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<p>Sorry I didn’t see you saying this earlier. Man it feels nice to agree with someone. Thank you.</p>
<p>Re: dog name trends – it seems everyone I know these days gives their dog a ‘human’ name (vs more traditional dog names). We have Zoe, Allie and Annie on our street. I once dated a guy (who wanted a family) and his dog’s was named “Lauren.” </p>
<p>Among my neighbors, I write it off to moms who want to name another baby, but don’t actually want to commit to another child. I can see that…</p>
<p>Quote: ^^ And have you noticed that the media hardly ever refers to him as Barack Hussein Obama? They seem to want to pretend that he doesn’t have a middle name (especially THAT one).</p>
<p>I think is more common not to mention the President middle name: What was Ronald Reagan’s middle name? Or Jimmy Carter’s? Or Bill Clinton’s? Or John McCain’s for that matter? I think the only reason Bush’s came up was to differentiate him from Dad.</p>
<p>A dog named Lauren?!! Now that is funny!</p>
<p>We named our beagle Charlie Brown :)</p>
<p>Our last dog’s name was Hazel. She was a Bassett Hound. It just fit.</p>
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<p>man, what a list of names. Your wife must work at a DMV or something</p>
<p>As a teacher who has worked with black kids whose families struggle financially, I notice the more bizarre the name, the more likely they are getting the free breakfasts and lunches at school. I cringe with some of these names because I know the names will mark them unfairly in the future.</p>
<p>Girls: Moonstruck, Starlyte, Destiny, Galaxy, Desire, Eureka, Passion,
Boys: Calyll, Linryn, Jamire, Kester, Penya, Jirrell</p>
<p>My dad had a student once who was named Bud Wiser. Really. What are some people thinking?</p>
<p>Wow, limabeans, Moonstruck and Eureka and a few of the others sound decidedly Un-black to me. I would agree about the correlation between low income African Americans and names that might give this away, but even though I am not low income, there was no way I was going to name my kids something that seemed …of the majority, for lack of a better term. Funny thing is, didn’t realize it, but my son’s name is about as Gaelic as you can get. And the last name too!</p>
<p>BTW, in my experience, “Destiny” seems to be a VERY bad omen.</p>
<p>I must admit that I’m beginning to like boys names for girls…Kyle, Ryanne, Jaymes, Daryn. But I don’t like girls names for boys…Kelsey, Carroll.</p>
<p>I think boys are limited by having girls names. But girls do not suffer the same fate having a male moniker.</p>
<p>My daughter’s name is an Italian name with a common American name that is one letter off. Her name is pronounced differently and I am always impressed by someone who remembers and pronounces it correctly. On the other hand, I am annoyed by people who continue to call her by the other name, even after numerous corrections. A teacher once told me that it was no big deal because the names were so similar. Personally, I feel that your name is your identity and it is disrespectful to purposely call someone by a different name because it is easier for you to remember. It is like calling a boy named Jon Jan. Yes, they are similar and one might be easier for a particular person to remember, but they are not the same name.</p>
<p>Having grown up with an name that was always mispronounced, I thought long and hard about the name a chose for my daughter. I love her name and so does she, but as she has gotten older, she uses her unisex nickname more and more. And I can envision a time when she may use this name exclusively for business. It may be to her advantage to be gender ambiguous.</p>
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<p>Sorry, but this is a classic attack of the bad Ys. :D</p>
<p>Speaking of strange spellings, what is the story with the football player Maurkice Pouncey? Is that supposed to be Marcus?</p>
<p>I know of a family that named their daughter Pretensia. Sounds a bit pretentious top me.</p>
<p>Old thread…</p>
<p>Yes, but I found it entertaining to read all the odd names. I was doing family tree research today and my husband has a Nickmock in his family. Now, there’s a name.</p>
<p>A cautionary tale: I really wanted to name DD Siobhan. We have an Irish surname which would fit. Siobhan is an Irish name but is pronounced like “shevonne”. Some members of the family argued that Siobhan would be hard to spell and hard to pronounce. So we named her Corinne, which has been no end of spelling and pronounciation nightmares for the poor girl since. People have mispelled it mostly from “corrine” but also in a variety of other ways. They usually mispronounce it “coreeeen”. Regardless, it is no better than if we had named her “shevonne”. Lesson: whatever you do, people are too stupid to figure it out.</p>
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<p>I know this is an old post, but I just wanted to respond to this.</p>
<p>I have a name that’s pretty hard for other people to pronounce to the point where the majority of people I know technically pronounce it incorrectly. But no one has ever made fun of me for my name, ever (at least in front me). If anything, people will comment on how cool it is or something. And I don’t see how having a hard to pronounce name will make strangers forget me at all. Like, who are you going to remember better, the guy who you had to work at to learn his name, or the third Michael you encounter? And me and all the other people I know with difficult sounding names haven’t seemed to have much trouble in getting internships or jobs.</p>
<p>I remember that one elementary school mom was named Latrina. I’m guessing her mother didn’t know the word “latrine”?</p>
<p>Old thread, indeed. Does anyone know whatever happened to the poster who started the thread – Northstarmom? Her last post on CC was in the very beginning of October.</p>