Quirky baby names?

One of my girlfriends has four sisters and they all have flower names (Hyacint, Violet, Daisy, Petunia and Rose). One of her sisters' kids have all color names (Jade, Saffron and Sage). She is pregnant now and wants more than one kid. She wants to give them fruit names (the first one is to be called Cherry - she's pregnant with a girl).

We're trying to make her see how hard it is to grow up with silly names, especially if you're a part of the set. I think the poor kid might suffer.

How do we make her stop it?

Quirky baby names?
If your friend has strong, possitive feelings about this "family tradition", she may be very determined to follow the crowd here( the crowd being her family). I agree with many of the warnings already given about future teasing, jobs, etc.. Why not make a gentle suggestion to use the fruits as middle names. Then, she is able to keep up with the family "fun" and still give her child a first name that would grow up with them to adult hood. For example "Lauren Cherry"



Another idea would be to look fruit names up in foreign languages and use those instead. Then, when questioned about it's meaning the child could just respond, it's Italian, or whatever.



Just some ideas
Reply:Well... you really can't. She's going to name her child what she wants. But I agree... naming your child after a fruit is a bit... umm... silly? Cherry isn't too bad... but what else? Apple, like Gwyneth Paltrow. Yikes. That poor kid. Mango? Guava? :o) ha ha! There aren't many reasonable choices when you get into the fruit category. Maybe she'll realize how silly it is when she's trying to find another name.
Reply:You can't. Just laugh everytime she says it. Then if she calls you on it saying "Why do you laugh everytime?" just remind her that kids in school are much more cruel. Cherry will only be one part of the fruitcake jokes.
Reply:what other fruit name could you possible choose that would be a name not to be picked upon by the kids when they are in school? Banana? Grape? Strawberry? Orange? Yes, Apple is taken, but celebrites get away with that crap. I'd be scared to do this to my child.
Reply:Are you serious... that is so horrid to grow up with. Cherry sounds like a striper name and the song Cherry Pie keeps comming to mind
Reply:I think stuff like that is cute, however, I wouldn't choose 'Cherry'-sounds like a stripper's name...
Reply:I recently saw something on TV that talked about name and voice discrimination in getting jobs, apartments and things like that.



Maybe tell her that eventually that baby will be an adult and hopefully have a profession and having 'Cherry Xyz' might not be the best idea. Also, think about the teasing from the kids in school...
Reply:Well, ultimately, it's up to her but here are my favorite stories of how matchy-matchy names can go awry.



My family has an obsession with "J" names. So at family gatherings, it goes something like this:



My Mom "Jake, I mean, Jerod, I mean, Joe, I mean Jim, I mean Jesse, I mean, Jeff, I mean Jeanette, I mean Johnathon, no, I mean, uh, you what's your name? Heather! That's the one!"



Then there is the one about the guy with the last name Hogg that named his daugther's Ima and Ura. (Not sure if this one really happened but those are terrible names)



And my poor friend Erin actually had the last name Hickey. Try living with that one through junior high.



But some people cannot be dissauded and you'll just have to learn to stifle your laughter and gird yourself for the time when little Cherry firsts hears the joke about being popped.
Reply:You can't, but gosh I wish you could. CHERRY?!?!?! What would she name her child if she has a boy???



Okay... since you can't really "make her" stop it, and she isn't paying attention (and after all, she had a "weird" name and was apparently okay enough with it to want to repeat the cycle) maybe you can get her to go halfway.



In the book Where The Heart Is, there's a woman with five children. They all have food names, but they're nicknames, kind of a play-on-words of the real names. So Brummett (a boy) was nicknamed Brownie. Pauline became Praline. Ruth became Baby Ruth.



Maybe you could talk her into giving a real name like Sherri, but calling the girl Cherry. Other ideas would be kids named Kaylee (Kiwi), Hannah (Banana), or April (Apple). Still ridiculous in my opinion, but at least that way the kid could decide to drop the fruity name if he or she wanted to later. There are not that many fruit names that would be taken seriously in a lot of situations. It may be immature of me, but I would not want to go to a doctor or accountant or lawyer whose first name is Strawberry.
Reply:Oh no, do we really need another "Apple?" If my mom had named me Apple, I would have kicked her azz! Cherry? Cheesy? Taco?

NO - I don't think so!!!
Reply:Cherry isn't really a silly name, I don't think the child will suffer, unless she goes through and names the rest of her children somthing after fruit also (eg. grape apple lemon raspberry)