Resist mockery. Remember: Babies are named by people who have babies. Don't like the names? Have your own baby.
Oh! Speaking of names... we — and by "we," I mean the Green Bay Packers — got the player with the best name: Ha Ha Clinton-Dix. And no, that was not a joint. Nor was this.
And.... if you don't like Dix, check out the Dox.
AND: Look at the popularity of my name in relation to the similar names, all more complicated:
My parents believed in sleek modernity. Who knew the future would be so old-timey?
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Atlas?
Why?
And what happens when the child shrugs?
When naming our daughter Anne, we used the "e". The mini-series "Anne of Green Gables" was on PBS during the last months of my wife's pregnancy. My wife watched each episode multiple times. (Is it possible for pregnancy to cause such cravings?). There was never any question how we would spell the name.
Our Anne, like the fictional one, has strawberry-blond hair.
We did have our own babies and I would have gladly named one of them Atlas but my wife would have forbade it. But Milan for a boy? Ga..., er, dorky!
We're in the gauntlet of baby names right now. It's horrible. We might just end up calling the kid 4.
Ha Ha Dix was a great pick, btw.
When I was a kid back in the 1960s, the Emilys, Emmas, Hannahs and Olivias were mostly old women. The Debbies and Barbaras were young girls. Now those Debbies and Barbaras are grandmotherly and the Emilys, Emmas, Hannahs and Olivias are the young girls again.
Milan, Atlas, and Duke for the boys; Daleyza, Marjorie, Lennon, Jurnee, and Everlee/Everleigh for girls.
You shouldn't burden your children with a stripper's stage name.
Proprietary drug names are best for black babies.
That's somewhere...
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Do you remember Erich Barnes, the football player? His name was pronounced Ee-Rich. I heard him explain that his mother read the name somewhere, assumed it was pronounced Ee-Rich, and thought it was a great name for a son for whom she had great hopes. At his size, no one was likely to mock his name, even if his mother had named him Sue.
I see that Michael, though slipping down from the number two spot, is still a popular name.
@Birches,
If anyone in the family uses old, niche computer programming languages, they might advocate that your next child be named "Forth".
(My apologies...I find the joke funny. Even though many computer-coding geeks need to have it explained to them...)
Duke was John Wayne's nickname. I wonder if friends of Dukes will nickname them John Wayne.
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix sounds like a phrase that belongs in the apology-to-Monica Lewinsky story above this one.
I wasn't surprised my name (Polly) hasn't been in the top 1000 names during the past 14 years, but I was shocked my sister's name (Jean) hasn't been, either.
Rule number one for my wife and myself on naming:
Keep it simple. No odd spelling, which will hound them with misspellings on documents for the rest of their lives.
Example: Kaydee for Katy.
My children? Jeffrey, Matthew and Lisa.
Our names? John and Susan.
Of course some prefer to be nonconformist. In which case they can legally change their name when they reach adulthood. And which will cause them the same problems with the misspelling as if they had been named that at birth.
Exceptions should probably made for odd family first names. For tradition's sake.
Among odd names in my family – these are actual first names – NOT nicknames: Mac, Buck(my father) and Were, pronounced as "wear."
Nicknames: Doc(an uncle – I never knew his real name), Skeet(real name: Floyd), Hooky(real name: Erwin) and Boy(real name: Asa).
Simplify.
"Hi. I'm An."
Funny, J. Lee.
Shameka, Kiesha, Tara, Shonda, Sabrina, Crystal, Daronda, Theresa, Felicia, Tenisha, Sharon, Monica, Monique, Christina, and Yolanda.
And what happens when the child shrugs?
John Galt pops out of one ear, Ayn Rand out of the other. They have sex and create another baby who shrugs... etc.
Resist mockery. Remember: Babies are named by people who have babies. Don't like the names? Have your own baby.
Nothing wrong with sneering from the sidelines. One needn't be a hen to judge an egg.
Why can't we deride the names? I named my daughter Jane, but she has friends, I'm hardly inoculated from the "stupid made up name" trend.
@grackle,
was Were a really manly man?
Milan? A common Serbo-Croatian name. Why should it be taken up in the U.S.?
Everleigh? For a girl?? Does no one remember the notorious Everleigh Club (a Chicago legend)? Don't they know they are naming their daughter after a brothel? Or worse yet, do they know?
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