Anonymous
Post 05/15/2013 13:59     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Shatoubrione (I assume it was meant to be Chateaubriand).
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2013 11:56     Subject: Re:Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:Growing up I new a Latrine, Chardonnay, Plenesia and Sathesia (twins)


Oh wow, poor Latrine. That's when I really wish the government would regulate parents' name choices like they do in Europe. It's a matter of child protection.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2013 10:25     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Shegay. Pronounced "shuh-gay," and she would kick your ass if you pronounced it "shee-gay."
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2013 00:26     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Twins Lexus and Armani
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2013 23:57     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Forrest is an old Southern name, usually for Nathan Bedford Forrest.



The KKK guy?


Forrest Gump was named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, but there are plenty of Forrests who weren't. I'd hardly say it's "usually" for NBF. I doubt that's who Forrest Sawyer's parents were thinking of.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2013 17:54     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Haeleigh Heaven
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2013 17:53     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:

Forrest is an old Southern name, usually for Nathan Bedford Forrest.



The KKK guy?
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2013 17:51     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:
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).


I instantly thought the same thing.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2013 17:39     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
I once interviewed a young woman named LaTina. Of course, my company's computer system spelled her name as Latina. Poor LaTina.

Anonymous
Post 05/14/2013 17:34     Subject: Re:Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
I taught a kid named Tequilla. It had a creative spelling which escapes me now.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2013 17:29     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Beyonce is a derivative of a French-Creole surname. Ashanti is the name of a West African tribe and a name that was quite popular in African American communities during the 80s and 90s. Not saying that's where those parents got those names, just offering cultural context.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2013 13:45     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
A lovely student from Korea: Bong.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2013 13:12     Subject: Re:Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Xerxes and Coramae.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2013 08:31     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Former teacher too:
Betty and Betsy (twins, though parents immigrants, so I think those were their American monikers)
K'Leigh
Diamond Bright (first and last)

Dang, that's all I can think of now. I wish I had more. A lot if the names were tough to pronounce but were international, so were in a different category.


Also, River, Running Bird, Holden. Three brothers. I like Holden. Not sure what we were thinking with the others.


Wait- I knew a family with those names too!
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2013 07:49     Subject: Re:Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Growing up I new a Latrine, Chardonnay, Plenesia and Sathesia (twins)