Naming children "different" names

[GracieMae]

The recent naming choices of celebrity parents has me wondering what everyone thinks of naming your child things like Apple or Coco? What about names like Peaches, Pixi or Fifi Trixiebelle? Heavenly Hiraini Tigerlily? Rumor, Scout or Talullah Belle?

What affect will names like this have on their future?

[Mabel]

I actually really like Demi and Bruce's kids names - Tallulah, Scout, and Rumor. Not Rumor so much, but the other two. I guess it just depends on the name. Most of the time I wonder what they were thinking! Usually the diplomatic me tries to reason out that it is their child, and just as I'm trying not to worry about what others think of the name *I* choose, neither should they. But come on...coco??

[GracieMae]

Coco makes me think of a stripper.

In all honesty do these people even think about their childs future and that the name they give them will stick with them the rest of their lives?

I like uncommon names. I like some unusual names. Coco is plain strange.

[Taneli]

I'm traditional. I don't like unusual names, or weird spelling. (Luckily you can't really do that in finnish :) ). Just plain old normal names, thank you... :)

[Mabel]

Coco makes me think of a stripper.

In all honesty do these people even think about their childs future and that the name they give them will stick with them the rest of their lives?

I like uncommon names. I like some unusual names. Coco is plain strange.

Luckily for these kids though (or maybe unlucky lol) is that they are being raised in a sort of different WORLD from regular people. They are being raised in Hollywood, where chances are the kids that they meet, and families they hang out with ALL have wacky names. They'll probably think names like Anne and Mary are very odd LOL.
Like Frank Zappa's kids - they have the STRANGEST names, and I watched an interview with them, and they said that they didn't really think anything of it!

[Shannie-Poo]

Coco reminds me of a dogs name.

Apple..well I just dont know. LOL

I remember thinking Demi more was out there with her names for her kids.

I like normal names, names that wont make people look at my child weird and wonder what on earth their parents were on when I named him/her. I just think you have to have two names that flow together....yell that name many many times. Coco cox get back here right now, does not really work, nor does.......Apple you put that down right now. What if shes is holding an apple? Apple put that apple down...LOL However when all these "celebrity kids" will be going to school with other celebs kids, and they all will have weird names too. The weird one in that school will be some poor kids named Mike. LOL

Oh well....one things for certain, it causes a buzz in the media.

[Mabel]

:paranoid: I think Apple's sorta cute :paranoid:

LOL, I think it's because one of the characters in one of my favorite children's Christmas movies is named Apple LOL

[Slabobbin]

I fully admit to being judgemental in some areas of parenting but this just isn't one of them. It isn't really a big issue to me. By the time these kids are adults their entire generation is going to have scatters of these odd names. And if not..well they have the option to change their name or embrace it. Once you hit 18 you can rename yourself anything you like.

The odd names aren't really my style but if someone else likes them it doesn't bother me. I will admit to wondering what they are thinking though, lol.

WE STILL NEED THE LOL SMILEY!!!

[Clio]

Unusual names don't bother me as much as people who try and make their childs name unusual simply by the spelling.

And then, if you dare spell the childs name in the traditional way without knowing 9 times out of 10 you get looks of death thrown at you.

Hey, if you choose to spell your kids name "Molleigh" and I address a party invite "Molly", settle the hell down. You were the one that gave your kid a name thats spelled weird, they're your issues, not mine.

[kingclick]

I personally think that Coco, Apple and others are ok. Now if they were named Rawburt or Gennifur or Alisun then I would be irritated. Naming a kid a wierd spelling just to be wierd :rolleyes:. Then there is the naming your kid a fictional name.

I have a friend who named their kid Perrin from a book they read!!

Its not as bad what if I named my son Spock! Or even worse Hannibal after Hannibal Lechter or Kahn from the wrath of Kahn!

I think parents should think about what they name their kid. If you name it something stupid, or after a villain, or some freaky spelling of a normal name....(Hi, my name is Bawb) it's like you are giving other kids bullets for their tease guns.

[Quamie]

How about Tiphinie= Tiffiny???

I dont like made up names with ZERO meaning but to just call attention to the name. Like Clio I hate it when folks get all upset when you spell it wrong or dont ask. Shot you know you spelled it CRAZY tell us upfront HOW to spell it then.

I did not like the name Apple or Coco.. But hey its not my kid so I guess I got nothen to worry about. I would not do it, but to each their own. I think our society is moving toward a future where these sort of names will be "normal"..... Just as noraml as Sally, Jane, Tim, and Joe where years ago....

[Jory]

RAWBURT!! I am LMAO!

I don't mind unusual names, but you can count me as one of the ones who hates the abnormal spelling. It makes people look as if they can't spell.

[GinnyPotter]

I really do like the name Apple. Celebrities tend to be trendsetters anyhow, so I can imagine that the name Apple won't remain "out there" or uncommon for long.

As Mabel said, the world of a celebrity is quite different from that of the average person. I don't think an odd name is going to have the same repurcussions as it would for the average kid.

Add me to the list of people who get annoyed by odd spellings of common names. It irks me when someone is hot and bothered that I didn't somehow automatically know that their kid's name is spelled Kymberli instead of Kimberly.

[Loveone]

Well I for one like uncommon spellings for common names. My daughters name is spelled Brittanee instead of Britney or however you commonly spell it. I don't get upset if people don't know that her name is spelled Brittanee, the only time I got upset is when her teacher misspelled it all the time and she gave my daughter a low grade for not spelling her name correctly when in fact my daughter was spelling it correctly(Brittanee), because her teacher should have known it was spelled Brittanee because that's how it is in her school records!! Also my name was an uncommon spelling when I was growing up, but it is common now adays. When I was little I didn't get upset if people spelled my name wrong either.

[GracieMae]

Back in school very few people could pronounce let alone spell my real name. I was made fun of and teased mercelessly and I got to where I hated my name. I very rarely use my real first name anymore.

[Truffles]

The spelling and pronounciation of my name was uncommon when I grew up and I hated that fact. I ended up adopting the common pronounciation and that is what I go by today. There was even a few years as a pre-teen/teen that I spelled my name Bridget because that's how everyone else spelled it.

[Clio]

Is now a good time to admit I didn't know what the hell GracieMae and Truffles could be takling about because how could people not know how to spell and pronounce "GracieMae" and "Truffles".


I keep forgetting ye have "real" names.