What's in a name?

[bmccasland]

I just found this on the 'net at babyfit.com. A forum discussing unusual baby names...someone posted:

Female (pronounced fuh-malley). Her mom thought the hospital had named the baby for her when she was born.

That's what I tried to say on page 2 of this thread. Maybe it's happened more than once. oh my.

[margo49]

This may be tmi but we have a running joke that if I'm pregnant (and I want to be) we'll call our child Parker because of how it was concieved.

On that basis ds#1 would be called "Waterfall Full Moon"!!

[Mr. Bloom]

...but nothing to compete with "Hemi D"

[DDH]

My neighbors girls names are Sky and Blaze which, when I met them found their names to be the only people I had ever met with those names, and still the only ones I know. Their pit bull dog is named Blaze too, not sure what the story is there and have never asked. I think it was just a coincedence when they got the dog from the previous owners though.

[Flybye]

Okay - here goes the weird names of people that I have met:

Childhood family, brother and sisters, Rock, Brick, and Feather.

Girl - Snow White - White was her maiden name, so it was intentional.

There are also many people running around this neck of the woods with the last name of "Butt" Haven't met Ima Butt or Ura Butt, but my father swears they are living in a city about 30 miles away. I tend not to believe him on this one

[kiwi girl]

Robbie (Predictor-Lotto) McEwen's son is called Ewen!

A good friend of mine has a flatmate who is called Brian O'Brian (for any rugby fans among you he is a cousin of the referee Paddy O'Brian)

[kfergos]

My mother knew a guy in college named Harry Wang.

I also knew a fellow named Joseph (Joe) King. Probably unintentional...

[quint41]

Lemonjello (no, not lemon jello...more like this: le-MAHN-zhellow)

There was a story many years ago (a dozen?) in our local paper -- names that local maternity nurses had come across during their careers. There was reportedly a woman who had twins and named them Lemonjello and Orangejello (le-MAHN-zhellow and ah-RAHN-zhellow). Now that I read your list, I wonder how true either story is .... there couldn't POSSIBLY be more than one, could there??

A nurse also told the story of a spanish-speaking woman who delivered a baby girl, and when filling out her paperwork wanted to know the spelling of a beautiful word that she had heard while in the hospital ... it sounded so beautiful that she wanted to name her daughter .... Placenta. I guess the nurse managed to talk her out of it.

My daughters went to school with Princess, Charmer, and Majesty.

The authors of Freakonomics have a chapter about the influence of "different" names -- "Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?" -- if an employer received resumes from three people, Justin, Lydia, and Lemonjello, who would be least likely to get the interview?

[mimitabby]

The authors of Freakonomics have a chapter about the influence of "different" names -- "Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?" -- if an employer received resumes from three people, Justin, Lydia, and Lemonjello, who would be least likely to get the interview?

There was a study done on names. they took people with comparable resumes, all of them were black. the people with names like Michael and John consistently got called for interviews and then hired before Jamal and L'altwan did.

With this coming up generation, this is going to be interesting because it's clear to me that not just black people are naming their children creatively.

just like the tattoo thing. tattoes will definitely affect your ability to get jobs. But once the tattoo wearers are the hirers, this too will change.

[Dianyla]

How did this thread get to 9 pages already without someone mentioning the Utah Baby Namer?

[Zen]

Zestpoole Hallah Lujah !

[Starfish]

On that basis ds#1 would be called "Waterfall Full Moon"!!

Unfortunately, my name would have been: "Blond wig did the trick!"

[HappyAnika]

Is her sister's name La Trina?

Latrina is on the Utah list (undere the "Plumbers" heading).

Oy, that list makes my head spin.

[Zen]

Unfortunately, my name would have been: "Blond wig did the trick!"

Woo Hoo!
I'd like to see that

If I had a kid I suppose he'd be Jack Daniels or for a girl, sensimillia

[IFjane]

Names inspired by the family car: Audi, Fairlene, Celecta, Pontiac, Vonda, Vonza, Auto, Cherokee, Lexus, Porsche, Skylark, Truckston, Avis, Chevrollette, Chevonne, Caprice, Dodge

What??? No Element??? Oh wait, is there a category of science names?