Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Bad Names, Good Laughs

I just read that tito ortiz & jenna jameson named their twins boys "jesse jameson" & "journey jett" (after the bands).

seriously. N & i have been cracking up. what are they thinking? granted, i think being named after your mom's porn name & the band jett would be pretty bad even if they were singletons, but it made us start re-hashing all the awful twin names we've heard. it's like people go a little nuts (or stupid) when they find out they're having 2 & try to name them as a "set", (just come up with really awful names). allow me to provide some examples from our own personal experience.

from a set of twins in the NICU with the dudes (boys) : cash & change

twins girls (told to us by the NICU nurses, although we did not meet them): boy & man (yup, they were girls. apparently the mom wanted boys.)

twins boys: tyrod (pronounced tie-rod, as in the car part) & axel

identical twin girls i once knew: elise & elisa (in & of themselves the names are fine, but come one, they're already identical!)

i realize naming your kids is pretty personal, & most people put alot of thought into it. i just think sometimes people get a little carried away. afterall, the kids have to live with these names for the rest of their lives (or until they're old enough to change them. & if i were named man, i'd be counting the days!!)

any ridiculous names, twin or otherwise, that you guys have to share?

8 comments:

  1. When C was in the NICU there was a set of twin boys that followed him. Cunningham, and Chancelor. The last name was just as strange. There was a set of twin girls that came in just as he was leaving, MaKenzie and MaKenna, cute names by themselves, but not for twins.

    For me it took me FOREVER to pick a name. Had C not been born when he was, his name probably would not be C. J her name was picked-not kidding- 5 hours before I went into labor. R I loved her name but just could not settle. I was not set on her name until P put it on the birth certificate. K, his name was one I had picked as soon as I found out he was a boy-ironic his is the only name I don't love.

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  2. We were joking while pregnant with the boys that it would be funny to give the boys names that sounded perfectly fine alone but when put together were funny... like Johnny and Carson. But some things are just funny in thought but not in practice. Although compared to some of the things I have heard, that was not so bad...

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  3. I met a girl in college named Penny Nickel. That's just mean of the parents. Nothing wrong with the name Penny, but with the last name Nickel...that's just wrong!

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  4. I know someone who named their little boy Dawson Creek. Nothing wrong with Dawson... but with CREEK?? Ugh... Poor kid. At least he won't have a clue (since that show has been long gone for awhile now and he's just a toddler...)

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  5. Oh gees, I used to work for a medical office and we had the craziest names come through. The one I remember right away was a little girl named "Millionaire". I should have kept a list of all the crazy ones.

    My mom works at a grammer school and she knew three little boys (brothers, but not triplets) named Excalibur, Wolverine, and ... ugh I always forget the third one but it was something equally goofy.

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  6. Well...they are better names than Thing One and Thing Two I guess. I don't mind when twins are named similarly (though not as similar as Elise and Elisa!) like when both names start with the same letter or something but not when they are named as a set like Cash and Change...WTF? (I also hate rhyming names like Jack and Mack or somthing)...and I did know a Jack and Jill twin set and it drove me nuts).

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  7. I went to college with a guy named Forrest Green and I always thought that was a terrible coincidence. Then I got to know him better and learned his sister was Kelly Green and his brother was Hunter Green, now that is just wrong...

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