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.

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[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.

[bricriu.livejournal.com]

Back in High School my bassoon instructor's name was Gay.

That was her full first name.

There used to be a man who lived here who had a name that, when I was 9, was the funniest thing ever.

Gaylord Fagerland.

I'm not even joking. That's how he was listed in the phone book.

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Gaylord Fagerland.

*head desk*

[bricriu.livejournal.com]

I know!!

You laugh, but you instantly feel bad for laughing!

He died about 10 or so years ago, I think he was in his 90s.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

"Gaylord Fagerland."

Oh, that poor poor man. 'Gaylord' used to be an insult, back when I was young! I personally had no idea what it meant though, don't know about the other kids.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall that Gay used to be a name... I guess that makes sense, since it originally only meant 'happy'. And poor woman! Only worse place to work with a name like that would be a prison...

Ugh! Bad luck with your son's name!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Yup, some of the older names are now quite out of fashion...like "Laurie" being a boy's name back around the turn of the century.

I had to take a quick look at that web site. Yikes. The poor children.