What were these parents thinking??

fellowship

When I read this I just

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Seven boys were found to have the name Del Monte - after the food company - and no less than 49 boys were called Canon, after the camera.



Designer firms and types of clothing were also well represented, with almost 300 girls recorded with the name Armani, six boys called Timberland and seven boys called Denim.



In some cases it seems something else was on some parents' minds - six boys were named after Courvoisier cognac.

What americans name their children....



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Have any of you named your children in this way? Do you know any who have named their children in this way? If so what names?



Fellows

aquafire

How times have changed. I remember a song by Johnny Cash called " a boy named Sue ".

But then I suppose some parents get reality & TV mixed up.

How else can we explain names like Johny Rotten, Johnny Deisel, Chevy Chase, ...even Roger Ramjet...?

alcimedes

i'm gonna name my son adidas.

wrong robot

adidas alcimedes has a nice ring to it

outsider

I knew a kid named Nichael. We called him Nike for short.

ibrowse

"...And these are my sons Pringles and Trojan..."

aquafire

And this is my son iPod..He is the Apple of his mother's eye.

alcimedes

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Originally posted by iBrowse

"...And these are my sons Pringles and Trojan..."

more like "this is my son Magnum"

applenut

I was named after Eric Clapton



my brother named after Dylan Thomas and John Lennon.



but at least those are normal.......



weirdos

argento

My dad almost named my sister after Elvis.....

immanuel goldstein

No wonder an alien named Ford Prefect would go unnoticed.



Already the streets have been taken over by walking billboards with all those people wearing advertisements, and for free.



While some brands are already proper given names (Mercedes comes to mind, and just to spite: Ariel), although most of the examples are completely ridiculous as names for real people.

L?Oréal? Chevrolet?

Why not Nestlé, Panasonic, Pfizer, Compaq?

Noty to mention Microsoft.



I wouldn't be surprised if they soon started naming their hapless offspring with acronym and alphanumeric brands and trademarks.



(Now if you'll excuse me, time to drive Performa and PB5300 to school)

kickaha

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Originally posted by Immanuel Goldstein

No wonder an alien named Ford Prefect would go unnoticed.



Already the streets have been taken over by walking billboards with all those people wearing advertisements, and for free.



While some brands are already proper given names (Mercedes comes to mind, and just to spite: Ariel), although most of the examples are completely ridiculous as names for real people.

L?Oréal? Chevrolet?

*ahem* http://www.autobidclub.com/history/chevrolet.html

immanuel goldstein

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Originally posted by Kickaha

*ahem*

Mr. and Mrs. Chevrolet named their son Louis, not Chevrolet.



But then again, some might consider acceptable using family name as individual names, like say, Iacocca Jones.

eman

Since I was born in early '87 right after the Mets won in '86 my name almost became Mookie Wilson Sternberg

ibrowse

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Originally posted by EmAn

Since I was born in early '87 right after the Mets won in '86 my name almost became Mookie Wilson Sternberg

But they named you EmAn instead?

scott

I had a fried that used to give her kid (girls) baseball middle names. You know "Jackson" for Shoeless Joe and "Koufax". This was a very highly educated and woman.



I told her her son's middle name should be "Big Unit".

superkarate monkeydeathcar

my second son is named thelonious after the musician thelonious monk, monk's middle name was "sphere" by the way

giant

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Originally posted by Immanuel Goldstein



Why not Nestlé, Panasonic, Pfizer, Compaq?

Noty to mention Microsoft.

Consolidated Plastics, Barnes & Nobles or footlocker

luca

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Originally posted by giant

Consolidated Plastics

So then little Consolidated's parents would be "making the plastics"?

buonrotto

Well, I knnow a family where the couple's two girls have middles names taken after their grandfathers: Logan and , uh, I forget the scone one, something equally odd. But that sounds pretty tame given this. Good God, I would never name my kid "Mac" just because I like them.

thuh freak

i was named after a baseball player (for the sake of anonymity i wont say which one). but oddly enough, my parents never call me by his nickname. i was always, "the kid", "hey, you, over there," and, moreso by my siblings, "the boy."



i'm still waiting to meet a real person named Se7en.



oo, i just remembered a very odd name. This girl i knew was named "Gloeta" (glow-`eet-a). Her grandfather, after storming Normandy, met a local french woman, and when he saw her he exclaimed "Gloeta". He then gave his daughter that as a middle name; to the chagrin of his wife. And, the daughter gave her daughter it as a first name.