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Mon 16 Aug, 2004 04:42 pm
Unusual names given to Babies of the 1990's as recorded in the Social Security files:
Unique: Given to 24 girls.
Armani: Given to 298 girls.
Maverick: Given to 211 boys.
Halston: Given to 10 boys.
Chianti: Given to 9 girls.
Whisper: Given to 29 girls
Champion: Given to 7 boys.
Adonis: Given to 244 boys.
Oh, Brave New World.
Yeah, what happened to Cuthbert and Penelope?
I don:t know but try growing up in maine with algis kemezys
Hi Osso right on your heals here!
I kinda like the name Penelope.
I just met a little girl my dd's age named Paxton.
Two things:
1) Sports Illustrated recently reported that there have been kids named Espy and Espin after, of course, ESPN.
2) I used to know a couple who were seriously considering naming their first child Panache. Cooler heads prevailed and the considerably luckier child is actually named Pamela.
People are weird.
Your name must be unique in Maine, Algis!
Re: What's in a Name?
Noddy24 wrote:Unusual names given to Babies
Maverick: Given to 211 boys.
Maverick is a very old family name in New England. It originated with Samuel Maverick, one of the old planters, who settled in Massachusetts before the founding of Charlestown in 1629.
http://olgp.net/chs/d1/sammaverick.htm
None of these names beats Genesis Aurora.
Now I'm of a generation with names like John and Jane and Frank and Ruth and Sara and William.
Genesis Aurora. Wow. Kinda sounds like some really cool alien on Star Trek. I like it.
But think of the poor child in kindergarten--or even sadder, in Junior High.
Oh, I can well imagine it. Pity though, it is a cool name.
By the birth announcement, the mother was not married and the baby's father was not in the picture.
"Genesis Aurora" sounds beautiful until you put a last name with it. Can you imagine...
Genesis Aurora Ferguson
Genesis Aurora McCarthy
Genesis Aurora Stanley
...
Nothing sounds right.
It would actually sound pretty damn awesome with my last name, but I'm not telling you that.
Genesis Aurora Kozlowski
Genesis Aurora Feigenbaum
Genesis Aurora Hong
I was a camp counselor in '80 and one of the girls was named Lahkshmi. This is all well and good, except it was a Jewish camp and, well, you can imagine the last-name combination there.
This sort of thing has been going on forever . . . the governor of Texas in the Depression, Mr. Hogg, named his oldest daughter Ima. During Cromwell's protectorate, his parliament was called the Barebones Parliament, in honor of Praise God Barebones, whose last name was likely a corruption of Barbonne.
I believe Bill Lear, founder of the Lear jet company, had four daughters with names that went with Lear, such as Chanda, but I can't immediately find a link on that to verify my memory.
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