Bad names

shellydiane820 · February 2010

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[QUOTE] My grandfather was Gudger. WTF names their kid that, whatever the year was?
Posted by BecW2be[/QUOTE]

Sounds like a villian name in a comic book.

kate51485 · February 2010

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[QUOTE] Evabee: sorry to snap at your post; I was rude and I apologize.
Posted by ohwhynot[/QUOTE]

No you weren't. Her reaction was unnecessary.

CCBelle · February 2010

I'm still laughing at "Cherry Pie." Talk about wanting your baby to grow up to be a stripper!

I knew someone w/ the last name "Slutsky." I always thought that was rather unfortunate.

evabee · February 2010

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[QUOTE]Eva - see Goldens post above - EVERYONE says this same exact story anytime we talk about names. It has lost the "shock" value and for SO many people knowing someone who knows a L-a - nobody actually knows one. It's fishy.
Posted by Stackeye210[/QUOTE]

<div>I had never heard it before, as a joke or otherwise, so I was just surprised when everyone called bullshit. I don't think it's at all surprising or shocking, in fact, I agree with PP that it's probably pretty common. It's just bad is all. Which was the point of the post!</div>

MissLeahM · February 2010

I had a teacher in Highschool, Mr. Loblaw, no problem. Til we hear one of his coworkers call him Bob. (real name Robert)

It was Bob Loblaw from then on.

Stackeye210 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I had a teacher in Highschool, Mr. Loblaw, no problem. Til we hear one of his coworkers call him Bob. (real name Robert) It was Bob Loblaw from then on.
Posted by MissLeahM[/QUOTE]

OH DEAR LORD THIS MAKES ME LAUGH OUTLOUD!!!!!! That is one of those names that would be an honest mistake by a parent not thinking through potential nicknames. HA HA HA HA HA.

MeaghanandMichael · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I had a teacher in high school whose first name was Lolly. Her last name was Memory. I always thought that was the weirdest first and last name EVAR. My grandmother's middle name is Gene, the masculine spelling (I think, anyway.) My other grandmother's name is Minnie, and she's hated it since birth. I think it's a really cute name though, very 20's to me.
Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]

We are naming our first daughter Mary after my mother but calling her Minnie :) I love it!

shellydiane820 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I had a teacher in Highschool, Mr. Loblaw, no problem. Til we hear one of his coworkers call him Bob. (real name Robert) It was Bob Loblaw from then on.
Posted by MissLeahM[/QUOTE]

Why should you go to jail for a crime somebody else noticed?

evabee · February 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Bad names : No you weren't. Her reaction was unnecessary.
Posted by kate51485[/QUOTE]

<div>I don't understand how my reaction was unnecessary? I didn't get mad or anything, I just explained how I came across it.</div><div>
</div><div>ohwhynot - You don't have to apologize! You weren't rude and I wasn't offended, just taken aback by everyone's responses, haha.</div>

kate51485 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Bad names : We are naming our first daughter Mary after my mother but calling her Minnie :) I love it!
Posted by MeaghanandMichael[/QUOTE]

I love that. This is lame and you'll all laugh at me but sometimes FI calls me Minnie...derived from his love of Mickey & Minnie. Somehow it translates as cute when he does it and I love him for it, but at face value it is probably gag-worthy. :p

laurenclaire1386 · February 2010

M&M, I love it too! My grandmother's name is Minnie Marie, and since she hates Minnie, she's always gone by Marie. I think Minnie Marie together is cute.

ohwhynot · February 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Bad names : OH DEAR LORD THIS MAKES ME LAUGH OUTLOUD!!!!!! That is one of those names that would be an honest mistake by a parent not thinking through potential nicknames. HA HA HA HA HA.
Posted by Stackeye210[/QUOTE]

That was the lawyer's name in Arrested Development, right?
ETA: oops, I quoted the wrong pp. This is regarding Bob Loblaw.

MeaghanandMichael · February 2010

Kate, not dumb at all!! We also love minnie and mickey

Mike calls me bug all the time, after lovebug and cuddlebug, so yeaaaahhhh.

dandan83 · February 2010

I have a friend whose name is Missy O. No middle name, just O. Not so bad I guess just unusual.

jlmarks83 · February 2010

My mom had an uncle that was named Aloysius Borkoski. blah!

And a friend of mine's mom = Fonda Delight. And then her aunt = Misty Sunrise. Why their parents decided to name them after strippers, I don't know.

golden1215 · February 2010

I also went to school with a girl whose first name was Memory and her last name was Lane.

ac_in_dc · February 2010

On the le-a thing...I actually read an interesting article about this on baby names wizard (I've been reading her blog lately for obvious reasons). It talks about racial connotations and what not, I think it's well written:

http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one

And snopes marks the ledasha story as "undetermined":
http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

AlexiaANDRobert · February 2010

H and his sister both had the same kids in an afterschool program and they were three brothers: Alone, Grey, and Red. Their last name is Wolfe.

My sister had two kids that went to her office and their names were Denim and Cotton.

I like my name and appreciate that it's semi-unique-ish, or at least not very popular. I hate when people get "creative" with name spellings. Like the extra 'y', or switching letters around. A CW has a son with the middle name Micheal. Yeah, it's supposed to be 'ae', but she wanted to be different. I bet she didn't know how to spell it.

I have relative's with the middle names Margarita and Martha - I LOVE IT!

squirrly · February 2010

Strange names of people I work with, am friends with, or am related to:

Fannie
Mabel
Verna
Puss
Birdie
JT (no name - just initials)
Robert Robertson

aggiebug · February 2010

Ima Hogg was the daughter of a Texas governor and the poor thing never got married.

Thankfully we have no weird names in our familes, although FI mentioned using Rusty as a name... I laughed so hard I cried, then I realized he was serious and laughed some more.

evabee · February 2010

My dad claims he had a childhood friend named William Willy that they all called Willy Willy or Billy Willy. I always imagine this scene in the 1950s where little Willy Willy wins the soapbox car race despite the damage inflicted by the town bully (Tommy Buttkiss or something, right?).

Not as bad as it is funny.

MissLeahM · February 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Bad names : That was the lawyer's name in Arrested Development, right? ETA: oops, I quoted the wrong pp. This is regarding Bob Loblaw.
Posted by ohwhynot[/QUOTE]

I think you were trying to quote me.. But I honestly have no idea.

He was our civics teacher. Boring class but actually a really fun teacher.

mandapanda78 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]On the le-a thing...I actually read an interesting article about this on baby names wizard (I've been reading her blog lately for obvious reasons). It talks about racial connotations and what not, I think it's well written: <a href="http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one" rel="nofollow">http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one</a> And snopes marks the ledasha story as "undetermined": <a href="http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp</a>
Posted by ac_in_dc[/QUOTE]

<div>Amy, that is an incredible article! Thanks for the link.</div>

SarahPLiz · February 2010

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[QUOTE]My mom had an uncle that was named Aloysius Borkoski. blah! And a friend of mine's mom = <strong>Fonda Delight</strong>. And then her aunt = Misty Sunrise. Why their parents decided to name them after strippers, I don't know.
Posted by jlmarks83[/QUOTE]

I nearly died when I saw one named Torro Delite (female). That sounds like the entree at a Spanish restaurant, after a bull fight.
My friend's little sisters are Autumn Leaf, Spring Rain, and Summer ___. He counts himself lucky that he's just plain old Jeremy.
I guess working at a university, I have just seen a LOT of weird names;
Aquanita
D'Les
Kevyn (female)
Exemcia
Valeria
Sunny

I certainly get a kick out of them.

cac847 · February 2010

Nugget: Vivien Rose is beautiful! Your family is nuts if they don't like it. I like old fashioned names and wish there were more of them around instead of these crazy names people are using. If I have a daughter her name will be Evelyn Lorraine (Lorraine is my grandmother's name). Old fashioned, maybe, but something every other person in her class isn't going to be named.

Whoever said Madisyn... it makes me think of Unasyn.

The worst I've personally seen are:
James James James
Miami Dolphin
Tungsten
Shi-Zaa
Adoor Bell

evabee · February 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Bad names : Amy, that is an incredible article! Thanks for the link.
Posted by mandapanda78[/QUOTE]

<div>It is a great article! I totally understand why people reacted the way they did to my original post, it seems to fit the description perfectly. I feel ridiculous not having known about the urban legend (I'm all "maybe try to google search her!?" haha), maybe my cousin thought I would get the joke and here I am going off telling people like "no no it's pronounced with the dash!" I could see L-ia actually being pronounced Leah more than Ledashia anyway. I'll have to ask my cousin!</div>

SarahPLiz · February 2010

AC- that was a great article. Its true that I often infer gender and ethnicity from the name, but I haven't actually met most of the students names I mentioned, so I have no idea. They are real, legal names, though, and I still question the judgement of the parents, no matter what their ethnic background is.

shellydiane820 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]Strange names of people I work with, am friends with, or am related to: Fannie Mabel Verna Puss Birdie JT (no name - just initials) Robert Robertson
Posted by squirrly[/QUOTE]

I know a Fannie. Her name is Frances.

temerityjane · February 2010

I had an aunt (not actually related, you know, one of those things) named Mae. Just recently, I found out that she only went by Mae, and her first and middle names were Minnie Mae.

Apparently she hated it, I think it's adorable.

lpstl · February 2010

Pete has a cousin named John Johns. I don't know wtf his parents were thinking.

I love genealogy and do it for my family, here are some of the family names I've come across:

Obedience
Pleasant
Epaphroditus

To the person who wants to name their kid madysyn or whatever, please don't do this. My mom decided to be unique by basically misspelling my name and it's a colossal pain in the ass. Also, do you know how I explain it? I explain that it was my mothers retarded idea. So, while you think it's cute, you're not the one that has to live with it.

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