My 10 Baby Naming Rules?

Tell me If you agree. Why or Why Not. Add Some more to my list.





#1- If you have to write the child%26#039;s name down and then follow it with a pronunciation, do not name a child this. Example,


Abcde (AHB-SOH-DEE)





#2- Smushing two perfectly good names together does not make it special, witty or perfectly good times two. Example,


Thomas+Anthony= Thomony





#3- Siblings names do not match. Half of their DNA matches, is that not enough? Example, Lily and Violet, Lenny and Benny, Aspen and Forest, James and Jessica are all very unhappy people.





#4- If you call out a name in a public place and you hear snickers or gasps of disbelief, it is not the most brilliant thing to name a child.





#5- If 4 year olds can%26#039;t pronounce it, its not the kindest thing to name your baby. Example, Lasairfhiona.





#6- If spell check doesnt reconize it, nobody else will either. Example, Kalvery.


to be continued.......

My 10 Baby Naming Rules?
I propose that upon attaining majority, a child should be entitled to a standard settlement (perhaps the cost of legally changing one%26#039;s name) from parents who named him or her something ridiculous. I hate to admit it, but the first thing I think of when I hear misspelled or made-up or cutesy names is %26quot;How stupid.%26quot; Then I have to take a minute to remember it%26#039;s not the person but his or her parents whom I am calling stupid. They can call it original or creative or unique, and I may agree once I hear the story behind the name, but my reflex reaction is %26quot;stupid.%26quot;








I want to propose an addition to your list of rules:





#11 - Don%26#039;t get cute with the capital letters. Example, RaBekah. Bad enough already without the capital B. My sister once ran across a name once that had all capital letters except one.
Reply:Late addition---PLEASE do not deform regular names to make matching twin names. Examples---Thom and Thim [went to my high school, and yes, the parents meant them to be pronounced %26quot;Tom%26quot; and %26quot;Tim,%26quot; but their nicknames were %26quot;thom%26quot; and %26quot;thim%26quot; with the H%26#039;s pronounced], MaKyla and MaJessica Report It

Reply:Those are some really good rules. People should really follow them
Reply:Mixed feelings on 6 (foreign children, uncommon but still nice names), but 1, 2, 3, 7, and 10 should be proclaimed from every roof top. Especially 3 and 7. My parents named my twin sister and I Melissa and Miranda. Even once people learned to tell us apart (we were fraternal but similar looking), they still got the names mixed up. It was horrible. And intentionally misspelled names are the gift that keeps on pissing people off. When you name a kid something %26quot;creative%26quot; like Emmaleigh, innocent people are going to spell it like the perfectly respectable version Emily. Emmaleigh will be annoyed, the other person will be annoyed, you%26#039;ll be happily oblivious and wondering how you can make the name Thomas more special for your second child.
Reply:So I guess mother and father were in violation of #7, putting a stupid %26#039;Y%26#039; up in Mason. Dammit to hell. Now I%26#039;m scarred for life. Thanks a bunch.
Reply:good ones, I wish more people understood this
Reply:Excellent. I agree, and would add that people need to take the time to look up the MEANING of names, too. Words mean things. I%26#039;m sorry, but it is a fact of life. So when you name your little girl McKenzie, a top 10 name in the United States, I%26#039;m sorry, but you%26#039;re naming your little girl %26quot;son of Kenneth.%26quot; That%26#039;s just silly. :-)
Reply:I love this!





Especially #7.
Reply:Please forward this information to every idiot especially the Dumbo who named their kid superman and my dad who name my little brother Josemaria as his first name. I tried to help you JOSE he didn%26#039;t get the rules. You too Essenes and Electra I know you wont be stripper when you grown up right.?.?
Reply:Consider how popular the name is. It is probably best to check this out and don%26#039;t name your child the same thing every other mother is that year. (On the other hand, don%26#039;t go too weird.)





If the last name is a short one like Smith, it%26#039;s usually better to have a longer first name, e.g. Veronica Smith rather than Ann Smith. And vice versa: Sam Magillicutty rather than Timothy Magillicutty.
Reply:There are some rules, or generally accepted practices, when it comes to creating almost anything, but there are virtually none when it comes to the art of naming – in the United States, anyway. About the only thing that%26#039;s required of you is that you do name your baby at some point, and, usually, sooner is better (although you will have a little time to think about it after your baby is born, depending on where you live).





The majority of parents have a name picked out prior to the birth of their baby. But many parents get to birth day without a name. Others find that the name they thought was so perfect prior to birth no longer is — especially if they%26#039;ve selected a name that%26#039;s appropriate for one sex and they end up with another.





There may not be any naming rules or laws, but there are naming guidelines. Four of them, in particular, are very basic and very good to keep in mind.





Guideline #1: Please Yourself


This is most important: Pick a name that pleases you. Remember, you – and your child – will have to deal with this name for a very long time. There%26#039;s no way of guaranteeing that your little one will like the name you bestow upon him or her, so you might as well pick one that you like and can live with, because the chances are pretty good that there will be times when your kid will hate it.





It%26#039;s the rare couple who doesn%26#039;t get a temper tantrum or two at some point along the way from a little darling who just needs to blame his or her parents for any and all trauma associated with the burden of carrying whatever name he or she has. It doesn%26#039;t even matter what kind of name it is, so don%26#039;t think you%26#039;re safe if you pick a common or popular name.





Your child%26#039;s dislike of his or her name might make you angry, especially if you went through a lot of work to select it, and it can hurt you if you selected a name that you truly love. But you might as well face the fact right now that it%26#039;s bound to happen. The good news is, most kids grow out of it or find something else to pin their problems on.





Along these lines, it%26#039;s a good idea to put into place whatever filtering mechanisms you have when it comes to fielding naming suggestions from family members and relatives. You might be in a situation where either cultural or religious traditions will have a strong influence on the name you choose. Remember, the final decision is yours and yours alone, no matter how disappointed Aunt Mildred is that you didn%26#039;t name your new son Milton after her deceased husband. (The same goes for well-meaning friends, by the way. Take their suggestions with a grain of salt.)





You%26#039;ll find more on keeping family members happy, as well as on various naming traditions you may need to keep in mind, in Baby Names: Dealing with Family Demands.





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Reply:I totally agree! Now, unique names are good, but not totally absurd ones! Way to go!!
Reply:Absolutely hysterical... and right on the money. :)
Reply:Sounds great to me! Although my one thing is that I do think that the siblings name should flow together..not match though! =)
Reply:I love it!





Your rules should be loudly proclaimed from a high place.
Reply:I think another rule should be...





If you couldn%26#039;t spell it the first time you heard it (because it%26#039;s in a different language) than don%26#039;t use it.





I%26#039;m Hawaiian, and it kills me when people name their children Hawaiian names when they aren%26#039;t even Hawaiian!





And another thing. I%26#039;m not so sure about the apostrophes in peoples names... but my name has an %26#039;okina... or a glottal stop.





- Po%26#039;omaikelani
Reply:a little extreme
Reply:That%26#039;s right, why not stick with something practical anymore?
Reply:I agree on every one of these!!!
Reply:I like rules 1-4. The others are kind of ridiculous. 4 year olds can%26#039;t pronounce lots of word correctly, does that mean we should throw them out of the dictionary? I think that unique names are great. I like my name being different, most spell it Erica. Also, if a name is sentimental to a family or has a strong backgound, who cares what everyone else thinks.
Reply:Yeah I soooo agree with you. What IS with all the x%26#039;s and y%26#039;s?


I like exotic names but its one of my pet peeves when someone names their child lke this. Way to go this list should be made the law!


By,


Xioateesha Wrennifer


(JK!!!!!!!!)


-Rachel
Reply:In regard to #4, I snicker and/or shake my head when I have to hear Madison, Emily, Emma, Isabelle, Ashley, Peyton, Hayden, Jacob, Aidan (you get the idea) in public.... Needless to say I%26#039;m spending a sh**load of time being irritated when I%26#039;m at the mall.





I don%26#039;t like made up crap or ridiculous spellings, but I can appreciate a parent wanting something out of the norm for their child! I may not like the name I hear, but at least I%26#039;m happy knowing it wasn%26#039;t one of the above mentioned names...
Reply:#13- DO NOT PUT APOSTROPHES IN NAMES
Reply:The scary thing is, there really are some young parents who break those rules. I know them. I%26#039;m glad my mother wasn%26#039;t high when she came up with my name. I got stuck with a normal moniker, plain old Emily.
Reply:i completely agree! i hate that people who are pretty much ruining there children%26#039;s lives by giving them crappy names.





here%26#039;s a rule:





If you have never heard of anyone being named this ever, then its definitely not a name for your child who u claim to love. here%26#039;s other names to stay away from:





Gaylord


anything ending in -eesha


Nevaeh


Emmett


Herman





and places like u said, Brooklyn, Paris, and random states. Dakota, Georgia, Florida, Virginia





and no using guy names for girl names! Alexander, Michael,
Reply:i 100% agree. my sister just had a baby and %26#039;mamed%26#039; it kai sakura... she is an f....ing carib baby not asain.
Reply:screw that.


how about this rule


Rule #1: Everybody name your kid what u want.


they are YOURS. there were no rules when u concieved.
Reply:My husband and I had did not need so many rules


This is our rules


1. We both have to like the name


2. It have to go with Elizabeth, and out last name. Our last name was the hard name


3. I have a speech problem, I need to be able to say the name.





With these three rules, it took eight months to agree on a girls name.


I think you need to come up names you love, and the father loves. And people in your family and the baby fathers family need to be able to pronounce it. It haves to go will the last name. I was amaze on how many people I know pick a name that does not go with the last name.





I know someone who love a name all her live. That would be her sons name, if she every had one. Well she had one, she did not use the name, because her husband side of the family was from the deep south, and could not pronounce the name.


You can not name a child, that half the people in his family can not say it.





I guess you need to make rules for naming your child, the best for you.
Reply:i like them so far.....another peeve is when women name their children with names beginning with De or La as if they are trying to use french meanings %26quot;of%26quot; or %26quot;the%26quot; example: De%26#039;Andre meaning of Andre (baby daddy is Andre) or De%26#039;Tasha meaning of Tasha (baby mommy is Tasha) SO GHETTO!
Reply:I do agree with most, except for the naming after places/things. My name is also the name of a place (Cheyenne), it%26#039;s really a pretty name, and most people don%26#039;t think its a bad name. Names like sprite, yea sure i understand that one
Reply:very informative...love it


thanks
Reply:That is so true!



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