Slache Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 My mother desperately wanted to name me Medula Oblongada. She was/is a biologist. Loved the sound. ...thankfully my father could not get on board..Because Spryte is so much better? :lol: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tm919 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 My mother desperately wanted to name me Medula Oblongada. She was/is a biologist. Loved the sound. ...thankfully my father could not get on board. lol! I think that was the name of one of the babies at the end of MaddAddam (by Margaret Atwood). Names like Marijuana, Cocaine, and Tequila make me wonder if the child was conceived after one regretful night of escapades. :/ I have a relative who says she named her daughter after what she was drinking. Almost all names sound ok to me, really. I have an unusual name and so do both my daughters, but I never liked that... the idea that the name was a joke. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 A local couple named their son Charles Manson surname. No joke. I feel so bad fof that kid. But here is the deal, these are two young, barely twenty parents. They actually did not know who Manson is or what he did or that he still has a cult following. Grandma explained it and suggested that they slip down to the county clerk's office and fill out a form claiming the middle name was misspelled and change it to Mason. Mason is of course a very accepted boy name. They didn't because they liked the name Manson. I feel very sorry for that child. And I still feel it could be an issue. Manson's followers often name their offspring after him or one of the others in that original group. I really think it could cause discrimination on things like job applications and such. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 With some of these names that are negative words that maybe sound like a pretty name do you think that the parents did not know what it meant or that they are just very mean and insensitive? In the case of the one I knew, Philistine, I think they picked it because it sounded pretty, but without realizing the connotations. But there do seem to be some parents who treat it like a sort of joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Anything that is a well-known fruit or vegetable. Anything that is an obvious political statement. Anything that reminds people more of a cartoon than an actual human. Abcde. Adolph Hitler. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Ivy Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I heard of a big sports fanatic family who named their son ESPN, pronounced "ESS-pin". The pronunciation isn't bad sounding, but I think it's bizarre that anyone would name a child after a television network. There are some siblings in a nearby school district - Espn, Heisman, and Emmy. While Emmy is a perfectly acceptable name, she was named after the awards. So, they have two awards and a channel. Poor Espn is a girl, too. When I worked in hospital billing, we had a Laramie, Dakota, Montana, Wiley, and Boone. All siblings. Not bad names at all, but we giggled over the Western theme. SIL works for DHS and has had a Raskul. (Rascal) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Syne Boardie Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 My son taught VBS at church this summer. A little boy in his class was named Kal-El. His father verified that yes, he was named after Superman. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Isis. She was named before the terrorist group was widely known, of course. It is just unfortunate to have that association. :( That's just unfortunate. Reminds me of the fellows named Adolph after Hitler became a household name. Their lives became much more difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Respectfully, do we really want to trot this out? This topic so often ends in hurt feelings and with racist/classist undertones. Why not just agree that there are names we wouldn't choose for our own children without mocking the choices of other people? I think people are being mindful of that, and I haven't seen any mocking. There are several trendy names that I strongly dislike, but I wouldn't list them here because I'm sure there are members who have kids with those names and love the names. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 My son taught VBS at church this summer. A little boy in his class was named Kal-El. His father verified that yes, he was named after Superman. Are you in New England? I know someone there who has a son with that name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zydruna Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I knew a girl in high school named Annis (she said it was after the spice but it isn't spelled the same as anise). Either way, Annis or Anise, I actually think it is a beautiful sounding name when pronounced correctly. It is just much too easy to intentionally mispronounce in an unfortunate way and I felt bad that she had to endure that. She started going by just Ann eventually. I mostly just have trouble with the ones that include punctuation that is supposed to be pronounced. My sister actually met a girl who said her name was La-a (pronounce the dash) as was mentioned above. I have heard a couple of others over the years which I can't remember right now that required a dash or comma or something to be pronounced and I have a hard time wrapping my mind around giving that sort of name to a child. Points for creativity, but I think it would be hard to live with such a name day to day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Syne Boardie Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Are you in New England? I know someone there who has a son with that name. No, I'm in the midwest! :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 My most hated is Delilah. Pretty, but really? I'm surprised how many Delilahs I've met. Oh and Neveah. Which is heaven backwards. Which I might have liked better if I hadn't been told they chose the name after a porn star. :ack2: Pronounced, "are-ree-AW-nah"?Ariana is my son's girlfriend's name. :) I personally think Arianna is pretty... but then the girl I knew named that was half jewish, I think named after an ancestor named Ari when they finally gave up on having a boy. But Aryana has a totally different and offensive connotation to me too. I went to school with a Lyric, Lark, Lars, and Leif. Yes, all the same family. I had a kid with the legal given name of Cowboy when I was teaching. Looking at his family, his name was the least of his problems. I always thought Lyric was pretty. Lark? Seems to have an irresponsible connotation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I had a Lykka, pronounced Lie-Kah. Apparently it's from a TV show, but unfortunately usually ended up pronounced like Lick-a, which, in turn, sounds a lot like how the word liquor is pronounced around here. It was particularly unfortunate since she was in a class with Sherry, Brandy, and Tequila Sunrise. (Seriously, I think the person who made class lists at that school liked sticking all the kids with similar names in the same section. I had another section with Royal, Duke, LaPrincess, and Queenie) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loowit Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 We almost didn't name our son a name that I loved due to negative reactions when I was pregnant. I avoided talking names, but DH had a big mouth. The name we decided to use when we changed it was Phineas which I really like also, but then in the middle of the c-section I changed my mind and told DH we were going with the original name I had wanted. I am glad now that we changed back, because Phineas is strongly associated with the cartoon. When I told DS we almost named him that he told me that he would rather have been Ferb. DS loves his name, but it is unusual for our area and people have a hard time with pronouncing it correctly the first time they see it. And as much as I was told before he was born that he would be teased, he has not been at all. The only negative reactions I have gotten are from using the traditional Irish spelling rather than the anglicized version of his name. I would have thought though that with the popularity of the Harry Potter books and movies that my son's name would be a little more familiar. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Ivy Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Oh and Neveah. Which is heaven backwards. Which I might have liked better if I hadn't been told they chose the name after a porn star. :ack2: mmm. Classy. Neveah is one thing. A porn star is another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 One I'm glad we didn't choose was on my "short list" and I would have considered it. I'm glad we didn't because a close friend named their dog the same name! BUT...someone in the news recently named their child AFTER their dog...I can't remember who that was! That I definitely would not have picked! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I always thought hippie-names were sort of...well...they really put you in a category! What if your child doesn't want to be a hippie? haha Names like Serene, Breeze, Harmony, Rainbow, etc. I know a very professional woman who always catches me off guard when she introduces herself to people as "Sunshine." Confession: I always wanted the name "Summer" when I was a girl! :) Also, I know of some people recently who named their baby daughter after the word Heaven, backwards: "Neveah." That just seems corny to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I went to school with a Lyric, Lark, Lars, and Leif. Yes, all the same family. I had a kid with the legal given name of Cowboy when I was teaching. Looking at his family, his name was the least of his problems. I am, at this moment, sitting in a meeting with a man named Leif and one of his brothers is a Lars. The four boys all have Nordic names in honor of their family heritage, and Leif always gets mispronounced (it's a long A sound in the middle, not a long E). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedicMom Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I like it!! I wanted to name one of ours Aryanna :) They pronounce it Ar-ree-ann, but it tends to come out like Aryan. Like the white supremacy Nazi thing. I'm sure that was far from their intent and never crossed their minds, but it's what's happened. I would spell it differently simply because of that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I always thought Lyric was pretty. Lark? Seems to have an irresponsible connotation. Lark was the name of one of the adults mentors in the Tamora Pierce Circle of Magic series. We almost didn't name our son a name that I loved due to negative reactions when I was pregnant. I avoided talking names, but DH had a big mouth. The name we decided to use when we changed it was Phineas which I really like also, but then in the middle of the c-section I changed my mind and told DH we were going with the original name I had wanted. I am glad now that we changed back, because Phineas is strongly associated with the cartoon. When I told DS we almost named him that he told me that he would rather have been Ferb. DS loves his name, but it is unusual for our area and people have a hard time with pronouncing it correctly the first time they see it. And as much as I was told before he was born that he would be teased, he has not been at all. The only negative reactions I have gotten are from using the traditional Irish spelling rather than the anglicized version of his name. I would have thought though that with the popularity of the Harry Potter books and movies that my son's name would be a little more familiar. Interesting. The first thing I thought of with Phineas was Harry Potter! The headmaster's picture in the office. A relative of Sirirus' I believe. My own son was born shortly after the last book was released, and named Theodore -- though we'd chosen the name before it came out, I was tickled to see a Theodore inside! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 mmm. Classy. Neveah is one thing. A porn star is another. Can someone please time how this is pronounced? I've never been sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Respectfully, you would probably feel differently if you had numerous relatives that were murdered for not being Aryan (as I do).Of course I would!!! Don't know the history behind this. Sorry :(ETA: quickly read other posts and another mentioned as Arianna being OK, but Aryanna being disrespectful. So sorry, didn't mean to. I have always liked it and just thought it looked cool with a y... as I said, don't know history behind it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Library Momma Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 You could try giving it a French spin -- zhawn-ih-tuh-LEE-uh ... Or not. :o Or just spell it with a J and she can be Jenny for short :lol: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 One I'm glad we didn't choose was on my "short list" and I would have considered it. I'm glad we didn't because a close friend named their dog the same name! BUT...someone in the news recently named their child AFTER their dog...I can't remember who that was! That I definitely would not have picked! My in-laws named my husband after a dog. (Well chose his names to mean he could have the same nickname the dog had, then used it exclusively to refer to him such that he considers that his name now.) Not theirs, but still... I kind have the same eye-roll of feelings about THAT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Wasn't there a recent situation where the parents named their boy Adolph Hitler Lastname... because they were KKK members, or neo-Nazis, or something like that? It was fairly recent, as I recall.No way :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Can someone please time how this is pronounced? I've never been sure! I've heard Neveah pronounced nuh-VAY-uh. I just don't get why you'd want to name a child the "opposite" of Heaven. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertBlossom Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I personally don't like intentionally misspelled names either. That being said, DD has my mom's first name as her middle name and it's an invented spelling my grandparent's came up with. Oh well. My mom was worth it. I've seen some doozies. I used to teach at a school with a kid with the same first and last name. Parents thought it would make things easy for him. Way to set the bar low. And honest to goodness, there was a girl named Chewbacca in the class down the hall. I heard she was going to have it legally changed though. The only name lately that has given me pause is Rowdy. It could be cute, but I wondered if all his future teachers would unfairly pre-judge his behavior. What if he was a really mellow kid? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Names like Marijuana, Cocaine, and Tequila make me wonder if the child was conceived after one regretful night of escapades. :/Maybe?? But, I mean...we have had a couple unplanned pregnancies, but none of our kids are named "accident". With the youngest we teased that we were going to name him Surprise :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I've heard it nuh-VAY-uh. I wouldn't have guessed that at ALL. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Pronounced, "are-ree-AW-nah"? Ariana is my son's girlfriend's name. :) Such a beautiful name!! Glad we ended not using it though, I didn't realize that the spelling I wanted could have been offensive and had a negative connotation :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I wouldn't have guessed that at ALL. Thank you!I have such a hard time pronouncing that name! Besides, don't like the fact that it's Heaven backwards 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Yes, I've also heard Neveah as Neh-VAY-uh. Subtle but slight difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Oh and Neveah. Which is heaven backwards. Which I might have liked better if I hadn't been told they chose the name after a porn star. :ack2: Nope. Nevaeh is heaven spelled backward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Cutesy spellings--or worse, offensive spellings--leave me with he impression that the parents are illiterate. Might not be fair, but there it is.I had considered Aryanna for one of our girls, glad we didn't since I didn't realize it has a negative connotation... just liked the spelling. Yes, history is not my forte...I am learning as I homeschool my kids, but I do have a good education, just not history wise. I wouldn't consider myself illiterate though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Wasn't there a recent situation where the parents named their boy Adolph Hitler Lastname... because they were KKK members, or neo-Nazis, or something like that? It was fairly recent, as I recall. Yeah, IIRC it got ugly when they ordered a birthday cake and someone called the child protective people. The kid was taken away from his parents, which I think is a gross overreaction, though there could always be more to the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IfIOnly Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Who else is reading this thread and liking many of the disliked names? Says the woman who named her children traditional names with traditional spellings. Ha! I actually know an Aryanna (not sure of the spelling though) and have always thought it was a beautiful name. Her sister is Sydney. Parent's aren't illiterate. Both are college graduates. Husband is an engineer. :P 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I know a Lyric. Cute little girl. It suits her perfectly. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lailasmum Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I knew a girl in high school named Annis (she said it was after the spice but it isn't spelled the same as anise). Either way, Annis or Anise, I actually think it is a beautiful sounding name when pronounced correctly. It is just much too easy to intentionally mispronounce in an unfortunate way and I felt bad that she had to endure that. She started going by just Ann eventually. . I know a woman called Annys. I've never heard her mention quite such a bad pronunciation of her name, but it does often get pronounced awkwardly like ah-knees or Anny's. She does pronounce it like the spice. It's a nice name but people don't really know how to say it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmiraGulch Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I went to school with a Lyric, Lark, Lars, and Leif. Yes, all the same family. I had a kid with the legal given name of Cowboy when I was teaching. Looking at his family, his name was the least of his problems. I have a Lyric, a Luna, and a Lincoln. They're all cats, though. :-) . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Can someone please time how this is pronounced? I've never been sure! I've heard it NEV ee uh like the skin cream, and nev AY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahlanne Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I said I wouldn't comment on other's names but I want to add that two brothers that I knew were Link and Chain. A relative of mine is Lincoln but always went by Link/Linc. I am not sure how he spells it. I don't know that I would want to name brothers Link and Chain though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Spencer. Isn't there a character in Criminal Minds named that? I think a friend of mine posts fan pictures of that actor all the time. I would assume the mom was a fan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Respectfully, you would probably feel differently if you had numerous relatives that were murdered for not being Aryan (as I do). Aryan and Aryann are awful, but Ariana/Arianna and I'm guessing the alternate spelling Aryanna are pronounced Ahr-ee-AHN-a and have nothing to do with those - that's a very common name. I know a bunch of Ariannas. And Hitler was not just evil, but an ignoramus. The real Aryans were a group from Central Asia who migrated into Northern India in ancient times and were the originators of the Hindu religion. They never set foot in Europe, and were neither blond or blue-eyed. You know, I don't think that word means what he thought it meant... He must have come across it, and the swastika, which had been a perfectly innocent Eastern symbol for centuries that also had nothing to do with what he appropriated it for, when skimming some book on India??? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Or just spell it with a J and she can be Jenny for short :lol: Spell it with a J and you have a name all ready for the Duggars... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Indiana immediately brings to mind - "You were named after a dog?" Hey! No! I think of Indiana Jones, which is actually pretty awesome imo! :thumbup1: Actually, my grandmother & her four sisters all had states as names (either first or middle). My grandmother's middle name was Missouri. (As far as I know, her relatives had no ties to Missouri.) And, she had cousins named Brown and Blue. I don't find them to be terribly weird or unusual names, though. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Spencer. Awww. I like that name. It's my great nephew's name. :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2att Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Well my nn is Barbie, so I get to make fun of other people's names all I want, mine being so serious and all ;-) The worst one I've personally come across was in our local paper, some cute little toddler who won the baby crawl at a small-town 4th of July celebration. Kid's name was Silver, which is slightly unusual, but when you read on and find that his last name is Ware, it's a head scratcher. But maybe it's just his stage name. Winning the baby crawl would make you rather famous, after all. Then my kids mentioned that it could have been worse. They could have named him Under, or Any, or No. Still, Silver Ware? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 My son taught VBS at church this summer. A little boy in his class was named Kal-El. His father verified that yes, he was named after Superman. Nicholas Cage named one of his sons that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countrygal Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I just remembered one. My cousin was a teacher and had a student in her class with the name Shithead. It was pronounced Shuh - THEED. No, I am not making that up! Maybe she was though, but she wasn't that type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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