What's in a name?

[Ashgarth]

New Children Born this week in Evansville include:

• Rocco Diesel Strahl
• Kloe Alys Hill
• Joy Myel Lewis
• Conyaeh JaLee Lowry
• LaKayza Alisa Denton
• Da'lon Zakee Johnson
• Shya Ella Dolores Williams
• Tru Faith Johnson
• Rylyn Gentry Aubrey
• Elle Makenzi Stoelb
• Jada Ryann Ailstonck
• Julius Tivaughn Vincent

Wow! Some of these are interesting! All in one week!

wow---the letter "Y" is so overused now days

[Velobambina]

Is Kloe pronounced like Chloe, I wonder? Or does it rhyme with Joe?

I'm glad that I'm an old gal now, although I think my generation was the one who decided Madison & Tyler were good names for kids. Hmmm. On the topic of Presidential last names, I wonder if in several years people will use our current pres' surname for a first name? LOL.

What about foreign leaders? Gorby Chov Smith? Noriega Shirock Jones? Putin Karsai Johnson?

[sgtiger]

Velobambina, your post reminded me of some couples I know who have named their girls Kennedy and Reagan. I feel very, very sorry for the first girl named Bush! So wrong in soooooo many ways. [shakes head]

[silver]

mr. forgot to include my favorites for the week:

Promise Joy E***
Briana Blaze B*** and
Cadence Marie S*******....+1 for cycling terminology

[Tuckervill]

It just occurred to me what's interesting about this thread.

If the parents of these children google their children's names, they'll find this thread. It would be fun to know if anyone did.

Karen

[silver]

It just occurred to me what's interesting about this thread.

If the parents of these children google their children's names, they'll find this thread. It would be fun to know if anyone did.

Karen

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.

[Mr. Bloom]

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.

[silver]

Is Kloe pronounced like Chloe, I wonder? Or does it rhyme with Joe?

Interesting question. There's another one this week who seems to answer the pronunciation question ahead of time:

Chloey Audrina Gr** (Must be a viewer of the TV show The Hills)

[chickwhorips]

Chloey Audrina Gray (Must be a viewer of the TV show The Hills)

Audrina's first name is Chloey.... didn't know that.

[Mr. Bloom]

y's
Gorby Chov
Girls named Bush (as opposed to boys named Sue)

I'm just a laughin', laughin', laughin'

The sad thing is that between Silver and me, we've listed a full 1/3 of this week's births in a area of 300,000 people!

I wonder if Aroma Cleopatra Tarzan will ever go out with Rocco Diesel Strahl????

Or, if Hemi D will go out with Rocco Diesel????

[silver]

Audrina's first name is Chloey.... didn't know that.

Whoops! no I didn't mean that Audrina from the show had the first name Chloey. I was just including a name from the paper which happened to have the middle name Audrina and figured that the parents might have heard the name from the show.