What's in a name?

[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????

[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]

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.

[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?

[Zen]

Remington Guage (first and middle names) - do you think the newspaper made a typo?

Regrettably, no

[OakLeaf]

Remington Guage (first and middle names) - do you think the newspaper made a typo?

Only by leaving out the first middle name, "Twelve."

[maryellen]

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.”

[nomummytummy]

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.

[Mr. Bloom]

So two good reasons to choose more mainstream names in my book.

THERE! I'm vindicated in my cynicism!

[Aggie_Ama]

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.