I was talking with a friend today who said they read a little news story about a family who named their kid Face after the popular website Facebook. The writer of the story thought that was so strange and said it must be the weirdest name ever for a kid.
I guess they don’t keep up with happenings in Thailand because Thai kids have tons of weirder names than that. I mean, just here on my blog where I blog about Thai hotties we have girls with names like Stop (you might remember her sexy video) and Jeans (that’s her above). And I won’t even get into all the fruit and animal names because those aren’t weird at all to us.
What about all those Thai celebrities with weird names, starting with the name Weird (yes, we have a celeb named Weird), Fluke, Dome, Bus, Beer (very common now days), Pepsi, Coke, and the funniest one I have heard in a long time I saw on TV today, a girl named Bowling (I am NOT kidding).
So, silly little western newspaper people and their sooo unusual name of Face, visit Thailand and have your eyes opened to the possibilities.
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May 29th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
I suspect that naming children after animals and fruit is an old cultural tradition, and extending that to modern products seems a reasonable extension. But using trade names like “Pepsi” and “Coke” (and is “Fluke” named for the flounder, the flatworm, or the electronics company?).
She goes by Nong Jean in your gallery. Is this a common practice – using the last name – or is it simply a choice on her part to use her last name?
Lovely lady.
May 29th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
Pepsi has gotten sort of popular. I have heard several girls named that.
Not positive about the name Fluke but I think they got the idea from the English word that means “an accidental advantage or stroke of good luck”.
Nong is a title used for a young person. Jean is her nickname and the name she would be known by to most people.
May 30th, 2011 at 1:51 am
I have a friend named Kittipanachol and no one can pronounce it properly. We just decided unanimously to call him Kitty