Anonymous
10/22/2010 00:17
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
I dislike Colin, Collin, Maxwell, Brandon, Brendan, Conor, Conner, Justin, Jaden, and Gabriella.
Anonymous
10/22/2010 00:09
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
I am half Asian and half white (mostly Scandinavian) and got a traditional Sanskrit first name (impossible for most Americans to pronounce) native to the Asian side of my family, and a very common, Hebrew middle name-which is what I go by because it's just easier. No repeating my name a million times because people can't say it 
I know a lot of Asian/half Asian people that have one name be traditional Asian (from whatever country) and the other be "American". I'm curious if people of other cultures do this? Why not give your kid the impossible to pronounce Gaelic name as a middle?
I know a lot of Asian/half Asian people that have one name be traditional Asian (from whatever country) and the other be "American". I'm curious if people of other cultures do this? Why not give your kid the impossible to pronounce Gaelic name as a middle?
Anonymous
10/21/2010 23:52
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
Almost all 100% Asian people I know have given their child an Anglo name -and- a Mandarin, etc. name. "Michael" is for life in FCPS.
Anonymous
10/21/2010 23:48
Subject: Re:Common baby names you dislike
Anonymous wrote:So why would anyone have to stick to their heritage when choosing a name? Does that mean, for example, no Asian couple can name their kid Michael?
I was thinking about the opposite. We're not from this country and often times I ask myself WWDCUM think about my children's names since they don't look foreigners at all.
Anonymous
10/21/2010 22:53
Subject: Re:Common baby names you dislike
So why would anyone have to stick to their heritage when choosing a name? Does that mean, for example, no Asian couple can name their kid Michael?
Anonymous
10/21/2010 22:47
Subject: Re:Common baby names you dislike
22:35, that's exactly what my cousin did. He insisted that one of our great-grandmothers was part Irish, and that was why he picked his kids' Irish names. If you asked me, I'd say we're german all the way back, except for the interesting possibility of some native american mixing in around the turn of the last century. Whatevs. He's got about a dozen kids, so he had to go with a few more solid names in there, too.
Anonymous
10/21/2010 22:35
Subject: Re:Common baby names you dislike
why don't other cultures/countries go back to their roots to name their kids (Swedish, Norwegian, Austrian, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Egyptian, etc...)? It seems it is only Irish names that are trendy enough to go back to to name your babies. Maybe it's just my perception?
That's what I'm asking!! -- you have a woman who is 1/4 Irish, 1/4 German, 1/4 Danish and 1/4 Swedish. Similar for her DH. Her last name was Olssen but changed to his: Lynch. All the grandparents moved to the US in ~ 1880. Between them, they've got 8 countries represented.
Odds are 50:1 that they'll honor their suddenly interesting heritage by picking some Gaelic Irish name that not even their U.S. born grandparents are familiar with.
Anonymous
10/21/2010 22:26
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think Irish names have a certain musicality about them. And the currently popular Irish boys names sound like someone you'd like to have a beer with.
Like who? Kieran? Or Conan? lol Let's go out for a beer, Conan! Ha!
Now two nieces and one nephew have been named. My kids are still off the list though
Anonymous
10/21/2010 22:19
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
Anonymous wrote:
After this post I googled the names plus the word pronunciation, and one of the first entries that popped up was a site with an audio clip of pronunciations. Cool. Aoife almost sounded like Effuck, with a soft ck sound at the end of the name, like a whispered "fuck" at the end. I played it a couple of times to see if I was hearing it correctly.
Oh dear. the k sound at the end is clearly just the sound cutting out. Look at the phonetic pronunciation:
"ee-fah"
I hope you aren't planning a trip to Ireland soon - I am not sure how well your going round the country whispering "fuck" would go down.
Come to think of it, you might do quite well there....
Anonymous
10/21/2010 22:17
Subject: Re:Common baby names you dislike
George Carlin had a bit about names...
it went something along the lines of "Nick, Tony and ?' would kick the sh*t out of "Tyler, Parker or Jayden" anyday.
I, personally, like boy names (though not the ones mentioned above) that sound manly/traditional/solid....some of these new trendy names sound very effeminate to me.
I'll take a John, William, Andrew, etc...over a Jayden/Brayden, etc. any day.
it went something along the lines of "Nick, Tony and ?' would kick the sh*t out of "Tyler, Parker or Jayden" anyday.
I, personally, like boy names (though not the ones mentioned above) that sound manly/traditional/solid....some of these new trendy names sound very effeminate to me.
I'll take a John, William, Andrew, etc...over a Jayden/Brayden, etc. any day.
Anonymous
10/21/2010 22:11
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
Hell yeah, with a name like Conan you'd have to have a sense of humor. Unless you're a barbarian.
Anonymous
10/21/2010 22:06
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
Anonymous wrote:I think Irish names have a certain musicality about them. And the currently popular Irish boys names sound like someone you'd like to have a beer with.
Like who? Kieran? Or Conan? lol Let's go out for a beer, Conan! Ha!
Anonymous
10/21/2010 22:00
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
I think Irish names have a certain musicality about them. And the currently popular Irish boys names sound like someone you'd like to have a beer with.
Anonymous
10/21/2010 21:49
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
21:41 - you have absolutely no idea.
Anonymous
10/21/2010 21:41
Subject: Common baby names you dislike
Anonymous wrote:Funny, people in the D.C. area really believe only certain cultures are recent immigrants. How truly stupid, beyond ignorant.
Germans and Italians were treated HORRIBLY when they came to this country after WWII. They were stripped of their heritage and language in a way that would NEVER be tolerated today. The rest of the population has no idea the prejudice and hate they went through; especially the current immigrants. The past immigrants were given nothing.
Open your eyes a bit more. And expand your history to reach beyond the southern version of events of the Civil War. You'll be enlightened beyond your "Ashleys" and "Jacks".
Perhaps you could open your eyes a bit more and remember what happened during WWII....