Celebrity Baby Names II: More Kre8tiv Spellynn

[GoldenFleece]

Aug 16, 2009 19:05:57 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

I will never understand people who do that, if you're going to name your kid after someone famous then why not use their first name? Sarah is a perfectly nice name. The Penns are guilty of this too, naming their son Hopper instead of Dennis. Which is also a fine name.

It's a fine name, but not particularly distinctive. I imagine the parents probably don't see the point of naming a child after a famous person if they're not going to use the most famous part of the name. Dennis could be after the Dennis the Menace; Jean could be after Billie Jean or blue jeans or someone's grandma. I tend to think it's better for naming trends not to remain too narrow and stagnant, but Palin...my fingers are crossed she grows up and dates some kid named Barack.

[angelaudie]

Why would they want to saddle their kid with a name synonymous with stupidity and quitter?

But, but, but she's a mom! And a hockey mom! And she hunts moose! And she can see Russia from her house!

Palin is a bad name but I've heard worse. I knew a guy that met someone that named her daughter Placenta. Sorry, but you got a ways to go to top Placenta as "Worst. Name. Ever."

Why skip over historically legitimate girl names with strong meanings like Victoria (victory), Valerie (strong), Bridget (exalted), or Althea (healer) and go to an out-of-date brand of sugary pop?

My guess these names are well-known and therefore "boring". So, let's just call the kid Victory! Though sometimes learning name meanings can be confusing. No one can agree what my first name means. One school insists it means "noble strength" while another school insists it means "storm". I must admit while I down with "noble strength" I would for my name to mean "storm" for some odd reason. Maybe my first name means "noble strength storm"?

[chiqui]

Maybe Palin was named after Michael Palin of Monty Python fame.

[thvar]

Aug 17, 2009 21:31:31 GMT -4 chiqui said:

Maybe Palin was named after Michael Palin of Monty Python fame.

That was my immediate reaction, yes. Sarah... meh, will be all but forgotten soon. Michael though... *sighs dreamily*

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Picabo Street had a son named Dax Meyer Street Reeser (on my birthday!). Wow, does that sound like a future skier/snowboarder/surfer or what? Their other kids are named Treyjan and Eli. Treyjan? Blech.

[lilya brik]

Aug 18, 2009 14:57:37 GMT -4 @jtalia said:

Picabo Street had a son named Dax Meyer Street Reeser (on my birthday!). Wow, does that sound like a future skier/snowboarder/surfer or what? Their other kids are named Treyjan and Eli. Treyjan? Blech.

The name Dax makes me think of Jak and Daxter.

Eli's a nice name, though.

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It makes me think of that annoying dude from Punk'd, haha!

[dwanollah]

"Treyjan MAAAAAAN!"

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They didn't think they could just name him Trajan and call him Trey? They had to be so damned literal that it had to be spelled Treyjan? Feh.

[sumire]

They didn't think they could just name him Trajan and call him Trey? They had to be so damned literal that it had to be spelled Treyjan? Feh.

I admit, I didn't know Trajan was a real name until I Googled it just now.

Can we include kre8ive celebrity parent names? Rebecca Gayheart's mother is Floneva. Which isn't awful, but it's... odd.