Could you imagine going through life with the name ‘Talula Does The Hula’? Parents in Hawaii named their daughter just that, but a family court judge in New Zealand has order that the nine year old girls name be changed. I can’t believe anyone would think that ‘Talula Does The Hula’ is a suitable name for a child.
In September of last year I blogged about unusual baby names.
Parents, please save your child the embarrassment of being ridiculed and teased when they are older. Quit with the bizarre baby names.
Speaking of bizarre names, Ingo Rademacher just named his son Peanut Kai.
Names like peanut might be cute when they are a toddler, but imagine being a grown man named ‘Peanut.’
Your thoughts?
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Wrote: Jul 26, 2008 at 6:42 pm
My Mom was impressed with the book gone with the wind, and wanted to name be Rhett, after Rhett Butler in the book. My father, wise man that he was, forbid it, knowing kids would most likely convert Rhett, into RETCH—-SO Mom went with her second choice, Gary (she said after Judge Albert Gary of Indiana fame–my dad believed it was after Gary Cooper the Movie Star)—the year was 1937
Wrote: Jul 26, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I knew someone from high school who accidentally gave her daughter the initials ASS. Another example of a really bad name was when a friend of mine was going to college and her teacher told them all about calling roll in her first grade class. One little girl had the name Shithead, but it was pronounced shi-theed.
What are parents thinking?!
Sorry for the possible double comment here, I realized that I goofed part of it. Long day.
Wrote: Jul 26, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Well I guess it’s a matter of degrees with names. Some are deffinitely worse than others. Talula Does The Hula might just think she has about the worst name in the World until the day she meets Petula Does The Cowboys. It’s all relative.
But I agree with you here. What is up with saddling your child with an odd name? Definitely not thinking in the child’s best interests for reasonable assimilation into the society around them. Who knows the reasons?
Wrote: Jul 26, 2008 at 6:57 pm
We all hear stories of unusual name combinations like an associate of mine named Benjamin Dover. Of course the Benjamin is always shortened to Ben. How could parents do that, lol.
Here’s a true story of a weird name, probably not a childhood name, but one changed later in life but who knows. My daughter and her husband are both in law enforcement, not on the same force but in the same county so they receive all the radio traffic and they heard this transmission. There is one particular traffic officer that makes a lot of stops and is on the radio a lot checking out for the drivers license info and such.
One night he contacted the dispatcher (with everyone else listening of course) to check out the validity of the license for someone he had just pulled over. His voice was completely serious as he always is.
“Officer 431 requesting a drivers license check. First name: Zippity Last Name: Dodah”
The dispatcher came back: “Is the address Bluebird Lane?”
Wrote: Jul 26, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Yeah, I can’t imagine having sex with a man and yelling out “Peanut, oh Peanut” LMAO…just typing it is cracking me up so how could I seriously have sex with him?
Wrote: Jul 27, 2008 at 8:52 am
I couldn’t agree with you more, Rose.
If you just have to use a bizarre name save it for a pet.