Comments on: Conflict over Baby Names

By: queuno

queuno — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:32:19 +0000

a) a motorcycle
b) a pair of sunglasses
c) a tree that is native to Utah and grows like a weed

(a) Vespa (a stretch)
(b) Oakley
(c) (Russian) Olive

Close?

By: queuno

queuno — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:05:32 +0000

(53) I remember now hearing when I was little that both my mother and my aunt were pregnant at the same time, and they both liked the name Mark. My father threatened to resolve the dispute by giving me the name of Nebuchadnezzar when he blessed me in church.

So let’s just cut to the chase and state the obvious: The reason men in our culture are given the sacred presiding and baby-naming responsibilities is so we can just cut through all this emotional fluff and get on with it already.

Boy, it’s a good thing, then, that the name that goes on the “records of the Church” is the one that’s submitted by the clerk, which should (for auditing) match the blessing authorization form signed by one of the parents. So Dad who gets cute, or Grandpa who gets senile, at the pulpit is no match for Mom if she’s the one to sign the clerk’s form…

By: AdyLady

AdyLady — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:42:26 +0000

My friend and her husband named their newborn son after one of the Founding Fathers even though my friend’s brother had a special, known interest in said Founding Father. They ended up not mentioning it to the brother. When the time came to bless the baby and the whole family was gathered together in sacrament meeting, they couldn’t bring themselves to admit what they had done. So the name on the blessing certificate is not the same name on the birth certificate. Similar, but not recognizable as an early leader of our country.

How confusing would that be to a family history researcher decades from now?

By: Que

Que — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:22:37 +0000

Yeah, this madness? It’s pretty common. I’m 15, and my sisters have already told me which names they have dibs on. There is literally a list.

But I can see where this could be a conflict: two of my cousins (from different families) have given their sons the same first name. And their last names start with the same initial. This wouldn’t be a conflict in most families, but ours is really close, so they come in contact all the time. It’s weird.

By: Starfoxy

Starfoxy — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:51:17 +0000

Needless to say, my two daughters didn’t get popular names; both were named with derivatives of grandma’s names.
You named your daughter Renesmé?

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:39:08 +0000

In 1972, when I was a junior at BYU, I lived in an apartment with 2 other Susans. Anyone who called on the phone thought we were being rude when we asked which Susan they wanted.
I was also one of 3 Susans that went through elementary school together. Their last names were both color names and the first syllable mine rhymed with red, so our teachers all thought it was hilarious to call us Susan Black, Susan White, and Susan Red. (I wasn’t quite as amused.)
Needless to say, my two daughters didn’t get popular names; both were named with derivatives of grandma’s names.

Also, in my school class I have a “Baby D.” His dad is a huge man—easily 6’5″ tall. I guess I’ll never know if they’ll still be calling him Baby D when he grows up.

By: iguacufalls

iguacufalls — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:28:57 +0000

#89 TStevens – If you had used your ‘mispronounced’ BOM names, they would have been perfectly at home in Brasil, where those names are pronounced exactly as you say.

By: Ian M. Cook

Ian M. Cook — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:03:40 +0000

43. I couldn’t imagine completely changing my child’s name. that seems weird.

51. I remember when my SIL had her first child and she wanted something unique. She named her son Aiden. Some unique name huh? Only months later, I saw one of those plastic license plates with the name Aiden on it.

64. This very same thing happened to me. This woman at work told me about her friend that only used Bible names. She had a daughter named Trinity. I wasn’t as nice as you because I pointed out that Trinity wasn’t in the Bible. That fact was not taken too nicely.

75. My daughter’s middle name is Arwen and my best friend’s sister is named Arwen. I love the name.

43. As far as Genevieve goes, our daughter’s name is Ginevra, which is a form of Genevieve, except we got the name from Harry Potter.

By: Cynthia L.

Cynthia L. — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:31:26 +0000

Ouch, MCQ!

By: TStevens

TStevens — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:45:16 +0000

I was named with the number 1 most popular first name, and my middle name was #2 of the 10 years around my birth. Growing up their were always dozens of other kids with my name and at BYU there were 14 in my Ward alone. My five kids do not have that problem.

I always thought it would be fun to give the kids a BOM name but deliberately misprononce it, like naming them Moroni – Mow row knee. The wife shot that down, but I still insist that would have brought a lot of laughs over the years. Or Nephi with the Ne like Ned and the PHI rhymes with Knee.

I am interested to see what my youngest (and last -with a capitol V as Kevin says) does with his as he grows up. We named him JT and that is all we call him. He does have names o go with the initials but they are not used ever. I wonder if when he is my age he will be using Joseph as his name, because that would sound so foreign to me now.