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[littlefallsmets]

She has lots and lots of money and she was physically attractive because she started painting herself up like a whore.

He needs lots and lots of money to hire dominatrixes (dominatrii? dominatrices?) who will indulge him his disturbingly specific foot fetish.

It is simple math, people.

[AugustWest]

It's spelled S-M-I-T-H, but it's pronounced Jimnoffsky.

[theinevitable]

We share the same spelling of the same middle name. I still feel weird spelling it. In my head it sounds like "mick-eye-l" like a yiddish person might say.

Yeah, I am always bugged by writing my name in IPA, because it comes out as "daA-CAPl."
Apparently the El part in names like Michael and Daniel is where they got Kal-El from, though. Awesome.

[CortJstr]

Yeah, I am always bugged by writing my name in IPA, because it comes out as "daA-CAPl."
Apparently the El part in names like Michael and Daniel is where they got Kal-El from, though. Awesome.

The new filter claims its first victim.

[Arachno-capitalist]

The new filter claims its first victim.

Success

[Ben-San]

Yeah, I am always bugged by writing my name in IPA, because it comes out as "daA-CAPl."
Apparently the El part in names like Michael and Daniel is where they got Kal-El from, though. Awesome.

Yeah, the "El" in those names is referring to God. (Daniel = "Judged By God", Ariel = "Lion Of God", and so forth.) Since Superman is the product of a couple of Jewish kids, they went with that tradition when looking for names that have grandeur.

Rachel ain't got that one going for it, though. It's kind of hard to explain in Roman letters but that bit is written pretty differently. Sort of the best way to explain it might be that it's "ra - che - l" and Daniel is sort of "Da - ni - y - e - l". Sort of. Also it's a Germanic loogie-hocking "ch" and not a front-mouth-crunchy "ch". (These are totally not scientific linguistic terms.)

[theinevitable]

Oh man, I can totally correctly write my name in Arabic now. My professor would always say "just sound it out! Daniel is not an Arabic name, so however you spell it is fine" and that bugged me.

so is the e in "el" like a long ee sound, since Hebrew is consonantal? I always wrote Daniel like "DNYL." Which looks pretty damn boring in Arabic, it doesn't use any of the cool-looking or -sounding letters.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I am glad to see that the use of "Rachael" has actually gone DOWN since Ms. Ray took to the airwaves.

Here is a thing I wrote on my blog a couple years back:
Found something while playing around with the SSA's baby name-o-matic, which shows the ranked popularity of names, and the number of American kids given that name in 2003. Through this tool, we can see that the girl's name "Paris" has jumped to #275, after hanging around in the 400-500 range for the previous 12 years.

Nothing wrong with "Paris" per se. But what's sad is that there are 500-odd little girls out there who are, essentially, named after Paris Hilton.

[wombat]

An interesting thing that I have noticed when I peruse the SS names site is that girls' names have always changed with fashion, but for decades the top ten boys' names stayed almost the same. But in the last couple of decades the most popular boys' names have started changing too.  I feel like this must mean something really deep but I don't know what it is.

[littlefallsmets]

It means that we have graduated up from simply treating our girl children as ornamental larfs that can be named in a manner of humiliating fads to treating ALL our children, boy and girl, as ornamental larfs that can be named in a manner of humiliating fads.

Equality through de-evolution, y'all!

My dad wanted to name my brother and myself Agamemnon and Ajax... Mom talked him down to Michael and Daniel as, since they are Biblical, they are just as mythological as anything from Greco-Roman myth.

Were I to ever sire children, I would do my best to give them good solid names like Edward or Katherine or Nathan or something. I don't care how unplanned a kid is, you just don't name them MarsAssault Bravo, no matter how much you hate them for being.

Hunts move.

[CortJstr]

The temp sitting next to me right now is named Aristotle but everybody calls him Ares for short. He doesn't exactly have a god-of-war build, so I'm guessing he got teased a lot growing up.

[jay-ell]

Yeah, who would do that to a kid.  Seriously.  Greek mythology is no place to get a child's name. 

I mean, you may as well take an obscure name from Shakespeare or something. 

Shit! 

[Carlos del Vaca]

Popularity of the female name Britney
Year of birth Rank
2006 474
2005 431
2004 350
2003 322
2002 236
2001 198
2000 137
1999 205
1998 451
1997 422

Someone's star has fallen.

[smick]

My dad wanted to name my brother and myself Agamemnon and Ajax... Mom talked him down to Michael and Daniel as, since they are Biblical, they are just as mythological as anything from Greco-Roman myth.

Though I was intent on not procreating for various reasons, I had always fancied naming a young lad "Leviticus".   He would have to take the Mom's last name, or a third, entirely chosen last name, as "Leviticus McBride" doesn't flow well.   Something about that hard C sound in Mc.

Something more along the lines of Leviticus Stanton. 

Luckily I was stopped before anyone was harmed by my odd feelings towards nomenclature.   My son, however has his own problems, as he is named after an Heinlein character. 

[V-Adore]

I'm not sure I have a lot of room to talk here, as not only do I have an extremely trendy name (according to this SSA thing, my name was the third most popular the year I was born, and this is borne out with my anecdotal evidence that there were always two or three of us in every class I ever had), but it was inspired by a Barry Manilow song. (Not directly, but in the sense that that's where the name first entered my father's consciousness; I still think that's pretty damning.)

... That came off as a trivia question, didn't it? Oh, well. I can't imagine my name and year of birth are all that hard to derive.