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[sweet-caro1ine.livejournal.com]

 I've just joined this community and must say I am loving it!!  Thought I'd throw in the most unusual names I've ever come across.  During my time working a the local library I came across a family with four kids.  Their names were (wait for it....)

1. Flowing Dolphin
2. Tenami Nature
3. Creation Koala
4. Rainbow Butterfly

And NO, I am not making this up.  The family was quite new age and I somehow it suited them and the way they approach life.

Comments

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Duuuude. I'm into some pretty funky names myself, but I'd make sure that at least one of their names (first or middle) is professional or easily nicknamed into something very "normal" — just in case my kids aren't as strange as I am and would rather be socially acceptable.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

Wow O_0. I'm trying to think of a comment but I just can't. Creation Koala? gah. I just don't know what to say!

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Wow.
Those can be cute when they are kids, but how in the world are they going to be taken seriously when they are, let's say, applying for a job?
Creation Koala is the worst, IMO. Rainbow can be cute as a middle name.

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

seriously. what are they flowing with? waves don't naturally come to mind...i'm think bodily fluids. eww.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I work with a Cinderella. She looooooooooooooooooves being a Cinderella. We also have a client named Spring Rain, who has a sister named Autumn Wind.

[fireyirishangel.livejournal.com]

*groan*

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Guilty pleasure, but I do quite like Rainbow Butterfly. The rest don't appeal; cool in theory but I always feel it's best to pair an unusual name with nothing 'normal' to cover all bases.

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

seriously, just incase. nobody expects that parents conform to society. at least, i don't. but for your children's sake...you may want to give them options.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I totaly agree. :)
I always try to pair more unusual first names with a more classic middle name [which are often family names, so would want to use them anyway].

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

oh, no...i meant "you" in general. i didn't meant to imply it towards you. sorry if it looked that way.

:)

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Nah it's OK, I know what you meant :)

hahaha. ok

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

seriously, if your kid doesn't grow up as "free loving" as you...it might be difficult for them. at least give them a name they could use in place of instead.

Flowing Dolphin, esq.
Creation Koala, MD
Rainbow Flower, OB/GYN
Tenami Nature for President
The Honorable Flowing Dolphin Presiding.
It's the 6 O'clock News Hour with Your Host, Creation Koala

(ok, i'm going to stop now.)

Having said all that. I love this band called Moldy Peaches, with a singer named Kimya Dawson and she named her daughter Panda. I think it's soooo adorable.

Re: hahaha. ok

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

Penguin McFlippers, a name that screams trust, confidence, experience.

i think they'd call a mistrail for the attorneys name alone. hah.

[intothesea.livejournal.com]

This comment had me laughing.
I think mostly because of "The Honorable Flowing Dolphin Presiding".


And I love Moldy Peaches and when I heard Kimya Dawson named her daughter Panda I fell in love.
I'm tempted to name the little one on the way the same thing, but I have my heart sent on something else right now.

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

yay, Moldy Peaches fans unite. Panda is super cute, I admit. Or at least her daughter makes the name cute as hell.

[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

Yikes!
That's just wrong.
Of all those I like Rainbow Butterfly the best.
Butterfly is one of my niece's middle names which I picked actually. I was eleven when she was born so...

[trivher.livejournal.com]

What are their genders? I would guess but I'm afraid too!

[sweet-caro1ine.livejournal.com]

If memory serves me correctly, Creation was a boy and the rest girls.

[yellowsummers.livejournal.com]

I almost like Tenami, but it might just be because it's up against those others. But Nature as a middle name? Isn't that trying a bit too hard?

[regretfulsmile.livejournal.com]

Thats just ridiculous. If they're going to do that they can atleast match up the names. Do dolphins really flow?

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

Umm. So, I am convinced that they let the kids pick their siblings' names. And that whoever was born first was just picked from random pages of the dictionary.

[djador.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the Phoenix family. (River, Rain, Summer, Liberty and for some reason Joaquin.) Except much worse.