Ever since George, on Seinfeld, came up with "Seven" as the name he'd like to call his child, the notion of coming up with an unusual name of my own has been percolating in the back of my head.
Lately, I've been coming back to 'Error' as a name. I realise it's absolutley awful, but still, I come back to it. I don't even think that, if one could discount the negative inherent in the word, it would be a good name, yet I'm fixated on it. It does have a celtic flavour to it, which is good if you're into that. Perhaps if it was spelled differently, it might work better? Eihrrohr?
I think naming a child Eihrrohr would be about the worst thing you could do.
What unusual name would you name, or not name, a child?
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Rachel Griffiths and Andrew Taylor recently had a baby boy (Nov 22) which they named Banjo Patrick. That's just plain mean.
Santa Jesus, after two of my favorites.
Lampost was one that we kicked around
i've always thought that naming kids after godzilla's enemies or department stores would be cool. examples: gidrah, rodan, mothra, or zellar's, gloobie's, k-mart. and that's why i'll never have kids.
Bird names are good: Robin, Martin and Jay, to name a few. I'm not too keen on dog breed names like Brittany and Griffen, but I like Jack Russell for a name.
Dave's mention of Mothra triggered my thoughts on naming a child after an insect.
How about Aphid, Midge or Maggot?
When we were tossing around names, I always came back to the simple things. names like boy, girl, child, kiddo, buddy. Ok, so these names normally surface when creativity ran out...
Try having a last name like mine. We had a hell of a time naming our girls. Kim Ling? Sounds like a character from M*A*S*H*. Sue Ling? Same thing. Sara Ling? Pass the cookies.
Having gone through life with a name like Nils, I was keenly aware of what kind of lasting damage could be done at that critical point in an infant's life. I'm cool with my name now, but man, I'd have killed to be a Rob, a Tim, a Dave, or an Alan ...
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