Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.

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Anonymous wrote:Carion...While is sounds nice, I don't think the parents checked to see what it meant.

You reminded me! I've know two people named Simian-- a WASP girl who spelled it just like that, and a black boy spelled Simeon.

Simeon is a Hebrew name, and biblical - "he has heard.".

Ok, but in English it means monkey! Or rather, primate. To refer to someone as having "simian" features means they look like a monkey. There are lots of beautiful words in other languages that mean something entirely different in other languages. And that disqualifies them as names, in my book, if you have any connection at all to the language that carries the other meaning.

Seriously, stop it, you're annoying. They are two different words, and Simeon is a well-used if not exactly common name. It's like saying "but Peter is also a slang word for penis, yuk yuk." Juvenile.

NP here. Because of racial and social context naming an African American child Simeon is not at all the same as chosing one of a hundred common boys' names that are occassionally used as slang for "penis." Stop being naive PP. It's annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:Phuc

Now, this one is really unfortunate.

I think that is a fairly common Vietnamese name, isn't it? Hopefully pronounced with a hard "u," like "Phook" ... but I don't know. I have seen it before but never heard it spoken.

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Anonymous wrote:Carion...While is sounds nice, I don't think the parents checked to see what it meant.

You reminded me! I've know two people named Simian-- a WASP girl who spelled it just like that, and a black boy spelled Simeon.

Simeon is a Hebrew name, and biblical - "he has heard.".

Ok, but in English it means monkey! Or rather, primate. To refer to someone as having "simian" features means they look like a monkey. There are lots of beautiful words in other languages that mean something entirely different in other languages. And that disqualifies them as names, in my book, if you have any connection at all to the language that carries the other meaning.

Seriously, stop it, you're annoying. They are two different words, and Simeon is a well-used if not exactly common name. It's like saying "but Peter is also a slang word for penis, yuk yuk." Juvenile.

NP here. Because of racial and social context naming an African American child Simeon is not at all the same as chosing one of a hundred common boys' names that are occassionally used as slang for "penis." Stop being naive PP. It's annoying.

Simeon and Simien are also surnames. I personally know a lovely african american family with the last name and they trace it back to France with French-Creole roots.

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Anonymous wrote:Phuc

Now, this one is really unfortunate.

I think that is a fairly common Vietnamese name, isn't it? Hopefully pronounced with a hard "u," like "Phook" ... but I don't know. I have seen it before but never heard it spoken.

Yes,Vietnamese and pronounced fook. Honestly though, it's one I just wouldn't use in the US. Like Hung, which is my BIL's Vietnamese name. It's pronounced skrt of like home and is a nice sounding name, but I totally understand why he uses his American name exclusively.

Bich is a Vietnamese name as well, but I don't know how it's pronounced. Another one I would avoid in an English speaking country.

Usually, people I meet with names like this are immigrants, and of course their parents weren't thinking about how the name might appear in the US. Years ago, though, I knew an American woman/Vietnamese man living in the US who named their son Phuc. That I thought was pretty dumb.

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Lancelot

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Anonymous wrote:Lennox. Girl.

Yes, I know a little girl named Lennox.

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Starquinesha

Shakalesha

Levita (years ago, before Levitra existed but I feel sorry for that kid now)

Marriott

Nzino

Dallas and Austin, two brothers

and "Spatula" and "Lufituaed" are so awesome, that poster wins

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I met a woman named sippy at a Super Bowl party last night. Not a nickname just her name.

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Rebyl.

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Anonymous wrote:I met a woman named sippy at a Super Bowl party last night. Not a nickname just her name.

FYI...it was probably "Tzippy" which is Hebrew, short for Tzipporah (means bird, also a biblical figure - Moses's wife).

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T'quila!

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Growing up my mother knew twins named Rosie and Ophelia Butts.

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Anonymous wrote:T'quila!

I know her.

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Zapolean. Like Napolean with a z.

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Femora girl, to remember her name I have to think about femur, femoral artery!