What's in a name?

[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.

[Trekhawk]

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.

I think that is a great name - Eddy obviously thought so too.

I actually like unusual names but not ones that are so unusual that they are weird. Precious Blood WTF!!!

My three boys all have unusual names by Australian standards but they are definitely not weird.