Do you have a problem with "stupid" names?

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Do you pronounce it the way it's spelled Spo- KAYNE, or do you accent the E so like Spo-kanEH, or Spo-kanAY? It's a cool screen name but weird real life name. They'd get called Spooky or Ghost.

I do NOT agree that anything could be a name. What if I want to call my kid Assface? There should be some protection from idiot parents trying to be cool - especially if those idiot parents are celebrities. Frank Zappa should be shot, his kids are Moon Unit, Ahmet, Dweezil and Diva Muffin. I saw Moon and Diva on a TV show, they actually kept those names!! !

Salome actually isn't a made up name. It's Biblical.

it is not fair to pick on a kid because of their name.. its not their choice.

anyway i have seen people give their kids pretty common names but spell them different.
eg madison spelled maddieson. or Zoey spelled Zoei.
it just makes things more confusing.

anyway peoples should not inflict their need to standout on their kids. eg why name your kid peaches? or moon unit?
if you want to give your child a name like that you could always use it as a middle name
as far as i know no one pays attention to the middle name.

I'm pretty neutral when it comes to all but the most stupid of celebrity names.

My mom on the other hand hates a lot of names. Ask her why and she'll say the name in an obnoxious voice that would make any name sound bad.

I'm going to pronounce it the way it is pronounced. Spo-Can.

I named one of my children Valor for a middle name. So there!

Thats sweet of him

My childs name is going to be Ophelia.
Well unless I find a better name in amongst my obsessions.
I usually end up using up my 'childs' names on toys and animals.

This is funny. First of all, I did a legal name change from a perfectly pronounceable "English" (Scottish) name to one a little more creative. And I get chewed out about it. A lot. But hey, I was in my 20s. What did you do in your 20s? (My sister got a tattoo, I changed my name. It's like that.)

Then there's the people I used to hang out with who were with 3HO (Kundalini Yoga) and had names like Parmatma and Jagdish - a little strange for white women, but not at all strange for them. And Jagdish's kid is called Amrita, which is quite nice.

Then there's all the ridiculous names that you see in Fantasy or SF literature, which you will be sure to find in the next generation or two in the classroom. Because.

And there was a friend in school who was named Magali, a perfectly fine French-from-France name, but it confused us Canadians, and I don't think we ever really pronounced it right.

But the one that I really remember is these two poor Chinese students over from Hong Kong who did grade 13 at my high school. Prudence (the sister) did fine and went on to engineering at university (we were in one of the same classes at uni). Her brother, Wisdom, unfortunately, had to repeat some of grade 13. I felt sorry for him under the circumstances, given his western name. He should have just gone with his Chinese name (whatever it was) to avoid embarrassment. Or switched to something easy like Sam and not told his parents.

I don't think I've ever really had the reaction that a name wasn't really a name. But maybe I just don't remember.

Back when I was in grade school, Mrs. Oney's husband had a first name of William. Thus the name Bill Oney! What were his parent's thinking? I was at the bank and saw a teller named Amanda Lynn (A mandolin).

I have absolutely no problem with so called "stupid" or should I say "unique" names.
The only problem I would have with a name is if it intentionally used to be offensive (for example, using a "bad word" for a name), and I haven't seen any cases of this yet.

They might have been a fan of Star Trek Voyager... though I seem to recall the name being spelt rather differently in that case.

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I certainly don't have a problem with it: I have one myself - Elanor, and I have every intention of giving the most obscure names I can get away with to my children. My friend's family have a tradition of "strange" names - she's Leo (and was going to be Eowyn only her dad got to write down a name first), and her mum's Erica (which isn't that strange).

I don't think there's anything wrong with using odd names, especially since most of them were popular at some point anyway. Elanor /is/ geeky, but no one realises that it is when you say it out loud. Eowyn is an established old English name (and still geeky). If I have a son he'll be Samwise, which can just be shortened to Sam and no one will be any the wiser. A girl? Probably an old English name - Skyla or Brenna are my favourites at the moment.

I'm not so keen on misspellings of names though, especially some of them which range to stupid. Plus there's the urban legend about the chav who called her kid Chlamydia because she thought it sounded nice. XD

So you think it's ok for parents to make a kid to go through life with a full name pronounced "Baloney"?

The actress Salome Jens played the Dominion leader on a number of Star Trek DS9 episodes.

In the Asperger group I belong to (and now lead) it strikes me how many people find certain names hurtful, getting an instinctual adverse feeling from names of people who bullied or hurt them in the past. Then if they come across such a name, usually a surname rather than first name, they feel a hurtful reaction.

I used to be that way, big time. I probably still am, for example I'd be immediately turned off a girl with certain surnames, no matter how attracted I'd be to her otherwise. It must sound weird, but a common kind of thing in my group of Aspies. Surnames do count for a lot for me.

For first names I really do prefer the traditional names, and names which are popular and so have been well accepted. I shudder a little at unusual names, in case naming patterns go as far as - or anywhere near to - things like the s**thead example.

As for names like Kathy for Katherine etc. - love them or hate them, these names are often shortened out of endearment, intimacy, tenderness etc. and/or they are informal forms of the full name. They are often called 'diminutive' names, for these reasons. I know I might be inclined to do this if I feel affection towards a female.

My interaction with females is virtually limited to the Internet. But for example there is a girl called Christina. She has OCD and she has hinted there is another mental health issue. Which I think is more than likely bipolar disorder. I have kinda insisted on calling her Chrissy, and even though she doesn't normally go by Chrissy she seems to really appreciate it from me.

The Kathy example makes relevant the name of another girl. Her first and middle name - Jessie Kathryn. She has schizophrenia. She'd normally go simply by Jessie, but I love the sound of the first and middle name together so sometimes call her Jessie Kathryn, which she seems perfectly happy with. But I might start calling her Kathy - her given name is Jessie, not Jessica, so that's already shortened. And I just want something to shorten, out of endearment.

No, if the kid doesn't like it, he/she should be allowed to change it as soon as possible, and definitely should be allowed to go by a different name in the meantime.