How about a weird name thread

I'll start off with a couple my sister has as childhood friends. Olive Green, and Barbara Barbers. Last summer we were camping and my daughter made friends with a kid from Pa. For the first couple of days he would only tell us his name was Triple P. After a couple of days he gained out trust and revealed his real name was Phil Phillip Phillips. My aunt was a delivery room nurse and she likes to tell the story of a young unwed mom that was in the hospital giving birth. When asked to fill out the papers to give the little girl a name she said she really wanted to name the girl one of the words she kept hearing the doctors and nurses saying during delivery. Somewhere in Camden NJ there is or was a woman with the first name Vagina.

Not sure this is what you had in mind but my first thought was Frank Zappa's kids.

Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva.

My M-I-L is an ob nurse. She has heard everything.

I've long said there needs to be a Department of Names where parents need to get approval before naming their kids things "Richard Head", "La-uh" (pronounced Ladasha of course), and just let certain last names die off (Schmuck for example).

And then there is the whole hyphenated last names. My brother knew a woman who's legal last name was Smith-Smith because she didn't want to give up her maiden name when she got married.

I just pulled an order for Jojo Josephs.

I used to work with a Quasar Doppler. Went to Highschool with a Nate Urry. The class always got a giggle during roll call.

My sisters name is ecco.

There is an urban legend of kids named orangelo, and lemongelo. I can confirm they are real, and at least used to live im the state of MN. I can't say much more because that would violate hipaa, though I can say there was also an tangelo.

My boss knows a Jamaican Rasta guy who was named John Smith. He took his wife's last name when they married because he was tired of being put through the wringer at any and every kind of security checkpoint.

One test that parents should try prospective child names with is the "Destroyer of Worlds" test. Say out loud in a gruff voice "I am ____, Destroyer of Worlds!" If it sounds good, don't name your child that. Of course some insist that it should be the other way around

Oh on that note, I have a cousin named Reznor. Yes, after the NIN frontman.

I worked with a consultant named Richard Butt. Not even Butz, it was Butt. And yes, he went by Dick.

Had acquaintances who named their young daughter Orion. Or at least they thought they did. Turns out they were morons who couldn't spell, and actually named her Aryan, but pronounced it like Orion. They honestly, sincerely didn't know that had any negative connotations.

Put me in the camp of disliking hyphenated names. It always seems to be people with really awkward names who insist on it, too. Keep your unmarried name, fine, I'm not offended. But don't make some horrendous 12-syllable conglomeration out of it.

GameboyRMH wrote: My boss knows a Jamaican Rasta guy who was named John Smith. He took his wife's last name when they married because he was tired of being put through the wringer at any and every kind of security checkpoint. One test that parents should try prospective child names with is the "Destroyer of Worlds" test. Say out loud in a gruff voice "I am ____, Destroyer of Worlds!" If it sounds good, don't name your child that. Of course some insist that it should be the other way around Oh on that note, I have a cousin named Reznor. Yes, after the NIN frontman.

On the destroyer of world's front, I wanted to make my kid thor. Not because marvel, but because who berkeleys with a Norse god? No one.

One of the news reporters on the local public radio station is named Peter Cox.

One of my best friends in college had the legal first name T. In and of itself, that's not so weird, especially seeing how his family typically just used his middle name, until you consider that T had an older brother. That brother's legal first name? Mister.

GameboyRMH wrote: Oh on that note, I have a cousin named Reznor. Yes, after the NIN frontman.

I hope he has a Reznor heater in his garage.

mndsm wrote: On the destroyer of world's front, I wanted to make my kid thor. Not because marvel, but because who berkeleys with a Norse god? No one.

I went to high school with Thor Thorson.

Duke wrote: I worked with a consultant named Richard Butt. Not even Butz, it was *Butt*. And yes, he went by Dick.

Does he know about this character? I figure he must, since that's all he'll see if he Googles himself.

Brian wrote: My M-I-L is an ob nurse. She has heard everything.

LOL, a friend of ours worked in the hospital. She told us some real doosies.

I can say from experience that the name Latrina has been done more than once. How ignorant does a babymama have to be to name her kid after a toilet...

I know both a Michelle Chelle and a Nikole Kole. Both married into those names.

My wife and I try to come up with situations like this while we are on road trips. Like, if you were named X, would you change your name if you married Mr. Y?

A co worker of mine thought really hard about changing her last name to "Bonk" when she married Mr Bonk..

I went to school with a Heather Greenleaf.

I caddied for a summer at a country club. One of my golfers was any obstetrician - Dr Buggy. His business card had a baby buggy on it...

The best English teacher I ever had was named Hugh Hugh Hughes. RIP Mr. Hughes.

My mother went to school with King and Shanda Lear.

Dr. Hess wrote: The best English teacher I ever had was named Hugh Hugh Hughes. RIP Mr. Hughes.

Nickname: HughCubed

WildScotsRacing wrote: I can say from experience that the name Latrina has been done more than once. How ignorant does a babymama have to be to name her kid after a toilet...

Same ones that name their kids stuff like felonie. Ie because it's a girl.

Friend of mine is married to a grade school teacher. She got one named "Female". It rhymes with "Emily." Her mother saw it on the birth certificate and liked the name so much she kept it. True story.