Names with stigmas, would you use them?

[Tiff+2]

I think Azaria is a beautiful name and to be honest, I have no idea who it is you're refering to. Hope that doesn't make me ignorant! I think it is a beautiful name!!!

[~clover~]

Pish - Azaria Chamberlain is a baby who was with her family camping & got taken away by a dingo. Over the years there was so much controversy. Alot of people didn't believe her poor mum. They only ever found part of her clothing.
It was so sad. Nothing has been proven either way to this day. It was a very famouse case throughout Australia. I remember alot of it.

[{sarah}]

The story behind the name Pish (if you're interested)...

Azaria Chamberlain was 9 weeks old & camping with her family at Ayers Rock in 1980. Basically she disappeared & her parents claimed that she was taken by a dingo. Her clothes & nappy were found bloody a bit of a distance away, but she was never found. Her mother ended up accused & went to gaol because of it. I think she was released early. Basically no-one really knows if it really was a dingo or a person that killed her. It went on for years & years, with her parents maintaining it was a dingo, but nothing was ever really proven.

[tellytubby]

sorry just read on and realised what name you're talking about

Azaria is a beautiful name; but i'm not too sure that i would use it because of Azaria Chamberlain. But with that said, i knew the name "azaria", and couldn't put my finger on who it refered to until i read further on, haha. I would be worried that the people who do remember the accident, would constantly make the "dingo got my baby" comment when she was around - which would send me crazy!! BUT mind you - my family is VERY country and slightly ... 'redneck', hahaha So they'd have a field day with it

Good luck with your decision, and remember it is YOUR decision. It is a beautiful name - i agree with you there!

[{sarah}]

Tellytubby, my friends would be the same, when I mentioned it years ago, I got all the "dingo got my baaaaybeeee" comments. Gotta love Meryl Streep in the movie

[Kitt3n]

Azaria is a really beautiful name.

We wanted to use Nikita but DH's family were very anti that (being polish, Nikita Khrushchev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I would love to name a son Amadeus.......

[Curly]

Lindy Chamberlain was exonerated.

She had always claimed that Azaria was wearing a matinee jacket which wasn't found along with the rest of Azaria's clothing. They couldn't find the matinee jacket and accused her of lying. The clothing they did find was tested and they found no dingo saliva on it which was largely the reason Lindy was convicted. There was a huge fuss about the jacket and whether or not Lindy was telling the truth about it because it would explain the lack of dingo saliva on Azaria's recovered clothing. Azaria's body was never recovered.

10-odd years later a Canadian(?) tourist fell to his death from Ayers Rock and when they recovered his body they finally found the matinee jacket that Lindy said all along Azaria had been wearing.

So yes, Lindy was eventually proven innocent - after spending years in a Darwin jail for a crime she did not commit. You will still find many people, even after this, who still believe that Lindy did kill her baby. She lives in the USA now and I can't say I blame her.

[bon]

I have read her book, and it is just unbelievable what she went through. I couldn't use the name Azaria, not because I would be worried about what other people would say, or because I don't like the name (I think it's a lovely name), but because I can't get past the Lindy Chamberlain, "the dingo's got my baby" association in my own mind.

[luna moth]

I love Bruno.

But can't tell if Sacha Baron Cohen ruined it yet. If he didn't, one of DH's senior colleagues did

[tattoo_mama]

ned kelly? LOL
if DD was to be a boy i was gonna name her Davis after Jonathan Davis from the metal band Korn....and i had a lot of goth sort of names picked for DD but i settled for one abit 'tamer' to please XP.....damn now shes stuck with it!!!

[Glamourcide]

^ It's not too late, Emma!! She hasn't learned to answer to it yet

[mummy2chloe]

i love it, i say go for it

if we are blessed enough to have another baby and it is a boy we are going to call him " dusty" and all of our friends and family have made comments about it being a horrible name and saying that they think of " slim dusty" but we dont care what they say, we love it and if we have a little boy he is being called " dusty cruz"

[tattoo_mama]

Lol Donna i would have loved to call her Dahlia like the black dahlia....or elvira like the goth lady...or samara from the ring

[~Kate~]

I think its a beautiful name and enough time has passed that the connection won't be automatic.

Now I've got the 'little Armadeus' theme song in my head...lol

[Rouge]

I love Dahlia... I could never use the name Elvira, its what we used to call the try hard oldies at clubs that looked like clowns So it has bad connotations for me. And now... I feel old.

[Amity]

I have a Ned ("Kelly")... Rouge my sister's Jewish name is Dahlia...

I love Justice. And Liberty. And Faith. And Hope. But they just don't go with my surname... at all...

[Janie]

Divvy, they certainly don't! I'm not sure if Dahlia really suits your sister.......I think her given name is more her thing .

[Glamourcide]

Lol Donna i would have loved to call her Dahlia like the black dahlia....or elvira like the goth lady...or samara from the ring

That's the reason I like 'Elizabeth' so much, as in the 'original' Black Dahlia I was also dead-set on Ophelia (although Desdemona is my favourite Shakespearean character, I don't like the name hahah) until DH shot me down in flames