Weird names

[monster]

I like interesting and unusual names. I think people need to be more creative. At camp this week, there were 5 boys named Alex and one girl -out of 100 kids. So when someone says something about "Alex", instead of immediately being able to picture the person and process the information, you had to ask which one. Two even had the same last name so we had to distinguish by grade.

If you create a new name, I think it's helpful if it's either already a word, or is something that's intuitive to spell, and something that isn't inapproriate like Vagina or Toiletbrush but beyond that, have fun! And maybe kid the kid a more normal middle name they can use if they treally don't like being unique.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by monster

I like interesting and unusual names. I think people need to be more creative. At camp this week, there were 5 boys named Alex and one girl -out of 100 kids. So when someone says something about "Alex", instead of immediately being able to picture the person and process the information, you had to ask which one. Two even had the same last name so we had to distinguish by grade.

If you create a new name, I think it's helpful if it's either already a word, or is something that's intuitive to spell, and something that isn't inapproriate like Vagina or Toiletbrush but beyond that, have fun! And maybe kid the kid a more normal middle name they can use if they treally don't like being unique.

Regarding multiple occurrences of a given name in a group...

When school began this year, SonofV, "E", found that in three of his classes, there were other students also named "E". In one class, there were three of them.

He and his friends have this cute habit. When they're playing HALO on Xbox, and a party starts, when then enter the party, they often say "Marco" as in "Marco!" "Polo!" indicating "I'm here!". In the third class described above, when SonofV was called, he was the third "E", being toward the end of the alphabet for surnames, and he replied "Marco!". The teacher looked up to see which face belonged to *this* "E" and carried on with the roll call.

As he left the class, he looked at the teacher's seating chart and where his name was on the diagram, he saw "E" and (Marco) in parenthesis. Now he's Marco.