Weird or ridiculous names.

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by Trailer Fire

Ethnic names are fine. That would be like saying all Chinese names are head scratchers. Lashawniqua is not an ethnic name. Siobhan is.

A friend of mine in Australia gave his daughters equally unintuitive Irish names, which s fine except neither he nor his wife are Irish. I'm not sure his kids will thank him in the end.

[MoneyGuy]

I can't find him by a google search, but there was an American WWII soldier who served in the Pacific theatre by the name of Lee Jeans.

[HockeyIlliterate]

Originally Posted by PIMking

A lot of rednecks are trying to name their kids Jase and duck dynasty names...

My fiance is half swedish and half German, I'm 100% German and we agreed that the children, like their cousins will have Swede/Germanic/Nordic names

Boys

Heinrich
Johann (Johannes [Hannus])
Sven
Franz
Hans
Otto (her Great Gpa's name)

I'm surprised that Jacob isn't on your list for boys names. About half of the males in my (very German) family were named Johann Jacob, with the other half named Johann Heinrich.

[PIMking]

There was a kid in high school that I couldn't stand named Jacob

[HockeyIlliterate]

Originally Posted by PIMking

There was a kid in high school that I couldn't stand named Jacob

Ah, I see.

Although it might be worthwhile to just name your kid after someone who you couldn't stand. That way, it is easier to just abandon and leave the kid at the curb after they have pestered and annoyed you every day for a week straight. Less attachment issues and all that.

[bc-chris]

a couple i know named their daughter dallas... her middle name.... star

seriously!

[tvp2003]

Originally Posted by Trailer Fire

Ethnic names are fine. That would be like saying all Chinese names are head scratchers. Lashawniqua is not an ethnic name. Siobhan is.

I don't have anything against the name itself. Where I get lost (as someone in North America) is figuring out how "Siobhan" gets pronounced "Shi-vawn".

By the way, it's La'Shawniqua

[Temporary_User]

Originally Posted by PIMking

I'm 100% German

I thought you were American

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by Temporary_User

I thought you were American

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I thought you were American.

Originally Posted by PIMking

I guess, kinda sorta, I was born in Bad-Cannstatt Germany ('85) from a Bavarian mother and a first generation american father (german)

we moved to the states in '89 and I no longer have my german citizenship or speak German like I should (which pisses my mom off)

Hope that explains it

USA today had a thing about some idiot naming their kid Krimson Tyde

http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2...e_son_kri.html

[4X4]

Originally Posted by PIMking

I thought you played the skin flute.

[Temporary_User]

ahh I only read your post from it being quoted. Didn't read the previous page.
Why don't you have your German citizenship anymore?

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by Temporary_User

ahh I only read your post from it being quoted. Didn't read the previous page.
Why don't you have your German citizenship anymore?

I'm 28, from what I understood I had until I was 21 to keep it or not.

[Hockey_Ninja]

I remember a guy named Harry Wang being called to the office back in junior high.

[Temporary_User]

Originally Posted by PIMking

I'm 28, from what I understood I had until I was 21 to keep it or not.

Crazy, I'm sure that was a tough decision.
I'm American but was born to Canadian parents. I moved to Canada at 18 but I have citizenship in both the US and Canada. I don't know what I would choose if I had to.

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by Temporary_User

Crazy, I'm sure that was a tough decision.
I'm American but was born to Canadian parents. I moved to Canada at 18 but I have citizenship in both the US and Canada. I don't know what I would choose if I had to.

I'd probably decide on where I was living and who I pay taxes to, so I could vote and have some say on who represents me.

[Redliner]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

Nevaeh.

Yep, heaven backwards.

Should be a few hundred little boys named "Jaxon" over the past few years too.

I will see your backwards heaven and raise you a forward Heaven. Yup. A friend of mine has a daughter named Heaven.

One of my sons spent a lot of time in the hospital as an infant and on one of his stays shared a room with a kid named Jaxxon. The only way that is acceptable is if the kid's twin brother is named Jaxxoff.

[slcrocket]

My sister-in-law has two boys and is pregnant with a third. She named the first two "Range" and "Tage."

I named my son Dominic and the first thing she said was "that's a really weird name."

[troutman]

At my son's school there is a Mr. Perfect and Ms. Pretty.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by slcrocket

My sister-in-law has two boys and is pregnant with a third. She named the first two "Range" and "Tage."

I named my son Dominic and the first thing she said was "that's a really weird name."

Lady in Car: What are you gonna name it?
Alison Bradbury: What?
Lady in Car: The baby.
Alison Bradbury: [realizing she's faking being pregnant] Oh, the baby. Well, if it's a girl, Cynthia, and if it's a boy, Elliot.
Lady in Car: Those are lovely names.
Walter (Gib) Gibson: Elliot? You're gonna name the kid Elliot? No, you can't name the kid Elliot. Elliot is a fat kid with glasses who eats paste. You're not gonna name the kid Elliot. You gotta give him a real name. Give him a name. Like Nick.
Alison Bradbury: Nick?
Walter (Gib) Gibson: Yeah, Nick. Nick's a real name. Nick's your buddy. Nick's the kind of guy you can trust, the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn't mind if you puke in his car, Nick!
[Alison looks disgusted]
Walter (Gib) Gibson: [to Lady in Car] Oh, vomit. I'm sorry. Vomit.

[Luder]

Our daughter was born on the 21st, we chose "Annalise", we wanted something unique, but outside the realm of "Washcloth" or "Kumquat"