You named your kid what?!?

Published on July 26, 2004 By dharmagrl In Misc

I was perusing the local hospital's 'baby pages' earlier this evening.

It never ceases to amaze me what people name their children.

Apart from the usual smatterings of ordinary names spelt 'differently' - like Mykel instead of Michael - there were a couple of names that left me asking myself 'what the hell were they thinking?'

Someone named their daughter 'Citrus'. Yep, the trend of naming kids after fruit has gone to a whole other level. I can hear the jokes about giving her a squeeze already.

Someone else named their son 'Corter'. "Hey, ya got a corter ta spare for the pop machine?" was the first thing that sprang into my head.

Ok, back to the baby pages now to see what else some parents with overactive imaginations have managed to think up.....

Comments (Page 3)

Abe Cubbage

on Jul 27, 2004

That's what I'm talking about! People make up names out of thin air!

How do you think names like Mike, Jill, and Bob came about?

My mom almost named me Wolfgang, and I wish she would have. I don't really care for Abraham but it's still better than names like: Mike, Dwight, Steven, Tony, John, Mark etc.

BigDreamer415

on Jul 27, 2004

. I don't really care for Abraham but it's still better than names like: ...John, Mark etc.

I guess it's all a matter of perspective then, eh?

~Sarah

Abe Cubbage

on Jul 27, 2004

I guess it's all a matter of perspective then, eh?

Nuh uhh...

xtine

on Jul 27, 2004

My dad still talks about how he wanted to name me Camillesabob. He said he'd've called me Cammy for short. I just cannot imagine....

Thank goodness my mother stepped in and said no way. So I ended up Christine and I love my name.

CS Guy

on Jul 27, 2004

"Friends" star Courteney Cox Arquette and her actor husband, David Arquette, became parents for the first time Sunday.

People magazine reported on its Web site that Cox was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital around noon on Saturday and gave birth to a girl Sunday morning.

The baby, who is named Coco, was born about a week early, according to the report.

Arquette is 32, Cox turns 40 on Tuesday. The couple was married in 1999

Let's hope Coco uses her father's name. Can you imagine going through life with the name Coco Cox?

chiprj

on Jul 27, 2004

The Cleveland Indians have a player named Coco Crisp. Real first name Covelli, but he's gone by Coco all his life. Fans of the opposing teams bring boxes of cereal to the games to heckle him.

The tribe also had a guy named Milton Bradley, but traded him this year to the LA Dodgers.

chiprj

on Jul 27, 2004

Oh, and almost forgot. There is a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle.

Sportscenter had a running joke a few years ago (Dan Patrick/Keith Oberman time frame) where they wouldn't say his name. Whenever they covered race results, they'd always say, "And you know who finished in 24th place..."

BigDreamer415

on Jul 27, 2004

Let's hope Coco uses her father's name. Can you imagine going through life with the name Coco Cox?

Oh, and almost forgot. There is a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle.

When we were younger, my brother had his matchbox car, and I was always amused by the name "Dick Trickle" on it. And to my brother's disatisfaction I would blatantly make fun of it.

~Sarah

dharmagrl

on Jul 27, 2004

How do you think names like Mike, Jill, and Bob came about?

Yes, Abe, but I'm talking about people making up names like (and I know someone who did this) Sunthy....and then insisting people pronounce it 'Shon-tay'. I know someone who put a cidilla (french accent) on a letter in their kids name because it "looked pretty".

I think Chipj's 'Orangejello' twins have the most outrageous name thus far....although Coco Cox and Apple Paltrow come close.

dharmagrl

on Jul 27, 2004

read a newspaper article once about some drive by shooting, this woman had FIVE sons, named Anthony, Tony, Antoine, Antonio, and Tone, and 2 daughers named Chiquita and Margherita. Great, 5 tonys, a banana and a drink.

When I was growing up there was a family down the street from us who, in their quest for a little boy, had 6 girls. Maria, Marina, Marinne, Mary, Meredith and Mariah. Then came the boy....and they named him Eric.

I was watching some assinine dating show on MTV last week and there was a girl named "Tekilya" on there. I wonder if her brother was "Tangeray"?

PlausibleDeniability

on Jul 27, 2004

My sister named her first son Zxathian. Don't ask because I don't know. I have a friend who wanted to have four kids, two boys, two girls, named Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr...cute but is it too cute?

Kayles

on Jul 27, 2004

We don't want the whole world named Michael and Emily

I named my daughter Emily Joan. I love that name!

Amitty

on Jul 27, 2004

I have a godson named Random, and there was nothing we could do to talk the father and mother out of it.

Abe Cubbage

on Jul 27, 2004

Better a boy named Sue than a boy named Bob.

I admit it, excessive conformity makes my skin crawl.

citahellion

on Jul 27, 2004

"Random" is just as good a name as "Chance", which I have heard used before.

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