What were they thinking?
My husband and I are in the process of trying to figure out what to name our son, and I have to wonder what’s up with these crazy celebrities naming their children ridiculous names? Here are some of the wackiest names I’ve come across:
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz have named their son: Bronx Mowgli. (Isn’t this the name of a Gremlin?)
Then there’s Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s child Sunday Rose…or Nicole Richie and Joel Madden’s little on Harlow Winter Kate
How bout Nicolas Cages’s son Kal-el Coppola cage (named after Superman’s Dad!)
Magician Penn Jillette’s kids, Moxie CrimeFighter and Zolten
Jermaine Jackson’ s son: (not joking) Jermajesty Jackson
I think Michael Jackson named one of his poor kids Blanket!
Jason Lee’s son: Pilot Inspektor
Gwyneth Paltrow’s daugher Apple…
(Special thanks to this article for helping me research some of these funky kid names)
Is it just celebrites that name their kids crazy things? Or do you know people down the street who have named their offspring while under the influence of alcohol or other mind-alterning substance? Just curious!


Gordon (Mr Hockey) Dean. Hmmmm? I think that ones taken!
Rumor Willis…Demi and Bruce’s first born
I can’t think of any off the wall names right off hand that any friends or family has or has given.
But I think I mentioned this before, that a friend of mine has 4 sons and she named them all Biblical names except the last born. I have no idea why she didn’t continue the tradition, because he isn’t named after his father or a relative. (and I never asked her either).
If her last child had been a girl, she planned on naming her “Rebel”, but she had another boy.
And as far as her sobriety goes ????????? (very questionable)
I cant come up with people I know who have named their kids with odd names…
Deb…My step-father has a cousin whose son and wife have a family of 12…all with biblical names as well….They are evangelical in their religious identification and even home school…
And they are all great and well mannered kids who know what it means to pitch in and be part of the family team….
More kids than I could ever have imagined trying to raise but they manage to do it and the kids are all very well grounded….
George Forman has 10 children. His five boys are all named George.
Bill Cosby has a funny line.
“Until he was twelve yeas old he thought his name was Jesus Christ and his brother’s was damnit.”
In my family, my parents and aunts and uncles named their children after themselves, their parents, and sometimes their grandparents.
My father’s father was George Anderson Spink.
Now, DON’T laugh!
My father’s name was George Elmer Spink.
My name is George Elmer Spink, Jr.
Why Elmer?
When my dad was born in 1910, Elmer apparently was a popular name. Grandpa Spink, who was born in York, England, had a keen British wit. He always made me laugh. He claimed they gave my dad the middle name of Elmer because Grandma Spink dated a guy named Elmer before she met Grandpa Spink. She never found that funny.
The moral of this story: DON’T name your son ELMER!!!
I believe your husband’s name is Sean. That is a great name! Name him Sean!
Whenever I hear it, I think of Sean O’Casey (and not Sean Hannity — UGH!!!).
My other Grandpa, William Miller, was born and raised in Dublin. He and Grandma Miller had seven children, each named after family members before them. The oldest daughter was named Genevieve after Grandma Miller; the oldest son was named William after Grandpa Miller.
My mother was named Helen Marie after two of Grandpa Miller’s girlfriends before he met Grandma Miller….
Just kidding! My mother was named after two of her aunts.
Because of Grandpa Miller, I have admired Irish writers all of my life. My favorites are Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, James Joyce, and Dylan Thomas. My favorite book: “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”
Both of my grandfathers were born in the mid-1880’s. My parents married in 1935 and I came into this world in 1940. Grandpa Miller was a devout Catholic, Grandpa Spink was a devout Lutheran. My grandparents went to church every Sunday. Grandpa Miller and Grandpa Spink were very good friends, and so were Grandma Miller and Grandma Spink.
So, now that you’ve heard what Paul Harvey calls “the rest of the story,” Janice and everyone, I suggest Sean and Janice named their son Sean.
Everyone in favor say, “Aye!”
George Spink
Los Angeles
Frank Zappa’s kids are named Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen.
Any of those names would be fine for the new little weather machine.
I still think ‘David’ is a great name.
Hey Janice,
A couple more good ones are Blue Angel (I’m not sure if that’s a boy or girl) which is U2’s The Edge and Aislinn O’Sullivan’s kid. There’s also Alice and Sheryl Cooper who named their kids Calico and Sonora Rose. Bob Geldof and Paula Yates have kids named Fifi Trixibell, Peaches and Pixie. I think my favorites still are Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa, however. I don’t know anyone personally who named their kids anything too crazy. I remember my brother nicknamed my little niece Bean when she was just a baby. I think he said that one of her sonograms reminded him of a bean and thus the nickname. She was just an infant when he called her that, though. I wander what people were thinking when they named their kids crazy names. When these kids grow into adults and start having families, I can just imagine nieces and nephews calling them Aunt Apple or Aunt Peaches or Aunt Moon Unit–I don’t think so!
Margie
JD,
My best advice is to give him a name he’ll not be embarrassed about later in life. Mowgli??? I do like the strong, manly, Biblical names—Aaron, David, Joshua, Caleb, Eli, Samuel, Paul. But I’d hate to see you name him Moses or Zebulun or one of the stranger Biblical names. HA!
One quick story that I don’t think I’ve told before: My name is Gwen Kay. Yeah, pretty plain, but my Daddy liked it. I had a sister who was 8 years older than I whose name was Gwennie Chrelle. No one ever called her by her first name. In fact she hated that name. When I came along, I really think they must have forgotten that they had named her “Gwennie”. When I asked why I was named “Gwen”, Momma would just say, “Because your Daddy liked that name”. So, I always liked it too. As in many Southern families, children are often called by both front names (as we say). Growing up I was always called “Gwen Kay”, which my brother (Tony) would run together so that it came out sounding like “Gwkay”. All of my relatives (aunts, uncles and cousins) still call me by both names.
I’m sure whatever you and Sean decide will be a name your little guy will be proud of. Just remember to make sure his initials don’t spell out something weird—I did tell y’all about my friend Anthony Steven Smith once before.
Catch y’all later.
Gwen
Hey Gwen,
When my brother and his wife were thinking up names for their son, I suggested some good biblical names. I can’t remember the exact ones but they were along the lines of Ammishaddai, Hupham, and Zelophehad. Not surprisingly, they declined to pick one of those names! I do like the names Caleb and Joshua.
My family has always called me Margie, but if my parents got mad at me for something, it was always “Margaret Mary!” I always knew when they were mad! My mother’s initials used to be R.A.L. but when she married my dad, she became R.A.G., but that never bothered her. At least that was better than poor Anthony Steven Smith!
Margie
Wasn’t Mowgli the little boy in Jungle Book??
We once had neighbors whose little boy was named Calvin and they also had a cat named Hobbes. We always wondered who came along first.
I think the most important thing when naming a child is thinking ahead to their school years and trying to measure the “teasibility quotient” their name might merit. I’m thinking things might not go so well for Zolten and Pilot Inspektor, maybe they should just ask to be called “Z” and “PI”.
Since people have been wondering about “Mowgli” the librarian in me decided to look it up. Here’s the first paragraph from the wikipedia entry:
“Mowgli is a fictional character who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling’s short story “In the Rukh” (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.”
You can check out the article in wikipedia if you’re interested in reading more.
Margie
Janice,
Be a doll and stand at the map in such a manner that you stop the cold front from California ever getting to Las Vegas…. please?
You’ve got a great glow girl…. may you and yours have a great and blessed week.
Tom O’Halloran
I had a boyfriend years ago, his name was Daniel Shade Beaty, everybody called him Shade. He was funny haha as heck…He said when he was young, they only had a wood stove to heat the house, and that he thought his name was “Getwood”…because everybody made him go outside to get the wood.
I bet we all have some good nicknames…
Janice,
There are many, many of us who do not like our names. I don’t like mine which is really Tommy, and my dad absolutely hated his first name, Devern, which would make more since to you if you knew our last name. Parents don’t seem to grasp the impact a name can have on a child as he/she is growing up so I chose my 3 kids names very carefully…Logan, Blake and Courtney…they flow nicely with my last name and they’re not easily rhymed so they weren’t easy targets for teasing.
Not my business, but please give careful thought to the names you pick.
Congratulations and Happy Thanksgiving.
It seems everyone has forgotten what Grace Slick’s (Jefferson Airplane) son’s name was…god…yes that’s right, but at least she had the humility to at least use a lower case g.
I believe the name has now been changed,
BTW..Beaty pronounced Bay-de.
Beaty was also my married last name.. (a very common name around here)..and when I would get sales phone calls etc. the person calling would ask for Mrs. Beat-E. which I didn’t care for..So I went back to my maiden name of “Smith” when I divorced… how many ppl mis-pronounce that?
I think a good name to sum it up would be: “My parents are idiots” followed by the family name.
Tom—I had forgotten about grace slick’s son. I do hope that it has now been changed. I pretty sure that grace slick was on mind-altering drugs at that particular time.
Margie—Since I was called by both names, it was a matter of how it was said that let me know if I was in trouble or not. Somehow I could always tell which one it was.
Mowgli is actually very popular in our home since grandson Carter (2-years old) loves the Jungle Book and Book II movies. He thinks it’s called “Bare Assessities”—but he does love Mowgli, and he will tell you that Shir Khan “scares me”. He’ll tell you that, pretty much, everything “scares me”. I think it’s a stage he’s going through. Carter asked me last night, “Mamaw, what your name?” To which I told him that I was “Mamaw Gwen”. He said, “You not Mamaw Gwen—you Mamaw” When I laughed his response, he said “That not funny!”
Hey everyone.
I agree on the celeb baby names. What are these people on? Do these people not realize that kids are cruel to each other, and that just their name is enough to bring on the torment? My ex makes fun of my oldest because his nickname is Scooter. (He got that name from my dad when he was a week old, trying to scoot across the living room floor and getting very unhappy when he couldn’t do it. He’s actually named Laurel Augusta after my dad, and by default, my brother. My dad is the 3rd, my brother the fourth, and Scooter the 5th. Someone neglected to tell my great great great grandparents that those are girls’ names.) Scooter is enough of a grown up (at 11) to not let it bother him though. He just fires back.
Kyle was named after A&M’s stadium (Kyle Field) which is a very popular thing to do in the Aggie Nation, as well as a good friend of mine.
Elizabeth got her middle name (Claire) from me, my cousin, my aunt, and her great aunt. It goes back to at least the Civil War. Daddy just liked the first name, which also happens to be my great aunt’s name.
We already played the baby name game a few days ago when we thought that I might be pregnant again (only to find out that I’m not
) We decided James Cameron (James for my father-in-law and Cameron after a good friend who married us) for a boy. Didn’t talk girl names, but I like Carly Anne. (Anne also happens to be my cousin’s name and her daughter’s middle name, as well as her brother’s daughter’s middle name.)
A good site we found was http://www.babynames.com.
Hey Gwen!
I love the “Bare Assessities”. The song has potential!
Thought about you last Saturday in Gettysburg when we saw the memorial to Barksdale and his Mississippians and their fight through the peach orchard. He must have been a sight with his long flowing white hair. His charge is one of the Confederate high points of the battle. Also learned that North Carolina had the most casualties of the battle. 1 of every 4 deaths at Gettysburg was a North Carolina soldier.
Gwen,
I’m sure Grace was on drugs. I “hear” there were many drugs around in the 60s.
But you know, I can almost forgive people from Grace and my generation. At least we can blame it on chemicals.
What’s the excuse young people now use?
Just got back from Ralph’s, my favorite supermarket in L.A.
Now I’m beat!
Have to put everything away — including the turkey and all the trimmings! I’m soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hungry!
Bought both a pumpkin and a mince pie. Hmmm! Wonder it they taste alright?
George
George Forman has 10 children. His five boys are all named George.
And the girls have variations of the name George. Think Georgina Georgette Georgia. That Bill Cosby line came from that very funny concert movie of his called Bill Cosby Himself. He tells of stories of living with mostly women 4 daughters and 1 son The Cosby Show was a direct relation of his real life.
Janice,
Cant forget Paltrows sons name is Moses. Now Moses was the given name of Moe Howard he of Three Stooges fame. Who was the celebrity who named their kid Science Project? John Travolta named his kid Pilot thought that was a weird name, Hi I’m Pilot. But when you put your kids in private schools or tutors teach them name them whatever you want. What happened to conventional names?
Kelly…..I think JTravolta son’s name isn’t pilot but Jett….unless he has more than one son…
I think chas is an excellent name. Rare, as in not often seen and easy to spell.
I recall once I asked my Grandfather what his middle name was, (like most of us I knew I was in trouble when my Mother yelled it out in conjunction with my first and last name), and he just smiled and said I don’t have one.
I asked him why not? He smiled again and said “when I was little Charlie, my family was so poor, we couldn’t afford a middle name, so I had to settle with just 2″.
Of course, this is the same guy who told me he was lucky having been born on Christmas Day. All his brothers and sisters got one present each, except him because he got one birthday present and one Christmas present. He’d get the right sock in one box and the left sock in the other box….lol
chas
And I forgot about the Palins’ kids. Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig. I’m sorry, but when I think of Trig, I think of that horrible math class after Algebra 2 back in high school.
I remember Bill Cosby Himself and The Cosby Show. My kids and I watch the reruns now. They think it’s great. I wish that tv was still that wholesome.
I think my last post got sucked into the vortex, but I’d love to know what these celebs are on that makes them think that their kids are going to be immune to the teasing that will follow them through their childhoods. At least Britney was able to give her kids normal names.
Jennifer…
I have know Willows and Pipers before…So for me that was all too strange…
But then I spent 12 years in UT and Mormons often name their kids not just Biblical names…but what can be described as uniquely LDS…
should have read…”that was NOT all too strange”…
Sorry…been a long day….
Man alive but I wonder how those in journalism can be exposed to day after day of discouraging news and how they deal with it?
I wonder if they are good at compartimentalizing?…Or maybe they are just good at being really disconnected from the stories they deliver…..
Especially those on Fox’s financial network, how depressing can things possibly get. I just saw Dave Ramsey on Fox News and you are right, Dawn, he makes alot of sense with what he has to say. Why they think running up trillions in deficit spending is gonna give we consumers confidence in the market is beyond me. I feel like I’m in a holding pattern – no more talk about moving out of the city, feeling sick about the devaluation of our retirement funds and just hoping we’ve got enough college savings for our son to finish his degree – we had enough before all this talk of signification tuition rate hikes, but I’m not so sure now
At least my mind is still intact – I remembered who Mowgli was!!! LOL
Turkey . . . Not Just for Thanksgiving Dinner Anymore!!!
RALEIGH, N.C.
North Carolina authorities say a shopper clubbed an alleged carjacker with a frozen turkey as he tried to steal a woman’s car in a grocery store parking lot Sunday.
Police say 30-year-old Fred Louis Ervin of Raleigh stole money from a gas station before running across the street to a Harris Teeter store in a town just south of Raleigh. Garner police say he began beating Irene Moorman Bailey while stealing her car.
Other shoppers came to her rescue, including one who hit Ervin with the turkey. Police did not release the person’s name.
Despite serious head injuries, Ervin got away in Bailey’s car and hit several other cars as he fled. But police arrested him a short time later.
He faces several charges including assault inflicting serious injury. Ervin was hospitalized Monday in good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said. He had not yet been assigned a lawyer and was to appear in court Dec. 30.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
My mom almost named me Rocco and the Italian name in the family is Maiorisi. Rocco Maiorisi
would have been a little different from Tony Williams!
By the way, my book is priced nicely for Christmas at Amazon.com at only $13.77 for a hardback
if you’re thinking of giving it for Christmas. Happy shopping!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Tony
Gina…I keep asking my mother how she and my step-father’s funds are doing…They have invested over the years and I know that they have taken a deep hit….But she assures me they are “fine”..
Of course farmers never really “retire”….they just slow down….so as long as the business stays afloat …and there is no reason to think it wont….They should be ok…
Still though …My step-father has decided to take a cut in pay wages to ease the $$ stress on the business…We do have monthly bills that have to be met even if we are in downtime…and part of those monthly bills are wages for those of us who are year-round employees…
I was just listening to Charles Krauthammer…who I think is one of Fox’s most intelligent people in their ranks…..and though he is admittedly very solidly conservative I also find him very fair in what he has to say and in his perspective…
And what he has to said leaves me discourage…..
“This situaiton has been building for 20 years…Its not going away in just a few months”…or something like that…
Me thinks I will put that log on the fire now….and not so much for Blues but for me….
I can only say that I am grateful the roof over my head is paid for…and for most of my family members….
HEY WAIT….
My birthday is a week from today…IM GONNA START CELEBRATING EARLY!!
HA!
Have a good night….
Tell those that you love that you do….AND…remember to celebrate all the good in your life…even if there is a lot not worth celebrating…
NIGHT!!
I love the Jungle Book!
Baloo (is that his name in English?!) is great!!
in my first apartment in Little Italy, there was a huge living room with a big white wall and my best friend Camillo decided to paint a fresco on it….of the Jungle Book with the King Louis dancing!! Each time I had parties, people loooved it!
I don’t like names with common words that have stupid meaning, that’s for sure!
It will be an embarrassment for the poor kid!
But truth is, if you see it through international eyes, every new names can sound a bit strange or odd to you at first!! Even names that you would think are familiar or common here
But then they become nicer when you get used to them, to their melody when you say it or when you start to associate it to the person and his/her personality.
Also, when you say one name randomly, doesn’t someone come to your mind right away, in good like in bad, from your past or present life?!
That’s always a challenge.
For sure names must “flow nicely with the last name” as Tom said.
So true for boys!
Gwen, I just LOVE Gwen Kay!!!
Just has a very nice rhythm pronouncing it!
Definitely the perfect name for the character of a great novel.
Or for a legendary star!
Rocco is the name of my friend Federico’s baby boy who arrived last year.
It’s a typical name from the south of Italy; since my friend is from the north, people tease him…and also because of Madonna’s son (my friend did the flowers at her wedding and people always tease him for that!)
Thank you Dawn for the heads up on AN! I’m going to watch the program right now! (and yes I always have get a kick out of Bill & Megyn’s interaction on TV cause they have such a great chemistry
).
I don’t dare to ask but..did we get to see Janice??!
Wait don’t tell me; I’ll watch it right now
Guillaume
I almost forgot!
This Christmas would be an ideal time for Santa Claus to deliver a nice toy train set for the little engineer who will be arriving soon.
I received my first electric train when I was three months old. I’ve loved toy trains ever since!
I know your son will have to wait a couple of years to play with it on his own, but just think of the fun that your husband and you will have running it around your tree!
I would recommend an LGB or Playmobil set for starters. LGB trains are pricey but built to last. Playmobil trains are less expensive and also built to last. They are designed for younger children, say, from four years and up. Kids love both brands! They run on the same track, called “G” scale.
It’s OK to buy toy trains for girls, too! And, it’s OK for you and your girlfriends to play with them, Janice! After all, this is the 21st Century!
I know these things, Janice, because when I moved to Los Angeles 18 years ago this week, I needed to find a job — fast. But instead of look for work in writing and public relations on my first day here, I visited Allied Model Trains in Culver City, then the world’s largest toy train store, located in a spectacular building that looked like Union Station near downtown L.A. What a train store! Unbelievable!
I ended up working at Allied for the next four-and-a-half years, starting on the day after Thanksgiving in 1990. I made many people happy by selling them LGB, Playmobil, and Lionel trains. It was always nice to see them coming back for “just one more thing….”
One of the best things about my job was meeting so many nice people living in Southern Calfornia — including more celebrities than you might imagine: Donald Sutherland, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Kevin Dobson, Mal Harris, and Richard Crenna were just a few of my regular customers.
Last year, Allied’s owner, Allen Drucker, sold Allied to a train store from Pasadena, and moved it across the street to another, smaller store he owns. In turn, Allen leased the beautiful replica of Union Station to Samy’s Camera, a large chain in Southern California. Allen had been in the train business almost all of his life. He began working at Allied when he was a teenager. He went to USC, worked as a salesman for a few years, and then bought Allied in 1976. After some 30 years, Allen decide to retire.
Choo-Choo, Choo-Choo, Ch-Boogie!
George Spink
Los Angeles
Hey George,
Great story! My little niece loves trains. Each Christmas season the retirement community where my parents live puts up a big train display. Actually, I think they just moved it to another building and it may be a year round display. She just loves checking it out so I’m sure we’ll be taking her there this year. I’m a big train fan too. My brothers and I (and my dad) had a big train layout when I was growing up. For a while we had the big gauge (I think it was O scale?) From there we went to HO scale. I have a little N scale set that I put up at Christmas. When I lived in an apartment I used to set it up under my 4′ Christmas tree but now that I have a house, it would get lost under my 6′ Christmas tree. I set it up on a little table and I have different buildings that go along with it as well as a crossing signal and other little things. I enjoy playing with it!
Thanks for sharing another great story with us!
Margie
Everyone,
I don’t know if I told you but I was invited to participate in the Virginia Festival of the Book
in late March. It is one of the biggest book festivals in the country and close to many of you.
I’ll be doing a talk and book-signing in addition to several other events. I hope to see you there!
I am writing my next book – a history of the smallpox epidemic that ravaged Boston in 1721 and
the curious history of science and religion as the Puritan ministers supported inoculation whereas
the physicians and Benjamin Franklin’s brother opposed it. Very interesting material to read and
narrate. Due out next fall.
Good night,
Tony
Kelly…..I think JTravolta son’s name isn’t pilot but Jett….unless he has more than one son
Thats right Dawn. I was thinking of someone a rap artist who named their kid Science Project. As the old line used to go why dont you just give your kids a kick me sign now YIKES!!!!!
Margie’s comments about how she enjoyed playing with toy trains when she was younger reminded me of one of my favorite customers when I worked at Allied Model Trains in Culver City during the early 1990’s.
I had several female customers who bought trains from me just for themselves. Most of them bought the large LGB trains and ran them around their expensive homes in Beverly Hills or Pacific Palisades, sometimes for months on end! Their husbands were amused by their toy trains.
But the woman I liked the best was the one who stopped by Allied Model Trains with a girlfriend one Saturday in early December in 1994 or 1994. They were in their 40’s, which meant they were kids in the 1950’s. They had driven by the store many times and decided to stop in. Both were single.
One of them told me how much she always wanted a Lionel train when she was a girl in the 1950’s, but her parents wouldn’t get her one. They bought them for her two brothers and built a train layout in their basement. But all she could do was watch the trains, and she loved doing so. She wasn’t allowed to play with them because she was a girl.
“You could always buy your own Lionel train,” I suggested.
She looked at me, startled — and then she smiled. “I could, couldn’t I? I could do that!” she said, astonished that she could actually have her own Lionel train.
For the next hour or so, I helped her pick out a Lionel steam locomotive that puffed smoke and came with a whistling coal car, five freight cars, including an operating milk car and a red caboose that lit up, a train station, a transformer, a couple of lockons, track, an uncoupling/unloading track — and hookup wire. Everything I selected was vintage 1950’s Lionel, the kind her brothers had when she was a little girl.
You should have seen how happy she looked! Her girlfriend was excited, too. No matter that everything cost her about $900. I packed everything carefully for her and carried it out to her car.
She stopped by a few days later to buy a pair of switch tracks, more regular track, and a few more train cars.
“My train looks so great running around my Christmas tree,” she said. “All of my friends love watching it. And my two brothers are now so envious of me! Good!”
She mentioned in passing that she was the personnel director of a major motion picture studio in Culver City. The studio was only a few blocks from Allied Model Trains.
After Christmas, she stopped by to see me again — to thank me for making that Christmas season so bright for her.
“You helped me do something I wouldn’t have dreamed of doing without your thoughtful and friendly suggestions,” she said.
Customers like her made my job at Allied so much fun!
George Spink
Los Angeles
I’m a dental hygienist and I remember one family coming in… and their kids’ names were Sunny and Shade. haha! I would never do that to our kid!
There was a family, last name Storm, back in the 50’s here in Georgia who named their children Rain, Hail, Thunder, and Snow. The Vital Statistics department used to keep a list of weird names that they passed around from desk to desk for laughs. A friend’s mother worked there, and shared it with her child, who shared it with all of us in high school.
Another woman, no joke, named her daughters Siphilis and Gonoria.
Still another wanted to name her child Latrine – because it sounded pretty. We convinced her not to.
I was a nurse-midwife at that hospital, and knew these last two examples personally.
Unbelievable!
OH! and a couple we know named their child ABCDE (Pronounced Abyssidy) That poor kid is gonna have to explain for the rest of her life how to say her name right! I mean I understand that parents want their children to have unique names, because there are a million ashleys and angies and jennys…. but… come on! haha!
Dawn you were right: that was a great AN yesterday !!! Love our gangsters humor..especially Megyn’s repartee
About names, I forgot to tell that in France, to pick up names, you generally used to look at the calendar since each day has its own Saint, and therefore own name (St Guillaume is on January 10th! ).
Well, in many islands and former colonies, many babies were named inadvertently after…..holidays!!!
like Fête Nat (abbreviation for Fête Nationale which is Bastille Day), Toussaint (all saints day) or even Armistice!!
Another woman, no joke, named her daughters Siphilis and Gonoria.
How do you explain this one to the kids is my question? I dont want to know what was going on when those kids were born.
i would name mine Palin….boy or girl!
Happy Thanksgiving! Maybe … Dean ___ _____(with hubbys middle name) Or Hubbys middle name ____ Dean ____
Fox never gives us a good pic of the little guy. Please put a pic of you in a bikini on the site LOL really, a few good pics (dressed) LOL