names you should never give your kids
POSTED BY: boris
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 07:22
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Originally posted by Milford: I don't know how well this fits here, but I had to judge a soroity/fraternity homecomin gyell contest yesterday and I had an epiphany:
No sorority should ever contain the Greek letter Mu. You're just asking for it.
why?
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When my dad worked overseas he used to come across some very strange names.
In Brasil he worked with a guy called 'Eddiemurphy'. All his first name. His parents heard the name and didn't quite understand the concept of forenames and surnames and just liked the sound of it and named him so. I don't recall what his actualy last name was... But apparently it created a trend and often film stars complete names would be used for kids' first names.
In Ghana, he worked with a guy who was head of the department called (and I kid you not) 'OfficeBoy'. But apparently it was pronounced very quickly so you didn't quite hear it as such.
It's hard with names though, people have such odd criteria these days. Objecting to naming their child after a name they've heard. So all these unusual derivatives occur. Or deciding to hand their own name back down to the child, so no originality takes place. Some object to naming them after a monarchy, so names like Charles or Victoria are considered unfashionable. Country names seem popular these days as do names of states or months or days. I knew a guy at college who went out with a girl called Tuesday... It seems unusual at first but once you become familiar with it it was kind of pleasant, and seemed to suit her.
Over the years I've mulled long and hard about names for my kids, should I ever have any and I think I'd stay safe on familiar ground. Being unique doesn't have quite the same draw it did when I was younger.
I just know if I have a boy and a girl I MUST keep away from the names Ella and Sam. Which is a pity because I love those names.
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Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
A good friend of mine called her daughter Tara, which she swears was after the Irish hill fort of the high kings and not after the Buffy character.
BTW Tara is also the name of the plantation that belongs to((Katie)Scarlet O'Hara's family in "Gone with the Wind".
And after reading this thread I don't feel too bad about my own name, Martha. I quickly got the nickname of Marty though. My Mom is a Martha too and it was just too confusing.
I refused to saddle my own daughter with Martha and Mom got a bit mad at me for a while. But that was 18 years ago and she's forgiven me.
My brother has the family name of Edward Shain and chose to use my grandfather's nickname of Ned. Not too many of those around these days too.
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In my mind, these are two of the worst name-blunders of all time.
1. Same first name as last name... (I work with a George St. George)
2. Naming your child after an STD!!!! (My wife, a nurse, once worked on a child named Clamidia. The mom just thought it was a pretty name.
"Jayne is a girl's name..."
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I think hardcore music fans would be the worst at choosing names for kids. Because if they like a band or song in particular, then they would name their kid after that song so that they could reference the song, which after a while would lose it's meaning and just become annoying. Like if a couple were huge Beatles fans, they'd name a girl Prudence, so that when she's a kid and in the house, they'd have an excuse to say "Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play." And then when other people know her and hear that song, they'll keep saying lyrics to her, which would drive her nuts.
Or if they're Simon and Garfunkel lovers, they'd name their son Richard Corry, and then everyone will expect him to be some rich bastard who'd blow his brains out.
I think that should be a rule for first time parents when it comes to naming their kids. If you're naming them after a song, they for it to be a generic name that doesn't conjur up a specific song with specific lyrics that any idiot can recall at any time. I pity girls named Roxanne, because I imagine they get tons of red light jokes.
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Tara's origins is from the ancient seat of power in Ireland.
I knew a Barbara Doll, she was born 3 years before Barbie dolls were created.
Most unusual I have seen is a pair of twins from India. Male & Female. Pronounced Male' and Female' with no silent e.
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just as long they didn't mix it up and name male female' and female male'. that would of got some asses kicked.
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I grew up in South Carolina and I remember hearing all sorts of odd names. The strangest I'd say was Orangello, though you'd be surprised it actually gets a number of hits on google and other search engines. Even weirder still I seem to remember there being a Yelongello in the same class as well. Pretty sure they weren't related. Not certain on the spelling, their parents may have atleast been creative there. Anyway food is another no no for naming I'd say.
Now me I go by Max, which is my middle name and I always get people asking me "What's it short for? Maxamillion, Maxwell?" I always reply that "It's not short for anything, I was named after my Grandpa". I always seem to have people mispelling it too, usualy Maxx but once actually Macks. Anyway even though I go by my middle name I still gotta love my first name, Douglas. I mean who can't love a name which in Scots Gaelic(Dubhghlas) translates to Blood River.
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