Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

My awesome powers of having access to the NGP VAN inform me that there are precisely two registered voters with that name in the entire state of West Virginia. So I guess it's regional.

 

It might be a normal American name in some places, but it certainly isn't in Dutch, and I would argue that it's got no place in our culture.

I'm not saying we need 'name purity' or something, just that there are better names that we can adopt into our culture :P

 

Yeah, Rowdy a pretty common redneck name (and gender neutral from my experience) but you probably wouldn't see it in a liberal urban center much if at all.

 

I think it's probably got some geographic distribution stuff going on beyond "redneck vs. urban" too, because WV is not exactly at the top of most people's lists of liberal urban centers.

 

Whoa, yeah, that one's completely new to me in Iowa. I went to school with a Rudy, but that was a nickname derived from the surname Rudebeck.

 

I've gone to school w several Rudys, and several more Rubys (all of them were short for Reuben, bc Orthodox Jewish school)

 

The only Rowdy I can think of is Clint Eastwood's character from Rawhide (and his real name was Daniel). But I've spent most of my life trying to avoid rural areas, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's like a regional/generational thing.

In unrelated bizarre-but-awesome-celebrity-name news, this is your daily reminder that Crispin Glover's middle name is "Hellion".

 

Liz is from the PNW too iirc, so it might be a Western US sort of thing.

 

Not gonna post my name because it's so rare, but I listen for the person reading to hesitate, squint at the paper, and slowly say it with several letters in the wrong order. :::PPP (I don't understand why people do this, because they'd get it right if they just sounded it out.)

That's sort of what I was guessing. And maybe some generational, too, since both the WV Rowdys were under 35.

 

Hey, I did the same thing during roll call. Weird birth name high five. In my case it was usually just messing up the vowel sounds due to stressing the wrong syllable. It happened so often, my classmates sometimes corrected the teacher at the same time I did.

 

I am and it very well could be!

 

Maybe! I don't recall meeting anyone much younger than me with that name, but then again I haven't lived in the US for over a decade...

 

I don't think I've ever heard it around here (also PNW) but I could be wrong.

 

Same region as @Mercury - yep, it's (unfortunately) a thing here. (WHY WOULD SOMEONE NAME THEIR OWN HUMAN OFFPSRING ROWDY?!)@prismaticvoid - I suspect that it's another wet side vs dry side thing :P

 

Guessing it's an eastern PNW thing, yeah. My mom grew up in Spokane and my grandparents live there to this day, and a lot of the people in certain parts of that area (though far from all, obviously) are pretty redneck-y. Like, my cousins are pretty stereotypical White Trash (TM).

(Related fun fact: One of my cousins is named Bob. It's not short for anything. Always thought that was an odd one. And another cousin was this close to being named Sara Lee before smarter relatives pointed out that everyone would associate it with the brand name.)

...Also, am I the only one who thinks Destiny is a really odd name and is baffled by how popular it is? Like...you don't hear about kids straight-up named Fate, y'know?

 

That site has all kinds of stuff under Japanese names that aren't Japanese although in several cases there is a Japanese name that they are trying to spell but can't. And then there's "Tajji". What the fuck.

 

Same with Irish names, so I am not even remotely surprised.

 

There was some site that had "Corsican names" that... Uh... Well, first of all, they ended in "-o" so they sounded vaguely Italian, and then they didn't mean anything and were French words with the Italian -o at the end, and then they explained Corsican people were named after adjectives, which is true sometimes (Furtunatu ("lucky") for foundlings, "primu", "sicondu", "terzu" etc. for the first/second/third/etc. child of particularly unimaginative parents, and... Those are the only two examples I can think of), but the examples they gave were bullshit.
The Corsican online community made fun of them for weeks.

 

I knew a girl named Faith, and I feel like I have seen/heard Fate but don't distinctly remember someone. I knew a ton of Destiny's growing up, so I never really questioned it. XD

I also knew a girl named Genesis.