Does anyone just come up to you, knowing you love names, and try out all the craziest, weirdest names they’ve ever heard of?! I feel like I’m getting name-nerd punked.
I feel like it’s got to be only me. le sigh.
My grandmother, who makes quite a habit of this, just came up to me, and goes, “I’ve got another name for you [name_u]Ashley[/name_u]!” sarcastic drumroll. They are always THE worst, and she thinks they’re fantastically hilarious! “Maggsiepott!” And then she cracks up laughing, like she’s told some great joke. (I suppose, at the age of nearly 92, it must be hilarious, lol.) I don’t know where she gets these things from!
Anyway. Does this happen to anyone else? I can’t be the only one…
My brother said “One day you’ll have a kid and I’ll find you’ve named it something stupid like Panda”.
I said, “I guess that’s a pretty cute nickname for [name_f]Pandora[/name_f].”
Whenever my mother likes an “out there” name i.e. [name_f]Calpurnia[/name_f], she’ll always say to me “please call a child [name_f]Calpurnia[/name_f]. you’re going to have a [name_f]Calpurnia[/name_f], right?”
I would think it goes without saying that name nerds are the LEAST likely to go with anyone else’s wishes when it comes to names!
lol, I actually like [name_f]Calpurnia[/name_f], though! I don’t think she legitimately wants me to use Maggsiepott, lol–I think she’s just trying to get a rise out of me. Either that, or she legitimately doesn’t know how awful the names she’s bringing up are! I’ve seen her bring up much worse than Maggsiepott, though, lol.
And your comment made me laugh, haha, because my family is just the opposite. “[name_u]Ashley[/name_u], please don’t use [[name_f]Madelief[/name_f]! [name_u]Bailey[/name_u] on a boy! [name_f]Beatrix[/name_f]! etc.]!” Once my sister told me (word-for-word!!!), “If you don’t name your son [name_m]Caleb[/name_m] I’ll give you [name_u]Everett[/name_u]!” We’ve had a years-long standoff between who gets [name_u]Everett[/name_u], and she hates [name_m]Caleb[/name_m], because it’s the name of this guy she never really liked who had a massive crush on her, lol. I, however, think [name_m]Caleb[/name_m] is fantastic. I told her I’d take my chances, AND probably get to keep [name_u]Everett[/name_u], too. lol. I see me having kids before her, anyway. And more of them. haha.
My mother never really spits names off at me, but she did recently try to get one of her kids to like some name that is in her family. We have family over in [name_f]Ireland[/name_f], and it’s some name wit [name_f]Kat[/name_f] in it. Personally, I’m so over the [name_f]Kaitlyn[/name_f], [name_f]Catherine[/name_f], [name_f]Kathrine[/name_f] names. They’re lovely, none the less. I’ve just heard them all my life, because they’re really popular over where I’m from. I went to school with like ten different forms of Kaitlyns, and five different forms of Catherines. I also know like 5 little girls named [name_f]Catherine[/name_f], [name_f]Katherine[/name_f]. Again, nothing against it. So I said no to it. But, luckly for my mother, both my sister and brother in law who are getting married next year liked it and said they’d use it somehow someday.
Also my mother never likes any of my names. [name_m]Ezra[/name_m] is blah to her. [name_m]Declan[/name_m] is just not right for her. She thinks [name_m]Anthony[/name_m]'s okay. Yeah, let me just tell you those are my normal names, mother.
@amberdaydream I love your names. [name_f]Calla[/name_f] is so beautiful, I recently fell in love with it. [name_f]Aveline[/name_f] is very pretty, and the combo is perfect. I feel like [name_f]Aveline[/name_f] is so girly frilly and paired with [name_u]Frost[/name_u] it calms it down. And [name_f]Honora[/name_f] is my cousin’s name. They call her [name_f]Hurricane[/name_f] [name_f]Honora[/name_f], lol.
Not me, haha! I’m pretty quiet about my love for names that it’s become a guilty pleasure of mine. When my sister was pregnant 2 years ago, I told her a whole host of my favourite names and the fact that [name_f]Arabella[/name_f] received a lot of negative responses (along the lines of “what?” and “[name_u]Ara[/name_u]- what? That’s a name?”) I just kept shtum. I’ll surprise them when I actually have kids, they can assume I’ll pick their favourites until then.
I just get told to shut up if I talk about names for too long. Or, if I’m having difficulty naming a character, my family will be like, “You’re on that baby site all the time, why can’t you find a name” as if there’re only twenty names on nameberry or something. I’ve been told that names I like are stupid before, but I don’t think anyone has suggested a name like Maggsiepott, though, haha.
I am in the same boat as eoxima - I don’t tell anybody about my love of names. One of my coworkers knows I like to look into the history of names and hear name stories but I think she’d laugh if she knew I was creating lists and lists of names for my future children.
I’m expecting my first child in [name_u]January[/name_u], (though I’ve always been into names), but now my brother who is nothing but a jokester (often making rude jokes) has had a ball listing hundreds of names every time I’m around him and he’s just ridiculous. Right after i told him he was pregnant he said “you should name it Gorelock!” I didn’t give it much response because I didn’t want him to remember it, but 25 weeks into the pregnancy, even though we now know it’s a girl, he still thinks it’s hilarious to call her Gorelock. I really hope it doesn’t stick… But yes every time he sees me he says “oh I thought of another good one!” And then it’s something like Stellandrea or Rollio…
No! My brother and sister-in-law are very traditional and trendy when it comes to naming and now that I’m pregnant again, every time we speak they ask me if baby’s name wont be Ermingarde or [name_m]Stanislaw[/name_m] (hmm, not exactly my style but okay, I get it. I’m surprised you’ve even heard of these names!). It’s quite silly because to me, my children’s names aren’t at all too out there. They’re just not in the top ten. My nephews on the other hand…
Ugh, yes. I hate it when my friends tease me about loving names. My freakin’ family does it. I love to share my passions with people but it gets hard when everyone wants to make fun of your hobby.
My sisters reaction to [name_f]Azalea[/name_f] and [name_u]Artemis[/name_u] and [name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f] and [name_f]Eulalia[/name_f] are my worsts. [name_f]Azalea[/name_f] she always starts singing [name_f]Fancy[/name_f] or saying [name_f]Ebony[/name_f] you can’t name your child after your teenaged favourite rapper while she thinks [name_u]Artemis[/name_u] is a boys name (I prefer it on boys too) and can’t see it on a girl and she refuses to believe [name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f] and [name_f]Eulalia[/name_f] are real names
I’ve collected names since I was a little girl and I always kept it a secret because I thought it was weird. I would fill notebooks completely up just doodling names and making combos.
I am also really interested in the history of names and stumbled across nameberry only in the past year or so looking one up and I was in shock a community existed of people who loved names so much as well.
The people in my life have no idea I love names so much but they do know that the names I like tend to be out there. My mum also really likes more dramatic names so she does share new ones she hears with me but we don’t really have the same taste.
My closest family knows about my interest in names, also my cousins who are my age. None of them know I have collections of over 6000 interesting names and that I regularly tweak lists and combos and how much time I spend on Nameberry… I think my sister suspects, but she’s just a little envious about my obvious interest in something, my ability to dig deeper and want to know everything about a subject. She actually admires me for my love of names and sci-fi/fantasy ^^
My mum is wonderfully supportive about it, she sometimes mentions new names she’s come across or when we’re out walking she’ll notice a name (recently a boat called [name_f]Tess[/name_f], she loved that, much to my surprise!) and comment on it or ask me about it. She has a fleeting interest herself, and she’s really into numbers that make sense to her (she always has to tell me her thought process when she mentions numbers that are wonderful to her!).
She thinks I know everything about names though, and it can get really frustrating when she sometimes sells me as a sort of party-trick where I have to tell over 20 people what their names mean… XP
One of my best friends is also obsessed with names, and it’s really fun to discuss our new favorites all the time. My other friends will sometimes look at us funny and say something like, “only you two could discuss this.” Which, to be honest, is probably true. My mom is super patient with my long conversations about names that I like. When I’m with a group of people, I have to resist the temptation to start a conversation about names, because it will NEVER END.
And more of them. haha.