Strange Children's names...

[Briarmom]

Is this one on Snopes.com?

If you google these two names, it seems that they were in so many schools.

Not doubting you at all, just always wanted to know the real story behind The Jellos

Yes, I believe it is on snopes.

 

[Miranda Danda]

Is this one on Snopes.com?

If you google these two names, it seems that they were in so many schools.

Not doubting you at all, just always wanted to know the real story behind The Jellos

Oh, I understand. No, it was definitely their names. I saw them in the yearbook a long time ago. It was in the mid-eighties. My mom taught one of them and her friend taught the other one.

 

[golfgal]

There is an Ian on DS's cross country team and the coach always calls him ION. Drives me nuts, but heck what can you do? I just saw in our hospital new arrival section a baby named Emlea. I don't know if they were trying to do a cutsie spelling on Emily or if they really want her called Em-Lee. She is going to be called the WRONG name her entire life. I just don't get why people give their kids goofy spellings for their names. It is usually people with names like Lisa, Todd, or Mike, too. They don't get what a pain it is to have to spell your name for EVERYONE (my maiden name had a different spelling and what a PITA).

 

[MinnieM3]

I don't think Teagan is odd at all. I wouldn't be surprised if it is on the Social Security list of the top 1000 names. Ian is definately on there.
Katie-Scarlett. That is funny, because she is hardly referred to as Katie-Scarlett in the movie. Perhaps a bit more in the book?

Just her dad called her Katie Scarlett in the movie....every time! love that movie!

 

[mermaidlady]

My youngest dd's name is Teagan Rae. That's her first and middle name. I had a women at the store the other day tell me that her name is bizarre. I have been told it was unique or interesting but that was a first. It is an ancient Irish name, and my dh's family is Irish so we wanted and Irish name.

My DD is Teagan and no one has ever called it bizarre!!

 

[phamton]

it seems that they were in so many schools.

Not doubting you at all, just always wanted to know the real story behind The Jellos

Yep, those twins moved around a lot. Every town I've taught in (Austin, Amarillo, and Victoria, TX) had someone who taught them also in their school district.

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm

 

[Miranda Danda]

Hmmmm... I kind of feel like y'all are doubting me. I have never heard that Urban Legend before, but I am CERTAIN they went to Bellview Middle School in Pensacola, Florida. WHY? Because my mom and her best friend taught them and they were in the yearbook in the mid-eighties.

Just because it may be an "Urban Legend" doesn't mean there are not people out there really named that.

 

[WDWMom]

DS has a girl in his class who is named Madison. Not original anymore but her sisters are Reagan and McKinley plus a brother Ford.

DD is named Keli pronounced Kelly. We have a long last name (and so it my maiden name) and Dh and I both have long first names. I hated it growing up. There was never room for it all on forms so I told myself I would never do it to my children. We now have Keli, Eric, Kyle and Alec. No reason for all the "ka" sounding names. Just worked out that way.

 

[Sparx]

I don't think Teagan is odd at all. I wouldn't be surprised if it is on the Social Security list of the top 1000 names. Ian is definately on there.
Katie-Scarlett. That is funny, because she is hardly referred to as Katie-Scarlett in the movie. Perhaps a bit more in the book?

like twice in the book. Mostly Scarlett. Haven't seen the movie, didn't like the book.
Today at a fundraiser pagent, there were lots of unusual names. There was a Syreneti (think thats how she spelled it) there was a Devonte' (Dee-von-tay) an India, which isn't THAT unusual, but I haven't meet someone named India before.

 

[winniedapooh]

DD, 8, is named Kaitalyn--that is pronounced Kate-a-lynn. It is so funny when people call her and they call her Caitlin she doesn't even look. Everybody around here pronounces her name right except for MIL. She still says Kate a lynn very stitled and not sure of how to pronounce it and we live next door to them!

 

[Sparx]

It's not as much the strange names here in Mississippi as it is that every child has either a hyphenated name or a last name as his/her first name.

Last night, for example, Mary Lexis and Anna Russell spent the night at our house. All the girls seem to have a very feminine first name with a family name added on to the end. And moms call them by the full name rather than just the first name.

If a child is not fortunate enough to have a hyphenated name, then he/she has a traditional last name for his/her first name. Here are a few names from our kids' school: McGinney, Bentley, Chadwick, Hudson, Campbell, Warner, Wythe, Sterling, Theron, Harper, and Chatham. I guess it's the Old South traditions that never die....

I have a hyphenated last name, but not a first name. Not very common here. My first and middle name is Shelby Leigh. I usually write that, along with my last, last name. Lots of Shelby's around here.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

My son's name is Ian, and I can't believe the number of people who have never heard of the name before. They want to pronounce it with a long i, or they will ask me how to spell it. I thought Ian was a common name.

My son's name is Ian too. I get alot of people wanting to pronounce it with a long I too.

 

[Papa Deuce]

My one daughter spent 15 days in NICU after she was born. One of the other babies was called "Miracle Destiny"....last name unknown.

I'm sorry, but even if that baby survived, or maybe especially if she survivied, I wouldn't want my name to be Miracle Destiny.

 

[luv2nascar]

I know someone who was engaged to Candy Apple. He didn't end up marrying her though. I have a cousin Forrest and I have always thought that was a rather odd name. Forrest Gump didn't really help that name either.

 

[Miranda Danda]

Hahaha! I just remembered some other ones I know. My friend Candace's (goes by Candy) last name is Caine.

My friend is dating a guy who has a daughter from a previous relationship. Her name is Emerald, last name Green. He has told my friend that he wants to names his sons Hunter and Forest. I'm not sure if she is gonna go for that.

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

I know someone whose last name is Mountain. All of her siblings have names that go with it- there's a Rocky, a Smokey, a Stone, and a Candy

 

[Tartan Tigger]

My son's name is Ian, and I can't believe the number of people who have never heard of the name before. They want to pronounce it with a long i, or they will ask me how to spell it. I thought Ian was a common name.

It's a common name in Scotland. I know lots of Ian's.

 

[Laura]

I know a Brun Swick and my SIL is Enola Gay.

 

[Ranatra]

My son's name is Ian, and I can't believe the number of people who have never heard of the name before. They want to pronounce it with a long i, or they will ask me how to spell it. I thought Ian was a common name.

My son's name is also Ian. He's 26 now. When he was growing up everyone mispronounced it. I think it's a little more common now.

My DD's new niece is named Peace! Now that's a first for me hearing that name!

 

[maryssasmom]

my grandfathers sister married a gentleman with the last name Dzialo - but it is pronounced Jello - they are from Poland and when they came over to America, they "Americanized" the name and it is now spelled Jello. So I am related to the Jello's.

my brother had a girl in his class named Penny Nichols and when she grew up, she had a baby and his name is Jett Black.