I shall call you Flower Star White Roosevelt (name of my dog when I was a kid)

[gfrancie]

As I mentioned, one of Senor Onion's classmates became a big brother yesterday. The parents haven't decided upon a name yet for the baby girl. Senor Onion's teacher asked the kids to come up with ideas for a possible name. The list proved to be pretty hilarious.
A few highlights:

Ja Jill
Sonica
Dace (which is actually a Latvian name. One of the kids has Latvian parents)
Bunny Rabbit
Vincent Vincent Vincent (this was Senor Onion's contribution, after the name of one of his friends)
Bunny Rabbit
Rosa
Naomi
Purple

While discussing names with some of the other parents, I found out that one of the kids in the class has the middle name of Black-Lightning. Hand to God, I kid you not. Apparently after a motorcycle. Another parent told me about her friend's kid who has the middle name of Cupcake. Middle names are fair play in my opinion. You want to get as insane as possible? Knock yourself out. A kid can always hide that with an initial later on if they so choose.
Black-lightning. That sure wins a lot of contests. Also it sets you up if you choose to be a super-hero.

Comments

[todayiamadaisy]

One name got two votes? Bunny Rabbit it is, then.

[photosexual.livejournal.com]

One of the models I photographed earlier in the decade was named Dace. I totally wrecked the pronunciation of it until she taught me how it sounds different than it looks.

A guy I knew at IBM named his kid's first name after a hard drive manufacturer's brand name.

I always thought giving kids unusual/original names (whether good or bad) would inspire some character in them for the encounters they would have, or the tireless explanations they'd have to give for it. And heck, it only lasts 18 years before you can say "I don't like the name 'Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr.' anymore, I want to be Nikki Sixx" you can do that.

heck, if I added a second middle name to my existing name, and that middle name started with M, my initials would be DAMN.

Mortimer?
Mergatroid?
Mumford?
Michaelangelo?

Time for me to have some fun.

[far-gone.livejournal.com]

Black lightnin (surely there is no g!!) sounds like a fortified wine!

[far-gone.livejournal.com]

Here's a funny. Once we went to a Macdonalds (*gasp* don't tell the snack nazi) in Alabama and I was calling Niccolo and Zoe to come and order. There was a man in front of me in line who may or may not have been crazy. He turns around and says - WHAT IS YOUR KIDS NAME and I say Niccolo and he says: Michelob?! Like the drink? and makes the international hand signal for drinking beer out of a paper bag. Everyone thought it was hilarious, not all for the same reasons. :)

[land-girl.livejournal.com]

When I was expecting Florence, Ralph was insisting we should call the baby Josa, Josaca, or Josaponponpon.

My nephew Isaac wanted to call his unborn baby sister Piggard. Fortunately his mother didn't take him up on that idea and called her Eve, instead.

[emily-swank.livejournal.com]

Yet another parental regret. I had no idea I could give my baby the middle name of Cupcake. Paulina Cupcake would beat the pants off Paulina Winslet (guess who saw Titanic while she was pregnant???)

[kellymarie.livejournal.com]

One of the kids at my son's new daycare (he won't be starting there until August) is called Silver. Not sure if it's a boy or a girl ... in fairness 'silver' in Dutch is 'zilver', so it's not actually a Dutch word - though I don't know how much that helps, everyone here knows exactly what the word means!

[kellymarie.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it's worth mentioning that you pretty much can't change your name in this country - there's no such thing as a deed poll, you are stuck with your birth name for LIFE!

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

In my youth, I made a complete fool of myself by asking (not the person, than k goodness!) why people saddled children with such outlandish name - was gently corrected that it was literally outlandish - it was a family name from another language!

[k425.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they should go with Senor Onion's suggestion and the superhero middle name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

When I was having the ozard dude, Mr V very much wanted the baby to be called Wolverine Cyclops after his favourite X-Men.

[cutebutpsycho99.livejournal.com]

I think it shows the company I keep when I saw Sonica and was like "Sonic Screwdriver? The parents are Who fans?"

But yeah, Bunny Rabbit was mentioned twice. If you want, you could vary it by going Petite Lapin!

Our kid's middle name is her Chinese name. Which unfortunately eliminates the possibility for names like "POOOOWWWWWEEEERR!"

And yeah, the next kid is totally being named Zonda Pagani.

[tlc71076.livejournal.com]

These stories about the preschool crack me up. We ought to combine stories from the west coast preschool snobbery and the east coast preschool snobbery and write a book.

As an aside, my sister is currently pregnant and her husband wants to name the baby Super-Hawk. I think I might prefer Black-Lightning or Super-Hawk to my middle name.

[ms-pooka.livejournal.com]

oh, after wanting to cry from reading emily swank's post, this was a nice upswing. laughing like i'm sleep deprived.

did i ever say how brian's nephew ben (the son of his delinquent brother) was originally named seven? after a drug dealer who bailed brian's brother out of jail for dealing or having a meth lab or something? always reminds me of married with children.

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

Black-lightning is either going to be the most popular kid in school, or he's going to have to learn to fight, fast. Kids are cruel.

[seasecret.livejournal.com]

My younger niece's name is Sunshine Deathray Rubatino.