Teachers: the names you will never name your own kids

[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.

[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.

[DolphinChicaDDD]

I do love when this thread gets bumped every so often. I can add many names to my list from 2008 now.

We had our first baby last year and it was very difficult to come up with names. I ended up asking my mom to go back in the family tree and give me some dead relative names.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

A youngster celebrating a birthday has their name and age up in lights near here this week, just because their parents held his/her birthday experience at a local establishment. The name is:

SeMyn.

Age 6.

Lucky Child. Happy Birthday.

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

And how much do you want to bet the pronunciation is Shay-meen, or something like that?

I found another!

He's Russian, so I'm not sure how it's pronounced.

[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?

[maconmagnolia]

Every time I see someone with an absolutely ridiculous name, I just imagine them applying for jobs some day. I'm sorry, but you cannot enter the professional world with a name like Forever. Or worse: Cream (I knew a girl named Cream in high school). You simply cannot enter the workforce with the name Cream. Do these parents not realize that they are hindering their children?

I mean, it's one thing to be unique. It's another to name your child after an object, food, etc. It's simply ridiculous.

Names I could never name my kids (normal ones) because I've had bad experiences with people with them: Libby, Josie (I absolutely love Josephine but couldn't name my child that because people would call her Josie, which I hate), Savannah, Kaitlyn/Katelyn/Caitlin/etc, Erica.

[carnation]

I know I should limit this only to names that I could never use because of kids I've taught but I must share here that this year there have been children available for adoption named Arphaxad and Bwadleye. No idea how the first name came about. The second: I have to wonder if the birthmother had a speech impediment and the birth certificate lady copied the name just as she heard it?

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by carnation

I know I should limit this only to names that I could never use because of kids I've taught but I must share here that this year there have been children available for adoption named Arphaxad and Bwadleye. No idea how the first name came about. The second: I have to wonder if the birthmother had a speech impediment and the birth certificate lady copied the name just as she heard it?

Oh my goodness, I pronounced that second name in my had as Be-Waddle-Eye and was so confused as to what it meant until I read speech impediment, and then it suddenly made more sense than before. Still a terrible, terrible name either way.

[OPhiAGinger]

It's not as bad as Bwadleye or Semen, but there is a girl in my son's swim class named Sunshine. It's not a term of endearment or a nickname. It's her actual given name. Fast forward to her future professional self….

"Sunshine Carter for the defense, Your Honor."
"Hi, I'm Sunshine. I'll be your server today. Can I tell you about our specials?"
"Sunshine, can you give us an overview of what to expect in tomorrow's audit?"

[AnchorAlumna]

We had a sweet sister in one of our chapters named Sunshine. She passed away while a college student. I never met her, but from what I've been told her name described her personality.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

Oh my goodness, I pronounced that second name in my had as Be-Waddle-Eye and was so confused as to what it meant until I read speech impediment, and then it suddenly made more sense than before. Still a terrible, terrible name either way.

I did the same thing, except I initially read it as "Bwaud-lie"

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by OPhiAGinger

It's not as bad as Bwadleye or Semen, but there is a girl in my son's swim class named Sunshine. It's not a term of endearment or a nickname. It's her actual given name. Fast forward to her future professional self….

"Sunshine Carter for the defense, Your Honor."
"Hi, I'm Sunshine. I'll be your server today. Can I tell you about our specials?"
"Sunshine, can you give us an overview of what to expect in tomorrow's audit?"

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

We had a sweet sister in one of our chapters named Sunshine. She passed away while a college student. I never met her, but from what I've been told her name described her personality.

Makes one wonder how many 40-50 year-old women (and perhaps men?) there are who as newborns were given the somewhat hippie name Sunshine.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by 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?

We actually do have more than a few women named Snowy in our family. Snow is a family name, some of them took it to an extreme. Especially the one who married a man named Winter.

Originally Posted by carnation

I know I should limit this only to names that I could never use because of kids I've taught but I must share here that this year there have been children available for adoption named Arphaxad and Bwadleye. No idea how the first name came about. The second: I have to wonder if the birthmother had a speech impediment and the birth certificate lady copied the name just as she heard it?

As most of y'all know, my mama's name was Dixie Lee. Sadly, the doctor heard it wrong, and put "Dickory" (as in, "Hickory, Dickory, Dock") on her original birth certificate. Thank heavens they caught it in time!

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

We had a sweet sister in one of our chapters named Sunshine. She passed away while a college student. I never met her, but from what I've been told her name described her personality.

Had I been born a few years later, I would not be typing as honeychile, as my real name would have been Sunny, after the song. True story.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by honeychile

We actually do have more than a few women named Snowy in our family. Snow is a family name, some of them took it to an extreme. Especially the one who married a man named Winter.

Ha, wow.

One of my sorority sisters named her son Storm. She posts on Facebook and refers to him as Stormy. I used to have a cat named Stormy. I just can't get over it. And her two other kids have "normal" names. I don't know where Storm came from (X-Men, anyone?), but I have a feeling that kid isn't going to have it easy.

[barbino]

I worked with someone named Sunny Feeley. Another co-worker laughed his head off when I said her name. He thought that I was joking. I was not; this is really her name. We also worked with a guy whose last name was Sex ... no one forgets his name.