Do when people give really unique names to their kids?

I am not crazy about it, especcially weird spelling or flowers and stuff.

Do when people give really unique names to their kids?
Truly unique names are fine as long as they are not so stupid that you want to smack the parents with a brick. I would like to have a name that people would say when they hear it, "Oh wow! That's a neat name." And I wouldn't have to spell it for them.
Reply:Hi there.

In the book "Freakonomics" by Stephen Leavitt, famed economist, he has 2 whole chapters breaking down this phenomenon. It is apparently a stong economic indicator, that the vast majority of people given bizarre or bizarrely spelt names are from lower class underachieving groups and will repeat the pattern themselves.

Successful people feel no need to try and make their children "special" in this way.

Interesting stuff and a great book to read.

Cheers, Steve.
Reply:Our names were followed from our grandparent's name to immortalize their names through generations. So I have three first cousins having my same name taken from my grandmother's name on my father's side.
Reply:Well my name is Isabella Paris Séan July (15), which some consider unique but I'm used to it so to me it's normal!! Isabella and Paris are because my mom and daddy liked them and Séan is my granny's middle name and my great great grandad's first name. and I was born in July. My big bro is called Cody Jake Maxwell (aged 18)and my big sis is called Katie Ruby Oonagh (16), so out of the 3 of us I'd think you'd agree in saying my name is the most unique!
Reply:I like them but sometimes they're hard to pronounce.
Reply:I only want uniqe names for my kids. Why give you child a name that 6 other kids in there classroom will have??? My 1st sons name is after his father ENTRIC and the son i am prgnant with now is gonna be Meshach (from the bible) I do this because I love the names and you wont find many people (or any) with the same name. My name is Tyffannie I am very glad my mother chose to spell it different. It is unique and beautiful.
Reply:I think it's odd at times, but it can be good also. But in 20 years there will be no more Saras or Jennifers.!.!. My children have names that I chose because I liked them, not b/c they were "cool" or b/c someone else liked them.
Reply:Why just look at my question and you will know the answer. My son's name is Kamdor Ninjor.
Reply:I like some unique but "real" names, like Corrigan (boys' name meaning spear carrier) or Ailish (Irish form of Elizabeth). I don't like names like Destiny, Chastity, Miley (my heart goes out to any girl who has to bear that name!), etc. I knew kids named Tapioca, Envy, Utmost (a boy), Pretty and Precious. Yes, those were their legal names. It makes me wonder what profession the parents of Precious expect her to have - a doctor, or a cocktail waitress?
Reply:I like unique names, but not weird names. I like names that u don't hear often, not names that will get the kid teased. I'm naming my baby girl Amari (ah-MAH-ree) b/c I don't know anyone else personally with that name. I understand where ur coming from with the weird spellings though. I hate when people use uneccesary apostrophes.
Reply:I don't have any problem with it as long as the name does not fall into the following categories:



1) obviously made up. Random letters strung together, apostrophes and the like added.



2) taking a word and spelling it backwards. This gives it a reverse meaning. Example being Nevaeh.



3) outlandish spellings to change the gender or to be unique. For example, Erryk as a girl's name or Jennaphyr.



4) anything that requires an explanation or it having to be continually pronounced and the spelling corrected for everyone who comes across it (teachers, doctors, employers, etc).



As far as the idiotic names that celebs give their kids, I figure no one is actually interacting with them in the real world so they can live in their own little bubble.
Reply:yes but only when they spell it how its actually pronounced. like for example im naming my child Chloe but if i spelled it Klowe it would be hard to pronounce and absolutely ridiculously spelled.

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