Author Archives: notwithoutmyhandbag

Not quite so far out there as some others, but for baby names, my favorite has to be that of Perry, the darling daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Winkle. We went to high school together.

Cheers,
Dennis

I found your site quite by accident, but it certainly was hilarious and sad to read. And I knew I had to tell you of this name. To my shame, I invented it, but never intended it to be used!

I write science fiction stories, where it’s more “acceptable”, even encouraged to have very different names. I started publishing on the internet where I was “discovered”. And in posting my stories for others to read, I often got email about not just the stories but also the names. I would reply that I didn’t care if they used the names, but just don’t tell your kid where you got it! I don’t want to be the victim of his/her rage later in life.

Once in a humorous tale, I came up with the totally goofy, and consonant-less, name of Mr. Uaeio. It’s pronounced just as it looks (boy have you heard that a lot!)…U-a-e-i-o. Imagine my shock to hear from a lady who LOVED the name with no consonants and said she wanted to name her boy that! And she’d call him
Ua for short, which she said would be pronounced “Ew-ay”. She would not be dissauded.

And to think I started putting my maiden name with my married name so I’d be harder to find after being stalked once. There’s no Lindley-Anderson in the phone book, but I’ll bet “Ua” will find me anyway…

Keep it up because I need the laughs.

B. L.

I had a neighbor who named her son Romance , who grow up to be a gay cross dresser. And his sister was named Love. This lady was absolutely insane. I think she was on drugs.

-J

Horror is better when spread around. I already posted this in the forum, but here it is:

Author: chosney
Date: September 26, 2006 2:07 PM
Subject: Choosing a baby name
My wife and I are having our first baby and we are trying to think of a name Something that will portend the great thing’s that only a Chosney could. Something like Pasquale, Bush (after the pres of course), Manson, Chuck for boys name or for girls Cynthia, Butter, Angel or Cryinore.

Which names do you like?

(I assume this to be fake, but answered politely on the off chance that it was real. My head hurts now.)

-Kristen

I am a school librarian, and I’ve seen several bad names, but one THIS year is probably the worst…

Destiny Darling. I don’t know what her middle name is, but I’m afraid to look it up.

I also have a high school girl with the first name of Princess. If that’s not begging for trouble, I don’t know WHAT is. She does seem to feel a need to try and live up to that name, and looks down on all of the “commoners,” students and faculty alike.

-P

I have friends who wanted to do something different with the names of their children. * shivers *

Jason (dad)
Kylee
Logan
MacKenna
Nancy (mom)

When Nancy was pregnant with MacKenna, she was concerned that her daughter might think that the only reason they had her was to have all the letters (of the alphabet).

-C

I swear this is true. A co-worker was telling us how she and her husband had almost named their daughter (whose name I cannot remember) *Chiquita Banana.* She announced this in the lunchroom one day, and we all looked at her like she had a third eye.

– Thanking my lucky stars I was named after a purple flower (Heather)

I overheard a woman in the Post Office discussing her soon-to-be-born daughter. Planned name? Talla Dega. “You know, like the race track. ‘Cause we’re big fans!” That child is doomed to be a stripper in Alabama.

On the other hand, one of my grandmothers was named Olean, so I guess I don’t have much of an upper hand.

Kai

p.s. – feel free to make fun of my name: Kai Boczkiewicz-Perez. Birth name, not married-then-hyphenated.

These are all real names of people who went to my school.

Ivy Beach (and her sister, Sunny Beach)
Liberty Shipp (not to be confused with Leberdee, another girl at my school)
Hobbin Creech
Jupiter Creech
Rusty Staples (girl)
Cayenna
Chi (pronounced like Shy)
JoVon
Lynleah

I just know there are more of them…but I can’t find my yearbooks.

-M

Anna Ryder Richardson, one of the designers on Changing Rooms, (the British show Trading Spaces is based on), named her two baby girls Bibi Belle and Dixie Dot. It fits with Anna, as she is one of those perky small dynamic women, but I’m sure the girls will likely get teased in the future.

-Mary