Women really get worked up about baby names

[El Diablo]

OP: Oscar to me is about as good as naming a kid Bertha or Helga.

LFS: Sullivan is an awesome name for a chick. Cornelius is a pretty sweet name if your son is black. Morris is OK.

PdPG: I see more and more people doing that (Alexandra, but we call her Alex, Elizabeth but we call her Beth, etc.). Sometimes it seems to make sense, other times it just seems bizarre. Depends on the name(s).

[DrewDevil]

I was 8 years old when this came out:



Ever since then, Luke has been my favorite name. I really hope I can talk my wife into Luke if we have another boy.

[meleader2]

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or in choosing one of those currently en vogue "yuppie names" that make me want to puke. We have friends who have actually named their children:

Brock
Avery
Riverson
Lee-Lee

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Riley
Cameron
Logan
Caden
Carter

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AMADEUS

so [censored] bold.

[El Diablo]

LFS,

By the time your daughter is in high school, if she is really hot she'll go by Sullivan or Sully. Otherwise, she'll go by Liv or Rose.

[Blarg]

I'm thinking Sullivan is kind of like calling your kid Gulliver. And your kid is a girl.

[gumpzilla]

My fiancee and I can agree on female names, but male names are trouble. She actually semi-seriously suggested Ulysses recently. Do we need to have a talk, El D?

[Los Feliz Slim]

Yeah, people who aren't thinking very hard sometimes say "Oh, Sullivan's Travels!" and I'm like wtf, no (unless they're referring to the 1941 movie, which they aren't).

[dlk9s]

My first reaction to Oscar was "ugh," but it's growing on me. I guess my reaction probably stems from the fact that I'm Jewish, and with Jews, pretty much any name that is different/gentile sounding/yuppie sounding is frowned upon.

For our child, we wanted the first name to start with an "A" to honor my wife's late father. We had the first and last name picked out for a boy (middle name was after one of my grandfathers), but it took us a while to settle on a girl's name, and as fate would have it, we had a girl.

We chose Alena because a) it started with an "A" and b) we liked it. I guess the usual spelling is "Alaina," but we thought the one we chose looked better.

Oddly (to us) tons of people think the spelling is strange, although it seemed pretty normal to us (it's not like we had never seen it before). Even more strange is that lots of people can't figure out how to pronounce it based on the spelling.

It's UH-LAY-NUH. People have pronounced it UH-LEN-UH and UH-LON-UH. Even AY-LEN-UH. WTF?

FWIW, I call her Lainie (although I'm not sure how I should spell it) and Lanes.

[samjjones]

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And there's all the ones named after states and cities, the Dakotas and etc.

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Idaho would be an alright name.

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I can see this being a problem, especially for an African-American female.

[Bulldog]

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or in choosing one of those currently en vogue "yuppie names" that make me want to puke. We have friends who have actually named their children:

Brock
Avery
Riverson
Lee-Lee

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Riley
Cameron
Logan
Caden
Carter

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And there's all the ones named after states and cities, the Dakotas and etc.

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On Mother's Day our local Sunday paper ran 100+ pages of family photos with moms. We went through the whole thing to look for people we know and to make fun of the names. The funniest:

My fiancee says "Here's one. Trenton, Camden..."

I say "All New Jersey cities? Is there a Newark?"

"Yep..."

"If there is a Secaucus I'm tracking the mom down and punching her in the face."