What's in a name?

[Running Mommy]

Coming in Waayyyy late here. But growing up in earthy crunchy Sebastopol CA we had the nipple family. I don't remember all of the kids names, but one of them was Groovy. Oy...

[crazycanuck]

Oh dear oh my.. RM..Oh to be one of those kids now..

[bmccasland]

So did the twin's names sound like Shaun and Don, or Sheen and Deen?

I'm guessing the latter because of the other brother named Shawn. How confusing!

I went to elementary school with a girl named Sion...pronounced Shawn.

It was "Seen" and "Deen"

Oh, and another one I've run into.... Marcia. I know it as "Marsha" but I've run into gals that pronounce it "Mar-CEE-a"

[iowagrad]

Maximus Loveless...the poor kid is only a year old, but it certainly doesn't look like his future romantic ventures are going to pan out. His parents are completely run of the mill, and I don't have the heart to ask them what they were thinking!!!

[Starfish]

Maximus Loveless...the poor kid is only a year old, but it certainly doesn't look like his future romantic ventures are going to pan out.

Years ago I had a friend who legally changed her last name from Loveless to Love. She just hated constantly having to declare or affirm herself as Loveless every time she said or heard her name. I applauded her decision!

[Mr. Bloom]

Years ago I had a friend who legally changed her last name from Loveless to Love. She just hated constantly having to declare or affirm herself as Loveless every time she said or heard her name. I applauded her decision!

In Memphis, there is a major road called Getwell. The Veteran's hospital is located on Getwell.

The name of the street was changed in WWII...the prior name of the road was Shotwell.

The city wisely didn't think that the VA hospital shouldn't be located on Shotwell.

[bmccasland]

in that light... many of the locals find it slightly amusing that my office, Corps of Engineers, is on Leake Avenue.

[IFjane]

The address of a PBS station in Richmond, VA is 123 Sesame St.

[Fredwina]

Apple's address used to be 1 Infinite Loop.

[Starfish]

I just had to UPS a boat part off to a manufacturing place at:

7799 Municipal Court

(Just a regular road...not a court-affiliated thing)

[Tuckervill]

Kayla Kay Summers and Koy Klay Summers.

oKAY!

K.

[sgtiger]

We have neighbors with girls named Maaya (like Maya) and Mia (Mee-yah). Their poor dad has a hard time keeping their names straight. Then again, Dh has the same problem sometimes with our children's names even though their names are quite different.

[Starfish]

Dh has the same problem sometimes with our children's names even though their names are quite different.

LOL...I am the youngest, and the only girl. But, I got called John, Dan, and Mike many, many times in my poor parents' attempts to call me by my name!

Later in his life, my Dad took to calling me the name of his own sister, despite zero dementia on his part.

Now, my oldest brother constantly calls me the names of his two girls!

[cyclechick2008]

Boy I thought I was going out on a limb when I named our daughter Elisabeth Kathryn. We thought she'd have Beth as nick name but it is "bug".

My first Girl choice was a Dutch name of Krina (kreena) but if misprounced she could be called Krina Vagina.....


My uncles are twins and my grand mother was on something. She rhymed both first and middle names Merrill Glenn and Carroll Lynn.
Merrill had 2 sons 11 months apart and named them Kendall and Randall.
Carroll had a daughter and named her Carol Lynn. She goes by Lynn.

Here are some more family names I have neices named Raylene and Shalene (not sisters). A neice named Jamie (after Jamie Lee Curtis) and my son is James (named for my dad). A sister named Barbara Ann (like the beach boys song).
A neice named Jessica and a nephew named JESY (James Edward Shane with a y).

Kim

[7rider]

My first Girl choice was a Dutch name of Krina (kreena) but if misprounced she could be called Krina Vagina.....

Huh.
Try the name "Regina".
Pronounced "Ra-geena" - very unlike "vagina" and very unlike the pronunciation of the capital city of the Canadian province Saskatchewan (which does rhyme with vagina)!