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Post by 1lear on Aug 20, 2014 16:35:49 GMT
I had a friend when I was young named Wendy Day.
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Post by 505scrapper on Aug 20, 2014 16:56:25 GMT
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... I think there was a spike in the name Aaliyah when that singer with that name was killed in a plane crash. That was back in 2001 so I'm guessing it's coming back again. My niece's name is Joslyn however my 90 year old grandmother thinks that's too hard to pronounce so she calls her Jacqueline.
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Post by jemali on Aug 20, 2014 17:05:38 GMT
I know of a girl named Aabree (Aubrey) I went to school with a Liisa DH's cousin has a son named Storm
When DH's uncle went to get his marriage license, he found out that his birth certificate said he was a girl! It seems that when he was born, his dad (a man of few words...) went to the city office and said "Wife had the baby. Named it Carmen" and the city clerk assumed it was a female.
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Post by Gravity on Aug 20, 2014 17:22:42 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 and Becken makes me think of Bacon.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 20, 2014 17:48:16 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" Oh my gosh, I'm dying laughing here!!!!!
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Post by msliz on Aug 20, 2014 17:57:26 GMT
Kalon makes me think Colon and Becken makes me think of Bacon. mmmmmm, bacon.
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 20, 2014 18:06:48 GMT
We had a customer yesterday who said her name was Dana Lastname. We couldn't find her in the records and eventually we got the first name spelling - Deana. I'm pretty sure the other 41 Deanas we have on file pronounce their name De Anna.
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Post by kimpossible on Aug 20, 2014 18:10:07 GMT
Leaving out the ethnic names, which are many and varied, in this year's kindergarten class we have: Aerin Frida Valeriia (two Is) Chrisanity (mom can't spell?) Sa'Nyah Becken Medine Kevn (that's right, no I - guess he gave it to Valeriia) Rhyan (think mom is a black dagger brotherhood fan?) And some from first grade: Kalon (pronounced Kay-Lon) Marshay Wynter Phania Bahiyya Dashley Mylen Danelly Vanina No La-a. Kevnn maybe missing an "I"..but Vanina is one "G" from being the worst name ever for a baby.
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Post by kimpossible on Aug 20, 2014 18:12:20 GMT
My son had a boy in 6th grade named Canyon Bacon...
I knew twins in middle school named Sunny and Stormy
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Post by gar on Aug 20, 2014 18:13:24 GMT
We had a customer yesterday who said her name was Dana Lastname. We couldn't find her in the records and eventually we got the first name spelling - Deana. I'm pretty sure the other 41 Deanas we have on file pronounce their name De Anna. I would have guess at Deen-uh if it's from the more common Dean + a but it's not a name I've heard more than once in my life I don't think.
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Post by Mary W on Aug 20, 2014 18:32:02 GMT
I had an applicant come through one time - hername was Daniel Boone.
My son's middle name is Royal. It's a family name. It was my grandfather's name and several others in the family have that name. I never thought it was unusual. When he graduated high school, one of his friend's mother was making invitations and asked him what his middle name was. When he told her she didn't believe him. She actually had him put me on the phone so I could verify that it really is his middle name! He likes it and actually now uses it as his first name on Facebook.
We also have a last name that often gets joked about. One time we gave it in a restaurant for the wait list, and the hostess said, "No, I need your real name!"
My granddaughter's name is Serenity. It's different, but I like it. Everybody tells her it's such a pretty name.
I have a very plain, old-fashioned name, but I like it. I'm named after my grandmothers, and I'm honored to share their names. What happened to that tradition of naming kids after family members?
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Post by mimima on Aug 20, 2014 18:38:51 GMT
We had a customer yesterday who said her name was Dana Lastname. We couldn't find her in the records and eventually we got the first name spelling - Deana. I'm pretty sure the other 41 Deanas we have on file pronounce their name De Anna. See, I'd pronounce that "DEAN-a"
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Post by 3SugarBugs on Aug 20, 2014 19:04:00 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" My DH absolutely LOVES these episodes of Key and Peele! I have to admit I don't usually find them *that* funny, but these skits crack me up too!
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Post by sisterbdsq on Aug 20, 2014 19:16:45 GMT
I think Frida is an old name.. there's an artist named Frida. My grandmother was Freida. It's an old German name. Haven't heard of it being used lately - and none of the great-grandchildren are lining up to use it either! Merge - just shaking my head at that list! My grandmother was also Frieda, but by error. Her name was Ophelia, but the nursemaid could not read. She was called Frieda and it stuck. I rather like both names.
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Post by Nink on Aug 20, 2014 19:49:21 GMT
All I know is Vanina is in for a miserable childhood.
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Post by my3freaks on Aug 20, 2014 19:56:55 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!) My name is Melanie. It's unbelievable how many people spell it wrong! No kidding, maybe 2 out of 5 people spell it right. The best was at Starbucks when my cup had "Mellaknee"!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 20:02:20 GMT
My dad said he would come back from the grave and haunt us if we ever named our kids after him using his first name. I did use family names for middle names.
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Post by anaterra on Aug 20, 2014 20:04:00 GMT
I warned my daughter about how popular her choice was for my grandson... not a weird name or spelling... but in his pre-3 class he is 1 of 2 Aiden's n there is an aydan... sooo yeah lots of those in the next few yrs....
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Post by Sam on Aug 20, 2014 20:07:31 GMT
All I know is Vanina is in for a miserable childhood. Well, Little Miss "Open"-Sesame might be in for the same treatment
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Post by peanuttle on Aug 20, 2014 20:08:00 GMT
Oh good lord! I can't imagine having to remember those names and try to pronounce them correctly as I'm yelling at the kids to get in line, settle down, stop talking, etc.
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 20, 2014 20:20:54 GMT
Oh good lord! I can't imagine having to remember those names and try to pronounce them correctly as I'm yelling at the kids to get in line, settle down, stop talking, etc. Remembering them is hard, no doubt, but try being the K teacher trying to remember how to spell them so you can help the kids write them correctly!!!! Creative names are bad enough, but the spelling of them is what kills me. I used to joke (over 20 years ago, I still have the "contract" I signed with a classmate)that if I had a girl I was doing to name her Courtney, but spell it Quartknee, sadly, I am sure this has been done! Those you tube videos were hysterical! TFS.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 20, 2014 21:00:29 GMT
Vanina = wow, that's just mean.
I like Wynter.
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Post by ceepea on Aug 20, 2014 21:13:28 GMT
I have seen documents from a male whose name was Fluffy Bunny. Every time I see it I think he had to have lost a bet or something....I had a friend growing up whose mother's name was Christmas Carol, she was born on Christmas morning and she went by Carol. There were twins around the block from me, they were boy and girl twins, and their names were Guy and Gay. Unfortunately, they were teased terribly. It didn't help that their mom would call them in for dinner by yelling "Gay, Guy, dinner!"
When I was subbing I had a boy whose name was Quahmohndreay, pronounced Q-mon-drey, he went by Mondre(Mon-drey). I also had a little girl whose name was Bless, that one is sort of sweet.
My son had a girlfriend whose name was a mix of her grandmother's name on both sides, Cassie and Mae, she was Cassae-Cass Aaaa(long a). I thought that was pretty and a nice tribute.
I had great-uncle triplets whose names were Dino, Nino, and Mino(they all rhyme). My dad told me their mom was quite a pistol and after delivering them she was exhausted and in pain. Her husband asked her about naming one of them Dino and she said..."Dino, Nino, Mino I don't care what you call them, just make sure they got them all out!"
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Post by RosieKat on Aug 20, 2014 21:41:09 GMT
We are changing schools from a very conservative Catholic school to a very multiethnic, kind of "crunchy" public charter school. We just received class lists today...Hoo boy! The third grade lists aren't overly shocking - there are definitely a lot of names I'd never use, but most of the names that are "strange" are just a different cultural background or fairly simple like Sky. But the kindergarten list...whoo! So we're going from classes where the craziest names were things like Leyla or Olivia, lol, to where the craziest names are, um, crazy.
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Post by yoko on Aug 20, 2014 22:52:52 GMT
I get to play this game!
I went to a preschool today to do a talk about cowboys and in the class there was a little boy named Danzig and a little girl named Adonis.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 21, 2014 0:49:21 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" This is a very funny skit! A Aron!
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Post by scrappinmama on Aug 21, 2014 1:20:56 GMT
I had a Hannah in my class. When I said her name for the first time, the mom corrected my pronunciation . It was pronounced with a soft a sound. Kind of like the a in arm. And emphasis was placed on the n sound.
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Post by elaine on Aug 21, 2014 1:29:51 GMT
I volunteer at Henry Ford Academy in Dearborn Mi, it's a charter high school. I do a lot of the filing and am bewildered at some of these kid's names. Last year there were twins, Alexia and Elexia??? How do you call the girls, hey Alexia, with the A or Elexia, yeah you, with the E. I haven't started back yet, I'll have to write some of the names down for the new school year. I feel so sorry for these kids that have to deal with a name that their parents thought was cute or unique. But then, they'll probably name their kids something even more crazy! If either of those girls ends up with dyslexia, that will be something.
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Post by rst on Aug 21, 2014 1:54:00 GMT
An overly unique name + dyslexia or a speech impediment is just a recipe for disaster and all around frustration.
Not that Athos is overly unique, but a little boy in my son's preschool/headstart class had a bit of a speech delay. He went for at least 2 years telling everyone his name was Asshole (enunciated very clearly). My son came home telling me all about Asshole did that, Asshole did that. I asked him if maybe he got the name a bit wrong, but he said, no, I asked him twice, and the teacher did too, and he just kept saying " I Asshole". Apparently a substitute teacher's aide called him Asshole, not knowing different, and was taken to task by the parents and administrators.
When our paths crossed again a few years later he was going by AJ.
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Post by Heart on Aug 21, 2014 2:04:54 GMT
My son's name is a pretty normal name, just spelled historically rather than using modern spelling. My Daughter's name is absolutely made up. She LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVES it. no one else has her name, and she is ok with that. it does have several possible short versions if she wants, but she likes it the way it is.
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