Jessica Simpson's baby

[MrsSz]

My great-grandmother was the queen of goofy baby names. She had two sets of twins: Lovey & Dovey (Dovey was the girl), and Edward Lucifus and Edgar Brucifus.

Yes, I have two great-uncle Eddies who are twins. It's all sorts of Bob Newhart Show.

In my mind I'm going to do something like this just to screw with my children.. lol... I'm an Ashley along with 80,000,000 other girls... so something awesome like Jonathan... but spelled shithead... So teachers are ilke ummmm Shhhhitthhhh... and my kid raises his hand and says "Oh that's me. It's pronounced jonathan" bahahahhahaha


Or something like MatXthew... random letter capitalized in the middle of the name... oh I'm so evil!

[GrayMatterWife]

MrsSz: as a former teacher--I hated parents like you!!!! I once had a student named "Memore". And she took it so personally when someone did not automatically know that it was pronounced "Memory". And then there were the identical twins, "Temeka" and "Tekema". And the "Emaile"...pronounced "Emily". And the 80,000,000 different spellings of "Ashley," with my personal favorite being "Aahshahlee".

[weeniegeniewife]

GMW, you can't make that shit up, can you!

[diggitydot]

My fave: A friend had a parent of a student become enraged because my friend didn't know that their daughter's name wasn't pronounced the way it looked.

Kids name is spelled "La-A". Apparently, "the dash isn't silent". My friend had no idea what they meant by that.

Mom explained that the kid's name is pronounced La-DASH-uh.

[niener]

Shockingly, La-A is not uncommon. DH knew two of them as a kid. Wtf.

[scrub-jay]

Chocolate: pronounced "Sho-sho-lay".

WTH? Come on now people.

[migirl]

DH once had a patient whose kid was named Shithead. Pronounced shu-teed.

He had another woman who was all kinds of out of it after giving birth, thought the word "female" on her daughter's hospital bassinet was her name, and that's what they named her. Pronounced fuh-mah-lay.

[Thirteen]

I'm cringing reading some of these.
I don't have one to contribute, really, but man... yikes!

...Unless you count DH's obsession with Temudjin. "We aren't Mongolian! You can't name our child after Genghis Khan!"

[Chrisada]

I've heard of Shithead and Female being used more than once. What about that dad in Freakenomics who named his boys Loser and Winner as a social experiment. I think Winner ended in and out of jail while Loser became a police chief.

[MrsK]

^ Um, the K Bros could have been Mordichai and Rasputin...

[HouseofWool]

[QUOTE=MrsK;589673]^ Um, the K Bros could have been Mordichai and Rasputin...[/QUOTE

It is a very good thing you did not let DrK make that decision.

[Michele]

Russ went to elementary school with Lucius Pusey. He ended up being a semi-decent football player and changed his name. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documen...-your-name-too

And one of the guys we hung out with in college was named Mike Hunt.

And of course http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle#_

[GreyhoundsRUs]

DH thinks it's hilarious that my OB's middle initial/last name is K. Hunter...

[diggitydot]

My old town must just be full of idiotic namers.

We had:

-Strawberry Fields
-Harold Butts (went by Harry)
-Sparky (apparently the older sib wanted a dog and the parents let him name his sister instead)

Parents, don't let your older kids name the baby. My older sister was 5 when I was born. Mom and dad made the mistake of telling a TODDLER that she had the final decision in naming me. She wanted either Barbie Doll or Jesus Christ. Thankfully, they took her to see Peter Pan before I was born.

Don't let the kids name the baby.

[GrayMatterWife]

Don't let the kids name the baby.

Sound advice. I have a friend who's fourth was the first girl. The boys, all under the age of 10, voted for "Leia." As in the Princess. From Star Wars.

"Leah" is a fine, solid name. But.. that aside...why are you letting the elementary/preschoolers pick the name? My son wanted to name our daughter "Dinosaur" or "Chocolate." We couldn't figure out which would be worse: naming her something reptilian or condemning her to be a future stripper.