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Oh, Have You Met My Kids, Panda, Phone and Cheese? The Weirdest Baby Names of 2013
By Samantha Grossman @sam_grossmanDec. 09, 2013Add a Comment
So, we already know that people are naming their kids after characters on TV shows like Breaking Bad and Homeland. But then there are the parents whove decided to stray from the norm, get creative and just go for it.
Parenting website BabyCenter has released its annual baby name special report, which includes a roundup of the years most unusual monikers. Upon first glance, there are some clear standouts here. For girls: Blip, Fairy, Kiwi. And even more for boys: Ajax, Baobao, Cheese, Danish, Egypt, Jag, Panda, Rocket. Keep in mind: these kids are the future. In 50 years, we could have a president named Kiwi and an international fashion icon named Cheese...
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catbyte
Dec 2013
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Paulie
(8,462 posts)1. Say Cheese...
Do you like Kiwi?
catbyte
(34,358 posts)2. LOL, it's better than a poor girl I went to middle school with. Her first name was Mary, her last
name was Aloya.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)3. Was she Jewish?
catbyte
(34,358 posts)4. No, but they had moved to Michigan from Long Island, LOL.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)5. Are Cheese and Danish siblings?
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)6. How about the name Rich with
the last name Arab? One of my sons works with a guy named Rich Arab.
When I was a kid I knew the Winkler sisters, Twinkle and Star Baby.
No Vested Interest
(5,165 posts)7. Gal at a local college named Ida Mae Lay. nt
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)8. Friend of a friend of my father had the name Jane Wannamaker...
Apparently she had a great sense of humour about it and made fun of the name herself a lot.