Do you suppose that everyone at some time in their life thinks about what they might like to name their children? I've always thought the tradition you tend to find on the East coast of using the mother's maiden name for a son's first name, was a cool idea. Obviously it works better with some names than others. Can you see a kid entering kindergarten with a moniker like Schwarzenegger Brown??
Naming children was the subject of "At Random" in the Chicago Tribune, today. The Social Security Administration has gathered information on the four million babies born in the year 2000. It seems that parents had a very material bent as they picked out names for those kids. There are 55 Chevys, 6 Timberlands and 7 DelMontes. Who in their right mind would name their child after a can of peas!??
Sky, or Skye is a nice name, especially if the baby will inherit lovely blue eyes. But when you come across 29 kids with the name "Skyy" you have to assume at least one of their parents has a relationship with a vodka bottle. At least the seven boys named "Courvoisier" got classier names.
Two babies were named "ESPN." Were they conceived during the commercials?? Do their dads hope they will become sports announcers? Perhaps English is the second language in that household, and they need to study a little more.
Speaking of English as a second language, I understand a recent immigrant to the US named her daughter "Placenta" because it had such a lovely sound to it. Wait until that child gets to health class.....
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...it will come as no surprise that we hadn't planned our children's names - well stephanie was going to be john william and stephen was going to be toyah marie...but we hadn't picked stephanie and stephen - and it came as a shock when it was pointed out to us they were the same name :^)...
Posted by billy | October 22, 2003 7:23 AM
Posted on October 22, 2003 07:23
I'd love to hear more about how you departed from the original choices. *S*
Posted by Buffy | October 22, 2003 11:26 AM
Posted on October 22, 2003 11:26
...well in theory because steph was a girlie john william would have been a bit daft - true not as daft as toyah marie for stephen :^)...although the story goes as steph's head emerged (sorry) and the mid-wife said "I think it's a boy"...I said to my wife "I've gone off the name john william"...at which stage carolyn looked at me, ripped the gas mask from her face and said through clenched teeth "personally I've gone off *anyone* called william"...she then replaced the gas/air mask and crushed the remaining knuckles in my hand :^)...
Posted by billy | October 22, 2003 12:52 PM
Posted on October 22, 2003 12:52
Ah...yes. Well, that makes sense.
Posted by Buffy | October 22, 2003 12:57 PM
Posted on October 22, 2003 12:57
Some do indeed give unusual names to their children... Placenta, LOL, I can picture that poor childs teen years.
My kids names are rather normal, and what a job it is to actually choose names... thinking of the initials, how the spelling will go if there is more than one spelling for the name you choose... considering how the name sounds when you yell it out in anger, or call outdoors (as when you want the child to come in.) Then there is the consideration of how that name rhymes and can be set up in nasty or sweet poetry... one can invest a lot of time in nameing their children.
Given all that I do have to wonder why some are named as they do. (I guess we all don't put the same thought into the process.)
Posted by Desiree | October 24, 2003 2:52 PM
Posted on October 24, 2003 14:52
I just liked the name I choose for Q15, however, his middle name is after my daddy. Little Ms. Prissy is named after my mama and me - third generation of "Jet" - my mama and I share the same middle name and instead of calling her by mama's name and her given name we call her by my daddy's pet name to mama - so when we are all home there is no problem in knowing who I'm raising my voice too LOL.
Posted by Jamie | October 24, 2003 6:07 PM
Posted on October 24, 2003 18:07
My wife and I just had our second child 7mnths ago his name is Avery Espn Braker! She was against Espn being the first name and all Caps. I had no idea there were others out there with the same name. I was just told today that another person in my small city approx 10,000 just named their little boy Espn also, small world..
Posted by Teague Braker | November 21, 2003 3:41 PM
Posted on November 21, 2003 15:41