Stupid "black" names...why?

[fireheart17]

On the topic of stupid names...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...baby-girl.html

Harper isn't entirely bad....compared to "Apple" or "Moon unit".

Then there's "Sunday Rose" (Nicole Kidmans tot) and a lot of people around here joked that her name sounded like "Sunday Roast" and that her middle name should've been "nut stuffing".

[AdminAssistant]

Skunkle, Read STFUParents. You'll see people on there who name their kids things like Vageena.

[Ginger Tea]

Harper isn't entirely bad.

Harper, I agree isn't out there, I think its the middle name Seven (Davids Man U/England number), that gets the eyebrows raised.
That reminds me of the character from Blossom named Six, cos she was the sixth child and they ran out of ideas for names.

[Ree]

Harper isn't entirely bad....

LOL...I laughed when I heard that name.
That's my cat's name.

When I adopted him from Gatekeeper, she said she thought he looked like our Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, so I called him "Harper".

[Boozy]

That is an uncanny resemblance.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Harper isn't entirely bad....compared to "Apple" or "Moon unit".

It is when you take into consideration that there's a toilet cleaner called "Harpic". Kids pick up on things like that. And "Seven" is just silly.

[Sleepwalker]

Language standards change. What was offensive and what was polite 50 years ago is not the same as how it is perceived today, and government phrasings tend not to catch up very fast, if at all. Just look at how archaic legal language is.

Black, queer, 50 years ago using them implied something different in the user of the word.

[fireheart17]

It is when you take into consideration that there's a toilet cleaner called "Harpic". Kids pick up on things like that. And "Seven" is just silly.

Harpic isn't all that common nowadays.

I also used to get nicknamed after a particular brand of padlock and an insurance company.

So I have a few strange names that I picked up from my placement. Here we go:

Trinity
Indigo
Aiken
Pierah
Seren

All of those apart from one are girls names....(Aiken's the boy)

And in terms of long names, there's one kid whos name starts with a J. His first name AND last name are hyphenated.

There was also Aodaney. O.o

(pronounced Ad-ah-nee)

I can understand that it's an alternative education, but at least ensure that the name has SOME meaning to it!

[Nyoibo]

From memory Aiken is a more traditional scottish name.

[Hyena Dandy]

It's hard to find a name a kid WON'T make fun of, somehow, some way. You can get made fun of with John as much as Harper.

[Seifer]

Some parents are just evil. I've heard horror stories of people who have names that are so obviously cruel you'd think someone would have turned around and slapped the shit out of the parents.

They were:

Richard Head (a.k.a DICK HEAD)
Harry Balles (a.k.a HAIRY BALLS)

[SongsOfDragons]

It's the initials too. Housemate's mum was pondering what to name her newborn son, Housemate's brother - until someone (I think Housemate's grandfather) pointed out her prospective name spelt ARS in initials. Yup, that idea was changed pretty quickly. XD

[siead_lietrathua]

random names don't other me alot.even names with apostophes in them.
HOWEVER!
if speaking the name phonetically, apostophies and all, is not how the parents say it's supposed to be pronounced, i will be giving a WTF face then.
if you spell your kids name Mo'nyk (monique) and want it pronounced monica, then you should have spelt it Mo'nika instead.

like my neice, her middle name is Bronwyn. and it sounds like it's spelt.

[bara]

I dont like when the name is a common word mispelled. That I find ignorant.

[IDrinkaRum]

It's the initials too. Housemate's mum was pondering what to name her newborn son, Housemate's brother - until someone (I think Housemate's grandfather) pointed out her prospective name spelt ARS in initials. Yup, that idea was changed pretty quickly. XD

My husband's initials (without middle) is BS. He always puts his middle initial in the middle when initialing any documents because he feels weird just writing BS. He thinks it makes it sound like he's saying it's a bunch of bulls$$$. I laugh at him.