I’m a high school junior and I’m thinking about legally changing my name. Is Isaac a cool name to have these days?
I know of a dentist named Dr. Harry Bracey - too bad he is not an orthodontist!
Unless your last name is Atlife.
The social hall at my church is named after somebody named Hall, so it is Hall Hall.
I’m at work, and so can’t read back through 81 pages at the moment to see how the thread morphed to funny last names. But I’m going to go back to the original topic, just for a moment.
Our criteria for D’s name were:
Feminine but not frilly
Not trendy. We didn’t want to mark her forever as a baby of the early 90s
A “known” name. We didn’t want her spending the rest of her life explaining how to spell and/or pronounce it
A flexible name, which would fit no matter what she decided to do with her life
That led us to the “Classic” section of the baby name book; in fact, she’s one of the “Core Classics” below. She has told us she loves her name. There are several common variants in her age group, but she’s known very few girls her age with the core name. She likes that.
So in terms of “best” baby names, I think you can’t go wrong with these:
LasMa. Us too, same criteria. And our Ds name is on this list.
@lasma - I noticed Charlotte on the list. It is now a top 10 name this year, and will no doubt become even more popular given the new royal baby in the UK.
@LasMa - I obviously don’t mind the names on that list, but the page does have the same cultural bias we’d been discussing at the start of the thread, particularly that they took some names out and stuck then in a “who would have guessed” list.
ETA - Presumably some minority and immigrant names were never recorded in the official annals in the olden days of use.
My orthodontist’s name was Dr. Fingeroth. Seriously. And he had a twin brother- also an orthodontist.
I realize this is the name of a band (or a demi-god in Dungeons and Dragons) but I saw this baby’s name in the news today- Kyuss. Not my cup of tea. The baby was born premature in Hong Kong and now the American parents are in insurance hell.
D’s name is on the list also. I wanted a name that would be timeless, something for a 12 year old and an 80 year old.
There was an Amber alert in Houston recently for a baby named A’Million. She was taken by her biological mom who lost custody.
Violet, then—even though the estimated average age of someone with that name is the mid-40s, there’s pretty much nobody in the US in their 40s with that name, but lots in their 80s and somewhat younger than 12. You just have to hope she skips her 40s, I guess.
ETA a footnote: Yes, I know that’s not how it works—but sometimes it’s fun to feign cluelessness for the sake of a weak joke, you know?
Violet has become pretty popular in my neck of the words. I personally always thought that it was too close to the word “violent” to work well as a name. My first and last names are both close to regular words, and when I hear those words I always have a little heightened alert reaction and I feel some inexplicable, almost subconscious affinity with those words. I wouldn’t want my little girl to have that kind of emotional affinity with the word “violent.” I realize that’s a pretty idiosyncratic view, though.
PS. I liked your joke about the average age of Violets.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Hyman
Most embarrassing name ever?
Lol!
I like the name Lili, or Lillie, as another flower name.
http://nameberry.com/list/97/Flower-Names-for-Girls?all=1
From Azalea to Zinnia!
My friends that had babies in high school tended to be the most unfortunate. Chantilly Lace (called Lacy) was the most heinous, but I also know several Harley (named after the motorcycle), Colt or Colten (after the sports team).
Worst name? I know there is a girl named abcde.(ab-see-dee)