New Post
Search
HelpCrayton? WDYT?
Friend name their son Crayton...I'd prefer Creighton spelling, but either way, makes me think of cretin!
Archived Thread - replies disabled
1
Replies
I agree that the Creighton spelling reminds me of "cretin" but the Crayton spelling looks like "crayon" on first glance, and also reminds me of crayfish (crawfish). :b I don't care for it, either way. BTW, I know a teenage boy named Creighton and when I said his name, it sounded kind of like Scooby Doo saying "Clayton" (since I know a few Clays/Claytons but he's the only Creighton I know). LOL.
~Heather~
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix
1
I immediately think "cretin," too. I don't like it at all.
You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining.
You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining.
1
It's a bit harsh sounding. I prefer Clayton.
1
It makes me think of crayfish.
1
Crayton looks like Crayon
I pronounce it with a long A rather than a long I. Long I = Creighton, which is actually occasionally used where I live because it is a really old name in the area; there's a road, a theater and even a local subdivision named Creighton. But I haven't seen anyone use the name Crayton, and no one around here would pronounce it with the long I.
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
I pronounce it with a long A rather than a long I. Long I = Creighton, which is actually occasionally used where I live because it is a really old name in the area; there's a road, a theater and even a local subdivision named Creighton. But I haven't seen anyone use the name Crayton, and no one around here would pronounce it with the long I.
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
1
Do they really pronounce Creighton like "Cry-ton" in Texas? The university in Nebraska is quite definitely pronounced as "Cray-ton". In my experience the pronunciation "Cry-ton" is used for the spelling Crichton, as in the novelist Michael Crichton, or the character John Crichton in the science fiction TV series Farscape.
1
Well, in my part of Texas
about 45mi north of Houston, we do. I can't speak for the rest of the state, but it would strike me odd if they said it differently in El Paso or Amarillo. I don't know for sure, but I expect this is the name of a local family from decades ago, given its prevalence in this area. I've also heard Creighton pronounced Cry-ton in Austin and San Antonio, but by people who've been here, to my town.
Of course, there's also a Harris County road named Kuykendahl, pronounced KIRK-en-doll. And the town of Refugio is pronounced ree-FYUR-ee-oh. We Texans just do things differently, I guess.
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
about 45mi north of Houston, we do. I can't speak for the rest of the state, but it would strike me odd if they said it differently in El Paso or Amarillo. I don't know for sure, but I expect this is the name of a local family from decades ago, given its prevalence in this area. I've also heard Creighton pronounced Cry-ton in Austin and San Antonio, but by people who've been here, to my town.
Of course, there's also a Harris County road named Kuykendahl, pronounced KIRK-en-doll. And the town of Refugio is pronounced ree-FYUR-ee-oh. We Texans just do things differently, I guess.
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
1
Creighton = Kryten from Red Dwarf (that's where the name Kryten came from), I'm actually waiting to see Kryten in a BA, it has, after all, the trendy -ten ending and begins with a 'K'.
So Crayton immediately makes me think of Kryten, though the pronounciation is slightly different.
That aside, the same sounds very wannabe-posh to me.
~Louise x
~*~Top Names~*~
Charles Frederick & Isabel Primrose
So Crayton immediately makes me think of Kryten, though the pronounciation is slightly different.
That aside, the same sounds very wannabe-posh to me.
~Louise x
Charles Frederick & Isabel Primrose
1
Haha! totally Red Dwarf (tn)
1
Creighton looks terribly pretentious to me, since it's the name of a college in Iowa--so naming a kid Creighton is no better than naming a kid Swarthmore or Wellesley, if on a smaller scale. (It could be worse--another Iowa college is Wartburg!)
The spelling Crayton brings to mind crayons and a stereotypical TV Asian character saying Clayton.
In either case, it sounds trendy (even if the names aren't popular, they're fashioned in the same trends) and not at all as though it'd be a respectable name for a boy.
Array
...And then he said, "You're independent, aren't you?"
"Yes," said Laura.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
The spelling Crayton brings to mind crayons and a stereotypical TV Asian character saying Clayton.
In either case, it sounds trendy (even if the names aren't popular, they're fashioned in the same trends) and not at all as though it'd be a respectable name for a boy.
Array
...And then he said, "You're independent, aren't you?"
"Yes," said Laura.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
This message was edited 6/30/2006, 8:28 AM
1
I agree--I wouldn't use either spelling and that it's too trendy. It's actually a college in Nebraska, not Iowa, but it's easy to confuse all those middle red states. ;)
1
Argh! So close!
The worst part is, the reason I know Creighton is because I know someone who went there--she remains the ultimate cool in my mind, because she lived next door to a member of the band Cursive and met Conor Oberst on more than one occasion.
Can we excuse it by the fact that she'd also considered Luther (which is in Iowa)? ;)
Array (thought there wasn't anything in Nebraska besides Bright Eyes and Saddle Creek Records ;D)
...And then he said, "You're independent, aren't you?"
"Yes," said Laura.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
The worst part is, the reason I know Creighton is because I know someone who went there--she remains the ultimate cool in my mind, because she lived next door to a member of the band Cursive and met Conor Oberst on more than one occasion.
Can we excuse it by the fact that she'd also considered Luther (which is in Iowa)? ;)
Array (thought there wasn't anything in Nebraska besides Bright Eyes and Saddle Creek Records ;D)
...And then he said, "You're independent, aren't you?"
"Yes," said Laura.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
This message was edited 6/30/2006, 12:14 PM
1
Not for those of use who live there! :) Creighton University is in Omaha. It is a Jesuit school and is definitely the private university in Nebraska with the best academic reputation. It's the closest thing Nebraska has to a Harvard, Yale, or Duke. In Nebraska and Iowa Creighton therefore sounds like a somewhat upper-crust name, and lately it seems to have been more popular for boys born in Nebraska than elsewhere.
1