What's in a name?

[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.

[Mr. Bloom]

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

[silver]

Ok, so I keep saying that I'll quit looking but I can't

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?