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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 7:20:44 GMT
No, my friend is Cheryl. She has a daughter named Nnya. Cheryl my friend has a lot of Kenyan friends and that is how she came up with the name.
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Post by my3freaks on Aug 20, 2014 7:38:25 GMT
My brothers name is Steve R. Last name. He was named after our dad, Stephan Richard. He gets people that will insist he has to sign documents with his "full name". He pulls out his license to prove that Steve is his real name, LOL.
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Post by gar on Aug 20, 2014 7:41:03 GMT
Bearing in mind the different meaning here, I don't think Phania will catch on here
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Post by my3freaks on Aug 20, 2014 7:41:55 GMT
I have a made up name. I was born in 1971, which must have been the downhill side of the peak, since I was forever surrounded by Jennifers. I now understand that the warm looks I received from my teachers were rooted in pity. I have never liked my name. Now you have to share, you can't leave the nsbr hanging like that!
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Post by my3freaks on Aug 20, 2014 7:44:22 GMT
---no personalized coke bottles for them! I have an uncommon first name. I usually have to repeat myself when introducing myself because very few people have heard of it. If they have heard of my name they always tell me. Oh I had a neighbor and her mothers sister had the same name! In school I dreaded having a substitute teacher. They would come to my name on the roll and there would be a huge pause. Then a 50/50 chance that they would mangle my name. As a shy kid I did not want to bring any undue attention to myself. I agree that everyone can name their child whatever they want. I am all for creativity and individuality. My kids have very plain, common names, chosen to be non controversial. Of course my youngest child says she hates her name. So I guess you can't win!!! You gotta share now too!
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Post by rhhdk on Aug 20, 2014 8:25:24 GMT
Yes, Frida Kahlo. Our art teacher was very excited. But it's still an unusual name by any standards today. In Denmark Frida is a very common name, in 2013 it is no. 24 on the list for the most populare name for girls btw I don't know any Frida
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Post by anniebygaslight on Aug 20, 2014 8:46:44 GMT
I'm a NICU nurse. Oh the names I have seen over the years! Two of my favorites are Great Gift and Forever Younique. It's always amusing when I ask a new mom for their baby's name and they rattle off some crazy mouthful of a name, then when asked how to spell the name they don't know. One mom told me she would have to ask her sister because the sister made up the name for her. There wasn't a doubt in my mind that someone made up that name. I am a midwife. A couple of months ago I delivered a baby named John. Very unusual these days. Wonderful. A colleague delivered a Dennis recently. She remarked that she hadn't encountered a Dennis for at least 30 years. Looking forward to my first La-a.
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Post by peabay on Aug 20, 2014 10:58:11 GMT
Yes, Frida Kahlo. Our art teacher was very excited. But it's still an unusual name by any standards today. I know two kids named Frida. I think it's on the upswing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 11:00:57 GMT
I'm a NICU nurse. Oh the names I have seen over the years! Two of my favorites are Great Gift and Forever Younique. It's always amusing when I ask a new mom for their baby's name and they rattle off some crazy mouthful of a name, then when asked how to spell the name they don't know. One mom told me she would have to ask her sister because the sister made up the name for her. There wasn't a doubt in my mind that someone made up that name. I am a midwife. A couple of months ago I delivered a baby named John. Very unusual these days. Wonderful. A colleague delivered a Dennis recently. She remarked that she hadn't encountered a Dennis for at least 30 years. Looking forward to my first La-a. I have a Dennis and my grandmother had a Dennis (aka my dad). I wanted to keep that in the family.
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Post by nesser01 on Aug 20, 2014 11:34:41 GMT
My sister named her daughter Velencia. My mother gave her hell for it, but I actually think its a pretty name. Velencia's twin brothers name is Sebastian. My mother hated that too. I actually work with a lady and her daughters name is Sesame. I think its cute but I think I'm more of a traditional name kind of person.
I am all for unique names, but what I don't get are ones that are totally off the wall. To each their own I guess.
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Post by MerryMom on Aug 20, 2014 11:44:07 GMT
This reminds me of the Key and Peele skits with Mr. Garvey--In an inverted twist on strange names, Key plays Mr. Garvey, a substitute teacher who taught inner city kids for 20 years and is now tasked with a predominantly white science classroom. But roll call leads to confusion, as Mr. Garvey pronounces seemingly common names like Jacqueline and Aaron as he might in an urban setting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=4DO8SwSW0GgA. A. Ron B La Kay Jay Quell In for the East/West football games: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss game 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT1nGjGM2p8 game 2 "Jammie Jammie-Jammie--THE Ohio State University" "Benedict Cumberbatch--Oxford University" "Elipses" "A A Ron Blakely" "Dan Smith"
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Post by pretzels on Aug 20, 2014 11:49:31 GMT
Some of those make the Culvert newborn in our acquaintance at least sound like language. Wow. We always figured that our kids are unique and memorable enough that we'd better give them very traditional names. Interestingly, even though all 4 of my boys has Biblical favorite/heavily used names, they've only rarely had another of the same name in the school, let alone in their grade level.That's what we've found. My DD's name is a common name spelled the normal way, but amazingly, she's the only one in her school while there are tons of kids with "unique" names and spellings. So much for being original...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 11:49:58 GMT
I like different names (not weird spelling of traditional names though) these ones aren't bad:
Becken Medine Kalon (pronounced Kay-Lon) Mylen
Kalon is my favorite out of that list.
My son has a very rare name. I don't think he will ever have to worry about another one being in his class. He's 12 now, and loves having an unusual name, especially since there seems to be an abundance of Calebs, Michaels, Dylans, Masons in his class.
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Post by gar on Aug 20, 2014 11:59:17 GMT
I like different names (not weird spelling of traditional names though) these ones aren't bad: Becken Medine Kalon (pronounced Kay-Lon) Mylen Kalon is my favorite out of that list. Kalon makes me think Colon
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Aug 20, 2014 12:02:36 GMT
Mylen Is...is that...Melanie? I still shake my head at Melynii that I saw on FB once. (Hey, there's that extra "I" again!)
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Aug 20, 2014 12:08:41 GMT
My sister and I both have unusual names that our mom chose without much input from our poor, clueless dad. I have a picture of me that was taken the day I came home from the hospital. If you flip the picture over and read what my dad wrote on the back, you'll notice that my dad spelled my name wrong. I was his firstborn child and he couldn't even get my name right?!? Gee thanks, dad. It got even worse after my sister was born. When she was learning how to write her name, my dad would sometimes help her practice by writing her full name out for her to copy. That's all good and well, except he taught her how to spell her own middle name wrong! To make matters worse, she was partially named after his own mother! My dad's a good guy who means well, but he just can't seem to catch a break--we still like to tease him about not even knowing his own daughters' names every once in awhile. For the record, though, he's never misspelled any of his grandkids' names. Yet, anyway! Hahahahaha! I can relate. My dad actually named my sister, Diana. Pretty standard, right? On the back of her baby picture is my mom's handwriting "Dianna." She also said she wanted to name me "Angelique" (remember when Dark Shadows was so big), but said she didn't know how to spell it. I'm afraid what type of "cre8tve" spelling I could've really ended up with.
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Post by lbp on Aug 20, 2014 12:28:08 GMT
I work with some medical statements and occasionally will see one that makes me wonder. Last week I saw a Dark (first name) Star(middle name)Light(last name). I have also seen Remember September and Cinnamon Sugar. I spent my first day on Earth named Drenda Leanna. Apparently that didn't sit to well with other family member and Mom changed it the day after I was born to a very vanilla, popular name.
My grandfather was Oakley Homer! While researching genealogy census records it is most often spelled Oklahoma.
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Post by sharlag on Aug 20, 2014 12:40:30 GMT
I work with some medical statements and occasionally will see one that makes me wonder. Last week I saw a Dark (first name) Star(middle name)Light(last name). I have also seen Remember September and Cinnamon Sugar. I spent my first day on Earth named Drenda Leanna. Apparently that didn't sit to well with other family member and Mom changed it the day after I was born to a very vanilla, popular name. My grandfather was Oakley Homer! While researching genealogy census records it is most often spelled Oklahoma. I know a high schooler named Oakley Homer!
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Post by melanell on Aug 20, 2014 12:56:46 GMT
Much of that has to do with illiteracy and people from different ethnic backgrounds trying to understand one another. Both surnames and given names often changed spelling every other time they were written. For a couple who could not read or write, OR who could only read/write in their native tongue, they often had no spelling of their child's name in mind---or at least not an anglicized spelling of it. They knew what the name sounded like, and they left the spelling of it to everyone else.
They may know exactly how to write out Anastasia Chernosky in Cyrillic, but were at a loss of how to spell it for the English bloke who worked as the county clerk when they arrived in Pennsylvania. So when they married, they might give the name and the clerk decided to spell it one way, but when they had a baby or lost a child, another clerk would spell it how it sounded to their ears. And depending on how used to hearing a Russian accent the clerks were would depend on how close they came to a true phonetic spelling.
Sometimes they may just have never have heard a name before. If Michael McAndrew is writing down mining records and Guisseppe Fiorlindo shows up for work, this could be the first time Mr. McAndrew has ever even heard those names. So he may decide to on a very unique spelling to write down in the Company books.
The children might even be taught various ways to spell their own name. If the parents don't write, the child shows up at school and gives his or her name, and that teacher just became the person who decided how that child's name should look, not the parents. And if there came to be a new teacher in a year or so, they might even tell the child that the first spelling was incorrect and give them a new one.
You can go to a cemetery and find that the parents have one headstone in the old language, one has it in English spelled one way, and then the children have the surname spelled in a few different ways on their headstones.
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Post by Merge on Aug 20, 2014 12:57:22 GMT
Thanks for all the replies! That's interesting that Valeriia is Russian - I should have left that one in the ethnic name column! Mylen is pronounced like it looks. My-luhn. I've never in my years of teaching had a Wynter, so that's a new one on me. To me the spelling is the part that makes me roll my eyes. Kalon is the little brother of Kaleigh and Kaleb. I understand youngest brother Kaden will be with us in a year or two.
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Post by melanell on Aug 20, 2014 12:58:14 GMT
Those Coke bottles have very few names, really. I was trying to find a few for completely everyday and boring names and they didn't have them.
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Post by Merge on Aug 20, 2014 13:01:44 GMT
Those Coke bottles have very few names, really. I was trying to find a few for completely everyday and boring names and they didn't have them. I know! My kids have pretty common names and no coke bottles for them. But the particular nickname I use, a shortened version of my "uniquely" spelled name - on the Coke bottles. Weird!
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Post by melanell on Aug 20, 2014 13:01:53 GMT
Sometimes names that sound new or outlandish to some at a time become pretty vanilla names later. My mother always tells the story of telling my grandmother that she wanted to name me Melanie, and my grandmother kept asking her to repeat it because she just couldn't get the pronunciation correct. "muh-LANE-ee"? she kept asking, and my mother kept correcting her over & over again, "MEL-uh-NEE".
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Post by katybee on Aug 20, 2014 13:27:24 GMT
My kids told me about a little boy they met whose name is Firstname Danger Lastname. As dd said, he can truly say "my middle name is Danger!" I had a little boy last year who's actual middle name was Danger. I think his dad was wishful thinking. That kid never took any chances and was almost a little bit lazy... (Cute kid... But name doesn't fit!) I had a boy a few years ago who's first name was Storm. Hopefully he will grow up to be a TV weatherman.
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Post by katybee on Aug 20, 2014 13:29:04 GMT
And I just counted five Aaliyahs in a class of 120! Ohh I know one of them! It's even spelled that way! The only one I like on that list is Beckon. It sounds sorta normal. My cousin has a little boy who is Breckon. I've seen different versions. Poor kids these days, I think it would take forever to learn how to write their names! I have a hard enough time in my married last name that it has two 'ss! I had a little girl names Aaliyah... Spell check doesn't even put a squiggly red line under it, so it can't be that uncommon. This little girl was from a Muslim family... Maybe it's a traditional name in some Muslim cultures...
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Post by epeanymous on Aug 20, 2014 13:42:48 GMT
Frida seems to me more uncommon than unusual.
On a related note, one of my kids has a slightly uncommon but traditional and very recognizable name that starts with an F. In the past two months, I have had not one but two receptionists spell his name with a PH and look utterly baffled when I correct them. So giving your kid a non-made-up, traditional name is no guarantee you won't be correcting people. And I have another kid whose name was uncommon enough when I named him that I used to get the "oh, is that a family name?" eyebrow arch of judgment, but is now so common that instead I get the "oh, I would have loved to name my kid that but the name is so popular." It has been eight years, people. Naming trends are so weird.
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Post by Outspoken on Aug 20, 2014 15:28:49 GMT
I totally laughed out loud! it reminded me of when I worked in OB and a lady came in to the hospital deliver. She registered her name as Mrs. (first name) Bytheway That's a real last name. There's a famous (in certain circles) LDS speaker named John Bytheway Wiki PageI had no idea! Of course, this was 15 years ago but I still to this day haven't ever heard it!!
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Post by utmr on Aug 20, 2014 15:56:28 GMT
I have a crazy made up name , so I'm familiar with the pity looks from teachers.
Whatever people want to call their kids is none if my business. But my favorite "interesting" names are Knowledge and Messiah. Both very nice boys, smart polite kids from nice families.
There was a Jesus in the other class. I so badly wanted Messiah, Jesus and Mohammad to be in the same classroom. Moses/Moishe would be a good addition to the gang.
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Post by gorgeouskid on Aug 20, 2014 16:25:01 GMT
My first year of teaching I had twins, Bais Pype and Tai Styck (Base Pipe and Thai Stick- drug terms) who went by Base and Thai. Totally sounds like an urban legend, and if I didn't have them in my class I wouldn't believe the names.
Mom was a drug addict when the kids were born, sober once they hit fifth grade. They actually were great kids.
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Post by stittsygirl on Aug 20, 2014 16:32:14 GMT
This reminds me of the Key and Peele skits with Mr. Garvey: In an inverted twist on strange names, Key plays Mr. Garvey, a substitute teacher who taught inner city kids for 20 years and is now tasked with a predominantly white science classroom. But roll call leads to confusion, as Mr. Garvey pronounces seemingly common names like Jacqueline and Aaron as he might in an urban setting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=4DO8SwSW0GgA. A. Ron B La Kay Jay Quell In for the East/West football games: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss game 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT1nGjGM2p8 game 2 "Jammie Jammie-Jammie--THE Ohio State University" "Benedict Cumberbatch--Oxford University" "Elipses" "A A Ron Blakely" "Dan Smith" I haven't been able to think of the name Aaron normally since I first saw the substitute one. It will now always be A-aron in my head .
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