<p>LONDON (Reuters) - A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens.</p>
<p>Woolworths said staff who administer the web site selling the beds were not aware of the connection.</p>
<p>(so are any girls named lolita, or a variation of that - I know Lolita was a"nickname"- but would you name your new baby Britney now?</p>
<p>DUH on Lolita. It’s a famous book and movie, and a common term for underaged sexually active girls. Didn’t they hear of the “Long Island Lolita”?</p>
<p>I think people will still use the name Britney/Brittany, it’s a fairly common name. Although I think it was a lot more popular around 15 - 20 years ago.</p>
<p>But it’s an interesting question - will 2007 show a lot fewer baby girls named Britney? What happened to the name Monica 10 years ago?</p>
<p>Names associated with infamy often lose much of whatever popularity they may have once enjoyed. For example the popularity of Katrina as a name for baby girls plummeted after the recent hurricane. Another example is the name Benedict. It’s a perfectly good male name in much of Europe - as in the case of the current pope. But it’s popularity in the US has been at or near zero ever since the treason of Benedict Arnold over 200 years ago and shows no sign of ever reviving.</p>
<p>My husband’s family had a complicated naming practice for first born sons going back numerous generations. The practice was supposed to end with our son being named “Oscar.” My in laws hounded me about the name until I was wheeled into labor and delivery, but Oscar was never an option. Consequently, my in laws have never liked the name we chose for our son. We later acquired a psychotic beagle and he hated everything about his life, especially being named Oscar!</p>
<p>haha. My Dad’s name was Oscar. He was #13 of 14 kids, and he didn’t have a middle name (parents got tired of the whole naming process, probably!) He’d always say that people would say, “Oh, I used to have a pet ***(fill in the blank: goldfish, hamster, etc.) named Oscar…but he died.”</p>
<p>I think the name most abandoned in history is/was Adolph.</p>
<p>I have a friend whose father is named Adolph – and he was given that name during WW II!</p>
<p>I suppose there is the Adolph Coors family…but Adolf has pretty much been erased from the baby books in the US.</p>
<p>So is Dolph Lundgren really Adolph?</p>
<p>I wonder what the occurence of the name Adolf is in Germany post-WWII?</p>
<p>Pretty low, I think. M-I-L is originally German…she was a teen throughout the war…home destroyed by Allied bombs; they barely made it to the bomb shelter (her sister still has burn marks on her neck). By the end of the war, the Germans knew what/who Hitler was. He really was a “savior” of sorts to Germany after WWI—too bad that he was a crazed lunatic.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2005/11/06/adolf-not-a-popular-name-after-1940s/[/url]”>http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2005/11/06/adolf-not-a-popular-name-after-1940s/</a></p>
<p>(I don’t know how credible that is, but it’s what google gave me. It also doesn’t say whether the numbers are world-wide, just in German speaking countries, or what, though the labeling is German.)</p>
<p>Here’s a fun place to pass some time (type names at top left, select male/female/both, and run your mouse over the graph to see specific rankings):</p>
<p><a href=“Pregnancy, Parenting, Lifestyle, Beauty: Tips & Advice | mom.com”>Pregnancy, Parenting, Lifestyle, Beauty: Tips & Advice | mom.com;
<p>(Dionne, Britney, Whitney, Judy, Lyndon, Franklin, Theodore…all fun.)</p>
<p>babynamewizard.com is a really fun site!!! I’m going to forward it to friends, with a disclaimer that, NO, I’m not pregnant! (I shudder to think!!!)</p>
<p>Well…in high school, we had a friend named Suzy Wong. Her name was the same as the title character in a rather risque movie that came out when we were in school (something like the World of Suzy Wong). As I recall…she adopted a nickname.</p>
<p>We broke a record that was at least 12 generations long (since 1700’s) with our firstborn. The record had been broken ONE time, about 6 or 7 generations ago, for one generation.</p>
<p>i wanna name my children adolf…jk
i like the name virgil for guys
how about naming ppl after planets?</p>
<p>My MIL reportedly wanted to name my H Adolf. (This was in the early 50s!) I asked him if she wanted to name his brothers Benito and Joseph…</p>
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<p>Well, with the exception of Earth, the planets are all named after Roman gods. So skip the middle man and just name your kids after Roman gods.</p>
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<p>Pretty low, I’d suspect. But then the occurrence of names such as Linda and Debbie for anyone not in the baby boomer generation probably rivals the occurrence of Adolf.</p>
<p>I recall a Lily Tomlin routine where she is a hippyish mom, calling out the window at dinnertime, “MalcolmX-John Lennon, come hoooome!”</p>
<p>When I was pregnant the first time, there was a big labor issue in Europe. Lech Walensza (sp?) was leading strikes on the docks of Gdansk, in Poland. I didn’t want people prying into the names we were considering, so I said if it’s a boy, we’ll name him
“Lech G’dansk.” It confused people and they dropped the topic, which was my goal at the time.</p>
<p>I had a friend who was a Dolores, Lo for short, like in the book. She was born right before it was published and received much teasing.</p>