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HelpRe: Still suffering from name regret-thoughts/advice appreciated (LONG)
in reply to a message by anxiolytics
I think it's a bit silly for someone to think a child is named after a hurricane. After all, the names given to hurricanes have been in use FAR longer than we have been naming hurricanes. (I wonder if someday there will be hurricanes named Jayden and McKynleigh. I'd say I hope not, but maybe all the people who think Katrina, Andrew, Gloria or Hugo are named after hurricanes won't name their kids Jayden etc. Heh.)
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Probably a few people named their kids after hurricanes, if the kids were born during or almost during the storms. I heard of a lady who gave birth in a storm shelter during Hurricane Isabel and named her baby Isabel, for instance.
But probably most people directly affected by a bad hurricane would not want to name babies after the storm. Nor do I think anybody would naturally assume that a particular baby was named after a storm, unless the name itself was very uncommon and only became widely known due to being the name of a bad storm.
But probably most people directly affected by a bad hurricane would not want to name babies after the storm. Nor do I think anybody would naturally assume that a particular baby was named after a storm, unless the name itself was very uncommon and only became widely known due to being the name of a bad storm.
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I agree with you, but I am afraid he won't. And it's not so much the "she was named after" for him I imagine as the association with a relatively recent negative event.
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