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s/o - names
I have to say that it really irks me when people try to "create" a "unique" baby name by putting the letter "y" in a name. I know it's been a topic of conversation on this board before, but I recently saw some more names that did it!
Fayth
Addisyn
The name Addison is super popular right now...but I don't think replacing the "o" with a "y" to make it Addisyn makes it more unique?
And remember the post about the girl named Le-a (pronounced Ledasha?) - I guess it's more common than we thought b/c aside from whoever posted about it before, MH said he saw a baby at the hospital recently who was also named Le-a!!!! Really?! I only half believed the other post (hard to tell sometimes what stories passed around the internet are real or not) but now that MH has seen it, I have to believe it....
Here is my favorite "I just don't get it" baby name..... and I posted about this w/in another thread a while back (but I'm not sure how many people saw it besides Lisa who responded).... when we were in the hospital filling out the paperwork for miss A's birth certificate, I asked the person working there what the most recent worst name was...and she told us:
Abcde (prounounced Ob-seh-day)
Poor kid. Can you imagine what it's going to be like for him/her growing up w/a name like that?!
So... any other baby name pet peeves or bad names you want to share?
Re: s/o - names
My name has a 'y' in it; no one ever spells it correctly the first time! It used to bother me, but I like it now. It's not as though Alyson is a super uncommon name, so having an alternative spelling works for me.
I have a thing against people who throw two names together to form a new one. I like names that have history behind them.
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Fayth & Addisyn are just silly. Just leave them alone!
Abcde (prounounced Ob-seh-day): this one is just bad! What are some people thinking?
I think I mentioned it before, but Nevaeh. I just cannot wrap my mind around that one, heaven spelled backwards. Oh, and what about Jessica Alba's daughter, Honor? Because it was an honor to carry her.....I don't know, just a little silly to me.
I guess Alyson doesn't bother me b/c like you said, it's not uncommon. I have seen Allison, Alison, and Alyson... so I'm used to seeing multiple spellings of that name. But a name like Fayth? I don't get it.
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I'm not a big fan of unnecessary Ys.
My mom is a social worker and sees interesting names all the time, but I can't really think of any good ones she has shared recently.
She did tell me about twin boys she had the other day. They were "baby a lastname" and "baby b lastname" for over a month (which caused her problems b/c she needed their official paperwork and their parents couldn't start it w/out names). So they finally call her and say they came up with something - she thought it would be something really well thought out (family names or something). Nope, they named one baby after the street they live on and the other after the county they live in - city was the middle name for both.
I never know what to believe, but a friend of mine, who is also a teacher, swears she had twins several years ago with the names "Orangejello" and "Lemonjello." Pronounced "o-RON-jah-lo" and "la-MON-jah-lo."
I also don't like it when people spell things with lots of extra letters, just for the sake of being odd. Now, some names lend themselves well to an alternate spelling (my own name is an example....it can be spelled Leah, Lea, or Lia. Alyson, your name is also a good example of an appropriate alternate spelling). But it's just not necessary to add so many extra letters for many names. Like my first cousin who named her baby Aalaynnah. Wouldn't Alayna have sufficed? You're just setting the kid up for a life of frustration and explanations, in my opinion. It's not the alternate spelling that I mind, it's the unneccesary letters that are annoying.
I don't see a lot of the "y" trend in Hawaii... I do, however see a LOT of made up names.
For instance:
Taezha (pronounced Tay-ja)
Chanston
Here are a few recent ones (babies born at the hospital I delivered in January)
Jahzara
Jaisha
Glenyza
Kaizen
Ronnabella
Cheyden
Nashalia
Delijha
Kalcey
Oh, I wish I were kidding!
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I understand this...my mom's name is Lang but when they came to the US a Vietnamese friend told her to change it to Lan b/c that's how people spell it here in the US....well, now everyone who sees her name mispronounces it as Lan (rhymes with pan) instead of Lang (rhymes with bang). It's kind of annoying to me that she always has to correct people (and is usually too shy to even do so).... but names that are inadvertently misspelled do not bother me...it's when people make intentional changes to the name for the sake of being "unique" ....like Lisa brought up, Maddysonn?? I don't see that name and think "oooh how unique," I see that name and think "poor kid, his/her parents don't know how much grief they've caused all b/c they thought they were being creative"
Jaime & Brent
Oahu, Hawaii | Sept. 9, 2005
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Haha...there were kids in my HS with the last name Abcede. That's the first thing I thought of when I read that.
My dad's cousin's name is Fayth, but she's like 50 and I don't know if they spelled it that way to be trendy and different. I'm not totally against using Ys, but only if there isn't more than 1. If that makes any sense. Like Nykky would just be too much.
I totally hate the name Naveah, too. We had twins in the NICU named Heaven and Naveah. WHY?
maybe kaizen's parents are big fans of lean manufacturing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
OMG, Sandra...I was thinking the exact same thing! My employer was right in the thick of Lean when I started working...in fact, I'm a Navy-trained Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Haha! MH also went to HS with a chick whose last name was Abcede!!!
hah! that's awesome. my previous employer did a lot of "kaizens", but i never had the erm, opportunity, to get certified. but - a Navy-trained Lean Sigma Black Belt?!
tehe
I posted about Le-a a while back but that was DH's friends playing a trick on me. That Le-a turned out to be an urban legend... but that's so funny your DH saw a Le-a IRL!
For some reason people don't think my name is actually Japanese. They think my parents gave me a weird name because they're immigrants. Someone actually said to me, "do your parents know Chika's not a real name?" WTF!!!
Hm. I can't think of any name pet peeves at the moment, other than babies names after celebrities.
Well, it's not as cool as it sounds. It's a watered-down version of the "real" Six Sigma Black Belt training. I would never be able to pass the ASQ certification.
LOL...I feel kind of bad for nerding up this post a bit.
hah! well, i totally thought it sounded cool, so we'll just keep that a little secret
in keeping with the theme of this post though, here are some more names i saw at work today - new hire names Suzanne, who has a husband named Breeze (really - his given name) and a son named Zephy. doesn't bother me or anything, just - interesting!
I've heard of Breeze being used as a woman's name, but never a man's! I wonder if Zephy was a play on "zephyr" (a type of wind, ala breeze).