My wife and I are haveing a baby!

[ZombieHorde]

If we have a girl, we decided on the name Isis Kali.

If we have a boy, my wife wants to go with the name Chaos, but I am still uncertain about that name. She says his nickname would be Oz, which is a cute name.

[Redstone]

1. CHAOS? No, just fucking NO. Remember he'd have to live through his life with that moniker/

Redstone

[Tikki]

2. Maybe if you have...

a boy and a girl twins they can be nicknames Issy (Izzy) and Ozzy (Oz).

Anyways...CONGRATULATIONS...kids don't mind their names, whatever...They respond best to:
"Come here sweetheart, Do you want a cookie?!!"


Tikki

[ZombieHorde]

13. Thank you.

[tigereye]

3. Chaos! that's cute. My husband wanted to name our son Nebuchadanezzar,

Buckminster, and all kinds of names, but I put my foot down...


congratulations!

[ZombieHorde]

11. Thank you. Nebuchadanezzar does have a nice ring to it though.

Sounds poetic.

[Odin2005]

4. I'd pick a different boy name if I were you.

Chaos? what kind of a name is THAT? :wtf:

[ZombieHorde]

9. I feel a little off about the name as well, but my wife is in LOVE with the name.

She actually mentioned the name Odin to me once, but we really have not talked about that name.

[Odin2005]

15. LOL!

[ZombieHorde]

17. My wife is anti-god, except on the subject of children's names. nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. cute

:rofl:

[rcrush]

6. You should name him Captain Jean Luc Picard of The Starship Enterprise.

[ZombieHorde]

7. That sounds more like a middle name to me. nt

[Taverner]

8. I like both names! Especially Chaos...

Ever consider Loki?

[ZombieHorde]

10. Yes, but my wife had a dog named Loki, so she feels funny about naming a child Loki. nt

[Taverner]

12. Gotchya! Posible middle name of Schrodinger?

:rofl:

[ZombieHorde]

14. LOL nt

[whistler162]

16. Well that will give the courts something to do in

18 years or so!

[Call Me Wesley]

18. Congrats!

I'd settle for Ka-Os, it's just more cool. ;)

To be honest, don't give them exotic names unless their last name will adapt to it. Lysistrata Miller? Forget it. Echnaton Smith Jr.? Forget it. Huckleberry Finn? There ya go!

[ZombieHorde]

20. Edit because I feel funny giving personal information out on a public forum. nt

[Call Me Wesley]

24. Then you're fine for almost any name.

Even 'Godzilla!' :woohoo:

[trof]

26. KAOS: "an international organization of evil"

Get Smart

The series centered on bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams), also known as Agent 86. His experienced partner is young Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), whose real name is never revealed in the series.<3> Agents 86 and 99 work for CONTROL, a secret U.S. government counter-intelligence agency based in Washington, D.C. (at 123 Main Street, a fictional address). The pair investigates and thwarts various threats to the world, though Smart's incompetence invariably causes complications. However, Smart never fails to save the day, typically thanks to his own dumb luck and often by 99's skills. Looking on is the long-suffering head of CONTROL, who is addressed simply as "Chief" (played by Edward Platt).

The nemesis of CONTROL is KAOS, described as "an international organization of evil". KAOS was supposedly formed in Bucharest, Romania, in 1904.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Smart#KAOS
:rofl:

[WinkyDink]

19. Oswald is Oz; Chaos would be Kay (like in Kaiser).

[ZombieHorde]

21. Unless you ask my wife. nt

[mitchum]

22. Congratulations, but when I read your headline...

I thought you were going to tell us about dinner

Honestly, congratulations :)

[ZombieHorde]

25. Thank you, and I deserve the skepticism. nt

[redwitch]

23. I have a cat named Trouble and my advice is this:

DO NOT NAME YOUR SON CHAOS! You will rue the day. Series.

[ZombieHorde]

27. I have a son named Dionysus Pan, and I think you may be on to something. nt

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

28. Chaos isn't going to win him many friends in school

unless you nick name him Chaz or something like that. I had a cat named Tasmanian Devil but we called him Taz. Chaos for a first name combined with your last name is not a nice thing to do to your kid.

JMHOT.

Congratulations on the impending birth!

[trof]

29. I feel a gentle tugging on one of my lower limbs.

I do believe my leg is being pulled.
;-)

[ZombieHorde]

30. Our mothers wish. nt

[trof]

32. Necessities are the mothers of invention.

'Struth.

[femmocrat]

31. Please reconsider.

If she wants to call him "Oz", then name him "Oz". Of course everyone will call him "Ozzy". :eyes:

I can imagine his teachers' reactions, "Uh oh, here come Chaos!"

[ZombieHorde]

33. The name Poseidon has also been thrown around. His nickname would be Poe.

I like Poseidon because of the old belief Satan is the ruler of the Ocean. Some of my in-laws still feel this way.

[applegrove]

34. Congrats!

[ZombieHorde]

35. Thank you. nt

[gmoney]

36. I think you're just baiting us...

...but in case you're not, just consider this is a person, not a hamster or a WOW avatar you're talking about.

Keith, Jon, Stephen, Michelle or Rachel would be good names to consider.

[ZombieHorde]

38. How do you feel about the name Barack Hussein? nt

[gmoney]

42. Too trendy

[Arugula Latte]

37. Congratulations!

But, on another note, if you are serious about the "Chaos" thing ... Um ... Baby naming is not to show how "out there" and different and unconventional you can be, IMO. The child is the one who must live with the name, and suffer the consequences.

[ZombieHorde]

39. Thank you. I don't think my wife is interested in being "out there," she just likes the name.

What do you think the consequences would be?

[Arugula Latte]

40. Teasing. Endless questions -- Is that your real name? How do you spell it?

Applying for a college or a job--you start out with a disadvantage.


***

http://www.babyzone.com/pregnancy/babynames/article/choosing-unusual-baby-names

...Unique names can have serious consequences, however.

They are harder to pronounce, which can be frustrating, especially for younger children and for teachers coping with a new class at the beginning of the school year. "My name is Elvira, but children and even teachers (who only made things worse) would make it Elmira, Olivia, Alvera ... I soon learned to come to whatever sounded like my name," says Bates.

Unusual spellings, especially of common names, may make the person stand out, but people will always be misspelling the name. "Only your mother and your husband will get it right," notes Shaye' Gurrera. In the day and age of spell-checkers, one's name may get automatically misspelled: Karina to Karen or Finola to Finale.

On a more serious note, studies have shown that people tend to negatively judge people with unusual names solely on the basis of the name.

"Sociologically, a very general finding is that people don't react well to things that are new and unusual. They aren't as comfortable with it, and that applies to names," says Dr. Albert Mehrabian, PhD, author of The Name Game and The Baby Name Report Card. For over a decade, Dr. Mehrabian has studied how a name changes perceptions of a person's morality, cheerfulness, success, and even masculinity or femininity. Compared to names standard for our culture, unusual names are rated dramatically lower in all categories—even a change of spelling in a common name will negatively affect someone's scores, he says. "I know a lot of people don't like to hear that, because they think they're being creative. They think they're making their kids (individual), but blue hair is unusual. But is it desirable?"

[ZombieHorde]

47. Interesting article. My wife is a sociologist major, I will have to show her the article. nt

[crispini]

58. But, on the bright side of having an unusual name --

there is only one of me! :)

[midnight armadillo]

41. Then why not name him Oz?

If that's the name you like, just run with it. Oz isn't too bad. Chaos, though, sucks as a name. Your child will not grow up with an appreciation of his parent's ironic sense of humor.

And Isis Kali? That's sort of mixing cultures in a weird way, unless the child will actually have egyptian/indian heritage.

Our two sons have their 1st names from my father and my uncle (my father's little brother) who both passed away too young of cancer before the boys were born. Their first names were ones we just liked and that sounded good with the middle names.

[ZombieHorde]

48. I am not so into Oz, my wife is. My own name is a wierd mixing of of coltures,

which has never been a problem.

[betharina]

43. congratulations!

don't discuss names with people. i wanted to name my daughter zuzu. i got all kinds of "don't do THAT to her". she was named zoe instead. i regret it a little. i still call her zuzu.

[ZombieHorde]

49. Thank you and thank you. nt

[question everything]

44. Sigh. I wish that parents did not project their frustrations

on their kids, give them normal names that identify the gender and let them have as normal life as one can have.

Kids will have cruel nicknames anyway, why make it easy on the bullies?

[ZombieHorde]

51. I think you are projecting your frustration onto my OP.

What is a normal name, what is a normal life?

[LeftyMom]

45. Pick your child's legal name based on what will look good on his/her business card someday.

Naming a kid is not a good time to handicap their future success with your desire to express your individuality. If you want to do that skip the baby thing and get vanity plates.

[ZombieHorde]

52. Amateur psychology seems to be a popular past time. nt

[proteus_lives]

46. This reminds me of a FB group I once joined.

"If one million people join this group, my wife will let me name our newborn son Starscream." :-)

Zombiehorde?

Boy: George Romero "Last Name"

Girl: I'm Coming To Get You Barbara "Last Name"

[NewJeffCT]

50. Congrats

best wishes for a happy & healthy baby

[ZombieHorde]

53. Thank you. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

54. Aw jeez...pick some real names

Enough of the bullshit. Time to grow up.

[ZombieHorde]

55. What is the definition of a "real name"? nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

56. Congrats

The time you have left to play stupid games like this is quickly drawing to a close, in any case.

[ZombieHorde]

60. You are being immature. nt

[LibertyLover]

57. I really like the first name of Isis

since She in one of my matron deities. Kali, not as much. But congratulations - wonderful news!

[ZombieHorde]

61. Thank you. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

65. Yeah, Kali seems like a heavy name for a baby, especially given the

idea that people have sacrificed children to her.

[Shell Beau]

59. Congrats! When is the sweetie due?

[ZombieHorde]

62. Thank you. June. nt

[kwassa]

63. I suggest Moon Unit and Dweezil.

in honor of Frank Zappa.

[GreenPartyVoter]

64. Congrats! :^D The boy's name might need a little tweaking, though. The last

thing you need is people treating him as if he really does bring chaos everywhere he goes.

[ZombieHorde]

66. Thank you, and I have some similar concerns about the name. nt

[foxfeet]

67. Congratulations and all the best for a safe, easy delivery and a healthy child!

Speaking as one who was given a common name (the most common for my year of birth, IIRC). I wouldn't have minded something less run-of-the-mill. There are many cultures in which individuals have one name for public use plus one or more secret names that are used only among kin or for religious purposes. That gives a good deal of flexibility.

[ZombieHorde]

68. Thank you.

[Forkboy]

69. Plus, in a zombie apocalypse you'll have something to throw to the zombies...

...buying yourself time to escape. :evilgrin:

Congrats to your wife and you. A little zombiehorde to call your own! :toast:

[ZombieHorde]

71. Thank you, and yes, we can always make more babies now that we figured out where the penis goes.

All that hentai gave us weird ideas. I still don't know where to put the squid.

[elshiva]

70. Congratulations! Oz is a great name.

A zombie begets a werewolf:

[ZombieHorde]

72. Thank you. nt

[elshiva]

73. You are welcome. I love your username.

[Soylent Brice]

74. congrats!

Chaos sounds awesome.

Oz would be a great nickname.

I always wanted to name one of my kids Ptolemy.

[ZombieHorde]

76. Thank you. nt

[chrisa]

75. "Chaos?" That's freaking bad ass...

"Look, here comes Chaos walking down the street."

Awesome! B-)

[ZombieHorde]

77. Thank you. nt

[madmom]

78. That's my cat's name except we spell it with a k, Khaos.