Children are not fruit.

*snigger*

Poor kids. As if having famous parents isn't bad enough...

In Germany it's against the law to give your kid weird names. I'm undecided whether that's a good or a bad thing...

I can't quite decide if I'd rather have a weird name instead of a common name or not. I mean, I don't think I'd want to be, y'know, Moon Unit or something like that... But damn, it gets tiresome hearing someone say, "Crystal" and seeing five people other than yourself look 'round. And it doubles when someone says, "Chris."

Ah well.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I already hear all the possible cute little nicknames this fellow is in for. Or most likely already is. I feel bad. But, on the other hand, I'm not a huge fan of kids and the evil in me is laughing my ass off.

o.O

...when these kids get beat up on their elementary school playground for having these weird ol' names, we all know who's to blame.

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"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

There are so many Marys, Johns and Dannys in our extended family they have to take their fathers' first names or hair colours to differentiate between them all. Even still I'd rather be a Mary Hughie or Cathy Rua (Red haired Cathy) than an Apple or Moon Unit.

(the best is in parenthesis)

This is not a new celebrity phenomenon. Spare a thought for the now 40 year old Moon Unit Zappa...

*edited to add* huh, there were only 3 comments when I started this post - I see some of you have got there before me on the whole Moon Unit front. Apologies, I wasn't trying to thunder-steal :)

wasn't there a kid named Pyrate or something. I forget..

http://www.youtube.com/sinfulhex

i'm still in high school, so i face a plethora of normal and weird names. what's horrible around here is the fact that as of right now, i know quite a few people with the same last name and they're all either distant cousins or nieces or nephews or something.

I like the unique names. It seems like every little girl now is either Ava or Ella and the little boys are either Ethan or Aidan.I like names like Pilot or Everly or Apple but the ones where the parents just combine random letters and make up a name is a no in my book. My rule is if people can't pronouce the name upon sight then you shouldn't name your child that

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."-Helen Keller

I would love to name my kid something weird just for the fun of it (Iknow I sound mean). But everything has its limits, it is ok to use names that aren´t common but Pilot Inspektor?? That´s just plain cruel.

Don´t you like your kids at least a little??

I graduated with - are you ready for this - a:

Penny Cash and a

Glade Kitchen

No I'm not kidding! 

 What's weird b/c you can't pronounce it? Or it looks funny?  My name is Ketina,but it gets misspelled all the time and pronounced wrong all the time. It's russian-greek derived meaning katherine. Yet my mom's name is Velone, an Italian tradition name, in which the Italian father name's the daughter after his mother or grandmother .  What's considered a weird name?  Yet, I agree with  u on Audio Science- toally F%^&ed and so wrong.  So wrong, dude.  Keep in mine countries spell names differently from what they are looked or assumed to sound like?

Some people thought Soliel Moonfrye (actress from Punky Brewester) was a  weird name ?  I think her name is cool. I went to high school with a girl named Strawberry.

My two thoughts left to scent this page. Love!   

Did I ever say I would play nice?-Miss Ketina

OK..

How about the actress Gathering Marbet.  I often wonder just what a Marbet is.

MoonUnit's brother was Dweezil, another fine name.

I grew up with a double name and to this day, no one ever gets it right.

Try being Hary Melen in High School instead of Mary Helen (the usual is Mary Ellen, Mary Jo, HelenMary and every permutation thereof)

but Moxie and Apple i just think is going to far but for thoese of you who have ever been bored in enough to watch Maury or Jerry Springer tell me you don't wonder about people who name their child Lashaquanda? Seriously..

Random thought remember when Lindsey Lohan dated Riley Giles.Didn't that just bring to mind Randy Giles... if you get where i'm going with this.

Fruit and color names are fairly common here

I even know people named Cherry, Mango, Red, Blue, etc. (and someone almost named Periwinkle)

I can deal with most of the names (I even think that Rocket is kinda cool) but Moonblood??

I'm willing to give some leeway for originality, but Audio Science is ridiculous. Is it a kid or a brand name?

Still, what annoys me more are people who are so full of themselves that the kids suffer. Prince Michael Jackson, anyone? Or Roger Clemens, who loves his career so much that he named his kids after strikeouts (Ks) - Kody, Koby, Kory and Kacy. Seriously, just detach yourself from thoughts of how great you are for one second and think about the child who will have to live with your ego for the rest of his/her natural life.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. -Henry James

I'm reminded of the anecdote about when Dame Margot Fonteyn and Jean Harlow met at some function. To put it politely, they did not hit it off, and Jean Harlow kept mispronouncing Margot Fonteyn's name by emphasising the final "t": MargoT. Finally, Margot snapped, and said, "Dear, the 't' is silent - like Harlow."

Best riposte ever.

...I don't understand why everyone has such a problem with Suri, by the way. It doesn't sound stupid, and it isn't a bizarre object.

that Suri is such a bad name.. it's different but not so different that it's weird...

Nick Cage named his son Kal-El b/c he liked Superman so much

I don't know anyone w/ my name but I'm sure that there are other people w/ this name and its simple enough but that doesn't stop people from pronouncing it Dee-Anna instead of the way its spelled..

Sometimes I think kids should be able to choose their own names but They might end up picking something weird... My step-dad had an adopted sister and she was able to choose her middle name... She picked Nugget