Honestly I dodged Megan twice. My wife loves the name. I also ducked Elizabeth. On the other hand we both liked Bleys.
One of my Daughters is named after a Great Great Aunt. But we never even considered using my Paternal Grandmothers name, Lois.
Fortunately for the world I'm out of the kid naming business now.
My favorites are names that children call someone because they can't yet pronounce all the sounds yet. Then as adults we adopt those names for each other because they are born out of innocence.
One of my best high school Friends was named Jay. His little niece could not pronounce it correctly and called him Fay. Once news of that spread, no one ever called him Jay again!
I think my grandmother had one of the worst girl names I've ever heard, as a matter of fact, never heard anyone else with the same name. Her name was Arkie? Go figure.
In Ireland at one stage it was common enough to give ALL your children the second name Mary (as in the mother of god).I worked with an engineer whose name was James Mary ******. When some of his colleagues got wind of this he was known as Mary from then on.I know at least ten men who have the second name Mary,friends of cousins etc and they all hate it.
I have a friend who is a paramedic. He told me a story of a woman going into labor and them having to pick her up and rush her to the hospital but ended up delivering the baby in the ambulance. Along the way she heard them use the word "placenta" and thought that was a beautiful name for her new baby girl. He said they explained what it was and she didn't care she was still naming her baby that.
He was a serious guy so I believe what he said. And by the way, his name is Leslie. lol
I have a friend who is a paramedic. He told me a story of a woman going into labor and them having to pick her up and rush her to the hospital but ended up delivering the baby in the ambulance. Along the way she heard them use the word "placenta" and thought that was a beautiful name for her new baby girl. He said they explained what it was and she didn't care she was still naming her baby that.
He was a serious guy so I believe what he said. And by the way, his name is Leslie. lol
My thing is not necessarily names, but the SPELLING of them! Parents try to get 'creative' and it's always a mess. What's wrong with traditional spelling?
I knew of a girl whose name is pronounced "Kennedy" however the spelling was Cenadie - WTF?? Or changing the letter 'I' to a 'Y' - Ugh!
Mykul = Michael
Kareynne = Karen
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