Friends w/ Baby names You Hate (wife, grandmother, member, children)
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I just think it's funny when people make up their own names because they think they're being creative but in reality the names are awful. Like Chanderella
Do people not think when they give their kids these ghetto names?
I also cannot stand taking a traditional name and screwing with the spelling.
In the south, we also give our kids last names for first names by using family names.
Also if you meet a guy from the south whose name is Trip or Trae, it means he is the third.
The name Brooklynn has become quite popular up my way.
It's a city, not a name.
I saw recently that a friend of a friend on Facebook his shared an article about kids being named Brooklyn and wrote something stupid like "people actually do this lol". The reason it showed up in my feed was because my Facebook friend had commented something like "Thanks, a--hole, I guess you don't see my Facebook updates." His one-week-old kid was named Brooklyn.
I saw recently that a friend of a friend on Facebook his shared an article about kids being named Brooklyn and wrote something stupid like "people actually do this lol". The reason it showed up in my feed was because my Facebook friend had commented something like "Thanks, a--hole, I guess you don't see my Facebook updates." His one-week-old kid was named Brooklyn.
(And Brooklyn is a borough, not a city.)
And it's spelled with one N.
Brooklynn (with two Ns) is a contraction of two names Brook and Lynn just like Catelynn, Evelyn, etc. it isn't actually new as a female name or custom at all. Names like Jacqueline, Gwendolyn, etc have been like this for hundreds of years and has etymological roots in Spanish and Gaelic.
I grin and bear it. My nephew named his daughter Laughter. She was born while I was living out of state, but I will soon be moving back and seeing her often. I think I will call her Gigs, short for giggles.
I grin and bear it. My nephew named his daughter Laughter. She was born while I was living out of state, but I will soon be moving back and seeing her often. I think I will call her Gigs, short for giggles.
How do you react when a close friend or family member who's just had a baby tells you what the baby's name is and you hate it?
Thankfully I've never been in this situation, because my whole life, I've been told that "my face tells it all." I was never a good liar or bluffer!
I think if someone named their child something truly awful (and, imo, some of the names mentioned in this thread qualify!) perhaps it would be good for the parents to see a few "faces that tell the truth,"
along with some hemming and hawing in a "trying-to-be-polite-but-you're-making-it-mighty-hard" sort of way. Maybe it would cause them to wisely reconsider the name they have just burdened their little bundle of joy with. :roll eyes:
I wouldn't want to go through life with people whispering, "What in the world were those parents thinking?!?!?!"
Pray that they have a "normal" middle name that they can go by later in life.
20yrisnBranson
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