I know we've had this thread before, but I heard a couple of new ones this week....
A co workers relative named their child West-Dynamite omg!
And the other Detroit - maybe not soo bad, but still a little strange.
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I know we've had this thread before, but I heard a couple of new ones this week....
A co workers relative named their child West-Dynamite omg!
And the other Detroit - maybe not soo bad, but still a little strange.
That poor kid!
My kids go to school with 2 kids called Cougar. One is a boy the other is a girl! Very strange IMO but I guess their parents like it.
West-Dynamite...thats a tad extreme. Poor kid.
We have a Mango at school here. Oh & 2 kids that grew up here..Casper & Felix.
Nichole Richie has called her baby boy-Sparrow James Midnight:rolleyes:
Nicole Richie, wow I didn't know she was pg again!
at the start of the year when in hosp with DS a girl there was awaiting the news of her sisters baby. Her sisters DP was a painter & when they had their little boy they called him Tuxan....her DP fav paint colour!!!
A work colleague named her first born Steel though I am unsure if thats how she spelt it. She is expecting again in the next few weeks.
I like some of the weird names because they are so different but wouldn't chose them myself iykwim.
Nae x
I know a Steele who would be in his 20s. He also has a brother Reed
My Aunty has a coworker who named their bub Storm, which I like.
There is a boy who used to go to playgroup with DS1 names Seagrass. I thought that one was a little more unusual
A friend of DH's recently had a baby and called him Jaggar. Not completely out there, but not my cup of tea. DD goes to kindy with a Trojan too, he is lovely little boy but everytime I think of his name I think of condoms!! Poor kid. DS also had a little girl called Miracle in his class last year. Again, not a name I would choose but it did suit her and is quite a pretty name.
I wanted to call Palmer 'Ishanley'...my fave paint colour LMAO!
i think thats a really pretty name hun:
So do I! :-)
What's with the 'poor kid' comments? Perhaps they'll be worse off in life because they have an unusual name? Not sure I know of any statistics that support that, I know plenty of successful happy people with different names.
I think there's a fine line between sharing unusual names we've come across and making judgements that go beyond whether you personally like the name or not. I really hope we can stay on the right side of the line.
i have a odin witch erveryone said is a wierd name and i have now heard it 3 more times since i had him lol and i have a jonras witch i have never heard but odin wanted to name him that so he got his way lol
My Mum complained when I named Palmer. Said that she would be bullied and have a miserable life becuase of her weird name. She said I was basically cursing her.
I had the s**t beaten out of me at school and I have a 'normal' name...what difference does it make, I wonder?
I agree Nelle :) Even though a name is unusual imagine if it was YOUR name, or that of your child and everyone was passing judgement. I have an usual name... and my children have "lesser used" names too. I find that often even the most unusual names end up suiting the person. As a teachers assistant I have come across lots of unusual names but after a few days I didn't think anything of it. For example there was a little girl called Sixteen.... after about 2 minutes of adjusting i thought it was beautiful and perfect :) ETA: when I was born my mother had to deal with a lot of doubtful relatives regarding my name too... not nice to hear when you are a child. I think it really set me up to be the black sheep of the family hearing the negativity :( But now I like that it's a bit different.
Just to clear something up, I only said 'poor kid' in relation to one of the names I mentioned because of the fact that I associate his name with condoms - so 'poor kid' as in I can't help making that association, not because I am sitting in judgement of his parents.
A friend of mine has four kids with names I've never heard of before... (as kids names that is)
Shepherd, Weston, Canon & Lux
I wouldn't do it, but it's perfect for her family :)
I dont get what the big deal is. Just because we are saying "poor kid" or "they'll be teased" doesnt mean we are judging them personally we are just stating our opinions. Now i am all for different names but are just completely ridiculous. And if i was to name my child some of the names mentioned or worse than i would expect to get told that my childs name is ridiculous. I too have a some what normal name, but when i worked at target i had a customer ask me if i was spanish and i said no and he then said my name was stupid and that my parents must have been drunk when they named me. So i agree that it doesnt matter what you call your child some of them will have people commenting on their names. I was talking to my DP last night and i said that i may as well name my child "hamburger" or something else that is just as ridiculous. Both my SIL's have kids that have in my opinion silly names, One is Daemon Hunter (the way daemon is spelt it can be pronounced demon) and the other is Ella-Mae June (its not silly just sounds funny)
In this instance I don't see any difference between judging someone and stating your opinion. If you state your opinion that a name someone has chosen for their children is ridiculous you are judging them.:
I think we are saying poor kid, not judging the child - but that if you have a strange name, you will just struggle with that - spelling it, explaining to people, etc. I think little dynamite will have many years of questioning and explaining ahead of him and 'poor kid' doesn't really sum up how painful it might just be for him.
I had a strange name for about 15 years before it suddenly caught on and became insanely popular.
I had no problems with having a 'strange' name, no problems with learning to spell it or spelling it for people, no problems with explaining it and not one of my peers thought it strange because they were children and just accepted it - same as I accepted the names that I have in my adulthood come to realise are very uncommon.
Not only did I not struggle with my name I was quite fond of it.
One person's strange name is another person's ordinary name. The most popular name in the world is Muhamed (and its variations) yet only one member of this forum that I know of has a Muhamed.
My name is strange, common in my language spoken at home but strange to everyone else.
When people first meet me they always ask how to pronounce it and oh no one could pronounce my last name.
Growing up I was always teased as it rhymes with like about 1000 words in english and i always wanted to change my name to something more common.
Luckily I didn't because all grown up now, I like having a "unique" (rather than strange) name.
i would rather my children be the only one in their class/school/state/country then one of 5 in the class 50 in the school 2000+....
you may think my childrens names are parculiar but i hope they never come across you that would say oh poor you your parents are mean.... i will teach my children that their names are important and beautiful and no other persons opinion matter because it is as individual as they are!
you dont have to live with those "weird" names.. so you should not need to comment
That was the first thing that popped into my head too!:
I went to school with a girl named "China"...... she was of Anglosaxon origins and had red hair, had me baffled!
i love un usual names! :)
i have a little boy Oscar who is 1week old tomorrow and i have had mixed opinions about his name i cant possibly count the amount of times people have reminded me about Oscar the grouch i feel like saying HELLO were in 2009 here!
my brothers name is Storm, i think it suits him his 19 and never been bashed up or bullied.
one of my girlfriends sisters has 2 little boys called Jedski and Lockley.
i think everyone fits and makes there name special.
:)
I think Oscar is a really nice name, and how rude calling him Oscar the grouch!
See i think Storm is nice, and your girlfriends sisters kids names are yes different but i like them :)
Its names like Sparrow James Midnight, if it was just Sparrow James then i wouldnt have said anything but Midnight is silly.
And as for West- Dynamite that is just plain silly. If it was West and a some what common name then it wouldnt be silly.
But hey thats MY opinion.
well you see funnily enough i do also like the name sparrow james.
i think it would of been alot cuter on a girl, but as you said thats MY opinion.
i guess when you have the money and lifestyle those children are going to have i guess it doesnt really matter what your name is!
i also think Ashlee Simpsons son Bronx is super cute. not to fussed on the middle name but love Bronx.
a family member of my DPs just had a little girl and named her Ellazay.
so i think "un usual" are going to start popping up all over the joint!
I like Bronx. I want to call my son Ayrton Stephen. I had my DP's cousins wife say it was unusual...
if i have another baby - way way in the future haha
i want to name him Cruz, not because victoria beckham did or bec hewitt
i just think it cute:)
Haha. Yeah Cruz is cute :)
I have to be careful in selecting kids names as i have the last name 'Babb' to work with....
I want to call my girl Lily Grace or Summer Naomi.
i Loveee summer :)
for girls i have Indigo Paige or Ayah Christabel
They are gorgeous names! Especially Indigo Paige :)
As soon as you get into names of course people will judge as we all have a preference. Some people are traditional some not, some people like exotic others not. If we are so worried about judgment lets just shut this thread down now because as soon as some says 'I don't like...' it's a judgment. And to put it out there as a teacher I have seen some strange names and yes I do think 'Poor kid' I say this as truth because I have seen kids struggle to get people to spell their names correctly time and time again and I regularly see kids teased over 'unconventional' names and I see them cry and lie about their names to hide it too. Just because we like does not mean we should use it because at the end of the day we are not the individual who has to live with it.
And if you don't like my judgment I have no problem with that because your allowed to have your opinion too and I support you right to it :D.
the folks that lived next door to us here had a boy named Style, I thought it was a bit weird but it actually ended up growing on me.
I guess I shouldn't have started this thread -as I was being judgemental...... does expressing an opinion on something always have to be deemed as judgemental?
I think it depends on the language you use. Most words in English have fairly specific connotations. Unique and unusual have differant connotations than wierd or strange. Saying you pity someone for their name implies that you think there is something wrong with it.
How would you feel if you came onto BB and found someone saying that you felt sorry for children named XYZ and you had named your child XYZ?
I don't think that using some tact should be a big ask.
I completely agree with Brontide... careful selection of wording can make your opinion less judgemental. Tact isn't really that hard is it? Like Nicambar said... it's surprising what grows on you when you know somebody with an unusual name. Also, like Bron said: her unusual name became popular... who knows what will be popular in 5/10/50/100 years time! The names John and Ann would have been deemed strange at some point in time.
It seems that name advice usually consists of suggesting how the child will feel if bestowed with an unusual name but parents should also be advised to give consideration to how they will feel if met with negative reactions to their choice. The more unusual the name, the more likely people will object to it. I don't think that most people will hear the negativity directly (this is an online forum and people are far more eager to offer views which would be withheld in real life) but it isn't nice to be amongst a group of parents and have people ask your child's name and whereas "that's lovely" or "I wanted that" is heard after earlier responses, to have you child's name met with silence can be hurtful and feel as though a personal attack has been made on your child.
I consider DD's name to be less used name rather than unusual but I am aware that it isn't popular with older people so I prepare myself for the reaction (or lack of it) when asked.
Most of us want the names we select to appreciated and not mocked. Only a small minority want the names to shock (didn't someone in the US name his child Adolf Hitler and complain when a bakery refused to make a cake with the name on it?) I think if you deliberately chose a name based on the amount of controversy it will create then perhaps you are being selfish and not thinking of the the child but I think that would be very rare. I think most unusual names are genuinely loved by the parents who bestow them and done so with the best of loving intentions, just as all parents do. I do wonder about celebrity children's names though. You might as well call the kids "Look at Me!"
The unusual ones I came across recently were Pixel (boy) and Qwerty (girl).
A friend of mine works with a women who named her son Cash.
The only others I can think of are, Chole (someone) who is a model and is with an X NRL player (I think thats what he was anyways) have a son and his middle name is Danger (which my brother thinks is grea cuz he can say, 'Danger is my middle name'! MEN!!!).
Frank Zapper (who was a drugged up 1970's singer/ poet, what ever it is you want to call him) had Moon Unit, Dweezil and Ahmet Emuukha Rodan. Moon Unit went into the music industry at one stage and went by the name of Moon Zapper, which my mum thinks is great :rolleyes: Dweezil toured Aust a year or two ago as he too is a musician.
A girl a work with has a son named Reef which isn't what you'd call weird, but she has 3 boys the first being William and the third being Ruban, so Reef is just so completely different!
Thats about all I can think of at this time! :)
wow. there are so many names out there. I do feel for the kids that end up with these rediculous names.. Some of the are quite nice but others are a little to be desired.. i cant think of any atm.. but i do know a couple, im sure.