S/O What is the most "out there" name you've heard on a child recently?

[Anonymous]

I'm holding my breath every time I check this thread because we made up our DD's name so it's kinda 'out there' but people only compliment it in front of us. I hope it doesn't end up on here...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I also always thought Noah was a pretty name for a girl.

Noa is a very popular name for girls in Israel.

[Anonymous]

Lysander

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The Linus poster has posted before on a similar thread.

I wouldn't use it for my own child, but it fits the son of one of my friends with a VERY German last name. I'm actually glad they didn't use Oskar, which was HER favorite name.

[Anonymous]

Peon. I kid you not. Poor child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend had a student named Clitoria.

You or perhaps your friend is a liar.

Just because you have never worked with a demographic that uses "creative" names does not mean that they do not exist. My best friend taught a Shithead (in Kindergarten no less when the children's names were all over the classroom) and I have taught twins that were named after sexually transmitted diseases.

Let me guess, the "demographic" you're talking about is african american or poor/uneducated. You and/or your best friend are both liars. Why do people spread urban legends?

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend had a student named Clitoria.

You or perhaps your friend is a liar.

Just because you have never worked with a demographic that uses "creative" names does not mean that they do not exist. My best friend taught a Shithead (in Kindergarten no less when the children's names were all over the classroom) and I have taught twins that were named after sexually transmitted diseases.

Let me guess, the "demographic" you're talking about is african american or poor/uneducated. You and/or your best friend are both liars. Why do people spread urban legends?

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

You can throw out Snopes all you like (not the PP whom you are addressing, btw), but there are some freaky, far out names colleagues and I have encountered in the teaching profession. In fact, I posted early about once such example.

I did have a poor kid named Phuc Yu once. (I called him Mr. Yu.) But that's just bad luck overall.

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earlier, that is

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend had a student named Clitoria.

You or perhaps your friend is a liar.

Just because you have never worked with a demographic that uses "creative" names does not mean that they do not exist. My best friend taught a Shithead (in Kindergarten no less when the children's names were all over the classroom) and I have taught twins that were named after sexually transmitted diseases.

Let me guess, the "demographic" you're talking about is african american or poor/uneducated. You and/or your best friend are both liars. Why do people spread urban legends?

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

You can throw out Snopes all you like (not the PP whom you are addressing, btw), but there are some freaky, far out names colleagues and I have encountered in the teaching profession. In fact, I posted early about once such example.

I did have a poor kid named Phuc Yu once. (I called him Mr. Yu.) But that's just bad luck overall.

[Anonymous]

The point of the thread is to discuss unusual names that parents purposefully gave their children, because as any parent of a young child knows, giving kids unusual names is quite popular now. The point is not to recount the "funny" names supposedly encountered this one time when your best friend's sister was a counsellor at band camp.

Somehow, as unusual as these names would be, someone always shows up claiming to have personally known a "Shithead" or "Lemonjello" in these threads. It's stupid, not funny, not true, and people should stop doing it. Your example, if it's true, which it's probably not, isn't an "out there" name of the kind the OP is asking about either. BTW, how was "Phuk" pronounced?

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Anonymous wrote:The point of the thread is to discuss unusual names that parents purposefully gave their children, because as any parent of a young child knows, giving kids unusual names is quite popular now. The point is not to recount the "funny" names supposedly encountered this one time when your best friend's sister was a counsellor at band camp.

Somehow, as unusual as these names would be, someone always shows up claiming to have personally known a "Shithead" or "Lemonjello" in these threads. It's stupid, not funny, not true, and people should stop doing it. Your example, if it's true, which it's probably not, isn't an "out there" name of the kind the OP is asking about either. BTW, how was "Phuk" pronounced?[/quote]

like the F bomb

My assistant and I heard it very clearly.

[Anonymous]

At a playground in California, I overheard a mom call "Maverick" over for a snack.

How can anyone not think of the line: "Maverick? Does your mother not like you?"

[Anonymous]

My kid's back-to-school night took place in another classroom, so I got to look at the names of the other kids. And all I could think of was this thread. I won't list any of them, because there were a three or four truly unique ones and that would be mean... but wow. Some doozies. (Ok, no kid actually named "Doozy", but you know what I mean.)

Oddly enough, my own child's classmates all have pretty routine names. There's one that's old testament biblical and not in common use, but that's the most "out there" name in her class.

[Anonymous]

Bobbi Jarquise. Or Jarquize. Or something like that, I can't remember how she spells it. DD of a woman my mom works with. Horrid. Calls her by both names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point of the thread is to discuss unusual names that parents purposefully gave their children, because as any parent of a young child knows, giving kids unusual names is quite popular now. The point is not to recount the "funny" names supposedly encountered this one time when your best friend's sister was a counsellor at band camp.

Somehow, as unusual as these names would be, someone always shows up claiming to have personally known a "Shithead" or "Lemonjello" in these threads. It's stupid, not funny, not true, and people should stop doing it. Your example, if it's true, which it's probably not, isn't an "out there" name of the kind the OP is asking about either. BTW, how was "Phuk" pronounced?[/quote]

like the F bomb

My assistant and I heard it very clearly.

IF I remember correctly, there is a chapter on unusual names in Freakonomics. The author talks about interviewing a woman with twins named Oranjello and Lemonjello. Maybe he's a liar too? It's possible my friend is a liar. But it's still the most "out ther" name I've heard on a child recently.

I am the "clitoria" poster - and I just saw that it's a type of flower. So, maybe the name isn't as out there as we thought.

[Anonymous]

Metta Worldpeace. Not a child, I know, but since he is famous it won't be long before some kids have this name