there are some very unusual names around, some sound nice and some just plain stuid. My kids I think have normal names Molly, Brandon and Melissa. There are some very unusual names at their school but each to their own.x
That's horrible.Friend I went to High School with named her daugher Extacy
Misspelling: yeah so my middle name is kind of misspelled. Alyse another spelling of Elise, but still a recognized spelling. Means "noble, exalted; rational"Oh you all got on my favorite pet peeve, names.
Honestly I have no idea why people would want to name any child something you would name a pet. Moon Unit sounds like a dogs name. As does Shasta, I went to school with a girl named Shasta. Everytime I heard her name I thought of cheap pop.
That being said, some of the names listed here seem pretty normal Crystal for example.
Now to get on my favorite soap box. Stop misspelling your childs name. It's not cute after the four millionth time you've had to correct the spelling. Traci, T-r-a-c-i not y not ie not ey. I have more problems with my first name being misspelled than my last name being mispronounced. And yes I've taken it up with my parents as well. Well we thought it would be cute and neat for it to be different.
Also uni-sex names are all good and well until your little angel gets on the school bus the first time and is made fun of for having a boys name or a girls name when they are the opposite. Ie. Your name is Shelby that's a girls name. Kids are cruel enough without the extra amo.
And if your going to call your child Bobbie please be kind enough to actually name him Robert. Bobbie is cute for a three year old not so hot when it's attorney Bobbie Whatever.
Oh and in the interest of my poor Father and Uncle who's initials spell out ODD and my Uncle who's initials spell out DAD. Please don't try to be cute and spell things out with initials.
This hopefully brings me to my end of ranting about names with one possible exception. Please don't name your kid something that will automatically get them made fun of just because of someone that came before them. Ie Hitler, Osama, or Einstein. And if your last name is Stein, maybe Frank Nathan Stein isn't the best choice, it's only going to take so long before every kid in school is going to figure out Frank N Stein.
Thats a new one. Makes me think of the musical "The Music Man" which is actually one of my favs...but I'm not naming this baby after it in any way shape or form!A friend of mine who is now pregnant, her DH wants to name their son "Eerie Indiana" I'm like wow.
Oy. There is a reason you didnt know his name! I went to school with a Dejanora (spelled different; I can't remember how it was actually spelled) and people would sing her the song from the mustard commercial... She went by Tish. I think that was an abbreviated version of her middle name.A woman my mom worked with kept the "name" the hospital "gave" her daughter: "Female" (pronounced to rhyme with tamale). I kid you not! A guy I went to university with was named Hyacinth, which we didn't find out was his full name till our graduation ceremony, as he always went by "Hy". Hmmm, I wonder why? It supposedly was a perfectly normal Greek name, but the guy was born and raised in the U.S..
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And I'm a big enough dork that if I could work Skywalker into a name I would.But I would use it as a middle name, I can't imagine saddling some poor child with that as a first name.
A woman my mom worked with kept the "name" the hospital "gave" her daughter: "Female" (pronounced to rhyme with tamale). I kid you not!
A properly folkloric version of the fuh-MALL-ee tale would have it that the parents saw the "name" on the baby's bracelet. Not being able to read well, they sounded it out badly, it fell on their ears prettily, and thus Baby was named. Alternatively, they interpreted what was written on the bracelet as the hospital having already named their child and the matter now being out of their hands.
I was friends with two sisters when I was a kid, their names were Tania and Tena (tina). I guess Tania isn't that uncommon of a way to spell Tanya but at the time I thought it was odd... Their other sister got the normal spelling of her name though.Being pregnant with my 2nd I've been hearing sooo much crazy name talk on the baby board I go on. I really dislike when people try to make a name different by spelling it creatively. My name is pretty common; but not enough that I was ever able to find it on things when I was a kid. Especially with my spelling. All my friends had those little licence plates for their bikes and they were sooo cool...but not me because they didn't have it.
Gift shops never had crap with my name on it either...My sister was never able to find stuff with her name on it as a kid either. Her name isn't that unusual but I guess the spelling my parents gave her is not common, most things say Carrie and her name is Kerri.