Thursday, April 02, 2009

Unpopular baby names

Relia has discovered our baby name books. She's just tall enough to reach them and demand that she be able to look at the babies. Well, all of our books are boring to look at. At least for toddlers. A pretty picture on the front but inside nothing but black and white paragraphs of name descriptions.
Sometimes there is something interesting for adults though. One of our books is 'The New Age Baby Name Book' (which is fitting since the FP Gal and I are very into crystals and astrology ). This book has some interesting lists, one I discovered today is a list of "Most Unpopular Names". Sound fun? Here is the list:

Abishag
Amourous (talk about sending your daughter down the wrong road)
Babberley
Brained
Bugless (every parent's hope I suppose)
Clapham
Despair (middle name Pit of)
Dozer
Energetic
Feather (actually surprised this is on the list)
Ham (somewhat better than 'Pork')
Lettuce (sister of Bacon and Tomato)
Minniehaha (serious diaper changes for this kid)
Murder (Marshall's younger brother?)
Salmon
Strongitharm (Rachel, I think you should consider this)
Tram
Uz

So there you have it, a list of names that are almost criminally underused. Or in some cases just descriptions of crimes. Feel free to use this as a cheat sheet for any of your upcoming baby needs.

2 comments:

MamaD4 said...

I kind of like Uz...

We're all set, but thanks for the suggestions!

Pat said...

Who in God's green earth would name their child some of those names?? I mean "Lettuce." I think that is ridiculous. BTW - just in case some of you do not know Pudge's real name is Maynard. I don't think that is such a bad name. He doesn't like it.