Names : Othor Games

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:21 am

Just a few seconds ago, i walked out into the kitchen and on the counter my little brother's valentine cards for his class were layed out. i looked at them, and i was suprised that
every girl in the class was named kalea/kailey or a variation or mackenzie. yes, EVERY girl in his class. hes in 2nd grade. i thought, what happened to being original?
or naming your kids after someone? the rest of the boys had ok names until i came across a jayden and a brady.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:57 am

People are not as imaginative I guess, or they named their kid after some famous kalea or kailey. :shrug:

» Fri May 27, 2011 2:11 am

or naming your kids after someone?

Girl: Morrigan
Boy: Alistair
very original names

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:47 pm

Girl: Morrigan
Boy: Alistair

Creepy Uncle: Sten.

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:19 am

Creepy Uncle: Sten.

That can work for Creepy Aunt, too.

» Thu May 26, 2011 9:50 pm

I can't understand why Americans give their kids surnames as Christian names. I've noticed the terrible naming is a class thing too, by which I don't mean that only poor people give terrible names, but that differnet social classes use differnet types of terrible names. Your best hope is to have a sensible set of parents.

Girl: Morrigan

Ah, the swamp hag.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:18 pm

Guy in my class is called Boy. Boy Solo (where Solo is his second name) :facepalm:

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:19 am

That can work for Creepy Aunt, too.

Zevren?

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:39 pm

Zevren?

What, you don't have an Aunt Sten?

» Thu May 26, 2011 9:36 pm

i expect to name my pet fish Sir Henry Winston Von Bowlengrad III, but i can see where that isnt original.

if i name my kid, i will immediately name him Rick, and his brother James.

» Thu May 26, 2011 11:44 pm

I have three first names as my full name so... :lol:

» Thu May 26, 2011 9:50 pm

i expect to name my pet fish Sir Henry Winston Von Bowlengrad III, but i can see where that isnt original.

if i name my kid, i will immediately name him Rick, and his brother James.

What about the daughter, [censored]!

» Fri May 27, 2011 1:09 pm

Already have a name for a boy.... (no it isn't Lucario) Galio.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:44 am

like why doesnt anyone name their kids normal names like Nick or William or Robert or Charles or Johnathan

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:44 am

You people are terrible, labouring your kids with such awful names. I will take them into care and rename all the girls Sarah and all the boys John, it may be unoriginal but at least nobody has to ask how to spell it.

At least with my name I sound simultaneously like a rugby player and a small town accountant. ^_^

» Fri May 27, 2011 1:43 am

I think it's even funnier when the parents name a kid something so common, and then as a last ditch effort to make them unique, and they change the spelling. Like Katie or Katey to Katea, or not even try and name them the automatic obligatory first 3 guy names. Zack, Micheal, or Kyle. Girls is Emily, Samantha, and Megan. The scourge of Emily runs rampant in my school.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:35 pm

like why doesnt anyone name their kids normal names like Nick or William or Robert or Charles or Johnathan

Or Trevor.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:46 pm

like why doesnt anyone name their kids normal names like Nick or William or Robert or Charles or Johnathan

I know plenty of all of those... besides who decided what a "normal" name is... we seem to go through cycles with some names being more popular then others

ex: you wouldn't see any girls named myrtle atm

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:36 am

btw my name is Gunnar,
A)im swedish
B)named after my great-great uncle Gunnar, who was from sweden
and ive never meet someone with my name before. so my name IS original.

» Thu May 26, 2011 11:58 pm

I'm indifferent to names. But I hate people who use common names and then try to get away with changing the spelling to be original. For example: how many ways can you spell Kate? It appears to me that it is socially acceptable to name a child Kaiyxt (the "X" is silent).

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:22 am

Kaiyxt (the "X" is silent).

My mouth would never agree with that

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:14 am

I think it's even funnier when the parents name a kid something so common, and then as a last ditch effort to make them unique, and they change the spelling. Like Katie or Katey to Katea, or not even try and name them the automatic obligatory first 3 guy names. Zack, Micheal, or Kyle. Girls is Emily, Samantha, and Megan. The scourge of Emily runs rampant in my school.

Names go through cycles, in different countries. What is popular one decade is unpopular the next because nobody wants to be reminded of their grandparents names. For instance, I've never met anybody called Megn of any age, and all Emilys are either really old or really young. I've only ever known one Samantha but Catherine is quite popular among people my age, though rarely any older people. Never met a Kyle and only one Zack.

Even the traditional names go through cycles, in the seventies, it was the new Tetstament names, Mark Luke, John, Stephen, for my generation, a lot of the old testament names are more popular. Joshua, Adam, etc.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:15 am

I find the single most infuriating "I can spell a name however I want to" name to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chone_Figgins.

Spoiler

In the interest of full disclosure when discussing the crazy things people name their babies, I named my son Draco.

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:36 am

From my stand point I won't have kids , I might adopt one when I'm older. But since I'm bi and want to be transgender I'm saved the expense of messing up a child's life by giving him or her a messed up name. :woot:

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:17 am

Like everything else, Names are fashoinable. And, since most people are slaves to fashion, even if the clothes are down right dumb looking on them, they do the same thing with names.

However, unlike clothes, kids can not throw out the names when they realize that they are no longer popular.