Posted on 05/14/2012 9:15:18 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A lot of weight rides on the name you choose for your kid. And every year when the Social Security office releases the data on the most popular baby names, parents get upset. As a Michele who faced the extreme popularity of my name way back when, I'm here to tell you that if your child's name is on this list, it's going to be just fine. In fact, take pride in knowing your baby name choice won't be ridiculed.
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They say the number of babies named “Jethro” declined drastically in the early 1960s.
strange how names are like any other fad. I can’t stand it when I hear people naming their babies the currently popular name...especially if it is a name that was nowhere to be found just a few short years prior.
Future pick hits: Barack, Trayvon, and Willard.
Hmmmmm, lets see if Trayvon makes the list next year.
I didn’t see Barack on the boys list.
I didn’t see Barack on the boys list.
It'll become Tr3vaughn.
Unfamiliar with the name Nevaeh, I came across this reasoning: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevaeh)
Is Latrina in there, I actually saw that name once, how about Latoilet or maybe Toiletta?
My surprise was that Jessica didn’t make the cut.
Of course from that Wikipedia link we see that it might also be that people are naming their baby girls after the lady rassler named Nevaeh. I guess if people are going to name their baby after a lady rassler, Nevaeh is a better choice than naming the little girl after the Fabulous Moolah.
I’m surprised there aren’t more English surnames as first names for girls. That seems to be a fad In recent years.
That sounds like a porn star name.
Where’s Patrick and Charles?
In Germany you can’t change your name.
I have a friend who, when he was a hospital chaplain, tried to talk a woman out of the name “Meconium”. (Look it up.) Mom just liked the sound of it.
He was unsuccessful by the way.
What about Sky Low Low and Little Beaver?
They left one off the list: gunsequalfreedom.
How could they have missed that great name? Geez.
Actually, ConservativeStatement has a nice ring to it too.
We are such stumps and named our sons Matthew and Christopher.
I also notice that few people under the age of 50 named ‘Richard’ go by the name ‘Dick’. It’s always Rick or Rich now.
I guess Jennifer is a 70s name. What about Julie?
I once worked with a guy named Dick Kurtz, I kid you not and we kidded him a lot.
Sorry, don’t believe it. Don’t believe the stories about “Chlamydia” and “Syphilia” and “Vageena” either.
I’m a nurse, and nurses are blunt enough to say, well yes it has a pretty sound, but it’s a nasty sexually transmitted disease, or it’s baby poop, and it’s not a good name for your child.
Only if she has a brother named Doug, LOL remember when all the kids were named after "Days of Our Lives" stars?
Well, it’s my best friend and he is not known to lie. But hey, anything is possible.
HOw about this one?
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I’d give him credit for being secure in himself. LOL. Our former attorney general was named Mike Cox. He didn’t go by Michael either.
Heh, you know the old man was in on it and mom was totally clueless.
Crazies have knocked Jessica out of the top 100?
My buddy’s wife is in the baby ward. She told me once about a kid named “Shithead”...prounounced shuh-theed
When I was a teen, I knew a guy named Mike Hunt.
People take the “friend of friend” out of the story, shorten the chain all the time.
Doctors and nurses can get tired of their more dysfunctional patients and they mock their ignorance and the made-up names some of them give their babies. My own OB-GYN told me that when her husband was in residency in Philadelphia, a new mother named her baby Placenta. I might have believed it if I hadn’t read that anecdote three other times.
Mason Williams made #2 & #3!
Wow!
What a Gas!
What A Classical Gas!
;-)
Interesting that over half (26) of the boy’s names are Biblical or Biblically based, i.e. “Christopher”.
We chose Charles last year for our baby. Not on the list. We chose the family name route instead of the trend name.
I have no idea if this is any good but this site claims;
http://www.kaaj.com/psych/namebk.html
“Contents: good & bad, beneficial & harmful, best & worst, baby names; dealing with or changing unsatisfactory adult first or last names; women’s last name changes at time of marriage; use of nicknames vs. given names; unconventionally spelled names; androgynous names; long vs. short names; connotations of names; impressions conveyed by names.”
Yes they charge for the info. Just wanted to point out a possible resource or type of for those who want all possible help with baby names.
I once worked with a guy called Dick Tooher we all called him by his nickname Slipper !! Slipper D.T.
I once worked with a guy named Dick Kurtz, I kid you not and we kidded him a lot.
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I attended HS with a boy whose name was Dick Click (for real!).
I knew a guy named Richard Head....honest.
Why would anyone name their daughter “Brooklyn”?
I knew a Dick Hartigan and a Richard Hedd.
I also personly know George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Woodrow Wilson, John Kennedy and Ronald Regan (close). I had the honor of introducing Woody to Ron once.
None will compare to the girl named L-A pronounced LaDasha.
Next year, “Trayvon” will be popular. Fifteen years from now, that name will make the news again as kids whose parents gave them a criminal’s name all go to jail.
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