A Rose By Any Other Name…

Last updated on: August 22, 2014 at 3:57 pm by Rebecca Frech

A Rose By Any Other Name… 2014-08-22T15:57:23-05:00 Rebecca Frech

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It was all over the news this morning that some yankees named their baby Wrigley Fields. The parents are die-hard baseball fans and thought it was an appropriate name, all things considered. They gave him the middle name Alexander in case he found Wrigley too difficult when he was an adult.

I don’t get what all the fuss is about. Those of us who live south of the Mason-Dixon line have been naming our kids weird things for years. For example:

1. Justin Case- no foolin’, this was my brother’s best friend in elementary school, he was the second son and his folks thought it was funny. So did Justin.

2. Merry Christmas – a family counselor who helped our family after my mother’s car accident when I was 14. In all fairness, she married into this name, but she changed it from Mary to Merry on her own.

3. Crystal Shanda Lear – I went to school with this girl and no one knew her weird name until graduation.

4. Julian Forest A. – We’re related to this one, doesn’t seem strange until you know she’s named for the actual Julian Forest.

5. Lahusticia -She dated a friend’s son. It’s supposed to be “the justice” in Spanish, but he parents didn’t speak Spanish or know that it was supposed to be spelled with a ‘J’

6. My all time favorite was a woman in my hometown born to non-english speaking immigrants. They couldn’t come up with a name for her, and were glad that the hospital came up with one for them. Her name? Female, pronounced fay-mah-lay. She kept it and laughs about it often.

Be honest, how many of us know someone named after a favorite horse or hunting dog? Heck, that crocodile hunter named his baby girl after his favorite croc and his favorite dog, Bindi Sue. So lighten up on the parents of Wrigley Fields, they love their baseball and they love their boy. Now they can love them both together.

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