Every time I hear the name Morgan, I hear that insult from the Beverly Hillbillies movie - "Big m, little organ." I could never name a child, male or female, Morgan after that.

I was visiting my family's plots in a little city in Georgia. One of my relatives' names was Zapharine. He was born in the early 1800s. That's a bit scary.

Caleb, Zack, Jed or Jacob. All these names just say to me "yeah, I married my sister, what's wrong with that? She's purty."

I have a cousin named JeB. His brother is Jai (pronouned Juh-eye). Not suprisingly, they are the village pharmaceutical salesmen :rolleyes:

I also have a cousin JEB! I'm not going to go into that because I'm afraid that someone on here probably knows him!

Anyway, I found the headstone for the man named Zapharine that I mentioned earlier!!! It was online. I about freaked out when I saw it.

It's more mid-1800s than early-1800s. Sorry the pic is so big!

http://www.hal-pc.org/~dcrane/family...Atkinsonmarker

Cousin's son's name is Meredith Hawkeye F(last name). That should go over big in h.s. Alabama.

Dealing with criminal records like I do, can't believe parents didn't know how Jessie James would turn out Princess and General didn't do to great either.

Walter
Eugene
Trevor
Gregory
Ferrel
Wayne

Candy
Barbi
Cheer
Precious
Morgan
Gaynell
Esther
Ethel

Apologies if you're name appears above...I mean no offense, I just wouldnt name my kid one of the aforementioned!

I like old threads....
 

It's amazing how many people don't like my name... first or middle. (Crystal Michelle)

I would never name my child:
Bruce
Amy
Michael
John
Anything ending in -arry
Jennifer

I don't like super common names, but I like family names, which may mean that common names win out if I have boys...

I love the name Anneliese Jeanne, which is a derivative of both of my grandmothers' names.

I wouldnt give my kid(s) any common name.

I would never name my child after my grandmas - "Shirley Rose" is a bit much to take. My mom thinks it is funny and jokes that she should have given me that name.

In re-reading this post, I remembered two kids from my high school:

Richard Richardson and his sister Rickee Richardson

This was a good thread!

I like my name - not too common and not too strange. I never had a problem with pronunciation until I got to college and my professors kept calling me Co-leen. I said, you do see 2 Ls right?

We had 2 girls in our chapter with uncommon names. One was Cigdem (Chee-dem), it's Turkish. Everyone calls her Cig-dem at first.

The other is Izusa. We all say her name wrong becuase she never corrected us. So she's I-saw.

My dad bowled with George George and George George, Jr.

And for you Music Man fans, my uncle's friend and his wife are Gary and Deanna.

Another funny teacher story involving kids' names: my cousin is a teacher at a public school in Vancouver. She was reading out the roll call of one of her classes and in a row (I swear to God), she had an Alvin, Simon and Theodore. She nearly died laughing - of course none of the kids could figure out what was so funny.