What would you NOT name your child?

[OrigamiTulip]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
If your last name is Van Halen, Walfgang works. Actually, my professor in college had a son named Wolfgang. It was kind of cool.

My bf likes the name Morgan. It's not my cup of tea because there are now a lot of girls named Morgan running around. It's the new Sidney. Not that I plan to breed at any time in the near future.

Every time I hear the name Morgan, I hear that insult from the Beverly Hillbillies movie - "Big m, little organ." I could never name a child, male or female, Morgan after that.

[preciousjeni]

I was visiting my family's plots in a little city in Georgia. One of my relatives' names was Zapharine. He was born in the early 1800s. That's a bit scary.

[ktkennyd]

[33girl]

Caleb, Zack, Jed or Jacob. All these names just say to me "yeah, I married my sister, what's wrong with that? She's purty."

[Nikki_DZ]

Originally posted by 33girl
Caleb, Zack, Jed or Jacob. All these names just say to me "yeah, I married my sister, what's wrong with that? She's purty."

I have a cousin named JeB. His brother is Jai (pronouned Juh-eye). Not suprisingly, they are the village pharmaceutical salesmen

[preciousjeni]

I also have a cousin JEB! I'm not going to go into that because I'm afraid that someone on here probably knows him!

Anyway, I found the headstone for the man named Zapharine that I mentioned earlier!!! It was online. I about freaked out when I saw it.

It's more mid-1800s than early-1800s. Sorry the pic is so big!

[AGDLynn]

Cousin's son's name is Meredith Hawkeye F(last name). That should go over big in h.s. Alabama.

Dealing with criminal records like I do, can't believe parents didn't know how Jessie James would turn out Princess and General didn't do to great either.

[piphimaggie]

Walter
Eugene
Trevor
Gregory
Ferrel
Wayne

Candy
Barbi
Cheer
Precious
Morgan
Gaynell
Esther
Ethel

Apologies if you're name appears above...I mean no offense, I just wouldnt name my kid one of the aforementioned!

[MTSUGURL]

It's amazing how many people don't like my name... first or middle. (Crystal Michelle)

I would never name my child:
Bruce
Amy
Michael
John
Anything ending in -arry
Jennifer

I don't like super common names, but I like family names, which may mean that common names win out if I have boys...

I love the name Anneliese Jeanne, which is a derivative of both of my grandmothers' names.

[_Opi_]

I wouldnt give my kid(s) any common name.

[alphaxikt]

I would never name my child after my grandmas - "Shirley Rose" is a bit much to take. My mom thinks it is funny and jokes that she should have given me that name.

[KSUViolet06]

Beatrice
Eustice
Agnes
Helga
Princess
Precious
Ruth
Ethel
Ester
Mary
Carrie
Ann

Anything this UGLY (Agnes), COMMON (Mary), or too CUTESY (Princess).

[tinydancer]

In re-reading this post, I remembered two kids from my high school:

Richard Richardson and his sister Rickee Richardson

[goldendelta]

This was a good thread!

I like my name - not too common and not too strange. I never had a problem with pronunciation until I got to college and my professors kept calling me Co-leen. I said, you do see 2 Ls right?

We had 2 girls in our chapter with uncommon names. One was Cigdem (Chee-dem), it's Turkish. Everyone calls her Cig-dem at first.

The other is Izusa. We all say her name wrong becuase she never corrected us. So she's I-saw.

My dad bowled with George George and George George, Jr.

And for you Music Man fans, my uncle's friend and his wife are Gary and Deanna.

[bcdphie]

Another funny teacher story involving kids' names: my cousin is a teacher at a public school in Vancouver. She was reading out the roll call of one of her classes and in a row (I swear to God), she had an Alvin, Simon and Theodore. She nearly died laughing - of course none of the kids could figure out what was so funny.