July 10, 2005

You can tell somebody's age by their name

Back in my day, we had more normal names like Tracey, Sharon, Michelle, Patrick, Sean, Lisa and Natalie.

As I sat at church tonight looking on the roll of all the babies christened from last year to now, I had to strain to see the spellings of those names. There was one normal first name - Anthony, but most of the others were very unusual and a sign of the present times.

Jaelyn
Leighianne
Tuwonmi
Shelice
Kai Aren
Xavier
J-Khwon

I think cable television has something to do with this as well. Some of them NBA basketball players have some 'different' names. I sure if I google J-Khwon, it will turn out to be a basketball or some other black american dude's name.

Posted by yamfoot at July 10, 2005 09:18 PM
Comments

J-Kwhon???

Posted by: angrydog at July 11, 2005 12:16 PM

some childrens names are bigger than the kids themselves. Surely a sign of the times, with all the madeup names.

Posted by: Campfyah at July 11, 2005 01:05 PM

Xavier is a pretty good old-fashioned name. A saint's name, I think.

But J-Khwon? Have mercy. I think that might be the name of some r&b singer or something, but I'm not sure.

If I have any boy children, I plan to give them good old-time names from the Bible. Like Zephaniah and Cleophas and Ebenezer.... Nah, just kidding.

Posted by: titilayo at July 12, 2005 11:49 AM

Indeed... J-Kwhon!? Tuwonmi!?

Did I mention that my sister met a little girl in the States recently....who introduced herself as ..."Hi, my name's Chocolate!"

I doh know.......

Posted by: Dr. D. at July 13, 2005 12:10 PM