http://new.babynameindex.com/

There are some very unusual names on there.

RipHer2Shreds said:

I knew a girl named niveah in high school. i think the name predates the lotion.

psychodelicide said:

everhard?!?!? they actually suggest that you name a boy everhard?!?!? that's just craziness.

But the name that I truly think is fucked up is "Delaney". What an ugly name! It makes me think of a car, a Dodge Delaney or something. What's funny is that my parents used to know a doctor with the last name of Delaney. My mom's best friend's daughter named her youngest kid Delaney. I would hate to go through life with a fucked up name like that. She'd better learn to defend herself, because when she starts school, I suspect that she's going to endure a lot of teasing about her name, poor kid.

On a sort of related note, an acquaintance of mine from Ethiopia informed a friend of mine by the name of Jill that her name - as pronounced by somebody that speaks Amharic (a language spoken in Ethiopia) - is Amharic for "dumbass."

psychodelicide said:

I really don't think that is all that bad. Especially compared to a lot of the goofy ones listed here.

RipHer2Shreds said:

That reminds me of when my Spanish teacher (he's from Colombia) was shocked to find out that in English, the Lone Ranger's sidekick is named Tonto. In Spanish-speaking countries, I believe he was renamed "Toro".

sextonseven said:

Ugh, I think it's a HORRID name.

psychodelicide said:

Careful. Last time I made a comment like that, an Orger informed me that that was her daughter's name.

meow85 said:

You forgot "Chit'lin"

meow85 said:

My sister's a teacher. She claims to have taught L'emonjello & O'ranjello.

Damn, I wonder if she's a liar?

Speaking of weird names for your kids, I remember one time reading an interview about Prince's younger sister, Tyka. She has two boys, named "Sir" and "President".

psychodelicide said:

Seems that family's got a fetish for titles instead of proper names. I wonder if there are any more royalty or officials crawling around somewhwere besides Prince, President, and Sir?

Another pet peeve of mine about names: weird spellings. Picking some overused, overpopular name and spelling it strangely does not make the kid unique or an individual -it makes the kid's parents look illiterate. Kaitlyn is Catelin is Caitlynn is Khaytelin is K'tlin is.....the same damn name misspelled God knows how many times.

My mom teaches in the juvenile corrections system, and she had a female inmate whose name was Clitorus...i'm dead serious, no jokes, no lies, that was her name....now u know her mom had to be on crack...

psychodelicide said:

Seems that family's got a fetish for titles instead of proper names. I wonder if there are any more royalty or officials crawling around somewhwere besides Prince, President, and Sir?

PurpleJedi said:

"Max" makes me think of a little book my daughter has, about a little rabbit who needs a bath...

and Theodore- actually, made me think more of an ex-President... you know, the one who got the national parks going?

Heiress said:

it wasn't this bunny was it? My baby Max was named by his 2 big brothers after this bunny (they were watching Max and Ruby on TV when I asked them what we should call their baby brother when he came).

A sister in law is a nurse in North Carolina. One day this woman gave birth and saw that her child in the infant care section had the name tag "Female Jones". The mother thought that the hospital had named her baby and so called her daughter from then on "Fe-ma-le". That just cracked me up.

meow85 said:

Ya gotta wonder about that.

psychodelicide said:

I seem to remember hearing about a nephew or something named Knight...but that might just be my imagination.

These twins were in my Pastor's mother's class when she was a teacher:

Shampoo and Conditioner

Geritzla said:

WTF?

psychodelicide said:

That was my reaction! I can't really talk my Mom made up my name, she wanted it to be different and that;s just what I've got!
[Edited 2/9/06 10:02am]

Geritzla said:

Yeah, but at least she DID make it up and it sounds like it vould only be a name, its not like she looked around the bathroom and picked the coolest toiletries?!

ever hear about the lady that named her son " L'emonjello"..which ouf course is just Lemon Jello. (some say it's true, some say it's a myth)

but seriously, my black women LUV to put " D' " in fron of every damned name to make it sound exotic or foreign

D'angelo
D'Shon

and of course my middle name is D'Andre (my momma used to be ghetto in the 60's, but she's reformed now )

these poor childrne have to live with this name...

Pilot Inspektor
Kal-El
Apple


might as well just get them tattood at birth with a "Kick Me" sign on their backs

meow85 said:

That could very well be a possibility. I can also imagine a relative having the name of "Colonel" too.