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.