SC - Re: OT: Naming

[RichSCA at aol.com]

I find that I want to agree what somewhere this "name your kid whatever mess 
you want" has gone to far in the States. I worked for the government in the 
payroll department for years and saw a mess of mess. 

I had a lady who's mother named her Placenta (because it sounded nice- she 
had no idea what it meant) And I could go on and on with other terrible names.

BUT the one that interested me most was a man named Baby Boy "Smith".  (I'm 
changing his real last name).  I had the opportunity to actually go to his 
military unit and so I asked the Unit Clerk about the name.  Seems he was 
born at home in Georgia and his parents had not yet picked out his name.  The 
doctor just registered the boy's sex on the certificate of delivery - Baby 
Boy.  When the time limit for registering his name ran out a certificate was 
issued in the name "Baby Boy Smith" and the family just left it that way 
(Why, I do not know -- maybe it would have cost something to correct it).  I 
asked the Unit Clerk what name he goes by and he said bee (BB).  I remarked 
that as an adult I would have changed it and that he must have had a terrible 
time in school.  I was informed that he is a HUGE FARMHAND type-of -guy and 
really kind and nice and that he never had any trouble at all.  Hmmmmmmm.

Rayne     

In a message dated 3/30/00 8:58:42 AM Central Standard Time, 
baronsig at peganet.com writes:

<< 
      My mother used to be a social worker, and told the story of one of her
 clients who had a baby girl named Female (pronounced Fee-molly). When my
 mother asked how she had come up with such an unusually sounding name, the
 girl replied that she hadn't named the child, the hospital had . . .
     I knew a pair of twin boys named Romeo and Juliet (worse than being
 named Sue, I'll bet), and the minority (afro/french/creole composite) names
 people are coming up with nowadays are going to be the despair of
 onamasticians in future ages. Ya gotta wonder if, say, 500 years from now,
 there will be a society devoted to re-creating 20th-21st century culture . .
 .
 
     Sieggy
 
 > And yes, we do have a list of approved baby names. So do the other Nordic
 > countries, I believe. But people will in the majority of cases get
 approval
 > for a name that isn´t on the list. We used to have a system that was very
 > much like the SCA naming rules, as I´ve understood them - if you could
 > document that the name you wanted had been used a number of times within a
 > given period, it was approved. Now it is much easier to get approval.
 >
 > Nanna
 
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