you guys, Duggar baby name

[pugz]

Jessa and Ben named their baby boy Spurgeon Elliot Seewald

[SJ]

Terrible.

[cincodemayo]

Wtf is Spurgeon?

[Pilsy]

SMH

[spk926]

Is that a type of fish?

Ummmm not a fan.

ETA: Nope, I was thinking of sturgeon. Close enough. 

[pugz]

they said they wanted a name with lots of meaning but so far google just tells me it means "medicinal plant"

[rootbeerfloat]

Sturgeon is the fish. Spurgeon is just... loltastic.

[pugz]

dh thinks it sounds like a mashup of sperm and sturgeon

spurge for short?!

[pugz]

this feels like an april fools joke

[whitemerlot]

All I can think of when I read that name is sperm! Awful!

[pugz]

ok google is now telling me it means "shepherd"

[CloudBee]

Here's their video announcement with an explanation: www.tlc.com/tlcme/you-wont-believe-what-ben-and-jessa-duggar-seewald-named-their-baby/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=countingontlc

[feistypants]

Well. That's spectacularly awful. Apparently it's a last name:

Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations... (From Wiki)

[bowies]

Yikes. That might be the worst name I've ever heard.

[cincodemayo]

Apparently there was a Baptist preacher named Spurgeon in the 1800s.

I can't get over this.

Hey little Spurge! Yikes

[pugz]

spurge is way too close to spooge

[CloudBee]

I guess People wasn't offering them any money for the release. Hence the home video announcement on the TLC website with the caption "You'll never believe what they named their baby".

[GotWine]

I can't even think of a cute nickname for him to go by.

Poor babe!

[natablue]

Yikes.

[bowies]

Now I can't stop thinking about sperm whales.

[brandienee]

Charles Spurgeon was a nineteenth century baptist that Fundamentalists still love.

Ugh.

[Deleted]

Why not just call him Jizz?

[Deleted]

Oh. My. God.

[pugz]

I wondered why they were on the cover of People but no baby announcement in the article about her birth.

[Deleted]

Now I'm imagining Michelle Duggar on camera talking about what a gift from god baby Spurgeon is.

[estrellita]

Well, at least the middle name is nice..

[SJ]

Ok I watched the video, and I am very familiar with both namesakes.

It is still a terrible name. The alliteration, the spermy sound, the whole thing.

[h]

Spurgeon is appalling bad. Like to the point that any random word short of the name of an actual STD would be better. Just name the kid Armoire or Suburban or Wichita. Seriously, anything else.

[SJ]

The "Spurgeon the virgin" jokes

[meij]

It's the name if an old department store chain! We had a Spurgeon's in my town when I was a little kid. I have fond memories of their candy counter.