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Anonymous wrote:Trouble -- girl
Cherub -- boy

West African women often give names that reflect the pregnancies.

I thought hispanic women did too, like doloros?

I'm so glad that is not done in my culture-my kids would be Vomit and Migraine.

I spit out my coffee on this one!

Thank you, I needed a laugh.

Better than Incontinence and Flatulence.

Anonymous wrote:Are we really still in elementary school or Lower school that you have to make fun of peoples names, family names that have meaning?

Get over it pp. Nobody likes Richardson

Are we really still in elementary school or Lower school that you have to make fun of peoples names, family names that have meaning?

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Anonymous wrote:Barack.

Come on! It’s a cool name that I have never once heard on anyone outside the President.

+1 and if it wasn't cool before him, it is now.

Anonymous wrote:Chance. It's a dog's name.

Becca.

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Anonymous wrote:Richardson

There is nothing wrong with the first name Richardson. In fact, there were people named Richardson. Richardson is a pretty WASPy name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Clover

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Dilworth

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Pack

This is an opinion thread. My opinion is that it’s the worst name I’ve heard recently.

+1 and the only reason people in the other thread are supporting it is because it's a mom giving her last name to her son as a first name.

Anonymous wrote:I once knew two sisters named Nyssa and Teagan.

Blegh.

I love these names too

Lol I was thinking Richardson, too.

Anonymous wrote:Melina
Marika

I love these names. Also Eryn is cute

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Anonymous wrote:Richardson

There is nothing wrong with the first name Richardson. In fact, there were people named Richardson. Richardson is a pretty WASPy name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Clover

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Dilworth

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Pack

This is an opinion thread. My opinion is that it’s the worst name I’ve heard recently.

Anonymous wrote:Richardson

There is nothing wrong with the first name Richardson. In fact, there were people named Richardson. Richardson is a pretty WASPy name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Clover

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Dilworth

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Pack

Richardson

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Anonymous wrote:Trouble -- girl
Cherub -- boy

West African women often give names that reflect the pregnancies.

Stuff like this is so annoying. You literally just made this up. “West Africa” is an entire section of an entire continent. Many of the customs differ drastically between countries. Yet, I’ve STILL never heard of this.

-Married to a “West African.”

You are truly misled. I teach in a school with many West and East Africans in Montgomery County. Apparently you only have your "husband" as an example.

PP here. The other thing in the South, of course, is to put the name Lee as a first or middle name in there somewhere to show that you are somehow possibly related or connected to the Lee Family (of which Robert E. Lee was a prominent member).

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Anonymous wrote:Talon. I don't think the person who chose this as a name for their child realizes it means "claw", they aren't particularly bright.

And I came here to share Fallon (girl). I’m like felon? Talon? Fallopian tube? This is not a first name and anything it’s misheard as shouldn’t be a name either.

Probably her mom’s maiden name (like Jimmy Fallon). I went to HS with a girl named Birch. Her parents were not hippies. Super conservative Southerners who uses Mom’s Maiden Name.

This is an actual thing that often leads to unfortunate results. I have an acquaintance from Georgia with cousins named Coates (woman) and Wages (Man).

Yes, this is a real thing. The lineage of many of these families is proudly Anglo Saxon, at least that’s what they are celebrating - the “mother’s maiden” name thing doesn’t work if you are of polish descent, or really anything other than English, welsh, Scottish or Irish. There are tons of baby “Taylors” but no baby “Kowalskis” or “Schmidt.”

Yes, definitely a real thing in the South among conservative families (my DH's family, for one). Ideally the name should be an old one of Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Norman descent that goes back to the middle ages. Remember the line in "To Kill a Mockingbird" where Scout says it was a real source of shame that her family couldn't trace their ancestors on both sides back to the Battle of Hastings?