This morning I was watching "This Morning" with the lovely Holly Willoughbooby and the old silver fox..Phillip Schofield..for my US friends, "This Morning" is a daytime tv programme for bored housewives, students and the like.. it has some fun stuff, bit of fashion, a resident chef and doctor slot .. bit of music..u know.. time filling before lunch, simple viewing, little or no concentration required lol.
Anyway this morning.. on "This Morning" (ok thats annoying ME now..lol) they were discussing silly baby names. Apparently some blithering idiot has given birth to twins this week (not me thankfully!) and has given them ridiculous names.. a little boy called "Jack Daniel" which doesn't sound too silly... until you hear the name of his twin sister.. yes "Tia Maria" can you believe that? WHY? Why would someone do that to a child... as if naming your son after a bottle of spirits wasn't bad enough to then go and saddle his sister with the same? They should be ashamed of themselves. Whats next... "Malibu" and her little brother "Thunderbirds Red"? It's ludicrous.
So after they asked people to email in the silly names they'd given their children they then got on to stupid celebrity baby names..and boy have there been a few..we probably all know the most famous ones but I made a little list for fun.
Zowie Bowie - Don't think I need to tell you who that babyDaddy is.
Pilot Inspektor Lee - Jason Lee of "My Name is Earl" fame actually called his son this... I have NO idea why.
Brooklyn Beckham -named after place of his conception I understand and his brothers "Romeo" and "Cruz".. wtf goes through their heads?
Apple Martin, yes Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin (Coldplay) named their daughter Apple. I think Richard and I may have to have another child just so we can name it "cumquat" for shits n giggles.
Lourdes and Rocco - Madonna's kids.. weird.
Jermaine Jackson has a child called "Jermajesty" - he's a Jackson.. 'nuff said.
Katie and Peter and their daughter "Princess Tiaamii" - I dont need to say anything about this.. what makes me laugh about Katie and Peter is that they called their son "Junior"... yes "Junior" - not "Peter Andre Jnr", just "Junior" - I have three words for you and they are.. "thick", "as" and "shit".
and classic as they come... Bob Geldof and Paula Yates and their daughters "Fifi Trixibelle", "Little Pixie" and of course... "Peaches" poor little Peaches, her silly name does not end there... oh no!! Bob n Paula pulled a classic out for Peaches who's full name is...
"Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof"!!!!! How did she ever learn how to spell her name at school the poor bitch? Of course a few years later Paula Yates had another child with Michael Hutchence who was also given a silly name "Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence", hmm... ok then.
There are many more but we'd be here all day.. the viewers were emailing in their silly names - of which there were many, in fact some poor child in London is called "Lanesra" which is "Arsenal" backwards.. her parents were big fans...and no, I'm not making this up.
Anyway there I sat laughing away merrily at the stupid people and then I remember that my husband named my only son after an Ozzy Osbourne guitarist...yes my child is called "Jake Lee".. YES that shut me up quick I can tell you...lol
My daughters are Angelina and Heather - one of Richard's friends once joked about him naming his daughters after the most beautiful women in the world... Angelina Jolie and Heather Locklear of course ("There is a God... and Heather by thy name!!" - Wayne's World LOL) but in actual fact they werent really named after either.
Angelina was named after a friend's daughter who shares the name (obviously) and was a very beautiful little girl and it also means "Little Angel/Messenger" and as she looks quite angelic (only looks that way though) and never shuts up its quite apt..lol
As for Heather, she was Maria for the longest time and then we went to Scotland on holiday about 3 weeks before she was born and as we drove through Glencoe we looked out of the window to see the most gorgeous fields of purple as someone said "Look at the beautiful Scottish Heather..." and I looked at Rich and he at me and then she was Heather. Simple as can be.. they say a name just strikes you sometimes, well that one did.
I never thought at the time that people might think anything of their names... it's funny really.. and as I look back in my family tree I see so many names repeated and think maybe I should have called him "Jack" or "Sam" and maybe she should have been "Mary" or "Julia" or Napoleon!!!! (yes I have a great great great Uncle Napoleon.. yeah go on laugh, you know you want to!!) Maybe I should have researched this years ago and carried on some family names, kept some tradition to it..do people even still do that?
and so.. I wonder... what names did you give your children and what did it mean to you?
11 comments:
Wow. Those are some effed up names.
I don't think they are doing their kids ANY favors. It might be cute NOW but it prolly won't be when their kids are 50.
I went with safe. I have a Britt Noel because it means born on Christmas day, which she was.
A Stephen, named after his Dad cuz I didn't get to name him.
A Mazie cuz I always loved that name.
And a Tanner. Just cuz.
hey wait, I might not have done much better. LOL.
Oh, and thank BB for helping me find the damn follow button. Sheesh. I feel uber dumb now! LMAO.
LOL Beav you crack me up! Your kids have lovely names, particularly Mazie, how cute is that?
I think those twins were named after HOW they were conceived!
Emily's name was weird, we both had a name in our heads and both said it at the same time. Thought it was definately fate when we came out with the same name! People think Xander's from Buffy The Vampire Slayer but it's actually from 24. When we found out we were having a boy we were considering names and saw Xander on the credits on 24 (the actor Xander Berkeley) and both loved it. Lots of people think it's really Alexander and shortened, bot nope, just Xander for by little dude!
And sorry Jen but love that your son's named after Jake E Lee! :P
Well I have a Simon-named after my cousin Simon who I met only once at a cafe with his mum Tai! whose real name is Mary but who was an actress-nuff said. She owns huge tracts of St Johns Wood in London now so she gives a shit waht I think but he was the most boooootiful young man I had ever seen - hence Simon (shame he didnt turn out like that.
Then there is Jennie cos when I was preggers I was watching a TV serial about Jennie Curchill - loved the actress but didnt like her name- cant remember who it was now - but I getting old - Jen'll know.
Then there was Fil who was going to be Nick after my dad but Simon(known as Sam at the time) went to school and told everyone he was calling him Phillip(with 2 l's) so what could I do - Funny though later my mum presented me with a pic of a long lost relative called Sam Phillips. Straaaaaannnge
Lou, Jake's name could have been MUCH worse.. I drew the line at "Randy Rhoads Savage" LOL.
and Mum it was Lee Remick that played Jennie Churchill in that programme.. and thats a boys name.. and I know cos I gave it to my boy!! LOL weird.
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this is fun. ok. Amanda was named three days before she was born because i swore i was having a boy. my Mom suggested i pick a girls name just in case and at the time i was watching Days Of Our Lives. whatever..lol but there was a character with the name and it wasn't common at the time, so that's her. Daniel was called that simply because i've always loved the name. Sean, same reason. Catie (Cathleen) is named for my Grandmother, and all the other Cathleen's in the family. i tried very hard to name them in a way they wouldn't be teased for, but oops. no one can get the last name pronounced right because without fail, the letters get transposed so Lein becomes Lien. Cathleen Lien?!?!?! poor kid LMAO
by the way, it's pronounced "Line" but should really be said as "Lane". fun times.
See?? This IS fun!! I did not know that about your kids names Donna!
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are you sure? i could have sworn i told you..lol
oh wait, it was only Cate's name i think. we were talking about Heather and Angelina's at the time. i clearly remember Scottish Heather being mentioned.
was that about the time we dipped into the Scottish Heather Cream? that was LOVELY and so much better than Irish Cream. just sayin' :P
ahhh yes.. the Scottish Heather Cream... yum. I'm off to Scotland in August next year.. gonna bring back LOADS of that stuff...lol
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