Hold the phone! What are people thinking when they name their kids!?!?

Re: Hold the phone! What are people thinking when they name their kids!?!?

• GilliC member

  

  June 2014

  fabk said:

  @gillic I think I would just call her Betty. Short for alphabet. The younique spellings and backwardsnmes are crazy. But I prefer them to stupid names. My sister was going to call her kid, if it was a girl, elephant. Well, actually it was Ella and last name sounds like phant. I can imagine the teasing the poor child would have endured.

  There were actually 8 girls named Yunique last year. *facepalm* Plus 14 Euniques (Does that look like 'eunich' to anyone else?)

  

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• Young_Love member

  

  June 2014

  MrsC7 said:

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  There's some parody hipster website with a kid name Quinoa, but I actually have a student named Kale.
  

  @Young_Love Is it pronounced like the vegetable, or something else like "Kah-LAY"?

  Like the leafy green.
  
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• kpow member

  

  June 2014

  SusieBW said:

  
  

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  @SusieBW Naming boys is really hard! Baby Boy is due in three weeks and our short list still contains like 10 names!

  I wish we could come up with a list of 10!  For DD, we had 6 or 7 names picked out, and didn't decide until a couple of hours after she was born.  We want to do the same thing for baby boy, but so far we only have 3, and I'm doubting Bode.  We just can't seem to agree.  Our current first choice is Miles, and even then, DH likes it better spelled with a Y, and I hate it with a Y.
  
  What's on your list, if you don't mind sharing?
  

  I think boys' names with Ys make them seem feminine. Don't use the Y.
  

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• jkfranklin member

  

  June 2014

  I'm just going to leave this here. Make sur eyes check out the sister's name at the bottom.

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• Louise06 member

  

  June 2014

  I used to work as an RN on a Mother Baby unit and we did have a mother name her child that. One of our nurses called the baby Laia and the mom got mad and yelled that "the dash ain't silent".
  
  We also have another mother name her daughter Denim. Like the jeans.

  
  
  

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• dmlk413 member

  

  June 2014

  I just saw someone on FB whose son's name is Andru.  We have friends whose son is named Alec.zan.der.  WHY?
  

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• sassypants527 member

  

  June 2014

  I'm super over names that rhyme with Aidan.  You can call any variation of that (kaden, jaden, braden, etc) and a kid will probably answer.
  
  My sister named my youngest niece Adysen because "spelling it -son makes it such and such's son," to which I countered "I've never met a man named Addi."
  
  She didn't like that.
  

  
  

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• BabyRN2006 member

  

  June 2014

  GilliC said:

  Before some of these become urban legend, distilled from the department of Social Security:

  
  

  http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/baby-names-2013/
  

  
  

  I'm really hoping that the 16 girls named Abcde were just given a placeholder and will eventually be renamed. How do you even pronounce that?!

  @GilliC unfortunately, its a real name. Pronounced Ab-sid-ee.
  

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• j*&p* member

  

  June 2014

  dmlk413 said:

  I just saw someone on FB whose son's name is Andru.  We have friends whose son is named Alec.zan.der.  WHY?
  

  o_O What???? Is that so he can get a domain name that isn't taken? 

  
  

  For the most part I don't care what people name their children, but I do roll my eyes at some weird spellings. Apple? Fine. Northwest? Whatever if it's your favorite direction. McKhaighlah, though, no thanks. 

   
  

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• Jliongrrrl member

  

  June 2014

  I work in the transfer center/admissions office of a pretty big hospital and many days when we register the newborns I want to go up and plead with the parents to reconsider what they're doing to their child. My favorite is Shithead (pronounced sha-theed). Also, if you can't decide, please don't throw 6 names together. Imagine how hard it's going to be on your 5 year old to learn how to write that long azz name at the top of his kindergarden papers.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Shepherdjel member

  

  June 2014

  Jliongrrrl said:

  I work in the transfer center/admissions office of a pretty big hospital and many days when we register the newborns I want to go up and plead with the parents to reconsider what they're doing to their child. My favorite is Shithead (pronounced sha-theed). Also, if you can't decide, please don't throw 6 names together. Imagine how hard it's going to be on your 5 year old to learn how to write that long azz name at the top of his kindergarden papers.

  I have seen this too but it was pronounced Sha-thawd
  

  
  
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• caseyandlizzie member

  

  June 2014

  MrsC7 said:

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  My neighbor has a little boy named Altair. It's pronounced Al-tie-ear.  While I appreciate the literary reference, I'm still scratching my head.  J and I just call him Atreyu, a la Never-ending Story because would couldn't get his name right for the longest time.
  

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  A girl I went to high school with named her son Atreyu Freedom. I can't make this shit up.
  

  
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• booneybear member

  

  June 2014

  I personally think everyone having a child should name the kid Booney.  

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  June 2014

  Shepherdjel said:

  Jliongrrrl said:

  I work in the transfer center/admissions office of a pretty big hospital and many days when we register the newborns I want to go up and plead with the parents to reconsider what they're doing to their child. My favorite is Shithead (pronounced sha-theed). Also, if you can't decide, please don't throw 6 names together. Imagine how hard it's going to be on your 5 year old to learn how to write that long azz name at the top of his kindergarden papers.

  I have seen this too but it was pronounced Sha-thawd
  

  It makes me so sad that people seem to put more effort into their dog's name than their child's.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  June 2014

  Jliongrrrl said:

  I work in the transfer center/admissions office of a pretty big hospital and many days when we register the newborns I want to go up and plead with the parents to reconsider what they're doing to their child. My favorite is Shithead (pronounced sha-theed). Also, if you can't decide, please don't throw 6 names together. Imagine how hard it's going to be on your 5 year old to learn how to write that long azz name at the top of his kindergarden papers.

  We use that name with that pronunciation to refer to my ex-BIL.

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• MrsC7 member

  

  June 2014

  @caseyandlizzie Atreyu Freedom made me legit LOL

   

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  June 2014 edited June 2014

  dup... nm!

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• caseyandlizzie member

  

  June 2014

   

  MrsC7 said:

  @caseyandlizzie Atreyu Freedom made me legit LOL

  
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• pinkybooklover09 member

  

  June 2014

  Atreyu Freedom sounds like the name of a hipster band. 

  

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• Young_Love member

  

  June 2014

  pinkybooklover09 said:

  Atreyu Freedom sounds like the name of a hipster band. 

  There actually is a band named Atreyu
  
  

    
  

  

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• mrsvedo member

  

  June 2014

  booneybear said:

  I personally think everyone having a child should name the kid Booney.  

  One of my BFFs named her first son Boone. I'm sure he probably gets called Booney by some people.
  

  

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  June 2014

  Young_Love said:

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  Atreyu Freedom sounds like the name of a hipster band. 

  There actually is a band named Atreyu
  
  

  HA! I'm not surprised AT ALL. 

  

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• cnthrdlywt2bwZ member

  

  June 2014

  pinkybooklover09 said:

  
  

  Young_Love said:

  
  

  
  

  pinkybooklover09 said:

  
  

  Atreyu Freedom sounds like the name of a hipster band. 

  
  

  There actually is a band named Atreyu
  
  

  
  

  HA! I'm not surprised AT ALL. 
  
  DH has an Atreyu t-shirt (because of the N-E S connection) but isn't a fan of the band.
  
  

  
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• RiverPlate member

  

  June 2014

  Sophie goes to school with this beautiful little girl named Attache.  As in the type of bag.

  

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