WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS TO THEIR KIDS??????? A "unique" name?

[golfgal]

What's wrong with unique (actually, it's "unusual", since "unique" implies there aren't any others like it) names? We named our daughter after a character from a book. The character is a princess, and her name basically means "hope of the world". It took our parents a few days to get used to, but DW and I have loved it from the beginning.

We also gave her a slightly more common name as a middle name, so she could use it or a derivative of it later in life if she chose to do so (and "Kathryn" has plenty of derivatives to choose from ).

Can't see naming a kid "Espn", but that's just personal preference. Personally, I like it better than many of the more "common" names out there, just as I like "Elora" better than "Brittany", "Ashley", or "Savannah" or any other "names-of-the-'90's".

Tell me this kid is not going to get beat up because his parents named him ESPN.

 

[mainewmn]

Sometimes strange is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[ashjohnson80]

Tell me this kid is not going to get beat up because his parents named him ESPN.

The kid isn't going to get beat up because his name is Espn. He might get beat up for eating his boogers though, I don't know...

 

[Zandy595]

Didn't some celebrity's brother name his son Miller Lite? For some reason I'm thinking it's Matthew McConaughey's.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

The worst name I've ever head of was Mary Juana. Seriously, I know of someone who named their poor little girl that.

 

[wvrevy]

No, I don't think he'll get beat up because his name is "Espn". Odds are, a kid named ESPN is gonna wind up being good at sports, and those kids tend to do the beating, not receive it

 

[m&m's mom]

Do those of you that think unique names are good have "normal' names yourself?
Speaking a someone who hears "what an unusual name" 900 times a day - believe me I named my kids common names.

 

[ashjohnson80]

my name is very very normal. i live in a small town, and i graduated high school with 3 or 4 other girls named "ashley elizabeth" first and middle name. i always felt so undistinguished. i'm going to name my children uniqueish names when I have them.

 

[mainewmn]

Nope, my name is not common at all.

 

[wvrevy]

Do those of you that think unique names are good have "normal' names yourself?
Speaking a someone who hears "what an unusual name" 900 times a day - believe me I named my kids common names.

Pretty much...My first name is "Eric", and my middle name is "..." My parents couldn't decide between "Charles (my dad's first name) Eric" and "Christopher Eric" so they just stuck me with "Eric" without a middle name.

But like I said, we made sure to give the rugrat a more "common" middle name so that she could choose to use it when she gets older. I hope she won't, though...I love her "unusual" name

 

[phantom728]

I was born in '72 and the most popular name that year for a girl was Jennifer, which of course is what I've been saddled with. I think I graduated with 30 other Jennifer's. My brother is Christopher, which was the most popular boys name for those born in '70...my mom was right with the times She still swears that Jennifer was not a common name back then.

My DD, who just turned 15 has the somewhat unusual name of Ariane (pronouned Aireann, since I often get asked how to say or spell it).
I didn't want her to get stuck with the same name as almost everyone else in her class, but lo and behold, there are a few Arianna's in her class.
I originally wanted to name her Ariel, but then that seemed to be the girls name of choice for all the pregnant mothers in my lamaze class...the rest all ended up having boys and delivered after my DD was born and named.

It works out because she is like her name and she loves the fact that it's different and also hard for kids to find something to pick on her with.

So I'm all for the mildly unusual names