Posted on 06/27/2006 10:33:31 AM PDT by qam1
When I was deciding what to name my daughter, my grandmother suggested names of a couple of her cousins. Preeble & Kreeble (twins)- she said the names were of German origin. I tried to be polite, but I definitely did not name my child that!
I named him Roy. I just thought it was a cool name for a cool lizard.
That IS a cool name for a lizard.
Ap Richard begat the name Pritchard.
Ap Howell = Powell
Ap Rhys = Price
My idea was using patronyms as first names. Thought it was clever.
Sound like names you'd expect of cookie-making tree-elves!
Who did that?
Right, you're completely unaware that wacky Boomers DID stick their kids with names like Space Moonbeam? Just on the celebrity front alone,
Phoenix's Irish-Spanish father, John Bottom (b 1947), and Bronx-born Jewish mother, Arlyn Sharon Dunetz (b 1944), joined the Children of God cult in the late 1960s and became missionaries, traveling throughout South America. They named their kids River Jude, Rain Joan of Arc, and Joaquin Rafael, among others. The latter two changed their names to 'Rainbow' and 'Leaf,' though Joaquin (big role, Commodus in Gladiator) has since taken his original name back...with the exception of his last name, which his parents changed to Phoenix.
Soleil Moon Frye (big role, Punky Brewster) was born on Aug. 6, 1976 and raised in L.A. with two brothers, Meeno Peluce and Sean Frye.
Or perhaps you're looking for normal non-celebrity types like Moonbeam or Sunshine, or maybe Sundancer Wintermoon Sweetpea, Panda Kroll, or Superman The Aquarian, or Beauty Israel. Is that enough for you?
LOL, finally catching up on my pings. Very good!
What beautiful names, they bring tears to my eyes :) I wanted Israel for little Isaiah, but my son won out. I wanted Matthew for his middle name, but since his father had recently passed, my son felt he needed to give the baby his father's name, but he gave it as a middle name. Roger doesn't go with Isaiah :)
My Mother's name is Rachel, and I had planned to give my daughter that name, but never had one.
Prayers for you and your precious ones! I only have one son, so not sure if I'll make 15! I keep telling them they must keep going until they get a girl. But I love all these little boys!
Floyd and Myrtle! Eeeew!
My rules are easy. For girls: no flowers, jewels, months, or seasons.
For boys: no -iahs and must be more than one syllable. (I reserve special condemnation for Wade, Clay, and Josh, all of which I find utterly ugly.)
My own kids have the above mix but reversed and Yankee rather than Scot, I vetoed any name I couldn't spell when drunk.
LOL. Reminds me of the Greek American dad trying to say "Ian" in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
William is a mandatory first or middle name in my family for over 600 years, why, I don't have a clue, my last name as my screen name is little will(iam), it could be worse my grand mothers family went through 300 years of Abraham's.
The Mater Familaris Sophia, who never told the truth, with dyed red hair, cast her basilisk eye on the whole proceedings.
exactly, there were so few you can pratcically name them all.
"exactly, there were so few you can pratcically name them all."
As you recall, you asked "who did that?" I demonstrated that some did, which is all I needed to do to prove invalid your implication that none did. Now, your bruised ego forces you to posthumously reframe the argument, as if the contentious issue somehow was ever that it was done by the millions. I never asserted that at all, only that there were plenty of wacky Boomers, too.
Nevertheless, you must keep with your personal rule, insist people pretend that you're right, when as usual, you are not. With Boomers like you around, it's no small wonder people generalize your entire cohort as they do.
His older brothers, John (16) and Steve (11) can attest to the fact that life without a stupid name is an asset.
LEMONJELLO and ORANGELLO
Urban myth.
Every time I hear her name I can't help but think of the Beast and I cringe.
I keep telling myself its just a name, but it doesn't help.
It also doesn't help that the girl was born in early 90's and her parents look like white-trash grifters that I can easily picture jumping into the $250 "buy here, pay here" vehicle to go pull the voting lever for the Toon.
Horrible! My 6 month old is named Erin. Someone actually asked me how I spelled it once@@
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