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Parents should stop naming their children with weird names
Posted by runningshoes • 7/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: baby names, children, parenting
I had the misfortune of meeting a girl today named Kant(pronounced c*nt).And she is going through hell. Why dont people realize that the more exotic the name the more prone it is in to being a joke?Dont think so?Check out my(small) post on it fooddrinkandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/spare-us.html
Why dont parents learn from other parents mistakes?I think that I can safely state that almost any child would prefer plain old Jack or Tom rather than D'Artagnan
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"D'Artagnan"
Isn't that one of the three musketeers?-
Yup, and you'll be suprised to know that many people use it as their children's first names!
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what bugs me is when people name their child after a trade or profession that they obviously won't do, like Tanner or Hunter.
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No, lawn gnome. The three musketeers are Athos, Porthos and Aramis!
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My bad! He is the protagonist of the original novel, but not actually one of the musketeers. How could I!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers -
I know! I'm reading the book now, even though I pretty much know how it will end (damn movies).
D'Agit8r? -
Oh yeah you're right....d'Artagnan was the 3 musketeers' friend...
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d'artangnans theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdWCXZLMg4 -
i love the three muskeeteers:)
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If your name is Happy and you always look so sad, will you change your name? How about if your name is Pretty yet you look ugly, will you apply for a name change? If your mother named you "Locust" or "Bald" when you were born, you might apply for a name change, too.
Approximately 30 young women have applied for name change at the Social Status Department here because they were unhappy with the names given to them, such as Jaradah (Locust) and Salaa ("Bald").
The ladies said that their parents gave them such names due to tribal traditions of passing on the names of mothers or grandmothers to their grandchildren, which implies that the cycle of embarrassing names may have been going on for time immemorial. But it doesn't have to be. Each individual has the right to have a name of his or her choice.
My buddy's name is Skip. Everytime I tell him that it is the name of our dog, he slams the door in my face ha ha ha!!! -
YES including pet names
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The worst one I've hear is Yersinia, which is the name of a bacterium! I actually met the girl, both her parents are chemists-biologists like me, that doesn't justify her horrible name though. Another one, same case, both parents are chemists, her name is Crystal Violeta, a stain used for bacteria also, yikes!
I've known a few Mexican girls whose name is Blanca (white) that are much darker than me, jajajaja.
I agree that parents should think better about their choices for names. I made one of my aunts change the name she had for my cousin. She wanted to name him Vespaciano (an italian name), and I started telling her that people will call him "pashano". She was horrified and named my cousin Nicolas, much better!-
if i knew what pashano meant, that would probably make it more horrifying
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maybe nickel arse is better than pashano (does it mean something rude?) -
No, it doesn't mean anything, it just sounds like something you would call a permanently drunken guy or a drug dealer
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isn't that stereotyping? I googled it and there are a lot of people called pashano and it seems like a nice name.
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In Mexico a "pacha" is one of those little bottles for licor. So, if someone had called my cousin "pashano" it would translate into the rear end of a licor bottle, that's why it sounded bad to me. I didn't know that Pashano itself is a name, I hope I didn't offend anyone.
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ah that kind of explains it although it may be pronounced differently.
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I once knew a guy named Manuel Labor. I bet it was funny to his parents at the time. Sucks for him though. -
Yes I agree this is no joke I met someone called Mike Hunt the other day in the pub. The poor guy was getting it ripped out of him.
Surely people think of these things when thinking of what to name their child? Obviously not!
I hated my name when I was younger. I wanted a normal name like Mathew or Andrew or something. But I'm really glad I don't have a normal name like that now. Anyway.. A rose by any other name and all that...-
You would think that if he didn't like it, he would go by Michael
weird
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You mean it's not "Cooking ah-SHOL-ee"?!
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I mentioned this once before. I live in a hippy backwater. In the late 70s when communal living was popular here, names like Free, Beauty, Miracle, Splendor, Precious were extremely common. I'll bet now, thirty years later, every one of those kids has changed their names.-
I actually had an acquiantance whose fillipino mother is named Precoius Puttick.
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My kids names will be Bonqueesha (girl) or Lasagnor (boy)-
The guy becomes Garfield's favorite food....Not bad!
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It's pronounced Phil actually.
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lol!
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Another one, my friend's name is Michael Rak...Mike Rak :S
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Chlamydia is a good name for a girl. -
eeewwwwwwwwww
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Youobviously haven't seen the movie Waiting
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I once met a guy who had the last name of "Bull," and "SH" as first and middle initials. -
I was to have an interview to be a nanny with a family called Martin...and they had named their son Aston...I cancelled on them when they told me.-
jajajajaja that one is funny though!
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that's the nouveau riche equivelent of naming your daughter Chevelle or Caprice.
Maybe they weren't a real family, and it was just some serial killer *shrugs*
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I hate ridiculous names, especially ones like sillyruins and Epichrisms-
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Or carpitt? -
it isn't pronounced "carpet" is it?
although I'm still not sure how to pronounce legbemel either...
What if people started naming kids after blogger usernames
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Actually its pronounced crapitt
I am jealous really, because I just have a boring name.
It is my real names, plus surname -
Google Legba.
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I hate "kreativ" spellings, for businesses as well as people. Why would you burden your poor child with a name like Khayt or Ge'ff when Kate or Jeff (or Geoff) will do nicely and can actually be spelled and pronounced? And anyone who names their child Candi or Brandi deserves whatever hell that kid puts them through.
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We have a lot of those in Mexico. People naming their boys Brian, only to be pronounced as in English they spell it "Brai-yan" or "Bra-yan". I also hate when they use their own names spelled backwards for their kids, even if it doesn't make sense. Adding or substracting letters is another one; Dianna or Ivet (Ivette), yikes! Rakel instead of Raquel, arghhhh.
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Oh fer pity's sake-- all this time it's been Legba-Mel??
And I've been talking to you on BC how long, sneakerlady??!
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my littlest Godson's name is Fakih pronounced F*ck-eye
I begged his mother not to name him that. He's 12 now poor kid.-
that's Fakid up
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This article may be of interest to you
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6937327.stm
It was a dispute over the naming of a baby here in NZ a couple of years ago-
no numbers!? So 7grain Wheaton was out too?
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It wouldn't at all be surprised if that name was on their list of options
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and it isn't a racial/ethnic deal, cause those Wheatons are crackers!
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why didn't they just name him FoReal
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or... soforealbihaatch
I'm thinking it is cause they aren't so bright -
Yeah, its the age and ignorance of the parents - and dare I say it the mentality of the culture in certain communities in NZ
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Yes your parents were very naughty calling you Sam1982, shame on them
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I figure with the amount of texting going on we're going to see abbreviated names soon
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Well in actual fact Its Samwise Jamerson Eronius Collier 1982 the third. But I just shortened it down a bit
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Naming your child Kant (pronounced as you say) is horrible in my mind. Kids can be so mean. I can't imagine. And kids can't change their names.-
not "kahnt" like the philosopher?
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no it was pronounced 'c*nt'....like the part of the female anatomy.
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My dad swears that he went to high school with a girl whose last name was "F@ckner".
I had a friend who was a teacher and she told me that one of her student's name, who was an Indian, was Shaheed, but it was spelled Sh!@thead.
She claims it's real, but I don't know.-
I lot of Indian names are mispronounced and sound bad. I had a friend at school in London called Sherizahd Manoor which people kept pronouncing manure, not man-oor.
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My old doctor - Dr Cocks, called his daughter Ophelia after the character in Mid Summer nights dream.
Didnt think about that one really did he? -
@Sam
you're making that up!
although I did see a doctor named Svetlana Cox, but I think that was her married name... -
I wish (for her sake) I was
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I knew A Robert Loblaw called Bob....go ahead say it!
And a Stuart Pidd, they called Stu......go ahead say that one too!-
True story
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I do think that parents who have children who will live in the real world that name their children outrageous names are being quite mean to their child. Although I think that celebrities who have children who will not enter into the real world, and will likely wind up in show-biz might benefit from such strange names.
I guess when I see a name like Marsha Mellow (true name) I figure that the parents are making a joke of the child - and I wonder how their attitude is about the other aspects of parenting. Is everything a joke to them?
We gave Punky a first and middle name that could be shortened and abbreviated to create any number of nice nicknames - so that Punky would have a choice if the full name wasn't something that clicked well with the other kids or became a source of embarassment. Although Punky at this point always uses the full first name upon introduction, so I'm thinking we did good -
If I have a girl, I'm gonna name her Anok, timethief, jafabrit, Floormodel, crpitt, or theshutterbugeye.
If I have a boy, I'll name him Agit8r, Sam1982, trailofpen, Friday13, or ihatecusswordsmf.-
Go ahead! It will be better than Vagina or Testicles.
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Hmmmmm...runningshoes could be a good name for either gender...
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Once I was having problems with my alarm system so I called the company and they said they would send a technician callen Helen. A few hours later the doorbell rings and it was this big tall guy that claimed he was from the alarm co. He was Helen! I asked for ID...and it all checked out. -
Well, evidently Johnny Cash doesn't have a problem with unusual names. A case in point is his song, "My Name is Sue".-
a fine cautionary tale
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What's really bad is someone names their child Carcenoma, because they love Sonoma and they love the name Carson.
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I hate my name. Literally, perfect strangers feel the need to sing to me upon introduction.
I've had it happen so many times, I've come to expect it, and cringe when introducing myself.-
I had a classmate named Jolene. She got that a lot too.
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I had a guy living on my floor at the dorm once. This guy from Thailand. He had his last name ending with syllable "porn". I couldn't remember the first half of his last name because it was one helluva long one. Good way to end it though! -
Don't forget initials...I know someone who named their child Anna Rose. Not a bad name by itself, but the child is an unfortunately unattractive child and their last name is Fowler. Her parents gave her a built-in schooyard taunt for initials, as she is not called just Anna, but Anna Rose, so she can't hide her middle name and her initials are out there for everyone to use to tease her. -
I went to school with a kid named Bing Cherry. His parents actually named him Bing. What was worse was that he actually looked like a bing cherry. He was bright red and round. To his credit, he was a funny guy so the name actually worked out okay for him.
My sister's name is Noelle and she went through hell with the Christmas songs every year. But I think it is a pretty name.-
I did know a girl named Kandi Kane once. I suspect she's come up with a real name, now that she's grown. Or she's in Reno.
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I can't believe I forgot about this one.
I was an editor for a newspaper and one of my reporter's name was Holly Love. I kid you not. -
Brunhilde is a fine name, but it sounds witchy to me.
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I guess I’m just too old fashion because I wish for the days when parents named their kids after their siblings, aunts, uncles, or grand parents. It has been proven that a boy named Sue will affect how others relate to him. -
A friend of my aunt's was named Iona Mercedes.
Unfortunately, she did not eventually marry a man named Benz. -
Dreamed i named my kid S'geollan which is a dog's name in Irish. -
Once i called up a telecom call center. the person said, "Hello, markar,speaking ". In hindi , markar means," a person who is not alive any more.
I jokingly said ," speech nowdays has become difficult for a person alive . "you are great, you are still talking markar [ means not alive ]
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I am hoping that the person named Markar was not a Hindi-speaker, otherwise his parents made a very peculiar choice in naming him!
My husband's family speaks Tamil.
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almost named my kid "prince michael jackson"
i loved prince and my best friends middle name was michael
so i settled on sean joseph....
u gotta think, there are so many other things to be teased about, ur name doesnt need to be added to that list -
My grandmother was always tickled about her cousins' names: Penny and Spike Nail. Yep, daddy was a carpenter.
For an eye-opening look at odd names, meander through a nurses forum...'allnurses' is just such a site, but just about any would do. -
Unless the children hate it, I think parents have the right. Nor should they stop. People can hardly pronounce my name but that doesn't make me upset. The child will choose if they want to change their name. They should be proud to have a name and not be generalized like a cat or dog. Its theirs and no one should object. For along time people think they should stop the names of native species and lands because it was weird or hard to pronounce. Well I say a name makes you! -
Anorexia is a nice name hahaha. then you can use Rexie as a nickname
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If your last name is 'Hunt', don't ever make the mistake of calling your son 'Mike'.-
Nothing wrong with a Mike Hunt.
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that's what she said...
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ba dump bump...
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I am completely with you. There was actually an Asian couple who named their kid with some monstrous name that was over 200 letters long... a judge pressed charges for child abuse. -
Met a guy once, his name was Richard Head, guess what we called him for short?
In my line of work, I come across many names...Phok and Lipshits are just a few.... -
She should be proud! Immanuel Kant was one of the great philosophers!!!
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