Why are people more likely to name their daughters silly, cutesy little names

[raccoon]

--names that aren't people names but sometimes names such as you'd give an animal companion, or sometimes words that people just like the sound of, than their sons?

I know there are males with cutesy, silly names but they are probably outnumbered by females by 10 to 1.

[mcctatas]

1. I would rather have a silly cutesy little name than the horror

show my parents saddled me with. Here is a picture of them, let your imagination run wild about what that name could be!

[dropkickpa]

2. My dad's a u of i grad!

Roughly same time period, too!

[mcctatas]

3. Oh no...

I hope they didn't saddle you with a cannabis induced first name too

[DS1]

6. Your name is Bonghit Sweetclouds Lastname

too?

[dropkickpa]

7. Luckily, no

My dad was a closet hippie, looked like Buddy Holly but secretly smoked pot and listened to subversive music.

[moriah]

9. Better than a methamphetamine-induced first name...

Yes, my first name is Crystal.

Unfortunately they didn't think of country music when they decided to give me my mother's middle name, Gail.

[mcctatas]

10. Crystal Gail?

really? After further consideration, I'd still prefer that to my name...

[moriah]

26. Yep, with my parents music taste (they liked rock) they almost changed my name.

When the conversations went like this:

"Oh, what a cute baby? What's it's name?"

"She's Crystal Gail, isn't she precious?"

"Oh, yes.... so you're a fan of Crystal Gayle's music, eh?"

------

For two weeks they dithered about deciding to change my name to Jane Elizabeth, using the song "Jane" that had just come out, and Elizabeth because it's a family name.... but in the end they decided it was too much paperwork.

I would rather have been called Crissy than Janey, anyway.

Since I've already posted on here my real legal name... I married a guy with the last name "Feier", pronounced Fire.

"Crystal Fire" is what my name sounds like.

It gets a lot of recognition, even if no one can spell the last name... I decided to keep the name even after my divorce because being one of the few females in IT, having a very unusual name also gets me remembered when people are thinking about hiring me or such.

Although, as a friend of mine said when she heard what my name would be after marriage, said "There's GOTTA be a stripper with that name somewhere..."

[SmokingJacket]

4. Okay, you have to tell us!

Rainbow??

[mcctatas]

8. I wish...

my parents (in thier infinite hippie wisdom) actually made my name up, I haven't met another one of me, EVER (although when I google it, it turns out that it was a common name of an ancient sacred Egyptian plant :shrug:)

[PassingFair]

29. Your name is Papyrusia? n/t

[mcctatas]

32. Catha Edulis

(actually one of it's common names). But I kinda like this part:

"Traditional uses: The ancient Egyptians considered Catha edulis to be a most sacred plant, a "divine food" like royal jelly to bees, capable of releasing humanities nascent divinity. The Egyptians did not ingest Khat merely to "get high", they used it to " trigger and impel the metamorphic process leading to a theurgic transmutation of human nature into apotheosis". Allowing the lowly mortal being to be "vergottet", or made God-like."

http://users.lycaeum.org/~iamklaus/catha.htm

[FloridaJudy]

31. I once met a young woman named "Space Center"

Really. When I asked how she got her name, she explained "My parents did a lot of drugs in the sixties".

She goes by "Cissy". I would too.

[JVS]

11. Your dad is Edgar Winter? WOW!

[mcctatas]

13. ...

:spray:

I used to tell kids he was Santa Clause and if they were mean to me he wouldn't bring them presents...

[Radical Activist]

16. wow

Amazing how much they both look like old pictures of my parents, also from Illinois. Luckily they gave me a relatively normal name.

[mcctatas]

22. Actually, that's Urbana College in Ohio....

small liberal arts college. My parents are the only people I know who went there...

[sarge43]

18. Starlight Diamondbright Moonchild? n/t

[Bake]

23. Really! What a horror to be named mctatas!

:rofl:

Bake

[mcctatas]

27. I know...

no one can ever tell if it's my first name or my last name;)

[SmokingJacket]

5. I think it's because they're naming a "baby" not a future

adult.

[ElboRuum]

12. Beats the hell out of the truly psychotic names some celebs give their kids.

Jason Lee's son is named...

Pilot Inspektor Riesgraf Lee :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

I shit you not. His BEST bet is to call himself Riesgraf when he's older... now that is the BEST option, mind you.

[Throckmorton]

14. I Named mine Throckmortonetta

and Sporkweasel the VI

[Radical Activist]

15. Because girls aren't expected to do much more than

be cutesy and attract a man, while boys are expected to eventually be taken seriously in the adult world. There's your serious answer about sexism in society.

[MrCoffee]

17. That's why I named my daughter Alfred.

[Radical Activist]

21. ha!

I'm sure she won't end up hating you for that.

[MrCoffee]

24. Oh no, she'll have TONS of reasons to hate me by the time she's an adult

By then, we'll sit back and have a laugh about her name.

[raccoon]

19. Great post. It's not just hippy parents who name their daughters silly names.

I have a cousin about my age, parents (now deceased) as conservative and "Establishment" as you could imagine.

She had a cutesy name that I won't post here because it's too unusual. But it's the kind of name that might be cute on a baby, but on a middle-aged or elderly women....well, just seems inappropriate.

[sarge43]

20. For much the same reason as

this idiot once called me "little lady" when I was fully suited up in combat gear, packing heat. No matter who we are or what we do, we're silly and cutesy.

[LanternWaste]

25. I dunno. My best friends named his son...

I dunno. My best friends named his son after (I kid you not) a Dungeons & Dragon character he had when we were in high school. And he's actually the SECOND guy I've known to have done just that.

Me? I'd rather see a "Montana Jada Smith" over "Gorthon the Barbarian Smith" any day of the week... :)

[SarahB]

28. I liked my name just fine until last week.

:(

My daughter's name is Audrey. I wanted to name my daughter something feminine, but distinguished at the same time.

[MissMillie]

33. I think that's a lovely name

It reminds me of "Audra" from The Big Valley


(ok... now I'm showing my age)

[SarahB]

35. We kind of got it from a Twin Peaks episode.

Her dad and I were big Twin Peaks fans in the early 90's, plus I always loved the name. Shortly after I found out I was pregnant in Spring of'91, we were watching Twin Peaks and going through girls names in a book, not agreeing on anything, when I finally said, "Ok, how about Audrey?" Audrey it was (and is). :)

[jobycom]

30. Dunno. They named me Joby and my sister Andra. I like my name

but I think mine's a bit more cutesy.

[RebelOne]

34. My nephew married a girl named Candy Delight.

I kid you not. Her father named her and he is a fundie preacher.