What are the best and worst baby names?

Sorry, jym… To fair my dad was young when I came along…

He must have been 12. And understood the terminology for the body parts 8-|

He had older brothers. I’m sure he would understand it lol

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Do you all like your first names?
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No, I don’t. I was supposed to be named Suzanne, but my crazy great aunt Esther named her puppy Suzanne right before I was born and my mom didn’t want Esther saying that her niece named her baby after her dog.

My name is not common for my generation. It was more common the generation before. It annoyed me that when I was growing up, it seemed like all the coffee commercials featured some neighbor with my name who made good coffee, and there would be some hubby lamenting, “why can’t you make coffee like m2ck?” Ugh.

My mom loved my name…I always disliked it. :frowning: Weird though, the masculine version of my name is my favorite boys name. Luckily, it’s my H’s name and one of my sons’ name.

I don’t like a lot of names. I don’t like Oscar, Marshall, Forrest, Albert, Ralph, Alvin, Harold, Harvey, Lester, Bruce, Owen, Orville, Gerald, and a whole bunch more. lol

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At my nail salon they are primarily from Vietnam - they all give themselves ‘american’ names for customers.
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I don’t know how it is at your salon, but my son’s GF’s mom and family own/work at a salon. They have taken “american” names, but one reason is that several of them have the same 2 or 3 Vietnamese names…so if they used their real names, it would be like a salon full of Marys, Annes, and Elizabeths. That said, I’m sure that one reason they take american names is so that customers will better remember their names and request them for services.

My son’s GF has a Vietnamese name that is always mispronounced because people don’t realize it has a French-influenced spelling and pronunciation…like Yves, Yvonne, and Yvette…the Y is pronounced like “E”

M2CK – your post number 343 is like a puzzle! Let’s see … Coffee commercials from our childhood? Is it Mrs. Olson? (With Mr. Olson as the masculine form?)

(Sorry, a just being a little silly … I can never sleep after “springing ahead”; too worried abt not waking up in time in morning.)

M2CK – your post number 343 is like a puzzle! Let’s see … Coffee commercials from our childhood? Is your given name Mrs. Olson? (With Mr. Olson as masculine form?)

(Sorry, a just being a little silly … I can never sleep after “springing ahead”; too worried about oversleeping and being late for court in the morning).


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No. She wrote about predicting subtle racism in the thread based on her personal interpretation that people who find some names questionable must be racist if they happen to find faults in alternative spellings a la Mo’nique or Teef’Anye.

In so many words, as long as the threads sticks to calling Maximilian Ludovicus a trite or pompous name, or Khloe silly, we ought to be fine. Obviously, opinions about cultural differences have to be racist when differing from … your own righteous ones.

The Duggar family. Most of the names are normal (ok, some are little used Biblical names but I get it, that’s their culture) - and then they went and added in Jinger. That’s not that far removed from Tyffanee. Ginger is a perfectly fine name (ok, it’s a nickname for Virginia so the purist in me would go there).

^^^ It boggles my mind how they could come up with so many names beginning with the same letter.

I always have trouble remembering boys names that begin with ‘J’. I can never keep straight the Justin, Jaden, Jordan, Joshua, Jacob, Jarred, etc. I also have trouble with Dylan vs Devon when it comes to remembering which it is. I think it’s a generational thing.

The only names I really don’t care for are “bad boy” names like Gunner and Vandal.

Before my daughter was born, DH and I agreed that the baby’s middle name would be taken after my Mom or Dad (since his family got the surname!). She has her Grandma’s classic (actually old-fashioned) name, although I think it’s making a minor comeback. I had more trepidation about the middle name if she had been a boy…it would have been Ignatius!

When S2 was in 3rd grade, he was on a basketball team. Among the boys were Evan, Devon, Aaron, and Zarrin.

@smdur1970 - of course Gunnar is quite common is Scandinavia. Never heard of Vandal as a name. Wasn’t it the name of a tribe of barbarians at the time of the late Roman Empire?

I’m surprised the Palin family names haven’t come up yet. Isn’t there a Tripp and a Trigg? Willow, Bristol, I can’t remember any of the rest.

I’ve always thought of Angus as an old man’s name. Not sure how anyone grew up with a name like that but doesn’t someone in AC/DC have the name Angus?

When D was in kindergarten, her classmates included Alyssa, Marisa, Carissa, and Melissa. I like all those names, it was just funny to have all of them in one class.

The Hispanic practice mentioned upthread of two surnames in the USA usually gets turned into the mother’s maiden name becoming the middle name. So the kid might end up with 4 names:
FirstName GivenMiddle MothersMaiden FathersSurname.
Then when filling out forms of FirstMiddle Last the dilemma is - do you put two names in “First” and one in Middle or one in First and two in Middle.
For example:
Juan Victorio Chavez Santos.
A form asks for Lastname, Firstname, Middle Initial
Does he fill it out as:
Santos, Juan Victorio, C.
Or
Santos, Juan, V.C.
or even
Chavez Santos, Juan, V.

The answer is that he might do any, and he might be inconsistent (or his parents might be) and records get confused.

My children all have 2 middle names because we didn’t want to hyphenate and you can’t have 2 surnames in the US. Only on official documents, or if they feel like it, do they put both initials or all 4 names. It hasn’t caused any confusion yet. It probably helps that their names are unusual enough that there aren’t any likely doubles out there.

“Having more than one surname is traditional in some cultures.” Post 331. That is an interesting link. The author says some Hispanics have resorted “artificially” to hyphenating the surnames to deal with computer systems and bureaucracy. But traditionally it sounds like two surnames were used, without hyphenating.

Scholarme - I have a friend who was born in Chile, but raised here, but has a Chilean passport and the convention has caused her all kinds of trouble as she has had to correct papers many times. Her full name is quite long.