*raises hand*

Allllll through elementary school. It was still like that when I went to college in the 90s. In fact, the first friend I made the day I moved in was my next-door neighbor, Amy. We sat together at convocation, and when they were reading all the "fun facts" about our class, they got to the most popular male and female names. Guess what the two most popular female names were...

Speaking of "the pole" I have a child in my purview named "Sparkle." Guaranteed stripper!

Sorry if any of you is named Sparkle.

A friend of mine's mom is a special education teacher in an elementary school, so I've spent some time talking with her, etc.

One year, she had a girl on her roster named....SHITHEAD.

But, it was pronounced Shi-Tay-Ed. Spelled Shithead, though. Imagine that one the first day of school or as a substitute.

Never ever give your kid a name that is easily mistaken for profanity. It's just not nice.

Just like little "Roxy Kendra" in my god-daughter's dance class.

Our kids' high school had recent sister grads named Sparkle and Twinkle. Oddly, they were from India.

I want to say I knew a Princess Jasmine once
First name Princess, middle name Jasmine.

I am afraid to post any of my kids names because they are so unique, but I am against names that sound/look like this:

Ra'ture
O'rus'sa
Ra'shita

You get the picture. Also, people please refrain from making up names!!!! It would be nice if every parent can find the meaning of the child's name and trace it back to some language family. I know this sounds bad, but parents are setting them up for failure. As much as we try not to, I look at my class list on the first day and think to myself now Le'tootsie pop is going to be a handful!

I went for a fairly unique name and a unique spelling for my daughter...I hope no one's like "Geeze, woman - what were you thinking?!?"

Although, now there's a Barbie princess with her name (but not spelling), so I'm sure it will increase in popularity soon.

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Vasalisa

I was at the park yesterday when I kept hearing a mom call her toddler "Mav." I was hoping that I just wasn't hearing her correctly, but much to my disapointment she later yelled "Maverick _______ come back here now."

Maverick? Seriously?

Maybe the parents really liked McCain/Palin.

Ahahahaha! Or the movie Top Gun.

Or Top Gun.

I'm sorry, but these out there names make the parents sound so trashy and low class.

I once knew someone who's first name was Ecclesiastes. Just like the book of the bible. Great book, but I wouldnt name my kid after it.

Yes!

I work with a women who's daughter's name is "Fab" - for "Fabulous". Of Course!

It's not bad, because at least it can be traced back to Germany and the Netherlands. I have met a couple while in those places.

Dumb question, but who was on maternity leave, your friend or the 8th grader? It could go either way with the way the post is read.:) I hope it was your friend and not the 8th grader though.

the (ahem) makes me think it was the 8th grader

:eek: I couldn't spell that off the top of my head to save my life despite all my Bible school training. WOW! Just WOW! I hope they had a DAMN GOOD nickname like Lee or something.

That's what I thought too, but kids don't usually get maternity leave from school...which is why I asked. Normally it's some sort of independent study agreement.

Actually no. She went by the whole name. I agree a nickname or middle name would be better, unless they were just as bad. She had a normal last name though.

I work at a pediatric clinic, and one of strangest names I have ever heard was Con Air Nicholas Cage, and then the last name.

The clinic is where I knew Ecclesiastes! Medical clinics are a good or bad place to hear messed up names and funky spellings! There was a girl in the office who's name was Pocahontas.

Haha, I see so many weird/strange names/odd spellings of names @ work. I thought of another one after I posted this. This woman named her child Phelany (like Felony), and when she was asked why she named her that, she replied that all of her family members were felons, so it seemed like a good name :eek:.

O.M.G. SMH. Really, what is wrong with people? That's just ridiculous. Why not just name your kid Anus because everyone has one?:rolleyes:

I went to elementary school with someone named "Mister." It confused me to no end. His last name was Jones or something generic like that so teachers and students were always saying "Mister Jones." I didn't understand why he got so much respect! Then, when the yearbook came out at the end of the year, I learned it was his name..

I hope he doesn't have sisters named "Miss" and "Misses."

I know someone with an older kid (maybe kindergarten age?) named Maverick and it really suits the personality of the child. I could think of so much worse for kids.

I have a new friend who plans to go to medical school, and she has a first name that is one of those people may take less seriously. Maybe she has a workable middle name.

Way to be supportive of your child having the potential to do better :)

LOL!

Some teacher is Northeast Alabama is gonna be in trouble in a few years. A friend told us that she has met someone who has named her triplets Ayden, Brayden, and Cayden. (See earlier posts if you don't know what kids with the -ayden names do to teachers.)

I had a girl in a class one time named "Vaginia". It was supposed to be pronounced Vah-gin-ee-a. You can imagine how many times someone glanced at her name in print and said "vagina" without thinking.

I would've had it legally changed the second I turned 18. There's no way she doesn't get sick of people accidentally calling her "vagina".

^^^Oh good god.

My mom was telling me the other day about how she recently registered a baby named "Queen of Egypt." Oy.

My sister and her gf always share the unusual names of the children in their class on the first day of school. This year sister lost-- no unusual names but gf took the prize by leaps and bounds. She has a child in her class named WAFFLE. My BIL was asking if Waffle is Belgian, the friend replied no, but Waffle does have a brother and his name is FRENCH TOAST!

That actually beats a girl I graduated HS with-- her name is Twinkle Star and she was born in the '50's when the unusual names were not as common an occurrence.

DaffyKD

I read some of these and think to myself "that HAS to be made up." WAFFLE and FRENCH TOAST?!? :eek:

I've put this on GC before but my husband's all-time worst name and possibly student was Reptipilis. Seriously.

And he keeps getting reminded of it because ole Reptipilis' name keeps ending up in the paper; despite being close to 40, she can't stay out of trouble. :(

LOL @ Kamri. I guess she's the prodigal daughter? Why couldn't she be a luxury car, too?

Audisha? Infinitanya? Something!