Salt Lick Steady: Knobbs: My daughter is 9 months old now and we named her after a bible of sorts. Alia...as in, Alia Atreides.

/ she crawls without rhythm
// actually got it after hearing Alia Shawkat's name and really liked it.
/// also being in Dune was a huge bonus
//// also, my dad's name was Aloysius and he died a month before she was born. It's kind of a female version in honor of him.
// a lot of reasons led to the perfect storm for naming her

I just hope she doesn't die in a plane crash.

At least she'd be in a Jet Li movie first.

I wouldn't mind being named Benny Hill.

Meh, society changes, you'll get used to the weird names in due time.

We have a Barack Hussein Obama in the White House, 20 years ago that would be the pun to some racist joke.

12349876: Salt Lick Steady: fanbladesaresharp: rynthetyn: If more people stuck with traditional Bible names, we'd have less stupid baby naming.

You mean Peter, Paul and Mary? So they can also have 14 middle names to differentiate between who's who?

More like Malachi. Do you know how many limerickspoo jokes you can make with a name like Malachi?

2:3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

Exactly! Who couldn't make a limerick out of that sh*t?

I have heard that a popular name in certain transitional neighborhoods is "L-a", pronounced La'Dasha.

My kids: Elizabeth, Keith, Sean, Max

My grandkids: Alexander, Connor, Christopher, Ella, Lucas

/nothing too outrageous so far

Pretty sure sports have a role to

If there has not been a King or Queen of England of the same name I would not consider it.

jaylectricity: El Brujo: I don't care for the naming children other people's last names trend.

Have you met my child, Brujo Football? Three of my favorite things.

Now there's a name you can set your watch to!

drjekel_mrhyde: Pretty sure sports have a role to

To play? In naming babies? Oh yeah.

Spike. Brady. Lutz III.

I'll be an uncle soon, my bro and sis in law are having a girl and they went with Isla. Think 'island' but I-la. She's straight up Latina and he's white. My suggestion was Javier if it was a boy.

Apos: The day that Bronx Mowgli,Kal El,Exton and Apple get popularity spikes is the day the world will officially end.

Maybe the Mowgli part won't get popular, but considering how popular Brooklyn has gotten...

As someone who narrowly escaped being named Arwen (and instead was named after a country), and who has a sister named after a song from a musical, I have already picked out nice, non-batshiat crazy names for any potential future experiments offspring. If female, Agatha (name of the protagonist in the webcomic that was ultimately responsible for me meeting my girlfriend), Dairine (after the Diane Duane character), or Elaine (name of my aunt/my mother's middle name). If male, Jareth (because, well..David Bowie), or Joseph (and I will not let people call him Joe).

\And these will be written down and my girlfriend will have a copy of said list before I go into labor. I blame the epidural drugs for my name - any sprog of mine will not have to worry about a last-minute, drug-induced change.

I like the name Ritalyn for a girl and Dammit for a boy.

AcneVulgaris: Gay Deceiver?

Jixa: Podkayne Puddin Rico?

Enigmamf: Go on...

Women in my family are kind of well-built:

I'm mildly annoyed that "Sophia" is so popular. Wanted to use it myself; it's an elegant classic name with a nifty meaning. But it isn't quite one of those perennially common names that fits in every generation (e.g. Elizabeth, Katherine, Margaret, etc.), so my kid would just be the 2010s equivalent of a Jennifer or Ashley.

Huhm. Sophrosyne?

I thought about naming a daughter Katniss after one of my favorite heroines from literature, but then they made the Hunger Games movie and I knew I'd have to give up that dream.

Much like my brother and sister-in-law had to give up their favorite name Emma for their daughter when Rachel's daughter was born on "Friends."

Still love the name Alia, though. Like mentioned up-thread, I think it's a wonderful, simple choice for a girl.

And as a tried and true girl, I rarely think of boy names. Though I know Johnathon and William will never happen. Or Jeremy. Or Chris.

/I despise popular naming culture
//has a popular mid-80s biblical name
///tried going by my middle name, but I never answer to it
////at least I'm the only "me" in existence due to a very rare surname
///slashies!!!!!!

RexTalionis: Incidentally, you can't deny that Sweyn Forkbeard is an awesome name.

Stealing this one for a future Skyrim character.

madanimalscientist: Dairine ...

Probably not a good idea - you'd be inviting schoolyard pricks to call her "Derriere."

madanimalscientist: As someone who narrowly escaped being named Arwen (and instead was named after a country)

How you doin', Central African Republic?

rynthetyn: If more people stuck with traditional Bible names, we'd have less stupid baby naming.

Right you are, Jehosephat.

RexTalionis: Oldiron_79: If there has not been a King or Queen of England of the same name I would not consider it.

So, Æthelwulf, Sweyn Forkbeard, Harold Harefoot, Æthelstan and Ecgfrith are all under consideration?

Incidentally, you can't deny that Sweyn Forkbeard is an awesome name.

Æthelwulf I'm pretty sure is the more archaic form of Adalwulf, which is the Archaic form of Adolf, so that one is right out.

Sweyn Forkbeard would make an exelent name for a Dwarf Character in World of Warcrack.

Coelacanth: The one time I almost got married, I wanted to name the kids after characters from Robert A. Heinlein novels.


Come on, Lazarus Long? That's a gay porn name. And Friday's a Saigon hooker.

Naming your crotch dropping after some made up Africam Deity will surely endow your spawn with a life of crime. Film at 11.


Lookin' at YOU, Shakwandra.
yes, your credir score is shait.
Yes, you ar-ah vit-tim ob idemnity thefth.
No, You don' speak English, you hack of of dumpster babby.

No go get a farking job, and work real hard and have you name changed legally to Louise.

and git yer hair did.

Oldiron_79: If there has not been a King or Queen of England of the same name I would not consider it.

Yeah, but you have to modernize it. Like Boleyn 149.

Well. All I can say to you insensitive clods is our little Aiden, Cayden, Jaiden, Braden, Adyn, and the triplets MyCkenna, Brondo, and Flavin are happy and well adjusted.

/unlike my daughters, sad to say, from a previous marriage: Krystal, Lexis, Brandi, Savannah, and Topaz.

Time for some Game of Thrones inspired baby names.

If it's a girl, Cersei or Arya, if it's a boy, Aerys or Sandor

RexTalionis: I've been looking for a Western name to use in place of my unpronounceable ethnic name for a while. Thus far, nothing particularly satisfactory.

Well what is your ethnic name phonetically? We're here to help.

vudukungfu: No go get a farking job, and work real hard and have you name changed legally to Louise.

You have to wear bunny ears all the time to be a Louise.

/or really really old

Drunken Mistake.
Broken Record.
Bastard.

All good names.

BuckTurgidson: Well. All I can say to you insensitive clods is our little Aiden, Cayden, Jaiden, Braden, Adyn, and the triplets MyCkenna, Brondo, and Flavin are happy and well adjusted.

/unlike my daughters, sad to say, from a previous marriage: Krystal, Lexis, Brandi, Savannah, and Topaz.

The traditional spelling is Brawndo.

Salt Lick Steady: RexTalionis: I've been looking for a Western name to use in place of my unpronounceable ethnic name for a while. Thus far, nothing particularly satisfactory.

Well what is your ethnic name phonetically? We're here to help.

Oh, and 'hair ball sound' is among the things we can use.

RexTalionis: Oldiron_79: If there has not been a King or Queen of England of the same name I would not consider it.

So, Æthelwulf, Sweyn Forkbeard, Harold Harefoot, Æthelstan and Ecgfrith are all under consideration?

Incidentally, you can't deny that Sweyn Forkbeard is an awesome name.

I see your Forkbeard and raise you an Eric Bloodaxe. (Blóðøx, which would look amazing as a band name on a Norwegian death-metal T-shirt.)

And kindergartens are full of Edwards and Jacobs right now.


It's not just babies. Pets get this stupidity too.

Every single male labrador retriever (or cross) born over the past seven years is named Marley.

BuckTurgidson: Well. All I can say to you insensitive clods is our little Aiden, Cayden, Jaiden, Braden, Adyn, and the triplets MyCkenna, Brondo, and Flavin are happy and well adjusted.

/unlike my daughters, sad to say, from a previous marriage: Krystal, Lexis, Brandi, Savannah, and Topaz.

Its got electrolytes

mamoru: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Combined with a falling national IQ average

Pretty sure the national IQ average is still 100. :p

Well, it goes up regularly so every once in a while they go in and change what it takes to get a certain score. Either way, a 100 IQ in the 1950s is way less than 100 now.

12349876: You have to wear bunny ears all the time to be a Louise.

/or really really old

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