The Most Hated Baby Names in America

[shana]

Like the pepper or like cane as in sugar?


A friend of mine years ago worked in a place where she'd have to call out the kids names to be escorted to the rooms in the back. Think Pediatrician. So she was going "Sea-oh-bahan? Sy-ohbahan?" It was Siobahan. However you spell that I guess in Gaelic.

My friends DD just found out she is having a boy and here we go again with names. I said "Ernst". Plain and simple. I like Ernst. They think I'm funny.They think it's a riot. No joke I'd name a boy that. Short and to the point.

Like the pepper. He 'prescribed' health drinks, and helped a distant relative thru her end days with his potions.

My stepson knew a Siobahn(sp?) back in the mid 80s. I never did get the spelling or the pronunciation just right, and would have to ask him over&over. :-o

As well to this day, I have trouble pronouncing Rhiannon and all of its alternatives.

I *did* get Rihanna down. She says it is like Anna, not Ahna.

Ernst is a surname in my experience...Ken Ernst, who did the cartoon Mary Worth.

http://www.comicstripfan.com/newspaper/m/maryworth.htm

Such a nice man. He was the father of my friends, 2 sisters.

Altho I would not choose it, I think it makes a good first name. It's short and leaves no room for being pronounced any other way than what it is.

 

[nosysw]

I would probably say that one as SkyAnne. Kinda like SkyKing.

The first Cheyenne I recall was Brando's daughter...sad story.

But if one were into novel names, Cheyenne and Cayenne for fraternal twins might work! ;-)

(Actually I knew a guy named Cayenne, once upon a long time ago.)

Above BBM:

Talking about twins...I alway tried to avoid having them on my caseload for fear, with my ADD, I would mix up their paperwork, forget which one was having which issue, etc...I successfully avoided it until 3 years ago...I won't say the names- they weren't that unusual...But only the first initial was different...Thank heaven they didn't look alike, too! I spent the whole year in a state of hypervigilance, checking and rechecking, to make sure I was doing the right thing at the right time for the right student. C'mon moms! Give us a break, lol!- how many mixups do you think those girls are gonna go through for the rest of their lives...I know their student id numbers were just one apart so I can imagine the same for their SS numbers...Yikes!

 

[marycarney]

I wanted to name my son Max. BUT there is a little outpost of humanity - actually a bend in the road where a small farming town used to be - called Max which we drove through on our way 'to town' every week. We ended up with Ben, which is good because he is very "Bennish" KWIM?

 

[nosysw]

We really considered the name "Sam" but with our last name his name would have sounded like salmonella (which was becoming more and more well known at the time)!

 

[marycarney]

We really considered the name "Sam" but with our last name his name would have sounded like salmonella (which was becoming more and more well known at the time)!

Our youngest was going to be Kathleen FAITH Carney until - literally at the last minute - I realized her initials would be KFC!!!

We went with Kathleen Anne (Anne with an 'e' as an homage to Anne of Green Gables)

 

[Daisyjane]

We really considered the name "Sam" but with our last name his name would have sounded like salmonella (which was becoming more and more well known at the time)!

I wish more people would do as you did, and think about whether the given name will coordinate well with the last name. I have known people who named a kid:

Debbie Webbe
Kelly Green
Rocky Stone (hope no one takes this guy for granite!)