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| Sat, 05-26-2007 - 5:42pm |
I was bored, and browsing the online nursery listing for a hospital in my area. There's the usual horde of trendy names, kre8iff spellings, and extra Y's, but some of the names really made me wonder what the parents could have been thinking...
- Congress
- Dynasti
- Ej'ypt
- Essence
- Eunique
- Genesis (I know this is probably supposed to be a bible reference, but come on. Gensis Device? Genesis Project?)
- Jaymz
- Jerquanderick
- Jovonni
- Lucky
- Notorius
- Paras (isn't that a Pokemon?)
- Pharaoh
- Precious (when I clicked on this one, it looked like they had the mn as "Im-Unique")
- Price-Daniel
- Sir Paul (no, the last name wasn't McCartney)
- Stoney (Stone would be alright, but Stoney?)
- Symphony
- Trezure
- Xzavier
I was really excited to see a few of them, like Trent, Tristan, Ruth, Roland, Rafael, Leland, Sebastian and Cedric.

HEHE! Those online nurseries never fail to delight (or entertain, at the very least). ;)
- Congress -- I'm not generally taken enough with our current government to name my child after them
- Dynasti -- and while Dynasty may have been a good show, I wouldn't name my child after IT either (unless I was actually hoping for a future exotic dancer ... sorry mom's of "Dynasti")
- Ej'ypt -- ROFL Ok, I get that this is probably how a six-year-old might attempt to spell Egypt (minus the punctuation ... even 1st graders know not to do that), and I'm guessing they pronounce this exactly like the country, so I wonder if they realize that apostrophe makes that a virtual impossibility. It'd be more like edge-yipped (to use word examples for clarity), or at best, sound like a cockney version of the phrase "he gypped" ('E gypped me five quid!"
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I was really excited to see a few of them, like Trent, Tristan, Ruth, Roland, Rafael, Leland, Sebastian and Cedric.
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Missed that bottom line in my original cut & paste! Tristan, Roland, Leland, Sebastian and Cedric are all favorites of mine! Had I heard these on the playground they'd have easily made my "IRL" post below (well, technically, Tristan did -- two different boys -- and Leland was also among the contest baby names, I believe). LOL
All lovely, less common choices. ;)
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Wow! After seeing that list, I'm thinking my dh's choice of Willow Moon could be A LOT worse!
Eeek! Poor kids.
Nonnie
Wow, these are pretty bad! I just don't get the whole apostrophe in the name thing. What do these people do when filling out a form that has boxes for each letter? Does it count as its own box? Just a random thought :)
I swear until I read Kelli's reply I had no idea how Jaymz would be pronounced. I was going "jay-um-zee", "jam-zz", etc. I can't believe someone would butcher such a classic name!
Thanks for sharing,
Liz
Thanks belle_petite for the siggy!
After reading all these posts of "interesting" spellings, I wonder why I still kick myself for letting dh talk me into spelling my ds's name "Reece" instead of the "Rhys" that I wanted. Yikes!
Not to worry! ;) Now if you'd spelled his name Rhease or something, I'd certainly consider THAT an "interesting" choice (not in a good way LOL), but there's also something to be said for choosing the most common -- and therefore most familiar, as far as the general public is concerned -- form when there are a few to choose from. And while I do love (and prefer) Rhys, both Reece and Reese are Anglicizations considered valid and in common usage. Reece IS the most common, at 413, and Reese is just behind it at 433 (but is also 159 on the girls' side). Traditional Rhys? Way down at the bottom of the list -- 915.
FWIW, Reece even appears in the male top 1000 all the way back to the 1880s! ;) Certainly not the same thing as simply creating an awkward spelling to make it somehow more unique, KWIM?
But then, I do share your regret ... I let my dh talk me into Kaitlyn, rather than Caitlin, because it's also the most common form in America (and happened to give her my initials). Sneaky dhs! LOL
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Yes, Rhys is the traditional Welsh spelling. Reese and Reece are common Anglicizations of that (accepted forms that make the name easier to spell and understand if you're NOT Welsh). That's what she meant ... she'd wanted to use the more authentic Rhys, but her dh perferred the more common (in America) Reece. ;)
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