I was named after a....

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

my roommate and i were sifting through her collection of nail polish- and i remembered the story of how Charisma Carpenter got her name (after an avon perfume), and i was thinking about how people name their kids after strange things, my roommates sister actually got her name from a wine (Maria Christina- and got named Christina Marie)

anyway here are some weird nail polish 'names'



brands:

Sally Hansen
Lori Anne

colours:
Ash Rose
Chocolate Fling
Lagoon
Risque
Daring Crystals
Velvet Ice
Matte Orange
Holograph
Frost
Batik Creme
Beige Blush
Violet Haze




I think very few of these could actually be a name LOL.

What other strange things have you heard people being named after?

Comments

[mrandmrschippy.livejournal.com]

Chocolate Fling LOL

[shortbutfast.livejournal.com]

these are funny.. but i must say lagoon is kind of interesting when i think about it. ^^

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

my little sister's name is christina marie, lol.

my name was about to be ariel after some character from an 80s movie (i know very little about it, admittedly) but thank god my grandma stepped in and suggested ashley. i don't like it, but i hate it way less than i hate ariel.

[veracity]

Was it the character from Footloose? Because if it was her, that'd be kind of a compliment since she beat up a truck with a baseball bat or pipe.

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

possibly, i can't imagine how many ariels there could be in eighties movies my mother would have seen.

[veracity]

She looked ready to kill her ex when he hit her. You could see it.

[essmtee.livejournal.com]

Was it "The Little Mermaid"?

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

lol no, i was long born by that time.

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

I was named after Neil Diamond song. And no, it's not "Caroline".

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

My sister was. roflin~

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I was named after an Allman Brothers song, and my sister was named after a Led Zeppelin song. Thank God they are normal names, though, Melissa and Emily.

[deer-lanterns.livejournal.com]

I was also named after the Allman Brothers song. Sweeeeet Melissaaa. Haha.

[deer-lanterns.livejournal.com]

As an addendum: It was between Melissa or another song: "Harmony and Me" by Elton John. I'm not sure I'd be the same person today with a name like Harmony.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

My husband's waitress at Denny's was named Crayola.

And his father, a former teacher, had a student named Aquanetta.

Don't forget Matthew McConaughey's nephew, Miller Lyte!

I guess anything goes these days.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

OMG those are horrible.

Crayola? *headdesk*

anything AND everything...it almost makes you want those naming laws eh?

[lilmizmombassa.livejournal.com]

I had a camp counselor once; her name was Christina Juliana. A perfectly respectable name, but her mom wanted to name her:

Crysanthemum Serenity

...after her favorite flower.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

Crysanthemum on it's own wouldn't be too awful, but serenity is just dooming your kid to be some wild child LOL.

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

My real name is a take off on Maria Christina. :(

I LOL at the thought of people naming their kids Risque and Holograph.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

Sadly enough, there's crazy enough people in this world to do it.

[zante.livejournal.com]

Theres a nail polish brand called "ORLY" :)

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

LOL. That could be an intresting one, eveyrtime i see it I want to go "oh really?" lol.

[haughtymelodic.livejournal.com]

icon lurve!

He is so lovely

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

LOL thanks. Yeah Buble's teh shiz, love him.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Matte Orange (b) and Violet Haze (g) would be the best twinset ever.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think of the people whose names I know the sources of:

My friend Kylie was named after Kylie Minogue (early 1989), but not because her mother was a Kylie Minogue fan. It was because it was one of the few names that she could think of that would go well with their last name (a Polish name without the -ski).

My friend Leah was actually named after her older sister. Her sister's name was Carrie Leah, and her mom liked the name so much that Leah is Leah Frances.

A former friend of mine was almost named Gabriela Rosebud, because her mother's name was Mary Rose. Luckily, she just ended up being Gabriela Rose.

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

I'm named after Lisa Bonet's character Denise Huxtable (I'm Denise) from the Cosby show. My older brother named me.
I've always thought this was pretty funny, since my parents aren't tv people at all.