What's in a name?

[Geonz]

When I taught school, one of the kiddos was named Elton John. The parents had told their daughter she could pick the new baby's name, and she called their bluff. He went by John.
"Misty Dawn Day" I thought was neat... "Rusty Leake" had to get tired of that!

[Eden]

I certainly hope they are kidding, but my husband's parents have said if they had a son before they had a dog the kid would have been named Rufus.... but fortunately the dog got that name.

I used to work with a woman named Karna - yeah she got called Karma a lot.

[IFjane]

Some names from this year's enrollment:

Carma
Gage
Kazire
Akyia
Cedasia
Jakeia
D'Myija
Keyonia
NeVaeh (heaven spelled backward) - we had two of these last year!

And a couple years ago we had:

Turnipseed (really!)

[Trekhawk]

LOL - I thought my kids had unusual names but after seeing these I'm thinking maybe not.

[mimitabby]

wow, what great names (awful, I mean)

here at work we have a Wong and Wright.

I went to school with Fern Speer, Holly Green and Olympia Spinuzza.

(sounds like a restaurant menu )

My eyes cross with the most recent crop of kids names where people come up
with a couple (or just one) letters different for a name. So that guarantees
that NO ONE can spell it... and sometimes even pronounce it.

[Bad JuJu]

Regarding the first names that sound like last names, that comes from a long-standing southern tradition, which held that the first child should have the mother's maiden name as a middle name and the next child should have the mother's maiden name as FIRST name, all this regardless of whether the child was a girl or boy.

I don't think the newer crop of Taylors and Carvers and Madisons, etc. are based on any kind of tradition, but that may be where people got the idea.

I've got sort of a personal approach/avoidance complex about kids being named according to tradition or not. My twin brother was named after our two grandfathers--which made him a nice, respectable "James Lee"--while my name was more like an afterthought: "Oh yeah, we've got this girl to name, too!" So I got "Judy" after..........Judy Garland. What were you thinking, mom?

[Haudlady]

I used to know a kid named

Mark Ingpen

[sgtiger]

Wow, the things people name their children! It's all too funny.

I went to school with a Forest Green and a Dill Pickles. Though Dill went by another name when I met him. I didn't find out his given name until he was going through the process of legally changing his name when he turned 18. Also I had a friend whose last name was Tope. Her parents were going to name her Isa, but thankfully didn't go though with it.

My ex-neighbor's daughter is named Treasure (Tessa for short). The mother had wanted to name her Precious, but her husband was having none of it. So they compromised on Treasure.

And how about Rosemary for a guy. Their family tradition was to name someone that each generation after a many times great grandmother. When it became apparent that there wasn't to be any girls born to them, he got stuck with it. I always wondered why he didn't change it because he seemed to be very embarrassed about his name.

[Wahine]

These are the names of the 5 children of one of my best school friends: River, Rain, Lake, Sunny and Eddy. A little odd but not bad.

My surname is pronounced "knobs" and I come froma family of military men. My father was Major "Knobs" and my brother was "Private Knobs". My uncle was not military but was named Richard and went by D!ck...

One of my good friends nearly named his son Noah DeNault. He didn't realize how it sounded if you say it fast - "no I don' know". Fortunately we helped him out with that.

Finally, I went to school with a native girl named Anita Drinkwater.

Spanish speaking friends don't like to call me by my proper first name because it's pronounced the same way as the word "almost" in spanish....Cassie. So they say Casi-eh instead.

[Mr. Bloom]

My surname is pronounced "knobs" and I come froma family of military men. My father was Major "Knobs" and my brother was "Private Knobs". My uncle was not military but was named Richard and went by D!ck...

Wahine! You absolutely made my night

I am rolling on the floor right now!

My last name has a "plural" sound to it (with body part overtones). Silver's maiden name is the same word (spelled differently) but in "singular".

To protect our identity, I will not put the actual name...but Silver's name would be akin to Jone-Jones (if she hadn't dropped the maiden - fearing that it would sound like she was stuttering!).

[TexanCzexican]

Some names from this year's enrollment:

Carma
Gage
Kazire
Akyia
Cedasia
Jakeia
D'Myija
Keyonia
NeVaeh (heaven spelled backward) - we had two of these last year!

And a couple years ago we had:

Turnipseed (really!)

I won't even lie, I LOVE the name Gage.

My family is all P's so my kids will more than likely end up with different names.

I LOVE Paxton, Peyton, Perdita, and Patience.....I also loved Porter so much that I named one of my pups that

[mimitabby]

I won't even lie, I LOVE the name Gage.

My family is all P's so my kids will more than likely end up with different names.

I LOVE Paxton, Peyton, Perdita, and Patience.....I also loved Porter so much that I named one of my pups that

There is a big part of me that is a literalist; therefore; I always want to know why a person would name a kid Porter? it means someone who carries stuff for a living. Or Perdita; which means lost. Or Colin; semi colon? colon that comes after large intestine?

now Patience, I have always been fascinated with the (old) trend of giving children names like Patience, Charity, Hope, etc. Does it make them more of whatever that virtue is? or less?

[Eden]

When I was a kid I knew a family that all had the same initials LAA
Lawrence, Lance, Leah, Lee, etc....... I suppose it saves on the monogramed sweaters, luggage and hankies?

[TexanCzexican]

There is a big part of me that is a literalist; therefore; I always want to know why a person would name a kid Porter? it means someone who carries stuff for a living. Or Perdita; which means lost. Or Colin; semi colon? colon that comes after large intestine?

now Patience, I have always been fascinated with the (old) trend of giving children names like Patience, Charity, Hope, etc. Does it make them more of whatever that virtue is? or less?

Actually, Porter means 'gatekeeper' and I liked the protective spirit of the name.

My brother's name is Pierce and people always teased him about piercing things; yet in translation it means "Rock" even though my parents chose it because it's another form of Peter (my mom HATES Peter, thought people would call him Petey ie the dog from Little Rascals

EDEN--we are all PAT's which is ironic since my dad's name is Pat

[missymaya]

When I was in middle school I swam with a brother and sister, ping and pong and when I was in college I rowed with two sisters, one was summer and the other was spring. I thought that was pretty cool.
I know that if my twin and I came out boys, my mother would've named us Bert and Ernie (blah!!! I'm soooo Glad I'm a Girl!!)