BABY NAME DAY!!!

Today is the day.

Every year just before Mother's Day, the Social Security Administration releases their top baby name list. And guess what? Emily got bumped out of the #1 spot after 12 years!!!

Drumroll please... Top Baby Names for 2008

Some newcomers that also cracked the top 1,000 list according to yahoo! are:

Isla (623), Mareli (718), Milagros (731), Dayami (750) and Nylah (821).

Aaden (343), Chace (655), Marley (764) Kash (779) and Kymani (836). Beckham debuted at 893


On a special note: Happy Mother's Day to all!!!!

Creativity at its finest...

Here's my entry for today, but first an important UPDATE: A few entires back I posted up a story concerning a child named Adolph Hitler. Well, it seems young Adolph and his sister Aryan Nation were taken from their parents and put into foster care. Check it out HERE

And now on to today's names... no list-- just a funny name related video I came across on youtube:



I think (and I will have to take liberties with the spellings) it goes

Deonna
Deon Jr
Deonvay
Deontay
Demontay
Deondrus
and My'ana

Whew- falls on the floor in exhaustion

No words. None. ROTFL

Scarred for Life

Why our children are going to be permanently scarred for life...

Exhibit A:

(signs that we are seriously in the middle of a financial crisis.)

Exhibit B:

(either this is a "smush" name that wasn't well thought out or somebody owns stock in Victoria's Secret)

Sigh!

Yo Mama (Round 2)

I think I am going to make this a regular feature... yo mama!

Ok the deal is, in most my regular search haunts when you search for baby names they are listed with the names of the mother, father or both depending on the source. That means that sometimes I inadvertantly get 2 or 3 funny names for the list for the price of one. A good majority of the time it's the mothers' names that catch me off guard more than the kids. Mostly because I'm sitting there thinking that in theory these women are between let's say, 17-35 years old, which means they've had 2-3 decades to deal with whatever verbal monstrosity was scribbled onto their birth certificate.

And the funny part is, these are the ones I see most often giving their children the easiest of names. Ah, delicious irony. All I have to say is chile better you than me.

Here's a small sample:

Domenitrix
Teawanna
EarleAnna
Patches
Ureka
Infinitee

Lavender
Persia
Starstronnia
Sylver
Rhapsody
Grandeur
Beirut

Turquoise

Goodbye 2008

Happy New Year!

Out with the old and in with the new right?

While I am waiting to see what the class of 2009 has in store, here is my unofficial name resolution list.

8 Names/Name Trends That Should Go Out with 2008:

1. Jayden/Aiden and any spelling variation of the the two. Neither one of these names is bad, but if parents think they are being either trendy or original picking either one of these names as soon as their child hits pre-school age they will find they were sorely mistaken.

2. Brooklyn Naming your child after any borough of New York is not a good look. Especially when you've never been, have no affiliation with or live anywhere near NYC. Uggggh!

3. anything ending in 'Asia'- My'asia, Ki-Asia, T'asia, Malaysia-- just ghetto fabulous!

4. names ending in 'ee'- Emilee, Averee, Kailee. I'm sorry, but the double 'e' names always reminds me of some overly amped bubble headed cheerleader/future sorority chick. Like OMG make it stop.

5. random 'Y'- hate this trend with a passion. Why is it so hard to add a vowel somewhere, ANYWHERE? and what's the deal with adding random 'Y's in names that don't need them.

6. dead/aging rock star names- dylan, hendrix, jagger--your child has a better shot as being an accountant, lawyer or a teacher than a rock star, so why burden them with a rock star name. If they really do become rockstars, they'll probably change their names anyway

7. Nevaeh- again, in about 2-4 years you can expect to step into any pre-school or kindergarten class and find about 5-6 little Nevaeh's running around. I'm just waiting to find the kid named Lleh

8. Patience and Honesty. I'm willing to bet they will someday grow up to be strippers or guests on Maury.

Let the weird names begin. Let's see what 2009 has in store...