Children's Names

by **maraboutslim** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:51 am

American parents have been using such, uh, creative spellings lately that they might as well be using obscure kanji because we have no idea how to pronounce or spell the names. This site is always good for a laugh: http://www.stupidkidnames.com/

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:53 am

It seems like the trend is going in the opposite direction in Brazil.

by **IparryU** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:30 am

and my inlaws were a bit angered when my first son didn't have a Japanese name in his name...

quite frankly... japanese boy names are just dont sound good IMO... The only ones i like are Ken (no taro or ta) and Keisuke... no appeal otherwise.

girl names are just iffy for me... reminds me of the stupid names gig...

by **matsuki** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:05 am

by **Mulboyne** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:21 am

by **matsuki** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:31 am

by **Ganma** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:48 am

by **Mulboyne** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:29 am

by **dimwit** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:32 am

I don't know if I entirely buy that. I quick look at my second year nursing college roster indicates that 9:51 girls have a name ending in 'ko'. I'm too lazy to bother going back ten years but I don't think the ratio has changed much.

by **matsuki** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:53 am

Ganma wrote:it doesn't get much more boring than Western Christian names (OK, excluding naming practices for one other well known religion). I mean half the guys I know from my generation are named Richard. Boring. And the girls are all variations of Elisabeth.

While I have to agree, you can get a little better variation if you go to another country

by **sublight** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:58 am

by **Ganma** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:36 pm

by **Bucky** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:08 pm

sublight wrote:When I was doing weddings all through the 00s, I wrote down the names of all the couples I married (so they tended to be 25-35 years old). I remember going through the list a while back (close to 1000 couples) and finding that Tomomi and Tomoko were the most common bride's names, with a lot named Ami, Yumi and Emi as well.

Yumi and Emi could certainly be abbreviated from Yumiko and Emiko.

by **Ganma** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:42 pm

by **Jack** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:14 am

Bucky wrote:Yumi and Emi could certainly be abbreviated from Yumiko and Emiko.

That's right. But I noticed that all young couples avoid the "ko" like the plague. Most of my wife's friends had names not ending with 'ko" I thought that's so unsual, but then I found out that Michi, was Michiko, Yumi, was Yumiko, Mayu was Mayuko and so on. All the ladies in their 30s and 40s had "ko" but were not using it and for sure their kids do not have names ending in "ko".

by **BigInJapan** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:04 pm

I looked at my kid's elementary class list, and noticed 5 names that I've never heard before:
Kihori, Asato, Sakuto, Arimu, and Miru

However, they don't even come close to some of these oddball names picked from a list of names in 2010. Some of the names are clearly foreign names that had kanji assigned. The following names cannot be read without the accompanying furigana. They were chosen by parents due to "the way they sound", then kanji was randomly thrown at them (whether it could be read or not).

- Boy's names:
Towaru, Daia
Karuma, Sena (Senna?)
Akari, Teruhiro
Aoto (out?), Kayoo
Shizuma, Hyuuga
Ruka (Luka?), Toa
Miko, Tora
Yua, Haruma
Riku (Rick?), Shachi (killer whale - WTF?)
Ruuku (Luke?), Hazumu
Roto, Taiga (Tiger)
Koe, Roi (Roy?)

- Girl's names
Runoa (Renoir?), Miyu
Mia, Ruika
Kirara, Rena (Layna?)
Nanami, Rion (Leon?)
Ten, Moka (mocha?)
Honoka, Manaki
Harua, Minori
Rise, Kana
Riku (Rick?), Rino (Reno?)
Runa (Luna?), Kokoa (cocoa - seriously?)
Yumea, Mairi (Miley?)
Mahiro, Uzuki

It seems that Riku, Akari, and Yua are now unisex names.
Tiger doesn't surprise as I have encountered others with that name, born of course in the year of the tiger. But seriously, "Shachi" as in killer whale, dayum.

by **Coligny** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:39 pm

BigInJapan wrote:It seems that Riku, Akari, and Yua are now unisex names.

ONLY IF YOU DON'T PH34R THE WRATH OF GODS...

by **Ganma** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:45 pm

by **matsuki** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:33 am

by **Ganma** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:16 pm

by **matsuki** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:24 pm

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:47 pm

People who go out of their way to give their kids unusual names are assholes. Having a kid is selfish enough. No need to make their shitty existence even worse by giving them a stupid name.

by **Ganma** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:58 pm

by **matsuki** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:17 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:People who go out of their way to give their kids unusual names are assholes.

Change "unusual" to ridiculous and I'm right there with yah. (Unusual is too relative a term)

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:28 pm

by **6810** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:02 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Yeah, if you're going to leave your kids a multi million dollare empire their lives may not be as bad. However, you're still an asshole because it encourages average idiots to give their kids stupid names.

Carrying baggage from school daze much are we?

by **matsuki** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:06 am

6810 wrote:Carrying baggage from school daze much are we?

When you've met a girl named "Ketchup" you tend to view how people name their kids differently.

by **Ganma** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:49 pm

[quote="chokonen888"]When you've met a girl named "Ketchup" you tend to view how people name their kids differently. ]
When I was in elementary school some kids of refugees from Vietnam were named Fork and Spoon.
There was a hippy kid named River too.

by **IparryU** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:03 pm

Ganma wrote:When I was in elementary school some kids of refugees from Vietnam were named Fork and Spoon.
There was a hippy kid named River too.

my wife's cousin's daughters names are:
Julia (jyuriya)
Lion (rion)

I asked if "Lion" was a boy and they said it was a girl... i chuckled and told them that it was a boys name... they changed the topic and said that it was spelled like lion... I chuckled again and said that she would get laughed at in the US if she showed someone her ID car...

good times...

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