Bad Baby Names, Part 15: Flights of Fantasy
I found all of these within a week. Be afraid.
How does the name Kanoa Kai sound? It is a Hawaiian name. (I am not Hawaiian - I just love the meaning of the names) Kanoa means "The Free One" and Kai means "Ocean."
Ten bucks says she's never been to Hawaii, never met a Hawaiian, has a farmer tan, and has never left the great landlocked state of Iowa.
Poll: Boys name - Lex or Ace?
Arch-villain or pet detective.... hmm....
I'm considering Christina / Kristina / Krystina for my baby girl that will be born in two weeks. I don't want to use a name that is too popular. I am also considering Christiana / Kristiana / Krystiana. Does this last group sound too fancy or sophisticated?
Don't worry, with a sophisticated name like Krystiana, she'll be moved up from regular lap dances to the Champagne Room in no time.
I am 39 weeks 5 days pregnant, and in serious need of a girl's name. We don't know what we are having, but we have 3 girls already, and I am just assuming another one is on its way. If we have a boy, his name will be Kole. My girls' names are Brett (RyLee), Bailee (Shea), and Kendall (Jade).
What we want to do is use a name that is somewhat androgonys (sp), just because the others are and we are looking for something that starts with a 'K.' Some thoughts have been Kaelyn or Kylie, but nothing is getting agreed on, and we have no other ideas.
Look, you can't do something if you can't spell it. That's why most of us are allowed to drive a car or date rock stars, but not allowed to give an electroencepheloghram ...... electriensephologram...... brain scan thingy.
How are these names for my daughter twins!
Brecklyn and Brooklyn
Jena and Jori
Brianne and Brynn
Editor's note: There will be no comment accompanying this entry, as the author was rushed to the hospital after trying to say these names aloud rapidly, and part of her jaw fell off.
We are expecting baby #2 in December. We already have a daughter Mackenzi Lynn who is 20 months old. What do you think of Kadince Mae (or Kadance, Kadence, Cadence) and calling her Kadi or Cadi for short? We call our daughter Kenzi, as I like a long name with shorter versions. Thanks.
I appreciate that saying cadence, cadence, cadence, cadence, cadence, cadence, cadence, cadence in a way replicates what cadence is... if your definition of cadence is mostly wrong. Which is a moot point, 'cause I don't think she knows it's a word.
Few realize the much of Leonardo da Vinci's later work was actually done by his trendy airhead sister Mackenzi ka Dinc e, particularly "his" later technical drawing OMG Avril is SOOOO KEWL!!!!11!!!!!
I am not pregnant yet, but thinking about names... I just thought of the name Lourdes Solange. This baby will be 75% Latina and 15% European. :)
... and 10% polyester.
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of a good site to go to to find a Native American name????
Please let me know. I was thinking of using it for a middle name if I found a name that went nicely with the first name.
Many Native names have really cool meanings.
Just wondering.
I am Mohawk if this helps.
Thank you for your help.
She might want to consider Karé:ken Kaná:taro as a good Mohawk name. It means "White Bread."
Sure you are, honey. Mohawks are widely known for maintaining their traditions - which they have to ask total strangers about - because they're "really cool." This belief is known in their language as "The Mother Spirit is way awesome. Number one! Woooo! Mohawks freakin' rule!"
ANYONE HAVE ANY GOOD SUGGESTIONS FOR A FIRST NAME THAT GOES WITH THE MIDDLE NAME SARAH? THIS IS MY TWIN SISTER'S NAME, AND IF I HAVE MY 5TH GIRL IN A ROW LOL THEN I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO USE HER NAME AS A MIDDLE NAME. CAN'T USE IT AS A FIRST NAME BECAUSE I ALREADY HAVE A DAUGHTER NAMED CIERRA AND IT IS WAY TOO CLOSE. MY OTHER KIDS' NAMES IF IT HELPS ARE: NATHANIEL ORION, SHAYLYNN NYCOLE, CIERRA RENEE, SAVANNAH HALEIGH, AND ARIANNA GRACE.
Holy crap, she's got a WNBA team going. Trained in the ancient kung-fu arts by the Shaylynn monks.
So what are your opinions on Haven for a girl, and do you have any middle name suggestions? Don't worry about hurting my feelings, just be honest. My husband and I love this name. OH! I would really love to know your husbands' opinions on this name. It is just a theory of mine, so ask them if they are around. So I want you and your husbands' opinions, and any middle name suggestions. I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU ALL!!!
Don't mind me, I'll just sit here in the dark formulating theories about your husbands. No, I won't tell you what they are - I'll just let you suffer as you make me suffer. You pitiless cow.
Don't worry about hurting my feelings... it's just something I love and treasure, and even the blandest of unenthusiastic comments will break my heart into a million, billion pieces. No, really, give me your brutally honest opinion, so that your politely disagreeing comments will make a pregnant woman weep for days, which I'm sure you'll enjoy, you cruel, demonic wench.
So, what do you think of Haven?
Which name do you think?
Brecklyn Kate
OR
Ridgely Mae
I'm torn between the two.
Thanks, Brooke
And I'm torn between why your name ideas are "Welshman recites New York's boroughs" and "The other guy from Wham."
Why not something hip and modern, like "Stetten Eeland" and "The bassist from Culture Club."
Which spelling is best for baby boy?
Tristan
Tristen
Trystan
Triston
Tristain
Other
And which spelling is best for giving people an aneurysm? Angering them, making them treat you with malice, aversion, and tristain?
Here is a sample from Names Through the Ages by Teresa Norman.
Female names:
Aelfreda - elf strength
Agatha - pure, strength
Beatrix / Beatrice - bringer of happiness
Eadu - wealth
Edith - wealthy battle
Everild - boar battle
Muriel - sea bright
Osthryth - God's strength
Sigga - victory
Theode - people, nation
Male names:
Adhelm - noble helmet
Beorn - warrior, brave
Cenwig - brave in battle
Dunstan - hill stone
Eadmund - wealthy protection
Eadulf - wealthy wolf
Godric - God's ruler
Heahstan - tall stone
Tunric - town ruler
Tunwulf - town wolf
Baby naming bulletin boards are peppered with people like this posting massive lists of medieval Norse, or Welsh, or Celtic names and their (cough) meanings. (Any Spanish or Italian or Greek or Farsi or Korean or Aztec or Egyptian or Gabonian names? No. Just the uber-pale peoples of the world.) Hiding amongst them are always a couple acceptable names, and the rest are chorus parts from Wagner's Ring cycle. I'll be honest - I have no freakin' clue what these people are trying to accomplish.
I don't really need to say anything here, do I? I mean, really, we're mostly adults here, we're reasonable people - do I really have to say anything about a name that means "wealthy wolf" and sounds like chronic sinus congestion?
What does everyone think about Oleander for a girl's, or possibly a boy's, name??? Cute nicknames??
This is from the International Oleander Society (note: it's their mission to promote this plant.): Oleanders contain a toxin called Cardenolide Glycosides. The toxin is mostly contained in the sap which is clear to slightly milky colored, and sticky. When ingested in certain quantities, this toxin can cause harm - and possibly death. The extremely bitter and nauseating taste of the sap (much like a rotten lemon) causes a mechanical reflex in the stomach which rejects and expels the vile substance.
What do you think of the name Allegra? It is Italian, and means cheerful and lively.
Look, it's just your bad luck when a product or TV character or popular porn star or Rick Santorum ends up having your name, but if they came out with it first.... just walk away.
Side effects are low in seasonal allergy users and may include headache, cold, or back pain. People with kidney ailments should consult their doctor before taking Allegra.
We have narrowed our name choices for our daughter down to 3... Aidan, Ciara (Key-ara), or Sierra. We're worried about a few things with these names... mispronunciation, misspelling, and confusion for girl / boy. (I've lived with a very uncommon name and hated it, but seems like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!)
I am Italian and would like a bit of "Italy" in the name, since our last name is of Irish descent, and these first names are all pretty much Irish as well.
(A sample response):
For a middle name, I would suggest Caramia. I think Aiden Caramia would be pretty. Or Sierra Bella. (Can you tell I don't know much Italian?)
Seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and the tree has forgotten being a sapling. And has as firm a grasp on geography, gender, society, and ethnicity as our Mohawk buddy does on her Indo-Pakistani roots.
Just plain no comment of the response. Except that her knowledge of Italy is so limited, I'm amazed she realized "Italian" comes from "Italy." And she got her suggested name off a jar of marinated artichoke hearts.
I have started to have a real liking for 'made-up' names... I guess because they are so original. I have seen some really good ones on [a particular baby names hellhole] and I was wondering if you guys could tell me more! I'm not picky, I don't care if people have heard someone with the name before, etc., just anything that is really original and not technically a name...
These are the ones I've seen here that I love;
Avrielle
Olivianna
Sophelia (these two are good because I love Olivia and Sophie, but find them too common)
Allorah
Fairith
Sabriel
Katrien...
That's all I can think of right this moment...
Also, I love word names... tell me all the word names you can think of!
I like;
Patience
Sailor
Meadow
Journey
Lyric
Ever
Rose
Samaya
Grey
Chance
True
Journey
And one more thing, I love place names... nice-sounding ones;
India
Ireland
Asia
Dallas
London
Any names that you would put in these three catergories that you think also sound nice would be appreciated! Thanks beforehand. :)
I looked ALL the "invented" names up on your behalf. Seeing as I have a pathological, bordering on irrational hatred of the fantasy genre, this was sort of like having a vegan volunteering to take a tour of the Hormel plant on your behalf: Avrielle - some sort of role-playing squirrel beast on some guy's Web site. The site crashed my computer before I finished reading what the heck it was. Olivianna - wizard guild site. I guess wizards need collective bargaining and union job protections. Sophelia - Very popular with goths. I found it as a goth role-playing character, an over-affected pen and ink goth drawing, and a goth character in a Arthurian-type online novella with terrible web design. Allorah is some sort of online psychic ("I see an ISP bill in your future..."), and Allora (no H) is a town of 1,500 in Queensland, Australia. Fairith is mentioned on this guy's site, but I couldn't figure out what the hell he was going on about, and Babelfish doesn't have a translator for "Spell-casting wanker." Sabriel is the title character of a real, actually-published book by Garth Nix in which "Sabriel is a necromancer, and as such is caught between two worlds. In her case, the worlds are Ancelstierre, where she grew up, and the Old Kingdom, where charter magic holds sway and her destiny lies." Which, if I'm not mistaken, is what it says on every fantasy book cover ever. The cover illustration holds up my theory, as Sabriel is depicted in the typical mystical elfin fantasy style: consumptive pencilneck in a doublet. Katrien appears to be a name used in Belgium and the Netherlands - one of the first sites on a web search I found was "Dirk en Katrien's nude amateur homepage." Personally, I think it sounds sort of like the French for "eighty." Samaya is the daily newspaper of the state of Orissa, in eastern India. Ever is the European Association for Vision and Eye Research. As an adverb, it means, "at all times," as in, "One who thinks Ever is a name is ever crazy, and should be ever locked up."
Yup, you just saw Journey twice.
Like 99.9 percent of people who think they've invented names, and that these names are oh-so-ungrotesque, she is mistaken on both counts.
On point one, they are almost always hybrids of two or more Celticy / Old Englishy names and only found in sci-fi / fantasy novels, role-playing games, and derivative fan fiction.
ask names: Which the best pronunciation of names with Ken?
Ken Kami?
Ken Kadmon?
Ken Raphael?
Ken Kinkson?
I don't know, I don't want to know, what this guy's on.
I cannot see myself naming any of my children these names, but I wanted to know what everyone else thought. I found them in a magazine, and they are names of teen models:
Taisy
Ilfenesh
Nellie / Nelly
Spencer
Mai
All of these names were for girls by the way. :)
Ditto for these girls' parents AND the lady who submitted this, just because of her perky tone.
What do you think of the name Eitan (pr. Ay-tawn)? I saw it on a Bratz Boyz doll, and thought it was pretty cool.
I thought not.
Is there a classier place to get your child's name than from this strangely feminine fashion toy?
having twins... what names do you like?
girls:
Irelyn Knoah(pr: Noah)
Brelyn Riley(pr: Bre-Lynn)
Ashleigh Nicole
Braelyn Makendra(pr: Bray-Lyn)
Boys:
Ashlan Aydan
Bradyn Teague
Creighton Isaiah
Cayle Miciah
"The members of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Board included Louis D. Boccardi, president and CEO of the Associated Press; Tom Goldstein, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; and Wall Street Journal managing editor Irelyn Knoah Steiger."
You know how to make fortune cookie fortunes funny, you add "...in bed" to the end? Try adding these names to serious news stories.
"Three-term U.S. Senator Braelyn Makendra Graham (D-Florida) is gearing up for a fierce fight going in to the New Hampshire primary."
"OPEC's decision to keep production capped at 25.4 million barrels a day was a wise move, says economist Ashlan Aydan Richardson."
So I know Leto is a girl's name, but I recently read a book where it was used for a boy, and thought that might be a good real boy's name. WDYT?
WDYT? IT, WTF?
Yes, Leto is a girl's name... in ancient Greek mythology. Since then, it's usually used as slang by Tonight Show writers for when Jay Leno won't sign a joke into law. (Letos can only be overturned by a 2/3rds vote by the audience.)
My husband and I ... have begun the process of actually adopting an 8-month old girl with special needs. She has a name which neither my husband or I are fond of, and we would like to change it.
Her current name is: Rainey Marie
We'd like to maybe use Raine as a middle name.
Our choices (we'd love suggestions)
Annika Rain nickname Annie
Kaya Belle
Ivy Christine
Liv nickname Livvie (we also love Olivia, but it's so common)
Quinn Rebecca
Saraya Rose nickname Sari
Phoebe Kiara
Gabriella Raine nickname Bria
Audra Lark
Henry Matteo is the sibling name, and our last name is [removed].
Now I think these names are across the board awful, but it's especially mean to give a tough name to a kid with special needs. I remember reading a story in a magazine that included a girl with severe retardation named Cassiopeia. I can't even imagine her frustration.
Meanwhile, how amazing is it to find a kid named Henry, even if he has a rather ill-fitting middle name. Henry! A breath of friggin' air!
What would you name a sibling for....
Mackenzie?
Ok and let me say that I am NOT asking for opinions on the name Mackenzie. It has been said and done. I am asking what kind of sibling names you think would go well with Mackenzie. So please, no debates.
...
And if you hate the name so much you can't bear to think about it any longer, then don't reply... you're forgiven :).
SO, after obviously having knowledge of the debate, and a fear of it spilling over to her name search, does it strike anyone else as... shall we say, ill-conceived... that she ask these same people for a name where the only requirement is it "goes" with Mackenzie??? You'd think her fear of confrontation would drive her to, oh, I don't know, find ANY other parameter. ("we don't want to name her after any skin diseases.") As opposed to offering benediction in advance to people who commit the egregious sin of "if you can't say something nice, so don't say anything at all." I loathe this entry.
OK, I think I've done plenty of ranting over 15 pages about people tailoring their kids into sets, but the idea that someone's ONLY requirement for a name is it "goes" with Mackenzie is so extreme it makes it hard to resist the urge to split my own head open with a mid-sized hatchet.
But that's not all! This post comes a day or so after a big-ass rumble over the name Mackenzie. (Well, as close to a rumble as you can get going on a baby name bulletin board - they are extreme in their censorship of even the most polite criticism.) This rumble is the reason for the going on... and on.... and on.... about why this mom doesn't want any opinions of Mackenzie, just suggestions.
Well, I would name a child Elisabeth or Alexander lol ... but otherwise
Emmarie, Delaney, Kendall, Kelsey, Eleri, Courtney, Mallory, Madison, Bronte, Michaela, Bethany, Caitlin, Kayleigh, Ashleigh, Brittany, Cassidy, Shannon, Peyton, Meredith, Addison, Ashlynn, Isabella, Morgana, Chelsea, Georgia, Taylor, Evelynn, Rowan, Kyleigh
Brandon, Logan, Elliot, Harrison, Jackson, Chandler, Wyatt, Garrett, Mitchell, Prentice, Westley, Griffin, Brendan, Zachary, Marshall, Randall, Braydon, Jefferson, Jamison
Well, my last comments were pretty wordy, so I'll cut this one short:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which name(s) best fits these qualities? Consider nicknames, too.
1. Works well on a child or an adult
2. Feminine, but strong
3. Not popular or trendy
Autumn
Calla
Greenlie
Kendall
Lana
Liv nickname Livvie (only used as a child)
Mattea nickname Thea
Maxine nickname Maxie (only used as a child)
River
Willa
"I want to give my kid a strong, mature, classic name, so I'm calling her Dainty Froufroubottom."
Irony, you cold bitch. She pegs a couple number ones, some that are at least 50% number two, and two that are number three - but none that are all of them. How she plans to regulate her adult daughter's nicknames is beyond me.
And then there's Greenlie. Would someone, anyone, anywhere, please explain what she's smoking that she could ask for something mature and confident, and have Greenlie included as a possibility?
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