Women really get worked up about baby names

[samjjones]

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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."

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Bulldog - I believe the correct bad joke in this situation is "If the mother didn't Secaucus, her kids wouldn't have horrible names to begin with."

[KotOD]

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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.

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But, but, Oscar is traditionally Black or Latin. You're getting your excuses crossed.

[dlk9s]

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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."

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A girl named Patterson would be almost guaranteed to become hot.

Ho-Ho-Kus, not so much.

EDIT: Since I live in Marietta, Georgia, I joked with my wife that we should have named our daughter Marietta Georgia. Hey, they are both girl names.

[dlk9s]

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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.

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But, but, Oscar is traditionally Black or Latin. You're getting your excuses crossed.

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That would fall under the "different" catch-all category. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[vikefan24]

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Interesting point, PdP. It hadn't occurred to me that people could be anti-pre-birth-nickname-determination. Do others feel this way?

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One thing that I hate is when people say "We're naming him Joseph William Smith, and he'll go by 'William'." For god's sake, please spare your kid a lifetime of constantly correcting people and useless explanations. If you want to call him a certain name, make it his first name.

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If only you could have talked to my parents 21 years ago.. I understand their point though, they wanted me to have my grandpas name (William) but go by Luke and they thought William Lucas sounded better than Lucas William..

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How about something ebonic, like Arfur?

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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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?

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I'm sorry, but you brought this one on yourself, my friend. If you would've spelled it "right," you wouldn't have this problem.

[samjjones]

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How about something ebonic, like Arfur?

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Please see my "Idaho" joke above.

[DrNo888]

This is the reason why we never told anyone name we had chosen before our son was born. There will be positive and negative opinions no matter the name you choose.

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How about something ebonic, like Arfur?

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Please see my "Idaho" joke above.

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Ah, that went over my head at first.