Baby Names Being Derived from...Text Messaging?
Seems utterly absurd, but there's apparently a trend among those in the SMS generation of using abbreviated versions of traditional Christian names on their children's birth certificates -- along with "original" ways of spelling them.
Anne has been changed to An, Connor to Conna and Laura to Lora -- all, seemingly, for the sake of convenience. According to the online parenting club Bounty, there's also been quite a bit of borrowing from corporate entities: One girl born last month was born Flicity, along with other recent names like Ikea, Paprica, Caramel, Bambi, Fire-Lily, Skylark and TAME -- which apparently stands for The Apple of My Eye.
Albert Mehrabian is a psychology professor at the University of California, and has researched the impact of irregular names. He found that "less attractive characteristics were attributed to individuals with less conventionally spelled names. Unconventional spelling connoted less masculinity for men and less femininity for women [and] more anxiety and neuroticism were attributed to those with less common names."
These attempts aren't always successful, however: Last year a couple was told they wouldn't be allowed to register their son's name as 4Real. Officials in New Zealand apparently ruled that the use of a number made it inappropriate, so the couple went with their second choice....
...Superman.
At any rate, check out our gallery of text-message inspired names, some real, some fake, all kray-z!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 13)
Indigo said 8:33PM on 3-31-2008
April Fools?
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upijedi said 9:31AM on 4-01-2008
When your child has his or her ass kicked because of a stupid name, think back to when naming your child that was such a "GR8 ID"...
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candlestick4155 said 8:50PM on 3-31-2008
Its a shame parents want to give their a child a special name, and in turn, they really are just setting that child up for a lifetime of embarassment and ridicule. At least if the name was semi-odd, it could be marginally funny like Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue."
The sad reality to all of this is that any two heterosexual nimwits can get together, make a kid and name it whatever they want, but should two "normal" homosexual people want to adopt a kid, for no other reason than their sexual orientation, they are denied.
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Jae Cee said 9:22PM on 3-31-2008
April Fools is a day away Indigo. Paprica!? WTF is this world coming too??
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radical.ash.101 said 7:52PM on 4-01-2008
4Real? Superman? If my parents had named me that, i would have died.
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Brandon said 9:01PM on 3-31-2008
Anyone attempting to give their child a name that violates the norms to that degree should also be visited time and again by their governmental agencies of child welfare.
I dont know if the 4real/superman story is real, but I do know that there are 4 American children named ESPN (pronounced espen). People who choose names like this are giving everyone around them a peek into their mental maturity and the likely path of their children.
Whatever happened to giving children names that they could be proud of? Whatever happened to the dignity of an individual? Are children becoming another form of a pet all of a sudden?
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kensev said 9:08PM on 3-31-2008
oh godd,
thats so terriblee.
RETARDSSSSSS!!
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otrpu said 9:08PM on 3-31-2008
Heaven help us
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Danyell said 9:13PM on 3-31-2008
My children have both uncommon and what I like to call "normal" names: Christian Cade, Sebastian-Nicholas Fox, and Aeryane Alexis pronounced air-e-an. And yes my sons real name is Fox named after a character from the X-Files. My children are as unique as their names and have yet found someone to say anything negative.
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mike brosnahan said 9:46PM on 3-31-2008
I am gonna name my first male kid mister. How cool would that be. Everyone would have to call him that, even the principle and his teachers.
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Mary said 9:29PM on 3-31-2008
Hey Candle...you dont think children who are raised by homosexual parents arent up for a lifetime of ridicule?
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S said 9:34PM on 3-31-2008
I tnk u r ol nutz
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proudmomma9507 said 9:37PM on 3-31-2008
I was born in 1972. My mother had wanted to name me Morning Star. My grandparent's on both sides made fun of her during her entire pregnancy so she decided to name me Karen instead. Growing up I was happy that she had decided to name me something other than Morning Star but I still didn't like the name they decided on instead. Now that I am an adult I wish my mom had decided to stick with Morning Star. It wouldn't be so bad to be called Star. I like it now. Some of the names mentioned are out there but who are we to judge anyone by their name. The only one who should sit in judgement is the Lord. Just my opinion.
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Carol said 7:52PM on 2-26-2009
HELLO MORNING STAR!! MY YOUNGEST WAS ALSO BORN IN 1972!! LET MY, IF I CAN, TRY TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND 1972!! IT WAS A TIME IN ITSELF!!! A TIME OF SELF EXPRESSION, WHICH, I'M SURE, IS WHY YOUR PARENTS WANTED TO NAME YOU MORNING STAR. THEY OBVIOUSLY (UNFORTUNATELY) WERE PRESSURED BY THEIR PARENTS TO "CONFORM". I HOPE YOU DO KNOW THAT YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR NAME BACK TO WHAT YOUR PARENTS REALLY WANTED YOUR NAME TO BE!! GOOD LUCK MORNING STAR!!! BY THE WAY , THAT IS AN ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL NAME!!!!
Carrie said 9:41PM on 3-31-2008
My sister worked for a while in a hospital maternity ward, and she said some women would ask for a copy of the Yellow Pages and pick their kids' name out of that! Like after car dealerships and stuff. Nice.
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Mike said 5:40PM on 4-03-2008
Too much dope; not enough discipline. A generation of fucked up mutants doing everything in their power to minimize their kids' chances of a normal life. There are plenty of interesting and beautiful trdittional names in real languages like Gaelic, Italian, and English that no one needs to stick their poor kids with something idiotic out of a cell-phone text message. Or is literacy (and I don't mean computer literacy) too much to ask. God must love stupid people, he makes so many of them!
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ojibwen8tive said 9:47PM on 3-31-2008
Wow, what a bunch of dumbasses. Think of the kids how much they're going to be made fun of.
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lynnie said 9:52PM on 3-31-2008
OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Robert Wayne said 9:48PM on 3-31-2008
My name is Goober Elmo Pyle. Thank goodness I have a popular name.
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A said 9:48PM on 3-31-2008
is that any worse than SHANNIKWA, or SHALLAMILL or U'MBUTU, or SHALONDRA....or MAKITA?
(is the kid A POWER-DRILL?)
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