Parents Choosing More Unusual Baby Names Now

Live Science ^ | February 24, 2010 | Jeanna Bryner

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Celebrities aren't the only ones giving their babies unusual names. Compared with decades ago, parents are choosing less common names for kids, which could suggest an emphasis on uniqueness and individualism, according to new research.

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Mmmmm, Barack Hussein Obama.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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More evidence of the collapse of civilization.

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This should be a fun thread.

[Dilbert San Diego]

The name Barack has gone up in popularity.

The name Hillary went down in popularity when the Clintons came on the national scene.

[Celerity]

My favorites to date :

L-A (Pronounced, ladasha)
Kartoune (Cartoon ?)

[Kieri]

I wanted to name our daughter “Taryn Skye” when she was born. My parents and husband talked me out of it. So she became “Taryn Elise.” If any kid has made her name her own, she has. She’s a wonderful, strong-willed, conservative, smart teen who goes her own way. I’m blessed to have such a great kid. :-)

[workerbee]

Where’s this lady been? This article could’ve been written in the ‘80s (and was).

[mewzilla]

Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue"

[Battle Axe]

I thought we’d hit bottom with:

Bunny Easter....a real sweet girl I knew.

Lucky Strike Burns
Spark Burns
Two brothers and the parents smoked a lot.

Twin boys in our church named after guns:

Spencer and Remington

BA

[Kieri]

My husband worked in Detroit as a case worker in social services. Some of the names of his “clients” were unreal.

His favorite? Karatoshak.

Poor girl.

[Littlejon]

Wife is a teacher and she and I were discussing this very thing last night. She said the most unusual names on kids she has taught were:

- Conception
- Cinnamon
- Wednesday (who has a younger brother named Pugsly - I couldn’t make that up!)
- Marvelous (who was so far from being “marvelous” it ain’t even funny)

[Lizavetta]

parents are choosing less common names for kids, which could suggest an emphasis on uniqueness and individualism,

Because people today could use even more self-absorption than they already have.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I will get charged with racism if any politically correct types are around, but, years ago, black people had the same “normal” names that everyone else did. Now many, not all, but many young black people have names that didn’t even exist many years ago.

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I have a friend who is a teacher. She told me last year, in her class, she had six students with different spellings of the same first name. One “yoot” told her “You forgot the apostrophe.”

[struggle]

I named my daughter Aestas (the goddess of summer in Latin)

[mnehring]

Don’t forget the infamous

Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg

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Here’s a useful site: http://www.alternativebabynames.com/index.php?goto=unique_baby_name_generator

[hoosiermama]

Well there the family that named their first three: LIberty, Freedom, Justice and the baby’s middle name is Ferrall.

ANd then there is Rosy, Red and Blackie Butt. (Last two WERE nicknames)

How about the Tree family: Douglas Furr and Mary Christmas?

Holly Day -— Holly Berry at least could get a name change at their wedding.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I ran across one the other day. ‘Pajamas’......pronounced ‘pa-ju-mus’ (stress on the first syllable). ;-)

[ClearCase_guy]

In "Unintended Consequences" there is a woman working for BATF whose mother decided to give her a name which is (she has been told) a variation of "Gloria" it's pronounced "GonORrhea".

As an adult, the woman prefers to be known as "GG"