Baby Names - You're kidding Right???

[LazyDaisy]

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.

This brings back memories...I went to college in Utah and knew a LaDawn and a LaRae. There was even a community theater play called "Happy Valley" (I think...it was a while ago) and one of the main charaters was LaVerl (that I do remember).

[EmmaJ.]

Shaughanassee

There are no words.

But there are gagging sounds.

That made me laugh out loud! 

[ladyknight1]

We have sisters who work at the university. LaShawn and LaDonna.

[Syfygeek]

Via Facebook, just found out what a very distant relative named her child-
   
           Quartnee

And in my mind, that first part will never be Court, it will always be Quart. I bet her sister, Zauna feels better about her name now.

And now, as an after Christmas gift, the pronunciations, and yes the spellings were deliberate.

Quartnee = Cortney and Zauna = Shauna

[Betelnut]

Via Facebook, just found out what a very distant relative named her child-
   
           Quartnee

And in my mind, that first part will never be Court, it will always be Quart. I bet her sister, Zauna feels better about her name now.

And now, as an after Christmas gift, the pronunciations, and yes the spellings were deliberate.

Quartnee = Cortney and Zauna = Shauna

I was "mispronouncing" each name then, Quart-nee and Z-ana.  I would have never gotten "Shauna" from Zauna.  Those are two terrible spellings of relatively normal names.

[Elfmama]

Via Facebook, just found out what a very distant relative named her child-
   
           Quartnee

And in my mind, that first part will never be Court, it will always be Quart. I bet her sister, Zauna feels better about her name now.

And now, as an after Christmas gift, the pronunciations, and yes the spellings were deliberate.

Quartnee = Cortney and Zauna = Shauna

I was "mispronouncing" each name then, Quart-nee and Z-ana.  I would have never gotten "Shauna" from Zauna.  Those are two terrible spellings of relatively normal names.

I'm guessing that Quartnee's mother also calls the $.25 American coin a "corter." 

[BB-VA]

We have sisters who work at the university. LaShawn and LaDonna.

Reminds me of the James Thurber story where he mentions his housekeeper, Juanemma - whose mother loved the name Juanita so much that Juanemma had one sister named Juanita, as well as one named Juanhelen and one named Juangrace.

[JoW]

My father had a friend named Horace, with a middle name that was even worse, III.  That right, he was the 3rd generation with that horrible name.  He got a lot of pressure to name one of his sons Horace IV.  He had a spine and his sons have much more normal names. 

ETA
Oops.  I just did the math.  Horace III was born in about 1925.  So Horace Jr. was born about 1900, and Horace Senior was born about 1875.  Back then Horace was a very normal, reasonable name. 

Horace III's sons were born in about 1950.  Refusing to name one of them Horace IV makes perfect sense even if his older relatives didn't agree. 

[snowdragon]

my introduced me to friends of his named Mootz and Jammie. 
These names were written on the class attendance chart - so they are the kids legal names. Mootz is bad enough  but Jammie is pronounced like the nickname for pajamas - I have to wonder how much teasing this kid takes about his name. 

[BabylonSister]

LaDonna at least makes some sense. It means "the lady" in Italian.


I may have mentioned it before, but my parents had a friend named Vulgis. I don't think I have ever met someone else with that name. It was a family name, I think, but I felt bad for him. His brother had the perfectly nice name of Charles.

[Hijinks]

List of names from the last 3 months birth records at the local hospital here:

Brayten
Channing
Nyleigha
Kinzlee
Bailah
Brodereck
Blakely
Samariya
Rileen
Rilyn
Trice/Tryce
Manning
Tattum
Tenley
Cannyn
Daijah
Pryiah
Heinrich
Kross
Paygee
Ja'Niyah
Maesyn (female)
Baxton
King
Breah
Syer
Avarey/Avaree
Joebe
Kendryk
K'den
Aneekah
Arayah
Huntleigh
Payson (female)
Avarijana
Briony
Taein
Kien
Charolette (not a typo)
Ja'Mauri
Yuleeiivi
Vayda
Gershom
Anel-Faith
Zarriauna
Syhlis
Emarie
Kyruan
Ta'niya
Cloud

OTOH seeing some lovely classics (Beatrice, Mavis).  Boy names that are trending here are Levi and Bentley.

[Bethczar]

Maybe it's that I live in a state with a lot of Germans, but Heinrich doesn't seem that strange to me. I've seen listings for at least two boys named Otto in the last year.

Channing & Tattum seem pretty common, too. Maybe I'm just getting used to the craziness.

[bansidhe]

When my father was a boy, he encountered a couple of odd names. One was the name of a fellow pupil:
[redacted] Goodwilly

I'm catching up on this thread. Do you know if Goodwilly became an M.D.? One of the doctors where I used to work had that last name (and a silly first name nickname to go with it) and it can't be all that common.

[bansidhe]

Briony

That one is a legitimate older name that is now making a comeback.  It's a variation of the plant name bryony.

[Coruscation]

Maybe it's that I live in a state with a lot of Germans, but Heinrich doesn't seem that strange to me. I've seen listings for at least two boys named Otto in the last year.

Channing & Tattum seem pretty common, too. Maybe I'm just getting used to the craziness.

I think it depends on how you pronounce them. for instance, I would pronounce Tattum as Tat-tum because of the double T but based on other posts in this thread, the parents are likely to insist that it is pronounced Taytum.