Baby Names? Vintage?

[Foofoogal]

No kidding when I say I was born after Sandra Dee.
I was just reading on Yahoo about a judge blocking people from naming their kids crazy names.
In my family recently the younger ones have come up with these.
Mykala, Jaydn, Cadynce? ( I am going to call her cricket) and now Loralei. ( I think Loralei is an older name. i sort of like this one.)

So were you named a vintage name and what is a crazy name you are hearing people name kids lately? Some I think I would rather be named Sue. Some more crazy family baby names soon when I remember them.

 

[alexandra]

I wasn't named after anyone or anything, neither was my brother. I'm Alexandra and he's Scott, neither of which are peculiar. My parents other choices were Katharine and Andrew but years later when my aunt had children she named them Katharine, Andrew and Liam so my mum was happy all of her names got used.

In fact, I don't have anyone in my entire extended family with an odd name come to think of it.

Really, it seems to me that the newest trend isn't to name kids something odd anymore, it's those older sounding names like Isabelle, Agatha, Winafrid...those types of names.

 

[Joie DeVive]

Weird kid names aren't a new phenomenon. My Grandmother was a school secretary in the 1950s and 1960s. They had a Snow White and a Robin Hood, both girls. And my Dad's cousin is named John Wayne (that would be first and middle). :eusa_doh:

My name was definitely vintage. I bear my Great-great-grandmother's and my Grandmother's name (first and middle respectively).

The ones my husband and I are eying for the future are also very vintage: Michael Severin, Alice Regina, Andrew Bay and Viola (no middle name yet). All of them come out of our family trees.

 

[sixsexsix]

My sisters name is Corissa. Never met another one!

I have a good old "vintage" (ha!) 80s name, Michelle

 

[alexandra]

Weird kid names aren't a new phenomenon. My Grandmother was a school secretary in the 1950s and 1960s. They had a Snow White and a Robin Hood, both girls. And my Dad's cousin is named John Wayne (that would be first and middle). :eusa_doh:

Yes my granny who was born in 1924 knew girls in her class called Robin Bird and April Showers.

My dad had a friend named Ronald McDonald who had orange curly hair, but he was named before the clown. Still an unfortunate coincidence I'd say. lol

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have a lot of vintage names in my family tree -- my grandparents were Clifford and Winona, my great-grandparents were Clifford and Winifred, and my great-aunts and uncles were Warren, Alton, Harrison, Mildred, Ruth, Hazel, and Edith. Other branches of the family tree include such names as Percy, Elmer, Florence, Clara, and Irving. Not a Jason or a Jennifer in the lot.

If I'd ever had kids I would have likely used various combinations of names from that list, not to be consciously retro, but to honor the relatives so named. Pity that's gone out of fashion, but some of the currently trendy names are kind of vintagey -- I know several little girls named Emma, another named Annabelle, and one named Vivian -- all good, solid names with a past. But we'll really know the vintage names are making a comeback when we start seeing little girls named Gladys.

 

[Foofoogal]

I love Lily and Violet.
Sandy means helper of mankind but I always hated my name and asked my mom why she named me dirt. lol
Elaine, William and James are big names in our family and Mary Elizabeth.

 

[alexandra]

James is a huge name in my dad's family. His name is James but he goes by Bruce (his middle name) because I also have an Uncle Jim, Uncle Jimmy, cousins James, Jamie, Jimmy and Jim. Plus all the ones who are dead.

My Grandmother is Barbara Jane, my mum is Jane and I'm Alexandra Jane so if I have a daughter, her middle name will be Jane.

 

[Miss 1929]

No kidding when I say I was born after Sandra Dee.
I was just reading on Yahoo about a judge blocking people from naming their kids crazy names.
In my family recently the younger ones have come up with these.
Mykala, Jaydn, Cadynce? ( I am going to call her cricket) and now Loralei. ( I think Loralei is an older name. i sort of like this one.)

So were you named a vintage name and what is a crazy name you are hearing people name kids lately? Some I think I would rather be named Sue. Some more crazy family baby names soon when I remember them.

Lorelei (the correct spelling) is indeed an old name, the Lorelei are the sirens in the river Rhone that lure sailors to their deaths (great Rogers and Hart 30s song, "The Lorelei" includes the line "I want to bite my initials on a sailor's neck").

I just pity those poor kids whose parents take a perfectly good name and mess up the spelling with y's to make it interesting, and then their whole lives they have to spell it for people! Makayla isn't so bad, it's actually Swahili I think... but Cadynce? Is that supposed to be like the word cadence? Huh?

Bad enough to have no H on Sara, nobody ever gets it (I was also the only Sara of either spelling for miles around growing up), but if I had been a boy, I was supposed to be Solomon! Solomon Klotz! What could be worse!

Why they didn't name me after my grandma (Blossom) is a mystery, I would have loved that. And she had a cousing named Hazel, that wouldn't have been bad either...

 

[John Boyer]

We named my, now, 13 year old daughter, Larie. This was my grandmother's name who would now be 105. I have not come across any--Larie's--sense my grandmother's passing about 7 years ago.

 

[The Shirt]

Having grown up a Jennifer, I will be one who gives my child a more interesting name. I'm quite fond of my great grandfather's name Anastace for a little girl. However my grandmother's will not be used - Formida. Most others in my family had rather simple earthy names like Frank, Dave, Edward... I am
also way fond of Ursula, Lana and Ava. If I have a boy, he will be a Vlad (if I get my way!).

There was a phase in which I tried desparately to change mine around going from Jenny to Jenna to Genepher... Now it's just Jen. Tired of being one of 1 million Jennifers in the world.

 

[Mahagonny Bill]

My grandmother's name was Beulah and we called her Granma B. A great vintage name that you don't hear very often.

 

[Miss 1929]

Having grown up a Jennifer, I will be one who gives my child a more interesting name. I'm quite fond of my great grandfather's name Anastace for a little girl. However my grandmother's will not be used - Formida. Most others in my family had rather simple earthy names like Frank, Dave, Edward... I am
also way fond of Ursula, Lana and Ava. If I have a boy, he will be a Vlad (if I get my way!).

There was a phase in which I tried desparately to change mine around going from Jenny to Jenna to Genepher... Now it's just Jen. Tired of being one of 1 million Jennifers in the world.

You are one in a million, but in a nice way!

Keep in mind what kind of torture other kids will put your child through ifd their name is too weird. What kind of nicknames can be made of it, etc.

Lana and Ava are great , but Ursula? That is a little hard to live with. Kids are cruel.

My sister named her boys Robert and James because of the pain and anguish we went through for our names as kids.

 

[Samsa]

Bad enough to have no H on Sara, nobody ever gets it (I was also the only Sara of either spelling for miles around growing up), but if I had been a boy, I was supposed to be Solomon! Solomon Klotz! What could be worse!

I wish I had a name like Solomon! My name is Joshua, which is fine, but I like some of the more rare Old Testament names.

 

[The Shirt]

Re: Ursula

I suppose as a mom I cannot run around explaining my infatuation with Ursula Andress now can I?

 

[Miss Neecerie]

I am Denise Marie Thain.....daughter of Dennis Michael...... (yea yea....)


oddly enough though...if I was a boy...I was to have been Geoffrey Bremner



My mom wanted to name me a 'Little Women' name....beth, jo, amy.....

she lost....

inconveniently I have a 1st cousin named Denise....

 

[texasgirl]

My middle name is Irene, named for my maternal grandmother. I didn't like it growing up, you know how kids are, but now I like it- not that I get to use it much. I like unique names as long as they aren't strange.

 

[Big Man]

... Bad enough to have no H on Sara, nobody ever gets it ...

One of my daughters is named Sara (no "h"). She was named after her great aunt and her great-great grandmother (both with no "h").

As a matter of fact, all my children were named for great or great-great grandparents - Will, James, Sara, and Mary. It seems like there is kind of a 'connection" to the past that way.

As for my name, my grandfather was Will, Sr., my Dad is Bill, Jr., I'm William, III, my son is Will, IV, and my grandson is William, V. Looks like we have our own dynasty going there.

 

[Joie DeVive]

Kids are cruel.

You are so right. I dissolved in a fit of giggles when I heard that my husband's cousin named her son Tucker. I know it's a nice vintage name, but you know what kind of nickname that kid is going to get, and the poor kid will never ever be able to play "the name game"!! lol

I also have an entire list of names which I don't mind, as they are family names, but I would never use on my children. Here are a few:
Claude, Claudine, Howard, Howardine, Olga, Hilda, Frieda, Wilbur, Herald (no kidding, it was a misspelling of Harold on his birth certificate), Velma, Gottlib, Gottfried, Bernard, Kasper, Ella May, Mary-Jo, Patti-Jo, and my personal favorite, Seraphina Magdelana

 

[zaika]

my given name is annie. i hate it. sorry, mom!!

i really like my granparents' names. florence and milton. nyla and alvin.

going back a little farther in my family tree...clara, otto, bertha, mabel, albert, wilhemina, charlotte, ole, nilmer and...magnus. i love that one!

also, i love the fact that my grandma's uncle was named axel. lol