Teachers: the names you will never name your own kids

[PeppyGPhiB]

I'm not a teacher, but there are names of ex-boyfriends and mean kids I remember that have been stricken from my list:

Jason
Todd
Peter
Sean/Shawn/Shaun
Shaely
Blaine
Ashley

[chitownxo]

Boys:
Cage
James
Joseph
Justin
Marty
Matthew

Girls:
Amber
Brandi, Brandee, Brandy (not fine girls in my opinion)
Cassie
Kelly

Worst week of student teaching - having Brandi, Joseph, Justin, & Kelly sharing a table. There wasn't enough Tylenol in the world to let that disaster go on longer than 5 days.

[smiley21]

Leah
Kaitlyn
Juan
Austin
Emma (and I really did like this name before)
Jared

[deepimpact2]

From teaching:

Julyjawhan
Quandarious
Jwisha (pronounced Washika)
Montavious
Tre'Delvon

Other:

Amanda
Becky
Alice
Mary

[LXA SE285]

Anybody ever visit The Utah Baby Namer? Now those are some names!

http://www.wesclark.com/ubn/faves.html

[BabyPiNK_FL]

I had the kindergarten class for the second time on Friday:

Jamir
Peter
Malachi
Ramases/Rameses something like that -if it's after that Pharaoh, they don't say it the same!
Woodson

These kids made me want to throw down!

[AOII_LB93]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

From teaching:

Quandarious
Jwisha (pronounced Washika)

Wow...just, wow. Quandarious sounds like "being in a quandary".

This year has been relatively easy for names in my classes, though I had 3 girls named Alyssa in one class. I also had four variations of Anthony in one class as well...and two Salvadors.

[ASTalumna06]

The woman who sits in the cubicle next to mine just put in a phone order for flowers to be delivered to a family member (maybe her sister-in-law?) who just had a baby today. The message she wanted to send with the flowers included the baby's name, and when she said it, I was happy to hear it was a normal name. And then she spelled it:

Jerimy.

Why is that necessary? Even Google asked me, "Did you mean: Jeremy?"

[chi-o_cat]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Jerimy.

Why is that necessary? Even Google asked me, "Did you mean: Jeremy?"

“Welcome to the world, little one. You are about to experience an entire lifetime of having your name misspelled.”

[tinydancer]

Another example of imagining how a name will look in the newspaper. I saw an obituary where the lady's grandchildren were listed:
Maya, Olivia, Espn and Mia.
I'm guessing it is pronounced like Estevan?

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by tinydancer

Another example of imagining how a name will look in the newspaper. I saw an obituary where the lady's grandchildren were listed:
Maya, Olivia, Espn and Mia.
I'm guessing it is pronounced like Estevan?

I've heard of it pronounced Es-pen. More than one couple has named their child after the sports channel. Wikipedia says there's a least 22 kids with such a moniker.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

The woman who sits in the cubicle next to mine just put in a phone order for flowers to be delivered to a family member (maybe her sister-in-law?) who just had a baby today. The message she wanted to send with the flowers included the baby's name, and when she said it, I was happy to hear it was a normal name. And then she spelled it:

Jerimy.

Why is that necessary? Even Google asked me, "Did you mean: Jeremy?"

Originally Posted by chi-o_cat

“Welcome to the world, little one. You are about to experience an entire lifetime of having your name misspelled.”

Could "Jerimy" be a family spelling?

Sometimes there is a history behind names. For example, a friend of mine is named “Tymothy” – which is more commonly spelled as and pronounced the same as “Timothy”. Tymothy had been passed down some six or seven (maybe more) generations in his family. He said that as a kid, he didn’t like having to correct or confirm the spelling. But as he got older, he better appreciated the family history and took pride in its unique spelling.

When he got to college, he got the nickname of “Ty” - which is pronounced “tie”. There is an interesting history of Ty as well. Ty came about because his freshman college roommate started out pronouncing his name as “Tie-moth-ee” (with an exaggerated British accent). A few weeks later, the roommate shorten it to Ty - and the nickname stuck. Now he uses both names: Tymothy as his official or full first name, and Ty as his nickname.

[ASTalumna06]

The 22 most outrageous baby names of 2013: Rarity, Ransom, Subaru and more

http://m.today.com/moms/22-most-outr...ore-2D79669286

Ugh. A boy (actually, 6 boys) named Forever? Do people seriously hate their children?

[ASTalumna06]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/baby-...ry?id=32713217

A baby was named AirForceOne Barack Obama.

O.....k......