The weirder the name the weirder the person. That's empirical.

Weird is easy. Unique is hard. It'll come to you if you let it.

Anton I say !!!

argh

I like Max. I also like Ace. Darragh is a nice Irish name.

I have a friend (ex-coworker, really) who named his kid Axle. The first syllable of his last name is "Weld." Apparently I am the only person who thinks this is awesome.

Unfortunately, zip, you can't use the puppy naming algorithm for babies. They insist you have a name for the beast before mom and baby are discharged from the hospital, which is well before baby has established a personality. If it doesn't have a social security card, it doesn't exist these days ...

There were a couple of books, now out of print IINM, by John Train titled: Remarkable names, more remarkable names and even more remarkable names. (OK that's a few and not a couple) the names were gleaned from phone books, hospital records, etc.

A number of 'infant male' and 'infant females' kept their names into adulthood. This is apparently the name you get when you can't decide, yet it is time to vacate your room at the hospital.

Oh, I could tell you stories of some names that I see in my line of work.

Take medical terminology that 'sounds purty', add someone without a complete grasp of the English Language, and you end up with a child named some weeeeeird stuff.

You can leave off the last names to protect the innocent, but do share with the rest of the class...

Yes, do. I could use a laugh.

We have a common surname/last name. Our children have unusual but not never-before-used names: Hebe, Hector and Thor. Hebe is more common in the UK than US, Hector and Thor are more common in the US. We have only ever met one child with the same name as one of our children, and that was another Hebe. Just in case they grew up to hate their names, we gave them each two middle names -one almost guaranteed unique and one pretty ordinary. But we wouldn't be offended if later down the line they chose something completely different. A rose by any other name and all that....

Oh and congratulations!

"Hebe" is generally considered an insult on our side of the pond.

Originally a racial one, no less (though not so much anymore). In the Hispanic population, Hector is downright common over here, but I've never met a Thor.

But thanks for the congratulations, monster!

I be,
we be,
she be,
he be,
it be,
them be.

What's the problem?

Not if pronounced correctly ;)