People Who Give Their Kids DUMB Names...

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I have wondered that, also. I saw a thread about this on another board, and some of the names they listed were just sooo outrageous. These are just a couple of the worst ones, taken from actual hospital birth records.
Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K (born to Shaniqua LaShundra Arquisia)
Salen Dugpree Da' Ma "G"
I worked with a lovely young woman who's mother had given her the unfortunate name of "Moronica Lakeshia."
I feel so sorry for those kids.
 

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Well, my name is Arlyn, unusual yes, but not outrageous or dumb.
But I also had it legally changed to Arlyn, as I was one of those people with a very old Biblical name, seldom used.
I caught no end of grief over it, even as an adult.

So now I have a somewhat traditional Celtic name (from Arlen which means oath or pledge), but the traditional spelling was a masculine version.
 

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Originally Posted by PrissyKitty

OK I am going to bring up something that probably won't be the most popular subject. But...

What is it with a lot of the names black people in America give their children? I mean I have heard some contemporary names, but I mean names like Shalonqua, Shaquita, etc. I just don't understand it other than that maybe they want their children to have these "unique" names?

I hesitate to call them African-Americans, because my husband has been to Africa and he said everyone in Kenya he met had a biblical name like Isaac, John, Mary, etc.

I really have always wondered about this and I don't mean to offend anyone, I am just really curious.
Sticking my neck out, here
But I agree. I mean no offense to anyone, and I totally agree with remembering your roots, but go with names that you can prove are of that heritage....don't make something up that "sounds" like it's African, or Polish, or Swedish, or Martian...whatever. And I personally feel that a lot of these weird names are just that....someone thought it sounded "African", or whatever.
What ever happened to naming your child after someone in the family that is/was admired? My son is named for his Grandfather, and I couldn't think of anyone that I'd rather have my son look up to.
Some of these people act as if they had only 9 minutes to come up with a nice name, rather than 9 months.
 

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It's gettin' baaaaad when ya got people askin' ya how to spell "Cindy"
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But I attribute all of that to Cyndi Lauper ... (My actual given name is Cecilia ... I hated it!)

Re: the black names, I don't understand it either. Especially since on such things as job applications where hopefully there wouldn't be any discrimination as you've just got a pile of paper in front of you, and no "race" block checked anymore, you've got people with names like "LaTonya, Shakeatha, LaDorian..." ... Well guess what? You might as well have a race block checked!

Although on the other foot, I did do a double take to meet a black "Ashleigh," but perhaps she just had a smart mother
 

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Originally Posted by Arlyn

What about traditional names?
Some of them get a lot of flak regardless.

Some examples of traditional boys' names;
Sasha
Stacy
Shannon/Seannon
Thanks for bringing me up! lol I also have problems with people putting an 'E' in my name! Eww I hate that!! I have such a sothern name though - Stacy Lee heh
 

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Originally Posted by pandybear

my best friend recently called her daughter crystal, i nearly died when she told me, why couldn't she have called the poor girl rebecca or something
Crystal isn't so uncommon anymore I don't believe. I grew up with a Crystal and I know that no one thought it was weird and that she never got picked on. I've actually met a few of them in my life. It hadn't even occurred to me that someone would think it was strange!

I've met some kids named Mystik and Kaspar. Yuck.

Also, growing up I knew a boy named Ashley Hull, except, he wanted everyone to call him Ash. So we (of course) all thought it was hilarious that his name was Ash Hull!
 

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My niece's name is Jaelynn Harmony.

I know some celebrity named their kid "Apple". "Doctor Apple please report to the ER Doctor Apple."
 

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Replying in Renee's tanning thread I just remembered another GREAT name. Ron Rice's (the creator of Hawaiian Tropic and Ormond Beach resident) daughter is named STERLING. Ugh. She's such a brat as well.
 

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Originally Posted by RoyalEnchntrss

Thanks for bringing me up! lol I also have problems with people putting an 'E' in my name! Eww I hate that!! I have such a sothern name though - Stacy Lee heh
Stacy - there was a girl in my class that had to be different and spelled her name Stay C. I wonder if she grew out of it???

As for my last name. it's Simmons. Like Gene Simmons, Richard Simmons, you know...You'd be amazed at how many people say "Simons!"

BTW My maiden name was Prawdzik. The "D" is silent. It is the name of my grandfather when he migrated here from Poland...
 

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Originally Posted by PrissyKitty

As for my last name. it's Simmons. Like Gene Simmons, Richard Simmons, you know...You'd be amazed at how many people say "Simons!"
My last name is DOSSETT and you'd be surprised how many people say "Dorsett" Heck there was even an incident where they put down "Doorstep"!!!
 

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Personally I like B'ellanna but then again I got a "normal" name and it's the pits I can tell you that much. I got the worst nickname in school


My married name is Simpson and *sigh* it can get bad...from asking if we now a Bart or does O.J. come and visit. And then of course there is the spelling coz everyone wants to skip the p and add an extra s.


In the end of the day you are probably gonna get it wrong from your kid's point of view regardless of how normal/unique you are trying to go.
 

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okies. my mil is a teacher. her friends in registration have seen "lemonjello" and "oranjello (pronounced : leh-Mahn-gel-oh and o-ronj-el-oh)

There have been a large number of Female's (feh-mah-lee)

and I think 1 or two ****head's (Shi-thee-ad)
and then a large variety of shanequas and so forth..
I don't get it.. why would you do that. I know that a large number of the names typical of my generation were at least french (bad creole french, but french) now it seems they just shove syllables together.

Jason and I will give our children uncommon but not wierd names.

Also Re: Hazel being a weird name? Hazel is a very traditional name. It was a very victorian thing to be named after gems or herbs, colors, and flowers.
 

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Originally Posted by turtlecat

okies. my mil is a teacher. her friends in registration have seen "lemonjello" and "oranjello (pronounced : leh-Mahn-gel-oh and o-ronj-el-oh)

There have been a large number of Female's (feh-mah-lee)

and I think 1 or two ****head's (Shi-thee-ad)
and then a large variety of shanequas and so forth..
I don't get it.. why would you do that. I know that a large number of the names typical of my generation were at least french (bad creole french, but french) now it seems they just shove syllables together.

Jason and I will give our children uncommon but not wierd names.

Also Re: Hazel being a weird name? Hazel is a very traditional name. It was a very victorian thing to be named after gems or herbs, colors, and flowers.
My daughters' first name will be Lily
 

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Whatever happened to Jennifer and Samantha and Mark and Tom? There are none, NONE of those in my son's school, and our school district is primarily Caucasian.
It's almost as if everyone is trying to make their kid stand out JUST for their name....whatever happened to making a child stand out for other reasons, like academics, or doing something great for their community?
 

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I remember seeing the name Genephr. I guess it was some adult (I saw it in a letter to the editor in a magazine) who didn't want to be like the other Jennifers out there.
 

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Originally Posted by pandybear

there are some truly odd names these days, for example, tigerlilly, hazel, apple, casper, fifi trixiebelle (sounds like and adult entertainer), peaches honeyblossom, little pixie, hopper and jermajesty...all these by the way belong to air head celebrity's who have no idea at all how to name a child


there is nothing wrong with a unusual name but when you think calling your daughter tigerlilly is okay something is just wrong.

my best friend recently called her daughter crystal, i nearly died when she told me, why couldn't she have called the poor girl rebecca or something
I had a cat named Tiger Lily once. There were 3 sisters, Millie, Willie, and Tiger Lily. Good name for a cat, not a good name for a person, unless you are an Indian maiden in a Peter Pan flick.

I don't mind Crystal so much, better than Brandy!
 

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What I thought was really cool was this girl from Iran in my 8th grade class. She and I became good friends actually. Her name was Abeer. Some of the kids teased her but I thought it was cool. She was very pretty too.

Peter and I have a cat named Carmel. Not "caramel" - that gooey stuff they put in Snickers bars, CARMEL! Peter always jokes that we should spell her name Kharmyll.

I have always thought Fido was a good name for a dog. The lady down at the gas station told me she knew someone who spelled their dog's name Phydoux. LOL
 
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