Teachers: the names you will never name your own kids

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by TrueBlueKappa

My BF and I were just having this conversation!

Names that make me shudder:
Josh
Jorge
Sergei
Anthony
Brittany
Sheldon
Mikhail
Mason
Sean
Tim
Dana
Kaitlyn
Keya
Zack
Gilbert


And those are just the kids from this past year...

Sergei? Mikhail? Where are you teaching?

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Sergei? Mikhail? Where are you teaching?

There are parts of the country that have many immigrants or ethnic groups from eastern Europe. Example: we had, like, zero african american kids in my schools when I was growing up, but we had many asian kids and some russian/romanian/ukrainian kids.

[TrueBlueKappa]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Sergei? Mikhail? Where are you teaching?

Florida, actually!

[ForeverRoses]

I was a camp counselor while in college and the following names still make me shudder (I only had girl campers, so no bad boy names):

Shaina
Olga
Jennifer
Natalie
Megan

I did have two campers that were awesome and totally changed my opinion of their names- Mariam and Sari. I thought they were both rather old-fashioned sounding, but the kids were so great that to this day I still like the names!