Children's names 'spell trouble'

[emad]

Jordan, K'tee, Kloe and Bobbi-Jo are all names to make some teachers' hearts sink, apparently.

Teachers have confessed to making snap judgements about children from their names on the register.

In a light-hearted debate on a teachers' website, they have listed the names they associate with problematic and charming pupils.

Poppys are seen as hyperactive, Kayleighs as a pain and Ryans as hard work, according to chat on the website of the Times Educational Supplement.

Kyle, Liam, Wayne, Charmaine and Charlie are among the names teachers say they associate with problem children.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4274318.stm

[emad]

1. So. No mention of 'Saddam', or 'Osama', or 'Adolf', 'George',

'Dick', or 'Tony'.

Somethin' not quite right here....

[DS1]

2. Not surprising

Pretentious names from pretentious parents, and it runs in the blood.

Kayleigh? :puke:

[fudge stripe cookays]

17. Obviously a Marillion fan.

One of their songs, spelled exactly that way.

FSC

[MN ChimpH8R]

21. What is with these incredibly tortured spellings of kids' names

I just don't get it, but it screams white trash to me. My friends' kids are named Grace, David, Michael and Alison, et al. Those seem reasonable to me. :shrug:

[Iris]

57. Yes, lovely names. Think they'll be jealous of a baby girl named Harlee

who was just born last week?

[Redstone]

27. The big one for girls around here is

Mikayla, or Michaela, or Makala (all pronounced the same, but with other spellings as well).

It's as bad as the "Jennifer" plague of the 1980s.

Redstone

[MN ChimpH8R]

28. It's worse because

at least there's a much more limited number of ways to spell Jennifer.

[Redstone]

32. And I always figured that any parents who wanted to name their girl

"Brittany," but spelled it "Britney," were pretty illiterate.

Redstone

[Left Is Write]

68. Or they are naming the girls after Britney Spears...

who apparently has parents who did not know how to spell Brittany.

[Left Is Write]

64. My oldest, 18, is named Kayla. (Just Kayla, not Michaela)

I named her in 1987, choosing "Kayla" because I thought it was very pretty, and also because it's a derivative of my own name (which is Catherine).

I had NO idea what would happen with that name. I had no idea I'd stumbled into the early stages of a huge, huge trend. I think I'd have chosen differently if I had known.

One of my coworkers had a baby about six months after Kayla was born. She named her child Ashley Ann. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of Ashley Anns there are.

[name not needed]

78. The parents should be stabbed in the jaw.

[Hugin]

3. I just KNOW my name is up there.

Hee hee.

[emad]

5. We always knew it Prag!

xx

[Hugin]

7. It wasn't always that way tho...

'Till he head nurse spoke up.

On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered 'round
And they gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had found
The head nurse spoke up, and she said leave this one alone
She could tell right away, that I was bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone

I broke a thousand hearts, before I met you
I'll break a thousand more baby, before I am through
I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya honey, that I'm bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone

I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal
I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal
I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya honey, that I'm bad to the bone

Stolen from: George Thorogood & The Destoyers

[Shell Beau]

4. Well now I know what NOT to name my children.

Doesn't matter, I will name my daughter Ava regardless of if it is a trouble, spoiled, bratty name for teachers.

[Hugin]

8. Awe, come on!

What's wrong with Ignaz for a boy?

:hi:

[coffeenap]

9. I had a friend with that name--he was a very nice guy--no trouble to

anyone!:)

[Hugin]

12. I've always liked it...

Due to my particular situation I've never judged
people by their name.

I like unusual names.

[Shell Beau]

10. What about for a girl instead? That will really

throw the teachers off! :hi:

[Hugin]

13. True...

I must admit I like your real name.

[Shell Beau]

16. Well thanks very much!!

I, of course, don't like it, but I guess most people don't prefer their names. :)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

20. I love my name!

Though I can't say I know too many Domenics...

[Left Is Write]

66. I love my name.

Cathy is pretty white-bread suburban-sounding, but Catherine is beautiful, and I've always been happy with my parents' choice of a name for me.

[Splatter Phoenix]

61. O_O!

Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis? :D That doctor who told people to wash their hands and was driven to an insane asylum?

He's one of my heroes. v.v

[emad]

76. Use to know a girl at school who got christened Pheasant because

she was born on 12 August ('The Gloroius Twelfth' - start of the UK grouse/game bird shooting season) and her Pa suspected her Ma of infidelity resulting in cuckoo coneption...........

[Left Is Write]

65. Ava is a beautiful name. It always makes me think of Ava Gardner.

[China_cat]

6. Wonder what they'd do with Lieuwe?

[Trigger Hippie]

11. Why Charlie?

I love that name. If I ever had a kid :shudder: I would name him Charlie. :shrug:

It doesn't sound like a troublemaker's name to me...

[Hugin]

14. I wondered that too...

Who else are we going to someday call "Chuck"?

[Trigger Hippie]

15. Ewwww. I'd never call him Chuck.

That's awful.

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. I always wanted to name a boy Miles.

It always seemed like an unintentionally cool name.

But then I married a guy who last name rhymes with it. That was when I decided I could never have children. Because I'd have to give them lame-ass names.

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[XemaSab]

19. Interesting that the S/SW Asian names

were rated positively.

Not sure that would be the case here.

[Heidi]

22. I believe it . . .

My real first name is _not_ Heidi. It's actually one of the dorkiest, most airhead names anyone could bestow upon a female child (in my opinion), and I long have suspected that my first name influenced the way some teachers (only some) treated me, particularly math and science teachers. :shrug:

[Patiod]

25. It's okay, Buffy

Once people get to know you, I'm sure they treat you better.

[Heidi]

26. It's not that bad, and it's not "Heather," either . . .

but it's a pretty hippy-dippy early 60s name. Enough said. :eyes:

[TexasBushwhacker]

31. In 1989, the year of the movie "Heathers"

I actually had 3 Heathers in a single class. My total Heather count that year was 6 out of 128 students total.

[Blue_Tires]

83. when i was in school about the same time

the student body (about 350 total) had about 50-60 people with one of the following names:

Jennifer
Mary
Jason
David

add to the fact that close to half the school was non-white, and those numbers become even more dramatic


"Why yes, I DID go to a catholic school---however did you guess?"

[CanuckAmok]

40. Misty?

n/t

[Left Is Write]

67. Early 60s....so probably not Tiffany. Perhaps Tammy?

[tanyev]

81. Saffron!

[bleedingheart]

23. I wanted to name my daughter Theodora....

I loved the name but everyone hated it....sounded to "hoity toity" for the family.

However now that she is older...she is domineering, stubborn, smart and sassy....a perfect little Empress Theodora....
hahahaha

note: her name is not Theodora...she ended up getting a family name that is very nice...

[ZombieNixon]

24. Um, do you actually KNOW anyone who named their kid "K'tee?"

Is that the new way of spelling Katie? Because it sounds like the name of someone off of Star Trek.

[ContraBass Black]

30. Klingon or Vulcan?

[ZombieNixon]

49. Sort of both, actually

Klingon names often began with K, but rarely ended with a long vowel, which Vulcan names often did.

Wow, a linguistic analysis of a misspelled human name in a Star Trek context. That makes me sad that I can even think of that.

[ContraBass Black]

50. You're no worse than I am.

[Momgonepostal]

47. No, but once knew a M'Lissa

Pronounced Muh-lissa, of course. :silly:

[tanyev]

82. *gasp* You just reminded me that I knew a M'lissa, too.

You didn't grow up in a small town in Texas, did you?

[Momgonepostal]

84. California...appalling to think there is more than one in the world

Unless she moved to CA from TX...?

How did two sets of parents get the same amazingly stupid idea?

[Akoto]

51. LOL. "Tell the class about yourself." "I am K'tee, daughter of Bob!"

[CanuckAmok]

59. L'OL!

n/t

[AngryAmish]

29. I grew up with a kid named Anson Paape

Of course he is in jail awaiting trial in a bizarre murder. I knew he was a killer when I was ten.

Anyway "Wayne" is the worst name to give to a kid. They are all trouble.

[Redstone]

36. And never, EVER give a kid "Wayne" for a MIDDLE name.

I'll be that 20% of the Southern white men with a criminal record have Wayne as a middle name.

I'll bet that if you Google this phenomenon, you'll find plenty of evidence. In fact, I think it's been a "News of the Weird" item more than once.

Redstone

[AngryAmish]

37. I got the Wayne thing from News of the Weird

Don't forget John Wayne Gacy

[MN ChimpH8R]

41. The odds are even higher if the names are

John Wayne, as in Gacy.

[NorthernSpy]

43. Wayne, Dwayne, Ray, Lee, Randy: all classic serial killer names!

For instance, if a guy ever introduces himself to you as 'Dwayne Lee Ray', back away sl o o o wly until it's safe to run!

:think:

[Splatter Phoenix]

62. Charles Lee Ray...

:rofl:

...But seriously, you think maybe the media and such influences that kind of thing? The first "Heather" I thought of was the one from the original Nightmare on Elm Street, and the first "Jason" "Jason Voorhees", and if one googles simply "Freddy", the first twelve images are an unbroken chain of Frederick Charles Krueger ones.

[Ladyhawk]

71. Ever notice that famous killers are suddenly referred to by their

full names? Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, John Wayne Gacy...what's up with that?

[u4ic]

33. Poppys are seen as hyperactive?

I see them more as incontinent...:shrug:

I don't know what the deal with Wayne is, though. All the Waynes I've known have been great guys.

[Redstone]

34. My absolute favorite is the basketbally player named "Anferny."

Not to make fun of people with problems, but all I could think of when I first saw that name was a mother or father with a harelip, trying to tell the nurse they wanted to name the kid "Anthony," but having it come out sounding like "Anferny."

Or maybe the mother or father had just come from the dentist's office, and still had "novocaine lip?"

Redstone

[Shell Beau]

45. I knew a guy whose name was spelled Jonathan

but pronounced Joe-Nathan. :shrug:

[Redstone]

58. Oh, that's damn funny!

Redstone

[StopTheMorans]

35. boys named Wayne? problem children? NEVER!

[LaraMN]

60. My 7-y/o has had three different "Dakota"s in his classes,

and they were all problem kids.

[CanuckAmok]

38. I wonder where Kayiegh-Leigh (pronounced Kaylee) fits in.

Someone I know named her daughter Kayiegh-Leigh.

I'd like to buy a vowel, please.

[MN ChimpH8R]

42. That is an abomination to the Flying Spaghetti Monster

What are these people thinking?? :eyes: :crazy:

[CanuckAmok]

44. I believe they're thinking "where can I score more meth?"

n/t

[astonamous]

39. My poor step-daughter is named Jerami

I always wondered how many times she was scheduled in the wrong gym class.

I would not allow my husband to chose my kid's names.

[NorthernSpy]

46. I dislike this fad of giving girls boys' names...

Especially misspelled boys' names.

Very irritating!

I see a lot of change-of-name filings in the offing when these kids start reaching adulthood.

[TrogL]

48. Darryl, Dean and Sean

all guaranteed trouble.

[newscott]

52. Anyone named Brie or Briana, Brianna I feel sorry for.

Well, we really like the cheese so....

[cfield]

53. Personally, I prefer unique names

and they're better with unique spellings. Don't get me wrong, stupid ones are just that-stupid. But I'm sure a lot of people will hate my kid's name.

For a girl, it'll be Rilyn Kenadie
A boy will be Rylan Gabriel (probably)

I also like Gabrielle (for a girl) and there are a few that hubby has said "NO WAY" to. Cayleigh has been a long-time fave but it's become too common.

[flowomo]

54. Jason...

trouble trouble trouble

[Rabrrrrrr]

55. I think that, in a fair country, DS1 and I would be given a list of kid's

names all over the country, handed to us by the president himself, with carte blanche and total immunity, as well as vehicles and staff and an unlimited budget, to punch in the face each every one of the parents who give their kids dumbass names like these and the power to legally change them to something that isn't ignorant.

I'd prefer it be done under a democrat president, so I could talk to him without needing to have my entire epidermal layer flash-burned off afterward (ala Andromeda Strain), but to tell you the truth, if even Fuckstick himself came up with this idea, I'd shake his hand and be willing to drop all war criminal charges against him.

[jmm]

63. Please start with Aquanet's parents

I thought that was just an urban legend until I recently came across that name in my job.

After that you can go after Lu2's parents. I'm all for unique names. Growing up named Jessica can do that to a person. However when people name their children after hair spray and throw unnecessary numbers and letters in the name they've gone too damn far.

[Beware the Beast Man]

56. Vincent. Never med a Vincent that wasn't a complete headcase.

[Left Is Write]

69. Okay, people! I have a question!

"Jayne" is on the bad list.

My five-year-old daughter is named Jane. Does the absence of the superfluous "y" get her off the bad list?

[jmm]

70. Jane is a beautiful name

Jayne isn't even that bad. I consider it to be on the lowest rung of uber-trendy names somewhere way below Kymburghleigh.

[put out]

72. Funny, I am a Kimberly.

My mother contemplated adding an extra "e" between the l and the y, to be unique. She decided better, and SHE WAS 19!

I know a Cadee, a Cadey, a Katee. I have a Tyler Spencer, a Spencer Johnson, and a Tyler Johnson. I have a Jackson Cooper. I have a Lake Cooper. I have a Cooper Smith.

Kaylee, Kylie, Kay Leigh, Kayla, and it's so funny how trendy names make it into the collective consciousness; we all think we are being creative and special.

For crying out loud, I named someone Joe, thinking it was classic but not much used at the time. And now I know a dozen people in his age range with that name.

[Hugin]

73. Kymburrhleigh ... LOL!

:rofl:

Wow! That is ubertrendy!

All others are forgiven!

LOL!

[jmm]

75. I must say in Kymburghleigh's parents defense

I do know someone born Kimberly who didn't feel unique so she legally changed it to Kymburghleigh. I told her that it ain't your name that makes you special it's your personality and if that's what she needed to feel special she needed to seek help. Of her four children her son Jayson got off with the best name.

A year and a half ago I got fed up when the third friend of mine named named their child some variant of Jayden (All of their fathers were named Jason so they wanted their children to have a "different:eyes:" name.) so I "renamed" myself Gezykah k'Mahy. Now it's become a running joke and people still beg me to give them new "special" names.

[Hugin]

77. Oh, please!

I could really use a new name right about now!

Please, your majesty! May I have a new trendy name!

Thanks.

Prag.


P.S. You should start up one of those "name generator" web sites.
P.P.S I'm serious... I need a new name!

[jmm]

79. I have no clue how to start one of those sites but

since you asked so nicely, here is your passport to popularity






Your new name is



P'rrrÖuwugh

[Hugin]

80. Hey, COOL!

I'm one of the cool kids now!

P'rrrÖuwugh!

Thanks jmm!

[Left_Winger]

74. I'm a teacher and I've never judged a child by their name

I read this article to one of my classes yesterday (Friday) and we all had a good laugh from it. I even have two students (a Charlie and a Ryan) in this class. Everyone roared when I read that Charlie's are supposed to be "problem children" because our Charlie is probably the best behaved student in the class; and I've had him for three years. When I read that Ryans were hard-working my students reacted predictably as my Ryan is indeed a hard worker (they threw balled-up paper at him in a playful manner).

My worst students have had a variety of names and no patterns can be discerned from names in my opinion.