you named your kid what???
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I was looking at lists of kids names once in my old school and there was a kid called Romello Shakespeare. wtf?0
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I knew a Lily Padd once. Her brother was Maxwell Padd.
Worked with a Holy Maan once.
Worked with a Dragon Satan as well.
Almost forgot we had a customer with the name Starla (Starr) Child.0 -
A colleague's wife works in a hospital and had to talk a new mother out of calling her daughter "chlamydia", which she thought was a flower!0
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I work with a William Williams
Best friends dad was Pete Peters
The guy who was the janitor of my high school was a Pete Peters!0 -
****ona(pronounced "*kitten*-on-ya"),
tequilla & margarita(not kidding, and they are twin sisters),
Afilia Bottom(pronounces "i'll-feel-ya bottom"),
Rytchus,
Pluysenta(pronounced "placenta")
Bufanaquishria,
Elephantisha,
la-uh(pronounced "luh-dash-uh"),
Unidastazovamerikaliqua(yeah i still cant pronounce this one lol we just call her "you-ee")0 -
What I don't get is people using unusual spellings for a name that already has a standard spelling. It just makes everyone's life harder. It's really stupid..
Yes! My name is Casey. Simple, standard, traditional spelling. But because dumb parents everywhere had to get cute and start spelling it with a K or -ie instead of -ey, my perfectly normal name is constantly being spelled in ways that makes me want to punch people. Every time I go to Starbucks, it never fails that a male barista will spell my name the right way without me having to tell him, but the chicks always spell it "Kacey" or "Casie" or (the most ridiculous attempt yet) "Kayci." It drives me absolutely nuts. I have actually started using fake names like Tiffany or Angela. They don't always spell those right either, but since that's not really my name, it doesn't bother me as much.
Totally feel for you on that. My girlfriend is called Jane. A more 'normal' name you could scarcely think of. Even so, a certain pizza takeaway near our old flat used to constantly spell it Jayne and once even put James! That went down well as you can imagine!
I would always assume the spelling is the most common/traditional one and that if it is not, the person will tell me so. I'm sure people called Kayci would be far less offended at it being written Casey, especially if they didn't spell it out at the time.
why does this matter so much? why can't people accept others' decisions to be unique and do whatever they want? the "most common/traditional" or "standard" way of spelling a name is usually considered the "best" by ethnocentric people. the problem i see is that many white Americans are terribly dismissive of trying to spell and/or pronounce names that are not the "most common/traditional" Eurocentric names. and people wonder why the rest of the world thinks we're so ignorant in the U.S.
sure, these posts are all in fun, but i think we should also be reminded of the assumptions about people's abilities and intelligence that go into our judgements based on their names. what's so "stupid" about spelling Kayci in that manner?
ahahahaha! there has to be one in every crowed!!! this is just a fun post...people misspell and mispronounce my name ALL the time and i dont get butt hurt about it...clam down this is just for fun!:flowerforyou:0 -
Zephaniah Butsco and Diarrhea (pronounced die-a-ray-a....) if my name was diarrhea I would certainly change it. My name is MacKenzie and I have been told it is weird but I don't think it is. And I don't care how silly some may find it but I love the name Sunshine for a girl. But my fiance is in disagreement, lol.0
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My uncle just recently (about a two years ago) found out he had a son and the mother named him Stone. Can you imagine?
"Yeah I'm getting Stone this weekend." "Dude, you shouldn't go around telling people that..." Lol.
When he got custody, we all started calling him Mikey (middle name is Michael) and he's still young so he's adjusted very well to it, thank god.0 -
CRAZIEST name I have ever come across working in the Emergency Room we see LOTS OF PEOPLE...
brace yourself.... make sure your sitting down...
Godsgift ( 1 word no spaces )
REALLY! reaaaaaalllly! OK coool...
i think the baby's middle name was like Treasure or Miracle.0 -
Dorcas is actually a Biblical name and if I remember correctly, God changed her name to Tabitha. But yeah, I remember thinking in Sunday School, "Even GOD thought the parents were dumb for naming her that." xDI once conducted business with a lady named Dorcas Bushrod.0 -
My oldest son had a classmate named Blanca (white). She was black. I always felt a little sorry for her.
My name is Bianca and it means white as well and I'm black.
So what does that suppose to mean? Black people can have good names? We're suppose to have black names like "Shuntay" and "Kiesha"? Oh better yet we're suppose to have names like Negro because it matches our color?
I think bianca is a gorgeous name, I've always loved it. Blanca and Bianca both mean white, but are also just names! My name means handsome, most names technically mean something but they are also just names.0 -
I don't think they were trying to be racist. I think they were just commenting on the irony of it. Like my cousin has a pet turtle named Fluffy.My oldest son had a classmate named Blanca (white). She was black. I always felt a little sorry for her.
My name is Bianca and it means white as well and I'm black.
So what does that suppose to mean? Black people can have good names? We're suppose to have black names like "Shuntay" and "Kiesha"? Oh better yet we're suppose to have names like Negro because it matches our color?0 -
I think I can top all of you....Gruvy nipples, freakus palekus, and ocean moon...all people that lived in the city I grew up in. Only in CA! lol0
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Couple of contacts for a company I worked for:
1. Elvis - okay not a strange one but we had some fun with the tannoy everytime he "left the building"
2. *kitten* Farqhuar - seriously - WTF :laugh:0 -
chezarne caffteine, honae (hon-nay) haylin, bonyo, dusty, forrestor, tyranny, storm, zion, claudeland,babe, ninfa, ganesh, davini, bik (bee-kay) siutasia(see-you-tayzha) hakei, tuva, po, taoeo (tay-o) are all people i have known. I work with a lot of samoans, tongans and philipino people so strange names don't really shock me these days! haha!0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCvfW82yOCw ..... COPE THE LINK AND WATCH this video is really great for this topic & its soooo funny its a guy called kinsley and the video is called YOUR BABY'S NAME IS RIDICULOUS.. before you watch it it dose contain swear words so if you take offence to them i advise you not to watch but if you have a sense of humour watch it because its just hilarious!!!! 0 -
Went to school with a girl named "Ash-oh-lee" except it was spelled a s s h o l e0
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I know a Gitane (french cigarette), a Caslon (like the typeface), and a Merlot (like the wine). All girls.0
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I don't think they were trying to be racist. I think they were just commenting on the irony of it. Like my cousin has a pet turtle named Fluffy.My oldest son had a classmate named Blanca (white). She was black. I always felt a little sorry for her.
My name is Bianca and it means white as well and I'm black.
So what does that suppose to mean? Black people can have good names? We're suppose to have black names like "Shuntay" and "Kiesha"? Oh better yet we're suppose to have names like Negro because it matches our color?
^^ Exactly. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. And I thought Bianca means "Pure".0 -
A friend named her child Myworld!! Come on, why would you do that, trust me we did try to tell her NO!! but what can one do.0
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why does this matter so much? why can't people accept others' decisions to be unique and do whatever they want? the "most common/traditional" or "standard" way of spelling a name is usually considered the "best" by ethnocentric people. the problem i see is that many white Americans are terribly dismissive of trying to spell and/or pronounce names that are not the "most common/traditional" Eurocentric names. and people wonder why the rest of the world thinks we're so ignorant in the U.S.
sure, these posts are all in fun, but i think we should also be reminded of the assumptions about people's abilities and intelligence that go into our judgements based on their names. what's so "stupid" about spelling Kayci in that manner?
Wow, where to start. No one said it was 'stupid' nor did they make any assumptions about people with those names. If you have to be all serious on a jokey thread the real point is that a lot of people name their kids in unusual ways simply to be unique. That is very unfair on the kid for the reasons you point out; People judge them for it.
If a parent wants to be unique they should change their OWN name. I fail to believe that these unusual spellings and bizarre names are for any reason other than 'being different' for the sake of it.
Oh and I am NOT American, thank you very much.
lol...thank you. I'm NOT American either and agree with what you said.0 -
I work in the education system and one of our secretaries actually has a list of names that we have come across! For example: Flame, Chardonnay, ****head, Imunique (pronounced I'm unique), Desire, Sparkle, Princess, Sky Blue, ... there are probably at least 50 names on the list and we keep adding more!
Someone named their kid ****head?!?! Seriously? lol0 -
The geography teacher at my high school was Richard Moore. I don't think I need to spell out what we called him behind his back. :laugh:0
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Growing up there was a boy that lived across the street named Starter.....0
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I have a cousin named Keeley. She is married to a man named Ian so they named their son Keian. I think the mash up of names is great!!!0
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Well first off I think unique names are beautiful as long as they aren't silly. My Mayor is named Nipper Kettle, I'm sure he's a great guy buy man what a silly name.
I named my kids
Jenessa
Blaze
Shade
I have a friend named Jade who named her son Onyx0 -
that's why I waited to my kids were old enough to pick their name. This way they won't be saddled with one they don't like.
So far, my little Megatron and Shredder are doing just fine in life.0 -
My mom went to school with a girl named Fonda d*cks. True story brah.0
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A lady used to drop her kids off where I work and they were named (all girls), Spring, River, Lake and Ocean.0
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A nurse I know in the baby ICU section had someone want to name her daughter "Etoh" because she saw it on her chart and it "sounded pretty"
ETOH is a medical code used to indicate that the mother was intoxicated when she came in to deliver :noway:0
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