<p>I know a kid named Seven, one named Notorious (he has behavior issues-what a surprise), and my personal favorite, a 14 year old boy named Cherub. I’m sure he was Mama’s little angel when he first was born; but now, as a 14 yr old farm boy…</p>
<p>Filbert? The parents must be nuts!!!</p>
<p>Some real names:</p>
<p>Harry Surprise (town clerk in a little Vermont town)
Sandra Dragon (I’ve known of two! One worked for the phone company collections dept)
Hammond Egg</p>
<p>How about the golfer named Will Knot. Everyone called him Won’t. He must be in his late twenties by now. He was on some kind of pro tour.</p>
<p>I’ve mentioned this before on the board, but I ran across a lawyer named Donald Duck. He had a middle initial that I can’t recall but that it just made it funnier.</p>
<p>LOL at Will Knot and Donald Duck…poor kids. </p>
<p>Consolation - how do you pronounce Welsh? I imagine it doesn’t sound as easy as it looks (and Welsh names seem so hard to say, I’ve noticed).
You’re right, she’ll probably have to spell it, but many common names need to be spelled because of different spellings - Catherine, Caitlin, Sidney, Elizabeth, Madeline…etc. </p>
<p>for a boy, I like William, James, Adrian. My boyfriend’s name is Adrian as well :)</p>
<p>I guess I’m a name snob, as well. I choose traditional names for our 2 Ds because I wanted them to be taken seriously. Cutsie names are fine as a child but Christie or Carissa don’t strike me as names of doctors are lawyers. Call me a snob…</p>
<p>* Cutsie names are fine as a child but Christie or Carissa don’t strike me as names of doctors are lawyers*</p>
<p>out of curiosity- prompted by knowing a young woman named Carissa who is actually interested in medicine ( and is not cutesy in the least)- I googled medical drs & Carissa and received almost 14,000 hits- which indicates to me, that while lilmom doesn’t think the name is suitable- no one else seems to have a problem with it. ( I also punched in law instead and got 69,000!- does this tell us something about the number of attorneys? )</p>
<p>Christie Todd Whitman – former NJ Governor, head of EPA.</p>
<p>Mathmom mentioned this on the second or third page of this blog but the book FREAKONOMICS by By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (professors at the University of Chicago)has an entire chapter on the economics of naming your child. High end/low end names, ethnic names etc. It talks about the socioeconomics of naming your baby and what happens to a high end name once it becomes popular and also typical “Black” names and “typical” white" and the social and economic implications it has on your child. </p>
<p>[A</a> Roshanda by any other name. - By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Slate Magazine](<a href=“http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/]A”>http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/)
[Where</a> baby names come from. - By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Slate Magazine](<a href=“http://www.slate.com/id/2116505/]Where”>Where baby names come from.)</p>
<p>Above are two articles that review the topics based upon the book. Its a fun book to read and probably controversial but to me thats what makes it an interesting read! It also examines a lot of other topics that we don’t often think of from an economic perspective.</p>
<p>W keeps a list of names (she sees a lot of them in her job).</p>
<p>Just a few (all real):</p>
<p>Daffney Kildoo
Beamen E. LaBare
Erwin Wurm
Hiawatha Bray
Medford Schnauber
Surrogate Dibble Jr.
Kannie Yu
Meadow Mae Greenhill
Xander Twombly
Kitsey Popple
Karmel Kifarkis
Densil Sprinkle
Gabi Baigel
Smiley N. Pool
Nimrod Goldstein
Crystal Cockayne
Nikke Finke</p>
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<p>Usually known as Christine…</p>
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<p>Ack! This one reduces me to hysteria.</p>
<p>I believe I went to college with someone named Nikki Finke. I also knew someone who rejoiced in the name Ilse Funke. She wasn’t happy about it.</p>
<p>H comes from a VERY small town in the south. We visited and met his friend
“CB”. His friend uses those initials instead of his real first name…Cyclone Baby. He was born in the '20s during a tornado.</p>
<p>“Usually known as Christine…”</p>
<p>^^ True, but if I remember correctly, when she started her career it was “Christie Todd…” </p>
<p>I think a lot of names that are popular among younger people (e.g. Christie Carissa, as cited above) might seem incongrugous for ‘grown up, distinguished’ jobs like doctor, etc. but that could be because it’s hard to envision that the generation ‘below’ us will someday be holding positions of great responsibility and authority. I’ve heard that, years ago (e.g. can you imagine a CEO named “Amy”? Now: Amy Gutmann is University of Pennsylvania’s president).</p>
<p>Kitsey Popple?
Smiley Pool?
Erwin Wurm?
Love them! What business is your wife in?</p>
<p>I worked for a non-profit, and two of the names that always stuck out for me on the membership rolls were Henry Wockenfuss and Myra Klockenbrink. I always thought it would be great if they could get married and then hyphenate.</p>
<p>Another of our favorites was Harry Shaft – I still remember a co-worker reading it for the first time – “What an unfortunate name!”</p>
<p>I had an uncle M.O. short for Mordicai Oliver. ( however his twin Bartholomew Oliver went by his whole name) ;)JK
My grandmothers first name was Dorothy- but she preferred her middle name of Avnes.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with Amy? I think some of the older people on this site prefer old-fashioned names, but a lot of what was common in your generation will probably become rare in the future, and some of these names y’all consider new-fangled will become common. Names like Gertrude, Dorothy, Mildred, Lucy, Jane, and Janice were probably all common at one point, but i’ve never met one. I understand that in your generation, most doctors/lawyers were probably anglo-saxon with traditional anglo names, but times are a-changing folks. it’s not like people with unusual names are any dumber, and I doubt they’ll be unsuccessful just cause of their names. did you guys miss the last election where some guy named barrack won over a john?</p>
<p>speaking of politics, what is with sarah palin’s kid’s names? Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, Trig - strange.</p>
<p>“What’s wrong with Amy?”</p>
<p>I was using this to illustrate the idea that certain ‘new’ names perceived as ‘cutesy’ might, after 15-20 years, be the mainstream and completely ordinary in all areas (including business achievement). It was in response to this:
“Cutsie names are fine as a child but Christie or Carissa don’t strike me as names of doctors are lawyers. Call me a snob…”</p>
<p>When I was very young, “Amy” seemed like a “kid” name (maybe like “Carissa”). Now it’s mainstream, because the Amys have grown up. Just a thought.</p>
<p>That being said, I decided not to name my daughter “Annabelle” because I thought it was -too- frilly & feminine (though I liked it) and confess to doing the “Dr. Annabelle” test. lol.</p>
<p>this is a last name, but I think it stands alone.
I noticed the exec in charge of budget and finance at my college is named
- Spittle*
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<p>There is nothing new about the name Amy. It’s at least 500 years old. Amy was a fairly popular name in England in the days of Elizabeth I.</p>