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URL: http://womencentral.msn.com/babies/articles/babynames.asp
According to MSN's hot link of the day, the following were the most popular names for babies born in 2001... (Why I clicked on this link....we'll call it possession...) Girls' Names: Emily, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Madison, Sarah, Hailey, Ashley, Brianna, Samantha, Jasmine. Boy's Names: Jacob, Michael, Nicholas, Matthew, Joshua, Andrew, Joseph, Christopher, Anthony, Dylan ....not many our names made the cut, I'm afraid. What I want to know is, What are some of the worst names you have actually come across in real life?
By the way, sorry if my post is a pain in the butt to read. I coud read all these fabulous html cheatsheets and learn how to do this stuff so that it would come out making sense...But, I am lazy.
You could just put all the boys names in one paragraph and the girls names in another paragraph, and that wouldn't take any special html-fu.If you're going to be lazy, then the terrorists have already won.
:P
you mean like, the parents were super cruel to bestow the names? or just names that are so ultra-cute or whatever that you want to vomit?category 1(cruel name): my aunt told me of a student in her sister's 3rd grade class named ... Shithead. it was pronounced Shi-THEED. still not a good idea to name your kid.
category 2(cute/vomit-inducing): colby, etc. (my brain is fried. i can't come up with more names for this category right now.)
One woman with whom I used to work was a big fan of the royal family and thus named her son William. Usually abbreviated (as per said royal family) to "Will". Unfortunately her surname is "Barrow".I'm not making this up, people....
mark axel ake larson - not horrible but true
Mark's real name is Mark Gunard Larson. They were going to name him Paul Ake Axel Larson, or make Axel Ake, but his grandmother said that you can't name boys like that in America, or he'd get teased. So they went with the more boring route.In other news, I was almost going to be named Mark Thomas Peterson, but it was my dad who really wanted to name me after my great-grandfather Peter A., hence Peter Andrew Peterson II. But I found out last Thanksgiving that my mom was opposed. Mark Thomas works, but it doesn't seem like it fits me, you know? Is this just because we make names our own, or do we somehow fulfill expectations of some kind? I'm really inclined to believe the latter.
Timmy and Jimmy Madison. Not Timothy and James. Timmy and Jimmy. Twins born about two weeks before my daughter to a woman on a message board I post on. My friend Renee's mother is named Candy. Her sister is Bunny. Were they *trying* for a pair of prostitutes?Ainsley for a girl's name - she's a baby but she already must be an old woman. Then again, I'm not into the whole Britteny Paige Madison Sierra Caedean type names... I feel for those kids.
I do think that we make names our own...In a lot of fantasy literature, knowing something/someone's name gives you power (of a sort) over that thing/person. I think that our names become intertwined with our identity. And it's true, knowing someone for who they really are does give you power. As to the the taking ownership of our names, I think it happens over time. For example, every girl I knew in junior high could list twenty names they liked for themselves more than their own... But, by the time a person sort of settles into who they are (at least for girls/women) they decide their own name suits them best. I don't know... "What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
When I was a kid, I always wanted a "cool" name, like "Joe" or "Michael" or something like that. Peter sounded so like, nerdy and pedestrian to me.Of course now, I think that Peter is a fabulous name, and I like almost all the Peters I've ever known.
It is possible that I only thought that Peter was a nerdy and pedestrian name because I saw myself as nerdy and pedestrian. And now, since I have a wildly inflated ego, I think that Peter is the coolest name on earth.
But that's really only partly true. Hah.
No really though, like, I like what Amy said about "settling in" -- I've definitely settled into who I am, and I feel like the uniqueness, but yet commonness of Peter is something that I like. I suppose if my name was like, Joe, I'd like the "generic" Joe Smith-ness about it. Who knows. I'm seeking to put meaning everywhere these days. No time to reflect. There are obviously a lot of names that would fit for the unique but common thing, like Tim, or James, or something like that, I don't know. See, they all seem like somebody else's name to me.
who would ever name their kid jeremy wagner?
Does walter fit in the pedro way? or in the "don't name my kid that please please please" kind of way?Not that everything's about me, well, ok. See, I'm an introspective type so i look at thins from that angle, but it's not like a, well, whatever.
What I was going to say was, I could see my name being Walter, but I wouldn't get the whole "lots of cool guys named Peter" effect, since Walter is not nearly as common as Peter. Unfortunately.
But I did have a great uncle named Walt, he was also P. A. Peterson's son, and he was a very cool guy.
Or maybe you meant that "Walter Wagner" would be a good name.
Or maybe you were making a Big Lebowski reference, which would be apropos, since I usually describe Wagner as being sort of like The Dude, even though he can do a mean Walter impersonation, esp. with those mirrored shades.
And Now, I've Said Too Much.
but that is neither here nor there.as far as my own name goes, i like it, and i feel like it is mine. although id say that i get called my actual name like, MAYBE, 5% of the time someone calls me something. i usually get wags, wagner, walter, big lug, jere, jeremiah (which is not my real name), sweetheart, lovemuffin, gimli, etc. I don't mind at all being called these nicknames, because they are endearing, and the people who use them have, for the most part, earned the right to use them. so sometimes i wonder if my actual name fits as well as the rest of my nicknames. or is it that not enough people feel the right to have some sort of power over me? all very interesting.
i don't think i could ever see pedro as 'Mark Thomas Peterson' sounds like a Pope or the actor who played Zack Morris.
i do think we settle into our names, whatever they are, and define them for ourselves. i just feel bad for the kids who have to settle into being Cody, or Britney, or Colby, or Austin, or Heath etc.
I knew two people in high school named Peter Ortblad and Frank Foozer. The worst part was, they looked the parts.
The worst thing, to me, is when parents take an ordinary name and gived it a fscked up spelling so their kid won't have to suffer the "trauma" of having the same name as another kid. So as I hand out certificates to kids at the end of swim lessons, I learn that I misspelled Eric's name. It's supposed to be "aariq".
I ish you not.
pedro is correct as to the history of the naming of mgl. The proper spelling of his nickname is Åke.
My name is just good swedish name, but it could have been better. My father wanted name me gustav, which I think I would have enjoyed. But my mom vetoed it. And now they're divorced and it's all my fault.
I was almost Kjersten Anna. I would have been Andrew Carl. I ended up Amy Kristina. My parents opted for late seventies name crazes at the last minute. That's ok- I like being an Amy now (but it did take a while).... And, Amy=beloved in latin, and I generally use that as my user name, ie blvdgirl or blvdssa (AOL) or b_l_v_d (MSN). There is one of those Christian book store name plaques hanging in my house that says "Amy/ Beloved/ Beloved, let us love one another for love comes from God./ 1 John 4:7" -I've always liked that plaque.My cousin just had a baby girl- her name is Madeline Olivia Williams. That is an awfully big name.
As per bad names, my grandma's first son who died soon after he was born was named Norton Harold. Norton....
My grandmother's name is Sipporia (like Abraham's Zipporah). She goes by Skip.And I'd love to name a son after my grandfather (as I am named after my great grandfather), but my grandfather's name is Irvine Arthur, and I'm not sure if that would be beneficial to a kid from the future. But my grandfather rocks, and everyone I know who knows him likes him a lot, so maybe it would be alright. Not that it's only my decision...
My mother chose Nicholas for me, since it's a name that has been translated or transliterated into a hojillion languages. She chose George for my brother for the same basic reasons.
My Dad (Craig Francis) named me Jack, after one of his friends. Donald is my paternal grandfather's name (Donald Francis). My Mom suggested Jack Francis Edwards, but my Dad didn't like his own middle name, and didn't want me to have it too. However, I've decided that I really like Francis as a name, so if I have a son, I'd like Francis to be in his name somewhere. For that matter, I like the name Frances quite a bit for a girl too. But kids are a long way off for me, so I guess I don't need to pick out names yet.
I'm telling you, "Francis" for your boys, and "Frances" for your girls. It will be mad El-Hilarity.
Bernard
My grandfather's name (incidentally, his second name was "Francis"). It took me a while to get used to "Bernard" as in the circles in which I moved when very young it was comparatively rare. I wanted to be John or Peter or somesuch. There's also a distressing link between the name Bernard and bad comedians in the UK (Cribbins, Bresslaw, Winters, Manning etc.). I was saved when Bernard Hill broke the link with his character, Yosser Hughes, in Boys from the black stuff. The next problem was after my arrival in this country as I tried to stick with the pronunciation with which I was then comfortable (especially as the U.S. pronunciation is usually reserved for... hairdressers, in the UK), but this resulted in mail addressed to Bur-nerd etc. I have given up and am now happy with my name in any form. Being called Bernie is quite rare.Patrick
...and you'll never guess what part of the world my Dad's folks are from. This was also my Dad's second name.Murray
One of those trans-Irish Sea surnames. Apparently I have relatives who built ships on the Clyde, relatives (maybe shipbuilders) from Belfast, while my Dad was from northern (small 'n') Ireland. The family's potential norman roots may also be revealed by my Dad's third name, "Pascal".
You know, I never once imagined your name to be pronounced "bur-NARD". To me, that's a dog, not a man.
My sister's first name is Susanne, being the contraction of the names from two relatives, Susan and Anne. This led to Susanne having to apologise on nearly every occasion and tell people that it was an 's' rather than a 'z' in the middle of her name (and probably contributed to her rapidly becoming "Sue").It is also clear that some names do not age well, or that are popular every now and again. My maternal grandmother is Beatrice. For years that was incredibly old-fashioned but it appears to be undergoing a revival. Her second name is Maude and her sister is Florence. I cannot recall meeting very many people with either name.
crackmonkey, you are, and always have been, my hero.
my grandfather's name was bernard too. mostly my grandmother called him bern.it's kind of a stately name.
i'm betting that someone in here has a mother named diane,but i think it's the most unfortunate name to bestow upon a child. only one diane i know of has ever pulled it off and that's diane keaton. i believe owning the last name keaton greatly increased her likelihood of having a successful name.
an article i read the other day talked about some girl who didn't receive a name until she was three,so her parents could find a name that suited her personality. until she was three she was called simply 'baby'+whatever her last name was.
interesting.
My aunt's name is Diane; most people call her Di. She pulled it off ok. I know what you mean, about the Diane thing, but I'm just letting you know that she did alright.
Grandfathers- Raymond and Harold
Grandmothers- Vivian and Geraldine
None of these names seem to be undergoing revitalization at the moment.
Yuppie parents naming their kids old-fashioned names kind of rubs me the wrong way...like rich people pushing poorer people out of Chicago neighborhoods in an effort to re-gentrify. As if by giving their kids names rich in history they are hoping to make their existences less shallow... I think that I am jaded by working with rich children, though...I may be imagining this trend or looking for meaning where none exists.
Rich parents throw around names like that a lot. I hate it most when it's a name I LIKE, that they just picked because it was COOL. Also, when they use a name from another language and mispronounce it.
Remember when that God damned cartoon came out, and suddenly every little kid was named "annustayzha"? Ugh.
i think that the names i want for my children are kind of cruel, in a frank zappa-naming-his-kids kind of way.
i want to name my firstborn 9.
as in the arabic numeral 9. i just like it, and if i were to change my name thats what it would be.
i also like the name sexton for a boy. that just popped in my head right now, and i liked the sound of it.
My parents picked my first name simply because they liked it, and although my mother's uncle has the same name, I am not named after him. I have two middle names, which are the names of my grandfathers. And I selected my Confirmation name for a really dumb reason. I'm trying to forget about that one.
I think you forgot to tell use what your two middle and confirmation names were, Paul.
Since you are supposed to be seeking inspiration from the saint whose name you choose I believe you should be able to swap it as your needs change. I took mine for all the wrong reasons and grew into it retrospectively as I did some background reading out of shear curiousity.My sister chose the confirmation name "Sebastian", which caused some consternation among the grown-ups (she is now married with children so I assume those people's worries have ceased). Since the only renditions of St. Sebastian I have seen are of him tied to a pillar and being shot full of arrows there may be more to this than meets the eye.
my fathers-father's name is hugo kuhl.
my dad's middle name is otto (O-toe not auto).
The shape shifter guy?
Odo of Cluny. He was a real badarse.
I just saw the following name on a form I had to approve: Candi Butts
Yes. Yes, I did.
Emma
Just another example of a wonderful name that has been exploited recently. It seems to me it was most popular about 4-5 years ago, possibly due to the Gweneth Paltrow movie of the Jane Austen novel. Of course, now that Rachel and Ross' baby is named Emma- I feel free to predict a second wave of Emma's sweeping the nation.
you just admitted that you watch Friends. (gotta give you a hard time, even though its no big deal). i hope that yuppies don't start naming their kids after dumb TV shows. oh shoot, i just realized that my mom named ME after a tv character. great.
We did that book in English class at school. Oh what a horrible book. I like the name though.I have been known to watch Friends on occasion. Sometimes it's funny. I can stop any time I like.
Did I mention that I live with and care for 47 high school girls? FRIENDS is a by-product of what I do. Fortunately, I have been able to avoid Felicity, Dawson's Creek, and 7th Heaven up til now....
As per Emma, oh sneakums, please don't say the book is horrible- say that it may be Jane Austen's least accessible reading (this or Mansfield Park which was not really at all like its new movie), but certainly very clever and fine in its own right.
See, the impression I got from Emma is that Austen spent ages on setting the scene and then got totally stuck, so she paired everyone up as best she could and sent the resulting mess off to her publisher. Having Emma and Mr. Knightley fall for each other always struck me as terribly contrived, not to mention the rich soil it leaves for amateur psychologists to plough. For example, isn't Mr. Knightley the sort of father one would wish for, rather than the whiny old fool that Emma's father is?I'll admit that my opinion of Emma is probably coloured by the circumstances under which I encountered it, but it was when mulling over the book some time after I had finished school that the above struck me.
... is entirely too popular here on the east coast already, and if that's the case, it'll only get moreso now. (Rachel and Ross hooked up again? Man it's been years since I watched Friends...) I know four Emma's that are Anna's age. I use family names, which are sometimes popular, sometimes not. Anna Carolyn isn't TOO popular these days, and Andrew Nathan isn't (though I dig Julian Andrew, Jay hates it - but I don't want a baby called Andy or Drew...) and Julia Catherine isn't either.I'm at a weird point where 6 of my friends are expecting and 3 of them are getting married, with the anticipation of kids in the future. So baby names are a major topic of discussion around here. It's amazing what some people think of to avoid naming their kid something their spouse likes.
my folks went with ryan, shane, and shannon, trying to get back to those scotch and irish roots y'know, which was just fine i guess - they sound alright together - but i've always felt ripped-off. i could have been jarrett wood henry richardson the IV. i think it would have been super-sweet to be the fourth of anything, much moreso a mouthful like that. i've more than half a mind to get it changed, if only to carry-on the line properly, and remove all question as to my firstborn son's name.
as for the other eight kids, i've always had this fetish for roman names, like lucius, titus, or rufus - although i'm tempted to go balls-out for something like aloysius or belisarius. lots of good ones for the ladies too, like lucilla, baebiana, sabina, portia, or violentilla.
be excellent to each other...
Our journey starts in lower England, somewhere between Exeter and London, five and a half centuries ago. Sometime during the War of the Roses, my family left England for France in order to avoid being drafted by their lord. I do not know what name they left England with, but it is believed that they were lower nobility. In France, they married into noble families in the northern town of Merle. Now, being the Duke of Merle tends to have a significant influence on one's name, so the duke, when surnames were chosen, chose Merle. Of course, if you flip ahead a few pages in your European history books, you'll see that France had a bloody revolution in which hundreds of nobles were beheaded. The Merles got out and went back to England where they anglicized the spelling of their name to 'Merrell'. A couple decades later, it is known that one Nathaniel Merrell left England with all his belongings and his wife (a Seymour, as in Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII), and landed in America. Fast forward about 170-190 years and I was born, Nathaniel Paul Merrell. Paul was my dad. He was named after Paul the apostle.When I was four, my dad died. My mom remarried a year later and my brother and I were formally adopted with the surname 'Riffe'. The Riffe family is German and has a coat-of-arms which is probably registered with every Deiter Herald in the Fatherland, as it appears to be quite archaic. I've never actually asked about it, but writing about it has made me curious.
Also, my paternal grandmother's name, Josephine "Josie", comes from a family tradition in her family. First-born sons were alternately named Arthur and Joseph. She was the first-born to her parents and it was time for a Joseph, so they named her Josephine. I do not know whether she has a brother named Joseph or not, but I do know she has a nephew named Arthur.
On the subject of "owning" one's name. I dated a girl from high school through the first couple of years of college named Inge (I know a lot of people who read this are of Scandinavian descent, and will probably think "What a fine Swedish name"... That may be the case, but she wasn't Swedish or of Swedish descent). She felt very dissociated from her name from a very young age. Two years ago at age 20, she had it legally changed to Katheryn. So it doesn't always happen that a person grows to feel that their name is who they are.
My niece is named Danika Jade, which causes me a fair amount of concern that she'll grow up to be a porn star. Yes, just another piece of evidence that I got most if not all the smarts in my family.Also, Todd's generally are pricks. I've tested this theory scientificly and it holds.
Of course, there wasn't much smarts to go around to begin with.
when my mom was fresh out of college (wheaton actuualy) qwith a sociology degree in the early 80;s, she worked at a group home in denver for troubled and runaway teen girls. these were actually the first tennage girls my infant eyes ever saw- yeah, stop smirking,) anyway, there was this girl who was born to mexican immigrants who had a name that kind of sounded mexican but not really... it was pronounced something like "fi-MAAL-ay." when asked how she got this name,she explained that her parents knew no english and that when she was born they were checking out of the hospital and her parents were handed a birth certificate which under the space for "name" was printed: "F-E-M-A-L-E" FEMALE! and thus this poor girl's legal name was "fe-ma-le, or, female."sorry 'bout the typos, i'm still limited to just one hand.
They say it takes one to know one...but I am holding my own comments in this situatution.
Wow, yeah. All the Todds I've known have been empire-building assholes, and morons to boot!
I have a student named Diamond. Yep, it's a boy.
I used to know a girl named J Diamond that ran around with M Manson... I'm glad I live in Maine.
There is a little baby who has just been put in foster care whose foster family attends my church. Her name is Destiny- which I think is a pretty stupid name, but in the context of her sad little life, it's like saying her destiny was to be physically abused (at least 6 broken bones in 8 months), neglected, and taken from her parents who obviously were not nice people... I will be pissed off if the legal system gives her back to her birthparents.
Here are a couple of winners from Von Steuben that take the all time worst name cake/sBitch Ho, no joke that was the poor girls name
Mai Kwatch Hung Kwatch
they were cousins, and added together let you have one hell of a time making fun of people
I actually knew a girl with that name in elementary school. That was her real, legal name.I guess I have grown into my name, though I hated it is a kid. Usually when I told people my name was Heidi, they would say, "Oh! That's my dog's name." At least I am named after a character from a book. "Heidi" was my mom's favorite book as a child. It is true you come to associate people with their names. I always disliked the name Jacob, but now that my six year old brother is a Jacob I love it.
It is odd, I never liked Todds either. It seemed they were always totally hoss. But now one of my favorite people is a Todd, so it just goes to show that you gotta take everyone on an individual basis.
I actually met a girl named Latrina one time. and that's how she spelled it.and speaking of horrible names for sitcom babies, I don't think anyone can top "Mad About You" - Mabel. And to make it worse, it was an acronym! (Mothers Always Bring Extra Love - and cheesy to boot!) the one failing of an otherwise superb show.
My sister was almost named Gretchen Kustusch, which is entitrely too German for my taste.
I think Enid is a particularly strange name
My last name is Stein. My mother originally wanted to name her firstborn son after his grandfather Franklin. It didn't take her too much time to realize that "Franklin Stein" would just be too mean, so she named him Mark instead. That didn't stop him from adopting the name "Markenstein" as a radio airname in college, though.
My boyfriend says: that if we have twin girls, which is a possibility, my being a twin and all--my grandpa was a twin--and fraternal twins, i.e. the non-identical kind, are more hereditary than identical, which are more just a sort of biological fluke,that he wants to name them Cara and Marsha. His last name is "Melo," pronounced "mellow." He totally means it too, which freaks me out. "CaraMelo" and "MarshaMelo." Dear God. According to MercuryMouth, "Be careful, Heidi. He'd do it, too."
I was reminded to post this because he and I got into a discussion about it just yesterday. "Can you imagine how they'd be TEASED?," he said gleefully. Here's to hoping I don't have twin girls. Not that I'd ever let him name them that if there were life left in my body.
Working at Walmart two cute little black boys were playing with in the toy section I worked in, until their mom called them to come back to her. "Silver, Mercury, c'mon we gotta go." I kid not.I always thought odd when people have two first names, like Brian Rick or Susan Kim. Similarly, there was a morning newscast back in Milwaukee hosted by David Davison, and Sally Severson. Repeated names like that are certainly memorable, but I'd rather not subject my child to that. No offense Pedro. If I named my daughter Melanie Melo, or Melissa Melo, she'd be MelMelo for life. I'd also like to note that my comments to Cinnamongirl about the twin names are a running gag, and not to be taken seriously.
My family has strange names. Everyone always asks, "Why is your sister named Jenny, when your name is Hernando?" (BTW: Unlike Pedro, I have no arrogance about my awful name). I have been called everything but my actual name: Geraldo, Alfonso, Armando, Orlando, Ernesto, Hernandez, and ever-present Fernando. My father is named Luis Hernando Melo, but in Colombia everyone goes by their middle name so he is essentially Hernando, too. My mom is Clotilde (Coqui for short), and my sis is Jennifer. The connection is eight letters in each name. Jen was named after my mom's best friend at the time.
I have a second cousin who's name is Ariel. Oh, yeah. Did I mention he's a male? Pronounced with the Spanish acent it's a masculine sounding name, but in English he's The Little Freakin' Mermaid. I have four aunts with "D" names. Dominga, Delinda, Delia, and Dermira. I could go on and on in this category, so I'll quit while I'm behind.
It was Bich Ho, not Bitch Ho, which is, Im sure, of absolutely NO consolation to her.
The last name Fukawa is pretty fucked up in a grade school taunt way, but i wasnt too upset with it. Geoffrey is pretty f'd up when you meet morons who have absolutely no clue how to pronounce it, or who dismiss you as George Szukala when you give your information over the phone. And my middle name, Jhary, is taken from a character in a 70s Sci-Fi novel series by Michael Moorcock, and can you guess that my parents were hippie arts majors?
On a better note, the names Gunther and Luke were the other finalists in the name game for me. Gunther needs no comment, Lucas or Luke would have opened me up for Look Fook taunts.
Hernando meant, "I have no arrogance about my awful name," not meaning anything about your name being awful, or your being arrogant about it. I spazzed out when I read that (not to mention I've always rather liked your name, Pedro II)--it was simply a case of improper syntax.And I love Hernando's name. I think it is awesome, first and last. I wish he liked it as much as I did. But a lot of people do call him "Fernando," even people who have known him a while. I don't think it's that hard of a name.
hernando melo is probably the greatest name i could think of.
hell will freeze over and the earth will waste in darkness for 500 years
if it is a girl i will name her "maria juana"
you'd be a totally awesome dad, and you should have kids. But don't name her that. Maria, great, but pick a different middle name. For her sake.In related news (i.e. homage to a fellow Iowan--my mom's from Council Bluffs, Dad from Omaha), I found this great picture today of me standing in front of this huge field of Iowa sunflowers. I look like Laura frickin' Ingalls Wilder. It was taken while driving between Colorado--North Park, a drive I made many times, on the side of the road.
My cat's name is Oscar, after Oscar Wilde, and I love his name, but not his wildness.
I didn't make the drive on the side of the road--in fact, I don't drive at all and was always a passenger. The PICTURE was taken on the side of the road.BTW, Denver to Chicago is a most boring drive.
about driving from chicago to denver, is the ten or so hours where you can see the mountains coming, but they never really get any bigger, they just loom there in the distance kinda taunting you. I love that, in a very self-inflicted pain kindof way.
I can't stop laughing at neoacerbitas post 5 posts up! That's a freakin' riot! Thank you Tom.
a friend of mine is a teacher and he had a student (a male student) named "Prettiest".
i have a cousin who has four nieces. when he was in the waiting room prior to one of them being born, he overheard a brief interaction that went something like this....[nurse enters room]
nurse: the family of the twin babies... uh... orangejello and lemonjello... can come in now.
giddy black woman in waiting room: ooh! those are my two grandkids, and it's orangejello [pronouced: o-RON-zhe-lo] and lemonjello [pronounced: le-MON-zhe-lo].
About a woman that craved each during the different pregnancies, but always dismissed it as an urban legend, wouldn't surprise me though.
well, a couple things are possible here. first of all, i wouldn't put it past my cousin to embellish to the point of putting himself at the scene. second, the mother may have heard that legend too, and named her twins after them.
Everytime I read the title of this entree I laugh. Everytime... And I am the one who invented it... At least I continue to amuse myself.
there's recent taco bell ad that features a mom that loved taco bell so much she named each of her children after some aspect of taco bell food. Of course, healty, respectable and choice ingredients weren't any of them
I hope she doesn't have more than 4 kids -- don't they only have four ingredients?
they added a fifth one, it's called "Chihuahua Juice" and I don't know what that means.
i know what it should mean
if they only have four ingredients, whats up with the 7-layer burrito...or are those just "layers" and not "ingredients."
all i know is taco bell is hella good.
and whopps, i've taken us completely off topic.
it's actually all one ingredient with 7 layers of it. But yes it is hella good.
4 is a little short-sighted.they use: tortillas (all flour, if i recall correctly), beef, steak, chicken, beans, rice, cheese (shredded and the velveeta-slime stuff), sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, lettuce, olives, onions... and i think thats it.
they have the worst guacamole in the world.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... worst guacaomle in the world.....
I want to name my son Lee, becasue of the Tenacious D song. If that's wrong I don't want to be right.
So do I, but it's after Lee from the Wood! God bless the Wood!!
Lee from the Wood love's the TenaciousD song 'Lee' (so do i).
Gotta get Lee on the Diner.
i share the same initials, CMK, with two of my sisters, Colleen Michele and Catherine Mary. kinda cool.
I knew a family in Maine that had used the same three initials for all their kids for four generations. EEH. When I knew them, the kids were Eric, Ethan, Emmett, Elise, and (insert youngest boy's E name here). And those were just the first names. The only one in the family that didn't fit the pattern was mom- cause it came from their father's side.
my sister-in-law is pregnant with her third baby - a boy - and his name will be nicolas. she asked her two kids (ages 4 and 3) what they thought of the name. kadi said she didn't really care either way. michael said he didn't like it, and he'd call him elmo.
That's Max Rockatanski's son's name in the original Mad Max.
As a teacher, I see new names all the time. Here are some fun ones from my classes this year.
Unusual girl names: DeeRay, Marisol, Elvira (call me Ashley), Logan, Chena, Alia (not pronounced like in Dune), Glenda, Shaeley, Denelle, Luzelena, Raylene, Rhiannon, Nadine, Rae, Rasheda, Yanelli, Yesenia, and Leandra
Unusual boy names: Mauricio, Orlando, Cevin, Santiago, Berts, Lloyd, Emilio, Victor, Giovanni, and Rock
Unusual last names: Gy0rgydeak, Ntifor0, Nw0numa, Sk0tchdopole, and Flock
i really like 'Rhiannon'. i wonder if her parents are Fleetwood Mac fans?
Names for dogs?
if it wasn't for dakota i might have a dog named: bootsy, bagheera, kinchla, thor, odin, rascal, chewie. actually, most of those are just random nicknames for my dog. also: wooterson, heavy d, beastmaster, poopmaster, etc.
buddy
scooby
rex (i can't resist)
blue
dixie
daisy
chewie is a good one.
spudz
we used to have a dog named Soren, after the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard, who was quoted as having said something along the lines of "people might name their dogs after me." regarding his posthumous level of 'fame'.
shadowI thought it funny.
... that Rock isn't the kid with the last name Flock, or his parents were just cruel.Can I ask a question? Which boys name do you prefer - Andrew Julian or Julian Andrew? If this baby turns out to be a boy (ultrasounds have been wrong, lots of times) we've no idea what to name him. Some people tell me Julian seems like a sissy name... and Andrew is a good one. But... I like Julian! Is it too sissyish?
Definitely sissyish. Also, note that Julian Andrew will inevitably become "Julie Andrews" when he hits school (or maybe she is too much before your time).One couple I knew used to destruction-test potential names for their unborn child. One of them would call out a name and the other would try and come up with the worst nickname the kid would be called in school. They had a somewhat religious bent so the names tended to be quite biblical. The wife thought she had hit upon something safe;
Wife: How about "Noah"!
Huusband: (without missing a beat) Ark boy!
if its one or the other, i agree with pedro. but those 2 names together are inviting the Julie Andrews comment no matter how you look at it.how about Moon Unit? oh wait, that's a girls' name.
Well, see, Julian is Jay's dad's first name. Andrew is my dad's middle name. Jay's dad's middle name is Ullman. My dad's first name is Frederick. And Frederick Stein isn't quite cuttin it. Anna is named the first names of our moms, Annette (which I changed to Anna) and Carolyn.So long story short (too late) I think we'd go with Andrew Julian (yeah, yeah. But I'll definitely take guy's word on the sissyish thing). But I'm still hoping it's a girl.
I had a cat at work in highschool that I named Mr. Peterson. She was a pretty and nice little gray cat. Yes I said she. I named her after the cat in one of these books. Also there's a dog that I live with named Finn. I think both are fine names.
...is the name of a guy whose donations I've been processing lately.
That whole destruction-test thing was quite possibly spawned by a mid-90s SNL skit with Nic (nee Nicholas) Cage. The punchline: his name was "Ahh-Swee-Pay", but jumbled as Asswipe.
His last name was Johnson, I recall.
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Do you ever want a different name? What & when? When I was in 6th grade I thought that "Bertha" was a pretty name... That probably belongs in the confession entree...
Bertha is pretty. Old fashioned, but pretty.I really dislike the name Jennifer. My birth name was Laurie. I'm not necessarily crazy about that one either.
I used to pretend my name was Rosalie (that was my grandmother's name). I always liked that name.
And hey, glad to see neither Anna nor Julia made the top 10, but they both make the top 100, well at least they did for 2002.
Logan for her boys name. I say it's fine because that's Wolverine's birth name in X-Men, so that's cool, but we don't have a girls name picked out yet, I like Emma, but it's too damn popular, I don't want to call my daughters name and have 4 girls turn their heads.
pregnant? I might be just forgetting something (mommy brain)
If my brother had turned out to be a girl, my parents had picked the name Sarah for him. 22 years later, he ended up marrying a Sarah. Awww...I really like the first part of my name - Lara Christine. It's the nasty-sounding Warg at the end that messes up the flow of things. Jeff's last name is the very cool-sounding Francois (fran-swah). Not that I would get hitched on the basis of a man's name alone, but everything sounds good with Francois.
I used to want my name to be Julie.
As for what I'd like to name my kids, I like Grace, Catherine, Eleanor (Ellie for short), Sophia, John, Aaron, Luke & Peter.
we are planning on going to do Mission work for a year in either Mexico or Argentina, twood be bad timing for an unexpected pregnancy. I would welcome it happily, I can't wait for kids, but it would be better to wait until we are back in the US. We just throw around baby names, future planning and all.
My son's name is "Aaron". I have a great uncle who's name was Aaron as well. I really like how the name "Aaron" looked on paper, how it sounded, etc. Aaron's middle name is "Reese". Everyone seems to think that should've been his first name but I disagree. I'm in favor of traditional first names. If we have another boy, I'm hoping for "Mark" as a first name, and "Rocky" as a middle name. As for a girl...I love the name "Anne".By the way, my name is B-E-R-N-I-E and I absolutely hate it. To me, the name conjures up an image of fat, greasy bloke stirring a pot of bean soup.
bernard was my grandfather's name. i really it. he was a dashing man with a fantastic sense of humor and a little twinkle in his eye. when i hear someone being called bernie i'm reverted to my young self hearing my grandmother adoringly speaking to my grandfather.no fat, greasy blokes and no soup.
Is your name -ie or -ard, like nutella? Just curious.
my name is strictly B-E-R-N-I-E, not Bernard. I am unofficially the 5th B.E.R.N.I.E. in my family, and I broke the trend when I named my son Aaron. I'm not so sure the grandparents were cool about that, but hey, Aaron is a family name too and I call the shots now!!!
Aaron is a name I think will wear well with time. I like to think of how an 80 year old would feel about the name. Can you imagine a Tiffany Ashlee or a Sierra Maddesen with her boobs hanging down past her belly button, all wrinkles with a walker??? I don't think so.Anne is a name I love. I used Anna because Anne Stein was too harsh, Anna softened it up. My mother's name is Annette, but I've said that before.
BigJ - yes, best not to get pregnant when you're not going to be in the US. Medical facilities and all - it's good to have quality healthcare around when going through it. Mission work sounds exciting and fun!
my little brother's name, is on the top of the list of most popular boy's names at the moment? I'm surprised. I ran across a lot of little Jacobs at the synagogue, but I just assumed it was because it was a Jewish school. I never liked the name but of course I love it now, as I associate it with my adorable bro.And just for the record, I have NEVER liked my first name. I feel my twin lucked out in that dept. But I'm used to it by now, I guess. And Bernie is a nice name. Honest.
Back in the home country it used to be that anyone on the television with the name "Bernard" was a (bad) comedian;
Bernard Bresslaw
Bernard Cribbins
Bernie Winters
Bernard Manning (dear oh dear)
Bernie Mac is a considerable improvement on all of them.
Bernard was the middleman character in the middleman department (The Ministry of Administrative Affairs) in Yes Minister.
Bernard turned out to be Nursie's real name in Blackadder.
The game show The Golden Shot used to have "Bernie The Bolt" who loaded the crossbow. Naturally I suffered badly at that time.
I used to read the playwright's name as George "Bernard" Shaw, thinking that he wanted to discard that boring George moniker.
My life was saved when Bernard Hill appeared as the character Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Black Stuff. He's done some great television series since. Being in The Two Towers probably hasn't done him any harm either.
Bernard Lee's role is pivotal in the better James Bond films.
I was glad that the hero in Still Life with Woodpecker was a Bernard - even if the name was only chosen so as to give him initials with brand recognition.
Yow! A quick look at the web reveals that Quatermass' first name was Bernard. I rule! Bernard is cool! This is only a step below finding out that Dr. Who's first name is Bernard.
I was named after my paternal grandfather.
Gets some of the best dry lines on the TT cast commentary off, taking over from where Sir Ian was the resident dry wit on the first film.
The top 100A little exhaustive, dontcha think? Julia's at 39, and Anna at 26. Egads!
I guess it's a little more popular than I thought, I like my name though, there aren't too many Isaac's out there.
Jack is 14th, that's a lot more popular than I would have guessed.
Yet, Caden, Brayden, Hayden, Landon, Xander and Chase are there.Man, I hope those guys all meet up and form a law firm.
Consider some of the early kings of England;
Egbert
Aethelwulf
Aethelbald
Aethelbert
Aethelred
Alfred
Edward
Athelstan
Edmund "the Magnificent"
Eadred
Eadwig (Edwy)
Edgar
Edmund
Svein
Canute
Harald
HardicanuteI bet Aethelbald used to suffer in the school playground... "How ya doin' BALDY!" "Ummm... I am king, you know."
I don't brake for Saxons.
Notice "Amy" and "Jennifer" failed to make the top 100 cut... In my school classes there were always at least 4 of us Amys and Jennifers, banding together in the bond of drab names...
But, really, I'd rather be bland than be "Makayla" or "Kennedy." Why are so many yuppies reproducing?
I am not on the list. don't know if I ever was...
Hooked on phonics worked for me!
i have a cousin named 'michaela'. pronounced the same.
I like "michaela" -- the way it's "supposed" to be spelt.
Meagan gets a lot of, well ghetto people in her office, and they have some very interesting names, and even if they have normal names they are spelled crazy. Qaitlin, Cristin, Quanda, who the hell starts names with a 'Q'? McKayla is a nice name, as long as your Irish enough to support it, I like Megan too, that's why I married one, of course she's Meagan, not Meghan, or Meaghan, or Megan, of course who the hell is actually Welsh anyway?
"michaela" is obviously a feminine version of michael, and not necessarily irish at all. Although Michaela McKayla would be a funny name.
When I hear it I am reminded of one of the characters in one of the stories in Kesey's Demon Box.
One of these days, Lara is going to make the top 100. I can feel it coming... there are more and more of us, and people hardly ever mispronounce my name anymore.
That baby names list is a crock. Not only is Emad not listed, but Awesomelope isn't either!
so last night Meagan says, "after we get back from mission work I want to try to have kids right away" I of course am all for this as I love kids and can't wait to have them. then it hits me, HOLY @$%# I'm going to be a father! I mean not right now, and not as hard as it will hit me when I hear she is pregnant, but the idea was there, and the trying will start in about 2 years, I mean damn!
Neale (a former Diner denizen) and his wife Amy had a baby on Saturday! Info and a picture are on their journal. Congratulations!
My brother and his wife had their second on August 5th. A baby girl, and, boy, is her name a stumper. Yedidyah Anna. Yedidyah--it's Hebrew; it's the feminine form of Jedidiah. It's pronouced Yah-deed-yah... I could ask, what were they thinking? But, really, that wouldn't get me anywhere... BTW- she's beautiful and healthy and I'll be meeting her at the end of the month. :)
But seeing as I have a baby due in Dec. I figured I'd blow the dust off of this entree.We saw and heard the heart bead of our 8 mm long baby. It really makes you think seeing something like that. I'm very excited to be a father, and not nearly as scared by it as I thought I would be, I think I'm actually ready.
Fook How are things going for you? Did all those years next to hot baked bread cook your swimmers? :)
Not another ultrasound for almost 2 months so there won't be anything too exciting. Now we're just trying to move out of our 1 bedroom into a 2 or 3 bedroom apartment. A big couple, 70 lb dog, and a newborn in a 1 bedroom apartment does not sound comfortable to me.
I heard from my uncle today that my cousin Janine (NPC '96) and her husband Chris had their second this weekend. 7lbs+ and healthy... Blessings all around!
You're a second cousin! Or is it cousin once removed? I can never remember.
nothing yet. it's getting annoying now. Maybe if we both enroll in school and become more immature and practice safe sex for years, and then slip up once, it'll work...just like last time!
It probably would too!
hot baked bread....
"What I want to know is, What are some of the worst names you have actually come across in real life?" - blvdgrlIs it a nod to heavy metal to nickname a baby girl with the middle name Clementine, "Clemmy"?
I'm still preoccupied with babies- but other peoples' babies at least.
My roommate knew a boy in school whose name was Guy. His mother gave him the name because it was the name of the French hero in a romance novel. Not too terrible so far. I can think of Guy Smiley.But it was not pronounced French (Gee) Or English (Guy)
It was pronouced Gooey! And it seemed no one had ever had the heart to enlighten the mother or the son!
guy is often interchangeable with guido. for example, guy fawkes, the famous british treasoner who also went by guido fawkes. i think it's a romance vs. germanic thing. the odd 'gooey' pronunciation of guy might be some kind of short form of guido, perhaps more acturately enscribed 'gwee'.as for unfortunate names, i've always though darrel (or any of its other spellings) was a poor choice. but this might just be because of a student teacher that sat in on one of my classes in middle, whose surname was eck, which made a combination approximating the word derelict.
I know a girl named lacy sluts (not how she spells it), and a teacher here at school has the last name which i believe would be translated as "little cow", he's a big guy. Of course when my family's name was anglicised its meaning changed from "wheel stream" to "christmas creek", of course it all depends on how you want to translate "strom".
welcome to this world, little baby. we love you and can't wait to meet you.
Congratulations to bigj & mrs. bigj!! I had the pleasure of seeing pictures of the little bundle of joy today thanks to grandma....she is absolutely beautiful! You all remain in my prayers as you enter this exciting new chapter in your lives!!
I think she's awefully beautiful too! :)Everything is going great, and there will be much meeting to be done. Right now she's a little boring, but very very cute. It's an amazing feeling to cuddle up with the new addition to my family.
no longer the imaginary baby! congrats Big J, and many blessings upon you [from what I hear about parenting, you're gonna need 'em!] and your wife and growing family..what a spectacular christmastime delivery!
on N+H #2. i tried calling tonight but got no answer.
Congrats on the new bambino!
we went to my work's Christmas party last night to show her off. We got lots of ooh's and aah's about how beautiful she is. It was just around the corner at the Museum of Science and Industry so we didn't think it was too far to go.It's fun to show her off. :)
on myspace. not mine, but search for baby wags. its in my friends if you can't find it.
I can't afford the $700 tag myself... but I'm willing to pitch in for this.Baggins- I only thought of you when I saw this:
It's from a a site called http://www.quiltsryche.com/
i could never think of spending $700 on a piece of fabric, though. no matter how cool.
so, we found last monday that the baby is a girl!we are planning on naming her Aria Ruth.
For the soon to be little Waggner, Lullabye Renditions of Metallica.