Crazy Baby Names

[Ladskater]

I was taking a walk last night in my neigborhood and came across a house that had a big stork announcing the birth of a new baby. The name of the baby?......
RACE ROCKET. They also had their other childrens names on the announcement, ZUZU & BRINGLE I only thought celebrities gave their babies strange names. Why do parents give their children such awful
names?

Maybe "It's a Wonderful Life" is their favorite movie - thus the name ZUZU - "Zuzu'z petals" - Jimmy Stewart's famous line. Anwya, Bringle - that is strange and Race Rocket - Star Trek fans perhaps? Very strange indeed.

 

[Ladskater]

I've known a Misty Storms, twins named Dilly&Dally, and a woman named Felicity Fuchs (pronounced liked the curse word). If that's not a porn name, I don't know what is.

I saw a weird French first name today, "Jean de Dieu", literally translating to John of God. That's one heck of a name to live up to.

There is an English instructor whose name is Fuchs -she writes ESL books.
At work we pronounce it - Fuchs (like "ew") - not the swear word.

 

[Ladskater]

The late Anne Landers - the famous gossip columnist - once ran a column about strange baby names. I remember one was - Ima Car.

 

[antmanb]

I used to work with a guy called Kim who was from New Zealand. It is totally acceptable as a male name in the UK and obviously in the antipodes as well. Lots of names have swopped genders at different periods of time and also switched from first names to surnames and vice versa. LOTS of US first names seem weird in the UK because they're surnames here. The most bizarre to me are all those clan names, Mac-something, being used as first names. MacKenzie? That's a hairy old Scottish bloke in my mind. Not a teenage girl. An example of a gender switching name is Ashley, which is pretty uni-sex in the UK but probably more common in males (There is an Ashley Cole in the England football team for example). But in the US it's exclusively female.

Really? I'm in the UK and fin Kim to be unusual for a male - i've never come across a white european male called kim...i did go to secondary school with a boy whoo's first name was Kerry, which always struck me as an odd name for a boy usually it being used for girls.

Ant

 

[snow_shoe]

Really? I'm in the UK and fin Kim to be unusual for a male - i've never come across a white european male called kim...i did go to secondary school with a boy whoo's first name was Kerry, which always struck me as an odd name for a boy usually it being used for girls.

Ant

Well I don't think "Kim" is very common for either gender in 2006, but I've known a couple of male "Kim's" and I know one female "Kim", short for Kimberly. Doesn't it come from the book "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling?

 

[antmanb]

Well I don't think "Kim" is very common for either gender in 2006, but I've known a couple of male "Kim's" and I know one female "Kim", short for Kimberly. Doesn't it come from the book "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling?

You've got me there - i've never across the Rudyard Kipling book "Kim" so it might well be.

I find the name Kim amusing now (especailly when said with an autralian accent) because of the comedy series Kath and Kim!! It appeals to my stupid sense of "yumour"!!!

Ant

 

[Antilles]

I forgot one of the weird ones I heard-Juan Legg.

 

[Dibs]

I used to work in a day care and I came across all kinds of crazy names. I knew two young sisters named Storm and Amara. I knew a little girl named Treasure, a little boy named Legend, a girl named Tiara. And the list goes on and on. My personal favorite was a little girl name Jonathan. One of the workers asked Jonathan's mother how she came up with the name and the mother just said "Don't ask."

 

[IDLERACER]

Four very simple rules to remember when naming a baby:

1. If your last name is a noun of any kind, do not name your son "Harry."

2. If your last name is a plural noun of any kind, do not name your son "Seymour."

3. If your last name is a noun of any kind, do not name your daughter "Ima"

4. If your last name is a plural noun of any kind, do not name your daughter "Lotta."

 

[dancindiva03]

This thread reminds me of a book I saw at Barnes & Nobles, called "Don't Name Your Baby" or something like that. Hilarious. Points out the problems with just about every name possible.

 

[Grgranny]

If your name is Butts, don't make Wendy or Fanny their first name.

 

[diver chick]

I am living in Wales at the moment and Kerry is a very common male name, but it is usually spelt the welsh way - Ceri. I am not really into unusually stupid names but I do like different names. I love traditional Welsh and Irish names like Rhys, Geraint, Naoise, Fionn and Donncha for boys and Bronwyn, Aoife, Niamh, Eibhlinn and Roisin for girls. While many people reading this would find those completely unpronounceable they are perfectly normal names where I come from.

But I hate names like Chardonnay, Ferrari etc.

 

[antmanb]

I am living in Wales at the moment and Kerry is a very common male name, but it is usually spelt the welsh way - Ceri. I am not really into unusually stupid names but I do like different names. I love traditional Welsh and Irish names like Rhys, Geraint, Naoise, Fionn and Donncha for boys and Bronwyn, Aoife, Niamh, Eibhlinn and Roisin for girls. While many people reading this would find those completely unpronounceable they are perfectly normal names where I come from.

But I hate names like Chardonnay, Ferrari etc.

Is their an Irish equivaltn for "Ceri" because the boy i went to schoool with had an Irish sounding name so maybe it was that? It was spelt "Kerry".

I like the welsh an Irish names that you that mention above but unfortunately have to hold my hands up to say that i didn't recognise (except for Rhys) any of the male names...any chacen you could explain to a heathen like me how the other four male names are pronounced?

Cheers
Ant

 

[snow_shoe]

I like the welsh an Irish names that you that mention above but unfortunately have to hold my hands up to say that i didn't recognise (except for Rhys) any of the male names

Classic Catholic school names! Never heard of Naoise though and have no idea how to pronounce it.

I bet there are loads of little Chardonnay's running around nursery school by now!

One of my friends named her new baby Sienna. That will be so dating in 20 years time.

 

[Fredegunda]

Wow, cool thread!! In the book "Freakonomics" there is a chapter called "What's in a Name." Among other things, the author relates the true story a man who named his first son Winner and his second son Loser. Winner ended up having an illustrious criminal career, while Loser works as a policeman. There were also examples of kids called Harvard, Yale, and President, and a girl named Sh*thead - pronounced "Sha-TEED."

Re: celebrities' kids. To think that there was once a time when Frances Bean Cobain was thought to have a weird name.

 

[IDLERACER]

...and a girl named Sh*thead - pronounced "Sha-TEED."

Yeah, Madonna has a daughter named Lardass. Or at least, that's what it sounds like.​

 

[dlkksk8fan]

Idle- the name is Lourdes.

 

[antmanb]

Yeah, Madonna has a daughter named Lardass. Or at least, that's what it sounds like.​

If you happen to be completely ignorant it does...

Ant

 

[SeaniBu]

Well, kids can be cruel, I grew up as "Seen Buzzard." I am sure someone will be calling her that (as Idle mentioned) - no matter the size.

 

[antmanb]

Well, kids can be cruel, I grew up as "Seen Buzzard." I am sure someone will be calling her that (as Idle mentioned) - no matter the size.

I think Madonna's kids are schooled in Britain aren't they? "Lardass" is a very American insult and not very prevalent here...not least because "***" isn't used as much as "arse" here!

Ant