There are so many bad,unusually baby names, but how about naming your baby after a dog? I have relatives who named their two sons Buddy and Buster.

My children’s names are Caitlen Mekare and Arica Ashton. I am pregnant and expecting a boy whose name will be Kai Thomas Orion (I know, you are cringing here!). …

Now to my first daughter’s middle name – and I warn you now this is really twisted if you actually know where the name came from. Personally, I just liked the way the name sounded with her first name – strong, but still feminine. However, the novel it came from was Anne Rice’s “Queen of the Damned”. The character Mekare (mah-CARE) is one of the twins who defeats the queen and at the very end, Mekare kills the queen and eats her, becoming the queen of the damned herself. I know, just plain weird, but it is a pretty name jsut the same! On a side note, my brother has also read the book and is set on the name Akasha if he ever has a daughter – Akasha was the first queen …. so we really must be a twisted lot!

Please feel free to use excerps of this to poke fun at – after all, you can see that I do the same on occasion! What a bad mother I am! LOL

Well if you open the door, it’d be rude not to walk in. (On the other hand, inviting me to give you a hard time about your kids’ names makes it really, really hard to come up with anything. Curse you and your reverse psychology!)

I have one thought, though. DeVille Mekare would be a great character name in some “Tales from the Crypt” style low-budget tale of cliched horror version of Faust. Bonus points if you can get Pacino to do it.