My sister is having a baby ( which, coincidentally, either Molly Ringwold or Tori Spelling starred in) and has been thinking of baby names. I LOVE thinking of baby names, so I have been trying to help. I LOVE helping with baby names. I am currently credited with the naming of three babies:
1. The Jooj
2. My Pregnant Sister
3. Nayvor's baby.
Yes, the latter two really only count for their middle names*, and I didn't actually sign the birth certificates or make up the names or anything, but I was the big wheel that kept on turning, as they say.
The problem with helping M.P.S., middle name Murray, come up with names is that she only likes names that will lead her daughter to a life of waitressing. **
This being said, I am creating a list of names that I like, from which she can feel free to choose, as well as a list of some of the worst names I have ever heard, which may have come from another sister of mine, from another mother.***
Name I like:
Seabiscuit. Catchy, yet sophisticated
Name I don't like:
Any name featuring a last syllable that should be pronounced "ass" but is instead pronounced "eees." Like Cand-eees, instead of Candace, or Ber-Neees, instead of Ber-Nass.
Name I like:
Democratic president name Kennedy, although every Mormon kid in 2005 was named Kennedy
Name I don't like:
Republican president name Reagan, simply because that was Shakespeare's BAD sister. (special prizes to the namer of the good sister, and the play, Carina.)
Name I like:
Betty
Name I don't like:
Veronica. (That whore.)
Name that I like:
Popahonkas (That Indian Whore)
Name that I don't like:
Belle.
I know a girl who named her daughter "Serin." "Like the gas?" I asked. "No, like serindipity. A surprise that was unexpected, but turned out well in the end." She also had this baby to save her marriage. Good choices all around.
Some popular names in El Paso are:
Versace
Queen
Crucificio
Hortencia
Jason
No, No, No, No, and No.
That being said, if we ever have a girl again, I am leaning toward Alison Anne, one "l" and two "n"'s and an "e." The heir will, of course, be named Waldo. MPS is, slowly, being turned towards "Avery" which she says is better than being named Popahonkas...Or IS it?
*One of our favorite pasttimes is still giving Clara a middle name, such as Clara Popahonkas
**Like Beatrix Pearl
***Solliloquoy.
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OH OH OH I KNOW THIS.
King Lear!
The good one is Cordelia. Aka the name that Melanee desperately wanted to name Kate, but Cliff wouldn't agree. He especially wouldn't agree to calling her "Delia" because it wasn't a "real" name (even though, as a matter of fact, it was my great aunt's real name.)
The other bad one was Goneril, which, if you think about it, is what you should name a disease of a woman.
I have a thing for naming kids too. I'm not down with naming kids with a top ten name. I swore I'd never name a kid a top ten name (to avoid any of those late 70s "Amy" debacles.) William was on my short list for many personal reasons. *PHEW* It was number 11 the year he was born.
I love classic and/or old fashioned names (Alison Anne is just beautiful.)
I have a problem with unisex names, and naming little girls after dead presidents. It's a personal issue; I'm working through it.
I just remembered one of my "Serin" moments.
Ok, this might be skating on thin ice because I know this couple attended the clark's christmas party and I know we're all connected, but I'm going there anyway.
I asked a neighbor what the name of her new baby girl was and she said, "Lenin."
I said incredulously, "As in Vladimir Illyich?"
"No, Lennon" she said, somewhat offended, "As in John."
"Oh," I said.
The other way would have been so much more ballsier ;)
p.s. this is one of my favorite sites and always good for ideas or laughs, depending: http://www.wesclark.com/ubn/faves.html
p.p.s. I love "Avery."
Wow… names in El Paso – indicative of the good times you’re having there eh?
Ditto with Carina - Avery is a great name....LOVE Anne with the e. It looks more complete and I love the Anne of Green Gables books and TV series.
I love names... but boy when we were picking Kalea's name... the more names I had to go through and veto... wow.
Some I like and meanings:
GIRLS
Danielle (Perceptive)
Madeline(Privileged)
Mia (Wished-for)
Renee (Joyful)
Sidney (Righteous)
BOYS
Eaton (riverside village - not the meaning...but it sounds so Ivy League)
Emmett (hard worker)
Laurence (Laurel-crowned...and I liked Little Women)
Mitchell (form of Michael)
Sterling (genuine)
I've never liked the names that people give to girls that are boy names and vice versa. I've also never liked that unfortunate thing you find in Mormon/Utah culture where they try to feminize a boy name and it just sounds awful or something weird like LaDawn - you know...random capitalization and spelling just to make the name unique.
Carina – that site is hilarious. Perhaps they should hand a flyer to all couples that get married in the temple… or maybe they just have too many and run out of name ideas?
I like to think of Goneril as the MEDICATION for the disease.
Lennon Noonan, anyone?
I'm not familiar with the Amy debacle of the 70's...more the Jennifer thing. :)
Also, once, Jen & I were at Seven Peaks (an excellent girl's name) and Jen had taken Rae for a lap in the Lazy River (not a good boy's name) and came back and told me what she heard. Jen, do you remember this? You can have the punchline...I don't really remember the exact names...
The thing with names it that one bad experience can ruin them for you (this is one reason I'm grateful I didn't teach).
For example, if you name a girl Alison, I will have to cringe (unless you call her Ali). Sorry. I never knew an Alison until I went to BYU and then they were all stuck-up blonde girls. For me, that is SUCH a Mormon name.
I'm a big fan of family names...but not anyone too close. Make it a great-grandparent. Unless you're having a junior. I really wanted to name Crossley (a family name by the way) Craig Jr. and call him C.J., but Craig wouldn't have it.
"Kennedy go get MeShanDrin. It's time to go home."
M'ChanD'rin?
Miss Shandron?
Lavelle?
My cousin, bless his heart, named his newest daughter Elle. Last name? MacPhearson. Not a coincidence.
Clara Elle MacPhearson Eckton.
Wow!! That is all I can say. I just want white people to stop giving their children black names or made up names. Ewwww.
Cordelia is cute....I HATE boy names for girls. A new-ish trend is Ryan for a girl. It's weird. My friend Suzi has neices and nephews with the following names: Merek, Marquis, MODESTY (don't get me started), Teleya and Laughlan. Oh yeah, there is also a Michael, last name Jackson. No joke. Those children will never find personalized stickers.
I think that in the quest to be different, some folks loose sight of the purpose of a name. Not to make your child a freak, namely. As for naming your child after a supermodel,no pressure, right? One of our birthmoms named her baby Adonis. What if he was ugly? Derek actually considered Elway as a middle name for Cubby. Nope, what if he was a terrible athlete?
There are two Avery's in our ward and I actually had a companion named that. Cute. Our family rule is no last names as first names. We knew some kids in one family named Jefferson, Jackson, Ragen and Kennedy. No No No.
Don't get me started.......
Also, once I was with Lisa Clark at her playground by her house. There was a little girl with a name pronounced Bree-oh-sha.
When I asked her mom how she spelled it she said Brioche.
"Like the French specialty bread?" I asked (which is actually pronounced more like Bree-osh).
"That's bread?"
Oy!!!!
One of my sisters-in-law used to say that if she had a son she'd name him Aardwolf. I think it's up for grabs now if anyone wants it.
When people would ask us what we were going to name Jacob, Derek would always say "skeletor". That one is up for grabs too.
Bek, instead of Cordelia, Cliff was arguing for RYAN. So, your post maketh me laugh.
Aardwolf...can I spell it Aardwulf? That's far more appropriate. Also, may I use it for a girl? Thanks, in advance.
My favorite Mormon name mishaps.....
Wrigley (a girl)
My response, the first time that I heard this name: "Wriggly???!!!! Wriggly like a worm???!!!"
"No!! Wrigley... like the gum." Oh yah... cuz that makes sense....(and yes, by the way, she WAS named after the gum/Catalina island family)
Which brings me to some other mormon names....
Joe and I are sitting in church behind two cute little girls who's parents are on the stand. We had just moved to the ward. One turns to us and whispers "Hi! I'm Holland. That's cuz my dad went there on his mission." The other turns to me and says, "I'm Avalon... that's cuz my mom and dad... hmmm... I forget... but my name's Avalon!"
TMI...thanks kids....
Chris and I are naming all our children "C" names (another cute Moromn practice). Also, these names happen to be Porsche models -to remind the children of their father's absolute passion for cars.
Girls
Cayenne
Carrera
Boys
Cayman
Chris, Courtney, Cayenne, Carerra and Cayman Kendrick
Now that is LOVE.
My husband kept threatening me that he'd get up on the stand to bless our child and name it Rumplestilskin. Even though Kalea came out a girl... he said he'd just add an 'a' and do it anyway. For some reason he tried naming one of his siblings that when he was a kid and ... shocking... didn't succeed. ;-)
My dad is German and always threatened to name on of my sisters Wolfgang if it was a boy....when the boy finally came along he was born on my grandpa's birthday and got his name instead of Wolfie....can't do it.
We have a friend whose last name is Holland. Their first boy is named Hansen, his mom's maiden name. We LOVE the family (whose subsuquent kids are Peter and Jillian) but Hansen Holland? It sounds like a brand of cheese.
:-)
Wrigley? What are Melanee's girls named? Are there three now? I know the first one is Maggie..then I lost track of her.......
Courtney...the car names are AWESOME!!!!!
Magge, Kate, and boy on the way quite soon!
She's due the week that their new house is supposed to be finished, or something shockingly close like that.
CJ: May I suggest, Corolla (my car,) or even Carina, which I found out while in the E.U. is the name of a car made by Toyota.
I used to want to name my kids all after spices:
Ginger
Cayenne
Rosemary
Pepper
Then the spice girls got famous and W said no.
Had a friend who named their daughter Alexus, because that was the only way they's ever own one...
Knew a guy who named his girl Lexann because those plastic bins in which they keep babies at the hospital nursery are called 'lexans' and they thought it was cute.
Those same lexans are also used for:
Storing meat, sauces, and salad dressings for restaurants. It's what they make Nalgene bottles out of. Also, aircraft canopies, windscreens, and CDs/DVDs. It's a G.E. trademark name. Wonder who will sue who first?!
this is making me pee my pants! lexann? what about telsey? i know a girl (very sweet and well-meaning) who named her daughter telsey because she know a girl named KELSEY and she and her husband were both "t" names and wanted to get something cute going...
and my mom really had an aquaintance in h.s. named "rhea dyer." (do that one backwards, role call style...) yikes.
OH, my, I love this post! When I was with my mom for Christmas I went through her 300 cards (I'm not even joking) anyhoo, there was a little girl who's name was Boston (dad went to school at Harvard), yeah, except I think the naming part of his brain has been taken over because their last name is Bean! Are you kidding me? Boston Bean?
I personally always liked Pete and Repete for twin boys!!
A friend of mine moved to Nephi. Bad choice #1. She then named her son Maverick. (Acceptable in the likes of Nephi, but nevertheless bad choice #2.)
She should have just named him "Punching Bag" because that is what he will be with a name like Maverick.
With a name like Maverick I want to punch him.
Caffine...Maverick is bad enough, but being Maverick from Lehi is so, so much worse....
Oh, and the whole "naming your child after where they were concieved or born" thing is so Spice Girls 2000.
R
Oh, you guys. Mav will do just fine. He'll be best friends with Taj and date Chi'4llae (pronounced 'Shelly' - the 4 is silent).
A real life Peaches takes a stand!:
Peaches Geldof hates the ridiculous names parents call their children.
The beautiful daughter of Bob Geldof and late TV star Paula Yates - whose sisters are called Fifi, Pixie and Tiger Lily - claims her unusual name has caused her nothing but embarrassment throughout her life.
She revealed: "I hate ridiculous names. My weird name has haunted me all my life."
So, there you go...right from the fruit's mouth.
I wouldn't want my name to be Geldof, either.
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