Weird Kid Names

[AnaKhouri]

Have anyone else's kids named their stuffed animals/dolls/imaginary friends incredibly weird crap? Or is it just mine?

My 4-year-old son, Khan, has just acquired a Glow Pet (perhaps you have seen their commercial on TV, or a display in your friendly neighborhood drugstore). It's a blue and yellow light-up stuffed dog.

Khan named him Meat Roast.

He also has a stuffed owl named Garage Man, and a whole group of imaginary friends/story characters, including Fish Farm the highly skilled ninja, and a family of supervillains beginning with Soup Pot (and his brothers, Knife Pot and Ice Pot, and their cousins Fire Pot and Sand Pot). His recurring playtime superhero is Iron Devil (which, honestly, sounds pretty cool).

And he has a stuffed hamster named Anna.

So just how weird is my child?

[mathnerd]

My middle son, when he was about 4 years old, had a stuffed elephant named Toothbrush.

I sure there have been other weird names, but in my exhausted state, that's the only one I can remember for now.

[Lachrymose]

Your child is weird.

But awesome.

[AnaKhouri]

I think I should rent him to celebrities who are pregnant so he can name their babies for them.

[protege]

...and I thought I was weird for having a Toyota named Melanie...

[fireheart]

Khan named him Meat Roast.

So just how weird is my child?

Meat Roast.

Sounds like your son wants to be a chef

[Headset Hellion]

My daughter got a toy from a kids' meal when she was 2 and promptly named it "Mashed Tato!"

[AnaKhouri]

Sounds like your son wants to be a chef

He says he wants to be an artist, but who knows? In my experience, people rarely end up being what they wanted to become when they were 4 (for instance, I am not a unicorn. Yet).

[Teefies2]

He says he wants to be an artist, but who knows? In my experience, people rarely end up being what they wanted to become when they were 4 (for instance, I am not a unicorn. Yet).

There's always hope .... unicorns have not CONCLUSIVELY been disproven

[Eevie]

I had a little stuffed dog named "Hookie". I had my reasons for the name. I would bend my finger into a hook shape and then hang her there by the ribbon on her neck. I later kinda realized that that was rather disturbing.

There were others I had. A rainbow colored bear named Rainbow Bear was another one I can think of off the top of my head...

[Linda]

My brother named our guinea pig Butcher Boy when he was 3 or 4. No idea where it came from!

[cindybubbles]

I named the smallest of my first goldfish Petite Anite. She was also the first to die.

The last one was called Snow White because of her silvery scales.

[fireheart]

I named my turtle Tommy (after the Rugrats character) when I was a kid (I was around 6-7 at the time). My sister (around 3) named hers Fluffy

[DGoddessChardonnay]

...and I thought I was weird for having a Toyota named Melanie...

Mine is called Bonnie Blue. And Mom's 1973 El Camino was called Elrod.

I have two laptops, one is Gypsy, the other is Ducky. My current iPhone is Rosie and the old one is Otter.

Want to talk about cat names? I had a litter years ago whose names were Chablis, Merlot, Lambrusco and Fetzer. But there again, there was the other litter comprised of Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Wendyburger.

Your little Khan sounds just fine to me. Different is a good thing and normal is boring.

[MoonCat]

When one of my sisters was a kid she had a stuffed dog named Telephone. I actually remember how that happened...we were playing some silly game and she grabbed one of the dog's floppy ears, held it to her ear like a phone receiver and said "Hello?"

I don't think I had any weirdly-named toys or imaginary friends, but right now my computer and printer are named Stanley and Meredith*

*Reference, anyone?