I have to speak out. I have been keeping it in for so long, I feel like I'm going to explode. What is up with these Hollywood people and naming babies? Do they think that since they are in Hollywood, they always have to be quirky. Here's a website that gives some of the names. Take a look.

http://www.ivillage.co.uk/pregnancyandbaby/pregnancy/newborn/articles/0,,18_631911,00.html

I think the worst one of that bunch is Pilot Inspektor , Jason Lee's kid. What do you think?

Your link doesn't work, I had to copy and paste it into a new window...


But, I really hated these names...


Dixie Dot and Bibi Belle
Elijah Bob Patricus Guggi Q (although Elijah by itself is nice)
Betty Kitten , Honey Kinney and Harvey Kirby
also hate Pilot Inspektor
Racer, Rebel, Rocket


Geez. Don't they realise these kids are going to grow up to hate them??

In fairness, they called "Tallulah" the most "user friendly" of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's childrens' names. Tallulah, isn't really a celebrity name. It's a traditional Native American name. And Scout, whether they think it is user friendly or not, is also NOT a hollywood name, it's a literary one. They go ahead and mention that Daniel Baldwin's son Atticus is was named for To Kill a Mockingbird, but they just call Scout non-user-friendly...

I guess what I'm saying is, some of the comments regarding the more traditional of the hollywood baby names strike me as almost as odd as the stranger names themselves. But I gotta tell ya, those strange names don't restrict themselves to Southern California. People all over the country are going crazy changing spellings and making up new names so their kid is "unique" without realizing that A) sometimes blending in is a good thing and B) being unique has very little to do with your name. I'm a Melissa, for crying out loud, and managed to remain fairly far off from main-stream. I took care of a little boy when I worked for the preschool who's name was "G'est" because when he was born his father pronounced that he was the "G-est baby boy". You know, as in Homey G? No, not Homer G. Homey, homeboy G. The G'est. And that boy will be G'est for the rest of his life.

*shakes head and shrugs shoulders*

Sometimes there's just no accountin' fer people.

I have heard childrens names in Liverpool ranging from Dartagnan to Rambo, my own daer father toyed with the names Granville and Horatio for me my sister got Corina Jay. This wild naming idea is not confined to celebrities. A childs name
should be something you can shout (without feeling a fool)
Other names encountered include :

Robin Banks
Henrietta Cock
Vera Death
Martha Farquar, and
Cherry Topping

Regards,

Tin

I couldn't get eytank's link to work, but here are some strange celebrity baby names that I don't care for:

Julia Roberts' baby boy, Phinnaeus Walter: What's she going to call him? Phinny?

Courteney Cox's baby girl, Coco: That sounds like the name of a hyper little dog, such as a Yorkie or a Chihuahua!

Gwyneth Paltrow's baby girl, Apple: I wouldn't want to be named after any fruit, not an apple, strawberry, peach, grape, etc.

But people have the right to name their kids what they choose. However, the kids might hold it against them as they grow up! Can you imagine applying for a job, and the employer sees a name like "Coco" on the application?

Sorry about the link. You have to cut and paste it onto your adress screen for it to work.

Coco is another terrible name. I can just see her sitting at the breakfast table and someone saying, "Pass the cocoa, Coco." Yeesh, some people.

Do parents forget what it was like to be a kid? Can they look back in time and wonder how they would have felt if there parents had given them similar names? I bet that as soon as these kids turn a legal age, they will change there names to something more normal.

If you're gonna saddle your kid with an unusual name, have a sense of humor about it. Like Bill Lear, who heads up the LearJet Corproation. He named his daughter Shanda.

Oh, how we all laughed and shook our heads when Frank Zappa named his son Dweezil.

I went to girl scout camp (a loooooooooooooooooooong time ago) with a girl named Valentine Hart. I have also seen the names Sherry Necessary, Hortenz Waffle, and Bishop Outhouse. (The last one was in the phone book!). A high school friend's dad was in the army with a John Commode. No kidding.

And Cher named her daughter Chastity. Eargh.

I agree some of those names are awful. I do however like some of them.
I love the names of Jude Law's kids ... Iris, Rafferty and Rudy.
I also like Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman's ...
Maya Ray and Levi Roan Green
Oh and Geena Davis's kids have cool names...
Alizeh and the twins Kaiis and Kian.
And Julia Robert's ... love Hazel not so sure about Phinaes though. It would have been better as Finn (or even Phin).
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reggie,

they will be calling him Finn, which should make things easier on him when he hits school age.

I also like the name of William Baldwin's daughter ... Jamison Leon
and Alec Baldwin's daughter ... Mercedes

>>>>>>>>.Can you imagine applying for a job, and the employer sees a name like "Coco" on the application?


Wouldn't mind if my last name was Arquette Cox

I knew this post was around somewhere. Anyways, I heard another one that just drove me up a wall (literally, I was in the car when I heard this on the radio ).

Rob Morrow just named his daughter Tu, as in Tu Morrow. It sounds like an Abott and Costello routine.

Teacher: What's your name student?
Student: Tu Morrow.
Teacher: What's wrong with telling me today?
Student: Know, that's my name.
Teacher: What is?
Student: Tu Morrow.
Teacher: No, I want to know now.

That's almost as bad as Shanda Lear...

Some of these names are truly horrific. I think its a kind of selfish to give children desperately hip names, it's no wonder so many children of celebs grow up and change them. Apple has to be the worst one. I think Jonathan Ross's kids names are quite sweet.

A new winner. Nicholas Cage has just named his son Kal-El.

Isn't it so nice (and surprising) that Britney named her baby Sean Preston? To be fair, that kid will probably have enough to deal with without having to worry about his name. But it's a very nice name!

Ha...Along these lines, have just heard that Nicholas Cage, a great comic book fan, has named his son Kal-El... Superman's real name...what a joke!!!

How we all cringed when Frank Zappa named his daughter Moon Unit.

I heard on a music quiz show the other night that Diana Ross has a daughter named Chudney. It was all a misspelling on the birth certificate, apparently, as they meant to name her Chutney.

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Isn't his son Dweezil, or something like that?
One of my favourites has always been David Bowie's son,...Zowie Bowie.
I've also heard a tale of some actress who legally changed her last name to Seagull, because she saw a sea gull die and believed that its soul entered her body. Apparently she then named her son Free Seagull.

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Isn't his son Dweezil, or something like that?

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There's also son Ahmet and daughter Diva. Those aren't quite as terrible, I guess--unless you consider that Diva's middle name is Muffin and Ahmet's is Rodan! (Sounds better than Godzilla, I suppose. )