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Title: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Ash on December 23, 2008, 04:57:05 PM
Ever notice lately how lots of parents give their kids "bad" names?
I'm not talking about celebrity kid names.  Those are in a class all their own.
I'm referring to the names everyday people give their kids.
99% of them are simply awful!

I just finished reading this article about the hottest baby names of 2008 and most of them make me want to puke.
http://features.parents.com/baby-names-2008.html

Many of them have a self-righteous and pretentious feel to them.  Sure, I know that these parents think their kid is the most special of all kids, but come on!

Girl names:
Madison?  Addison?  Riley?  Bailey?  Teagan?
Those sound like company brand names.

It gets even worse for boys.
Aiden?  Jayden?  Caleb?  Caden?  Dylan?  Avery?  Grayson!?
UGH!  Barf city!
I was surprised to see Matthew, James, Michael and Andrew on the list, so there is some hope.

Most of the names these days are just terrible.
The worst name I can think of that drives me up the wall is Mckayla.  Never before have I heard a more trailer trash sounding name.  If you've named your kid that, there's no hope for you...or them.

I don't have any kids yet, but you can bet your a** that if I do, they're getting a "normal" name.

What do you think?


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Rev. Powell on December 23, 2008, 05:40:58 PM
I greatly prefer traditional names that have some meaning and history behind them.  No offense to people who like these newer "yuppie" names, but the first thing I think of when I hear a child with one of these names is "too bad the parents didn't want to put much thought into naming the poor kid, but just went with something shallow and trendy."

That said, I don't think all of the boys names you listed are truly awful.  Caleb is a Biblical name, although parents seem to be reaching for certain rare Biblical names just because they're uncommon rather than because of the name's significance.  Dylan is (was) a dignified Welsh name, though it sucks when parents name a kid after Bob Dylan instead of Dylan Thomas. 

The girls names you list are all horrible.  They all sound like porn star names to me. 

More "hot" baby names I despise:

Girls:
Cadence (people are seriously naming their daughters afetr a synonym for "tempo"?) 
Britney (hopeful fading because no one wants to be reminded of Ms. Spears)
Nevaeh ("Heaven" backwards, get it?)
Savannah (my mom gave that name to her lapdog before it was popular with real parents)

Boys:
Brooklyn (!! Beckham & Posh's poor kid)
Colton (chosen I think solely so the kid can have the nickname "Colt" and therefore inevitably  grow up to be an NCAA quarterback)


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Psycho Circus on December 23, 2008, 05:54:29 PM
Well, if I ever have a child I want it to be called Shandi, if it's a girl after the KISS song. Jayce if it's a boy.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Paquita on December 23, 2008, 06:37:41 PM
I second that emotion!  I really hate this new last names for first names trend.  Especially because I work in HR and there are people the come on board with names like McKenzie Anthony and they get freakishly upset when they're accidentally put in the system as Anthony McKenzie and then I have to go punch them in the neck!  And it also seems like the people with these names LOVE their name more than someone with a more traditional name and have necklaces and coffee cups and labels with their stupid name all over it.  And these names are such a hit that I can't even comfortably complain about them in public because everyone loves them and gets offended!!

HOWEVER, I have a huge family and all the GOOD traditional names are taken. sometimes twice.  And working in HR and seeing every name you can think of (there was even a Lex Luther - no kidding) and having a face and personality to go with it, it kind of ruins a bunch of names for me because I now associate those names with those people.

So what I'm kind of making an explanation for is my daughters name - Lotus.  I love the name and it is a REAL name and some people might hate it (it sounds too much like Locust, etc..) but I can handle that because its still not as bad as Madison!  I figure if Lily can be a normal, pretty, acceptable name, so can Lotus!!  She's not named after the car either, but thankfully we live in the US so most people won't associate her with the car.  but I realize this is probably lumped in, or will be lumped in with these new trendy yuppie names.  I was horrified when I recently saw Lotus in Parents magazine as one of the hottest "nature" name for 2009 along with names like OCEAN!!  F'n Parents magazine!!  AND NOW! there's a stupid cell phone called Lotus!! What the hell!!  I swear there's idea stealing gremlins sitting under my bed taking notes and selling them to the highest bidder!


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: JJ80 on December 23, 2008, 06:42:21 PM
In Glasgow and the West of Scotland, you occasionally hear about  parents naming their children (even girls) after the entire or a number of members of either of the "Old Firm" teams, Celtic or Rangers. When you consider that these teams are pretty multinational these days, that means that kids can end up with a mix of Scottish, Irish, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese etc names!


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: zombie no.one on December 23, 2008, 07:19:42 PM

The worst name I can think of that drives me up the wall is Mckayla. 


it's possible that the way it's spelled there makes it look trailer-trashy, because the traditional spelling is 'Michaela', which looks far more acceptable despite being pronounced exactly the same.


So what I'm kind of making an explanation for is my daughters name - Lotus.
 

I would say that name is too obscure to be considered 'pretentious'...unless her middle name's Espirit  :teddyr:

a guy I worked with's real name was Billy. he kept on having to get his paycheques and security passes etc changed because they would come in saying 'William'...


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: indianasmith on December 23, 2008, 07:23:57 PM
My Captain, back when I was in the navy, named his two boys Trammel and Frazier.  (This was long before the FRAZIER TV series.)


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Mr. DS on December 23, 2008, 07:36:54 PM
Sorry to say we're in the new 60's with people getting completely carried away giving their kids outlandish names.  I feel there should be a person in every hospital to intervine if a kid's name is way too stupid.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: indianasmith on December 23, 2008, 07:38:22 PM
My sister works as a maternity nurse; she had to intervene to keep a teenage mother from naming her daughter "that beautiful name the doctor said in the delivery room" -


Placenta.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Doc Daneeka on December 23, 2008, 08:15:29 PM
Blah, I can really, really sympathize with those saying the names sound like rich moms trying to make their kid sound fancier than the neighbors' kids, but I figure they have their genuine reasons and don't comment :P


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Fishasaurus on December 24, 2008, 01:39:59 PM
I think of the names you're referring to as soap-opera names, because in my experience it started when GH and Dynasty started naming their kids Blake and Wade and la de da, after the characters on the shows.  I think the names people give their kids are laughable.  Even more so since George Carlin pointed out that some day the nursing homes are going to be filled with little old ladies named Caitlin and Tiffany, sporting gruesomely wrinkled tatoos.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on December 24, 2008, 03:33:37 PM
I saw that same list the Ash put up and gaged at the name Aiden. First its a horrible name and second its a name of a crappy emo metal band thats popular in that scene. So its double the suck.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: ghouck on December 24, 2008, 03:52:14 PM
Carlin did a bit on this a while back, something about "I bet our Tony's, Nicks, and Johnathans could kick your Kylers and Keenens @$$e$"

About the time my son was born, there were all kinds of people with kids with names I totally hate. Zach is one, Dallton is another. I knew one woman that had 4 girls, and another kid on the way, and all the girls were named after liquers "Tangeray and Krystal" and a bunch of others. I asked if they were named after what the mother was drunk on when she got knocked up, , nobody appreciated that joke but me.

I know someone that named their kid "Keegan", and they call him Kee-Kee, I also have a cousin they call "Rayme", , weird.

Before my son was born I chose the name Stephen. We had it all figured out, Stephen Michael was going to be his name. On the day he was born I filled out the birth certficate "Steven Michael", , so although his name is Steven, it's mis-spelled according to plan. In another thread I mentioned that he wanted to change his name legally to "Turbonegro".

Anyways, I'm not sure what possesses a person to name their kid something retarded, but enough people do. about 30 years ago there was a woman in Ohio that had twins that alledgedly named them Syphylis and Gohnorhea. Suposedly the state stepped in and took them away.

In Frank Zappa's autobiography, there's a story about when Dweezel was about to be born, how the nurse wouldn't admit the mom until she changed the name on some piece of paperwork. This nurse was going to let her drop this kid athe reception desk unless they agreed to NOT name the kid Dweezel. Apparently when he was several years old, he found out that his name legally WASN'T Dweezel, and made his parents get it changed, as that is all they ever called him any ways.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Newt on December 24, 2008, 06:29:50 PM
My sister works as a maternity nurse; she had to intervene to keep a teenage mother from naming her daughter "that beautiful name the doctor said in the delivery room" -


Placenta.

Indy?  Your story gave me quite a jolt: my brother was an obstetrician. He told the same story.  What is more against the odds: that it happened at least *twice* or that your sister and my brother worked the same hospital, together?   :buggedout:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: ghouck on December 24, 2008, 07:15:06 PM
  What is more against the odds: that it happened at least *twice* or that your sister and my brother worked the same hospital, together?   :buggedout:

You obviously underestimate the number of bonehead teenage mothers in the world.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: zombie no.one on December 24, 2008, 09:11:12 PM

In Frank Zappa's autobiography, there's a story about when Dweezel was about to be born, how the nurse wouldn't admit the mom until she changed the name on some piece of paperwork. This nurse was going to let her drop this kid athe reception desk unless they agreed to NOT name the kid Dweezel. Apparently when he was several years old, he found out that his name legally WASN'T Dweezel, and made his parents get it changed, as that is all they ever called him any ways.

LOL, also wasn't his daughter called Moon Unit 2 ? can't imagine the nurses were happy with that either, somehow

then there's Bob Geldof's daughters: Fi-Fi Trixibelle and Peaches Honeyblossom

Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's kids: Apple and Moses ???

campaign to stop this rockstar/offspring related madness IMO


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Zapranoth on December 24, 2008, 11:01:10 PM
Not made up:

Justin Case.
Oso Springthunder

and of course,

the goth chick at Prov Anchorage who called her kid "Satan."


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Paquita on December 25, 2008, 12:45:24 PM
Maybe this is old news to some, but it's the best thing I learned in 2008.  Matthew McConaughey has a brother.. his name? Rooster!  Even better! Rooster's son's name?  MILLER LYTE MCCONAUGHEY!!!!  I just can't be mad at that for some reason. 

I wonder what Rooster's nickname is?


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: schmendrik on December 25, 2008, 02:50:42 PM
Other countries actually have laws

http://www.yeahbaby.com/article.php?page=118


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: indianasmith on December 25, 2008, 04:28:09 PM
My sister works as a maternity nurse; she had to intervene to keep a teenage mother from naming her daughter "that beautiful name the doctor said in the delivery room" -


Placenta.

Indy?  Your story gave me quite a jolt: my brother was an obstetrician. He told the same story.  What is more against the odds: that it happened at least *twice* or that your sister and my brother worked the same hospital, together?   :buggedout:

My sister is a nurse in the Houston, TX area, so it depends on where your brother works.

The young lady in question was about 16 and from a poor black neighborhood. I guess, if you don't know what it means, "Placenta" does sound kind of cool and feminine.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Newt on December 25, 2008, 06:02:57 PM
My sister is a nurse in the Houston, TX area, so it depends on where your brother works.

The young lady in question was about 16 and from a poor black neighborhood. I guess, if you don't know what it means, "Placenta" does sound kind of cool and feminine.

Well, he was not in Texas so that answers that; but the mother in question was of similar background, and yes the word itself does have a pleasant enough sound.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: sprite75 on December 25, 2008, 10:02:20 PM
If I were to ever have a daughter, right now I'm thinking I'd want to name her Dorothy after my maternal grandmother - she's been gone about 5 1/2 years now and it's been too long since we've had a Dorothy in the family.  I'm thinking if I ever had a son I'm kind of thinking Harlan after my great-uncle who went to fight in Korea, went MIA, and was never heard from again.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: dean on December 25, 2008, 11:03:24 PM

I like interesting names that are off the beaten track but aren't wierd.  My girlfriend's name is Maya, and whilst that's a fairly common name in some cultures, it isn't so much in our country, so it suits really well.

When I was younger I always wanted to name my first kid if it was a boy or first dog Zaius [whichever came first] but Maya has since persuaded me that it's best not to call the kid Zaius and now I'll actually have to think about it.   :wink:


That Placenta story is truly inspiring.  What an absolute idiot!  Still, if she stuck with that name, that kid would surely either grow up messed up beyond belief or have balls of steel.

In other name news, my brother went to school with an 'Eden Cox' which was a fairly bad name for a girl...


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Joe the Destroyer on December 25, 2008, 11:05:50 PM
Almost everyone I work with has a kid named Aiden, or kid with a name that rhymes with Aiden.  I told my girlfriend that if we have kids, nothing that rhymes with Aiden shall be used.  Honestly, I'm waiting for the day that everyone brings their children to work so I can say, "Hey, Aiden!" and see how many kids look over at me.  

The names that really annoy me are the ones that are combinations of two or more names.  The worst: Trason, a combo of Tracy and Jason.  It sounded like a redneck trying to say "tracin'."  


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: ghouck on December 25, 2008, 11:46:58 PM

In Frank Zappa's autobiography, there's a story about when Dweezel was about to be born, how the nurse wouldn't admit the mom until she changed the name on some piece of paperwork. This nurse was going to let her drop this kid athe reception desk unless they agreed to NOT name the kid Dweezel. Apparently when he was several years old, he found out that his name legally WASN'T Dweezel, and made his parents get it changed, as that is all they ever called him any ways.

LOL, also wasn't his daughter called Moon Unit 2 ? can't imagine the nurses were happy with that either, somehow


No, just Moon Unit as I understand it. Also Diva Muffin for the youngest of the four, and Ahmet (who likes to point out that his name rhymes with VOMIT).

All in all, Diva Zappa is one of the coolest people on the planet. She's damn good looking, and she does a bunch of work for the Watoto Fund, an organization that helps, amongst other things, Kenyan orphans, many of them victims of female genitalia mutilation. I've read a bit about her, and in this day of Paris Hilton and company, she's the type of person that makes one think maybe the human race isn't COMPLETELY without hope.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: indianasmith on December 26, 2008, 12:03:40 AM
My sister has a unique name - Clinta, a combination of my Dad's name, Clint, and my Mom's name, Laura.  I think it has a very nice ring to it.  In all my life, I have only run into one other person named Clinta, a church secretary who worked for my Dad in Dallas when I was a teen.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: CheezeFlixz on December 26, 2008, 11:01:44 AM
My sister works as a maternity nurse; she had to intervene to keep a teenage mother from naming her daughter "that beautiful name the doctor said in the delivery room" -


Placenta.

Indy?  Your story gave me quite a jolt: my brother was an obstetrician. He told the same story.  What is more against the odds: that it happened at least *twice* or that your sister and my brother worked the same hospital, together?   :buggedout:

Well my sister works as a neonatal maternity nurse also (ARNP) and I've heard the same story .... hmm so that makes 3 times just on this board, so I'm beginning to think this is a Urban Legend.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: ghouck on December 26, 2008, 12:16:07 PM
My sister has one of those made-up names, I remember hearing that she is the only person with that name, , ,but, , when I was in the Army and stationed in Texas, I knew a girl with the same name, and she was a half a year older. The best part is, , ,the girl I knew was a stripper.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Rev. Powell on December 26, 2008, 01:40:29 PM
My sister works as a maternity nurse; she had to intervene to keep a teenage mother from naming her daughter "that beautiful name the doctor said in the delivery room" -


Placenta.


Indy?  Your story gave me quite a jolt: my brother was an obstetrician. He told the same story.  What is more against the odds: that it happened at least *twice* or that your sister and my brother worked the same hospital, together?   :buggedout:


Well my sister works as a neonatal maternity nurse also (ARNP) and I've heard the same story .... hmm so that makes 3 times just on this board, so I'm beginning to think this is a Urban Legend.


Good guess.  Snopes thinks so too: http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp (WARNING: bad language)

I imagine that under questioning the sources would say they didn't actually witness it themselves, but heard it from someone else.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Susan on December 26, 2008, 11:23:38 PM
there was a story not too long ago about how someone was trying to keep these parents from naming their kids a number. Not 7 or 9. But some long ass number that is a computer code or some crap.

btw i work in insurance and see all kinds of names. I've seen it ALL.
red brick, honey delight, james bond, I used to keep a list because i got so tickled by some of the names. After years tho, nothing suprises me. The list is long gone.

my cousin lived in hawaii and of course over there they love hawaiian names that mean something. Unfortunately for her kids they all live in texas now. So with middle names like "Kapuamakamae" your not likely to ever tell your friends what your middle name is


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on December 30, 2008, 01:59:41 PM
As the parent of a child with a relatively normal (I hope) name: Arianna Elizabeth I hate to see 27 Jaydens or Bradens or Aidans.   I'll leave the girls names alone tyhay can be far worse!


On that subject I found this great blog:
(Baby's named a bad bad thing)
http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

Its absolutely hilarious.  I laughed out loud.

I'm of the opinion that if you can't say "President Whatever" or "Doctor Whatever"  you have the wrong name.  There will not be a President Karsyn

You kids will not thank you for a lifetime of misspellings and Misprounciations.
-Ed


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Pilgermann on December 30, 2008, 04:07:03 PM
A few unique names that a friend's wife learned while student teaching at some elementary school:

Nike Air
Cholera (pronounced Sho-lera)

One more that I've heard of:

S**thead (pronounced Shi-theed)


 :bluesad:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: flackbait on January 02, 2009, 01:07:47 AM
I went to gradeschool with a kid called stealth. If i remember right he was a weird little bugger.
If I ever have a kid I wanted to name him Spartacus for a boy or Athena for a girl. But i just think those names are a little weird. Or am I wrong?


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 02, 2009, 01:40:42 PM
I went to gradeschool with a kid called stealth. If i remember right he was a weird little bugger.
If I ever have a kid I wanted to name him Spartacus for a boy or Athena for a girl. But i just think those names are a little weird. Or am I wrong?

Yeah, those names are weird, in today's world at least.

My suggestion for parents who want to give kids an unusual name: make it their middle name.  That way they won't have to tell it to anyone unless they want to.  I see no reason to guarantee that your kid will be made fun of for having an unusual name.   


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Psycho Circus on January 02, 2009, 01:46:52 PM
My middle name is the name of a dead baby.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Sister Grace on January 03, 2009, 01:47:53 PM
My brother dated a girl for awhile who had a baby named Shelia Cayenne (yes, like the pepper), how could you do that to another human?


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on January 05, 2009, 03:29:30 PM
Ack, how could I forget...I went to school with O.K. Doak.
0Ed


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: CheezeFlixz on January 07, 2009, 11:03:40 AM
When I was in school there was a girl named Patty Wack ... I figure her parents took lots of drugs in the 60's. Everyone use to say "Nick-nack, Patty Wack give that dog a bone."


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Psycho Circus on January 07, 2009, 12:39:16 PM
I once knew a boy named bread  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Doggett on January 07, 2009, 01:07:43 PM
I was named after a popular British SCI-FI show in the '80s


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Derf on January 07, 2009, 01:21:35 PM
As a grad teaching assistant, I had a student named Pinkie QuoVadis (first & middle name). Nice lady, odd name. If I had ever had a son, I would have been sorely tempted to name him Edgar Allan (the first three letters of my last name are P-o-e). Would that have been wrong?


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Ash on January 07, 2009, 01:40:54 PM

It could always be worse...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89c3hWx3RQ



Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on January 08, 2009, 02:54:57 PM
I was named after a popular British SCI-FI show in the '80s

Someone named you "Red Dwarf <insert last name here>"?
     :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
-Ed


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Doggett on January 08, 2009, 06:17:08 PM
Not Red Dwarf...


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on January 31, 2009, 05:19:42 PM
We ordinary people give strange names to our children, but we can't hold a candle to the famous and not so famous. Thus, can you match the children listed to their famous or not so famous parents or parent. Answers below.

1. Cruz
2. Hopper
3. Kyd (note the spelling)
4. Moxie Crimefighter
5. Fifi Trixebell and her sister Peaches Honeyblossom
6. Kai-el
7. Pilot Inspecktor
8. Audio Science
9. and an easy one Jermajesty

a. David and Victoria Beckham
b. Nicholas Cage
c. David Duchovny and Tea Leoni
d. Bob Geldof and Paula Yates
e. Penn Gillette
f. Jermaine Jackson
g. Jason Lee
h. Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn
i. Shannon Sossamon

Answers
1a
2h
3c
4e
5d
6b Cage was once slated to play Superman
7g
8i
9f



Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Newt on January 31, 2009, 05:33:09 PM
Not Red Dwarf...

Blake?


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: ghouck on January 31, 2009, 05:42:31 PM
I was named after a popular British SCI-FI show in the '80s
There was a TV show called "Dogett"?


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Psycho Circus on January 31, 2009, 05:46:11 PM

I was named after a popular British SCI-FI show in the '80s
There was a TV show called "Dogett"?

Blake's 7  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: AndyC on February 02, 2009, 09:05:57 AM
I'd have to say there are five kinds of baby names that bug me.

1) Trendy, pretentious, overdone, overused names - Madison, Jayden, Cole, etc. I especially don't like the trend of giving girls a surname as a first name. These just seem to reflect the attitude that kids are fashion accessories. Give them a cool name, dress them in cool clothes and teach them to be as uptight as you are.

2) Sweet and pure names that have become trashy - Faith, Hope, Angel, etc. Looking at some of the moms who lean toward these types of names, the irony is astounding. Do the trashy moms pick these in order to compensate? Maybe try to start the kid off right before they start dressing her like a hooker at the age of 2.

3) Creative spellings - Hilleree, Kymberleigh, Karyn, Alyson, etc. People have some expectations of how a name is spelled, and they're going to get it wrong again and again and again. Best case is you've condemned the kid to a life of having to spell the name for everybody who needs to write it down. And if you decide to flout the conventions of English pronunciation, people will also be mispronouncing it in addition to misspelling it. If you want Gabby pronounced right, you need the double B. Otherwise, you get a long vowel, and it sounds like Gaybee. Why don't some people get this?

4) Using the diminutive as the actual name - Billy, Joey, Suzy, etc. as the official name. Not only are people going to assume these are not the full name (as was mentioned earlier), but this kid is not going to be a kid forever. Pick a name that suits a man or woman, and use a nickname if you want.

5) Names that are just plain made up - This seems to be especially popular in black communities, where a girl's name can be as simple as sticking "La" on the front and "a" on the end, and jamming something pretty in between. I just think a name has to mean something. It should have some history, some significance. It should not just sound pretty.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: CheezeFlixz on February 11, 2009, 04:19:38 PM
5) Names that are just plain made up - This seems to be especially popular in black communities, where a girl's name can be as simple as sticking "La" on the front and "a" on the end, and jamming something pretty in between. I just think a name has to mean something. It should have some history, some significance. It should not just sound pretty.


Try this ...
http://www.russetmoose.com/ghetto-nicknames.html (http://www.russetmoose.com/ghetto-nicknames.html)

and here is where a lot of people get there names ...
http://www.rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/ (http://www.rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/)


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: meQal on February 11, 2009, 04:35:10 PM
I known a few people with bad names in my life.
First there was a guy I went to high school with that had a really bad name. His name was Richard but his parents called him Dick. You may ask how is that bad, well his surname was Head. People figured it out quickly one afternoon when his mom came t check him out from school and the office paged over the PA, "Dick Head come to the office please."
You can guess it took some time for an entire high school to stop rolling with laughter.

I also knew a shrink who use to joke about his name all the time. His name was Ivan Seymore Butts but would shorten it to I. Seymore Butts. He use to tell people he should of been a proctologist instead of a psychiatrist.

Then there was the one my mom told me about when I was a kid. She sold insurance and wrote a life insurance policy out to a woman on her granddaughter. The child's name was Female and claimed that the hospital named the child on  the birth certificate.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Psycho Circus on March 13, 2009, 07:13:21 PM
I was walking home from work today and came toward the corner of my street, with some woman standing there. She had one kid with her and was shouting to another to "hurry up" and said "c'mon Dre.... Then, this blonde haired toddler comes flumping round the corner! Dre!?? Dre, goddamit! By the time that kid gets to high school, he'll already be smoking skunk, have a pimped out "ride" and be obsessed with butts... :lookingup:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Wag on March 14, 2009, 03:57:53 AM
I have a somewhat higher tollerance for stupid names (maybe because my surname is an ingidient in Itallian cuisine, I dunno), but what annoys me is the stupid spellings of names, usink the letters Y and K where they shouldn't be. I blame text speak, as all these teenage parents do not know how to spell. I work in Advice and Guidance and one of my service users at work is about to be the father of Aden, which he asures me, in contrary to everything I have learned about the English Language) is pronounced Aiden.

It seems that every other 20-something Chav father at work has a daughter called Ruby as well. Not overly stupid compared to many names, but certainly overused where I work (unless they all think they are the father of this one Ruby...I digress).



Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Psycho Circus on March 14, 2009, 06:46:52 AM
It seems that every other 20-something Chav father at work has a daughter called Ruby as well. Not overly stupid compared to many names, but certainly overused where I work (unless they all think they are the father of this one Ruby...I digress).

They've all ruined the name Ruby. It was a cool 80's name, for chicks who rode on the back of motorcycles in fishnets.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Wag on March 14, 2009, 07:17:19 AM
They've all ruined the name Ruby. It was a cool 80's name, for chicks who rode on the back of motorcycles in fishnets.  :bluesad:

The Ruby(s) in question might rebel against their teenage parents and grow up to become chicks who ride on the back of motorcycles in fishnets - you never know.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: AndyC on March 14, 2009, 07:44:33 AM
one of my service users at work is about to be the father of Aden, which he asures me, in contrary to everything I have learned about the English Language) is pronounced Aiden.

That one's real. It's fairly common where I grew up. I remember my best friend's grandfather was called Aden.

But beware of Kaden, Braden or Jaden.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Psycho Circus on March 14, 2009, 08:00:08 AM
They've all ruined the name Ruby. It was a cool 80's name, for chicks who rode on the back of motorcycles in fishnets.  :bluesad:

The Ruby(s) in question might rebel against their teenage parents and grow up to become chicks who ride on the back of motorcycles in fishnets - you never know.

I highly doubt that. They'll be exactly like their parents within the first 10 years of their lives. Wearing tracksuits, hanging around outside take-aways, giving people abuse and getting drunk at 8am.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Wag on March 14, 2009, 08:44:37 AM

I highly doubt that. They'll be exactly like their parents within the first 10 years of their lives. Wearing tracksuits, hanging around outside take-aways, giving people abuse and getting drunk at 8am.

Yeah. I know. I was trying optimism, but it just came off as stupidity. You forgot big hoopy earrings though


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Wortcov on March 14, 2009, 03:20:53 PM
not really a baby name, but a 26 old woman here in Sweden tried to change her middlename to dark Knight, but the government said no.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: dean on March 14, 2009, 08:42:26 PM
They had an interview on the radio with a guy who had one of those 'if I get such and such members of this group I'll change my name to Optimus Prime'.

Of course he did, and changed his name: the deal was for a year.  The beauty of it is that this genius forgot that he'll be graduating in under a year and will have to have his degree made out to a Transformer.

 :teddyr:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Psycho Circus on March 15, 2009, 06:40:24 AM
If I ever put on loads of weight, I think I'd change my name to "Fatty Foods". That'd make me chuckle every day  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Wag on March 15, 2009, 08:12:55 AM
If I ever put on loads of weight, I think I'd change my name to "Fatty Fods". That'd make me chuckle every day  :teddyr:

I'm gonna hold you to that; in fact, I encourage it because it will make me chuckle too. Doughnut Diet!!!! :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Saucerman on March 15, 2009, 03:27:41 PM
I know a girl named Aidan.  There's quite a soap-opera connected to her, in my eyes.

When I met her, she was in the social circle of a couple friends.  She seemed decent enough, though there was something about her that I didn't trust from the start.

Moving in the next year at school, I discovered that she was dating one of my suitemates.  She was also living across the hall from, and was one of the closest friends of, the girl I started dating shortly thereafter.  I remain wary of her.

Towards the end of the school year, she breaks up with my suitemate, and asks me to meet her so she can tell me the story and get my thoughts, since she considers me one of the wisest and most trustworthy people she knows. 

Shortly thereafter, she starts asking me to essentially babysit her now-ex boyfriend.

Over the summer, communicating through instant messenger, she becomes quite open to me, freely discussing topics like sex, etc.  My opinion of her has dipped slightly due to being used as her messenger boy quite a bit.

Early this past fall, her ex-boyfriend comes to me in tears.  Aidan and he had always had a policy of absolute honesty, and they remained friends after breaking up.  He learns that she'd been lying to him and keeping secrets from him in regards to sexual matters, and he is absolutely devastated.  After spending a couple hours listening to him and comforting him, my opinion of Aidan drops very far.  She comes to me a couple days later and tries to convince me that she's in the right, and her ex-boyfriend has no right to be upset about anything she's done.  I tell her that the depth to which she takes moral relativism is revolting.  (Yes, I know I'm on a pretty high horse here.)


Anyways, that's the saga of me and Aidan.


If/when I have kids, I think I'd like to name a son Joshua Robert, and a daughter Sophia Elizabeth.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Wortcov on July 25, 2009, 03:58:44 PM
dusting of this topic with a interesting thing I saw in a Swedish newpaper. it was about this couple that wants to name their child Angelic as second name. the funny thing is that the same word for angelic in Swedish could also be angel corpse, and because of that the government said no.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 25, 2009, 04:36:09 PM
dusting of this topic with a interesting thing I saw in a Swedish newpaper. it was about this couple that wants to name their child Angelic as second name. the funny thing is that the same word for angelic in Swedish could also be angel corpse, and because of that the government said no.  :teddyr:

As much as I hate parents giving children dumb names, the idea of the government telling you what you can name your kid is worse. 


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Wortcov on July 25, 2009, 04:57:47 PM
well, its more telling what you can not name then, then the other way around. and they only stop a few names, the only 2 I can come up with right now is angelic and Metallica.

and there is apparently 12 people in Sweden with the name twilight.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: 3mnkids on July 25, 2009, 05:30:03 PM
dusting of this topic with a interesting thing I saw in a Swedish newpaper. it was about this couple that wants to name their child Angelic as second name. the funny thing is that the same word for angelic in Swedish could also be angel corpse, and because of that the government said no.  :teddyr:

As much as I hate parents giving children dumb names, the idea of the government telling you what you can name your kid is worse. 

No kidding. whats next? putting a limit on how many people name their child Britney or John every year?.. actually if they had something like that I wouldn't have the same first name as thousands of other girls who were born in the 70's.    :teddyr:


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: AndyC on July 25, 2009, 06:11:54 PM
Government restrictions on baby naming are like legislating common sense and good taste. Not an entirely unattractive idea, but too totalitarian, not to mention futile.


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Monster Jungle X-Ray on July 29, 2009, 06:47:09 PM
Government restrictions on baby naming are like legislating common sense and good taste. Not an entirely unattractive idea, but too totalitarian, not to mention futile.


I remember that the local Italian government said no to "Asia" Argento, on her birth certificate her name is officially Aria. There was also that flap awhile back about that family who named their kid Adolf Hitler. I don't agree with governments restricting what you name your kids, but naming them after nazi war criminals is probably at the very least in bad taste. Of course then there's this guy.  :teddyr:

(http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/batman-suparman-02a.jpg)


Title: Re: Bad Baby Names
Post by: Doggett on July 30, 2009, 05:07:40 AM
Government restrictions on baby naming are like legislating common sense and good taste. Not an entirely unattractive idea, but too totalitarian, not to mention futile.

Yeah, it's an odd one, isn't it ?

You should be able to name you're kid what you want, but sadly there are people who have kids that really shouldn't have.

Adolf ?
C'mon, it's a child, not a a cheap joke. The children need to be protected, otherwise they're gonna grow up getting the mick taken out of them.

Wortcov is right. It's more what you can't name as opposed to what you can name.