'82 babies had a ton of girls named Ashley and Kristen.
Just a bit earlier it was Stacy.

I also find it funny when their initials spell a word or are a well known acronym.

i forgot.....my dad knew a family when he was a kid with the last name of "holiday"........don't bet they didn't name one of their sons "happy"....b/c you'd lose.....

how about that??? happy holiday! who should you marry? mary christmas?

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LOL!

Let me see, I went to school with a Penny Kenny, a Kandy Kane, and Pete Moss - seriously! Wanna see my yearbook? My mama went to school with a Rose Bush.

I know a girl who was named Memory, and I'm just hoping that she doesn't become big on top, if you know what I mean.

I'm also anti-nickname, and anti-cute-spell. blech.

All that aside, I would probably take a list of the top 100 baby names, discard those, and go from there. There are some beautiful names that just fall out of use from time to time. At least, I'd do that for a daughter. I would keep our family tradition and go for John William for a boy - 9 known generations can't be all bad!

When I was in school there was a rushee named Ginger Snap. (I referred to her as Oreo Cookie) :)

When I was at Mississippi State, the Homecoming Queen was a real sweet KD named Ida Cline.

I also taught a kid named Summer Winter Camp.

I know of people who have named their child "Diesel".
Like the WTH are you thinking people?

Like as not, Brittany and Caitlyn are a bit overused.

I will never name my child Christy or Kristi....way over used! Also goes for Lauren, Michelle, Heather....I like family names but not names like Alma or Adah. There was a girl who went through rush a few years ago here and her name was Vera Special. If you said it fast enough it sounded like Very Special! I also know a girl who's first name is Dabbs! Down here in the South you get tons of hyphenated names like Mary-Katherine or Mary-Rainey. You also get tons of parents naming their kids with family last names. I know a girl who's first name is Bakewell. Everyone calls her Bakes for short.

Yeah, about the family names--our girls' ballet school has lots of kids from the private school and many of them have first names like Strom or Nash.

Also, our school librarian's niece is named Anna Mull. They didn't realize that it sounds like Animal until she was about 10.

I went to school with a girl who's first name was Rush. And she went through rush, of course.

There are tons of kids in my children's daycare named Hailey (or Hayley, or Hailee it is endless) and Dakota and Brice and Jacob!

With what someone said about ethnic names....
Going to high school was really funny b/c it was almost 30% Korean, with a few Philipino and Chinese. The parents weren't trying to be creative, these are their traditional names. They didn't speak english so it was funny that they had names like-
So Yoo No
Stan Lee
In Young Park
Dai Kwon Do
Jun Fun
and my fave- Takeshi Tyakumi.....when he painted art it was signed TAKESHIT.


There was an article not too long ago about a fam in Chicago-the parents met at Wrigley Field and they named their kids Addison Sheffield, Grace Waveland, Wrigley Clark, etc....which are all the streets and intersections surrounding the park.

"Come on Cletus - Come on...you gonna walk over and limp back"

LOL - I love that line from Nutty Professor!

Back to the thread at hand...as for the crazy spellings - don't know why people have to go and do that. I used to teach, and I'd ask a student her name - she'd reply "Jane" and I would start to write it and she'd say "No - its J-a-i-y-n-n-e" -- I'm like :confused:

We named our son "Elijah" (Eli for short) because it was traditional and we were sick of the trendy "Dakota, Hunter, Tyler, Jordan, etc." -- our doctor delivered him and said "I just delivered an Eli, and there's another in the nursery" -- I was like GREAT! Now he'll be one of fourteen in his class!

If we have another child (big IF), and if its a girl, she will be "Ellis" after my gram's maiden name. Although I hear that is getting trendy too. Ugh! Try to do something special and it becomes trendy!! If its a boy, Ellis will be his middle name (he'll hate me!)

My niece is 7 - her name is Emma -- people constantly ask my sister if she named her that after Rachel's baby on Friends! Hello - the child is SEVEN! At the time, that was a "new" name!

Worst names... my friend "April May June" -- swear! And anything that is named after the current "it" person. I also read that Oscar and Homer were getting very trendy for boys - my dog is an Oscar, but don't expect any Homer's from this family :D

I'm not going to name my kids really common names. I once knew a girl named Winter... I would never name my daughter that because I HATE the winter... Summer, on the other hand, I love Summer and I think the name sounds cool, but I have my favorites already picked out so who knows.

When I graduated from high school in 1998, there were 4 Karens, 3 Katies (not including the two Kathleens and one Kathryn), 3 Sarahs and 2 Jenns. This was out of 85 or 86 girls.

My mom used to work in the labor & delivery department in a major Chicago hospital. Here are a few of her favorites:

1) Funichello (obviously an old Mickey Mouse Club fan)
2) Rotunda (guess where the mom got this one)
3) Delorian (a car fan)
4) Freedom Rings (patriotic)
5) Da'nag Jamar (this was during the Vietnam war)


Every summer I went to camp with a girl who was saddled with the name Libertybelle. She has since had her name legally changed to Amanda.

It's amazing what parents can come up with.