The "Won't somebody think of the children?" quote fits here.

[thistlechaser]

I visited the Bad Baby Names site (a collection of quotes from a board about naming your new baby) thinking it would be funny, but instead it's just so so painful and cringe-worthy. I worry about people with this little sense having babies.

Have three examples:

What is a nature realated name for a boy? I am pregnant with a boy and I already have four girls. My girls are Summer Skies, Autumn Night, April Shower, and Spring Flower. Please help I am due in November.


I am not pregnant yet but thinking about names...I just thought of the name Lourdes Solange. This baby will be 75% latina and 15% european :)


Which name do you think?
Brecklyn Kate
OR
Ridgely Mae
I'm torn between the 2.

Comments

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

My girls are Summer Skies, Autumn Night, April Shower, and Spring Flower. Please help I am due in November.

I'm half laughing, half just... shaking my head. Alex and I had a conversation about this just the other day. I find it amusing that people have this desire to give their kids a "unique" and "special" name, without thinking about what it's going to be like for the poor kid growing up saddled with such a monstrosity.

Heck, we even talked about those snap judgements people tend to make based on just names. A name tends to reflect back on your parents, which in turn says something about you because... well, you were raised by them. This statement may or may not be true, but let's face it, who doesn't process it like this in their heads without really meaning to? If I met a kid with a name like "Brecklyn" I'd be hard pressed not to think their parents are flipping retards and that they might be a wee bit off themselves...

[penwyn.livejournal.com]

Ughugh I love and hate that website because it would be awesome if they weren't serious.

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

Now see, I love nature names so I think some of those are awesome.

Then again my favorite name is Briar.

[bricriu.livejournal.com]

Before Twilight became popular, my wife's daughter had her first kid.

Initially, she wanted to name her daughter "Bella Donna". She couldn't see how that would possibly get her daughter teased all through school, but eventually backed down after the, "Look, save the cutesy, clever names for a cat or dog or other pet, this is a PERSON you're naming."

She still liked Bella, which is a perfectly okay name (or was before Twilight), and went with Bella but dropped Donna as the middle name.

Now?

Now she wishes she hadn't.

In her own words, "I don't even fucking LIKE Twilight and EVERYONE asks me if IN named her after that stupid book!"

Hindsight...:D

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Some of them sound like they'd be pretty good for RP/MMO characters, but for actual people? Yeah. ^^;

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

I worked with a woman named "Gay". Not even Gayle, just Gay. She worked the front desk in a HIGH SCHOOL office...oooh yeah, lots and lots of inane juvenile jokes. Apparently Gay was a perfectly fine woman's name back in the day.

I named my son what I thought was a perfectly normal, if slightly uncommon name. Unfortunately a popular TV star named their kid the same thing right about the same time, and now it is a "trendy" name that people seem to associate with being snooty spoiled rich kid...sigh.

[quistie.livejournal.com]

Um...I'm not sure if someone already brought this up and math isn't my strong suit, but how do you get to be 15% European? For that matter, how do you get to be 15% of anything?

I am torn between Brecklyn Kate and Ridgely Mae as well. Which one is worse?

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Half of those names only have 1 of 2 career paths. 1, stripper. 2, porn star. Although I'd be rolling if April Showers happened to be friends with May Flowers. I can imagine the line now: "Hey April Showers, call up May Flowers and bring her here!" priceless.

My rule of thumb has generally been that the middle name(s) are for being creative and such. If you want to name your kid some made up shit like Hergalbergal or something, use that as a middle name and just call him Dave or something.

Also, Twilight destroyed one of my great child names from my imaginary future kid. I was going to name him New, so his full name would be New Moon. But NOOOOOOO Twilight had to go fuck that one up.