KARMA

[distraction1145.livejournal.com]

friend just had a baby...
and her name is Karma

WDYT?

All I can think of is when she gets older people will make fun of her SO much by saying "Karma's a bitch"


***EDIT*** middle name is Tyrese

Comments

[la-jolie-vie.livejournal.com]

I prefer Dharma if we're talking about eastern virtue names.

[la-jolie-vie.livejournal.com]

dharma |ˈdärmə|
noun
1 Hinduism the principle of cosmic order.
• virtue, righteousness, and duty, esp. social and caste duty in accord with the cosmic order.
2 Buddhism the teaching or religion of the Buddha.
• one of the fundamental elements of which the world is composed.

[la-jolie-vie.livejournal.com]

Last I checked, righteousness and duty are virtuous. Though your comment has nothing to do with actual names other than the fact that you are just trying to nitpick my use of a word, so I'm not entirely sure why I'm bothering.

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

Dharma Freedom Finklestein-Montgomery?

[starskye.livejournal.com]

I can't say that I like it

[hollis1975.livejournal.com]

what do i think? i think people should get approval before ruining their child's life from the get go.

[bandnerd88.livejournal.com]

I met a girl named Karma once. She seemed to like it well enough, though I didn't get a chance to talk to her much about it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/panicqueen-/]

hahahaha I hadn't thought of that, but that joke made me giggle out loud XD

Yeah, Karma's a bitch of a name too!!

[distraction1145.livejournal.com]

hahahahha

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

They might as well have named her Mistake.

[distraction1145.livejournal.com]

uhgreed.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

All I can think of is when she gets older people will make fun of her SO much by saying "Karma's a bitch"

I know at least a dozen kids who would make that joke, myself included. Really, those parents should be institutionalized.

[distraction1145.livejournal.com]

they're young, both like 19 & 20, but still no excuse, I'm 20 and would NEVER think about naming my child something stupid like that. seriously though, they need to be put up in a hospital

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I was 18 when I had my son, he got a perfectly normal and properly spelled name. Age is never an excuse, that's for sure.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

True, true. But it does seem that a lot of kids with crazy names have young parents... at least the ones we see in this community.

Also, how is Tyrese pronounced? Is it anything like Therese?

[distraction1145.livejournal.com]

i think like tie-rees..or i guess how it looks :\ kinda sounds like a boys name to me

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of Tyrone. And Therese, which wouldn't be a bad middle name.

[distraction1145.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of my friends who had children at a young age, but they all seem to have unique/different/whatever you wanna call it, so that's the way i see it, not saying everyone who has a child young is naming their kids different

[hwar.livejournal.com]

Without considering meaning, etc. I don't think it's a bad SOUNDING name. Along the lines of Kara, Kyra, Kyla, Keira etc. I bet she will actually get Karma Chameleon more than Karma's a bitch but I'm sure that will rear its head. Hopefully she'll be the kind of girl who can laugh it off and will end up liking the originality of her name. At least it's spelled correctly, right?

Actually along similar lines, I really love the name Ida. But as my husband pointed out, she'd end up getting called Ida-ho, and I just can't do that to a daughter of mine.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

LOL to Ida-ho. I wouldn't think of that, but then I'm not American, so it's something a bit distant for me.

The name doesn't sound bad, that's true, but in this case the meaning is so there that it's just impossible to ignore. But hey, at least she'll have an excuse to dress as an X-man every Halloween.

[distraction1145.livejournal.com]

YES. if it was spelt like Karmah or Karmuh or something along those lines it would have been worse. It's not a bad name, I just wouldn't name my child that. And Ida is a lovely name...Ida-ho never popped into my head, but you know some people would say it.

[hwar.livejournal.com]

I didn't think of it either but my husband did IMMEDIATELY. When I suggested it for our daughter he actually thought I was joking because it was the first thing that came to his mind. And while I figure pretty much everybody gets teased about their name in some fashion, something with such a negative and misogynistic slur crosses it off my list...even though I still love it. I guess I'll have to name a dog Ida or something. ;) Maybe if we didn't live on the West Coast it wouldn't be so obvious, I dunno. If any Idas are reading I hope they will weigh in on whether they were teased about it.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

i hate it. the middle name is even worse (especially for a girl).

[kimberpotamus.livejournal.com]

I went to a school with a girl named Karma, she is a bitch but I never thought to say "Karma's a bitch", but I really wish I did now.

I did remember Karma Chameleon though.

[frost.livejournal.com]

My first thought was of Karma Chameleon- lol, I used to love that song as a kid. Tyrese is a boy's name.

Blah, her name is horrible. :(

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

Yuck.
My new test for whether a name is okay or not is to think about how it would sound called over the intercom at a retail store (stemming from the fact that I used to work in retail and everyone's name got called over the intercom all the time). "Karma to the office, please" just doesn't work for me. :P

[distraction1145.livejournal.com]

haha that's a good way!

[german-e12.livejournal.com]

yeah, my tester, is "*insert name here* come back here!", because I use the metro, and a bunch of the kids like to wander all over the bus, and their parents have to call their names out loud.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

It's one of those many names which seem such a good idea to people who don't have to LIVE with it....

[overimbibed.livejournal.com]

Karma Tyrese just reminds me of "Karma Police" by Radiohead, haha.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's really all I've got.

Ironically, despite my dislike of Karma, I'm kind of diggin' Kismet as a name LOL