Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A Boy Named Sue

Everybody has an "I was almost named..." story. Please post your alternative baby name story along with a name remix (take the letters from that other name and rearrange them to make a new baby name).

Congratulations, C & S!

PS. Bonus points for combining your parents' first names and then last names to make hilarious baby names. Here's a bad example: Brangelina Joliett.

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FIRST!!! · 884 weeks ago

I'm going to name my children Hillack Obinton [to commemorate the very last year Democrats had hope (the hope was later destroyed when incompetency throughout the party resulted in another ridiculous Republican White House win)] and Jordan's Mom (after Jordan's mom).
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One time, I pet a st · 884 weeks ago

This "Jordan's mom" joke is getting tired, huh? I've been tired lately, folks. I have been resorting to low brow humor. I apologize to anyone who has to read this shit daily. Also, I hope you don't mind when I post something else about Jordan's mom in a week or two.
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baby names · 884 weeks ago

My baby girl name is Kayla, but we almost named here Emily, but my best friend used this name.
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amh · 884 weeks ago

I was supposed to be named Melissa because every woman on my mother's side has an M name. Mad-creative M names, too: Mercy, Marley, Magda, Myrna, Miralys, Maritza. My sister, though, is Melanie. Melanie and Melissa would've been a mess.

Just the same, my parents named me Amy because I was 2 months premature and I was very, very small. (And yet the largest premie ever). Small baby = small name.
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Jordan 57p · 884 weeks ago

I don't know what my baby girl name would have been, perhaps it still would have been Jordan. But if my parents were at all cool, they would have just combined the letters in their own names and I would have been Jesus Willison.
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phottto · 884 weeks ago

i would have been tungalina.
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Marli · 884 weeks ago

Had I been a boy, I would have been Morris. That's a tough one to live down.

But my dad used to call me ilram when I was acting up - clearly I was marli's backwards twin sister.
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Lisa · 884 weeks ago

I was going to be another one of the 4000 Benjamins running around.

My mom's got a double name so I guess I could be Mary David, if we're combing them. Or David Grace. Or Mavid Dace.
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Molly · 884 weeks ago

Would have been Todd or D-dot if you are dyslexic.

If David and Nancy had been more adventurous, they could have had 2 children and named them Nanvid and Dancy Carlin.
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Jordan 57p · 884 weeks ago

More kids should be named Dancy. Although I guess that would mean more kids going to the school nurse every day with a bloody nose.
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Charlie · 884 weeks ago

I was going to Martha, or Marty for short, if I were a girl. Thank God. My big sister was obsessed with Marty Barrett of the Red Sox.

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Hannah 48p · 884 weeks ago

My Aunt Vanessa wanted me to be named Jasper if I was a boy. There was a girl in grade school that I didn't really like and she had a shitsu named Jasper. I'm *really* glad that wasn't my name.

Benjamin & Barbara = Barbarin
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Papa Lajoie · 884 weeks ago

I was almost named Daniel, aka: Inlead.

I could have been Briorraine Larent (sounds vaguely Irish).

I appreciate the tribute, Rondaj.
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Dee · 883 weeks ago

My last name is Young, and my parents used to joke that they were going to name me "Mighty Joe" or "Egg Foo" or "Forever"
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Rebecca · 883 weeks ago

My dad wanted to name me Ashley. My mother instantly vetoed it on the grounds that a clunky last name like mine (Berkowitz) couldn't be paired with a fluffier first name without sounding stupid.

But my rearranged name could have been Yitzhak Rebelsow.

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