Author Topic: Contemporary names (Read 13664 times)

Monkeyleg · « **on:** December 23, 2006, 01:59:59 PM »

For the past decade or so, I've noticed that more and more art directors I work with (the young ones) have names like Chad. Feel free to add to the list.

While that's fine when a guy named Chad is thirty or so, I wonder what his experience will be like when he's my age (56). I can't imagine a 56 year-old guy named Chad. It sounds, well, foppish. Will he be taken seriously?

What's wrong with conventional names like Bill, or Bob? Those are solid, timeless names.

For awhile when I was in my twenties, I tried to get people to call me "Richard." After awhile, though, that seemed pretentious, so I just went back to "Dick."

But "Chad?"

The Rabbi · « **Reply #1 on:** December 23, 2006, 02:01:50 PM »

Somehow I think I'd rather be called "Chad" than "Dick" (not that I havent been called Dick a few times).

wingnutx · « **Reply #2 on:** December 23, 2006, 02:09:55 PM »

There aren't many of us Brittons running around.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #3 on:** December 23, 2006, 02:15:48 PM »

My first name is Joshua. It's definitely solid and timeless. Yet few of us have met a Joshua over thirty years old. In fact, it used to be the only TV or movie characters named Joshua were cult leaders. laugh

It's become pretty popular since I've been on the planet, though. Coincidence?

grampster · « **Reply #4 on:** December 23, 2006, 03:04:20 PM »

Named my sons Steven and Daniel. I've got the same handle as monkeyleg, but everybody pretty much calls me grampster nowadays. Grandkids started that name about 10 years ago. Grandkids are Andrew and Nick.

lee n. field · « **Reply #5 on:** December 23, 2006, 03:10:25 PM »

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What's wrong with conventional names like Bill, or Bob? Those are solid, timeless names.

Maybe not as timeless as you think. The old English and American Puritans sometimes gave their kids wild names.

We made an effort to give our kids very normal (mostly Old Testament) names.

cosine · « **Reply #6 on:** December 23, 2006, 03:14:05 PM »

I've heard some real weird names. There was a kid who used to live behind us whose name was Dakota.

I'm glad my parents named me Andrew ('though I normally go by Andy).

Car Knocker · « **Reply #7 on:** December 23, 2006, 03:29:29 PM »

"Chad" is a lot better than "Zortan" or "Moon Unit". Did some work once for a woman whose first name was "Annex".

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #8 on:** December 23, 2006, 04:07:02 PM »

When I was growing up, I rode the bus to school every day. When we stopped at the trailer park, we picked up girls named "Shantelle" and other Frenchy-sounding names. Very fancy.

What I don't get are the girls named Hunter and Taylor. Those are not feminine names. In fact, they are male occupations. And I don't think their mothers named them that way out of some feminist mindset.

Declaration Day · « **Reply #9 on:** December 23, 2006, 04:13:23 PM »

Fistful you beat me to it. I don't think Hunter is a human name at all, but it is certainly not a girl's name.

When someone introduces their kid to me as "Hunter", I almost expect them to show me two more kids named "Driver" and "Worker".

About a year ago, I was at a birthday party for the son of my wife's friend. There was a lady there who introduced her newborn daughter as "Remington". The room went silent, no joke.

mustanger98 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 23, 2006, 04:20:31 PM »

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When someone introduces their kid to me as "Hunter", I almost expect them to show me two more kids named "Driver" and "Worker".

Reminds of the time, right after 9-11, the local authorities found these three guys... they caught bin Huntin' and bin Fishin' but they still haven't caught bin Workin'. grin

I recall seeing a chart that showed how names gained and lost popularity... I noticed "Shannon" as a boy's name, for example, shot nearly straight up about 1972, peaked in '74, and took a nosedive by '76. "Michelle", in comparison, has had a much longer popularity.

Ben · « **Reply #11 on:** December 23, 2006, 04:49:20 PM »

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the only TV or movie characters named Joshua were cult leaders.

And another piece to the Fistfull puzzle falls into place.

It's all beginning to come together now..... laugh

Standing Wolf · « **Reply #12 on:** December 23, 2006, 04:53:24 PM »

If I ever have a son, I'm going to name him "Athelstane," a daughter, "Bronwen."

The Rabbi · « **Reply #13 on:** December 23, 2006, 05:30:54 PM »

There was a girl in my daughter's pre-school called Bronwyn.

I can't talk. My kids are Gertrude, Viktor, and Gustav.

brimic · « **Reply #14 on:** December 23, 2006, 05:37:17 PM »

brimic · « **Reply #15 on:** December 23, 2006, 05:39:28 PM »

My two rugrats are named Seth and Nina.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #16 on:** December 23, 2006, 05:46:57 PM »

Looks like the Asians have it figured out.

mustanger98 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 23, 2006, 06:17:55 PM »

Of course, it is possible for some mean guy to go and name his son Sue. If it weren't possible, why would Johnny Cash write a song about it. grin

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #18 on:** December 23, 2006, 06:31:30 PM »

Quote from: BenW on December 23, 2006, 03:49:20 PM

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the only TV or movie characters named Joshua were cult leaders.

And another piece to the Fistfull puzzle falls into place.

It's all beginning to come together now..... laugh

I knew it would come to that. Now, you must give over all your earthly posessions to the Order. I will administer them for the common good.

I once met a girl named - are you ready for this? - Rebel. And that's just an hour west of Saint Louis. I expect there's a lot more girls of that name down South.

Antibubba · « **Reply #19 on:** December 23, 2006, 08:06:06 PM »

Brimic, please tell me that's an Onion piece.

New employees are always coming in where I work. One of them is a tall black woman named "Kenya". Okay, that's a good, strong name.

Another one is Rhodesia. My jaw dropped when I heard that one. The irony just kills me.

Nice girl, though.

jeff-10 · « **Reply #20 on:** December 23, 2006, 09:25:22 PM »

I am in my early 30s and from where I come from Chad was a pretty common name. I wouldn't think twice about someone being named Chad, regardless of age, especially with what ppl are naming their kids these days.

Stickjockey · « **Reply #21 on:** December 24, 2006, 03:51:02 AM »

Dad's name: William Ivan
Mine: David William
Li'l Stick's: Samuel David

The Rabbi · « **Reply #22 on:** December 24, 2006, 05:02:53 AM »

Please tell me that there aren't a bunch of Black kids running around named Dacron (a polyester filament) or Sinutab (an allergy relief medicine). Please?

Declaration Day · « **Reply #23 on:** December 24, 2006, 05:08:26 AM »

Rabbi, I'm pretty sure it's a joke. Isn't Propecia a hair-loss treatment?

Werewolf · « **Reply #24 on:** December 24, 2006, 05:51:27 AM »

A friend of mine in the 80's who was a Lord of the Rings freak named his three daughters Arwen, Branwyn and Morwyn. Arwen is OK - I guess but the other two??? I cannot imagine the crap they got in school and now that they are adults I sometimes wonder what they're called.

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Author Topic: Contemporary names (Read 13664 times)