Baby Names - You're kidding Right???

[BB-VA]

I met a very nice lady named Jocasta today. I refrained from asking if she had a son.

Or was she married to a younger man.

[Nibsey]

I read in the news today about a 9-year-old boy named Shjohn.

It took me a few tries pronouncing it to realize that it's probably pronounced like Sean.

Not being a native English speaker, I always thought that Sean was pronounced like "Seen", until a friend corrected me.  Shawn, no problem.  Sean, I still have a hard time "feeling" the sound.

That's because it's not English.  It's the Irish version of the french Jean (John) because in the Irish language there is no J.

[Calistoga]

The name Sean bugs me on Sean Bean. Either you are Seen Bean or you are Shawn Bawn. You can't have it both ways sir.

I went to the Dr on monday, and the girl sitting across the way from me in the waiting room was named... Latrine.

You miss...are named after a toilet.

[Piratelvr1121]

"Such an unusual name, Latrine, how did your family come by it?"
"We changed it in the 9th century."
"You changed your name TO Latrine?"
"Yeah! Used to be S***thouse!"
"Good change! That's a good change!"

[Melle]

I can't tell the real name, but a couple I'm aquainted with - German, decidedly caucasian features - gave their kid two names of Manga heroines. Very Japanese names that will never be pronounced correctly in German phonetics. Incidentally, the first of these names, if pronounced as written, is also the name of a well-known brand of laundry detergent, which will make life considerably difficult once the kid goes to school :/

[Piratelvr1121]

Sounds like my DH.  He loves anime, and if our first child had been a girl he wanted to name her Mai Kurumi.  Now all I could think of was "M-M-M My Kurumi!"

Also he's got the all American guy look- stocky, blond, blue eyed, both of us fair skinned, all our kids are fair skinned and blond, or at least they were when they were little, the hair of the older two is turning brown but the littlest is still blonde.

Course we had boys so we didn't have to use that name anyway but I did talk him out of it.

[Betelnut]

Report from Southern Maryland's birth announcements (which include the names of the brothers and sisters of the new child):

Nothing TOO shocking just a few unusual ones:

Maybree Sophia (girl):  interesting first name.

Daija LaSharon (girl) has a brother, Daszeron and a sister, Rah'Shia.

Shakira Tyona (girl)--not too unusual of a name but her sisters are: Serenity, Shakyla and Sharia.  Shakyla and Sharia seem just too close to Shakira.  I guess they could be called Kira, Kyla and Kira but still...

Khelanh Devauntey (boy).  How to pronounce?

Jackson Pietra (boy)--not too bad but sisters are: Ferris and Finley.  Those are two boys names, to me.  And Ferris is barely a name.

[ClaireC79]

Apparently Finley as a girls name is in the top 40 UK girls names so far this year - definitely not around my area, I come across far more than my fair share of babies and while we have a few male Finley's this year, no girls

[Coralreef]

The name Sean bugs me on Sean Bean. Either you are Seen Bean or you are Shawn Bawn. You can't have it both ways sir.

I went to the Dr on monday, and the girl sitting across the way from me in the waiting room was named... Latrine.

You miss...are named after a toilet.

Reminds me of a House Hunter episode.  One of the ladies was named Latrina.  Maybe not as bad, but poor child!

[Coralreef]

I can't tell the real name, but a couple I'm aquainted with - German, decidedly caucasian features - gave their kid two names of Manga heroines. Very Japanese names that will never be pronounced correctly in German phonetics. Incidentally, the first of these names, if pronounced as written, is also the name of a well-known brand of laundry detergent, which will make life considerably difficult once the kid goes to school :/

A couple I know gave their two kids Japanese names. The names are beautiful, no objections there, but they get a lot of comments as she's Haitian, he's French Canadian.  I guess the world is getting smaller every day.  Beautiful, gorgeous kids by the way. 

[Betelnut]

Apparently Finley as a girls name is in the top 40 UK girls names so far this year - definitely not around my area, I come across far more than my fair share of babies and while we have a few male Finley's this year, no girls

That's interesting!  The only Finley I've ever known was male.

[Betelnut]

Apparently Finley as a girls name is in the top 40 UK girls names so far this year - definitely not around my area, I come across far more than my fair share of babies and while we have a few male Finley's this year, no girls

That's interesting!  The only Finley I've ever known was male.

GENDER: Masculine & Feminine
 
USAGE: Irish, Scottish, English
 
Meaning & History

 Anglicized form of FIONNLAGH
 

VARIANTS: Finlay, Fionnlagh (Irish), Finlay, Fionnlagh (Scottish)
 
Popularity
 
United States

 ranked #510 for boys
 ranked #364 for girls

 England/Wales

ranked #35 for boys

 

[WolfWay]

Jackson Pietra (boy)--not too bad but sisters are: Ferris and Finley.  Those are two boys names, to me.  And Ferris is barely a name.

Ferris Bueller would object to that.   

[Betelnut]

Jackson Pietra (boy)--not too bad but sisters are: Ferris and Finley.  Those are two boys names, to me.  And Ferris is barely a name.

Ferris Bueller would object to that.   

If he were a real person, I suppose he would.  But he's not.

[lilfox]

Khelanh Devauntey (boy).  How to pronounce?

By violating what we generally believe about American English vowel sounds.     My guess is "CAY-lan De-von-TAY", which actually flows pretty well, IMHO.  If that's not it, then you got me!