What's in a name?

[KnottedYet]

Chlamydia.

I kid you not.

[Eden]

Chlamydia.

I kid you not.

someone really must not have known what it meant and just though it sounded cool

[Velobambina]

Sign of the times. People started giving their kids surnames for first names (Tyler, Taylor, Madison, etc.). What started out as a possible quest to be original ended up becoming a bit passe. Now traditional names like Anne, Mary, etc. seem rarer. Each to his/her own, I suppose.

Do you think some of these kids take on the spirit of their name, like Feather? Is she lighthearted? Do you think Queen Victoria is a prude or Shardonnay a wine lover? Maybe Rocket will become an astronaut!

My middle name is Erin, which, in 1963, was not common. It apparently became an "it" name in the 1970s. As a second-generation Irish-American, I can't help but cringe when I hear someone named Erin Kwazaloski, Erin Schmidt, etc. Seems like sacrilege to a Mick like myself. LOL. We had to be named after Saints, so while there were plenty 'o pickings from which Mom and Dad could choose, there was no St. Britany or St. Paris. Thank goodness.

[rachelroo]

I've only gotten to page three of this thread but I had to post. Three of the children I taught Sunday school to Were named priest, priestess, and Furious. They also had a brother named... Edward.

This may be tmi but we have a running joke that if I'm pregnant (and I want to be) we'll call our child Parker because of how it was concieved.

[Mr. Bloom]

Yep! "Hemi D"

We'll be posting more from the Sunday Paper in about 12 hours!

[Mr. Bloom]

I just found this on the 'net at babyfit.com. A forum discussing unusual baby names...someone posted:

Female (pronounced fuh-malley). Her mom thought the hospital had named the baby for her when she was born.

[bmccasland]

I just found this on the 'net at babyfit.com. A forum discussing unusual baby names...someone posted:

Female (pronounced fuh-malley). Her mom thought the hospital had named the baby for her when she was born.

That's what I tried to say on page 2 of this thread. Maybe it's happened more than once. oh my.

[margo49]

This may be tmi but we have a running joke that if I'm pregnant (and I want to be) we'll call our child Parker because of how it was concieved.

On that basis ds#1 would be called "Waterfall Full Moon"!!

[Mr. Bloom]

...but nothing to compete with "Hemi D"

[Starfish]

On that basis ds#1 would be called "Waterfall Full Moon"!!

Unfortunately, my name would have been: "Blond wig did the trick!"

[Zen]

Unfortunately, my name would have been: "Blond wig did the trick!"

Woo Hoo!
I'd like to see that

If I had a kid I suppose he'd be Jack Daniels or for a girl, sensimillia

[IFjane]

Names inspired by the family car: Audi, Fairlene, Celecta, Pontiac, Vonda, Vonza, Auto, Cherokee, Lexus, Porsche, Skylark, Truckston, Avis, Chevrollette, Chevonne, Caprice, Dodge

What??? No Element??? Oh wait, is there a category of science names?

[ATL Laura]

A friend of mine has twins in her 3rd grade class this year…Reese and Mo’Reese

[Velobambina]

I forgot to mention that there was a Tin Kan Hung in the neighborhood where I grew up. I never met him or his kids, though. If he had a son, they should have called him Will. LOL.

There's a young woman at work named Serenity. Her parents could not have anticipated that advent of adult diapers bearing the same name! We had a Miracle at work, as well -- a surprise menopause child. Another lady at work's middle name is Akita (she's in her 40s, interestingly enough).

[quint41]

Lemonjello (no, not lemon jello...more like this: le-MAHN-zhellow)

There was a story many years ago (a dozen?) in our local paper -- names that local maternity nurses had come across during their careers. There was reportedly a woman who had twins and named them Lemonjello and Orangejello (le-MAHN-zhellow and ah-RAHN-zhellow). Now that I read your list, I wonder how true either story is .... there couldn't POSSIBLY be more than one, could there??

A nurse also told the story of a spanish-speaking woman who delivered a baby girl, and when filling out her paperwork wanted to know the spelling of a beautiful word that she had heard while in the hospital ... it sounded so beautiful that she wanted to name her daughter .... Placenta. I guess the nurse managed to talk her out of it.

My daughters went to school with Princess, Charmer, and Majesty.

The authors of Freakonomics have a chapter about the influence of "different" names -- "Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?" -- if an employer received resumes from three people, Justin, Lydia, and Lemonjello, who would be least likely to get the interview?