Why do some of them name their kids such HORRIBLE names. Penn, from Penn and Teller, named his new baby Moxi Crimefighter!!! This poor child. He said he picked the middle name because if she ever gets pulled over for speeding she can tell the cop "But don't worry, we are on the same side, my middle name is Crimefighter"
Ummm.....ok? And I used to get mad at my mom for picking a boring name! (Jennifer Lynn)

By Annie2 on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 - 08:26 pm:

In my teens I babysat a child whose name was Hazard. He was actually the III. I also grew up with a girl whose first name was Sugar and her last name was Sweet. Imagine that!
I,personally, do not have a middle name, nor do my siblings. My mom thought our last name was too long for a middle, it was nine letters.
I agree that Crimefighter stinks, so does Moon Unit for a first name!
I also have a friend who named her son C ale. (I left the space so it couldn't be goog led). It is an unusual name. Now there is a new movie coming out this fall called Dreamer, about a horse , and the main character's name is C ale.

By Boxzgrl on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 - 09:03 pm:

LOL, if it makes you feel better my sister is a Jennifer Lynn as well ;)

As far as celebrities, maybe it's the chemicals being let off of all the machines they work by frying their brains to death? I have no idea but I sure do feel bad for those kids.

When naming DD I went as far as making sure her initials didn't spell anything she'd be teased about later.

By Reds9298 on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 - 09:43 pm:

We actually have friends who named their son Axel Lincoln which I just don't get at all.
This one is THE KICKER so get ready: The school I taught in is very low-income, single & very young parents who many did not even complete junior high let alone high school. As a result, names were often spelled so incorrectly and parents would get mad at you for accidentally spelling them right! Anyway, I swear, no lie a woman enrolled her daughter in kindergarten (my classroom) and her name was 'Shithead' (I'm not using profanity)...it was pronounced 'Shith-eee-ud', accent on the 'eee'!!!!!!
Can you believe that???? This poor child will have her name on every bulletin board every year of her educational life and how do you explain that to the mother???
Fortunately for me they only stayed about a week before moving on, so I never had to deal with any 'public postings' of her name, but OMG! Never heard anything like it!

By Imamommyx4 on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 - 11:36 pm:

A friend of mine worked at an indigent hospital. There was a mother who delivered her baby and named it Gono Rhea (pronoucned ray). No kidding.

By Laurazee on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 01:40 am:

Ugh. Drives me crazy, too! There's also (brace yourselves) "Pilot Inspektor" (Jason Lee and wife) and "Audio Science" (Shannyn Sossamon and hubby).

There is actually a law in Quebec - and apparently in Denmark, as well - that you can't name your child something stupid. Apparently, Quebec's civil code prohibits that. It is hard to find information on it, but here's an article from way back (scroll down). It seems like they make parents defend the name if it sounds "non-standard" or "if the name chosen clearly invites ridicule." So something like "Adolph Satanlover" or "Toaster McBread" might get questioned.

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The bureaucrats have previously put a stop the names Lucifer and Cowboy as first names for children. ... On May 6, the registrar's office said it had reconsidered Ivory and decided it was acceptable.
Three cases have gone to court since 1994, when Quebec's civil code was amended to give the registrar the power to strike down names "that invite ridicule or that may discredit the child." In one case - the child named Spatule (Spatula) - the courts agreed the name must be changed.
But the registrar lost court battles over the middle name C'est-un-Ange (It's an angel) and Tomas. The registrar objected Tomas to because it had an acute accent over the "a" - a form that doesn't exist in French.

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By Karen~moderator on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 07:46 am:

I have a cousin who always thought of himself as *quite* the hippie, and he named his son Earth Sun. His sister named her son Renin Coy.

Jennifer, my DD was going to be Jennifer Lynn, but my entire pregnancy, my mom kept referring to her as Jenny Lynn, and it reminded me too much of my crib, a Jenny Lind crib. So after she was born I decided she was gong to be Jennifer Lauren! LOL

By Andyjoy on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 11:27 am:

I used to babysit a girl named Tequila Brooke--her dad, an alcoholic at the time, thought it would be a funny way to make his mom mad. However, it backfired as his mom didn't know what Tequila was--she thought it was a color! He got his act together and calls his daughter by Brooke. However, when she was 7 she decided she wanted to go by Tequila. Her 2nd grade teacher would not believe that it really was her name!

I also know a Tara Ball (her dad is Terry Ball) and a Terry Bull. Then there is Crystal Waters (her mom nixed "Clear" as a middle name, which her dad wanted)

Then there is always the inital problem. My pastor's were G.A.S., my 6th grade teacher's were G.A.G., and when my pastor's grandson was adopted he became A.S.S. As a 7th grader, he found this hilarious.

By Crystal915 on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 12:37 pm:

Laurazee... is that Jason Lee as in "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob" fame?

What's bad about it is how much thought most of us put into names. I was going to name Madison "Brooklyn Nicole", but at 7 months pg decided I didn't like "Brook", and she is now "Madison Elizabeth" Shane Jacob was chosen because it is a variation of my ex's name, and Jacobs was my maiden name. I thought about initials, nicknames, etc until I was satisfied my kids would neither teased nor discredited in the "real world".

By Melanie on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 12:41 pm:

I feel for the K teacher who gets all the kids from our baby playgroup. I am sure she will long for the days when there were multiple Jennifers and Michaels! We had: Peyton, Avalon, Bethena, Bayson, Esme, Tatum, Melia and Niko. We did have a couple with more widely known names, LOL, like Beatrice and Jonah.

Other kids who attend or have attended our school are Zohar, Sundara, Koa, and Tadgh (Sounds like the first syllable of "Tig"er).

By Tonya on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 12:55 pm:

I know people with different names. My kids are different Jade Mildred Stone or Jade Stone and son is Timothy Rolan Stone like the Rolling Stones. Plus my friend has 5 kids 2 are boys and they are Race and Chase.

I went to school with a girl names Piage Stamp and Hope Spring. My babysitters name is Sunshine.

By Lorebunde on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 01:03 pm:

I wonder what Britney SPears has planned for a name?

By Kaye on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 01:25 pm:

We went round and round with names too. As a teacher it is amazing what names are out there. A good friend of mine's name is nissa, which means elfin one, she hated it, always had to spell it, always had to pronounce it. Her middle name was worse, I am not sure how to spell it, but it sounded like "sue lee rum", she was named after someone. Anyway I was pg with my first when we met, it convinced me to go traditional.

By Kaye on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 01:26 pm:

Oh my daughter's teacher named his baby Jett. Then he gets offended when he get all this airplanes as gift....well DUH!

By Karen~moderator on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 02:09 pm:

That is John Travolta's son's name.

By Dawnk777 on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 02:25 pm:

I stuck with traditional with Sarah Joy and Emily Marie! LOL! No weird names for me!

Sarah will go her whole life saying Sarah with an H, though. But she would have anyway, even if we had left the H off.

By Jewlz on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 03:45 pm:

my step daughters name is
c andace c ornn ... candy c ornn

By Heaventree on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 03:56 pm:

I have an unusual first name, that's why I don't use it here - too recognizable! I was teased a bit as a child, however, people now tell me I have a beautiful name, well of course except when I lived in Quebec. When I said my name they all went "Huh?" Which made me feel stupid.

My name has two parts with no dash or hyphen, and the second part is NOT my middle name, however when I got married, the woman at the marriage license office insisted that it was my middle name, I disagreed with her for about 2 minutes then said "Fine, I guess you know better than I do."

When I was pregnant with Matt, I wanted to call him Raine (pronounced Rain, like Raine Maida). No way would DH go for it, he thought it was too weird and no one would pronounce it properly, then he started call my belly Thunder Storm. So we went with Matthew. In hind site I think DH was right. Now we have to work on names for number 2 .

By Jelygu on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 05:03 pm:

LOL... I enjoyed all the weird names!
Jimmy only likes plain, average boy names, hence Christopher Jay.
Although with all the unique names out there, I guess the traditional ones aren't being used as much.

By My2cuties on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 05:30 pm:

I think all my girls have normal names.. We have a Katelyn Anne Paige, Hailey Elizabeth, and Lauren Grace. Katelyn has 2 middle names but that is the only odd thing about them.

Deanna, I heard a story about a woman that named her daughter Shithead pronounced shi-theed. That is too weird (and scary) that it would be 2 different people, maybe it's the same one..lol

By Cat on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 06:10 pm:

My kids have "normal" names. Robin Galen and Randall William. We did have a dog named Kenya Barcardi and we called her Rummy. We were just talking about wierd names the other day and my grandmother was a teacher with a student named "Rose Bush". My brother's girlfriend in high school had a neighbor named--no joke--"Harry Dick". That was NOT a nickname, it was his given name on his birth certificate. How cruel!

By Tink on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 06:53 pm:

My dh and I chose names that everyone would be able to pronounce but that weren't too common. All three of our kids have two middle names. My dh has two and it's turning into a tradition. Samantha Joy Lynn, Seth Robert Vincent, and Isabella Rose Claire. With our long last name, we've given our dks quite a mouthful to learn as toddlers. We have people ask what Seth is a nickname for or think they've heard it wrong and ask "Jeff?" or "Steph?". We also said we wouldn't use nicknames but we call them Sami, Sethman, and Bella.

I went to school with an Asian girl named Huchi Coochi. And a math teacher at my high school's name is Richard Hair. He chooses to go by Dick. That's just wrong!

By Nanaoie on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 06:59 pm:

When I had my daughter,there was a lady who had just had twins.She named her little girls Regina and Vigina...yup, you read that right...............

By Karen~moderator on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 07:06 pm:

Cori - Isabella Rose Claire! I LOVE the combination of those names together! It is SO pretty!

By Bellajoe on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 07:19 pm:

Cori, I wanted to name my dd Isabella Rose! Mut my dh disagreed. Her name is Isabella Marie.

I have heard people joking about the name Shithead (pronounced Shi-thayed) I never knew people actually named their child that!

Celebritys do give their kids weird names. I can not beleive Gwenyth Paltrow named her's "Apple" . There are weirder ones out there though.

By Laurazee on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 08:04 pm:

Jason Lee, with the son "Pilot Inspektor" is indeed the fellow from "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob" fame. The other one I mentioned - Shannyn Sossamon - is most well-known for "A Knight's Tale". Her - son I think? - is "Audio Science".

My guess on Britney? Probably something combined with "Lynn". There seems to be a lot of consensus on "Cheeto-Lynn".

I must admit, I laughed and laughed at this site. And here are some more really silly baby names, brought to you by crazed celebrities.

By Melanie on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 09:23 pm:

When I was in the hospital after the birth of ds #2, I remember watching a news story about a newborn baby. The parents named her Silver Ann Black because they are Oakland Raider fans whose colors are, you guessed it, silver and black. LOL.

By Luvn29 on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 09:41 pm:

OMG!!! I was reading the first link that Laurazee so kindly gave us (My husband will kill you, I am supposed to be cleaning out the kids' dressers) and I am laughing so hard at one comment...

Probably just me thinking it is so funny, but I must share:

Person writes in: "MY first daughter name is Unique Melanie [last name] I wanted her fisrt name to be unique and she has my first name s her middle. I am 7 months pregnant and if its a girl her name will be Angel or Destiny Lanell [last name].If its a boy his name will be Maki(ma-ky-i)Donte'


Webmaster comments: "Alright, I'll give her credit for skipping to the chase and just naming the kid "Unique." None of this Amberashlynn Daysharla crap. Save everyone the time and tell them exactly what to think. But, d*** it, there's no way on this earth you can make people pronounce Maki with three syllables. Not unless you pay everyone on earth at least $50."

The whole "three syllable" thing cracked me up!

Okay, I'll try to get back to normal now...

By Melanie on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 09:43 pm:

LOL, I have been hooked reading that site as well. Some of the names...oh my!!!

By Karefl on Thursday, June 9, 2005 - 09:21 am:

When I was in kindergarten there was a girl named Sarah B (just the letter "B") Sweet!

By Livvy on Thursday, June 9, 2005 - 12:27 pm:

My sister graduated with a girl whose first name is Bonnie and her last name was also Bonnie. Her middle name is Bea.

By Bellajoe on Thursday, June 9, 2005 - 12:50 pm:

OMG that second link cracks me up. They must be on drugs when they name those poor children.

George Forman's kids are all named George! Including 2 duaghters?!? Now that's lazy!

By Paulas on Thursday, June 9, 2005 - 02:15 pm:

I had a friend who named her daughter "Splendid" It was cute when she was a baby but can you image a 50 year old woman being called "Splendid".

There were some different names in a town I lived in. A collegue named her twins Raven and Grizzly. Another couple named their daughter River for a first name and Valley for a second name.

By Wandilu on Thursday, June 9, 2005 - 02:36 pm:

I grew up with a rhyming name,and I was made fun of all of my life.So,therefore ,I was very particular with my children's names.I get very angry at these stupid people for putting horrible names on their children.They just don't realize just how much a name can affect a child's self-esteem.An aquaintence of mine has a dgd named SEVEN.A former friend of my dd married a guy with the last name Silver,so she named their son Sterling.And laughed and said"he's going to HATE me when he grows up!!