I have a better idea: Read your Bible. Find names there.
People with ‘interesting’ names are usually very boring.
My oh so hip and progressive cousin and her equally metro husband named one of their kids after a beach in Australia.
Bondi. I forget the other kid’s name. It’s equally dumb.
I guess “Moon Unit” was taken.
Geez, no mention of the real hipster names that come from the inner cities.
So you think people will have problems pronouncing “Tove”? My older sister’s name is Siobhan.
All the old names are back! Evidently, they are novelties to the young generation. Max, Anna, Sophie, and Tommy are all just starting to walk.
I wanted to name my youngest daughter Recompense...but that’s a boys name. I always liked the Colonial era names.
A friend named her daughter Caitlyn because she wanted something unique.
When she went to school, there were 4 Caitlyns in the first grade
Bergstein is upset with whites naming based on Euro heritage.
Its somehow threatening.
She would never detail the ridiculous urban names we are all expected to unblinkingly put up with.
My dad’s name was Emmett, he hated it.
Like Pilot Inspektor? (Jason Lee’s son?)
Thank goodness my grandkids all have normal names.
That is, if you consider Greek names “normal” - my Son-in-Law is Greek. At least one of their names (first or middle) is Greek; my daughter picked their other name, and it’s more “American”. Personally, I think the Greek names are beautiful (I won’t name them here for privacy’s sake - just say they’re not far-fetched with many syllables; they came from members of his extended family).
“When Jonita Davis, a writer and mother of six, married her husband in 1998, they were still teenagers, and they were both candid about dreams for the future.”
Funny article. So, Jonita had SIX KIDS when she married her husband in 1998.
If you haven’t figured out that “cool” won’t whitewash the henhouse by the time you’re 21, you will suffer as a Democrat for awhile or forever.
My buddy Rory got posted for a year to a gig in Hong Kong. Nobody there could pronounce his name, so they called him ‘Lolly’.
When he got back, the nickname stuck.
Poor Lolly. :-)
Two other considerations:
1) Thanks to the ‘creative’ names given to many, if not most, blacks, it’s easy for employers to ‘sift’ them out when reviewing resume’s, should they want to. So not only does that work against blacks, if others (i.e., whites) have similar names, they’ll end up being ‘sifted’ too.
2) If you are lucky enough to have a common last name, and then you couple it with a common first name for your kid, it will be MUCH HARDER for others to do a public web search for background information on that kid.
And to take it further, if your kid is given a name that is also the name of a famous person, like “James Carter” (for lack of a better name), any search results will be dominated by the more famous person.
All things to think about.
So...my granddaughters Petunia and Eglantine have no shot at greatness? :)