I propose the following:
Sunshine
Any Month
Any Day of the Week
D'
Le
Todd
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Huh, can't edit the original post. That should be D'{Anything} and Le{Anything}.
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See, I actually kind of like Day of the Week names and Month names -- not that I'd necessarily want to use them for any purpose like naming pets or children.
(Hmm....this could be the ugly side of my love for words...)
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I still think Dakota is a stupid name, but it seems to be gaining in popularity.
edit- and all the last names become girls' first names must stop. No more McKennas, McKaylas, Baileys, or Peytons!
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I nominate the random use of "y." See: Deryck, Jayson, Melyssa, etc.
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and all the last names become girls' first names must stop. No more McKennas, McKaylas, Baileys, or Peytons!
Or Hunters, or Taylors, although you should be sure your McKaylas are not actually Michaelas.
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Ah, you must know this one, right?
Baby's Named A Bad, Bad Thing
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Beautiful!
One of those reminds me of this from the Boondocks cartoon:
"Kristal: The name's Kristal, you know like the Champagne.
Huey Freeman: Kristal, that sounds like a stripper name. Might you be a stripper, Kristal like the champagne?
Kristal: And what would you know about strippers little man?
Huey Freeman: Not much, but i do know they're usually named after liquor. "
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Jennifer told me that no more than three or four of the strippers she had met over the years had the same name as my daughter.
Which is good, um...I think.
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Yeah, fortunately if our daughter wants a career on the darkened stage, she's going to have to make up her own name. Neither "Emilena" not "Millie" is going to get her far in that business.
And before any of you say anything, the rock-throwing is good exercise, I like the sound of breaking glass, and the house needed ventilation anyway.
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I confess a lingering fondness for the names my 13-year-old self picked out -- Basil and Ceridwin.
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I also have been fond of "Basil" lately.
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I also have been fond of "Basil" lately.
As in "No, officer, that's basil!"?
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*chuckle* - No.
But I think the name I like is pronounced "BAZ-il" -- not like the herb. :)
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I am too culturally sensitive to call for an outright banning, but I think parents who give their children French names with phonetic spellings should at least have to undergo a review process to ensure they are making a fully informed choice. For example, Shantay is kind of pretty, but Antwan needs to be fixed.
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A family friend of ours teaches "high risk" kids in Houston. There's a girl at her school named, I kid you not, Shitass. It's supposed to be pronounced SHI'taz, but seroiusly.
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On the one hand, it's easy to laugh at other people's choices. I like "Roxelana" - I think it's different and interesting without being ridiculous (no Ks or Ys or apostrophes) and lends itself to a couple nicknames. It's also a real historical name: she was the wife of Suleyman the Magnificent. My GF, on the other hand, was horrified to learn that I would ever consider naming a daughter after someone who had most of her own sons assassinated... Then again, there is also the fact that I have a very stodgy Eastern European/Germanic kind of last name which does not go at all well with "Roxelana", but I'd change it before I'd inflict it on anybody anyway.
I'm still ticked off by my real first name (Jeremiah) which is why I usually go by JD. It's not even that unusual, not unless you are a complete illiterate without any knowledge of the Bible, which describes most people these days, but I hated going through childhood having to explain it and spell and re-spell it. You would not believe how often I introduce myself and people say "...Joe Meyer?" Trust me, if I said "Joe Meyer", you wouldn't have to ask. I still run into a lot of people who say, "Oh, but it's so beautiful!" Well, YOU fucking live with it, then. Even my parents couldn't be bothered to say the whole damn thing, and they chose it!
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I have a fairly common, but not too common first name, and a totally normal middle name (Andrew). I am a lucky man. Sure, my last name might sound an awful lot like a common household appliance, but there are worse things. Jeremiah would be rough to live with, I imagine. My paternal grandfather was named Elford...none of us can figure that one out.
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Whenever I catch so much as a glimpse of pr0n, I suddenly turn into a sex-crazed barbarian, slashing and clawing my way through whatever and whomever until I find something to put my weiner into. -- Taktix
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My name is "Eric". Simple, no?
No.
If I don't spell it, people think it's Erik or Erick, or else Aric, Aaron, Erin, or even Harry. Seriously.
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Eric, I hear you. "My name is six letters long and sounds like a superhero." If I don't say those exact words then forget it, they will never get my name right. FSM help me if they have seen it spelled out before hearing me pronounce it.
Anyhoo, back to the subject at hand. My sister-in-law. She should be banned from naming anything. Her three children are named, in order of birth, sex listed first:
boy - Orion Siddhartha
girl - Athena Nebula
girl - Reign Truth
Number two was supposed to have been Anahita Sativa, and now you know how she derived the names.
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Wow, those are awful.
My bf works in student loan applications. He has seen the worst possible names ever on applications. Names like...
...Rose of Sharon...
...[first name a U.S. City] [last name a U.S. City]...
...Pretty...
...Princess...
...Beautiful...
He could single-handedly pwn this thread with the names he sees on those applications.
...You can't help but wonder what kind of personal hell an ugly woman would suffer through with the name of "Beautiful" or "Pretty".
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If you have a last name of Smith, Jones, or Johnson, do not under any circumstances name your children John, David, Tom, Daniel, Richard, or James. I've known far too many Tom Joneses, David Smiths, Dan Smiths, and - I shit you not - Dick Johnsons. At one point I worked for a 35,000 employee company, and there were 11 David Smiths on the email list.
Also, I'm going to put a warning on Jackson. It was a good way to not name your kid John but still call them Jack, but it's getting out of hand. I now know 3 kids, a grown man, and a dog, all named Jackson. Now the man is over 70, so he gets a pass, and one of the kids is his great nephew and godson, so the kid gets a pass too. I'm not casting aspersions, but I do think that Jackson should be an unusual name, so we need to not let this get to fad status. I'm looking at you, world.
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...[first name a U.S. City] [last name a U.S. City]...
Oh, and anyone in Texas that names their kids after Texas cities and towns, quitit. I know far too many Dallases, Tylers, Austins, Terrels, and White Settlements. Lay off.
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Your real name is Batman? Awesome!
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You know more than one person named White Settlement?! I'd think naming your kid White anything would be an iffy move. Now, "Blue Earth", that would be a kind of cool hippie-ish city name.
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Or the hippies who let their kid go by "Baby Girl" until the kid comes up with a name. That's kooky.
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How about "Crested Butte"?
On that same note, there was a professor at my alma mater (who, thank bog, I didn't have, since I would've spent the whole semester laughing at his name) whose last name was "Butt". If I were him, I wouldn't give a whit about the familial tradition and carrying on the family name. I would change my name immediately.
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I don't get the whole "use a surname as a given name" thing in general.
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Entertaining names from my family and friends:
Dakota
JaeCie
Braeden
Kamden Jade (a boy's name)
Avery Nightingale (again, a boy)
Summer Day and her sister Sunny June Day
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My brother used to work for a guy named Richard Wacker -- who chose to go by the nickname of Dick.
True story.
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Recently dead former publisher of the HouChron was named Richard James Vaugh Johnson, all of his friends called him RJVJ or Dick. But, yes, he too was a Dick Johnson.
One of my good friends from college goes by Pete...but his real name is Richard, last name Hunt. His parents named him Dick Hunt. The bastards.
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Whenever I catch so much as a glimpse of pr0n, I suddenly turn into a sex-crazed barbarian, slashing and clawing my way through whatever and whomever until I find something to put my weiner into. -- Taktix
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Uhoh.
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This one is along the lines of Lunchstealer's comment. For FSM's sake, if your last name is Gonzolez, Rodriquez, Vasquez or any other hispanic surname do not, under any circumstances, entertain the idea of Jose, Juan, Juanita, Julio, Jesus, Maria, Mercedes or Rosa, particularly if you live in a large Hispanic community like Miami or Los Angeles. My wife used to work as an Abstractor (Realty Title Researcher) in the state of Florida. When you are looking to obtain a house loan it is the Abstractor's job to determine if you have any outstanding debts or liens on your property or if you have back taxes. In a city where 60% of the population is hispanic when your name is Maria Gonzalez you might as well hang up the idea of getting that loan becuase it is damn near impossible to determine the correct Maria Gonzalez from public records.
Give it a shot here. I just did a search for Gonzalez, Maria and had 734 Properties returned. In contrast, only 31 property records were returned for Smith, John.
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The owner of one of our local car dealerships was named Dick Shaker.
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Dick Trickle has supposedly said, "I don't see what everybody thinks is so damn funny about my name."
Hey, this is funny! I never knew this - he had cigarette lighters installed in his race cars and drilled a hole in his helmet so he could smoke through it.
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I probably already told this story, but the hell with it.
In a speech class I was taking in Business school, there was your standard class speech one had to do. As students came in on speech day, they wrote their names in the time slots they wanted. One Korean lady came in and wrote her full name on the board "Mi Suk Cox".
I spent half the class wondering if her name was really pronounced the way it was spelled. When it was finally her turn, she went out of her way (it seemed to me) to state her full name which was, honest-to-god, pronounced like "Me suck cocks".
To everyone's credit, there was not even so much as a peep or uncomfortable look out of anyone. Pretty much everyone in the class would be someone you would classify as "an adult", but still, I was pretty impressed.
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Stupid double-posting. Bah and feh!
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How could he not know?!
HOW!?
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I don't know, MG.
Maybe it was a mark of arrogance -- he was a Dick Wacker, and he didn't care who knew it.
Or maybe he truly was just socially oblivious -- because he was in IT and all. :)
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Former POW Jessica Lynch has named her newborn daughter Dakota
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