[ARCHIVED THREAD] - weird names (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/6/2005 3:05:03 PM EDT
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so here I am sitting at working scanning documents (archiving the records) and my boss does job placement for people and so far the wierest name so far is Turquoise who the hell names there kid after a color. must be a hippie kid. |
| My wife teaches elementary. In- where else- New Orleans- she had a girl named "Female." Seems in the hospital they asked the mother what the name would be and gave her a form. She sort of liked the way the word next to SEX looked. Pronounced it to rhyme with tamale. I kid you not. |
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Couple of funny names found on immigration applications while at a refugee camp in Philippines (all first name): Beautiful Bigboy Boy Circumcision (yes, for real) Firstboy Girl Jelly Littleboy Other Pretty Secondboy White Most popular name for boy was Joe and for girl was Jane. Johnny and Nancy were pretty popular too. |
Must... Resist... Urge... To sound like..... An  .....
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One of the biggest complaints of late has been the use of dramatically "black" names ruining a child's future. Some of the "black" names are unique and worthy of respect - some are just plain crap. The whole - shaniquia, daniquia, ravondria, whatever crap is crazy. From Slate.com Top 20 Black Girl Names 1. Imani 2. Ebony 3. Shanice 4. Aaliyah 5. Precious 6. Nia 7. Deja 8. Diamond 9. Asia 10. Aliyah 11. Jada 12. Tierra 13. Tiara 14. Kiara 15. Jazmine 16. Jasmin 17. Jazmin 18. Jasmine 19. Alexus 20. Raven Top 20 Black Boy Names 1. DeShawn 2. DeAndre 3. Marquis 4. Darnell 5. Terrell 6. Malik 7. Trevon 8. Tyrone 9. Willie 10. Dominique 11. Demetrius 12. Reginald 13. Jamal 14. Maurice 15. Jalen 16. Darius 17. Xavier 18. Terrance 19. Andre 20. Darryl |
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I work in insurance and see odd names crop up daily. Annikin - yes after Darth Vader Tequila - pronounce Teck-Wila Porn - no lie Ho - saw that today The best was a family in Kentucky. All the kids were named after whiskey/bourbon brands, etc. There are too many to name. There is also female OB/GYN in California named Dr. Beaver. |
I kid you not.....
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Back years ago when I was an undergrad in college I got a job in the campus library. You see all kinds of funny names in a job like that. I did notice a lot of black girls with names ending in "ondra". You know. "Shalondra". "Yolondra". Names like that. The one that sticks in my head though (unfortunately) was: "Clitondra".  |
If they had a son, they should have named it "Jules."  I worked in a county hospital and it used to be sport to try and convince some dumb, ghetto crackhead to give her child a weird name. I knew a women with twin girls named Irene and Urine, pronounced "eye-reen" and "you-reen." Edited to add my neighbor across the street has two school-aged daughters named Samantha and Tabitha. |
You have GOT to be kidding me.  Where did all the strong names go? It seems like everyone's naming their kids sissy names these days...It's like they WANT their kids to get their asses kicked in school. |
HEY!!! Thats a Dennis Wolfberg line!!!! |
| Back when I worked for the federal courts, we used to get criminal defendants claiming that their children's names were things like Formica (pronounced for-mee-sha), Lemonjello (le-mahn-ja-low)and Orangejello (or-ahn-ja-low). I was never sure whether they were joke names or they were serious. |
Well, I'm guessing they're named after someone, but still... how do people have sex not knowing these things? Anyway, Penn Jillette just had a daughter named Moxie Crimefighter. I think it's cute - has a nice ring to it, it's not like Moxie sounds that bad by itself, and no one will really have to know her middle name (I'm sure it'll all be forgotten about before she enters grade school). In defense of women, I think they have so many drugs in them and are in such a state of euphoria upon just giving birth that ANYTHING sounds good. This is why I'm picking names BEFORE I go into labor! |
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A few years ago I stumbled across a web page, and I wish I could find it again. What this guy did was year by year list the most popular baby girls names and the most popular porn stars. The correlation between the two lists was shocking. Apparently many the Tiffanys and Ambers and Chistys and Jennifers, etc. came about because their fathers liked those names. But what they didn't realize is the reason was because that was their favorite porn star's name. Like I said, I haven't been able to find the page again and think it's gone forever. But if you want to see some interesting stuff, Google for terms like "baby names" and "porn star" and you'll find all sorts of mainstream new-parent web sites specifically warning you to not accidentally give your new baby girl a porn star name. |
I've seen that one, too. My first job (when I was still in college) was going though some medical records for the charity hospital located in a bad part of town... I saw my share of strange names! The Orangejello (Or-ahn-jah-lo) I saw also had a brother named Lemonjello (La-mon-jah-lo). I know they aren't the only ones... I've heard of it since then. There was also an "asshole" (ah-shole-ee). I guess it's possible these folks just made up names for the hospital - who knows? CR |
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I met a woman named Lovatryce. Her nickname was "Vate". I had a coworker (actually TWO coworkers) named Mike O'Kane (Jr. and Sr.). I almost choked to death laughing when the BIG boss waddled through the office one day grumbling: "Where's Mike O'Kane? Has anyone seen Mike O'Kane? WHERE THE HELL IS MIKE O'KANE?"
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