Baby Names - You're kidding Right???

[Tierrainney]

I met a new one today:

Chastine


Looking it up, it is a variation of Chastity. But I can imagine she spends a lot of time in her life correcting spelling and pronunciation as it looks more like Christine.

[Shopaholic]

Apparently it's a Hebrew name that means "wave of light"

http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Orgal.html

Perhaps an immigrant from somewhere that would be a "normal" name?

I live in Israel and speak fluent Hebrew. Or means light and Gal means wave, but I have never heard the word(s) Orgal together to make a word or expression.
The more correct Hebrew usage would be Gal-Or, but even then I've never seen it used as  a first name.
Both Orgal and Galor are used as a surname or as a business name.

I guess this is one of those times that parents like a name, then decide that it has some meaning in another language they do not know or understand (i.e. Suri Cruise - "princess in Hebrew"  . The most common usage is "go away")

[Addy]

Is it bad that as soon as I hear a bad name, I now rub my hands gleefully as I prepare my submission for E-Hell?

Heard parents calling their son today at an electronics store. Masonry. I don't know the spelling, but that is what they called him. Masonry.

[JonGirl]

Awhile ago my DS and I heard someone calling out for Griffyndor (sp?)
My son looked at me like  . He still laughs at it today.

[Betelnut]

Awhile ago my DS and I heard someone calling out for Griffyndor (sp?)
My son looked at me like  . He still laughs at it today.

I'm hoping that it is a nickname.  Like the real name is Griffin ...?

[Bethczar]

I saw the name Sevyn today. Which looks pretty cool, until you say it & realize it's a number.

[RegionMom]

Guy or girl, they could hang with Six, from the TV show Blossom.

[Hijinks]

Shaughanassee

There are no words.

[LB]

There were quite a few interesting names in this video claiming to be actual legal names of Utahns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfIehCrO4Zs

I'm from Utah and I don't doubt that a single one of those names is real.

I have at least 6 cousins with names beginning with "Mc."

There was a big trend for awhile where people put "Le" or "La" at the beginning of otherwise common names. When I was in school, I knew: LeDawn, LeDale, and LaKaylyn.

[Ambrosia Hino]

one of my DH's friends just had a little boy...Druid Harley

[Shea]

Encountered yesterday while visiting my parents in my small hippie hometown: a little boy called Zenith.

[BabylonSister]

I just thought I'd share this little story my aunt told me a few years ago:


In 1930 France, my maternal grandparents had their first child, a girl.  They called her Nicole.  Being devout Catholics, they went to see their local priest shortly after her birth to arrange her baptism.  The priest, however, totally refused to baptize her as Nicole because "that's not even a name!"  He accepted to baptize her under her middle name (which was her godmother's name) of Marie-Thérèse. That only concerned the Church, though, and my aunt has always gone by her legal name of Nicole. I would never have thought of Nicole as being a trendy, novelty name that got people's eyes rolling, but it must have been back then.

[Sharnita]

My guess is that it wasn't so much the presence of Nicole but maybe the absence of a saint's name with it?  I know of an elderly woman who was quite recently concerned to find out her great grandchild was getting a name completely devoid of a saint's name.  It wasn't always expected to be the first name but it was usually somewhere in there back in the day.  I have never heard of a priest nowadays urging it, at least around here , but I think some of the crowd who are old school still think that way.

[snowflake]

Shaughanassee

There are no words.

But there are gagging sounds.

[Bethczar]

My guess is that it wasn't so much the presence of Nicole but maybe the absence of a saint's name with it?  I know of an elderly woman who was quite recently concerned to find out her great grandchild was getting a name completely devoid of a saint's name.  It wasn't always expected to be the first name but it was usually somewhere in there back in the day.  I have never heard of a priest nowadays urging it, at least around here , but I think some of the crowd who are old school still think that way.

My mother's name is legally Greta Marion, but she was baptized Margaret Mary because the priest insisted on saint's names.