Angry Tiki Pineapple by SanFranAnnie
So the time is steadily approaching and that means that the all important step of naming is coming up too. Now usually this is a process one agonizes over with their mate but I being sans husband/partner/boyfriend/astronaut Mike Dexter have just now come to the realization that I have no safety net – no back up. For I could easily name my baby: Bradgelina, Chewbacca, or Sarah Palin and no one would be there to stop me.
Now most of you can see how that could be a problem in the immediate future but I’m also worried about eighteen years down the line when little ‘Pineapple’ Green grows up and asks how I could be so mean to name her/him after a fruit and I’d just be standing there with no one to blame but the fine people at Dole.
So I throw the torch to you – help me name my baby-to-be so I can blame the internet if he/she hates their moniker. I don’t know the sex so feel free submit both boy and girl names but some things to keep in mind:
- It should be unique (No Johns, Bobs, or Janes)
- It should be cool (Ex-nay on the Ethels, Mavis, and Mables)
- It should be easy to pronounce – no one wants to be that kid whose name the teachers always mispronounce at rollcall (Niemh I’m thinking of you)
- Avoid stripperfication of old classics (Lynsi, Salli, Cristal)
- Try and think how kids will warp it on the playground ie: Bart -> Fart or my own hell of being called Lilypad and Lily Goat Gruff.
-Lil
Disclaimer: No I’m not actually making the internet come up with a name for my kid but I’m also not disregarding good suggestions.
Look up what the names mean and let that be your guide. Avoid names with meanings that are negative, like Doreen, which means ‘sullen’; or just odd, like Oxford, which means from the river crossing of the oxen; or blah, like Kirima, which sounds okay until you find out that in Inuit it’s a girl’s name (I think. I’ll ask my Inuit friends) that means ‘a hill’. That would suck to be called a hill.
By: Mac on January 31, 2010
at 10:30 pm
Brynn also means hill! I found out recently and knew tons of girls in school named that!
By: lottalily on February 1, 2010
at 7:46 am