Unusual names heard in the mall

[catchstars.livejournal.com]

I work at a shop in the mall, and a lot of women come in with their small children or babies in strollers. Sometimes I coo over the baby, and the mother tells me their name. Sometimes the mother is yelling the child's name across the store to get them to behave. Either way, I hear a lot of unusual names.



Jeffica (I thought the kid had a lisp. Nope. Named for her father.)
Marconius (Sometimes called Marky for short, "like Marky Mark.")
Isabeau
Baylor
Tribal
Bryden
Sapphire (she had really intense blue eyes)
O'Rourke
Ineza
Isabeth
Jacobin

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/hajari_/]

I've heard Isabeau before. It's okay but I find it very masculine, I suppose because of the 'Beau' bit. (I assume this was a girl?)

I find it weird naming a girl after the father, especially using a horrible name like that.

[catchstars.livejournal.com]

Isabeau was a girl.

Yeah, I was kind of thrown by Jeffica, too. Although it doesn't seem as clumsy to my ear as some other "name her for her father" names I've heard: Davette, Johnelle, Jamesy.

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

Jamesy?!? I think Jamie would have accomplished the same concept only better.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I like Isabeau =)
I heard it once before, I don't think it matters that 'beau' is masculine. Isabeth is cute too.
Tribal is really strange.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hajari_/]

Haha I didn't explain myself properly... I think it sounds like a girl's name but in a masculine way? If that makes sense.

Isabeth is cute =)

[only-hope.livejournal.com]

I'm named after my father.. :) But it's the feminine version, the y changed to an i. Which mine is more acceptable than that one.. that's just.. bad. lol

;) Terri

[istytehcrawk.livejournal.com]

I think that naming a girl after her father is more difficult, certainly, but can be done well (think Carl --> Carla, and so on). I think my cousin actually did a fairly decent job when she named her daughter (who is now 11) Keni, though I wonder about the grow-ability of that name.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Isabeth is pretty!
I also like Sapphire, but the other are pretty horrible, especially Jeffica, Tribal and Bryden.
Baylor I've heard of, it seems a mesh between Bailey and Taylor, but it can get by.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

Baylor is a university in Texas. www.baylor.edu
It's along the same lines as naming a child Yale or Perdue or Tulane or Clemson, IMO.

[djador.livejournal.com]

A Baylor (bailer) is also a machine that makes bails. That's all I can think of.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

Hey! Hay!

I guess it would also be a person who makes bail, or one who bails.

I don't think it's a pretty name, myself.

[shortbutfast.livejournal.com]

Tribal made me laugh.
Bryden is nice.
Sapphire sounds like a stripper.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

I know a little blue eyed girl called Sapphire, her little sister is Rose/Rosie.
Quite like Baylor too, only ever heard it for characters though. So maybe it's better that way.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I like Baylor a lot. I like Isabeau and Isabeth too, though I'd never use them.

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

marconius is kinda growing on me...
o'rourke and jeffica are terrible!

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Baylor, but the rest are awful. Especially Jeffica. Wtf??

[songspell.livejournal.com]

Isabeth is cute, but only because it sounds like how a small child who can't pronounce "Elisabeth" would say it...

[samaside.livejournal.com]

Just because one series in popular media makes out a name in a negative light doesn't mean the name is bad. If you went by that logic Jason wouldn't have been a massively popular name in the 80s.

O'Rourke is probably a family name and it probably means a lot to them if they named their kid that. Or, you know, they may just like the name.

[missmaxattax.livejournal.com]

Well.. looking at it that way.. a lot of these names could have some sort of meaning to them to the parents and family. Like Jeffica.. she's named for her dad! Lol.. and I'm sure all the parents probably like the names.
But I personally think people should consider what everyone else is going to think of the name when naming a child. There are many Jasons beside "Jason." But if it's not that common of a name and the majority of the people you know automatically think of a serial killer or rapist or something like that when they hear the name you want to name your child.. I probably wouldn't go ahead with that name.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I agree that pop culture aspects of a name should be taken into cnosideration, but I don't think in this instance that it was an oversight on the family's part. I've seen Sin City many times, and I never would have remembered that that family in it is named O'Rourke, so I never would have made the association. It's more of a cult film anyway; it'd be sort of like teasing someone named Donnie about having a murderous, man-sized rabbit for an imaginary friend, because of Donnie Darko. Some people might get the reference, sure, but it's actually pretty obscure. Unless your life is populated solely by people like that comic book guy from "The Simpsons."

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

I'd be more likely to tease Donnie about Marie, but that's just me.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

My Uncle Donnie used to get that a lot.

If I didn't already associate it with that relative, I'd probably first think of NKOTB.

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

Baylor is a known name. I kind of like it. Jeffica...wow.

[missmaxattax.livejournal.com]

I like Baylor.. and Bryden is OKAY. I don't think Sapphire is that absurd.. but I don't really like it too much as a real name.
But the rest.. I'm just really not that fond of.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

Sapphire (she had really intense blue eyes)

I wonder if she has a really scary sister named Ruby...

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

Jeffica sounds like defecate
Marconius sounds like meconium
Isabeau is one of my pet peeve names - I can't stand the way it sounds.

The rest of them (except for Sapphire which is pretty cool) are too WTF for me to try to comment on them without my brain going all splody.

[chemhazard.livejournal.com]

poor little Jeffica is cursed for life.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Sapphire is cute.

A lot of these names just look like combinations of other names.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

I know of a Sapphire and I also know the name Isabeau (I love the name but I'd spell it Izabeau).

Tribal? WTF.

Isabeth sounds like Elisabeth but said by a three year old who can't pronounce it properly!