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C'mon parents....stopped with the EFFed up names.. (1 Viewer)

My brother is fairly conservative. When we were younger, one of his favorite "anti-liberal" rants was how Democrats were always giving their kids stupid names. ("This is why the country is going into the toilet," "This is why kids today are a bunch of pansies," "This is why liberals think the world owes them something," etc., etc., etc.)

Two of his four kids' names have been mentioned in the past 2 pages. :bag:

 
Gachi said:
JaxBill said:
You mean like Emma? I remember as a kid snickering at my grandmother's name of Emma. Now that Old Lady name is everywhere.
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There are a few old school names that have regained popularity the last few years. 

Olivia is very popular. So is Ann/Anna.
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Yep. Olivia, Grace, Sophie, etc. ... the old-name trend kicked off by Rachel naming her daughter Emma on Friends.

Orton to Olsen's post above seems to indicate that the old-name trend may have moved to boys. Seemed like it was mostly the provenance of girls.

 
[scooter] said:
My brother is fairly conservative. When we were younger, one of his favorite "anti-liberal" rants was how Democrats were always giving their kids stupid names. ("This is why the country is going into the toilet," "This is why kids today are a bunch of pansies," "This is why liberals think the world owes them something," etc., etc., etc.)
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Your brother sounds like a real Einstein. 

 
mr. furley said:
aren't these T names popular in the south? like another way of saying "little james" or "lil james" except these people have made it in to an official name.
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Not all over the South ... just in rural Cajun country in Lousiana. What's heard as "T" or "tee" was originally a contraction of French petit (via forms like p'***, so English lil is a good comparison).

 
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Doug B said:
Yep. Olivia, Grace, Sophie, etc. ... the old-name trend kicked off by Rachel naming her daughter Emma on Friends.

Orton to Olsen's post above seems to indicate that the old-name trend may have moved to boys. Seemed like it was mostly the provenance of girls.
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Also, one of the women on Designing Women had a child on the show and named her Olivia.  That started a trend, too.

 
[scooter] said:
My brother is fairly conservative. When we were younger, one of his favorite "anti-liberal" rants was how Democrats were always giving their kids stupid names. ("This is why the country is going into the toilet," "This is why kids today are a bunch of pansies," "This is why liberals think the world owes them something," etc., etc., etc.)

Two of his four kids' names have been mentioned in the past 2 pages. :bag:
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You gotta give him #### for that, right?

 
East Coast Bias said:
Baby Eclipse
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HFS. All kinds of messed up stuff here...

A baby girl born today in South Carolina, hours before the total solar eclipse, has been legally named Eclipse.

Eclipse Alizabeth Eubanks came into the world at 8:04 a.m. weighing 6 pounds, 3 ounces and measuring 19 inches long, Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina, confirmed to ABC News.

The child's mother, Freedom Eubanks of Spartanburg, was not due to deliver until September 3, she said.
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Saw a name get promoted the other day who had the name: John E. Cage.  Say it out loud and you get Johnny Cage.  All I could think about is Mortal Kombat for the next three days.

 
These parents have zero clue how much of their kid's adult life they are wasting. Every time they have to take time to spell their name for people they can thank their parents. 

 
reading an MMQB article on David Johnson, it references Edgerrin James. what's he up to these days, i wonder.

wiki:

"James currently resides in Miami, Florida. He has six children: Edquisha, Emani, Eyahna, Edgerrin Jr., Euro, and Eden."

 
I think we should just go back to what some of the Puritans did.  Open up the Bible to a random page, close your eyes, then point to somewhere on the page.  Whatever word you pointed to is what you name your kid.

 
OrtonToOlsen said:
I think we should just go back to what some of the Puritans did.  Open up the Bible to a random page, close your eyes, then point to somewhere on the page.  Whatever word you pointed to is what you name your kid.
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Stop hitting your sister Barnabas.

 
Kids in my daughter's kindergarten class include -

Talon, Bohdi, Wynne, Tripp, Oz, Cortland, Marshall, Hayden, Gavin, Sim, Cheyenne

Good lord

 
that moment when your wife's friend calls out, in bubbling anger, to her child 

"Kristie K!"

and you think.. uh-oh.. someone's about to get yelled at

then she repeats it, a little more angry

before finally yelling out her full name (protected for the innocent) "KRISTIE KATHERINE KING!  GET OVER HERE!"

and it sinks in she has named her child KKK

you're not welcome in my house anymore

sorry

 
cincredfan said:
Kids in my daughter's kindergarten class include -

Talon, Bohdi, Wynne, Tripp, Oz, Cortland, Marshall, Hayden, Gavin, Sim, Cheyenne

Good lord
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bolded are all fairly common.. or at least not made up. the others sound like names of bad guys from 90s bad action movies. and cortland, which is the street the kid's dad grew up on.

 
the moops said:
Bohdi is spelled stupidly. Hayden is not a good name.

I like the rest of them :thumbup:
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you like Talon? Talon! stop shanking your cousin... right now.

are/were you a sim city fan... is that why you like sim? I grew up with a Cim that was shortened from a different name

 
TheFanatic said:
There's a guy who owns a bunch of car dealerships around St. Louis who's name is Jack Schmidt. His commercials end with, "If you don't buy from us, you don't know Jack Schmidt."
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There's a dealership near me owned by a guy named David McDavid

 
El Floppo said:
bolded are all fairly common.. or at least not made up. the others sound like names of bad guys from 90s bad action movies. and cortland, which is the street the kid's dad grew up on.
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naming my next kid Schermerhorn

 
the moops said:
Bohdi is spelled stupidly. Hayden is not a good name.

I like the rest of them :thumbup:
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Bodhi is the pilot from Rogue One.  The guy who tries to get the message to Saw Gurrera.    
 

Granted, this kid is probably older than that movie, but the spelling isn't unheard of.   

 
A woman at work has a new grandson named Huxley. Unique and not terrible I guess. Plus a cool nickname option with Hux? What say you?

 
Henry Ford said:
Have a client whose kid's name is Priest Vudu [last name].  Kid's going to need some therapy. 
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Some day he'll google himself and his mind will be blown when he finds this thread. And then he will read this post quoting your post and he'll really be blown away. 

 
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Johnny Rock said:
Some day he'll google himself and his mind will be blown when he finds this thread. And then he will read this post quoting your post and he'll really be blown away. 
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And then he'll see this post that says he was adopted and born a hermaphrodite and he'll have to ask just to find out if it's true. 

 
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