When will people stop perpetuating the urban name myth

[CaliforniaDreamin]

If I'd had a girl, she would have been named Carolina, lol. My sister would have named a girl the same, as we are both big UNC fans. We both had boys though.

Another Tarheel fan here. I had considered Caroline or Carolina as a middle name for our first DD, but DH vetoed that as he is a Wake Forest fan. And Deacon wouldn't be a great name for a girl. lol

I know of a girl named Dandy Lyons. There was another girl named Twinkle, but I can't remember her last name, so it must not have been something stupid like "Starr".

I think the name January (January Jones) is pretty. And I also like Nicole Kidmans daughters name, Sunday. But that's about as far out as I would go.
I feel bad for kids stuck with stupid names. My maiden name would get pronounced about 4 different ways and I always had to spell it out for people.

There is an interesting story I read about a father in the 50's (I think) who had two boys. Winner and Loser. Winner grew up to be a criminal and Loser ended up becoming a cop. I'll see if I can find the article. I thought that was really interesting.

 

[kimblebee]

We have a real estate agent here and his name is Rod Peeler

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

Found the Winner and Loser story, it also mentions a woman with a horrible name and how her life turned out.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/winner-loser-and-marijuana-pepsi/

Winner became a lifetime criminal; Loser a detective in the NYPD. The story of these two brothers matched the findings of my academic research with Roland Fryer, which found no impact of a child’s name on her life.

Now, from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, we have the story of three sisters: Kimberly, Robin, and Marijuana Pepsi Jackson. Just like Loser before her, Marijuana Pepsi has made something of her life, earning a master’s degree in education.

 

[snowy76]

This guy who had a crush on me in the 5th grade was named Richard Johnson. Can you guess his nickname?

There's a public official in our area named Richard Head.

 

[rie'smom]

There's a public official in our area named Richard Head.

His parents are or will be burning in hell.

 

[Scurvy]

Oh my gosh, we were in your area in May. We saw Young Boozer's political ads. I started calling him Old Geezer.

Ha! That definitely fits him better.

 

[mskani]

i always felt sorry for the little boy whose mom named him 'mypreciousbaby' (again saw the kid, held the b.c. in my hand). i cannot fathom any nick name that could be fashioned out of this for a boy that would prevent teasing

We have to examine the original copies of birth certificates and I have seen some doosies!!

I had a client who named her twins Precious and Saprecious. I had another client whose children have liquor as middle names: Courvousier (sp?) and Hennessy. She has a few more kids, but those were the names that stood out to me.

My former supervisor showed me a case and the lady's name was Sweetmeat.

Having an "odd" name myself--I am a firm believer in giving kids a name that they can be proud of. You have to remember that these kids will eventually become adults. Who is going to take them seriously with a name like Sweetmeat?!

 

[disneyjunkie]

The odd part is pronouncing the "-" as "dash".

You know people named Key-ah with a dash in the middle of the name? I know lots of Keyahs, Kias, and Keeas but no Key dash uhs. Sorry, may be common where you live but I've never seen this spelling anywhere that i've lived or traveled.

I swear I did not see dash when I first read her post. I just saw Key - ah.

Dash is there, but for some reason I missed it.


For the record, I don't know anyone who pronounces the punctuations in their name.

 

[barkley]

We have to examine the original copies of birth certificates and I have seen some doosies!!

I had a client who named her twins Precious and Saprecious. I had another client whose children have liquor as middle names: Courvousier (sp?) and Hennessy. She has a few more kids, but those were the names that stood out to me.

My former supervisor showed me a case and the lady's name was Sweetmeat.

Having an "odd" name myself--I am a firm believer in giving kids a name that they can be proud of. You have to remember that these kids will eventually become adults. Who is going to take them seriously with a name like Sweetmeat?!

when i first started working for social services hospitals did'nt do the social security card applications for newborns-the parents (for our purposes) had so many day to provide us with proof they had applied, and then get us a copy when it arrived.

we did'nt have too many issues with people who had'nt opted to name the kid at birth, b/c they would time it out that they figured out a name in a week or so, get the county to fix the birth certificate and then make the ss card app.

BUT-when the hospitals took over the process if a person had'nt named their child, or came up with what we referred to as a 'demerol name' (awful name, the mom usualy regretted once the meds wore off and would change in a week or so)-that original name (or lack thereof) got sent to ss where it ends up sitting on their data base FOREVER (and is cross referenced with whatever name the person ultimatly ends up with).

in the county i worked in hospitals differed in what the would put on a bc if the parents did'nt name their newborn-one used "female" and "male", one used "baby boy" and "baby girl", and one used "no-name".

i cannot count the number of social security cards we had filed in case records where the kid's names were listed as female, male, baby boy, baby girl and no name (though a couple of clients actualy liked no-name, made no effort to change it, and would just drop the hyphen and pronounce it no-nah-may).

 

[sunnyday123]

Ok, I wasn't going to post this until I saw Richard Head was posted.

I had a customer named. Connie. Connie Lingus.

Say it a few times. I was absolutely worthless the rest of the day.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I went to college with a Pleasant Ground (his middle name was Willie) and a guy named Soames.

There was a guy in my hometown named Harry Ball.

My mom knew a Polly Parrot (Parrot was her married name) and a Chuck and Sherry Berry.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

Ok, I wasn't going to post this until I saw Richard Head was posted.

I had a customer named. Connie. Connie Lingus.

Say it a few times. I was absolutely worthless the rest of the day.

That is so wrong. And they had to have done it on purpose. Borderline child abuse if you ask me. Wow.

 

[aprilgail2]

This guy who had a crush on me in the 5th grade was named Richard Johnson. Can you guess his nickname?

I went to church when I was a kid with Richard Dick Sr. and Richard Dick Jr..... everytime someone said their name I would crack up laughing...they went by big dick and little dick....uggggggg

 

[Liberty Belle]

I went to church when I was a kid with Richard Dick Sr. and Richard Dick Jr..... everytime someone said their name I would crack up laughing...they went by big dick and little dick....uggggggg

 

[mickeysgal]

I went to church when I was a kid with Richard Dick Sr. and Richard Dick Jr..... everytime someone said their name I would crack up laughing...they went by big dick and little dick....uggggggg

We have someone in our company that is named Princess. Hi Princess. What can I help you with today, Princess. Princess, can I borrow your pen, etc. It's not a nickname. It's her given name.


Went to college with a girl whose first name is Carol who was dating a guy for the longest time whose last name was Carol. If she married him (lost touch with her), her name would have been Carol Carol. Not kidding.

 

[EMom]

We have someone in our company that is named Princess. Hi Princess. What can I help you with today, Princess. Princess, can I borrow your pen, etc. It's not a nickname. It's her given name.


Went to college with a girl whose first name is Carol who was dating a guy for the longest time whose last name was Carol. If she married him (lost touch with her), her name would have been Carol Carol. Not kidding.

I went to school with a girl named Princess. Her real name, not a nickname. Before the "urban mythers" get their knickers in a twist, she was not black. Alll the other kids in the family had normal names, but I seem to remember she was the long awaited girl.......last chance try for a girl, you know. I won't write her last name, but it was odd when added to Princess. There was a woman in the next town (her son dated/later married my friend) whose name was Queen. First name, that is.

I met a woman with newborn boy twins several years ago and when I asked their names, she said, "Javier and Xavier." I wondered if she knew they were essentially the same name, but I let it be. Of course, I've wondered the same thing about P. Diddy/Puff Daddy/Name of the Day Diddy's mom naming him Sean John Combs.

An Aussie friend of mine who is a teacher....yes, once again a TEACHER............taught twins with "invented" names. I'll have to ask her what they were again. She spelled them for me once, and truly the names were just bizarre. Shortish names that you hadn't a clue how to pronounce. The kicker is, both names were spelled EXACTLY the same. So you have one name, shared by twins, which no one can begin to pronounce. They had to ask the mom, who got all huffy that the teachers were perplexed as to how to get the two PROPER (as to her estimation) pronunciations of one name that none of them had ever seen before. By the sound of it, it's a miracle they didn't wind up being referred to as Thing One and Thing Two.

 

[katybugsmom]

I've been a teacher for 22 years and I have seen all of these urban legend names and more! We actually did have a set of jello twins-Lemonjello and Orangejello! Out of respect for my former students and their families I won't give any more of the names, but there are plenty I could tell you! No urban legends here!

 

[tzolkin]

I knew someone who worked in medical records years ago who used to tell me some funny names of patients. My favorite was "Female." Mother's explanation - "she came with that name on her bracelet."

My grandmother's name on her birth certificate is Female.

She was a premie and born at home, so I suppose the doctor just put "female" since he didn't expect her to live. She was able to get a SS card and license later in life using her church records and marriage documents with her "real" name. Recently she was thinking of traveling out of the country and couldn't find her birth certificate. Her problem now is proving that she "Theresa Jones" is the same person as "Female Smith".

Occasionally we do tease her and call her "Fe-mal-ie"

I worked with a guy named Rick Sprinkle. Now, I wonder why he didn't go with "Dick"?

Yeah, I think Dick Trickle is about one of the worst "Dick" names.

I went to church when I was a kid with Richard Dick Sr. and Richard Dick Jr..... everytime someone said their name I would crack up laughing...they went by big dick and little dick....uggggggg

A family friend is a Richard Jr. (dad nicknamed Dick) He said when people who knew his dad first met him they always asked, "So do you go by Little Dick?" As a teen he would always cringe and reply, "Ricky is fine, thanks"

 

[pperfectmom]

I went to college with a Pleasant Ground (his middle name was Willie) and a guy named Soames.

There was a guy in my hometown named Harry Ball.

My mom knew a Polly Parrot (Parrot was her married name) and a Chuck and Sherry Berry.

OMG-you must have been at UK around the same time I was because I distinctly remember meeting Pleasant Ground. I made him pull out his driver's license. I didn't mean to be offensive, but I sure did not believe him for a minute.

 

[pixiewings71]

I had a friend as a kid, her name was Holly Day....aka holiday.

My DD goes to school with a girl named Loveknee, seriously, Loveknee......and there are more. I'm sure of these may have started as UL but many are used now.....