Baby Name: Tammy Lou? (teenager, pregnant, boys, appropriate)

[strawflower]

Originally Posted by Zenstyle

"Tammy Lou"? Egad.

I can think of one reason in the "pro" column:

* at least it's not a last name (Hunter, MacKenzie, Whitney, Foster, etc.)

In the "con" column:

* it's completely trashy.
*I can't imagine a Presidential Cabinet member or Senator named Tammy Lou, and neither can you.
* You'd be stymying her future with such a down-home handle.
* She would hate you for life.

Well, we don’t have to imagine them, because they’re real: Senator Tammy Duckworth of IL and Senator Tammy Baldwin of WI.

[OttoR]

Originally Posted by MemoryMaker

What do you think about "Tammy Lou" as a baby name?

Sounds like a 1950's/60's name from rural Alabama or Mississippi. Maybe Tamara Louise, which I still don't really like, but I'd never call her Tammy Lou.

[Amelie90]

Originally Posted by MemoryMaker

What do you think about "Tammy Lou" as a baby name?

I don’t personally like it, but maybe it’s acceptable in the South?

[desperatedogadvice]

Originally Posted by annabanana123

sounds like a stripper name to me...since you asked.

I didn't want to be the one to say that

Or a waitress at a truck stop.

[katharsis]

My two cents is that names should reflect gender, although I know that is old-fashioned, and I also think they should give some possibility of leeway. I am a fan of names that can have so many derivatives, so that a person can change her name as the mood or her life changes. (For example, an Elisabeth can be a Lisa, a Beth, a Lisbeth, an Elisa,, etc.)

(However, to answer the OP, my opinion is that I don't think that Tammy Lou does not sound very sophisticated, to say the least.)

[earslikeacat]

I feel like the middle name Lou: someone just got lazy. Tammy X Smith or whatever would be an improvement if they're deadset on Tammy as a first name.

[Calvert Hall '62]

Originally Posted by MemoryMaker

What do you think about "Tammy Lou" as a baby name?

Beats the hell out of "Sha'queesha."

[DubbleT]

Originally Posted by Sweet Like Sugar

I don’t personally like it, but maybe it’s acceptable in the South?

[emotiioo]

I hope this is a joke thread.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by STL74

It sounds like a 55 year old woman. And the picture it paints in my head is not pretty

I'm a 56 year old woman and I didn't have any friends named Tammy Lou or anything close to it. Maybe my mother, who is now 79, did. I'll ask her. Her best friend's name in high school was Peggy Lou. Close enough.