*blinks*

[conuly]

Aside from the absurdity of "OMG! SOMEBODY MIGHT STEAL MY NAME!!!" I have this to ask...

She named her daughter Sonnet? What was going through her head? She named the kid after a friggin' type of POEM. What's next, Limerick? Haiku? Five bucks says she can't quote from a single sonnet.

Sonnet.

Other names I object to, on principle:

Regan/Reagan: this either commemorates King Lear's ungrateful daughter, or one of the worst presidents we've ever had. I do not see the logic in giving this name to your little girl.
Dymphna: Yes, yes, patron saint of Belgium. Yes, yes, patron saint of the insane. Do you really want to give the "insane" name to a little girl?
Robert: This is my dad's name. I can't let anybody have this name, because if I ever have a little boy, that's what I'll call him. So don't steal it from me!

Honestly, why would you want to steal that name? It's not a name. It's a type of poem!

*sighs*

Of course, I think Magrat is perfectly fine, so maybe I'm not the best judge :)

Comments

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

I find it odd that someone would name their baby girl Dido. Sure, she was a queen, but what most everyone knows about her (assuming they recognize the name) is that she killed herself because "Oh noes my loverboy does not love me and has left me."

Of all the names in the comments here, LaTrine is the most entertaining. I love the addition of La and Le to names; I had a student named LeKevin. I want to have a kid and name him, or even her, LeBob.

I'd like to submit the names Orangejello and Lemonjello, pronounced "oh RAHN zhell oh" and "leh MOHN zhell oh". My fiance babysat them.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Orangejello and Lemonjello

Funny thing about that (http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm).

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

So perhaps I misspelled it--I did, after all, never see their real names written down--but that doesn't change the fact that they're funny names. I understand how names evolve over time from different languages. But this was in the U.S., fairly recently; and certainly to name her two children Lemongello and Orangello (however to spell it) seems like a joke. They are African-American, too, if it has a bearing on the source of the names.

I don't care the origins; they're funny names. More so when paired.