Hey, I resemble that remark.
Posted on 08/12/2005 6:33:27 AM PDT by Phantom Lord
Trivia Tidbit Of The Day: Part 23 -- Baby Names.
BABY NAMES:
Girls, by income-
Most Popular High-End White Girl Names in the 1990s
1. Alexandra
2. Lauren
3. Katherine
4. Madison
5. Rachel
Most Popular Low-End White Girl Names in the 1990s
1. Amber
2. Heather
3. Kayla
4. Stephanie
5. Alyssa
Boys, by income-
Most Popular High-End White Boy Names
1. Benjamin
2. Samuel
3. Jonathan
4. Alexander
5. Andrew
Most Popular Low-End White Boy Names
1. Cody
2. Brandon
3. Anthony
4. Justin
5. Robert
WHITEST AND BLACKEST GIRL NAMES-
The 20 Whitest Girl Names
1. Molly
2. Amy
3. Claire
4. Emily
5. Katie
6. Madeline
7. Katelyn
8. Emma
9. Abigail
10. Carly
11. Jenna
12. Heather
13. Katherine
14. Caitlin
15. Kaitlin
16. Holly
17. Allison
18. Kaitlyn
19. Hannah
20. Kathryn
The 20 Blackest Girl Names
1. Imani
2. Ebony
3. Shanice
4. Aaliyah
5. Precious
6. Nia
7. Deja
8. Diamond
9. Asia
10. Aliyah
11. Jada
12. Tierra
13. Tiara
14. Kiara
15. Jazmine
16. Jasmin
17. Jazmin
18. Jasmine
19. Alexus
20. Raven
WHITEST AND BLACKEST BOY NAMES-
The 20 Whitest Boy Names
1. Jake
2. Connor
3. Tanner
4. Wyatt
5. Cody
6. Dustin
7. Luke
8. Jack
9. Scott
10. Logan
11. Cole
12. Lucas
13. Bradley
14. Jacob
15. Garrett
16. Dylan
17. Maxwell
18. Hunter
19. Brett
20. Colin
The 20 Blackest Boy Names
1. DeShawn
2. DeAndre
3. Marquis
4. Darnell
5. Terrell
6. Malik
7. Trevon
8. Tyrone
9. Willie
10. Dominique
11. Demetrius
12. Reginald
13. Jamal
14. Maurice
15. Jalen
16. Darius
17. Xavier
18. Terrance
19. Andre
20. Darryl
MOST POPULAR RACE-NEUTRAL NAMES-
Most Popular Girl Crossover Names
1. Andrea
2. Whitney
3. Alicia
4. Kendra
5. Alexandria
6. Natasha
7. Tiffany
8. Brittany
9. Amber
10. Talia
11. Erika
12. Brianna
13. Ariel
14. Gabrielle
15. Veronica
16. Alana
17. Kyra
18. Ashley
19. Breanna
20. Erica
Most Popular Boy Crossover Names
1. Vincent
2. George
3. Troy
4. Christian
5. Martin
6. Corey
7. Brandon
8. Eric
9. Craig
10. Frank
11. Cameron
12. Shawn
13. Micah
14. Gregory
15. Nathaniel
16. Marc
17. Aaron
18. Dominic
19. Theodore
20. Isaac
I actually worked with a woman named Mercedes. She is in the rich white column.
My nephew is named Richard. And for fun, the first thing we do at my house on Sunday morning is turn to the birth announcements and find out what names parents have decided to hang on their unfortunate children. To me, the best present you can give a child after birth is a name he or she will not have to change upon attaining majority through utter embarrassment.
Grandma named: Maida
Father named: Garwin
Where are they on the lists?
One of my best friends has a child (single mom, deadbeat dad, she's in the system now) and she named her Keyonna Skye. She told me this on the phone. Good thing, since we might not be friends anymore if she saw me rolling my eyes.
There was a Pornicia in the news a while back.
Hey, I resemble that remark.
Honoria was a court name......from the imperial family, about 400 A.D. Think a Honoria wound up being immortalized in the "Ring" cycle, which was a German epic that involved a number of characters of the later Roman Empire.
Drusilla is also Roman, diminutive feminine of Drusus, a personal cognomen (third name/nickname) of the gens Livia, one of the lesser patrician clans of Republican Rome. The most famous one, Livia Drusilla, was a notorious princess of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and a relative of Tiberius and Claudius, whose mother shut her up in her rooms for days on end until she died, for her gross crimes and adulteries.
Horatio is originally Roman, too, from Horatius Cocles, an early Roman hero.
The Old Testament Biblical names pretty much went out of fashion after the Scopes "monkey trial" and we all decided we were post-Christian sophisticates and started naming kids Madison and Hunter......using surnames as personal names to try to boost a kid's later career. Plenty of articles have been written about how men with French or Norman family names automatically have a leg up getting into management -- LeClair, LeGrand, Beaumont, and so on. Then there's the old upscale stunt of giving the kid two personal names, then using the second one and reducing the first one to an initial, as in "A. Morgan LeClair", something like that, modeled on J. Pierpont Morgan. Pontiac once ran an ad directed at ambitious, social-climbing white boys that featured a big Grand Prix (back when they were the top of Pontiac's line) swinging into a reserved parking space clearly marked "A.J. LeClair". Clearly not reserved for the night janitor.
I prefer the old Biblical names, though -- very muscular, like Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak (who got thrown in a Spanish prison, but that's another story). I like names like those.
A pox on these parents whose slug-brained mothers insist on naming children after their favorite steamy soap-operatic hunkboys......that's as classless as dads who would insist on naming their daughters after Tawny Kitaen or Miss February.
In my family for generations Salome' was a favored name. And almost almost all the kids were given Biblical names (except for one uncle who was named after the Dr....go figure).
When my wife was pregnant and we were working on names and constantly getting unsolicited suggestions from family members invariably they would suggest "a Saints name." To put that to rest I informed them that if we do decide to name him after a Saint, we are going with Polycarp.
You know, I do like Rose alot. I think it's a very pretty underused named.
I always get a mental image of a bunch of goldfish with that name.
Blanche was my grandmother's name - and she wasn't southern.
You'll probably know better than me, but when sitting in a synagogue service one day, a young mother yells out "O' Shit".
She was new to the congregation, from Israel, didn't have a great command of English, and I hadn't talked to her yet because me hebrew was flaky. So, myself and most of the congregation just went dead silent, and started staring at her.
A little kid runs up to her and jumps on her lap.
Apaarently Oshit is a Hebrew boy's name that translates as "to shine" in English.
Poor kid went for almost 6 months with that name before people convinced the mom to legally change it.
Almost as good as the vietnamese name Phuk.
I always liked Little Missy Dew Drop. Underused, IMO.
But since you bring it up, here are the Top 10 Jewish boys and girls' names in the crowd that I hang out with:
JEWISH BOYS NAMES
1. Menachem Mendel
2. Menachem
3. Mendel
4. Yosef Yitzhak
5. Yossi
6. Yitzhak
7. Shalom
8. David
9. Yisrael
10. Aryeh
JEWISH GIRLS NAMES
1. Chaya Mushka
2. Chaya
3. Mushka
4. Moussia
5. Chana
6. Rivka
7. Leah
8. Deborah
9. Esther
10. Rachel
I just read through our local paper's birthday section.
Sincere Understanding (Last Name Deleted).
He has a sister named Maaliyah.
Excuse me while I barf.
(I shouldn't talk. We've been tossing around names for our future kids, and we agree on Cadence for a girl, since both of us walk to the beat of a different drum ourselves)
I just read through our local paper's birthday section.
Sincere Understanding (Last Name Deleted).
He has a sister named Maaliyah.
Excuse me while I barf.
(I shouldn't talk. We've been tossing around names for our future kids, and we agree on Cadence for a girl, since both of us walk to the beat of a different drum ourselves)
Penn of Penn & Teller has a newborn daughter. Name: Moxie Crimefighter
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