Twilight's influence on baby names in Texas

[The Straight Story]

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Welcome to the world, Sir Genius! The bizarre baby names thought up by Texas parents


Texan parents appear to have been working overtime to come up with the most outlandish names for their children.

Unusual monikers given to newborns in the Lone Star state range from the pious, such as JesusNazaret, to the simply incomprehensible - pity poor baby Gorgeousg'zaiya.
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The wacky naming habits were revealed as it was announced that Jacob was the most popular boys' name in Texas during 2010, ending the 14-year reign of Jose at the top of the popularity chart.

Jacob's rise could be due to the teen phenomenon of Twilight, whose werewolf hero Jacob does battle with vampire Edward.

Isabella was the most popular name for Texan girls, according to the Houston Chronicle, as it was across the U.S. as a whole.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080573/Bizarre-baby-names-thought-Texas-parents.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[Xipe Totec]

1. Boy, my cousin's names are tame by comparison

Xochitl - (Flower)

Lluvia - (Rain)

Cielo - (Sky)

[badgerpup]

3. OK, the second two I recognize as Spanish...

...but Xochitl...is that Mayan?

The very few examples I've seen of this language seem to make frequent usage of the letter "X"...and of putting a lot of consonants together without a vowel buffering them.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Nahuatl

The language of the Mexica, also known as Aztecs.

[REP]

10. So is chichiltictepetzacuxochitl Nahuatl?

All I know is "Laelia speciosa" is a tad easier to spell

[Xipe Totec]

11. Yes, as a matter of fact, it is.

chichiltic: Red

tepetzacu: The root word is tepetl: mountain

xochitl - flower

[REP]

13. You guessed my next question!

I thought "flower" was there at the end, but it was just a guess.

Here one is, growing in Mexico (not my photo; it's from IOPSE)

[Bucky]

8. I've had a couple of Xochitls in my classes these past few years

It's pronounced "Sochi" with a silent "tl".

[Xipe Totec]

12. And Xochiquetzal - Flower-bird

I love that name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochiquetzal

[no_hypocrisy]

2. True story.

I taught at a nursery school/kindergaren in 1982. One set of parents had two children enrolled. The parents were a piece of work: they had loved Star Wars so much, they'd seen it 50 times. And named their kids accordingly.

The son, Luke, carried his name without any raised eyebrow. Not quite so for their daughter, DeeToo. (I'm serious!)

And now the punchline: their last name was Rabinowitz.

[JI7]

6. aren't most fans of that teens and preteens ?

[marmar]

7. Well Texas does have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country.....

nt

[Selatius]

14. Likely, not higher than the state I live in: Mississippi. :/ nt

[tammywammy]

17. Actually it does

Texas ranks 4th in teenage pregnancy and Mississippi is 5th.

1 - New Mexico
2 - Nevada
3 - Arizona
4 - Texas
5 - Mississippi

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/USTPtrends.pdf

[Bucky]

9. How odd would it be if my folks' generation got their baby names from popular movies

Hmmm... I might've been named "Hud" or "Inspector Clouseau"

or, god help me, "Julius Kelp"

[Cleita]

15. Well, I guess it beats naming them after soap opera characters, which

was all the rage the last time I was in Texas. What ever happened to passing down family names? I was named after a grandmother and an aunt and a much younger cousin was named after me. My step daughter was named after her mother and an aunt. Is that too old fashioned and dowdy these days?

[Ron Obvious]

16. Baby names

Some countries, such as Sweden, make it illegal to give your baby a "weird" name. A nanny state encroaching on personal freedoms to be sure, but then I foresee years of violence and mockery being inflicted on poor Gorgeousg'zaiya in school, so I see their point.

We went traditional. Our daughters Grace, Hope, and Chastity were named after the virtues and are very pleased with their names. On the other hand, our sons Greed, Sloth, and Gluttony think they got a raw deal, the whiners.

[Tx4obama]

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