...my sister taught a girl in high school....no bull shit!

First Name: Tunnza
Last Name: Buggs

(parents...WTF were you thinking?)

I plan to give my kids names that are not too popular...but they also will not be wacky/weird.

Wildcats and I have a girls name picked out but I hate his favorite boy name and since I am pushing the baby out of my vagina I will not give in.

I wanted to name my Daughter Brandy Ann, but with my last name she would sound like a drink. We decided to use a name no one on either side had. We chose Stephanie...I forgot I have a 2nd cousin named Stephanie. (we come from a huge family on my Dad's side)

I like the name Clarence as it was my Dad's name. Dad kinda hated it, not so much the name but how he got it.. He was supposedly name after an Uncle. What actually happened was they let one of his older sisters name him...her boyfriend/husband/whatever at the time was named Clarence. (He went by Junior) His initials were CCC. Growing up they called him CC. One of his nieces couldn't say CC and called him WeeCee (We See). It later was shorted to Weece (like weeze) I never heard any one from his side of the family call him Clarence, always by Weecee or Weece. Now that he's gone I was called that a few times at our last family reunion.

justincredible;780292 wrote:For girls names I really like Jacqueline and Evelyn. My wife won't go for Jacqueline because there are already two women in my family with that name (grandma and cousin). She likes Evelyn but I don't think it's one she'll put on her list.

I like both of those...very pretty and classy.

Fab4Runner;780313 wrote:I like both of those...very pretty and classy.

I'm a big fan of old school names. One of our clients at work is a beverage company aimed at older people so I'm always looking through the database of people that have registered on the site for name ideas.

We wouldn't even need to have this discussion if people weren't so unbelievably dense. Does no one remember John Proctor in "The Crucible" at the very end? "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of those that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"

Rather than go on one of my standard tirades, I think that every hospital and maternity ward should provide a pamphlet that states the following.
"The name that you assign to your child does not belong to you, it belongs to them. When you're at work, you can refer to 'my son' or 'my daughter', but the kid is the one who has to deal with being named Quadaysha. The name that you select for your child can have an enormous impact on their future, from how their teachers perceive them right off the bat to how they deal with everyone from college admissions boards to employers to judges. What you think is trendy and cute, the child is likely to find embarrassing and annoying. You want grandchildren? Try to imagine one of them asking you about 'Uncle Aidan' or 'Aunt McKenzie'. That's what I thought.

Want an easy test? Take your last name, then plug the potential first name into the following conversation scenarios. For the sake of filling in blanks, let's say that your last name is Miller.
'Hello, I'm Dr. ______ Miller.'
'I'd like you to meet my lawyer, ______ Miller.'
'I think that ______ Miller played a real good game.'
'You're watching the 11 o'clock news. I'm _______ Miller.'
'And our keynote speaker is _______ Miller.'

Oh, and don't forget initials. Frederick Albert may seem lovely, but when your kid has to initial something and his classmates realize that Frederick Albert Green can be shortened to 'FAG', he will want to kill you."

justincredible;780326 wrote:I'm a big fan of old school names. One of our clients at work is a beverage company aimed at older people so I'm always looking through the database of people that have registered on the site for name ideas.

Of course you're a fan of old school names. Anyone who uses the word "beverage" is obviously obscenely old.

NNN;780328 wrote:Of course you're a fan of old school names. Anyone who uses the word "beverage" is obviously obscenely old.

I wasn't aware.

I went to school with an Appolonia.

Justin, my wife and I used that same system to come up with our first childs name. Worked out well as I don't hate my sons name, even if it's not the one I wanted.

My family has very strong and some traditional Italian names (mothers side) and I would love to do the same with my kids except I have my Irish fathers last name and it would just sound horrible.

Only slightly related, but my gandma's sister wouldn't marry a guy because of his last name. I thought that was ridiculous until she told me that her sisters name was June and his last name was Bug. Lol

My mom chose our first names and my dad picked our middle names. Not sure how fair that was but I am glad because he wanted to name me Montel.......SICK.

I do not understand why anyone named Richard would go by Dick. Just throwing that out there

Raw Dawgin' it;780350 wrote:I do not understand why anyone named Richard would go by Dick. Just throwing that out there

I agree. I also prefer Will over Bill.

I'd be curious whether the percentage of girls with these unusual names is higher among those whose vocation involves a pole than of the total population.

NNN;780327 wrote: Oh, and don't forget initials. Frederick Albert may seem lovely, but when your kid has to initial something and his classmates realize that Frederick Albert Green can be shortened to 'FAG', he will want to kill you."

Went to school with a kid name Franklin Allen Gleason. We probably wouldn't have figured anything out for a long time if he'd have just kept quiet, but not only was he not ashamed of his full name, he wore a work-type shirt (maybe like a mechanic would wear) to school many times with his initials on the pocket emblem. Yeah, he walked around with a nametag that said FAG in pretty calligraphy.

Raw Dawgin' it;780350 wrote:I do not understand why anyone named Richard would go by Dick. Just throwing that out there

A guy I had some business dealings with back in the 80s was named (swear to God) Richard Blower. I would have gone by Richard, for sure. He didn't.

My best friend's name is Richard but he goes by his middle name, Jay. His dad is also Richard Jay but goes by Rick.

a urologist in Toledo is named Richard Tapper, and he also goes by Dick...go figure

Raw Dawgin' it;780350 wrote:I do not understand why anyone named Richard would go by Dick. Just throwing that out there

Yeah, common names are just as easy to make fun of. Any "Richard" I know is either Dick, or Rich the Bitch, or P-Rick or Richard Head.

My top five list of male names I hate (and generally don't like people with that name):
1. Randy
2. Brad
3. Duh-wayne (all spellings)
4. Anything that ends with -ary/-arry - Larry, Gary, Harry
5. Mitch

Fab4Runner;780356 wrote:I agree. I also prefer Will over Bill.

as long as it's not billy, i'm okay with it for my name.

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dazedconfused;780430 wrote:as long as it's not billy, i'm okay with it for my name.

Yeah I don't dislike Bill...just like Will better.

Fab4Runner;780347 wrote:My mom chose our first names and my dad picked our middle names. Not sure how fair that was but I am glad because he wanted to name me Montel.......SICK.

My Grandma's middle name is Montell and that's the name she goes by instead of her first name. (Carrie)

I always forget how unfunny Dane Cook is.

We had a long list of criteria for picking out a name. Essentially, we wanted something that was a classic name that wouldn't go out of style, isn't hard to spell, doesn't have silent letters, isn't super common, and preferably is biblical. We also wanted to use a family middle name. We settled on Caleb Mitchell for our son, which meets the criteria. We also talked about Jacob Alexander or Joseph Alexander.

For female names, we prefer something that ends with an open vowel (Clara, Emma, Sophie) that is both classic and not super common (which strikes out most of our girl names, since now everyone is named Emma). We also want a name that isn't immediately recognizable as American (think, e.g., Sophie, which is not an American name but isn't weird here).

We also make sure that the name isn't something that the kid will regret 20 years from now when s/he gets a job; lots of names can be cute for kids but terrible for grown-ups who have a profession (I'm thinking of things like Daisy).