Pet Peeve: Why do many US parents give their children unconventional names? (teens, twin)
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As a sub in an elementary school i see unique names all the time some more creative than others some more conventional. As of now my two favorites are a little girl named Dulce she is of mexican decent and a little boy named Cash. I also found Drake to be a common yet nice name for a boy.
Here's a couple of "interesting" names: Shelby (both male and female), Taryn (can't remember if it was a male or female), and Siobhan (male). Anyone want to take a guess how the last one is pronounced?
We've already covered this one here, and by the way it's a female name.
I agree that it is their business but I'm more concerned about the repercusions for the child who has to live with the name and how it will affect their future career prospects.
I totallly agree. It's very selfish of parents to give kids these absurd names. The kid is the one who has to live with the name and deal with all the nonsense that comes with it.
I worked at a place and there was a young girl working there. Her name was Porche. She had a sister named Mercedes. A guy was teasing her one day and said "well, where's Lexus, Audi, and Hyundai?" I almost choked on my soda. The girl said her mother was an idiot for naming ALL her kids after cars.
I've also hear the names Princess, Cutie, Diamond, Precious, etc.... Then there are the so-called "African" names that have absolutely NO roots in African culture. Or all the apostrophes or hyphens just dropped randomly in the middle of a name.
I think the oddest I have come across is a little girl called Assumpta. Huh! Her grandmother expained it by saying the mother was very Catholic and the name is in reference to the Assumption. I don't care how religious you are. Putting A$$ in a child's name is cruel.
My oldest daughter has a normal name with a different spelling, she came to us that way, she's adopted. We didn't change it, but it bugs me that there are now 6 different ways to spell her normal name. There used to only be 2.
My youngest daughter has a very normal name. Miranda. I have yet to run into anyone who can't say it correctly. Although, due to parents bizarre spelling these days, I have been asked, "It's Mi, not anything else, right?"
I gave my daughter a very normal name, with a pretty standard spelling. I also had a normal name, which I never liked. Boring.
My daughter and I both had ours legally changed two years ago to things that we liked better.
Everyone spells mine wrong (and can't say it right when I spell it out for them) and no one can pronounce hers properly, but we're happy. It's led to some fine conversations.
I see a lot of kids whose parents try to be so creative with the spellings and just come out with a mess of garbled letters that takes the child 8 years and an understanding of phoenetics just to spell their name. Then there are the cross gender names. Mostly boys names on girls, like one thirteen year old girl whose name is Kieran and another girl named Logan, but occasionally girls names on boys too like a male Chelsea.
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