Crazy Baby Names

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  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    HOW COULD I FORGET!!!!
    My dad is named Grover after his dad.
    I am told that my mom suggested I be Grover III but he told her she was crazy as hell. I grew up thinking Grover on Sesame Street was created in honor of my dad. In order to avoid any confusion though my grandmother called my dad Joe....apparently just a random name pulled out of the air with no family relevance or anything and he doesn't even have a middle name.
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Traditional french catholic family naming....

    Marguerite (my godmother)
    Marie (for the virgin Mary because I'm a girl)
    Renee (feminine version of my godfather's name which is Rene)

    Needless to say, I kept my daughter's middle names to a minimum - one!
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    redrock wrote:
    Traditional french catholic family naming....

    Marguerite (my godmother)
    Marie (for the virgin Mary because I'm a girl)
    Renee (feminine version of my godfather's name which is Rene)

    Needless to say, I kept my daughter's middle names to a minimum - one!

    Ohhh I like it! I love Marie :D I can see why though, if you did suffer with it. Mine's a traditional Welsh name... I wouldn't mind but there isn't an ounce of Welsh in me! :roll:

    We may have already decided childrens names... we may not... :shh: ;)
    Yellow Ledbelly wrote:
    HOW COULD I FORGET!!!!
    My dad is named Grover after his dad.
    I am told that my mom suggested I be Grover III but he told her she was crazy as hell. I grew up thinking Grover on Sesame Street was created in honor of my dad. In order to avoid any confusion though my grandmother called my dad Joe....apparently just a random name pulled out of the air with no family relevance or anything and he doesn't even have a middle name.

    I like Grover! and I didn't even make a Sesame Street connection! :thumbup:
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

    We may have already decided childrens names... we may not... :shh: ;)
    ooOOoo... secrets :mrgreen:

    For G, we had to find a name that was OK in french and english! Even with her name, some people still pronounce it like the male version or, for some mysterious reason, put a 'A' at the end
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    redrock wrote:
    Needless to say, I kept my daughter's middle names to a minimum - one!

    Not quite the minimum ;) ... I have none :P

    ... although as a 4-5 year old I didn't realise other people had more than one name so if people asked me what my middle name was I thought it was some kind of game and would just say whatever happened to be my favourite name at the time ... I just thought it was a name you could pick and choose :oops: :lol:
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  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    chime wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    Needless to say, I kept my daughter's middle names to a minimum - one!

    Not quite the minimum ;) ... I have none :P

    ... although as a 4-5 year old I didn't realise other people had more than one name so if people asked me what my middle name was I thought it was some kind of game and would just say whatever happened to be my favourite name at the time ... I just thought it was a name you could pick and choose :oops: :lol:

    That would be brilliant though, wouldn't it?

    I could be Bernard one day and Valarie the next... maybe even Thadius if i'm feeling fruity ;)
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
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    That would be brilliant though, wouldn't it?

    I could be Bernard one day and Valarie the next... maybe even Thadius if i'm feeling fruity ;)

    G used to do that when she was little. Decide her name was something different for the day and not respond until we guessed the name! Needless to say that didn't last very long and she quickly understood that she had the choice of her first or middle name!
  • Corduroyboy
    Corduroyboy Posts: 1,256
    Yellow Ledbelly wrote:
    HOW COULD I FORGET!!!!
    My dad is named Grover after his dad.
    I am told that my mom suggested I be Grover III but he told her she was crazy as hell. I grew up thinking Grover on Sesame Street was created in honor of my dad. In order to avoid any confusion though my grandmother called my dad Joe....apparently just a random name pulled out of the air with no family relevance or anything and he doesn't even have a middle name.


    My great uncle's name was Grover Cleveland !! Somehow we called him Goag.
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    he still stands wrote:
    so... what does everyone think of "Lake?" That is my boy's name. not "crazy" but my parents were not too keen on it at first. It won't hurt my feelings if somebody doesnt' like it...

    me and him rockin' the uke...

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    I think Lake is a nice name. I've come across it twice before, both with girls, but it's not like it's a feminine or masculine name!
    One of the girls named Lake was the daughter of a couple who founded a local theater group. They are hippies and named her because they were living at a lake house when she was born. Their other daughter was named Lorca, after the Spanish writer.

    I used to know a guy named Grover but he went by his middle name, Mike. We teased him a lot. :oops:

    Names go in and out of style so it's to be expected that someone will end up with a name that sounds funny to other kids. Or things get inadvertently funny, like a mom who named her twins Mark and Mindy the year before the show came out. What bugs me is people who don't try saying the kid's name out loud and hearing how bad it sounds (Wayne Carr) or deliberately come up with something off the wall (Omegasupreme) or change the spelling to be different (Jorja for Georgia). :roll:
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  • tinkerbell
    tinkerbell New Zealand Posts: 2,161
    whoprincess wrote:
    Names go in and out of style so it's to be expected that someone will end up with a name that sounds funny to other kids. Or things get inadvertently funny, like a mom who named her twins Mark and Mindy the year before the show came out. What bugs me is people who don't try saying the kid's name out loud and hearing how bad it sounds (Wayne Carr) or deliberately come up with something off the wall (Omegasupreme) or change the spelling to be different (Jorja for Georgia). :roll:

    I genuinely think that my partners parents didn't realise the implications of Wayne Carr as they are pretty straight and probably didn't use that word 30 years ago. But man it is funny!!! :lol:

    I think that you'll find that Jorja is the European way of spelling Georgia just like Jorge for male. But I totally agree that names should be spelt properly for the sake of not having to always spell it out. My son's name is Hunter and in the birth notices not long after he was born I noticed another though it was spelt Huntah! Yuck!
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  • Red_Dot
    Red_Dot Posts: 1,454
    What about the case in New Zealand last year where a 9 year old girl won the right to change her name from:
    'Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii'
    yep, that was her name.

    Other names that were blocked by the courts decision were:
    Fish and Chips
    Yeah Detroit
    Keenan Got Lucy
    Sex Fruit

    Surprisingly, names such as Bus Shelter, Midnight Chardonnay and Violence were allowed.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    in the 70's, my parents met a couple whose last name was white...they were a bit on the hippyer side of life

    they named their daughter snow white and the seven dwarfts white...not kidding...when the parents called to her in the backyard, it was "snow white and seven dwarfs"


    wish i was kidding
  • Brock Samson
    Brock Samson Posts: 328
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    god shammgod. gotta be the strangest name i've heard of.

    being a red wings fan, the coolest name i've heard comes from a family in detroit that named their newborn son joe louis, and their last name was arena.
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  • TravisTheSky
    TravisTheSky Posts: 615
    Red_Dot wrote:
    What about the case in New Zealand last year where a 9 year old girl won the right to change her name from:
    'Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii'
    yep, that was her name.

    Other names that were blocked by the courts decision were:
    Fish and Chips
    Yeah Detroit
    Keenan Got Lucy
    Sex Fruit

    Surprisingly, names such as Bus Shelter, Midnight Chardonnay and Violence were allowed.

    Your government tells parents what they can and cannot name their children?!?!?!
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  • Heatherj43
    Heatherj43 Posts: 1,254
    TravisTheSky wrote:
    Red_Dot wrote:
    What about the case in New Zealand last year where a 9 year old girl won the right to change her name from:
    'Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii'
    yep, that was her name.

    Other names that were blocked by the courts decision were:
    Fish and Chips
    Yeah Detroit
    Keenan Got Lucy
    Sex Fruit

    Surprisingly, names such as Bus Shelter, Midnight Chardonnay and Violence were allowed.

    Your government tells parents what they can and cannot name their children?!?!?!
    Thank goodness that they do! People shouldn't be able to name their kids whatever they want. People are strange and can come up with stuff that will be very damaging!
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    TravisTheSky wrote:
    Red_Dot wrote:
    What about the case in New Zealand last year where a 9 year old girl won the right to change her name from:
    'Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii'
    yep, that was her name.

    Other names that were blocked by the courts decision were:
    Fish and Chips
    Yeah Detroit
    Keenan Got Lucy
    Sex Fruit

    Surprisingly, names such as Bus Shelter, Midnight Chardonnay and Violence were allowed.

    Your government tells parents what they can and cannot name their children?!?!?!

    We have that too. In the sense that you can't just name your child anything. I think it makes sense cause, as we've noticed, people will come up with some ridiculous names. :|

    It's not like there's a specified list of acceptable names that parents must choose from or anything. :D But there are some rules regarding naming your child. Such as: you can't give a boy a girl's name and vice versa.
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,363
    samjam wrote:
    My friend's sister's acquaintance or something from college was named Le-Ah
    Pronounced: Le-dash-uh :lol::lol:

    Also my mom's ex's cousin down the line named his kid Fudgie. I don't think it was a nickname either...

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  • Corduroyboy
    Corduroyboy Posts: 1,256
    One of my wife's cousins named their daughter "Lyric." Definitely the first time I heard a child named that.
  • electronblue
    electronblue Posts: 3,502
    i dont know if these would be listed under 'Crazy Baby Names' however, these seem to stand out for me..

    Liberty
    Heaven
    Harley and Storm ( sisters)
    Precious
    Love
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