Baby Names - You're kidding Right???

[violinp]

It's not that bad to me. The American playwright Tennessee Williams comes to mind so it's not without precedent. At least she spelled it the way it's supposed to be spelled and didn't "u-neek" it up.

That wasn't his birth name, though - his birth name was Thomas Lanier Williams III. So it was a stage name, which makes a lot of difference to me. Interestingly, Mr. Williams was born in Mississippi. 

[Betelnut]

I don't mind it (Tennessee).  It's a lot better than most of the names on this thread.  And, as someone else mentioned, at least it is spelled correctly!

[Nikko-chan]

Saw one on Restaurant Stakeout last night that made me want to cry.

A young lady named Camera.

Why do people name their kids after objects?!

[BB-VA]

I don't mind it (Tennessee).  It's a lot better than most of the names on this thread.  And, as someone else mentioned, at least it is spelled correctly!

At least his middle name isn't Tuxedo.   

Link provided for the younguns out there:

http://www.toontracker.com/totaltv/tennesse.htm

[kareng57]

In the paper today (Births section):

De'Nallee.  A boy, yes, a boy.

Strangely enough, his siblings have more mainstream names:  Michael, Alycia, Bailey, and Kaitlyn.  I tried to figure out where the De'Nallee came from (combos of parent's name?) but couldn't seen anything in the article.

I wonder if it is one of those place of conception name after a trip to Denali National Park in Alaska, USA. But made more Unique with spelling.

I actually thought that too because that is the only pronunciation that I could up with.  But while Denali would be sort of a cool name, De'Nallee just isn't.  Poor kid.

Somehow I don't think that DS #1 would have been happy with any kind of dimunative  of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, either.  His dad always said that it was Newfoundland (way more colourful) but I knew...

[snowdragon]

Tandrah

[lovepickles]

Wizard

[snowdragon]

we had a kid register for a soccer team with the legal name of DorDor 

[Sahaira]

There was an obituary in the paper today for someone named Vendetta.

[Nikko-chan]

There was an obituary in the paper today for someone named Vendetta.

Was her nickname V? *slinks away*

[snowdragon]

I met a lady named Prussia today.  She was no wheres near old enough for even her parents to have been from there.

[Black Delphinium]

I met a lady named Prussia today.  She was no wheres near old enough for even her parents to have been from there.

Maybe they were from King of Prussia, in PA?

[JoW]

I met a lady named Prussia today.  She was no wheres near old enough for even her parents to have been from there.

Maybe they were from King of Prussia, in PA?

More likely her parents just like the way the name looks and sounds.  Or they think the place (city or country) is pretty.

I have a cousin named after a city her parents visited before she was born that her parents thought the city and the name were both pretty.  Funny thing - the name is Spanish but they pronounce it phonetically in English. 

No, I won't post her name.

[bansidhe]

ShanAnne. Pronounced like Shannon.

So why didn't they just name her Shannon? 

[RegionMom]

Or Shannan, so they could say, "Shannan, like Shannon, with two a's."