Where DO they come up with these names?

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by philjones

thank you for keeping this from being perceived as a racist thread! Only yuppie guppie white folk could come up with some of the names you have listed!

My wife wanted to name our first daughter Stormy.


Nah... not happening.

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

My wife wanted to name our first daughter Stormy.


Nah... not happening.

Well, in the late 1970s there was the singing couple Michael and Stormie O'Martian.

[SDG]

I wonder what Harriet, Audrey, Eugene, and Mortimer sound like to non-Anglos???

[Warmbee]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

There is a lady who's name I cannot type here, but it's pronounced Shih-thead (theed). Take out the second h and you have the spelling of her name.

I've heard this one, also heard of another one where they named thier kid after an anotomical part.... donkey + hole. It's so sad that there are people out there who do that to their kids.

On a funny note... I was almost named Kolista. Praise God for my mothers best friend being there while she was in labor.

I have a friend named Rechara (pronounced ra-shara), it is a combonation of her mom and dad's names.

[Digging4Truth]

I'm just glad my parents weren't as creative as some of these parents we are hearing about.

[The Dean]

I dedicated a baby recently named as follows: DaShay Dreonia Duazshina Yvette Fontenot

That's 'Dah-shay' 'dree-own-eeya' 'Doo-waz - shun-nay' 'ee-vet' 'fon-ti-know'.

I was mainly just confused. She'll be a graduate by the time she spells the name!

Yes, I had to minimize the letters to fit them all on the dedication certificate.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by The Dean

I dedicated a baby recently named as follows: DaShay Dreonia Duazshina Yvette Fontenot

That's 'Dah-shay' 'dree-own-eeya' 'Doo-waz - shun-nay' 'ee-vet' 'fon-ti-know'.

I was mainly just confused. She'll be a graduate by the time she spells the name!

Yes, I had to minimize the letters to fit them all on the dedication certificate.

Well what more would you expect from those Fontenot's

(I say that because i used to know some Fontenot's and have some experience with a few from Fontenot crew.

I still want to know what is going on in people's heads that they come up with these kinds of names that have no basis whatsoever in anything genuinely ethnic (meaning that it can be traced back to a specific ethnic origin) - names that are, instead, just made up out of thin air. I think the worst ones are the ones that put feminine endings on boys' names (Dakaritia) or do other things to feminize a boy's name before giving it to him (LaShawn).

My family (both sides) is notorious for givng odd names to their offspring (for example, I have a distant cousin whose middle name is Vondata and another whose first name is Ocie; I have an ancestor on my mother's side named Pricy); but generally those names can be traced to some ethnic origin and, so, that's at least somewhat reasonable (like an Irish family naming their daughter Fiona or an African family naming their son Mbeki). But when you just do stupid stuff like use days of the week or the names of diseases or try to make up something because you think it sounds French (many of the "black" names in America) or come up with other strange sounds (Dweezil) or are simply being cruel (Chastity, Demona, Syphyllis, Gonorrhea, Moon Unit, naming your son Hope or Faith or Shirley or Beverly or some other girly name, and some of the names celebrities have come up with), well, that makes no sense.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Chan

I still want to know what is going on in people's heads that they come up with these kinds of names that have no basis whatsoever in anything genuinely ethnic (meaning that it can be traced back to a specific ethnic origin) - names that are, instead, just made up out of thin air. I think the worst ones are the ones that put feminine endings on boys' names (Dakaritia) or do other things to feminize a boy's name before giving it to him (LaShawn).

My family (both sides) is notorious for givng odd names to their offspring (for example, I have a distant cousin whose middle name is Vondata and another whose first name is Ocie; I have an ancestor on my mother's side named Pricy); but generally those names can be traced to some ethnic origin and, so, that's at least somewhat reasonable (like an Irish family naming their daughter Fiona or an African family naming their son Mbeki). But when you just do stupid stuff like use days of the week or the names of diseases or try to make up something because you think it sounds French (many of the "black" names in America) or come up with other strange sounds (Dweezil) or are simply being cruel (Chastity, Demona, Syphyllis, Gonorrhea, Moon Unit, naming your son Hope or Faith or Shirley or Beverly or some other girly name, and some of the names celebrities have come up with), well, that makes no sense.

I know a lady who has an odd name. Her parents were on vacation in California watching the huge freightliners come and go and saw the name of one of the freightliners.

They liked it and named their daughter after a freightliner.

I won't tell the name since it has GOT to be an original and that would be tantamount to telling her last name in all probability.

Originally Posted by The Dean

I dedicated a baby recently named as follows: DaShay Dreonia Duazshina Yvette Fontenot

That's 'Dah-shay' 'dree-own-eeya' 'Doo-waz - shun-nay' 'ee-vet' 'fon-ti-know'.

I was mainly just confused. She'll be a graduate by the time she spells the name!

Yes, I had to minimize the letters to fit them all on the dedication certificate.

That's it! From now on, all expecting parents should be required to undergo extensive pastoral counseling on the consequences of what they name their children.