"You are going to call me WHAT?" Baby Names

Yes I am 26. And yes I am girl. But no my clock is not ticking.

I love babies but right now, planning a vacation with my boyfriend or my best friends is hard enough. I don't need a baby to add to all those conflicting schedules. However, like almost any girl, I have some baby name ideas.

Nothing definite. See I come from an English speaking country and an Arabic speaking country, and whoever I marry might have a different background, adding another language to the mix, so picking a name will not be the easiest.

Aside for my brother Hedi being sometimes confused for a girl - which landed him in the girl's dormitory for about 5 minutes - not the worst mistake - my parents did very well: Sara, Sami and Hedi. Easy names in French, Arabic and English. We got lucky, but not all children do.

Here are some names I would have never forgiven my parents for: North, Apple, Chanel. No kid should be a direction, a fruit or a designer brand.



A kid should also not be a social media website, a search engine, or an application. But it is happening: Google and Yahoo are as human as we are - Yahoo's parents met on Yahoo Messenger. So I guess it totally makes sense, huh?!

And if it weren't for Mexican officials creating a new law, a little girl would now be called Facebook.

What name would you never forgive your parents for?

And why do people ask us for baby name advice and then get mad when we give it to them?

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  1. Ellie February 19, 2014 at 8:37 AM

    I knew a girl in high school with the name Tequila... you guessed it. Her parents conceived her while drinking Tequila. I would be changing my name as soon as possible. Also I can't stand when kids have names like cars: Mercedes, Bentley, Porche(ia), you catch my drift.

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