For all of you who like the baby names board...

WolFox · January 2014

I'm barely ever over there so I don't feel like posting there as a stranger, but I had to share this with someone...

griffers · January 2014

Omg that's ridiculous. One popular name that makes me shake my head: La-a, pronounced Ladasha. These poor children.

missnacholover · January 2014

*headdesk*

Irishcurls · January 2014

La-a is an urban legend, thankfully. So'unique isn't great though. They wanted a unique name that started with an S, per the article I just read.

MusicFanatic · January 2014

That literally made me LOL out loud, haha! Wow. Wow. That's.... wow.

kleigh926 · January 2014

Oh boy. I will never understand people.

hullabalou · January 2014

But why....

NerdyLucy · January 2014

Aw, @Wolfox, we'd love this over on the BNB.

@MacyLynn27 When I was growing up, there was a girl at school named Anita Maxie. Kids used to call her Anita Maxie Pad, as in I-need-a-maxi-pad.

Irishcurls · January 2014

katnhiding said:

La-a may have been an urban legend before but actually appears to be gaining in popularity. As a teacher, I've seen two girls with the name over the past few years. I see a lot of odd names though. For some reason Queen as a name is also extremely popular here in urban areas.

Where?

WolFox · January 2014

My aunt, who works for a large school district, totally had me convinced that she knew a Lemonjello and an Orangejello... I was completely convinced until the BNB (which I was active on for about two weeks several months ago) set me straight.

Pintobean39 · January 2014

WolFox said:
My aunt, who works for a large school district, totally had me convinced that she knew a Lemonjello and an Orangejello... I was completely convinced until the BNB (which I was active on for about two weeks several months ago) set me straight.

My friend did have a lemonjello and orangejello in her class. They were twin boys. They are prob 18 by now.

ETA: she was grading papers and we were looking at the papers and laughing about some of the names.

rlyttle · January 2014

That poor child. I work at an inner city school and I could give you a long list of BAD names. It's sad, but entertaining for my DH & friends. They love hearing them. DEMON comes to mind first. It's pronounced DUH-MON. They got that one waaaay wrong!!

Siamese253 · January 2014

Irishcurls said:

La-a is an urban legend, thankfully. So'unique isn't great though. They wanted a unique name that started with an S, per the article I just read.

I work with a La-a, she's in her 40's.

GoaliesWife123 · January 2014

O.M.G. why would someone do this to a kid?!

Manateearmz · January 2014

::crosses name off list::

Well that's fantastic, that was totally going to be the name for my second. I feel it's pretty neutral for boy or girl.

WolFox · January 2014

aaaaaand this just popped up on my newsfeed...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/31/krimson-tyde-baby-name-alabama_n_4523837.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Pintobean39 · January 2014

macylynn27 said:

Pintobean39 said:

WolFox said:
My aunt, who works for a large school district, totally had me convinced that she knew a Lemonjello and an Orangejello... I was completely convinced until the BNB (which I was active on for about two weeks several months ago) set me straight.
My friend did have a lemonjello and orangejello in her class. They were twin boys. They are prob 18 by now.

ETA: she was grading papers and we were looking at the papers and laughing about some of the names.

OMGEE, do we live near eachother? Because my best friend went to school with a Orangejello (pronounced Oran-gello) and Lemonjello (Le-mon-gello). There were also triplets: Dio, Tio Mio (Dye-O, Tie-O, My-O)

Edit: I heard of, but have not confirmed, the name Shithead (pronounced Shi-theed)

I don't think we live near each other. The school she taught at isn't a school I'd want my children to go to. There is just crazy everywhere.

Irishcurls · January 2014

Joy2611 said:

::sigh:: at this thread

I tried.

norweigan · January 2014

When my girlfriend was pregnant, we were talking about possible baby names for her little girl. Then we started watching Maury, and the names got so much more interesting. Her baby's in utero name ended up being She-Diamond Tiara, which were names we actually saw on the show. The girls name out of utero is Averee, but my sister still calls her She-Diamond.

norweigan · January 2014

Also, one time I was in a cab where the cab driver's name was Shithead. I was the only sober one, and the girl in the front seat with him was wasted. She yelled out "your name is Shit Head!" and he corrected her and we all tried to stop her, to no avail. She just kept yelling "shit head" over and over again. I was surprised that he did not kick us out.

krcran06 · January 2014

Princess Kisi.... Princess anything- Preaches, Willow-Brooke, Sade (pronounced Shar-day)

MMason12 · January 2014

What the hell happened to traditional-regular names? Seriously people!!!

ClaireHuxtable · January 2014

Ooooh, this is priceless. The parents definitely made a statement. The worst and first name of 2014. Bravo.

ClaireHuxtable · January 2014

norweigan said:
Also, one time I was in a cab where the cab driver's name was Shithead. I was the only sober one, and the girl in the front seat with him was wasted. She yelled out "your name is Shit Head!" and he corrected her and we all tried to stop her, to no avail. She just kept yelling "shit head" over and over again. I was surprised that he did not kick us out.

Stop it. Read Freakonomics much? This again is urban legend.

ClaireHuxtable · January 2014

@katnhiding - I wish you would stop typing.

norweigan · January 2014

@ClaireHuxtable No. It actually happened to me.

ClaireHuxtable · January 2014

@katnhiding - not that they aren't true. I have a Queen in my family. There are tons of shitty names which are not limited to urban areas. This is why I wish you would stop typing.

ClaireHuxtable · January 2014

What the fuck is wrong with you? Seriously? Why would I take this personally? Can you even understand the implications of what you're writing?

Irishcurls · January 2014

A lot of these stories propagate racially-charged stereotypes among low socioeconomic minorities who "don't know any better" than to name their child Orange Jello. It doesn't have to be taken personally to be offensive.

ClaireHuxtable · January 2014

Your posts are offensive.

norweigan · January 2014

@LindsRockies He looked more like he was Middle Eastern, but I'm not entirely sure. We were too horrified by our friend to really get into a conversation with him about his background.

EmeJay · January 2014

I wish there's gonna be a Unique in one of her class.

Imagine the teacher calling names: Unique? yes. So'Unique? yes.

lebradford · January 2014

I don't really see why people are getting their panties in a bunch about this. If you're calling racism, that's stupid, sorry. I guess I don't even understand what the argument could possibly be unless that is your name or your baby's name.

I taught a Paige Turner once. See, look, bad names happen to white kids too.

hullabalou · January 2014

WolFox said:

aaaaaand this just popped up on my newsfeed...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/31/krimson-tyde-baby-name-alabama_n_4523837.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

I live in Alabama...I know at least two people whose daughter's middle names are Crimson, and one whose first name is.

I am a huge Alabama football fan, but that's a little much.

DH wants to use the name Ally Bama if we ever have a little girl....he lost all naming privileges.

nikiz628 · January 2014

True story. A woman in our town is named Gay Ann Dick. She was a queen at one of our local festivals back in the early 70's. Now I understand that back then, Gay probably didn't have quite the same meaning....but still.

lebradford · January 2014

dorothyzbornak97 said:
A little insight from our good friend Snopes on why this subject brings up talk of racism: https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp.

Also, it's interesting that most of the time when conversations about terrible names come up, they're always about "urban" people, when wealthy white people have been giving children ridiculous names for centuries. I'm looking at you, Muffy, Trip, Chip, Paisley, etc. Bad names come in all colors and economic classes, yet for some reason, the stories that get told very rarely reflect that.

Yeah, I guess I see what you mean. I guess for me personally it has nothing to do with race because the names I find most ridiculous sound like phrases or real English words (like Paige Turner or Apple or something). Do I think some names of African American kids are silly? Yes. Some Indian kids? Yes. Some white kids? Yes. I don't particularly pick out names from other cultures to be "weird" just because they're not Euro-centric. So, I guess for me at least, it has nothing to do with race.

lebradford · January 2014

LinnyDan12 said:

WolFox said:
aaaaaand this just popped up on my newsfeed...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/31/krimson-tyde-baby-name-alabama_n_4523837.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

When I saw this all I thought of was a period. Why would someone name their child slang for menstruation!?!
eta: I can't get out of the quote box, grr....

----
Crimson Tide is a football team. ;-) I never thought about it being another word for a period before. Haha.

lebradford · January 2014

My middle school dean's name was Richard (Dick) Craven. And I was friends with a Richard Burns. Idk, there's just so much that can go wrong with the name Richard.

Irishcurls · January 2014

lebradford said:

A little insight from our good friend Snopes on why this subject brings up talk of racism: https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp.

Also, it's interesting that most of the time when conversations about terrible names come up, they're always about "urban" people, when wealthy white people have been giving children ridiculous names for centuries. I'm looking at you, Muffy, Trip, Chip, Paisley, etc. Bad names come in all colors and economic classes, yet for some reason, the stories that get told very rarely reflect that.
Yeah, I guess I see what you mean. I guess for me personally it has nothing to do with race because the names I find most ridiculous sound like phrases or real English words (like Paige Turner or Apple or something). Do I think some names of African American kids are silly? Yes. Some Indian kids? Yes. Some white kids? Yes. I don't particularly pick out names from other cultures to be "weird" just because they're not Euro-centric. So, I guess for me at least, it has nothing to do with race.

Bad names have nothing to do with race, for sure. But for me, the "no I SWEAR my friend's mom's daughter is a teacher and she knows a La-a" bugs me because that instance of "telephone" isn't based in truth and is inadvertently continuing something with very racist beginnings. Regardless of people saying they know someone is named that now, the story *originally* included the mom saying "the dash don't be silent" and comments including "And we let these people vote!"

Siamese253 · January 2014

lebradford said:

My middle school dean's name was Richard (Dick) Craven. And I was friends with a Richard Burns. Idk, there's just so much that can go wrong with the name Richard.

A close friend of my fathers is Richard (Dick) Shit. His wife made him change his name when I was little, but that didn't stop my siblings and I from asking about Dick Shit all the time

KatzKiss · January 2014

aaaaaand this just popped up on my newsfeed...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/31/krimson-tyde-baby-name-alabama_n_4523837.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

When I saw this all I thought of was a period. Why would someone name their child slang for menstruation!?!
eta: I can't get out of the quote box, grr....

---- Crimson Tide is a football team. ;-) I never thought about it being another word for a period before. Haha.

My dad was in Alabama when I got my first period. He brought me home a Crimson Tide tee. I still to this day am convinced he was making fun of me.

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