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You named your kid what?!?

from JoeUser Forums

I was perusing the local hospital's 'baby pages' earlier this evening.

It never ceases to amaze me what people name their children.

Apart from the usual smatterings of ordinary names spelt 'differently' - like Mykel instead of Michael - there were a couple of names that left me asking myself 'what the hell were they thinking?'

Someone named their daughter 'Citrus'.  Yep, the trend of naming kids after fruit has gone to a whole other level.  I can hear the jokes about giving her a squeeze already.

Someone else named their son 'Corter'.  "Hey, ya got a corter ta spare for the pop machine?" was the first thing that sprang into my head.

Ok, back to the baby pages now to see what else some parents with overactive imaginations have managed to think up.....

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top

Jaquanda, Jamonica, Jayquan


That's what I'm talking about! People make up names out of thin air! 


 

Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
My friend's name is Joy and her sisters are Hope and Patience. I think that's a neat idea... within reason.

My mom wanted to name me Sarah Lee. Thankfully, the doctor talked her out of it.


Ha... Thanks!

~Sarah
Siege of Centauri
Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top

Joy and her sisters are Hope and Patience


I like that. 


If we ever were able to have another baby, I'd want to name it Phoenix.  That's about as funky as I get with names.


Who in their right mind calls their kid Citrus or Apple?  Or Brooklyn?


 


 

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ha... Thanks!~Sarah


Oops?

My father claims that Kimberly Clark was also in the running, but I'm not sure I believe that...
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Friends" star Courteney Cox Arquette and her actor husband, David Arquette, became parents for the first time Sunday.

People magazine reported on its Web site that Cox was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital around noon on Saturday and gave birth to a girl Sunday morning.

The baby, who is named Coco, was born about a week early, according to the report.

Arquette is 32, Cox turns 40 on Tuesday. The couple was married in 1999

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Stupid people

~Sarah
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's what I'm talking about! People make up names out of thin air!


How do you think names like Mike, Jill, and Bob came about?

My mom almost named me Wolfgang, and I wish she would have. I don't really care for Abraham but it's still better than names like: Mike, Dwight, Steven, Tony, John, Mark etc.
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
. I don't really care for Abraham but it's still better than names like: ...John, Mark etc.


I guess it's all a matter of perspective then, eh?

~Sarah
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
I guess it's all a matter of perspective then, eh?


Nuh uhh...
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top
My dad still talks about how he wanted to name me Camillesabob. He said he'd've called me Cammy for short. I just cannot imagine....

Thank goodness my mother stepped in and said no way. So I ended up Christine and I love my name.
Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Friends" star Courteney Cox Arquette and her actor husband, David Arquette, became parents for the first time Sunday.

People magazine reported on its Web site that Cox was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital around noon on Saturday and gave birth to a girl Sunday morning.

The baby, who is named Coco, was born about a week early, according to the report.

Arquette is 32, Cox turns 40 on Tuesday. The couple was married in 1999

Let's hope Coco uses her father's name. Can you imagine going through life with the name Coco Cox?
Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top
The Cleveland Indians have a player named Coco Crisp. Real first name Covelli, but he's gone by Coco all his life. Fans of the opposing teams bring boxes of cereal to the games to heckle him.

The tribe also had a guy named Milton Bradley, but traded him this year to the LA Dodgers.
Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh, and almost forgot. There is a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle.

Sportscenter had a running joke a few years ago (Dan Patrick/Keith Oberman time frame) where they wouldn't say his name. Whenever they covered race results, they'd always say, "And you know who finished in 24th place..."
Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top
Let's hope Coco uses her father's name. Can you imagine going through life with the name Coco Cox?




Oh, and almost forgot. There is a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle.


When we were younger, my brother had his matchbox car, and I was always amused by the name "Dick Trickle" on it. And to my brother's disatisfaction I would blatantly make fun of it.

~Sarah
Reply #39 from JoeUser Forums Top

How do you think names like Mike, Jill, and Bob came about?

Yes, Abe, but I'm talking about people making up names like (and I know someone who did this) Sunthy....and then insisting people pronounce it 'Shon-tay'.  I know someone who put a cidilla (french accent) on a letter in their kids name because it "looked pretty".

I think Chipj's 'Orangejello' twins have the most outrageous name thus far....although Coco Cox and Apple Paltrow come close.

 

Reply #40 from JoeUser Forums Top

read a newspaper article once about some drive by shooting, this woman had FIVE sons, named Anthony, Tony, Antoine, Antonio, and Tone, and 2 daughers named Chiquita and Margherita. Great, 5 tonys, a banana and a drink.


When I was growing up there was a family down the street from us who, in their quest for a little boy, had 6 girls.  Maria, Marina, Marinne, Mary, Meredith and Mariah.  Then came the boy....and they named him Eric.


I was watching some assinine dating show on MTV last week and there was a girl named "Tekilya" on there.  I wonder if her brother was "Tangeray"?

Reply #41 from JoeUser Forums Top
My sister named her first son Zxathian. Don't ask because I don't know. I have a friend who wanted to have four kids, two boys, two girls, named Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr...cute but is it too cute?
Reply #42 from JoeUser Forums Top
We don't want the whole world named Michael and Emily


I named my daughter Emily Joan. I love that name!
Reply #43 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have a godson named Random, and there was nothing we could do to talk the father and mother out of it.
Reply #44 from JoeUser Forums Top
Better a boy named Sue than a boy named Bob.

I admit it, excessive conformity makes my skin crawl.
Reply #45 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Random" is just as good a name as "Chance", which I have heard used before.
Reply #46 from JoeUser Forums Top

"Chance",


That's a popular name in this neck of the woods.  We're in cowboy country, where names like Seth, Chance, Eli, and Lane are common.


I like 'Emily Ellen' for a little girl...that was my grandmother's name.


I find it interesting how once old-fashioned names are now being en vogue again.  Henry, Harry, Jack, Emily, Millie...the names our grandparents were given are becoming more and more popular.

Reply #47 from JoeUser Forums Top
I once worked with a guy named Quo Vadis Nabors...
Reply #48 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have a uniue name and although if is often mispelled and mispronuonced I like it. My parents made it up. My name is JoLynda after my aunt Lynda and my aunt Jody (called Jo when she was younger).

My husband has a common name with a unique spelling Jaysen after his grandfather Jay.

Our daughter's name is also somewhat unique Jayden. It is after her daddy and grandpa.

I like unique names, just not crazy ones like products, foods or BM's.
Reply #49 from JoeUser Forums Top
OK, folks...I'm a huge baseball fan, and I have to dig at one of my favorite players, but...

"Randy Johnson" sounded like a term for a venereal disease 15 years ago, and it still does today...sorry, RJ.

I also knew a woman who was going to name her daughter "Aureola", insisting it means "black princess" (she saw "Coming to America" too many times, and didn't realize it was a COMEDY.)
Reply #50 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, I hope to throw my name into the mix! I'm Ariadne (known as Aria most often), and my partner is Finton, so we have a couple of unusual names. My niece's name is Molly Margaret, so it does just go to show that the traditional names are coming back! My mother is English, and my father is some part Italian some way way back in the family (although he is English too), so that is where my surname comes from, I suppose (Calzanti), and my middle name is that of my great Aunt on my mother's side (Devorah). I would like to name my children with unusual names, and have always liked the name Summer. I think I would also give my child/ren "normal" middle names so that they had the choice if they wanted (Finton has the middle name David).

Another thought - my brother in law's partner is due to have a baby in about 6 months or so, and we've been told that if it's a boy, they want to call it Finton! So, there will be 3 Finton's in his family... confusion abounds. Oh, and Finton is adamant that if we have a boy, he wants to call it (you guessed it) Finton. Yep.

Aria