Comments on: Calling Children Names

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:39:32 +0000

I have long suspected that the CIA conducts exercises in mind-control through various media and that embedded in these subliminal messages are particular children’s names—and the the purpose of the Social Security Administration’s detailed tracking of names is to provide simple feedback on the efficacy of these messages; that is the higher the rank, the more dominant that message. Or maybe not.

By: tamar

tamar — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:18:23 +0000

Here are a couple of now-outdated soviet-block names, unlikely to return to widespread use: “Mels” (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin) and (perhaps apocryphally) “Zikata” (Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky)(!)

By: Thlayli

Thlayli — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:42:45 +0000

What the shizzle is up with a guy who calls himself “Nelly”? It’s short for “Cornell”. Have you ever met a boy named Brook…? Brook Jacoby, Cleveland Indians third baseman in the ‘80s. If you want to talk about clusters, there’s one of girls born in 1985-86 with some variant of the name “Hailey”.

By: Verbal

Verbal — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:18:02 +0000

Tiffany was a person’s name before it was the name of a store or a style of lamp, as was the increasinly popular Chanel, etc. etc. Note also that Timberland, Courvousier, Gucci, Lexus, and Nike are hot new names for children. And in parts of central america, the name Usnavy, pronounced oosNAVee, is derived from US NAVY written on various pieces of equipment… this was the result of illiteracy and language confusion, but now Usnavy is actually a traditional name, so there are quite a few young men named after their great uncles who just happen to share the name of an invading fleet… a.

By: Davis X. Machina

Davis X. Machina — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:02:55 +0000

My wife says that if a girl’s name sounds silly if inserted in this sentence: “The Honorable Chief Justice {Your Daughter’s Name Here} and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court!” … DONT USE IT!

By: harry

harry — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:05:58 +0000

Why hasn’t anybody mentioned A Boy Named Sue?

By: chris

chris — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:05:53 +0000

Linden, I’ve never met anybody named Brook and Insh’allah I never will. I used to know a bloke called Lyn (short for Emlyn)fairly well. Have you ever seen a bridge called Annemarie?

By: linden

linden — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:11:01 +0000

Have you ever met a boy named Brook or named Lyn? It’s like naming someone Annemarie. Can you imagine a boy named Annemarie?

By: chris

chris — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:58:43 +0000

But how do people decide which word is going to be a boy’s name and which a girl’s? When the football (soccer) player David Beckham saddled his son with Brooklyn (place of conception, apparently), they got a woman on the radio saying, “They can’t do that, Brooklyn is a girls’name!” How did she KNOW?

By: maurinsky

maurinsky — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:43:26 +0000

Since I was born in the late 60’s, some of my peers had hippie names – I did a show once with a fellow named Speed Weed. I like unusual names, but I don’t like trendy names. My children are Siobhan and Maeve, which are fairly unusual for the U.S. Although I think Maeve is becoming more popular, I know two people who have children with the middle name Maeve.

By: vivian

vivian — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:26:27 +0000

Re: Tiffany Recall that in the movie Goldfinger, Bond meets the lovely Tiffany Case. Asked about her (then-unusual) name, she explained that her mother went into labor in the store. Sean Connery mutters “Good thing it wasn’t Van Cleef and Arpels” Re: silly student names, I know a teacher who had more than one young girl named “Latrine” pronounced “La-TREEN-uh” like Katrina.

By: linden

linden — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:16:26 +0000

I’m also reminded of that Seinfeld episode where Jerry didn’t know his girlfriend’s name. All he knew was that she was mocked for it and it rhymed with some female parts. Vulva? Mulva? Something like that. The Ima Hogg person could be who I’m thinking about. I grew up hearing stories about the poorly named Pigg sisters though. It’s probably related and a bit of an urban legend. Like the boy named Shithead. Whatever happened to names like Hezekiah or Zachariah?

By: Trish Wilson

Trish Wilson — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:49:32 +0000

I like the girl’s name Alexia – even after I learned it’s also the name of a brain disorder. ROFL I first heard of the name while playing Resident Evil: Code Veronica.

By: Keith M Ellis

Keith M Ellis — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:30:13 +0000

I went through school with a girl named “Beegee”, named after, yes, the band. My grandmother, who was born in Oklahoma, was named “Okla”. She went by her middle name, “Daphine”, which I’m fond of. Her mother’s first and middle names were “Madie Maude”. I don’t know why people get uptight about names. To me, there’s something kinda annoyingly culturally conservative about cluck-clucking about people’s names.

By: kendall

kendall — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:04:48 +0000

My daughter (Beatrice, since the topic is names) went to day care with a little boy named Matrix. He would have been born just too early to be named for the movie, so at least the parents are off the hook for that, but Matrix is so clearly a girl’s name.