealer. Kid's original name was Kevin but when he finally weighed a kilo they changed it. Poor little guy probably has no future that doesn't involve prison.
And my favorite...K'Ah'Janae A'journae (kay ah zhanay ah zhournay) is the unfortunate moniker a young friend of mine unleashed on her poor innocent babe. I called her "Kelly" instead.
As far as previous posts "Ceilidgh" is Scottish Gaelic for "party" so kind of cool just impossible to spell. "Aran" is the name of a Scottish island.
And finally "Female" "Lemonjello" "Orangello" "Clamydia" and "Placenta" are urban myths frequently passed along by nurses who work in OB and Peds. I can't say for certain that they have NEVER been used but the frequency that they come up in odd name lists is not reflective of how often they are actuallly used. It does make a good story though!
I have a boring 1 syllable name from the 1950's when the name was more popular. I was born in 1959.
When you say hi to me, it sounds like hygiene. When you say hi to my partner, it sounds like hijack.
No kiddin'. :rolleyes:
I do have a lovely middle name...in Chinese...which embarrassed me as a kid. It was so ethnic-sounding to me. Until I learned of its the English translation: "orchid". My first name in Chinese means, "precious" or "highly treasured". I am the eldest in my family so not surprising I was given this name. It bears no relationship to my English first name.
Orchid is a common flower traditional Chinese name for girls. Like rose or lily is for English/UK cultures.
I most strongly advise parents explain to their child about the meaning of their name, particularily if it is non-English language based. A child needs to be proud of their name.
I am fond of having a name with meaning. Mine does not, it was popular at the time and my mom found it beautiful. My middle name is her middle name (or was now it is my maiden name) but she just used it because it went with Amanda. My brother was named after two boys in her pre-school she was teaching. Not that they were her favorites, she just liked their names. :) Oddly his middle name is my father's but that is not why my parents picked it initially!
My niece is named after my husband, I think it is such a sweet tribute. He and his brother are extremely close and if we are to have a boy his middle name will be after my brother in law.
From today's paper, a new twist on Chloe.
Khloee
No kiddin'.
The rest of her name was, apparently, unremarkable.
Karen
I learned this last week - one of the parents in our program has a child - her firstborn - named Genesis. I like it! Of course, my first thought was of the progressive rock group and not the biblical connotation...:eek:
I've had a good laugh reading this thread!
Now, for the downside of growing up with an unusual name...
I have an aquaintance named Mireille. I, personally, love how the name sounds, but she has an equally unusual last name. She's now old enough to get her first job, but she's finding that potential employers don't want to call her back because not only are they unsure of how to pronounce her first name, but her last name is difficult, as well.
She's taken to spelling her name phonetically (she puts 'Maray') on her job applications, but then they call back asking for 'Murray'. The poor girl can't win!
It's a lovely name.
The woman who wrote French Women Don't Get Fat is Mireille.
I didn't think I grew up with an unusual name until I went away to college. In Norway my name, Eli, is a fairly common girls name. The same name in the US where I went to college is a fairly common jewish boys name. And I have had many surprised professors who expected me to be a boy when I showed up in class. But I like my name, and where it came from. It's my great-grandfather's middle name.
Back in my previous life as a CPA, I had a client who had the pronunciation on his name on his business card. Looks like this could be a good idea.
Our last name is German. In German when there is a two vowel combination, the second vowel is pronounced. Our community has a strong German heritage and they say that years ago that German was as likely to be spoken on the streets as English. Many streets and companies have German names and people pronounce them correctly.
An example would be Weinbach would be pronounced like winebok, not weenbok
Sooo.......why can't they pronounce our last name correctly???
My first name is Elaine (not a German name, so pronounced E-lane, not E-line). Not extremely common, but somewhat. It's more common here in the Midwest than it was in in the South. There was the character on Seinfeld (german name pronounced signfeld, not seenfeld). But just recently, I realized that an acquaintance here, that I've known for 6 or 7 years was calling me, El-a-nay. What to do?
Okay, another extremely unusual name....why all the double letters and FIVE names, I dunno.
Alleeasaya Saphoria Rose Michelle Girard.
The last name of the mother is Otteringer, different from the dad. I don't get why they couldn't fit Otteringer in there somewhere too. I mean, come on!
:P
Karen
Could she be NW Arkansas royalty???;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
She's almost the same as the heir to the throne:
His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Great Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Honorary Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, Chief Grand Commander of the Order of Logohu, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty
Last I recalled, his daddy's last name is Mountbatten and his mommy's last name is Windsor. Hmmm...didn't see those names in there...
To me, he's simply Chuck...
I can see where the royals are starting to take a more populist bias in their lives...:rolleyes:
Umm Mr. Silver...
HRH Chuck's name is the Prince Charles Philip Athur George, the rest are titles and honors. Makes me wonder what Queen Mum called him when she was mad at him?
The Brit royal names harken back to when people didn't have *last* names or family names. Ever looked into the names in Iceland or Greenland? Leif Erikson's child Sven would be Sven Leifson. At least you'd know who the kid's father was. And girls were *dottir*, so Leif's girl-child would be Helga Leifsdottir. I'm not sure what happens to names when a child matures and marries. Doe she take her husband's name?
Nope. They stay "-dottir" and "-sson", so married couples do not share names. At least not according to the traditional way of naming, they might have started doing so now.Quote:
Originally Posted by bmccasland
"-dottir" and "-sson" are allowed as alternative last names in Norway too, but not very common. I like them :)
Last names used to be much more flexible. My grandmother's father (I think) changed his last name when he moved to a new town and opened a store, from a very common last name to the name of the property he bought. That was quite usual at the time. My grandfather's fathers name was from the place he grew up. Only a few generations back place names, "son of"-names and artisan names were pretty much all you had of last names, and they weren't necessarily inherited.
Which does put a new perspective on the whole "keeping your name" debate about women (or men) changing their names at marriage, and family members having the same last name or not. :)
I have a new found appreciation for Smith and Jones.
Trust me, Silver wishes she had found a Smith or Jones..:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by zencentury
But, I am very glad to know Norse Naming Protocol:D
My mother tells me of a long-gone relative named (first-middle) Minnesota Iowa, and her sister named Georgia Virginia.
My dad had an aunt named Olive Iola.
I have a name that always gets comments. It's a double name (I'm happy to be from the south and I love double names), but it's still unusual. It's Juliellen. Like Maryellen, but with a Julie. It always makes people stumble at first.
In my years as a teacher, I've learned that when it comes to names, all the rules of pronunciation go right out the window and you sometimes just have to rely on the person to tell you how his or her name is pronounced. In this country (and probably in others) we're dealing with names from languages all over the world, so no one set of pronunciation rules is going to apply. And even when you think it might, well, people have their own ideas of how to spell and pronounce their own names.
Example: "Megan"--pretty common name, right? But some pronounce it "May-gan" while others (such as a friend of mine) pronounce it "Mee-gan." There's no way of knowing that until you ask or are told.
The problem occurs, to my mind, when people refuse to pronounce your name as you've asked them to. That's just ignorant or rude.
JuJu- My niece is Adrianna. But it is pronounced Adri-ah-na. If I just looked it I would call her Adri-Anna. I knew what they were naming her and thought it would be Adriana. I never know how anyone is going spell anything. I know three people who named their boys Aiden. One is Aiden, one is Aidan (pronounced Aid-in) and one is Ayden.
While l lived in Phoenix there were twin brothers that worked for the same TV station, Sean and Dean, with a another brother named Shawn. Sean and Dean rhymed. What were their parents thinking?
So did the twin's names sound like Shaun and Don, or Sheen and Deen?Quote:
Originally Posted by bmccasland
I'm guessing the latter because of the other brother named Shawn. How confusing!
I went to elementary school with a girl named Sion...pronounced Shawn.