please don't let these be their real names

[pumpkinpi]

A friend of a friend on Facebook apparently has two young boys named Lestat and Caius.

[Rommie]

Damn. I mean Caius at least is a historical name if not a typical one these days... I had to look up Lestat and it's apparently from a vampire novel.

Poor kid(s)!

[norm]

Should I have recognized these immediately, or am I already completely out of touch?

[Rommie]

No, I had to Google both.

As a general rule, I think one should never name a child something if a. you can't imagine yelling it out the back door for ten minutes at the top of your lungs so all the neighbors hear, and b. something their future SO would not want to whisper during pillow talk and/or shout during sex.

I also seriously think with the latest burst of "trendy" names I'm totally just naming my future kids "normal" names like Elanor and Maxwell or what not cause they'll be pretty special for it by default. Yes, y'all can figure out the geeky origins where I got those theoretical future names from pretty quickly.

[pumpkinpi]

I knew lestat was the name of a literary vampire so I had to check what the reference wad for Caius.

He is a character in the Twilight series. That is the worst part of this.

[gethen]

I've been thinking for a while that there must be some indirect correlation between the parents' IQ and the grandiosity/ridiculousness of the names they give their kids. An old neighbor of ours named her twin girls Desiree and Destiny. It's like she wanted them to grow up to be strippers.

[SciFi Chick]

Wow. I had such boring names planned for the children I ended up not having. You know, stuff like Jake or Derek or Jessica or Samantha. I use these as character names now. Silly me. I need to come up with ridiculous names for my characters, so when I become popular, some moron can name their kid after one of them.

[pumpkinpi]

The post subject refers to the fact that I REALLY hope those are her kids' "screen names" for privacy's sake and they actually do have normal names. If that's the case, I applaud her for being clever.

[FZR1KG]

A friend of a friend on Facebook apparently has two young boys named Lestat and Caius.

I have two little tykes, Buster (a boy) who is 3 3/4 yo and Russter (a girl) who is 1 1/4. MrPi is my hubby but he doesn't post here.

Nope. Not touching this thread. Not me...

[brite]

And here Cookie was pissed for YEARS at me for giving her the name that I did, because NO one was named that... until she grew up and realized that there were lots of people named Alida...

[Rommie]

Yup, Alida is a pretty common Hungarian name actually.

I've never met anyone with my first name (except on Twitter, hah!), and the French always helpfully tell me it's a very old fashioned one. Personally I can just assure all the parents who do "clever" names that they're setting their children up for years of disappointment in which they never find personalized swag with their names on it (a trauma I have yet to recover from).

[SciFi Chick]

Personally I can just assure all the parents who do "clever" names that they're setting their children up for years of disappointment in which they never find personalized swag with their names on it (a trauma I have yet to recover from).

I know what you mean.

[Swift]

Nature based names from my favorite nature geek artist

Though I don't know what's wrong with Tawny Frogmouth.

[Rommie]

Speaking of stupid kids names... http://www.tmz.com/2013/06/20/kim-karda ... est-kanye/

[gethen]

Speaking of stupid kids names... http://www.tmz.com/2013/06/20/kim-karda ... est-kanye/

Just reinforces my thoughts about child names and the intelligence of the parents. Sheesh!

[Swift]

I had heard a rumor of a different name (I thing someone on CQ posted about it) - it wasn't Northwest (or is it North West) or any other compass point, but I don't recall it.

[Thumper]

I had heard a rumor of a different name (I thing someone on CQ posted about it) - it wasn't Northwest (or is it North West) or any other compass point, but I don't recall it.

Why are you worrying about this when there are starving children in Africa?

[Swift]

I had heard a rumor of a different name (I thing someone on CQ posted about it) - it wasn't Northwest (or is it North West) or any other compass point, but I don't recall it.

Why are you worrying about this when there are starving children in Africa?

What me worry?

You know, my namesake had a unique solution to this whole starvation thing.

[cid]

Used to have a young lady on the bus named Shevel. At least they gave it an alternate spelling. It's bad enough sounding
like you're named after Chevrolet's low-priced coupe.

I can think of a few others that may be urban legends, but they just sound so possible...but to print 'em here would
set off the NetNanny software, so we'll just have to pass...

[Swift]

I'm pretty sure the the netnanny software put FWIS on the naughty list back at version 1.0.