You can always tell they're a Mormon...

LaVar, LaDan - there are tons of names like that in Utah, and they all sound totally made up to me. Are they from the BOM or somebody's hat??

She was not LDS, but I used to know someone named Latrina. Who would do that to a child?

LMAO - poor kid

Latrina Waters? Her father was in the Army?

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> Who would do that to a child?

Nastia Luekin's parents.

Not a bom name but Jennica is my new favorite crazy Utah name because Jennifer and Jessica just aren't doing it so why not combine them.

I've known several--nay, many--Utahns who have made up names from both the names of the parents or of the two grandfathers. "Boydell" and "Dalyn" come immediately to mind.

I was named after my mother's mother, Donna. She was a wealthy non-Mormon, and my father really wanted the money. Over the years he told grandma how rotten his children were, so he could isolate the estate. I could hardly speak to my grandma, so low was her opinion of me. Sure enough, grandma left everything to my mother, which my father seized by means of priesthood dominance.

All that's left is my name.

Mormon girls weren't given middle names for generations. Kept the geneology charts a lot simpler.

They ration temple names out to masses who receive identical names. Running out of names you know.

So tell me Latwanda, wouldn't you want your very own birth name to be spayshul ? ? ? ?

This drove me crazy - none of my SIL's have middle names and took their maiden name as their middle name after they married. It always seemed to me that the message was - the men in our family are worthy of a middle name but you girls have to EARN your middle name by getting married. What if they never married?

DD got a middle name and has, over the years, gotten several lectures on not depriving her daughter of one. I know it's not entirely a Mormon thing but the way it's done in my husband's family has put me off the idea for life. Besides, how would a daughter know when she was in trouble if you couldn't use her middle name?



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Interesting. In my mother's family, all the females got their mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mother's middle name was Bleak. Great! <sc>

Shummie Wrote:
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> Mormon girls weren't given middle names for
> generations. Kept the geneology charts a lot
> simpler.


Aaaagh. So THAT'S why.

I didn't get a middle name and my brother did.

Utah is the "name prophecy state". See http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/12/how-to-name-baby.html

Then of course there is the venerable Mormon Name Generator.


http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/mormon/index.php#.UtCbO_RDvTo

bentleye Wrote:
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> Then of course there is the venerable Mormon Name
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> http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/mormon/index.
> php#.UtCbO_RDvTo


So why is it venerable?

Is it venal?

I've been mormonized...My Mormon name is Alynza Casualeen

so the generator just adds to it. The result is more of a Mormony porn-star name: ______ Honey Dawn.

Laleen Armachian here.

I think the Mormon name maker knew I was just a touch wicked.

I know a De Ron & Le Ron (twins), a Zeeland, a DaCoacha...and on and on...

Ron Burr

My son has a mormon name. I keep waiting for someone to mention it on here. It has come close. (one letter different)

from everyone else; to stand above the crowd and show how special you are. Evidence of this abounds in TBM FB activity; everyone always trying to show how perfect and superior they are.

I have a whole gaggle of TbM married and unmarried nieces and nephews on FB. The women in particular spend all of their free time fixing themselves up and posting numerous selfies. They seem to have an inordinate need for validation and a desire to to distinguish themselves.

It's pathological.

What I find particularly odd about the weird name syndrome is that in UT at least there will be a whole bunch of babies born around the same time named "Picketfence" for example but the spellings will vary, ie. "Picetphence" "Piketfence" "Picketfense"....

I reapeat...pathological..

Picketfence?

I had a friend named Bob Wire

Utahna, lots of Vaughn's, and a few younger boys named Benson.

Yep - The good old combined name.

Lucille and Gene have a daughter and name her LuGene.

LuGene marries and all her girls have Lu*** for names. She was married to a Don so LuDon was used for one of the girls.

what I find interesting with Mormon names is how a lot of Mormons use Tongan or south pacific type names for their children. From what I know, this happened before I was born, but I have also grown up with many kids with "island" inspired names. Lailani anyone?

I new a Lailani, She was a nurse at a company I use to work for.

I can think of three I know. All Mormon. I think the name is pretty, I just find it funny that a white-ass family would name their child that.

We gave all our girls middle names.. This was '70's-80's.