What's in a name?

[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)!

[BikeMomma]

My dad's name is Winston....and yes, he's smoked all his life. Winston brand, of course.

-BikeMomma

[shootingstar]

We knew a family where the parents named their daughters Mona and Lisa.

[Mr. Bloom]

OK, after intentionally not looking in the paper for months...I looked today.

Born in Evansville this week:

Azaria Jornye LaCara Finn

Scout Hardin Levi Howard

[cyclinnewbie]

I used to work for an OB/GYN. The most memorable name I can remember is......................Placenta. Yup. The mother was an immigrant from Mexico...spoke very broken English. When the doc was trying to explain a placental abruption, she missed the part about possibly hemorrhaging, and locked onto the beautiful name Placenta. We tried very very hard over the next couple of months, to discourage her from naming the baby Placenta, to no avail. Poor kid...She was an absolutely gorgeous baby with an absolutely hideous name.

[mickey223]

OK, after intentionally not looking in the paper for months...I looked today.

Born in Evansville this week:

Scout Hardin Levi Howard

Yep, that's ours.

Scout - my wife liked the name from To Kill a Mockingbird
Hardin - my grandfathers name
Levi - her grandfathers name
Howard - self explanatory

I was googling for his birth announcement and this site came up, so I registered to reply. If you don't like it, well thats just tough and I'll gladly PM you about it.

(Of course his brother's names are Slade Jaxen and Zane Michael)

[Tuckervill]

Don't be offended. It's an unusual name. (Well, Scout is now almost cliche', it's so common, but all the ones I know are girls, like in To Kill A Mockingbird). Might as well get used to total strangers raising an eyebrow.

Karen

[silver]

Yep, that's ours.

Scout - my wife liked the name from To Kill a Mockingbird
Hardin - my grandfathers name
Levi - her grandfathers name
Howard - self explanatory

I was googling for his birth announcement and this site came up, so I registered to reply. If you don't like it, well thats just tough and I'll gladly PM you about it.

(Of course his brother's names are Slade Jaxen and Zane Michael)

That's really cool to get the explanation! The title of the thread is "what's in a name" and now we know. Surely you knew that the names of your kids were not mainstream and would get a little attention. And don't know if you read the entire thread, but your names are downright boring compared to some. Personally I like the names that you have chosen, although I'll agree with T'ville that Scout (as well as Zane) i would think of as girl's names.

Are you offended by our thread? We had wondered what type of reaction a parent would have earlier in the thread. Surely the parents with some of the most unusual names expect some comment?

[Mr. Bloom]

Yep, that's ours.

Congrats on the birth

I hope he has a long and fruitful life.