Interesting baby names... From the SSA

[smilz4782]

A century + ago
snip.ly/W45k#http://mentalfloss.com/article/53301/least-popular-american-baby-names-according-early-records

[SassyPants150]

I think Icy is a pretty slick name.

[t1green]

My boyfriend's sister named her son Boden and I keep wanting to call him Boner.

I'm really 12 and not 28.

[t1green]

Feb 5, 2015 17:48:13 GMT -5 SassyPants150 said:

I think Icy is a pretty slick name.

I see what you did there.

[ajm0711]

I would laugh if someone called their kid Handy. To me, I just think it reminds me of someone being 'handsy.' Or I might have to add Andy as his middle name. Handy Andy.

[smilz4782]

Feb 5, 2015 17:55:54 GMT -5 ajm0711 said:

I would laugh if someone called their kid Handy. To me, I just think it reminds me of someone being 'handsy.' Or I might have to add Andy as his middle name. Handy Andy.

Handy is sometimes short for a hand job...

[t1green]

Feb 5, 2015 17:57:16 GMT -5 smilz4782 said:

Feb 5, 2015 17:55:54 GMT -5 ajm0711 said:

I would laugh if someone called their kid Handy. To me, I just think it reminds me of someone being 'handsy.' Or I might have to add Andy as his middle name. Handy Andy.

Handy is sometimes short for a hand job...

Oh that poor kid is going to be made fun of so much in school.

[SassyPants150]

Feb 5, 2015 17:54:34 GMT -5 t1green said:

Feb 5, 2015 17:48:13 GMT -5 SassyPants150 said:

I think Icy is a pretty slick name.

I see what you did there.

[t1green]

Mayo? Really?

[smilz4782]

Ova and Chestina make a good sib set I think

[ajm0711]

Feb 5, 2015 17:57:16 GMT -5 smilz4782 said:

Feb 5, 2015 17:55:54 GMT -5 ajm0711 said:

I would laugh if someone called their kid Handy. To me, I just think it reminds me of someone being 'handsy.' Or I might have to add Andy as his middle name. Handy Andy.

Handy is sometimes short for a hand job...

Maybe that's what I was thinking of.  I knew it sounded dirty to me. 

[psmomma718]

Feb 5, 2015 17:57:16 GMT -5 smilz4782 said:

Feb 5, 2015 17:55:54 GMT -5 ajm0711 said:

I would laugh if someone called their kid Handy. To me, I just think it reminds me of someone being 'handsy.' Or I might have to add Andy as his middle name. Handy Andy.

Handy is sometimes short for a hand job...

This was the first thing that came to mind... poor child. 

[onceinlovewithamy]

I had a Great Aunt LuLu who's name was Louvenia. She was born in the 1910s. True story.

So many of those names scream "My parents were illiterate" because it's SOOOOO close to a popular name... just spelled incorrectly.

[veenie]

Murl and Dorathy? People like youneek spelling in the 1800s too!

[sarahchrismck]

Joseph is a nice name.
But Joesph? Yikes.

That spelling reminds me of a student I have this year named Brayan - pronounced "Brian."

[snapdragon]

Hahaha I want to know what kind of man would literally name his son "Son."

[allisong87]

Flem? ***barf***

[smilesp]

Isn't there a book called Icy Sparks (the main character's name)?

[SassyPants150]

Feb 5, 2015 18:18:20 GMT -5 onceinlovewithamy said:

I had a Great Aunt LuLu who's name was Louvenia. She was born in the 1910s. True story.

So many of those names scream "My parents were illiterate" because it's SOOOOO close to a popular name... just spelled incorrectly.

I've done a lot of work on ancestry.com and it's amazing how education has evolved. In a lot of the census cards from the early 1900s there are a lot of misspelled common names. My dad's middle name is Arnold and at one point it was misspelled and he changed it. 

[robotpcr]

I'm a fan of Pinkey.

Actually, my grandma's name was Mardell (the name from 1924). Everyone called her Mardy. DH loves it. He'd name this LO Mardell if I let him.

[shmee]

That's it. It's official. I'm renaming this girl Gaynell.

[lupineaura]

I like to think Lovey (1883) and Dove (1882) became a lesbian couple. Lovey-Dove.