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

[Arkhandus]

I cannot fathom the stupidity, ego, and absurdity of people who give their children gawd-awful stupid names. Are they seriously trying to give their children psychological and social problems, and get abandoned by their children as soon as said children can afford to move out and permanently get away from them (meaning a lonely/difficult retirement, etc.)?


Clearly, Charles Darwin's zombie is too overworked these days.

 

[BOZ]

It was William 'Bill' Powell Lear, and his daughter was Shanda, not Crystal Shanda.

An excerpt from his wife's eulogy:
I know we've all heard the story about the humor that Bill had, and after John was born and the next child came along, they were thinking of a name for the child, and they thought if it's a girl, it's going to be 'Shanda,' if it's a boy, it's going to be 'Gonda,' and if they're not sure, it's going to be 'Cava'.

So, Shanda ended up with the "Shanda Lear" and that was typical of the humor in Bill.

-Hyp.

heh heh - pretty good.

 

[OakwoodDM]

Sure. 'Cause Segundo Dracaea has a nice ring to it, after all.

That's actually a pretty neat porn star name. Mine's got more of a ... jazz feel to it, either this way, or the other way I heard, which is childhood pet + mother's maiden name.

With road name: Dizzy Armstrong
With maiden name: Dizzy Davis

Thank you, mum and dad, for naming our cat Disraeli!

 

[Holy Bovine]

You could always give your kid your "porn name." Here's how you do it:

Take the name of your childhood pet (if you had more than one, just pick one). That's the first name. Then take the name of the street where you lived as a child. (Again, just pick. It's not rocket surgery.) There's your porn name.

For example, if the cat you had when you were 8 years old was named "Nick," and the street you lived on when you were 8 years old was "Powers Ferry Road," then your porn name is "Nick Powers." So name your kid "Nick Powers _____." Or maybe "Nickielyn Pywrs _____."

Nikki Dunnet

Whoa - I actually works!

 

[Holy Bovine]

how about the lady who named her kid "shi-thead"?

beat me to it! Are you a Lewis Black fan by any chance?

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Name of my first boss out of college - Dr Weiner. Said employer's son's name - Harry. Not even Harold, Harry....

-Kitty Emporia (I always heard town name, not street)

 

[megamania]

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.

I run into this all of the time. My middle name is Scot as in Scotland. All morgage papers, law papers and the such have it written as Scott.

 

[megamania]

Name of my first boss out of college - Dr Weiner. Said employer's son's name - Harry. Not even Harold, Harry....

-Kitty Emporia (I always heard town name, not street)

LOL! Make it stop! LOL!

 

[Aurora]

You could always give your kid your "porn name." Here's how you do it:

Take the name of your childhood pet (if you had more than one, just pick one). That's the first name. Then take the name of the street where you lived as a child. (Again, just pick. It's not rocket surgery.) There's your porn name.

For example, if the cat you had when you were 8 years old was named "Nick," and the street you lived on when you were 8 years old was "Powers Ferry Road," then your porn name is "Nick Powers." So name your kid "Nick Powers _____." Or maybe "Nickielyn Pywrs _____."

Moonlight Cherrywood



nice

 

[Hypersmurf]

You could always give your kid your "porn name." Here's how you do it:

Take the name of your childhood pet (if you had more than one, just pick one). That's the first name. Then take the name of the street where you lived as a child. (Again, just pick. It's not rocket surgery.) There's your porn name.

[sigh]

I've always hated this game.

Wee-Dog Radley.

-Hyp.