Not insane - just young. You were obviously wise and mature beyond your years!:)

i can't remember what channel it was on, but this thread reminded me of some show i saw not too long ago. it was one of those newsy-type shows and they reported that a pretty high percentage of parents decided to change the name of their kids after a few months all the way up to age 3.

is that something you (general "you") might consider if you found something "more suitable" than the original name you gave your hypotetical children?

I wanted to name my sister Daisy Karen. I was 3 at the time. My parents named her Rebecca instead.

We have a friend who has a child naming problem. Her children's names are Galileo, Mikki (like the mouse) and her daughter is Gypsy.

We get lots of clients in our office from south of the border. I've seen some strange names, but the one that really stands out is Heribertha.

So wrong.

I knew a kid named Peter Peters. Peter changed his name when he turned 18, but I can't remember what to (all I remember is that it was his mother's maiden name, and a WHOLE lot better).

My orthodontist was named Dr. Pryor. Scary.

My fiance works at a car dealership. One of the other salesman's name? Bill Cheatham. Yes, pronounced "cheat 'em."

I'd put my grandparents names... but they're my grandparents.

Speaking of grandparents . . .my grandfather was Bunice. For my great-grandmother's best friend - Boy + Eunice = Bunice.

We were threatened with being disinherited if we named a child after him.
Oh - and his middle name? Irl. That's right - Irl. Not Earl - Irl.

Oh wow! How could I have forgotten? My step-bro's wife is named Ercon. (Uhr-conn) Her parents are Ernie (Ernesto) and Connie (Consuelo), and they loved each other so much that they combined their names to name their daughter. What a great idea!

I do think that our grandparents' names in general are nothing like what we'd name our kids these days due to the sheer outdated-ness of some names.
(Although I had a great-grandmother named Elizabeth and one named Kate--although we found out recently her real name was actually Clara)

As for my grandparents:

Ethel, Sherwin (who had brothers named Milton and Monroe), and Albert.

I would name a kid Charlotte after one grandmother--but too many people in the family are already named for her. She's the only good one in the bunch! But if you look back--my grandparents had completely normal names for their generation. (Okay, maybe not Sherwin...but Ethel and Albert for sure).

I guess I should have mentioned that I was 13 when she was born. :) Had I been between the ages of 5-10 it would have been Leia or Barbie.

There was a family a few towns over with four daughters: Happy, Jolly, Frausty, and Holly.

I don't know about that--at our church there are a million rugrats, and they sound like a senior citizen's quilting group--Margaret, Martha Lee, Mae, Charlotte, Delilah, Addie Rose, Lillian, Frances, Georgeanne, Corrine, Clara, Eva...I could go on for quite awhile if I had the church directory in front of me. They are all kids under 5. My grandmas were named Emma and Ethel, and I know Emma is really common now, but I grew up in a town where there were 15 old German women named that!

Every boy is now named Will. For the last 20 years.

At least for me, it sounds like your town is doing a lot better than most of the rest of the U.S. If I watch one more "A Baby Story" or "Bringing Home Baby" and see a Kayla, Arianna, Arabella, Gianna, Madison, Mackenzie, Brianna, Kaylee, Kylee, or the like- I'll serious throw up. Why would people think "I'm giving my child such a cute and unique name!" when 500,000 other little girls born that month will have it? Why not just go back to "Jennifer" and "Ashley" if you're going to be like that?

It's going to be funny when everyone in the nursing home is named Tiffany or Caitlyn and the homecoming queens at the high school will be Edna and Florence.

I graduated with Roger Moore - although my classmate would have been born before RM was really famous, so can't fault his parents on that one.

Jacqueline Susann talks in her first book about her friend Last-One. The kids in the family were named Lebanon, Harlem and Portland (after where they were living when they were born). The hubby didn't want another kid so he named Last-One, Last-One. When the mom got pregnant again he was really fed up and named the last kid Period.

I used the "graduation" test - how will this name sound when announced at graduation? How will it look on a resume'? - when naming mine.