Ghetto/Hippy Baby names, WHY?

I had to laugh too. I know a name is basically a label, I thought my point was fairly obvious. Do you honestly think that naming your kid Moon-Dust is the same as naming him John? I doubt that the posters from either side of the discussion would agree with you on that one.

 

my point is like you said, if you hate it, then change it. DON't say that parents are selfish for naming their kids "Weird' names.
Kids are cruel, so no matter what you name your kid, they wil get teased somehow. I also dont' sit back and let some teasing affect me because i dont' have time to deal with people who believe in making fun of you for something so stupid.

And no one here said that you name was going to define EVERYTHING about your life. I had a common name and my life was still a mess.

You say your name gets you harrassed by everyone and that its hard for you to rent apartments or be taked seriously. you can change you name, but I can't change who I am so that I'm "accepted".

My neices name is Shantae, her deceased sister's name was Tah 'jere. My nephew's name is Jawa, all names passed down from our family ancestory.There's not 'ghetto"

I wonder, Do you look at peopel with "different" names the same way you say people looked at you? I mean do you treat this people like they should, or do you do what everyone else has done to you?

 

I love ****** names. It helps me to determine who I need to weed out in the rental applications for my buildings.

 

dont' you feel special now?

 

It's not meant to make me feel anything. It's just meant to be a good tool in the application process.

 

Any of those names are better than being called something typical like Laura or whatever. My name is Sandra, and I don't like it because I have met tons of people with the same name. In fact, my mother in law has the same EXACT first and middle name (and now, last name) as I do. My daughter's name is Daisy Raine, my sons are Gavin Dakota and Aaron McGregor. I think if you don't like your name, like when you first start school and kids make fun of you, ask your parents if you can change your name, or else just change it for school and tell everyone else to call you whatever you want to be called.

 

HAH!


Having popular names is a burden!

I'll have you know that my stupid name, Govinda, is very popular. For men. In India. And among Hare Krisna devotees. It's the name of a male sex-symbol actor in Baliwood.

On my birthday last June I was eating at a Nepalese restaurant. When the staff, all apparently Hare Krisnas, learned what my name was, they started giggling and telling me about the famous Govinda and imitating his dancing for me.

Go ahead and google him.

My mother, to this day, makes sure that people like that know what my name is when we come across them. Then, I am not kidding, they sometimes want to marry me. Our waiter that night was all into me. Or they want to know who my 'teacher' is. (They assume I'm in a cult and the leader gave me that name.) Or they want to bring me food or water because they think that making a Govinda happy will make the Govinda happy. People have followed me chanting. I'm not into chanting.

Oh, one more thing to consider. When you give a kid a religious name there are repercussions. My name is a religious name from a religion that my parents and I DON'T belong to. I don't know how many people have asked me, after I explain to them that I'm not in their cult or a part of their religion, "Why do you call yourself Govinda then?"

Atheists don't name their kids Jesus.

 

Is it just me or has no one here seemed to realize that just because you don't want to name your kid Michael or Jennifer doesn't mean you have to name them Fruu'it Batt Gumbo? There is a middle ground, people.

 

Don't worry, I do.

Obviously those names have diffrent connotations. So it's not exactly 'the same' but the principles (labeling, identity etc) are still the same. One screams hippy, the other says conformist.
Of course I'm well aware there are non conformists called John. Those are just random examples.

 

Atheists don't name their kids Jesus.

No, But there are a lot of non-Christians named John!

 

EXACTLY!!!

I named my kids things that weren't freaky, but weren't extremely common, either. Stella and Zoe.

I love names that are pretty, meaningful, and not run-of-the-mill, but not strange either.

My kids' dad wanted them to have weird names so they have more unique middle names. A teacher laughed out loud when she read Zoe's middle name.

 

That's true, but in our culture I don't think that 'John' stands out so much that people assume someone named John is a Christian. People do assume they know a lot about me and my religious persuasion because I'm named Govinda. And their assumptions are inaccurate.

 

That is true.

 

in my opinion, choosing a name for your child......it's fun to be unique (spelling?).........people think hippy/ghetto names are beautiful or nifty........i myself am a fan of the hippy/ghetto names........like Jada, Sage, Phoenix, Gage, and so on

 

Well my name is Jennifer and I am still lookin for a job...I have good creditals but the name aint helpin any. Plus I hate my name its to plan. I like the name Artimes for a girl and Armadeo for a boy. I also love the name December

 

I haven't really seen any names on here that are THAT weird or unconventional.

Growing up, I knew all kinds of Sunnys, Moons, Loreleis..ect. My real name itself is unusual and a bane when I was a kid but now I love it. My mom was too young to actually have been part of the hippy movement but she was teen of the 70s and followed that empowered flower-child fad. My family is riddled with different names.


When I envision ghetto names...I think of the names I come across here in Cleveland...the kind of names that sitcoms like "Marten" made fun of.(Shanaynay) these names that try to sound quasi-french(Jane..pronounced Janay) or a popular trend is to combine the first names of the parents...I went to school with a Jamolly(Jamal and Holly). poor kid.lol.

I don't consider Ryver to be ghetto....hippy? perhaps...but not ghetto.


the names I do dislike are names after countries or States,mountain ranges,names of tribes. Dakota(sorry Dakota's mom),Sierra, Arizona, Cherokee, Kenya, Cuesta..ect..I once met a Floridia.oy!

The best of the worst though, are the names that people make up for characters they write...go on over to Fanfiction.net and read some of the stories. The will have a Lord of the Rings story where they insert an made-up character with a funny name like Legolia or Arawen or Eogon. I once saw a Harry Potter fiction that had the names Sanitary and Nubile in it.

My biggest pet peeve though are people who give their kids "ethnic" names because they think they are KEWL. Like a non-Hawaiian white Irish girl named Leilani or a white boy with a Japanese name...sometimes the parents mess up and name the boy the feminine version of a name...because they think it sounds cooler then the masculine version..I met a boy named Yuki once. Yuki is traditionally considered a girl's name in Japan. The boy was a Viking with his blonde hair and blue eyes..not to mention his large build and height....Yuki just seemed to not fit him very well. His mother must have been an Otaku.

 

haha Happy Anne, that's me! Well, my dad isn't an artist, but my name is Anne, and I'm a pretty happy one.

 

oh dear, I just heard the name of the baby of this girl I went to school with - it's a girl called Dangermouse Evans....