"creative" baby names
For those of you who missed my post about ridiculous baby names, here it is.
On that subject, a woman of my acquaintance announced she was pregnant. I told her I hope she wasn't going to saddle her kid with a name he'd regret later in life. Or worse, some "creative" spelling of a standard name.
She said, "No problem. We're naming him Ian. Not much you could do with that one."
Don't be so sure. With that as a challenge, I came up with the following off the wall and quite cruel spellings of their yet to be born son Ian:
Parents, if you're trying to come up with creative spellings of common names intending to help make your kid stand out and be unique, don't. By middle school he or she would rather just fit in.
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On that subject, a woman of my acquaintance announced she was pregnant. I told her I hope she wasn't going to saddle her kid with a name he'd regret later in life. Or worse, some "creative" spelling of a standard name.
She said, "No problem. We're naming him Ian. Not much you could do with that one."
Don't be so sure. With that as a challenge, I came up with the following off the wall and quite cruel spellings of their yet to be born son Ian:
- Ejan
- E. N.
- Yan (Y like Spanish 'and.')
- Ijn
- Ee'Yan
- Eaghan (GH is silent.)
Parents, if you're trying to come up with creative spellings of common names intending to help make your kid stand out and be unique, don't. By middle school he or she would rather just fit in.
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Labels: baby names
posted by The Sarcasticynic at 8/02/2008 01:08:00 PM
10 Comments:
I don't agree later in life you want to be special, and a "creative" name cane give a good start for it.
Don't get me wrong, baby girl, I have absolutely no problem with creative names for babies. Some of the names I've seen are the most beautiful around, and very uncommon.
But when parents take a common name and spell it wrong, in a manner that causes most people to mispronounce it, that does a disservice to the child later in life.
Creative names have their place. But if you get silly, it makes you seem 'common'. Iarn, Een, or Iuhne?
I would have pity on any child with a name spelled Iuhne if his parents expected people to pronounce it like Ian, Lukey. That poor kid will be correcting people for the rest of his life. Or maybe he will just give up and answer to "eye-oo-nee."
There was a Seinfeld episode with an Englishman named that... he kept correcting the pronunciation: Eeen!
Here, here. But you know we agree on this one. The only time "creative" names work on a kid is when that kid is born into wealth. That's the kid who will grow up with the knowledge that it doesn't matter if people laugh at him 'cause he's rich! Give a poor kid or regular kid a goofy name, and you've just saddled him with one more hurdle to general acceptance.
Here in Australia the Urban/Kidman kid will always be known as Sunday roast. How they came to be so stupid when naming their little girl we will never know.
(Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise ran in a series of tv adverts for lamb sunday roasts)
I read recently that there were 12 ways to spell the name Jaden. I don't even know which one's the most popular, as I'd never heard the name before. Our website, http://www.therightbabyname.com , allows you to get in-depth name reports based on quantitative analysis for factors like cyclicality, uniqueness, and general societal goodwill -- but the site doesn't deal well with "original" spellings, I admit! Please visit us to get some name reports and explore the site!
the spelling of the name eaghan is old scottish for the name ian and is popular in scotland AND PARTS OF ENGLAND
cool! I never thought to look to see if it was an actual name!
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