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Why do parents name their kids such stupid names?

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Originally posted by: xeemzor
My stepmom works at a local children's hospital with at risk children and often she deals with kids who have almost unpronounceable names. Unfortunately, these kids usually come from dysfunctional families on third or fourth generation welfare so there chances are not that great already. Naming your kid something stupid like Pockets Pickins surely can't help the kid in an already uphill struggle. I'm all for allowing people to name their kids what they want, but I wonder if there should be an authority in place to prevent parents from naming their kids something that can hamper social development, like Prayse Sunday.

Below is a list of the first names. The last names are removed to protect the innocent (though they are almost as funny).

Rodneysha
Amircale
Dajanique
Keign
Taevion
Paradyce
Summer
Zaylin
Janiyah
Christyonna
Miracle
Is'iah(yes, the official name has an apostrophe in it)
Ke'sia
Cleophaus
Takia
Talia
Raeguana
Grover
Kasshae
Makileigh
Kayveon
Massiah
Aaliyah
Aalayiah
Uniqwa
Essence
Sir Charles

I have a bunch more I can add if you want more names. Honestly, I see a new really crazy name on her list of kids almost daily. If I get enough demand for it, I can scan the names sheet with pertinent info blacked out.
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Quoted for the record and email sent to the hospital. With names that unique and your home area in your profile, you basically just made it possible for random people on the internet to track down child patients from dysfunctional families. You would have been better off posting the list without any history to it. Call me names if you want but I would not be happy to have even this much of my personal information posted online for strangers to see.

Edit: For example, just using the first name on the list and the area I was able to find the dad's myspace link. http://www.myspace.com/468884327
 
Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Originally posted by: xeemzor
My stepmom works at a local children's hospital with at risk children and often she deals with kids who have almost unpronounceable names. Unfortunately, these kids usually come from dysfunctional families on third or fourth generation welfare so there chances are not that great already. Naming your kid something stupid like Pockets Pickins surely can't help the kid in an already uphill struggle. I'm all for allowing people to name their kids what they want, but I wonder if there should be an authority in place to prevent parents from naming their kids something that can hamper social development, like Prayse Sunday.

Below is a list of the first names. The last names are removed to protect the innocent (though they are almost as funny).

Rodneysha
Amircale
Dajanique
Keign
Taevion
Paradyce
Summer
Zaylin
Janiyah
Christyonna
Miracle
Is'iah(yes, the official name has an apostrophe in it)
Ke'sia
Cleophaus
Takia
Talia
Raeguana
Grover
Kasshae
Makileigh
Kayveon
Massiah
Aaliyah
Aalayiah
Uniqwa
Essence
Sir Charles

I have a bunch more I can add if you want more names. Honestly, I see a new really crazy name on her list of kids almost daily. If I get enough demand for it, I can scan the names sheet with pertinent info blacked out.
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Quoted for the record and email sent to the hospital. With names that unique and your home area in your profile, you basically just made it possible for random people on the internet to track down child patients from dysfunctional families. You would have been better off posting the list without any history to it. Call me names if you want but I would not be happy to have even this much of my personal information posted online for strangers to see.

Edit: For example, just using the first name on the list and the area I was able to find the dad's myspace link. http://www.myspace.com/468884327
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This thread may get quite epic soon...
 
Originally posted by: nerp
Talia and Summer aren't that weird, really.

Tell you what, though. I'm seriously considering naming a boy Sparkplug. Of course everyone would call him Sparky, but Sparkplug just sounds terriffic to me. The woman agrees, if you can believe that.
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Hey! Sparky is my nickname, he can't have it! 😛

Sparkplug huh? You aren't a motorhead are you? 😀 Make sure to raise him right 😉
 
Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
It's because the parents cannot spell worth a shitake. Then try to pass off their mistake as "creativity." Or at least that's how the custom started.
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sometimes that is the case i think. Mybrother had a gf named 'melizza'. I am still positive her stupid ass parents didn't realize it's spelled with s's. they were poor stupids.

 
Originally posted by: AreaCode707

Quoted for the record and email sent to the hospital. With names that unique and your home area in your profile, you basically just made it possible for random people on the internet to track down child patients from dysfunctional families. You would have been better off posting the list without any history to it. Call me names if you want but I would not be happy to have even this much of my personal information posted online for strangers to see.

Edit: For example, just using the first name on the list and the area I was able to find the dad's myspace link. http://www.myspace.com/468884327
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The dads name is Rodney and he named his daughter Rodneysha, that's a pretty damn creative way to turn Rodney into a girls name. Somebody should PM him on Myspace a link to this thread, he might get a chuckle out of it.
 
Originally posted by: QueBert
Originally posted by: AreaCode707

Quoted for the record and email sent to the hospital. With names that unique and your home area in your profile, you basically just made it possible for random people on the internet to track down child patients from dysfunctional families. You would have been better off posting the list without any history to it. Call me names if you want but I would not be happy to have even this much of my personal information posted online for strangers to see.

Edit: For example, just using the first name on the list and the area I was able to find the dad's myspace link. http://www.myspace.com/468884327
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The dads name is Rodney and he named his daughter Rodneysha, that's a pretty damn creative way to turn Rodney into a girls name. Somebody should PM him on Myspace a link to this thread, he might get a chuckle out of it.
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Hey, I'd like you to meet my girlfriend Rodneysha. Yeah real creative. LOL
 
Originally posted by: JDMnAR1
Not to be a wet blanket, but you even seeing that list of personally identifiable information is a HIPAA violation (assuming of course that you aren't directly involved in their care - but even then posting it would still be a violation), and could cost your stepmom her job if someone wanted to force the issue. You might want to rethink your explanation as to how you came about the list.
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Posting this isn't a violation of HIPPA. If he sees a list coincidentally then it's not a violation either. In fact he can't violate HIPPA. He isn't a covered entity.

If he was shown a list of name which could be tied individuals, then the person showing the info is in violation.

Since this list is a bunch of first names from some hospital somewhere, it isn't "personally identifiable information", at least not here.
 
My daughter's name is Chantel. French name. Spelled correctly.

When people first here the name, they think:

Shantelle
Shantel
Shantell....

My response is always the same.... Wrong race.
 
Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Originally posted by: xeemzor
My stepmom works at a local children's hospital with at risk children and often she deals with kids who have almost unpronounceable names. Unfortunately, these kids usually come from dysfunctional families on third or fourth generation welfare so there chances are not that great already. Naming your kid something stupid like Pockets Pickins surely can't help the kid in an already uphill struggle. I'm all for allowing people to name their kids what they want, but I wonder if there should be an authority in place to prevent parents from naming their kids something that can hamper social development, like Prayse Sunday.

Below is a list of the first names. The last names are removed to protect the innocent (though they are almost as funny).

Rodneysha
Amircale
Dajanique
Keign
Taevion
Paradyce
Summer
Zaylin
Janiyah
Christyonna
Miracle
Is'iah(yes, the official name has an apostrophe in it)
Ke'sia
Cleophaus
Takia
Talia
Raeguana
Grover
Kasshae
Makileigh
Kayveon
Massiah
Aaliyah
Aalayiah
Uniqwa
Essence
Sir Charles

I have a bunch more I can add if you want more names. Honestly, I see a new really crazy name on her list of kids almost daily. If I get enough demand for it, I can scan the names sheet with pertinent info blacked out.
Click to expand...

Quoted for the record and email sent to the hospital. With names that unique and your home area in your profile, you basically just made it possible for random people on the internet to track down child patients from dysfunctional families. You would have been better off posting the list without any history to it. Call me names if you want but I would not be happy to have even this much of my personal information posted online for strangers to see.

Edit: For example, just using the first name on the list and the area I was able to find the dad's myspace link. http://www.myspace.com/468884327
Click to expand...

Lol, I go to school in Columbus but that doesn't mean my relatives work there. But feel free to do as you will.
 
lol it's weird that someone mentioned it's from columbus, b/c my mom works at columbus children's hospital as well and it's always a 'joke' among doctors/nurses the funny names.

And yes the surrounding area is very poor and african american, but it is a top notch hospital.

hmm what else.

There was a rusty nail

a brother/sister or maybe twins that were lemon and orange jello (forget the actual spelling)
 
there was this patient that walked into my pharmacy and she had a son named eurmajesty. I had to ask her the sex of her child 🙁
 
Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
lol it's weird that someone mentioned it's from columbus, b/c my mom works at columbus children's hospital as well and it's always a 'joke' among doctors/nurses the funny names.

And yes the surrounding area is very poor and african american, but it is a top notch hospital.

hmm what else.

There was a rusty nail

a brother/sister or maybe twins that were lemon and orange jello (forget the actual spelling)
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That's because it is in Columbus, 2 of the names came up when I searched and both were living in Columbus. He said "that doesn't mean my relatives work there" but he said it was his step mom who worked there, and it's definitely in Columbus. I don't know if the Hospital will actually care, but I would imagine they won't be joyed over this.
 
I know a guy named Semen.
Which is a reasonably good name in Russian, but the INS didn't do the guy any favors when they could have properly translated it to Simeon.
 
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