Speaking of baby names

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha · January 2013

Mobile Bumpers: Speaking of baby names

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What are some names you've heard IRL that made you go "WT FThey can't be serious". Note I want REAL IRL names - none of that "Oranjello" crap.

Rachey1082 · January 2013

There's a kid in Liam's class named Da.mire, I added the period so that this is ungoogleable. He's such a cute kid, but I'm pretty sure his name is completely made up.

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha · January 2013

I have two

1 - I was reading our local paper and came across a blurb about the first baby to be born at my hospital in 2013. His name is (wait for it) Jake-Obe. I am not even sure how you're supposed to pronounce it.

2 - As I was telling my brother about Jake-Obe, he told me about some students of his (he teaches French Lit in college). Her name is Alex-Sandra, which is of course pronounced Alexandra.

BabyQuizzle · January 2013

First I have a question. What does adding a . Har to do with making the name ungoogleable? Couldn't someone just take it out and type up the name if they really wanted to google it?

Second, I teach preschool and have had sone weird ones but Schuyler Skyler is by far the worst I have seen in awhile.

BabyQuizzle · January 2013

First I have a question. What does adding a . Har to do with making the name ungoogleable? Couldn't someone just take it out and type up the name if they really wanted to google it?

Second, I teach preschool and have had sone weird ones but Schuyler Skyler is by far the worst I have seen in awhile.

eatmorecupcakes · January 2013

At my school we have a Y.ahtzee and an A.lcatraz. However, my personal favorite is Z.etaime which according to his mom means I love you in French. Um no. First of all....it's Je t'aime if I remember and secondly it's not a name either way.

The period means if someone were to Google the name, it wouldn't lead them to this board.

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha · January 2013

BabyQuizzle:
First I have a question. What does adding a . Har to do with making the name ungoogleable? Couldn't someone just take it out and type up the name if they really wanted to google it?

I believe she meant it the other way around. Like if the mom is googling her kid's name and this thread pops up.

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha · January 2013

Also, ::dead:: @ z.etaime

seriously, I am French and would have had no clue that's what that name was supposed to be

BabyQuizzle · January 2013

eatmorecupcakes:
At my school we have a Y.ahtzee and an A.lcatraz. However, my personal favorite is Z.etaime which according to his mom means I love you in French. Um no. First of all....it's Je t'aime if I remember and secondly it's not a name either way.

The period means if someone were to Google the name, it wouldn't lead them to this board.

Ooooh gotcha

JaysonandKristin · January 2013

The sibsets are what make me scratch the hell outta my head...

Caleb, Noah, McKenzie and Hailey. Seriously? Poor McKenzie (no family significance).

bundymommy · January 2013

When my sister was doing her student teaching there was a girl named "La-a." She assumed it was pronounced "La-ah" and that was how she referred to her. When she met the mother, she found out the girl's name was actually "La-Dash-a."

WashingtonQueen · January 2013

You want a real good one? This was in my local newspaper under the birth announcements.

Brooqlyhn Qahmille

WashingtonQueen · January 2013

bundymommy:
When my sister was doing her student teaching there was a girl named "La-a." She assumed it was pronounced "La-ah" and that was how she referred to her. When she met the mother, she found out the girl's name was actually "La-Dash-a."

This is an urban legend.

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

https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

Rachey1082 · January 2013

WashingtonQueen:
You want a real good one? This was in my local newspaper under the birth announcements. Brooqlyhn Qahmille

Wow. Someone took a name that could have been pretty and made it terrible! Really, Brooklyn Camille is
Pretty.

MrsCase1 · January 2013

Someone on FB just said, "I can't get Mid.ori to say her name." I'm like, 'Uh, yo unamed your kid after watermlon liquer?" Ha!

bundymommy · January 2013

WashingtonQueen:
bundymommy:
When my sister was doing her student teaching there was a girl named "La-a." She assumed it was pronounced "La-ah" and that was how she referred to her. When she met the mother, she found out the girl's name was actually "La-Dash-a."
This is an urban legend.
https://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one
https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

Really?! I am totally calling my sister out on this. I seriously believed her.

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha · January 2013

Mrs Case:
Someone on FB just said, "I can't get Mid.ori to say her name." I'm like, 'Uh, yo unamed your kid after watermlon liquer?" Ha!

Ha Ha! I believe the liquor takes its name from the Japanese word for "green" (which also is Midori). Not sure what they were going for there (liquor or colour), but I would still hate them if they were my parents. lol

Penny424 · January 2013

One of my friends is a teacher and he has three that make me giggle.

1. Shathead is how it is said.. spelt...... SH!THEAD ( no. joke)

2 and 3.... Boya and Boyb..... the mom had twin boys and thought the hospital named them for her. BOYa and BOYB

tandb2010 · January 2013

bundymommy:
WashingtonQueen:
bundymommy:
When my sister was doing her student teaching there was a girl named "La-a." She assumed it was pronounced "La-ah" and that was how she referred to her. When she met the mother, she found out the girl's name was actually "La-Dash-a."
This is an urban legend.
https://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one
https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp
Really?! I am totally calling my sister out on this. I seriously believed her.

I am teaching a little girl to swim and her name is La-a. I think it was an urban legend at one point in time but now it's a name. ::facepalm::

ladybugpjb · January 2013

At a children's camp I helped at one summer, there was a kid named TheOne - pronounced "the one."

Yeah... Guess which kid was always up and out of his seat and getting called at from across the room? TheOne.

And a teacher friend of mine had a kid named "The Fonz." She asked permission to call him "Fonzie."

ladybugpjb · January 2013

MrsSkull1107:
There is a baby at DD's daycare whose name is C.ashlyn. I'm not exactly sure if that is how it's spelled but it's how it sounds. C.ash-Lynn. Weird, right?
H jokes that the name was inspired by Ke$ha.

I have a friend whose nephew is named Cashlin. I think they call him Cash.

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