Baby Names Being Derived from...Text Messaging?

my daughter name is shy I alway get the looks . I wanted my kids to have unquie names . my first daughter didn't get the name i wanted hers was going to be china storm rain .

To Mudge(How'd you come up with your screen name? Haha. I'm just playing.):

Perhaps you aren't too familar with the English language. Serenity- tranquility, being serene. Clear. Calm. Unruffled. Placid. (Any of these synonyms ringing a bell?)

Also, it's after the Godsmack song, Serenity.

Your heart is in the right place, jackyy--and I agree with you, theoretically; however, the truth is that parents' choices WILL have a deep impact on the lives on their children. Can you say that the child named "4Real" alias "Superman" will not be affected by that name? "Superman, please have that prospectus ready for the shareholders' meeting on Monday!" The reality is we live in society, not sheltered at home by our parents.

I'm sorry, is some reason we need to name our children "the norm?" Why not encourage people to be creative. I'm personally sick of the Emilys and Johns...BTW, a lot of the names mentioned are ethnic ones from other countries...remember many of these "normal" names have foreign roots...

According to the above poll, 97% of respondents say they would not name their children after text message expressions. If that is the case, then how is this story even relevant, and this is a trend. I guess I never realized 3% was a trend.

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ileta says:
Now, wait a minute, robeson. Let's not get racist . I knew a Caucasian woman who named her girls Porsche, Mercedes, and Lexus. Just goes to show that any nationality can be stupid,not just us "Mexicans and Blacks," okay?

03/31/08 11:08 PM
Mercedes was the name of the daughter of Emil Jellinek who raced cars and used DMG vehicles He would race under a pseudonym, using his daughter's name. He soon became known as "Monsieur Mercédès" in motoring circles.
"Mercedes" was lodged as the trade name on June 23, 1902 and legally registered on September 26.The name is Spanish and it means "grace" So in other words, the car was named after a woman. Porsche is also a derivative of a woman's name,Portia, which is Latin and who was a character in Shakespear's The Merchant of Venice. Lexus is a stretch but may be a derivative of Alexis.

I think these three names may not be in the same category as Chlamydia,Placenta,and some of these other names. Parents owe it to their children to give them a name the is dignified, and has some kind of proper meaning behind it.

Can you say luza!?1

I know some one who named their daughter "SODA" because of the Sienfield show.

i have to admit i think that using names such as those mentioned in the article are a little far out there, but unique names or even variations of a common name are interesting. my name is Krisstina and i have a twin named Jacqueluene, both are variations of Christina and Jacqueline respectively. I also have a niece with the name Isabella, which i think is a beautiful name, and her little brother is named Reece, which is still not common, but it is sensible,unlike those other names people randomly give their children.

a friend of mine told me that a couple had wanted to name their daughter Chandle because they thought it was cute because the family name was Lier (Leer). get it? chandle lier = chandlier

I can't really complain I named my son after and Archangel and a Pro wrestler. His name is Mikhail Nicolai. And I named my daughter after a Czarina and her grandmother her named is Kat'rina Lynne

My parents were first generation Americans, English was not their first language. So they spelled my name the way they said it, instead of the conventional way, Micheala. I've never met someone with a name spelled like that, but I don't care....it coulda been worse!!!!

OK thats it,,,the height of Stupidity,,,three really dumb stories tonight,,i let the first two go..implants on top of yer head to make people taller,,,and now this? what the heck is the world coming to..this is a new level of STUPIDITY!!! COME ON PEOPLE stop trying to show how DUMB you are....its embarressing!!

We have a generation that, for the first time in history, is going to be DUMBER then the generation before them, not to mention lazier! We have teachers who are so stupid they can't teach without the answer book right in front of them, parents who I wouldn't allow to raise goldfish let alone kids and a society that would rather lock up a kid for the smallest infracton then have to deal with them at all; not to mention that our police are dirtier then the criminals we lock up everyday! No wonder are kids are so stupid!

ok.....and I thought my husband was an idiot when he named our 1st born son *RAIDEN* AKA Dada from MK (Mortal Kombat) then we named our daughter Kalila AKA Kiki( he wanted Katana also from MK) our god-daughter is Jade (also from MK). Im like "WHAT!!??? WAS SUB-ZERO TAKEN????" These names aren't heard of often(unless u play MK) but they aren't NUTZ...like Superman...are they?
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Hi Lydia's Mom: (I'm a chronic insomniac, can you tell?) -- I know "Merchant of Venice" & Portia's speech ("The quality of mercy is not strained"); I lived in Spain in Alcalá de Henares, around the corner from Cervantes birthplace during the 1st Gulf War (my hubby was stationed there and know Spanish names -- I speak the language fluently); the Lexus? Well, I've ridden in one. Believe me, the woman of whom I spoke was NOT that sophisticated. Had it been the '60s, she would have named her kids Cadillac, Lincoln & Thunderbird, okay? Nice try.

Mudge, for your information, names like Serenity, Felicity, etc. were somewhat common in the early days of this country. They were given by parents who wanted their daughters to have names that would hopefully indicate their temperments.

My name is Sarah Elizabeth Hunter. Yep, probably one of the top 10 most common names in the U.S. But personally, I like it. I mean, I don't hate on people who have different names, but I'm glad I don't have to spell my name for people all the time. The worst I have to do is tell them I have an "h" in Sarah and a "z" in Elizabeth (it's not often they need my middle name, though).

If I had been a boy, I would've been Serek (Spock's dad from Star Trek, pronounced like "Derek"), and Mom was going to name me Sayward ("Say-word"), which is an old puritan name, and she was going to call me "Say'rd" (one syllable). I've decided I like puritan names: Sayward, Evangeline, Prudence, etc. And I think Serek could've been cool.

But thanks, Mom & Dad, for Sarah Elizabeth.

(My kids will be Isaac Noah, Andrew Paul, Elizabeth Kaye, and possibly Genevieve or Charlotte.)

ileta says:
Hi Lydia's Mom: (I'm a chronic insomniac, can you tell?) -- I know "Merchant of Venice" & Portia's speech ("The quality of mercy is not strained"); I lived in Spain in Alcalá de Henares, around the corner from Cervantes birthplace during the 1st Gulf War (my hubby was stationed there and know Spanish names -- I speak the language fluently); the Lexus? Well, I've ridden in one. Believe me, the woman of whom I spoke was NOT that sophisticated. Had it been the '60s, she would have named her kids Cadillac, Lincoln & Thunderbird, okay? Nice try.

04/01/08 2:02 AM

The only point I was trying to make was that although this woman you "know" may have named her children after cars, the names themselves were still originally proper names with origins describing qualities, traits, or virutes. The trend that the article is discussing involves nonsensical names. Don't get distracted by the brain-dead racist nazi morons throwing in their "two-cents-worth" and turn this into a "you're no better than us deal" like 99% of the discussions on line. Don't fall for it! It's nice to see a real comment with real reasoning instead of being trapped by the idiots whose main goal is to hijack the net to further propaganda from the subhumans among us.

Immature and stupid parents...yeah they are not the ones carrying a "scarlet" letter for the rest of their lives but their poor kids. Children are NOT dogs or cats to be named as such!