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thistlechaserI 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-04-20 05:07 pm (UTC)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...
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Date: 2011-04-20 05:16 pm (UTC)There was a post of some mother DEFENDING THIS IDEA IN ALL CAPS, how "original" names are the new normal, so no one will give a second look to "Heraeanna Goldensun Landolakes" in the future.
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...
Totally agreed. At best, these poor kids are going to have to pay for a name change. (Amusing story: My father was a bad person, so my sister decided to pay to get her last name changed to something else. A couple months later... she got married. Total waste of money!)
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Date: 2011-04-20 05:26 pm (UTC)Which is funny, since I've been noticing an influx in "old-fashioned" names lately. Things like Emma and Olivia are coming back, it seems. Which I'm all for, frankly. Nothing wrong with names like that, they manage to be "original" without being... unpronounceable. Or something out of a bad teenage fantasy novel.
P.S. I started reading this site. As cringe-worthy as it is, it's totally the laugh I needed today.
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Date: 2011-04-20 05:33 pm (UTC)Emma is such a pretty name! I'm with you, I like "old-fashioned" names spelled correctly.
I could see a future president or first lady with the name Emma. " kaesyn paige,(jason w/ a "k") " ? Not in a million years.
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Date: 2011-04-20 05:44 pm (UTC)"I love the Lord, am a LDS woman, and would like to name my baby Baby Jesus."
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Date: 2011-04-20 06:03 pm (UTC)"My last name is Tinkletop. For some reason my wife objects to naming our son Timothy, Timmy for short. I think it's a good, memorable name."
Um.
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Date: 2011-04-20 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-20 07:54 pm (UTC)