Weird names
 

There is lady I see on local TV from time to time and I just wonder what her parents were thinking when they named her VAJOYA? :eyebrow: Is that a common name? I don't think I have ever heard of it before.

I think what happened is: when the baby was born, the dad (a sheltered chap) was watching and said Ohmigod, it's coming out of her vajayjay; and by a series of mad coincidences and equally mad misunderstandings, she ended up with the name Vajoya.

According to a TV show, there is a kid getting about whose name is pronounced Absidee ... but spelled Abcde.

Child abuse, this is.

Here we go again... count down to the lemonjello anecdote..... ;) :lol:

That's as bad as Female, pronounced f'mall-ay.
My sis had a client named Placenta. And I've run across several LaTrina's..

If they named the baby Placenta, what did they do with the ... oh ohh.

I even posted a link to the local obit of an infant whose mother was named Felony....

Probably suited her better than Prudence or Charity.

Eena mel (Enamel)

Let's not forget Mr. and Mrs. Asswipe Johnson (It's Pronounced Ahhz Wee Pay!)

I deal with a lot of stupid names. The last one that gave me pause was so stupid I had to check the insurance company's website to make sure that there were really TWO apostrophes involved.

Unfortunately the name is sufficiently distinctive that I am not able to reproduce it here. But the pattern was something like ... Shaw'wannaL'yesha. Yes, with a capital letter where it didn't belong, too.

Had to reduce the font size on the chart label to make it fit, and then just barely.

Rivaled only by the kid whose first name was that of a clothing designer, like TommyHilfiger Lefkowitz. Except it was more absurd that that.

La-Sha
Oh and the dash is NOT silent
So LaDasha

My ex had a cleaning woman and SHE had a daughter named Linoleum.

I wanted to name our youngest "Qwerty" because it's easy to type.

It's not just a cultural thing. Look at Bob Geldof's kids' names: Fifi Trixibelle , Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof, and Little Pixie. And what's with all the trendy suburban non-name names like Hunter, Shelby, Dakota, Madison, Brooklyn, etc? Ok, so they are actual words, but they're no more a name than Linoleum is.

I wonder if she is a descendant of LaDiDa?

Washeteria?;)

I like interesting and unusual names. I think people need to be more creative. At camp this week, there were 5 boys named Alex and one girl -out of 100 kids. So when someone says something about "Alex", instead of immediately being able to picture the person and process the information, you had to ask which one. Two even had the same last name so we had to distinguish by grade.

If you create a new name, I think it's helpful if it's either already a word, or is something that's intuitive to spell, and something that isn't inapproriate like Vagina or Toiletbrush but beyond that, have fun! And maybe kid the kid a more normal middle name they can use if they treally don't like being unique.

(fake)

I suspect you already know that isn't the real names of these folk!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/familyphoto.asp

My name isn't all that unusual but my mother has hated it since I was little and refused to write it, even on school forms - especially with the 'h', she calls me "Ree". Most of my friends call me Annie.

I like Rhianne. Why were you named that if your mother hated it?

It was a Grandmother's name, my Dad liked it.

poor naming protocol there, sorry. But i still like the name.

Both parents should totally love the name, imo ...and don't name a kid after a relative -let them be their own person!

That's why the wink emoticon.

Riiiiiiight. :rolleyes:




See, I don't believe you. That's why the eye-rolling emoticon.





And then spudcon fainted.

Maybe not weird, but...

Am I the only one who finds it annoying when somebody has two first names?

(John Johnson, Ron Paul, William Williamson, etc.)

My name is Yon Yonson
I live in Wisconsin
I work in a lumberyard there

Hey Chode, is your first name Dave?

No... that's an odd question.

My father's name, however, is "David." Does that help?

oh yes, it helps a lot. So was mine. does that scare you?

My dad was cursed with a terrible first name. So, his whole life even his parents called him by his nickname. That is what everyone who knows anything about him calls him.

Can you guess the nickname? :)

Nobby

Terribly. :mg:

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Also: Noddy. What a name!

chip

Chip Douglas.

Oh come on, obviously it's Rumplestiltskin. Now, can I get back to my spinning wheel or what?

Rumplestiltskin
Rumplestiltskin
Rumplestiltskin

Candyman - Scary, and pervy.

On opposite sides, I have an uncle named LaVergne, and an uncle named Shirley. My g-mother's name is Willie. And I've worked with two different men named Marion.

Dude I know of legally changed his name to Wolfgang Von Dudenstein.

Suuuuure.... Dude you know. Right. ;)

I remenber a school teacher named Ms LEBARS Odile. And I kid you not, she married a guy name Mr CROC Jean.

And on all official papers, she was referred as Mrs CROC Odile.

I swear it is NOT a joke on my part.

No need to say that, although she liked her husband very much, she preferred to go by her maiden name.

A college roommate kept laughing about her HS history teacher, Harry Dickie...

Fixed it for ya. That's why I farted.

With a name like that, people are just gonna walk all over her.

During my high school years, I briefly attended a private boarding school in Tennessee. The school had been there for ages, with the same southern families sending generations of kids there. Dunno what it is about the deep south, but there were some decidedly odd names:

McIntyre Bridges
Quintin Stimpson
Woody Johnson (really and truly)
Jet Tune and his brother Julian Tune
Holt Hall
Buzzy Wolfe
J. Hill (no name, just the letter) and his brother Moe Hill *snort*
Dickie Park
Casey Jones
Fay Binning (this was a guy)
Lep Andrews
Tuck Hord
Kendall Hayes and brother Knox Hayes
Forrest Ladd (goes by Frosty)
John Hurt (not THAT one!)
Alton Oschner
Hutch Carter
Crit Currie
Minos Fletcher
CHIP MONK!!
Perkins Trousdale
Sputt Hooper

In later years, I once met a young woman named Baretta, and I know a guy who goes by Putt (real name James).

Nicknames, I know a guy with the nickname "Tallywhacker". Even his mother calls him this. Knew a guy named Jerg.

Oh, and a guy I know has these names in his family, all sisters, btw: Leota, Ioma, Lamonia.

Also four brothers whose names and nicknames run, from oldest to youngest: Mickey, Rickey, Dickie, & Goober.

Lamonia! :lol2:

Masculine-turned-feminine names.

Yeah, we get it, you wanted a boy... get over it, already! :p:

I hope cooler heads prevailed.

Mr. Geldof demonstrates how disadvantageous a disadvantageous given name can be.

I am waiting for the eventual manifestation of a little urban girl named -- Apostrophe. Even if her daddy goes around saying, "Yep, she was about that big when, etc."

"Homegrown country names," however pleasant the sounds strung together may be, do not suit my sense of the fitness of things. Every given name out there at least at one time actually meant something. Miscellaneous syllables do not.

Except maybe as and for Far Eastern car models. Being inanimate, they can't be hurt by it.

Like Harley.

Not as weird as many mentioned, but I did know a lady called Desley.
Bless her, she had to spell her name and/ or tell the story of it every time she met someone new.

She once joked about wearing a badge which said "Yes, it is unusual"
Aha! A little internet research tells me it is popular in Australia - as a boy's name.
I always understood it to be a Welsh female name.

Names with similar statistics to Desley include Draco, Martian and Pakistan.
From here (Baby Name Guesser)

So someone looked me up on teh Internets. And found someone with the same name as me with a very different spouse. And was horribly shocked when they met my husband.

Hello?? There are a kazillion people with my name... in India. And my surname is common, too. And guess what? A whole bunch of Indians have broadband.

Just because you've never met someone else with my name...

Yesterday on Wait-Wait-! Don't Tell Me! (radio show) a caller was named Patience Waite.

a-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

A woman who entered a pie baking contest on TV was called Rain Goettis (pronouced "Goddess") - I was instantly jealous and covet that awesome cool name. I don't know if she was born a Goettis or married into the tribe - either way, it's sooooo freakin' cool.

Shared an office with a guy surnamed Buckridge. Alas, when his parents divorced, his dad remarried a woman (with daughter) surnamed Buckeridge. Imagine trying to enroll one Buckridge (one E) and one Buckeridge (two Es) in anything. Tiresome.

President of my college - Seymor Hyman

Client at an old job - Delight Cox

Library patron at another old job - Ufuk

Another client at the same job as Ms. Cox - Lucky Wang

All real, named at birth names.

Buu Ea

pronounced boo- yah

booyah!

O.M.G. I can't believe I forgot this guy. Herb Lord.

ETA: A few days ago I saw the name Wendy Beaver (Wendy is a Native American, btw). Now, in my neck of the woods, when we say 'Wendy', it comes out 'Windy'. I lol every time I say her name in my head: Windy Beaver.:lol2:

FWIW: I've read that the name Wendy is recorded nowhere in history before the story about Peter Pan.

I had a friend named Windy. Also one named Stormy, although they didn't know each other...