What is the deal with giving your kid a last name as a first name?

[Hijinks]

Just don't get all Funky with the Spelling (Y for every other Vowel, etc). The kid's gonna have hard enough time learning to read & write without taking the time to break every Grammer Rule you can think of in his behave.

On a board that I frequent that's mostly women, one woman had purposely named her daughter Miichael. Yes, 2 i's. She did it on purpose to be original. The thread was full of people begging her not to do it, that the kid will go through life with issues of people not finding her paperwork because some helpful clerk fixed a "typo." Never mind that it's bad enough to be named a traditional boy's name. She was very calm and didn't get too defensive, but I personally cannot bring myself to do that to a child.

 

[ssampier]

And there's a perfectly good female version of Michael, Michaela.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaela

It's my brother's wife name.

 

[Hypersmurf]

And there's a perfectly good female version of Michael, Michaela.

Michael Steele from The Bangles would probably tell you that Michael's a perfectly good female version of Michael

-Hyp.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yes, he would.

 

[Richards]

There's also Michael Learned, the mom from "The Waltons."

And I know of a Michaeline as well, so I'll throw that into the "Michael-based names for girls" pile.

Johnathan

 

[kingpaul]

I knew a family of four boys growing up. Their mother loved a certain book by Dumas so much that they were called: Porthos, Athos, Aramis and D'Artagnan. Once they hit 18, they all changed their names.

My grandfather, rest his soul, always said he knew a family growing up with the surname "Hogg". They had 2 girls, Ima and Ura. We never knew if he was joking or not.

My wife works in a hospital. A woman came in to deliver her child. She noticed on her chart the word "chlamydia", and thought that was a beautiful name for her daughter.

As for my names, I've seen definitions for my first and middle as "Little" and "Conqueror", and with a last name "King".

 

[kingpaul]

And there's a perfectly good female version of Michael, Michaela.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaela

It's my brother's wife name.

When my wife was pregnant with our first child, she wanted, if a girl (she was) to call her Makayla. When I first heard the name, I thought she wanted the above spelling, as I had never seen the spelling she wanted.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I don't think I've seen a link in this thread to Baby's Named A Bad, Bad Thing yet?

-Hyp.

 

[Lewis526]

Thanks for that link! I nearly choked on laughter, and I'm now committed to giving my first daughter, if I ever have one, the name "Brynwynnlynnn." Or is that too common? Maybe I should name her "Lewis" instead.

I'm also immensely pleased that the name "Riley," which I thought up on the spot as a random example in my earlier post, is confirmed as a name of ambiguous gender by this apparent leading authority on bad baby names. On the other hand, I'd much rather be a kid with an androgynous name, like "Riley" or "Morgan," than be the boy named Sue.

Absolutely Brilliant.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

I don't think I've seen a link in this thread to Baby's Named A Bad, Bad Thing yet?

-Hyp.

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