Bad names

[Deleted User] · 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 rel="nofollow" href="http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one">http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one</a>And snopes marks the ledasha story as "undetermined": <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp">http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp</a>
Posted by ac_in_dc[/QUOTE]

Very interesting article. I stand firm in my belief that they are Urban Legends.

I can tell you for sure, though that there is a football player for Wake Forest named Gelo Orange. And that makes me smile.

<a href="http://wakeforestsports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/orange_gelo00.html">http://wakeforestsports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/orange_gelo00.html</a>

sarabellam · February 2010

I taught a student named Special Edwards. My mom's high school algebra teacher was Harry Aho.

BecW2be · February 2010

I thought of a stupid made up name, not even a given name. Ke$ha. Stupid song, stupid girl, stupid name. In my house we call her "Kedollarsignha".

AlexiaANDRobert · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I thought of a stupid made up name, not even a given name. Ke$ha. Stupid song, stupid girl, stupid name. In my house we call her "Kedollarsignha".
Posted by BecW2be[/QUOTE]

Is that the Tic Toc wench? That song annoys me...

CourtBR · February 2010

Apparently, on my mom's side, "Christmas" is a pretty common family middle name. Usually, the combinations aren't too bad, i.e. Anne Christmas

But after my mom was born, (as my grandmother tells it) an elderly relative was indignant that she had not named my mom Mary Christmas.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · February 2010

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[QUOTE]My dad's middle name (and he's a junior) is Gerson. He hates it and wouldn't tell me what his middle name was for a long time as a kid. I love Madison for a girl if we have one but I was thinking of spelling it Madisyn. Then I see all those name things you can buy (keychains, mugs, etc.) and wonder if I should leave it Madison so she can buy the stuff. I have never been able to buy anything with my name because they never have it.
Posted by Shawnee11507[/QUOTE]

I have a completely normal, correctly spelled name and I still wasn't able to buy those personalized things because my name has never been in the top 40 (or top 100, even) girls' names. (Also, it is technically unisex, but for the last 50 years 95% of people with my name have been female.)

That said, spelling any name with a y if the y isn't at the end of the name is a really, really bad idea. Everyone will still spell it Madison and she'll have to correct them with the effed up spelling. (The name is NMS anyway.)

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I taught a student named Special Edwards. My mom's high school algebra teacher was Harry Aho.
Posted by sarabellam[/QUOTE]

My friend was a special ed major in college and had a guy in her program named Edward that she and her friends dubbed Special Ed. Then they found out he went by Ted and started calling him Special Ted. Not to his face.

No weird names really in my family. But when my parents started dating my mom somehow brough up the fact that she hated the name Howard. My dad's response was, "Howard is my middle name." True story. He was named after his father (John) and his maternal uncle (Howard).

rhodesign · February 2010

I'm late here, but thank you to all of those who pointed out the urban legendiness (I made that up) of names like l-ea, etc. I try to explain that to people every time I hear those stories and they look at me like I was the one who named my kid l-ea

I am absolutely sick to death of people adding unnecessary letters to kids names, or purposely mispelling a name to make it different. It just makes it annoying! I had a patient who named her kid Kalob (Caleb). We have a Heavin (heaven) right now. They put the I in because they 'wanted it to rhyme with Kevin, the dad's name.' Well it already rhymes! Now it looks like it should be pronounced hee-vin!

We have a lovely little girl with a lovely first name. Problem is that her middle name is Analy (pronounced anna-lee). I really need to have a talk with her parents...

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · February 2010

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[QUOTE]Fi told me about a girl he met named Aquanetta the other day. I immediately wondered if she was named after the hairspray.
Posted by Shawnee11507[/QUOTE]

I've seen that name on one of our client lists. Also Daquiri. And Cocaine (that was yesterday, actually, and he/she has a us army email address).

VaporTrail · February 2010

i have a grandmother named oma mae. and an uncle derwood. my grandfather is william and his brother was bill.

went to college with a chesticle petite. her chesticles were not petite.

VaporTrail · February 2010

and just came across the name "caden" spelled "khydian"

rhodesign · February 2010

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[QUOTE] my grandfather is william and his brother was bill.
Posted by VaporTrail[/QUOTE]

My dad is Willie(just willie) and his brother is William (goes by JB). yeah. =)

We have some lovely old-tymey names in our family that I actually really like--Minnie Pearl, Lillie Pearl, Georgia Mae, Daisy... I really like Daisy but it would sound weird with my new last name.

[Deleted User] · February 2010

My great aunt's name is Sug (pronounced Shug) as in Sugar. I love it.

missy68 · February 2010

A college friend went to high school with a girl named Aquanet. Seriously.

rhodesign · February 2010

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[QUOTE]My great aunt's name is Sug (pronounced Shug) as in Sugar. I love it.
Posted by cew515[/QUOTE]

LOVES!!! It's like Shug Avery from The Color Purple, my favorite character! =)

Bubbalub · February 2010

The daughter of one of the Beach Boys went to my high school: Summer Love

FI and I each have a great-grandfather Aloysius. We did a quick check when we started dated to make sure we weren't somehow related. :P My G-Grandfather is Aloysius Jacobus Germanlastname. Quite a mouthful.

I know a lot of trendy namers which annoys me but, hey, not my kids! My name is a little weird, Moira, pronounced "More-ah". It is the Anglicized spelling of the Irish name Máire. The Anglicized version is supposed to be pronounced Moyra, but my parents pronounced it one of the Irish ways instead. So when I go to the UK or Ireland and say my name, people say "More-ah" but if they see my name written down they always call me Moyra. I answer to both now.

I used to know a girl named Redbird. Crazy hippie parents and I think her father was one of the guys who came up with LSD back in the '70s.

Stackeye210 · February 2010

Bubbalub - I actually know two girls named Moira and they were close friends.

I've never met one since them though.

JanoBean75 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]Fi told me about a girl he met named Aquanetta the other day. I immediately wondered if she was named after the hairspray.
Posted by Shawnee11507[/QUOTE]

FI has a customer with that name.

Bubbalub · February 2010

Stack it is so weird because I'm Moira/More-ah with a sister Meghan/meh-gan) and my dad's sister's husband has neices that are sisters named Moira/Moyra and Meagan/Mee-gan. Bizarre!

And, not bizarre except to me as a kid, I was always confused about my grandmother's 4 sisters (Margaret, Kathleen, Eileen, Regina) becaus she always talked about her sister Peggy. I had no idea as a kid that it was a nickname for Margaret.

Margaret - /> Maggie -> Meggie -> Peggy

ms.n.0906 · February 2010

My dad works with a guy named Harry Wolff, I taught a student whose name was Unique and her mother was Special, and (my favorite one) I had a female teacher in high school whose first name was Stephen. I did not like her, at all...she had probably taken years of abuse which resulted in her crappy demeanor.

Sarah-Jean · February 2010

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[QUOTE]My cousin has a student named "L-ia" but apparently you're supposed to pronounce the dash mark (which is just not pronounceable). So when you say her name it's "ledashia".
Posted by evabee[/QUOTE]

It's not a dash though, it's a hyphen. I have one in my name. If anyone ever tried to call me "sarahdashjean" i would smack them in the head.

ms.n.0906 · February 2010

My dad works with a guy named Harry Wolff, I taught a student whose name was Unique and her mother was Special, and (my favorite one) I had a female teacher in high school whose first name was Stephen. I did not like her, at all...she had probably taken years of abuse which resulted in her crappy demeanor.

Ishaba11 · February 2010

I had a great aunt whose name was Ida Edith. She weny by Edith but going by your last name is a trend on that side of the family since both my grandparents go by their middle names too.

Sparkles1985 · March 2010

Yeah, I'm way late, but I thought of a few...

-- Our ex- Governor: Tommy Thompson
-- An ex-coworker: Steven Stevens
-- A kid that played football with my brother at his highschool: M-Jay (pronounced Em-Jay)
-- An ex-coworker Cami O LastName (No middle name, just O... as in Cameo...)
-- A little girl in my neices class (I saw her name on their Holiday Program flyer this past December): Autumn Rain
-- A cousins daughter: Maci Mae (not the worst, but its just... kinda redundant...)

That's all I can think of right now...

I never understood why someone wold name their child with the same (or very, very similar) first and last names.

phoeny_moonstar · March 2010

Here's what i've got:

Cousin named Austin Daemon
Cousin name Raven Night
Friends kids Noir and Fae
Friend named Summer Daie
Was friends with a girl who had two older brother D. Ivan and T. Justin (no first names) and her sisters were Juli A and Emi H (no middle names)

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