What's the oddest first name for a kid you've run into?

yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:19 PM Original message

What's the oddest first name for a kid you've run into?

I teach, so I see a lot. Dax and Dorcas stick out in my mind for some reason. Dorcas was a girl whose fundamentalist parents wanted to use a biblical name, but there are only so many choices and most of them are used to death in the church, so in order to be semi-original, they chose Dorcas. She is probably still in therapy. Anybody got worse?

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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:21 PM Response to Original message

1. Urea..

:(

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Clarkansas (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 10:58 PM Response to Reply #1

72. Two sisters named Leather and Metallica

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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:26 PM Response to Original message

2. I went to school with girls named Sparkle, Bubbles and Sunshine

Those'd be okay names for pets, but kids should get names that sound reasonable in an adult profession that doesn't involve pasties.

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eeyore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:31 PM Response to Reply #2

6. Damn, were you homeschooled on the road with The Dead?

Bubbles? :rofl:

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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:32 PM Response to Reply #6

7. Worse, suburban public school when the hippies grew up & started breeding.

:scared:

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eeyore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:59 PM Response to Reply #7

12. You Californicators are wacky!

Up here in Oregon we stick to nice names like Tree (yes I know one of those).

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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 05:41 PM Response to Reply #12

20. I knew a Tree

Probably the singular most amazing person I've ever known — the kind of woman you wanted to marry within five minutes of meeting her. And, in line with Horus45's post below, I once saw a Chlamydia in the birth announcements. :eyes:

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Crazy Guggenheim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:10 PM Response to Reply #2

141. I knew a Sunshine at a Jr. College in Oakland.

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Horus45 (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:27 PM Response to Original message

3. The woman who named her daughter Syphilus...

She pronounced it as Si-phil-us. Oh, and when I was in High School I had a female classmate named Lasagna Watson.

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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:37 PM Response to Reply #3

46. Yep,

my mom's OB-GYN told her years ago he'd had a woman who named her twins THAT and Gonora. She'd heard the words in his office and thought they were pretty. :eyes: fsc

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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:09 AM Response to Reply #3

80. my college roommate went by "Cheese"

Since I'm "Mike" and there's a million Mikes, when I'd order pizza, I'd use his name. I called one time and when they asked for my name and I said "Cheese" they hung up on me.

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I_love_SNL (51 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 06:21 PM Response to Reply #80

172. Cheese Luise!

(that was intended as a pun. I'ts rather punny!!!:rofl:

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eeyore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:29 PM Response to Original message

4. Nimrod

Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 04:29 PM by eeyore I taught a kid named Nimrod once. He was from from Israel, so it may be Hebrew. :shrug: But, damn, that's just not right here. :rofl:

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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 05:04 PM Response to Reply #4

14. Nimrod was a Biblical king.

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yewberry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:30 PM Response to Original message

5. Yes.

I just googled it (just the first name) and came up with 15 hits, all about this one person. Imagine the only person with your name. Wow.

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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:34 PM Response to Original message

8. Advice to parents:

When you pick a name for a child, play around with it a bit. "President Dorcas Smith" "Chairman Nimrod Rosenblum" "Doctor Bubbles Pound" "Judge Syphilis F Christ" "Sir Urea King"

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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:37 PM Response to Reply #8

10. Agreed.

And if can't resist the wierd name, pair it with a normal one so Dr. Bubbles can be Dr. B. Anne Pound if she wants.

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lakemonster11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:53 PM Response to Reply #10

48. That's my plan.

I like a lot of unusual names (Andromache, Hero, Jadzia, Blane, Caleb, Lysander, etc.), but my plan is to use the more unusual ones as middle names paired with more common first names. The less unusual ones I might use as first names, but then I would choose more standard middle names that the kid could decide to use if he or she didn't like having an unusual name. My name is very common, so I'd like to give my kids more unique names, but I also don't want them to feel like freaks. I would never, for example, name my daughter Nike, even though I love that name, because everyone in the the US would pronounce it "NY-Kee" instead of "NEE-kee" and think she was named after the athletics company.

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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:36 PM Response to Original message

9. "Del Monte" - no joke.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3268161.stm Materialistic baboons want to name their children after a corporate trademark and not pay the corporation a just due pittance?! (we'll see that happen next...)

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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 04:47 PM Response to Original message

11. I went to school with a girl whose parents were

former Hippies, or Hippy wannabees, I dunno. The girl was named Echo in the Dawn Mist. And then of course, she had a normalish last name like Smith or Brown or Jones or something. So, 'Echo in the Dawn Mist Wagner.' We just called her Echo.

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lakemonster11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:57 PM Response to Reply #11

50. Echo isn't bad

I mean, at least "Echo" was a nymph, so it's meant as a girl's name, anyway. "Echo in the Mist" is beyond weird, though.

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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:28 PM Response to Reply #11

113. Happy Tillya Amnesty Rainbow

I was in the Army with a guy from Humboldt county he knew a whole family of hippies with names like that. One was named "Even" because he made it even 2 boys and 2 girls...or something like that.

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colinmom71 (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 09:43 AM Response to Reply #113

159. Went to school with a girl named Happy...

Unfortunately, her last name was Neal. Care to guess how many McDonald's jokes were made at her expense?

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eeyore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 05:00 PM Response to Original message

13. I went to school with Cinnamon Rose Parfait

Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 05:01 PM by eeyore Everone at school called her Peanut Buster Parfait like the dessert at Dairy Queen. Damn.

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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 05:25 PM Response to Original message

15. "Female" (pronounced fee-mally')

At Grady Hospital in Atlanta when I worked there in my college days. The parents thought that the doctor named her when they saw "Female Jones" on the birth certificate.

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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:17 PM Response to Reply #15

56. yep

I know one of these, too - NOT an urban legend. I have a friend who is a teacher who had one of these in her class.

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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:36 PM Response to Reply #56

63. I actually saw more than one "Female".

I worked in the pediatric emergency clinic (Poison Control Center) at Grady. I didn't get it until I saw the name in writing. A young, beautiful, Emory pediatric resident, who's name was Margaret, explained it to me.

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spindrifter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 11:05 PM Response to Reply #15

74. There are quite a few kids with the names

Female and Male. Guess that the birth certificates had to get turned in before the moms made up their minds.

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Ekirh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 05:26 PM Response to Original message

16. Cinnamon N/T

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Saphire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:30 PM Response to Reply #16

128. I once saw Syniman...took me a while to figure it out.

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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 05:26 PM Response to Original message

17. Friendship

Yes, another poor child of hippies. Her full name was Friendship Peace Cunningham, and I dated her for a while in HS. As I understand it, she changed her name to Jennifer the moment she turned 18.

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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 05:38 PM Response to Reply #17

18. That's pretty bad...

I was a hippie myself and some friends of mine named their little boy "Riverdove". (Seemed like a good idea at the time).

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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:25 PM Response to Reply #17

60. The Puritans used names like Faith, Charity, etc.

There were probably a few Friendships in Puritan New England too.

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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:07 PM Response to Reply #60

139. my mom is "Hope"

true, it's her middle name, but that's what she goes by.

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Evergreen Emerald (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 05:40 PM Response to Original message

19. Harry Butts

Married Rosie... actually, I made that up.

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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:01 PM Response to Reply #19

21. Here is a real one: Ima Hogg (1882 - 1975)

Miss Ima was the daughter of Texas governor James Steven Hogg. And contrary to urban legend, Ima Hogg did not have a sister named Ura. http://www.famoustexans.com/imahogg.htm Miss Ima Hogg

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Evergreen Emerald (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:47 PM Response to Reply #21

64. oh that is awful.

How about Annetta Dick?

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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:49 PM Response to Reply #64

147. I knew of an Anita Dick

- she was married to Nobel J. Dick.......

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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:05 PM Response to Reply #19

136. There's an OB/GYN in Fairfax, Virginia

named Harry C. Beaver. http://www.hcbmdbom.medem.com/ he's retired now, but he delivered several of my friends, and he used the name "Harry" so that's what's on their birth certificates.

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Crazy Guggenheim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:47 PM Response to Reply #136

146. OMG!

:rofl:

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ContraBass Black (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:15 PM Response to Original message

22. Tom.

It wouldn't have been ramarkable if his last name hadn't been "Morrow."

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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:16 PM Response to Original message

23. A girl - Darius Mercury

Her brother is named Bannick.

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lakemonster11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:00 PM Response to Reply #23

51. I knew a boy when I was little named Darius.

His family was from Iran, so they had named him after the Persian kings. It seems like a weird girl's name.

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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:02 PM Response to Reply #51

52. I have know a couple boys named Darius.

This would be the first girl.

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lakemonster11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:08 PM Response to Reply #52

54. It seems like "Daria" would be the obvious female equivalent.

It's like naming your daughter "Harold" instead of "Harriet."

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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:18 PM Response to Reply #54

57. Well her parents are

pretty strange.

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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:10 AM Response to Reply #54

81. I know a female Darius, too!

Her last name is an "M" name, too. For a second, I thought we had a "six degrees" thing going on.

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suzbaby (906 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:21 PM Response to Original message

24. Gene Pool

He went to my high school. His parents must have had a sick sense of humor.

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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:26 PM Response to Original message

25. OH, yeah - try these

My mom is a legal secretary and she swears (this is admittedly secondhand, you see, but my mom is not inclined to exaggerate or lie - very by-the-book, my mother) that two children in a recent divorce were named 'Lemonjello' and 'Orangejello' - pronounced 'Li-mon-ji-low' and 'Or-an-ji-low'. No shit. I also have a friend who is a teacher who once had a student named 'Female' - pronouced 'Fe-mall-ay' like 'tamale' - apparently the mother thought she had already been named because her tag said 'Female Smith' or whatever. :shrug:

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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:28 PM Response to Original message

26. I've heard of two other Dorcas' nt

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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:31 PM Response to Reply #26

28. remember years ago when David Letterman...

did shows on different cities icluding Denver? He did his top ten list of ten worst real names in Colorado. And #2 was a guy that I knew - Harry Dix. #1 was Mary Christmas.

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blockhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:46 PM Response to Reply #28

38. I knew of a Harry Dix

he lived in Williston, North Dakota

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JohnnyCougar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 09:17 PM Response to Reply #28

65. Was that the list he got Dick Assman off of?

He really played that out for a while. Dick Assman from Regina, Saskatchewan. It was hilarious.

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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 06:16 AM Response to Reply #65

97. Hey, they have an Asman on Faux News.

Come to think of it, they have several assmen.

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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 06:17 AM Response to Reply #97

98. Justin Thyme

My son briefly thought of changing his middle name which is Nicholas to Skywalker. Very briefly.

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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:30 PM Response to Original message

27. also, I went to school with:

Annazette Sinatra (first name) Telkia La'Kika Elizabeth Taylor James Bond (who was Native American ?!) Michael Murphy Clovis Shantel (first and middle names) and others that I now cannot remember.

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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:35 PM Response to Original message

29. Candy Cain was our real estate agent once nt

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:40 PM Response to Reply #29

31. I knew a "Candy Barr" and a "Paige Turner" in college.

There used to be a "Rusty Butt" in the phone book, as well as a "James Kirk." I know because, um, er, I did some prank calls as a kid.

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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:37 PM Response to Original message

30. and I knew of a Lake and his sister Brook...

Trout. In Minnesota, of course.

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:40 PM Response to Original message

32. Brud.

Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 06:40 PM by Ladyhawk I thought the kid's name was "Brad," but no, it was "Brud." Hmmm.

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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:41 PM Response to Original message

33. An Aunt from my father's fundamentalist side of the family...

has taken up naming their children after firearm manufacturer's: Wes,Remmy,Smith, and Colt. I sh*t you not, folks.

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:43 PM Response to Original message

34. Swindell. n/t

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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:44 PM Response to Original message

35. I almost forgot Justin Case! nt

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spindrifter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 11:07 PM Response to Reply #35

75. And there is Justin Thyme.

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Giant Robot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:45 PM Response to Original message

36. This may just be an urban legend

but my sister-in-law swears that there is someone that goes to a clinic she worked out named Shithead, prounced Shuh-theed. She said she thought it was prank the new girl, but then saw the medicaid card and assorted paperwork and it was real. I dunno....

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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:16 PM Response to Reply #36

142. YES! My great-uncle taught a student with that name.

It's no urban legend. Now, I heard that story, and went, :wtf:

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bmbmd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 06:45 PM Response to Original message

37. Why you ask, Two Dogs Humping?

Actually, the best man at my wedding was Erastus Cicero Payne III.

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purr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:12 PM Response to Original message

39. My mom has a friend named Dorcas.. I still laugh

when I see her name pop up on the caller id.

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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:15 PM Response to Original message

40. I was only 19 when I had my first son.

And studying acting. So, I named him "Arlechino" after a 15th Century Commedia figure, a trickster, the one that got the money AND the girls just before he was run out of town. "Arlo" for short. And, he STILL speaks to me. lol

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In_The_Wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:18 PM Response to Reply #40

42. Hi sfexpat.

I'm glad your son isn't holding a grudge. :hi:

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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:20 PM Response to Reply #42

43. He's a really cool guy.

But, you never know when they will turn. :)

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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:17 PM Response to Original message

41. Dick

Kidding.

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Elidor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:28 PM Response to Original message

44. The most striking name I've ever encountered is

Noble Stern. An actual person, related to an aquaintance of mine. What kind of parents would hang a name like that on their kid? He looks it, too.

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carpetbagger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:33 PM Response to Original message

45. There's a whole website of 'em, funniest..website..ever

I really do mean that it's the funniest website I've ever seen. http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

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GirlinContempt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 10:56 PM Response to Reply #45

71. SCATMAN

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:44 PM Response to Reply #45

144. OMFG....

"How about Lou? When I was in England, I heard that name and it seemed to have a little tinkle to it. Randy is good too. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: *takes a breath* :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:44 PM Response to Original message

47. A family of kids that went to Lanier, my old HS....

named their kids Dallas, Houston, and Austin. :eyes: fsc

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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 07:55 PM Response to Original message

49. Yushismita

A girl named by a mom who traveled to India and got sucked into one of those commercial gurus. She later regretted naming her daughter that way.

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woofless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:04 PM Response to Original message

53. My first grandson is named Talon

He's a sharp little feller.

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lakemonster11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:12 PM Response to Reply #53

55. Are his parents Star Wars fans?

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woofless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:27 PM Response to Reply #55

61. Not especially.

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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:21 PM Response to Original message

58. Dorcas is a Greek name

It means "gazelle."

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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 06:46 PM Response to Reply #58

134. It still sounds bad in English

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DebJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:25 PM Response to Original message

59. Richard (i.e. Dick) Head...name was on a mortgage application

when I worked for a mortgage company twenty years ago in Maryland. We looked him up in the phone book, and he was listed.

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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 08:33 PM Response to Original message

62. Three-in-One

as was his father and grandfather. He is Three-in-One III.

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Sacajawea (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 09:36 PM Response to Original message

66. Minor Bishop.

This was the name of a man who belonged to the same hiking group in NY that I did. Sometimes I wonder just what parents are thinking (or what they are using in lieu of brains) when they saddle children with such albatrosses. As if growing up isn't hard enough for most kids.

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haydukelives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 10:05 PM Response to Original message

67. Hill

Tree hugger couple I knew named their boy Hill

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spacelady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 10:12 PM Response to Original message

68. Mike Hunt

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Rowdyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 10:16 PM Response to Original message

69. ROTC classmate Napoleon Bonaparte "Jackson" (last name changed)

Called him Napoleon.

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ucmike (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 10:18 PM Response to Original message

70. we have "skye blue rainbow" in our family

yeah. i know. and her last name is hyphenated because her dad had an ethnic last name so he used our family name so people wouldn't stereotype him...then hyphenated it for his kids. i guess he didn't care if they got stereotyped. (fyi, he was never stereotyped, people treated him poorly because he was an asshole) my brother teaches 4th grade. he has a "Jihad" in his class. the kids parents are american muslims. i guess they don't have a whole lot of concern for how he gets treated, either.

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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 05:24 PM Response to Reply #70

166. God, how cruel is that?

"Well Jihad, do you want us to beat you up now or after homeroom?" :eyes:

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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 11:00 PM Response to Original message

73. Rugathurd

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GrumpyGreg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 11:08 PM Response to Original message

76. I went to school with a Dorcas many ,manyyears ago. That's not

a bad name.

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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:07 AM Response to Reply #76

79. Dorcas? Dork? Dorky? Even if the word "dork" wasn't an insult, it would

still be less than mellifluous. I liked the girl I met named Dorcas too. It's just the name that was unfortunate.

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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 06:21 AM Response to Reply #76

99. Dorcas is from classical Greek pastoral lit.

Went into English via the Renaissance poets. And sounded silly there. lol

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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 11:26 PM Response to Original message

77. LaTrina. What the hell did she use for a nickname, "John?"

Redstone

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DanCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Dec-04-05 11:28 PM Response to Original message

78.  Addisson,

A guy I know named his kids after the streets around wriggley field.

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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:20 AM Response to Original message

82. Bunny. And if you can believe it, he was a "Jr."

yup...Bunny Sr. Named his kid Bunny. They went to a church we attended in Maryland. On Easter sunday as the parishiners filed out greeting the Reverend, he was forced to say...and i am not making this up.... "Happy Easter.....Bunny"

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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:26 AM Response to Original message

83. There was a kid in a

school I taught at twenty years ago named Arpad, a perfectly good Hungarian name. That kid suffered mightily, though, as the other kids routinely made fun of him, croaking "Arpad" like a frog and adding "ribbit, ribbit." The poor kid was always on the verge of tears. My advice to parents: Give your kid a name that won't become excess baggage. Life is hard enough.

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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:25 PM Response to Reply #83

112. I knew a Hungarian family with an Arpad,

a Kristof, a Gabor (boy) and a girl named Emese (pronounced Emmesheh). They were all fabulous soccer players and all-around athletes so I don't think they had too many difficulties. Of course we all lived in the Little Hungary section of Somerset and New Brunswick, NJ.

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AlienGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:46 AM Response to Original message

84. I worked with a Gidget. nt

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ChoralScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:14 AM Response to Original message

85. I have a kid in class

whose first name is Declan. Apparently Declan was a saint in the Anglican church. On a related note, I have a girl in class whose last name is Queer. Poor kid.

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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:49 AM Response to Reply #85

89. Elvis Costello's real name is Declan McManus.

I like that name.

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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:58 AM Response to Reply #89

91. Costello traded the clunky for the stupid

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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 03:34 AM Response to Reply #91

92. That's blasphemy!!

Heathen!

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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 06:44 PM Response to Reply #92

132. I amend: half tacky, half stupid

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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 06:45 PM Response to Reply #92

133. it makes me wonder if his second choice wasn't "Jethro Abbott"

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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:56 AM Response to Reply #85

90. as long as she didn't marry a guy named Bates

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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:26 AM Response to Reply #85

94. That's a pretty common Irish name.

I knew a couple Declans when I lived there.

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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:38 AM Response to Original message

86. Humphrey

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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:44 AM Response to Original message

87. Bobby

When I was 8 I ran into him and knocked 2 teeth out. I don't think I've run into any other kids, so I guess that would have to be it.

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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:48 AM Response to Original message

88. Not kids, but

the principal at a friend's daughters high school was , I kid you not, Mr. Dickoff. There was a guy who I met years ago named Climax Higgins ... now that's a real spur of the moment name. :bounce:

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Dangerously Amused (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:02 AM Response to Original message

93. I haven't run into any kids yet.

I have always been able to swerve at the last minute. It appears my fellow DUers here have not been as fortunate. Though, I shudder to think how many kids one would have to run into before coming up with a "Dorcas," or some such.

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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:47 AM Response to Original message

95. Muffin Lord.

She was my dean in college. She was about 50 and probably could have changed it if she'd wanted to, but I guess she just decided to be a sport about it. In the U.S., I also taught a Buttercup. But the hands down goofiest names I've heard have been since I started teaching in China. These include: MyCyan D-Blink hmily (not a mispelling- an abbreviation for How much I love you) Jelifen Nikle English Cindarelly Aufusisi Duoduo (pronounced doo doo) Weinberg Flion Sky, Winter, Crystal, Gucci (all men) Bogart Passion (a five year old girl. The mother got it from Sex and the City. She was trying to spell "Patience".) Tempter (a man) Duckla (a man) Many, many more...

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regnaD kciN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 06:05 AM Response to Original message

96. I once heard of a boy named Marion...

Marion Morrison, to be exact. He became an actor, and wound up changing his name...to "John Wayne."

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Tari (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:52 AM Response to Original message

100. Kid w/ first name Mister. And another whose first, middle & last names

were all colors. His first name was Golden.

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AllegroRondo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 09:13 AM Response to Original message

101. I knew a guy with 2 daughters - Allegro and Adagio

he was a musician.

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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:21 PM Response to Reply #101

110. He obviously doesn't understand Italian

The "o" ending is masculine. "A" is feminine. The correct names for his daughters should be Allegra and Adagia.

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windlight (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 09:15 AM Response to Original message

102. Smokey Knight

I kid you not... Smokey in-and-of its self isn't bad and neither is the last name all the uncommon, but come on... this poor kid...

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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:19 PM Response to Reply #102

109. Does she have a sibling named Pips? n/t

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windlight (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 12:08 PM Response to Reply #109

161. but Smokey was a he.

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Lumily (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 11:32 AM Response to Original message

103. Aquaneta.

She was a senior in high school when I was a freshman. She said her mother named her after Aqua Net hairspray. Her mother literally had a two foot tall beehive.

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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 11:36 AM Response to Original message

104. Tequila! I have known 2 girls by that name!

Also when I worked in the courthouses doing title work, I came across strange names. My fave was Loyal Stoner. I kid you not!

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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 11:50 AM Response to Original message

105. Antjuan

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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 12:02 PM Response to Original message

106. Bich

Vietnamese girl's name, apparently

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dolo amber (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 12:03 PM Response to Original message

107. Gravel

Yes, like wee pebble-y driveway covering. x(

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_testify_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 12:04 PM Response to Original message

108. Tequila, and Legit...n/t

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Left_Winger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:23 PM Response to Original message

111. As a teacher I encounter many unique names as well

my favorite: Wendy Anne Rainey.

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CottonBear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:33 PM Response to Original message

114. My aunt is named Dorcas. Unusual but not unknown here the south.

I think it means gazelle in Hebrew.

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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 01:34 PM Response to Original message

115. Crayon

Her last name was Brown.

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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:34 PM Response to Original message

116. Senator

I've also met kids named Sir and Mister (first names)

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youthere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:41 PM Response to Original message

117. Thor.

Edited on Mon Dec-05-05 02:42 PM by youthere Thor Fleischman. Seriously. He got hit A LOT.

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conflictgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:47 PM Response to Original message

118. I know someone who named all of her kids unusual names

The most unusual was the youngest, a boy named D'Artagnan. They call him "Tag" for short. I hate to even mention it because I know she's online (not here but it's possible it could get back to her). She's a VERY nice person, but I have to say that was a pretty odd name to me. One of my friends that I've known since kindergarten named her daughter MaKena Danae. Notice the weird capitalization pattern in that first name, too.

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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:06 PM Response to Reply #118

138. it's a classic name

were the other boys named Athos, Porthos, and Aramis?

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satireV (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:50 PM Response to Original message

119. Back in the 1940s and 50s, interns were allowed to name children

who they delivered for the indigent. The indigent were of course ill educated so 20 years later the hospitals would start seeing people named. Urethra Ovary Fallopian Testes Langerhans

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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 02:59 PM Response to Original message

120. I knew of a Mercedes Benz in high school

Edited on Mon Dec-05-05 03:00 PM by WildEyedLiberal There are these two siblings in my town: the boy, Thunder, and his sister, Pepsi Nicola. There's another family that named all their kids after guns AND Indian tribes (first and middle names). There's Winchester Dakota, Baretta Lakota, and Remington Cheyanne. Winchester is the only boy.

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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 03:37 PM Response to Original message

121. Pussy

And she didn't eat cat food either. :shrug:

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WeRQ4U (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 03:42 PM Response to Original message

122. Squirrelisha & Jermajesty

Saw Squirrelisha in the Portland Oregonian a couple years ago. Haven't seen anything touch it since. Jermajesty is Jermaine Jackson's kid's name. Dumbass.

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Rob H. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 03:54 PM Response to Original message

123. Marvalista

No, I'm not kidding. She and I had the same homeroom in high school.

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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 03:55 PM Response to Original message

124. I was once acquainted with Pepper and Speara Minte...

I know, that's pretty bad. But including people I've never personally met, I gotta go with the Pittsburgh Steelers' Plaxico Buress. I mean, Plaxico? Seriously?

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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:18 PM Response to Reply #124

143. THAT is just hysterical!

Pepper Minte! Speara Minte! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:02 PM Response to Original message

125. "Depressed Cupboard Cheesecake"

The child of a couple in the UK. Poor bastard... The most unusual I've actually met is probably Merlin, but he quite likes it.

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MN ChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:17 PM Response to Original message

126. Squirrelisha

Someone posted here that they had seen evidence of a kid named that. :scared::yoiks:

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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:17 PM Response to Original message

127. Princeton

His dad was a grad, and was proud of it I guess...

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Saphire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:31 PM Response to Original message

129. o.k. not only giving a child a wierd name, but spelling it wierd, too.

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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:34 PM Response to Original message

130. storm and raindrop...and neither of their parents are weather forecasters

:shrug:

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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 04:42 PM Response to Original message

131. One unfortunate underclassman at my HS was named...

Nagash. Admittedly, the kid was Middle Eastern, but I still found it amusing/pitiable. And if we're allowed to extend this to adults, one of my professors is named Precious.

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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 06:47 PM Response to Original message

135. Branch, Huckle, Blue,

and....Rani Day...and her sister, something or other Rainbow :)

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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:10 PM Response to Reply #135

140. I knew a "Branch".

Branch Bernard Burton III We called him "Bee Bee". :-)

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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:06 PM Response to Original message

137. Radio

Radio Johnson. He was born when radio was the rage.

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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 07:44 PM Response to Original message

145. Scartisha n/t

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Bzzzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 08:41 PM Response to Original message

148. Oscar...

jeeez...just think what comes to mind???

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Dave Reynolds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 08:57 PM Response to Original message

149. Ora, middle name Lee. Really.

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hopein08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 10:26 PM Response to Original message

150. Get this...a kid in my high school class was SEYMOUR BUTTS...

he went by Andy Butts, needless to say. Last I heard he had gone to West Point and was doing extremely well there.

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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 05:28 PM Response to Reply #150

167. We had one too.

Only he went by Wally. Wouldn't YOU? fsc

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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon Dec-05-05 10:50 PM Response to Original message

151. TriAnthony. CatWoman loves that name.

But there's only one of him.

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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 12:08 AM Response to Original message

152. Randy Mann was a friend of my eldest brother

He went to England, and never returned ;)

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CC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 12:57 AM Response to Original message

153. Sandy

Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 12:57 AM by CC Crank and the grands swore it was a crank call and hung up on him. A very real person that worked with my mom, and he had the sexiest voice I have ever heard from a man.

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ariesgem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 05:38 AM Response to Original message

154. I knew 2 sisters named

Nana and Lady

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laylah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 06:03 AM Response to Original message

155. Have a friend in Colorado

who named her kids Kia, Zephyr, Barak, and Komette.

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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 06:15 AM Response to Original message

156. These are real. I can only remember four out of six but they are

truly real: Fire In The Belly of the Lord Maranatha Jubilee Hallelujah Amen Sojourner Fortruth there are two more but I forgot. my mom was a librarian and so I know this stuff. Their parents' name? Jill and Tom Lee.

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BikeWriter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 06:17 AM Response to Original message

157. yurbud

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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 11:59 AM Response to Reply #157

160. It's my read name backwards: DuBruy

not

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cmd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 07:22 AM Response to Original message

158. Blaize, Zowie, Aliscaya or Blaze, Zoey, Alicia

Teachers do get some with odd names don't we? One of my fellow teachers named his daughter Keisha Butts, Angel Fish was a student in another building; buy our all time favorite was Dickie Large whose name always appeared on class list as Large Dickie. I have a nephew Dax. His mom was a fan of a rock star by that name.

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Horus45 (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 12:11 PM Response to Original message

162. I used to work with a woman whose first name was "Pornpen".

She was from one of those Baltic countries.

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Cathyclysmic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 12:14 PM Response to Original message

163. Floyota....

knew a lady that named her child after two things.... 1) The baby daddy's name (floyd) 2) and where she was conceived (a Toyota) Floyota...oh what a terrible feeling....

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Chalco (817 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 12:17 PM Response to Original message

164. Kfearless nt

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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 12:25 PM Response to Original message

165. Latrina

A daughter of an alcoholic.

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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 05:31 PM Response to Original message

168. reprehensor used to work with a girl

named "Harnjing Puni" at some telemarketing company he worked at. They were supposed to give their names before they went into their spiel, and she could never finish. They'd hang up the minute she said her name. fsc

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RumpusCat (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 05:50 PM Response to Original message

169. Brothers: Beau and Arrow

Yeah, my ex knew them. She lived in a hippie town, lol. I knew a boy named Lindsey--I know, I know, that's traditionally a male name, but I don't think he appreciated being the one to have to hold up tradition! I have a super common first name and so I'm inclined to give my kids semi-unusual names just so they don't have to have my experience of being one of five Sarahs in a rather small school. I promise not to go overboard and will give them a normal buffer middle or first name, tho'! :D

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dr.strangelove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-06-05 06:02 PM Response to Original message

170. I went to school with an Asswini (sp)

He was indian and used a different name after the mean 4th and 5th graders on the bus got through with him (called him Ass-Weeny all year). He went by Atal (sp) from 2nd grade through 5th grade, which I think was a family member's name. I probably am wrong on the spelling of these names. I have not seen him in 20 years so I don't anything else. I don't know what Asswini means, but the remarkable similar sound to childish references to the buttocks and penis always made this stand out in my mind as one of the funniest names in the world.

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Tue Dec-06-05 06:05 PM Response to Original message

171. Dick Hickey

Honest, he was my father's best friend. You'd think he'd have gone with Rich or Rick or something, but no. He'd be close to 90 now -- died many years ago.

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