Baby Names - You're kidding Right???

[Moonie]

Had a gentleman in the office last week. First and last names perfectly normal, but I don't remember them, so I'll manufacture some....his name was....John Moonstar Smith.   Yep....Moonstar...right there on his ID card. I commented on his unique middle name, and the woman with him piped up...."I'm the one who gave him that name."  All I could say was, "Well, it's certainly unique." 

[bansidhe]

Amphelady. 

That name just turned up in my family tree. It appears that someone just made it up, as just the one person turns up when I do a Google search on the name. Her siblings were Joachim, Elizabeth, Christopher, Mary, and William.

[ladyknight1]

I found two amazing names today: (slightly changed to protect the source)

LaShantaNette

Sabrina Victoria-Alexandra Monroe-Sebastian (and that is her maiden name)

[Elfmama]

Amphelady. 

That name just turned up in my family tree. It appears that someone just made it up, as just the one person turns up when I do a Google search on the name. Her siblings were Joachim, Elizabeth, Christopher, Mary, and William.

I have a Waitstill in my family tree.  And again, her sibs all had ordinary names, like Sarah and Ann and Elizabeth.

[KenveeB]

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.

It's supposed to be spelled Tatum, and the pronunciation makes sense. (As in the actor Channing Tatum.) The double t should indeed make it be pronounced Tat-tum, but people are just misspelling it without realizing that changes the pronunciation.

[Maxiestar]

While we're on the subject of family trees, I have a couple of names to share

Shadrack Meshack and Van Buren, both father and son. I came across these while looking at my family tree recently.

[snowdragon]

While we're on the subject of family trees, I have a couple of names to share

Shadrack Meshack and Van Buren, both father and son. I came across these while looking at my family tree recently.

Shadrack and Meshack are alternate spellings of Biblical characters Shadrach and Meshach ( Book of Daniel )

[blue2000]

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

Some of those are not too out there. I've seen names like Tenley and Blakely before. And I used to have a co-worker named Pryiah. I thought that was quite pretty.

[White Dragon]

While we're on the subject of family trees, I have a couple of names to share

Shadrack Meshack and Van Buren, both father and son. I came across these while looking at my family tree recently.

If there are already two kids named Shadrack and Meshack, why not just go ahead and name the third kid Abednego?
Why switch out to Van Buren?

[mbbored]

While we're on the subject of family trees, I have a couple of names to share

Shadrack Meshack and Van Buren, both father and son. I came across these while looking at my family tree recently.

If there are already two kids named Shadrack and Meshack, why not just go ahead and name the third kid Abednego?
Why switch out to Van Buren?

Somebody's interests switched from Biblical to American history?

[Editeer]

I know both a Channing and a Manning, both male, about 50 years old. Manning's father was named Ladd. Ladd's own father was named Manning, and his father was Ladd. The first sons alternated names through several generations.

[Addy]

Briony

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

I know two women named Briony, both in their mid to late twenties. They pronounce it differently though, so one is Bree-ony, and the other is Bri(long i)-ony.

[BabylonSister]

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

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Gershom

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

Gershom is a Biblical name.  That was the name of one of Moses' sons.

[Sharnita]

Same with Levi

[Morty'sCleaningLady]

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.

I always thought Nicole and Nicolette were the feminine versions of Nicholas and therefore Good Ole St. Nick was their namesake.