What NOT to name your baby.

[mskateb]

Dear parents-to-be, please do not confuse your dictionary or your thesaurus with your name book.

kidcrave.com/scoop/102-of-the-most-unusual-baby-names-of-2011-infographic/

(I think I made the link clicky.)

[surfbetty530]

Eeeeeek!!!

[amellis2]

Holy crap.
I have a friend whose LN sounds like "leader." Her son's name is Declan. A mutual friend pronounced it, "De Clan Leader." I don't have the heart to tell my expectant friend what her son will be facing for the rest of his life.

[scjb143]

OMMG. I had a fiend who's H wanted to name their DD Ima. Their last name is Roach, so the poor baby would have been Ima Roach!

[mrschelseap09]

wow

[jen812]

Jun 7, 2012 8:17:30 GMT -5 amellis2 said:

Holy crap.
I have a friend whose LN sounds like "leader." Her son's name is Declan. A mutual friend pronounced it, "De Clan Leader." I don't have the heart to tell my expectant friend what her son will be facing for the rest of his life.

Tell her, while there's still time for her to change her mind.

[sara76]

This makes me hate people. WTF names their baby Hennessy? This is the bartender in me speaking, but do you know Blue Martini in Orlando doesn't even carry cognac? I assume it's because they want to discourage the hip hop crowd that the one in Tampa gets. Tampa goes through a ton of cognac on Hip Hop Sunday, and the Orlando area doesn't want that rep. That was a whole other rant, but seriously. Alize? I hate that parent.

[tashaandsage]

Those were awesomely bad. Except I didn't get why Analeigh was on there. I actually love that name, and it isn't that uncommon.

[amellis2]

ANAL-eigh. I guess it might have been acceptable is it had been Annaleigh, maybe?

[amellis2]

Jun 7, 2012 9:57:48 GMT -5 jen812 said:

Jun 7, 2012 8:17:30 GMT -5 amellis2 said:

Holy crap.
I have a friend whose LN sounds like "leader." Her son's name is Declan. A mutual friend pronounced it, "De Clan Leader." I don't have the heart to tell my expectant friend what her son will be facing for the rest of his life.

Tell her, while there's still time for her to change her mind.

What do I do? Bring up the conversation that our mutual friend and I were having? I know that sometimes, with pregnancy brain, we miss these things.

My other friend is naming her daughter a name that has the initials BJ. I find this ok for a boy, but one day she'll be a teenage girl.

[tashaandsage]

Jun 7, 2012 11:19:49 GMT -5 amellis2 said:

ANAL-eigh. I guess it might have been acceptable is it had been Annaleigh, maybe?

Ah. I never read it like that! I guess that goes off the list of names I like! And I've always seen it spelled with just the one n.

[tashaandsage]

Jun 7, 2012 11:21:15 GMT -5 amellis2 said:

Jun 7, 2012 9:57:48 GMT -5 jen812 said:

Tell her, while there's still time for her to change her mind.

What do I do? Bring up the conversation that our mutual friend and I were having? I know that sometimes, with pregnancy brain, we miss these things.

My other friend is naming her daughter a name that has the initials BJ. I find this ok for a boy, but one day she'll be a teenage girl.

My son's initials are BJ and it seems most people I've talked to are in agreeance with you- BJ for a boy, fine. BJ for a girl, not a good idea.