What’s in a Name? Ask Google
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babynamesKALIA is a stripper name, but Kaleya is not, her parents-to-be concluded.
No offense to the Kalias of the world, but Lecia and Thor Kaslofsky decided this two years ago, after conducting a Google search of names they were considering for their first child.
A search for Kalia pulled up several images of scantily clad women. “I didn’t want there to be a Google identity for her to wrestle with,” said Ms. Kaslofsky, a corporate investigator in San Francisco. So the couple, who wanted an uncommon name, came up with a creative spelling that sounds the same as kah-LEE-ah: Kaleya.
for more click here to see the New York Times article.
No offense to the Kalias of the world, but Lecia and Thor Kaslofsky decided this two years ago, after conducting a Google search of names they were considering for their first child.
A search for Kalia pulled up several images of scantily clad women. “I didn’t want there to be a Google identity for her to wrestle with,” said Ms. Kaslofsky, a corporate investigator in San Francisco. So the couple, who wanted an uncommon name, came up with a creative spelling that sounds the same as kah-LEE-ah: Kaleya.
for more click here to see the New York Times article.
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Date: 2011-11-27 07:14 pm (UTC)Also, Kaleya will probably be correctly pronounced more often since you can sound it out. I imagine Kalia sometimes gets pronounced Kahl-yuh (like Marya, which is often confused as Maria).
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Date: 2011-11-27 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-28 12:33 am (UTC)