People should wait a little while before naming their kids after attributes.

[BlitzPuppet]

How is a kid supposed to be dusty or misty? What is the opposite?

I can only think of one way, directly after birth...yuck!

IAH though I've met quite a few Mistys..they've all been nice and have strangely all been chubby.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I can only think of one way, directly after birth...yuck!

IAH though I've met quite a few Mistys..they've all been nice and have strangely all been chubby.

I've met a lot of Misty's working as waitresses and hair stylists. Yes, they all seemed to be somewhat chubby, and the majority of them were at least a little bit cute despite that. I have a picture of a stereotypical Misty in my head that all the actual Misty's I've met at least resemble. That's kind of weird now that I think about it.

 

[KeithTalent]

I knew a girl named Chastity in high school. Ironically she had a reputation for being the easiest girl in school.

Personally, my favorite odd first names are based on mathematical symbols or numbers, e.g., "Prime," "Sigma," "Delta," "Psi," "Factorial," etc.

Integer? Tangent? Tau is kind of a good one. :hmm:

KT

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ehh, I will go with old norse names. As long as the wife doth not protest in excess.

 

[Jaepheth]

Name your daughter Magil and she'll call herself 'Lil...

But everyone will know her as Nancy.

 

[sactoking]

Indiana was the dog's name.

I have a dog named Jack. Some friends decided they were going to name their firstborn son Jack. I called him Indy. They didn't find it funny.

When my kids were born I had three naming rules:
1) The name couldn't be common; I didn't want them with the same name as a bunch of other people in school. No Michael, Jason, Thomas, etc.
2) The name couldn't be ridiculous. No Talulah or Shaqueefa, etc.
3) The name couldn't be easily subject to schoolyard ridicule. I didn't want kids singing "Buck, Buck, bo-Buck, banana-fanna fo-..."

I ended up with Darren and Mason.

 

[clamum]

I have a dog named Jack. Some friends decided they were going to name their firstborn son Jack. I called him Indy. They didn't find it funny.

When my kids were born I had three naming rules:
1) The name couldn't be common; I didn't want them with the same name as a bunch of other people in school. No Michael, Jason, Thomas, etc.
2) The name couldn't be ridiculous. No Talulah or Shaqueefa, etc.
3) The name couldn't be easily subject to schoolyard ridicule. I didn't want kids singing "Buck, Buck, bo-Buck, banana-fanna fo-..."

I ended up with Darren and Mason.

I actually like common names. I don't see anything wrong with Michael, Jack, or John, or anything like that.

 

[Rudee]

I grew up with guys named Frank, Bill, Peter, David, Christopher, Matthew, Jim, Howard, etc. Not this panzy ass stuff nowadays where everybody is a "Caden" or "Phoenix" or "Gunner".

 

[mistercrabby]

Went to church with a family who's name is Bolles. Of course they couldn't help but name one of their sons Harold.

 

[Kadarin]

George Carlin had something to say about all this... Soft names make soft people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo8CrY_ZfFk

 

[slag]

His name would be William. The only name I would ever call him growing up would be William or Will. If he wants his friends to call him Cantankerous, that is his choice. I can not stop that.

Billiam has a nice ring to it though.

My son's name is William. We call him Liam.

 

[BladeVenom]

I think, Stormageddon Dark Lord of All, sounds like a good name for a boy.

 

[piasabird]

It helps to have a name to call your kids by. Names should mean something. My dad wanted a son so he named his second daugher Cherie Michelle which means darling michael in French. Maybe the grandparents should get to name the kids.

Sigourney Weaver said in her family that when children reached a certain age that they would choose their own name. That sounds cool!

 

[piasabird]

Maybe I will choose Hatemore!

 

[JTsyo]

He says his name's William but I'm sure,
He's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy



La-a.....the dash be not silent.

Al I want to do is have some fun.

Same thing I thought when I saw the post. :thumbsup:

 

[Sho'Nuff]

You know someone named Factorial?

No.

 

[Sluggo]

Came in expecting a vile rant about William Hung, and a short but touching story about true love gone awry.

The internet has ruined me.

 

[Syndication]

Haha, you make a very good point. Why can't people go with the basic Mike,Ashley,John.

 

[alangrift]

Kids can always change their names later if they don't like them.

 

[Exterous]

Al I want to do is have some fun.

http://xkcd.com/327/

 

[rh71]

I'm not a parent, but I don't understand why everyone needs to come up with something unique to name their kid. What's wrong with the good old basic names? I haven't seen parents using these names at all recently:
- John
- Christopher
- Stephen
- Daniel
- Benjamin
- Robert
- William
- Elizabeth
- Ann(e)
- Rachel
- Rebecca
- Katherine

We named our twin boys with 2 of those names. We didn't want to be "so special" or "trying too hard". As boys/men, I think special names work against them as they grow older with their friends/peers.

If they were girls I don't think it would have the same effect, quite the opposite - we would try something that sounded nicer than the traditional "Jennifer". Something like a Katelyn.

BTW, I read the other day that Vivian, Beverly, Allison used to be a boys names!

 

[Tsavo]

I named my boy Perpp Walker.

100% unique.

 

[DannyBoy]

I'm not a parent, but I don't understand why everyone needs to come up with something unique to name their kid. What's wrong with the good old basic names? I haven't seen parents using these names at all recently:
- John
- Christopher
- Stephen
- Daniel
- Benjamin
- Robert
- William
- Elizabeth
- Ann(e)
- Rachel
- Rebecca
- Katherine

They're all English names and there's not many English people left?

Personally, I'm glad there aren't that many other people I know called Daniel, I'd rather be unique.

 

[Legios]

Stuck with Family names.

Gabriel and Wesley.

I have Latin American roots, my name is unpronounceable in the Spanish language since J sound is completely different. I don't know why my father who is a native Spanish speaker went with it except that at the time Jason was one of the most common names in the 70's. The closest they can come is sounding out "Hason" Hai-SooN.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't like common names, and I don't like contrived or trendy names. I named my daughter Zoë(you better fuckin' put the dots there too :^P ), and it seemed to get a little popular afterward, but I don't think I've seen a kid in person named Zoë.