What is the strangest/weirdest name you've ever heard?

My neighbor's first name is Adolf (everyone calls him "Adi")

I handled insurance claims and one of my claimant's was Speaker Boop.

I met a housekeeper in South Africa whose name was "Gladness"

I had a chiropractor named Dr. Dye. It’s better said than written.

I knew a girl named Tiara Diamond. Of course I called her Diamond Tiara.

a fellow co-worker whose first name was Dare....

another co-worker whose first name was Starr.....

high school student named peggy peggy............ and rob bob......

I spoke to a call centre worker in Manila by the name of Wankita.

I went to elementary school with two sisters called (I don't know the spelling) Dewy-goo and Deedum. This was 80s Canada, the parents were white and had strong accents I assumed were European but could have been wrong about. To this day I want an explanation for those names, which were their actual names the teachers called them and everything.

I work with someone called Dimple.

R9 was she Indian (dot, not feather)?

Not terribly strange, but I went to jr. high with a Honey. My a friend's relative is Starlene. A high school friend was Jiri. I know of an elementary-age child named Redeemer. (by far, the worst)

I went to school with a boy named Randy Davenport and I always wondered if he had a sister named Dawn.

I'm not from the US, but I recently heard of people called 'Fender' and 'Splinter'

not really a weird name, but a former co-worker named her daughter (who was borrn in the 80's) Latoya...she's as white as they come though

A high school acquaintance, her paternal grandfather's name was Beecher, her maternal grandmother was named Louise.

The friend's name: Becchie-Lou, her actual name, not a nickname.

A guy named Tedothy (pronounced the same way as Timothy but with "Ted" at the beginning). He did go by Ted for short.

Went to school with a Sundi. Nephew's friend's name is Epifany (she's white and that's how it is spelled).

If we can do last names I had a shop teacher med Mr. Twentyfive.

I worked with a woman named Aquanette. I always thought it was a nickname because she had high, poofy hair, but, nope that was her name.

Not a strange one, but I knew a guy named Justin Stein. Every time I saw him I'd croon in his ear 'Justin Stein, I found you Justin Stein. Before you came my stein was running low.'

I know this isn't a rare name in the UK at all, but for some reason the name "Tamsin" freaks the shit out of me.

I went to school with a guy named Rusty Fox. (He was neither a redhead nor attractive.)

I had a teacher named Theodore Behr.

I had two great aunts named Jakobine and Sieboldine - the feminized versions of Jacob and Seibold. We called them Beena and Deena. How German!

Two -- a Native American woman named "Jealousy" and a South African woman named "Vanity"

I liked both names for some reason. Beats "Grace" and "Charity"

Jovial is a common name in Hawaii for Filipinos. It sounds so happy and positive.

My cousin knew a girl named Reaganomics, needless to say, the girl's dad was a psychotic Reagan fan who gave all his kids Reagan related names.

My mother had a cousin named Harry Dick.

Cum-on Fuckme - in some foreign language though.

My kid had classmates named "Digital" and "Azraela."

I knew twins many years ago- Nova and Solar. Family name was Caine.

North... West of course

Cherry Runtolub. Filipina immigrant. I just loved saying her name.

Some names that may not be odd or unusual have unfortunate meanings. I never understood why you would name your daughter Grief (Dolores). Do you want her to be depressed?

R19, Tamsen Fadel is a co-anchor on WPIX-11 in New York.

R31 - those are old Spanish Catholic names that actually reference various experiences of Christ or titles of Mary. Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Miracles and so names like Dolores, Milagros...etc. even Remedios (cure...remember the stories of healing, etc.).

Here in Romania, up in this IT city I work in, Cluj-Napoca, and the surrounding towns it is not uncommon to see lots of Roman ruins and the remains of baths. Lots of Remus, Octavian, Trajan, Lavinias, etc....names left from the time of the Romans are often the middle names and how people refer to each other casually instead of using the first Christian name. My roommate's dad gave her a Christian name at baptism but her middle name and the name we all use derived from Cora.

It is actually pretty interesting.

I once had a student named Primitivo Madrigal... I liked that

All the hippie parents who named their kids crackpot names... and the kids later in life losing them. David and Angie Bowie named their kid Zowie Bowie... later he changed his name to Joe.

I read an article today and one of the people interviewed had the first name "Tamblyn." Her parents must have been West Side Story fans.

A knew a child named Crustacia. When I first greeted her, I pronounced her name crus-tá-sha. Her mother irritatedly corrected me, saying, “ It’s pronounced KRUS-TÁ-CEA!”

I met a guy at work named Tarzan. I tried so hard to keep a straight face.

Sandy Sandifer

Ida Ho. She is Vietnamese.

R3 Reminds me of Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan. It always makes me smile.

Reality Winner

I worked with a girl named Shantiqua, and spoke to her many times on the phone before she came into my office and introduced herself. She was whiter than I am...I tried to hide my surprise, but she broke the ice and said, "You probably expected me to me black. Don't worry, everyone does."

I checked in a lady when I worked at hotel in Nashville, and our managers were very strict about us saying the guest's name at least 3x during the check-in. This lady had been in the queue to check in, so when I motioned for her to come over to my station, she handed me her passport and quickly said, "Please don't say my last name. It's really not necessary." No shit, her last name was "Nazi." Me being a smartass, I had to ask her how she pronounced it. She said it was "Nuh-zee." Good luck with that!

I went to school with a woman named Loveday Loyce Conquest. Also in her dorm, a man named Vassar Williams Smith. We know where his parents one to school, but things didn't turn out well for VWS.

Oprah

I had a girl in my graduate program names Swatee Swatee. It was ridiculous at graduation. Another one named Nijal Gwala Gwala.

Thuwayba. I met her at McGill U Engineering, she was from Tanzania and was definitely staying in North America and was looking for ways to shorten her name to a universal diminutive. I think it might be a Swahili name. Other members of her family seem to have Arabic names for the men, and Swahili names for the women, but it's not a rigid tradition.

I loved her name, loved saying it and how it rolled of the tongue. I think she was disappointed when I told her I'm gay but over 20 years later we're still close, and honest, friends. She wanted us to call her Aba for a while but we all kind of call her Thu or Thewey, which she loves.

Parfait Cadeau de Pâques

It was an african guy's first name. The French is a bit wonky but it's a pretty name and unique. We called him "Parfait".

Parents who give their kids weird names are committing child abuse. It's been proven in studies that children with weird names tend to have more problems in school, be more prone to drug abuse, get arrested more often than children who have normal sounding names. Can you imagine a parent naming their kid Donald when their last name is "Duck" or someone named their kid Ima when their last name is "Hogg?" Those are actual names. And celebrities try to outdo themselves when it comes to bizarre names. I think anybody name their kids like that has a definite streak of hostility towards them.

Mary Christmas .

Had a student named "Emarie", I pronounced it "Emery" (as in board). Kid had a huge fit, cause I should just know it's "e-mar-ee". She had a bunch of siblings, all of them with E-mail adjacent names.

Christmas (Chrissy) Snow was a character on "Three's Company".

In grad school there was another TA in my group named Rukeyser (female) and taking roll the first day the supervisor called out "Roo-ky-zer" and was immediately corrected by the person saying "it's Roo-KEE-sha" Who knew?

R43 I knew someone with a similar story. Her name is Tawnya and everyone thought she was Black until they met her. She looks exactly like Nancy Kerrigan, and had stories about little old ladies stopping her to ask for an autograph.

Some actor/actress names that are STRANGE- Nana Visitor who starred in Deep Space Nine.

Creflo Dollar! Now that's a money making name!!

My partner had a coworker named Frankie Faircloth.

Kirstie Alley. More like BACK Alley!

I knew someone called Jewell Devine (not a drag queen)

R1 is a little naive. Adolf/Adolph as a name is not completely ruined by the fact a maniacal genocidal murderer had it.

Although my German/American cousin Adolf did go by the name "Jack."

[quote]I spoke to a call centre worker in Manila by the name of Wankita.

Is that how she spelled it? I'm guessing it was more like Juanquita.

A former Lt. Governor of Colorado is named Nancy Dick. Her son's name is Timber - Timber Dick.

They had a listed telephone number. Mrs. Timber Dick was confused with harassment calls she kept getting from creepy men asking her if she had splinters. She was oddly clueless and asked me, "Why are they doing this? What does that mean?"

I suggested she not list their phone number.

I also knew a Vietnamese immigrant family who named their daughter Phuc.

And another family who named their son Zhon Luke. People couldn't understand it until they realized the people were fans of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Duh.

Trixie Mattel and Alaska Thunderfuck

Yeah, they're drag queens, but still.

"Earth." She sported a tie-dyed shirt and food stains in Quincy Marketplace in Boston on a July day in 1981.

Cool r62. I guess I got it wrong and thought mostly about people given dreadful names by their parents, not by themselves.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, once Secretary General of the UN

Another strange actress name- Salome Jens who played a shape shifting villain on Deep Space Nine.

I have known 2 Candy Canes. Candy Kaine and Candy Cain

Years ago my father was in the telecommunications business and he did business with someone named Yechyeah. That is not the spelling but the pronunciation.

Girl working at Philly airport fast food register: Eyerus

When I worked for an electric utility, I looked at a lot of customer accounts. My two all-time favorite names were Aloysious Madlinger and Pocahontas Goldsmith.

Dominique Devereux

I regret my granddaughter was named Kylie, but i do love her much. She is 6. Also, i recently came across a client whose name is "Dreamer." Weird.

My friend is a teacher. She couldn’t wait to call and tell me about a girl named “Ahnasty”. Obliviously this poor kid’s mom thought she was spelling “Honesty” in a novel way, but being called “Ah..,Nasty!” is no way to go thru grade school.

Plenty! Ophelia Dyck (from my customer service days). I went to uni with a guy called Richard Harden, which sounds innocuous enough but everybody called him Dick. My mother’s best friend at school was Virgin Mary Townsend. And in our town there were single and ageing (and possibly lesbian) triplets called Ivy, Rose and Violet Plant. And the Plant girls were famously into horticulture.

Blanche Devereux

Has anyone in this thread trotted out some long-winded lie about knowing or knowing of Oranjello and Lemonjello yet?

R66. In 1976–77, Salome Jens played the role of Mae Olinski on the soap spoof "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."

She's 85 now.

Gwyneth

Apple

R52 There was a 'Chrissy Snow' at my middle school. Pretty girl, but white trash.

Then there was a Crystal (Clear really was her middle name) Pemberton in college. Nice girl.

Had a credit card customer service rep named Sparr, super helpful.

Finally 'Spark' from Craigs in LA. He's no longer there though.

Went to high school with a girl named Amy May, we always joked that her middle name should have been Yam.

I worked at a school that had three daughters with the last name of Slutsky.

A baby boy called Cohen. The parents weren't even Jewish.

A woman I know has twins, a boy and a girl.

She named the girl Propecia. And the boy's name is Cialis.

Norman Jewison- He directed the movie FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.With a name like that directing a movie like that I always assumed he was Jewish. He's Protestant from Toronto.

Author's name I saw on a book cover many years ago: Service Simplice Dong Ding.

The Rev. Hiawatha Calhoun lived in Bakersfield, CA.

There was a lady in a Louisiana phone book named "Miss Jazzabelle Husky."

Pekker Rekkep was a Santa Barbara resident.

A Santa Maria, CA, fieldworker sought by police for attempted murder was Wakki Hideaki.

For years there was a Santa Barbara psychiatrist named Dr. Lunianski, and an oral surgeon named Dr. Pincock.

A Park Avenue socialite of many years ago was named Outerbridge Horsey. It was a family name apparently.

We used to make prank phone calls to Horsey all time. Poor creature.

Otis Speaks

There’s a Pastor Praylow at a church near me.

Not as bizarre as most of the examples above but Huntington Hartford (the A&P heir) sounds like a laughable caricature of an upper class WASP name.

Beauxniqua.

I answered the phone once and it was someone calling for my roommate. She said, “Hello, my name is Kismet...” I immediately wanted to blurt out, ‘No it isn’t!” I’m so glad I did not.

There was a curator of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art whose name was Helmet.

I once encountered a family who named their 9-year-old daughter "Holly" and the last name was Wood.

Years ago, in NYC, I worked in an office with a set of twins. Wavine and Wavola.

Got an email from my bank signed Mr. "Anger". I was sure it was spam, but turned out Mr. Anger is legit...I googled the name origin for interest - it's French - Aahn-zhaay - but he pronounced it like the English emotion.

Oral Roberts

Velvet, a lovely woman and a Baptist! Real name and not a stripper or couturiere.

I saw in a newspaper article that Roman Finale was involved in some club or other.

My boyfriend Kiki's cousin Precious Fartado had a baby by some African guy from Africa she met at the House O' Pork BBQ place in Compton, California. The lil baby is much much browner than Precious so she named her Darkeen. At least I think that's why she named her that. She's not that attractive but then Precious isn't either. I only seen the dad once and I dont remember what he looked like.

Frank Zappa's kids: Dweezil, Moon Unit

Norma Jean Peckinpaugh - my 7th grade English teacher; Dr. Laura Mechanic; Tosca Gang; Suk Bum

I worked with someone named Featherstone. His sister's name is The Dawn Eagle. I was a retail manager for years and I'd thought I'd seen it all until I helped a woman named Velveeta.

I recently learned that the word “Henchman” is actually an old New England last name. I don’t know how it came to mean lackey.

Back in the day, I knew a hippie couple who named their kids things like Earth and Sun and Moon and Stars.

R103 You might find this interesting.

Gunnar Blast. Half Swedish half English and HOT AS FUCK straight college friend with a huge dick and a dirty mind.

"Fuck me, Gunnar. Fuck me!"

Yeah. That works.

My mom's best friend was Myrtle Dingwall.

Patton and Mattis are popular first names with military families.

Somebody on another thread claims to have gone to high school with a kid named Bronson Johnson.

X Æ A-12 Musk

Dorcas Cumson

Someone I used to work with said her sister's gynecologist was named Dr. Colcouchi. I'm just winging the spelling.

R92 are you certain it wasn’t Helmut?

Annis is a woman’s name used in the 18ty century,, .

I worked with a woman who named her daughter Miracle. Serious EYEROLL!!

Honest, I went to school with a girl named Candy Cain and another girl named Holly Reith.

Worked with a woman named Deruthia Clinkscales.

Minnie Dick

The Imperial Animal was coauthored by Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox.

Richard Zinn is a Northern California cable sports producer. A local TV sportscaster, who loved to make crude jokes at other people's expense, never missed a chance to mention him on the air just so he could say "Dick Zinn."

A Facebook search reveals many Bronson Johnsons, R110.

In fact, a little scrolling through the search results reveal one Bronson Johnsonville could be DL's own Janbot!

I had a student named Johneric. The mother pronounced it "generic."

Tragedy and Peterly

I have had students with very unusual first names: Chalcedony, Lovely, Vivacious (who went by "Vivi"), Casundra (who went by "Cass"), Thaïs (after the character in the opera--she told me I was the first teacher she had ever had who pronounced it correctly right off the bat), and Glencora (after the character in Trollope's 'Palliser' novels).

And then there have been those with bizarre nicknames they wanted me to use: Lizard (whose real first name was Elizabeth), Icka (whose real first name was Jessica), Hawk (whose real first name was Anthony, but who wanted to be called Hawk for reasons I never understood)

A girl named Sapphire, but her mother pronounced it “sap-higher.”

Gomer Pyle

I used to date a social worker who had a client who named her son "D'Esta Nee"--pronounced like "destiny."

I worked for a couple in Texas who named their kid Plymouth. Plymouth Rock. Hopefully he turned out OK.

My aunt graduated HS with a classmate named Elvira Vera.

Lovelady McGonagle

I worked in real estate with a teacher who retired from the Jersey City school system. She had a student named President Kennedy. My favorite name of someone I met in person was Cyril Smack.

A friend of a friend has siblings all named for months of the year. I remember two of them were December (called Dee) and February (Feb), but I don't remember what the girls were called. I am pretty sure neither was April, May, or June.

R132 Her first name was “President?”

I knew a Hereward once. Unusual old English name. I actually quite like it but it is unusual.

Colin, Nigel, Rupert, Simon, Robin. Strange English names.

Xyberia pronounced Yuhh-sherbia.

Harry Beaver

True story. I worked in a vital records office that handled birth records. A birth certificate came in that listed a babies name as "Female." We checked with the family to see if there was a mistake. The immigrant Hispanic parents said, yes, that they were talking about what to name their daughter but saw that the family had named the girl "Female" (rhyming it with "tamale") and thought that's how things were done, so they kept quiet.

Little Female. They did not request a correction. What happened subsequently I don't know.

I knew a guy named Elrond, just like the elf in Lord of the Rings.

My friend had a gynecologist named Dr. Bonnie Beaver.

An acquaintance swears she worked with a guy named Dick Manhood.

Mister. That was the kids first name. I guess his parents always wanted him to be called in a respectful manner.

Mister Johnson. Mister.

But it became Mis or MJ.

Jermajesty Jackson

Praise-Emmanuel and Comfort. RIP

There's some lawyer named Cupcake Brown. She wrote a memoir called "A Piece of Cake" which is the "inspirational" story of how she rose from being a drug addicted teenage hooker to a lawyer in a large law firm. The veracity of the memoir has been called into question. It's probably mostly fake. In fact, Brown's story of how she got her name is one of the biggest bullshit tales that's been around forever. It's the old "Oranjello" or "Lemonjello" story all over again:

"My name was La’Vette, but my first birth name was Cupcake. At least that’s what my momma told me. Seems Momma craved cupcakes when she was pregnant with me. She had three cupcakes a day, every day, without fail, for nine and a half months (I was two weeks overdue). Momma said that even if she didn’t eat anything else, she’d have her daily dose of cupcakes.

Anyway, seems that while “we” were in labor, the hospital gave Momma some pain drugs. Once Momma popped me out, the nurse said:

“Pat”—that was my momma’s name—“you have a little girl. Do you know what you want to name her?”

Tired and exhausted from eight hours of hard labor, Momma lifted her head, smiled sheepishly, and said, “Cupcake,” before she passed out.

So that’s what they put down on my birth certificate. I mean, that is what she said. (The nurses thought it was due to the excitement of motherhood, Momma said it was the drugs)."

I guess if Cupcake Brown thought her readers would believe THAT, they would believe anything else she said.

Florence Jean Castleberry.

I worked at a bank many years ago and there was a customer whose first name was Tittiporn. She's Thai. I wonder if she went by a shorter nickname, like "Tit" or something.

Vanilla Hunter was another customer. Not bad, but sounds more like a porn pseudonym than a real name.

A girl in junior high was named Victoria Bastardo. Hope she legally changed that.

Murphy Brown. Ridiculous.

Harry Behumpas.

I stumbled upon Frank Forehead a few years ago.

Arnold Horseshack. Yeah, right.

Skates, middle name Booger. His siblings were named Skis and Pumpkin.

R148, I went to high school with an Italian-American girl named Tiziana, a nice Italian name pronounced "teet-see-yana" in the native accent. We all called her "Tits" for short, and she had a fun sense of humor about it, so she didn't mind. It was her name after all. But some of the old biddy teachers would cringe everytime we'd call her that. "Hey, Tits! How's it shaking, Tits!" They would gasp and insist that we address her by her "proper" name.

That is funny, R154. She sounds like a cool chick. Imagine the reaction if she had attended a Catholic private school.

Pamela Balls Organista

Everyone's favorite realtor, Gaye Males!

A kid in my high school was named Robert Bobbe. All through school he was known as Bobby Bobbe. He was on the football team and whenever he scored we would all start screaming out Bobby Bobbe. It drove the other team nuts.

Mi Suk Yang

G acted in Glen or Glenda I'm told. How weird is that?

Decades ago, I knew a man whose family name was Studley and his parents named him Dick. No, not Richard. And yes, he turned out gay.

R139, that 'Female' problem is an old one. A now elderly friend of mine is the youngest of her immigrant Irish parents' brood. In Ireland, the parents were accustomed to naming the child in church with a christening at a time no long after the birth. Producing a name to hospital staff when the birth occurred was not how they did it, so my friend's three oldest sisters all ended up with birth certificates listing their names as Female. And the younger siblings made sure they never forgot it.

In Uganda, I met a small boy whose parents named him CNN after the NewsChannel.

I saw a gameshow contestant once named Ayofemi Ofay. It's pronounced I-a-femmy o-FAY. The last name of course is olde-tyme slang for gay.

R136 In the UK, those are very common names for boys. In the US, you don’t encounter them much.

A white guy named Tiger.

I had ancestors named Jupiter and Royal

R66 and R77, my fondest memory of Salome Jens was in The Outer Limits episode, 'Corpus Earthling', with Robert Culp and Barry Atwater. ('Trek' fans remember Atwater as Surak, the 'greatest of all who ever lived' on Vulcan.) Salome Jens can be seen at the beginning of the OL episode, in the pre-show trailer, scaring the shit out of Robert Culp. :D

In posts, I have occasionally cited the work of the unfortunately named Jan Assman, German Eyptologist.

^^ Egyptologist.

*sigh*

Bernt Eggen

Ladies and gentlemen I present......Ole Worm!

Orel Hershiser.

I went to school with twins named Derby (boy) and Deesa (girl).

I went to school (same school) with Tommy Thomas.

Third one. Phuc Tran. Of course pronounced Foo Tran. He was called Fuck Train.

I went to high school with a Cambodian guy named Moeum Chhoeum, pronounced "Moo-um Chew-um."

Fua Fua, pronounced Fwah Fwah.

R159 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Poor thing.

'Channing Tatum' owns this thread.

Richard Whiskey but all his friends just called him Dick Liquor.

Mike Crapo

Someone mentioned Hereward upthread...

Data Lounge.

I met a guy who told me his name is OJ.

I asked him what the OJ stood for. He said his mother named him after OJ Simpson. (I tried not to wince because he's a sunning-looking guy.)

I said, "Oh, so your name is Orenthal James."

He said no, it's just OJ. In fact, the name is spelled Oj, with a lowercase j.

I said, "How come."

He said, "Because my mom liked the way it sounded.

A man whose name was 5/8 Smith.

Anisleydi (sp)? I used to work as a transcriber & was transcribing an interview where this female victim was naming all the people in the room. Basically she said there was Jean, Joan John, anisleydi. It was like a who’s on 1st situation between the cop & her, because she always ended the list with that name which sounded exactly like “and this lady.”

I knew a family with 5 girls that named them all after gemstones: Diamond, Opal, Amethyst, Emerald and Jade. Not crazy weird - just overly themed.

I knew another family who was really poor that named their kids expensive car brands: Mercedes, Porsche, and I don't remember the 3rdkid but they had a car name too.

Another one with two girls named America and Australia

And i spent some time in the Philippines - the names there are very creative!

Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate.

I went to school with a Jessica Fletcher

DonG-lover

I worked with a Filipino woman named Purificacion, but she went by an Americanized name which I can’t remember. And she was the spitting image of Corazon Aquino.

I don't know what her actual name was, but it was a Hungarian girl whose name sounded like "Porno Pie."

I know a woman who uses her middle name because she her first name is "Pussy". She says it's a southern thing.

I went to high school with a girl whose first name was America. Then many years later, my co-worker's first name was also America. They were both from the Philippines where people really loved America back then.

I worked in the Pediatrics clinic at the time George Lucas was released his Star Wars/pre-Darth Vader movies in the 2000's.

There were a lot of male babies named Anakin.

Vasalina.

I have a friend who worked in a maternity ward in Baltimore there were twins named Diswan and Deoterwon.

Roumel- he was a Jordanian Christian.

Agim- from Eastern Europe.

Tragedy - a real first name.

A friend claims her mother went to school with twins named Evergreen and Everlean.

R181 Wouldn’t “Oj” be pronounced “Ahj,” not “O-Jay?”

Quoting R2 at the thread below:

“I'll get this out of the way:

Le-a: Le-dash-a

Lemonjello and Oranjello

Shithead“

1. Cuban lesbian named after her father's beer, Miller (Mi yea)

2. angry, Best Buy employee, Kuntara

I knew a gynecologist named Dr. Tush.

A little white girl named Alton James.

An male asian exchange named Love Lee.

Rhian ( white trash for Ryan)

Seaborn Beck Weathers and his wife Peaches from annual bodies on Mount Everest thread.

Judas. Not many parents have the mindset to saddle a child with that name.

Kizzy-Anne Donkers

Stephanie Dumb.

Grocery store cashier at a Florida Publix named Latrina

My brother in law had a school friend named Alshapiro (one word) Gray

Crucifixia.

(Italian woman)

Today I encountered a woman named Chandelier

Two weird names I know of is La-ah like it's pronounced as "Luh dash ah" and a special needs child named Zooberry. Yes, they're actually people with those names. The first one was a preschooler at the time, and a relative works at a preschool had to enroll them into preschool. LOL.

Lil Bugg

earl of dumbarton

Franchot Tone

Krystalshandlier

Fuser, a boy that went to my school. Pronounced FOO-zer.

Briday, a girl. Pronounced phonetically.

There was this one girl named Virginia, which seems normal enough, except, she spelled it 'Virgginnia'. I think she was from Chile.

Rhodine. What an ugly name.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Rotunda

I know a boy, a boy called Trash.

Our local news anchor was Dick Johnson.

[quote]Today I encountered a woman named Chandelier

Is she a swinger, R209?

Philippina named Cherry Pie. Apparently, such names are cultural.

A friend of a friend named her daughter Dreamyluv Story, because she felt it personified her & her hubby’s romantic journey (though they ended up divorcing)

One of my cousins named her daughter "Viper."

I am not making that up.

Several years ago, the male checker in my grocery line had a name tag that said "Jihad."

In high school I had two classmates: Janet Strange and her best friend, Mary Ann Queer.

My mom once shared a hospital room with an older woman named "Peculiar Smith."

We never asked her about it, but I thought maybe her parents decided that their surname was so common that they name their daughter something "peculiar." She was probably born in the late 1930s.

r65 Keeping in with the UN theme, there was U Thant, the 3rd Secretary General, who was Burmese. I always wondered if he had siblings A through T?

r91 I would've replied "Take my hand, I'm a stranger in Paradise."

r149 I'll say.

- Kelly Green

A friend, a university librarian, knew two faculty members Dr. Glasscock and Dr. Hollopeter. Members, heh.

One of the doctors I knew in the service had interned at a charity hospital in New Orleans. One woman named her umpteenth baby Vagina Lee, after a nurse jokingly suggested it.

A friend once related about childhood neighbors from many years ago who were immigrant Italians, had 3 children, and I guess they weren't too interested in thinking about names. The first, a boy, was Primo. The 2nd, a girl, was Secondina. The last, a boy, Terzo.

Do I have to repeat I knew a urologist named Dr. Goldwasser? A pediatrician named Dr. Denton. And a Lieutenant Marvel who was dreading promotion to Captain(we were not too kind when it happened)

A dear, older(if that's possible?) friend's middle name is Adolph. Accent VERY much on the 2nd syllable.

R226 U In Burmese names U is an honorific prefix. It means something like Mr., and is used for adult males only. It should not be used. For example, U Nu is only Nu in all references. Women retain their given names after marriage. No courtesy titles apply.

MARY!

[quote]The first, a boy, was Primo. The 2nd, a girl, was Secondina.

R226 - In the movie "Big Night," Tony Shaloob's name was Primo and Stanley Tucci's name was Secondo. If you've never seen the movie, you should.

I actually have know two people in my life with the name “Princess”

I met a man at a tradeshow a few years ago with the last name Crotchfelt. I don't know how I managed to talk to him with a straight face. I remember telling my manager it was a good thing he wasn't around because I don't think he would have lasted very long without laughing.

One time I told someone the story and they said "would that be the material or the touching?"

Bianky Fuqay

R44–That is some awful, crazy shit. I Googled Vassar Smith and his name came up as an author of a cringe inducing book in 2013. The synopsis of the book seem to be a thinly veiled version of his life and crimes. He was sentenced to 68 years in jail for molestation. Are you allowed to write and sell books while in jail?

Ta-Tanesha Teltadario We just had a man arrested today locally and his name was Sirderrick.

As a child, I was friends with Nancy-Ann Ciancy. I hope she married a better last name.....

The former Alabama state treasurer, who left office in 2019, was Young Boozer.

The current president of the Alabama Public Service Commission (public utilities board) is Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh.

[quote]There was a lady in a Louisiana phone book named "Miss Jazzabelle Husky."

When I was a kid, there was a lady in our local phone book named Miss Banana Swanson.

A female police officer I knew had a last name of Greathead, I can’t believe she never changed it.

[quote]Anisleydi (sp)? I used to work as a transcriber & was transcribing an interview where this female victim was naming all the people in the room. Basically she said there was Jean, Joan John, anisleydi. It was like a who’s on 1st situation between the cop & her, because she always ended the list with that name which sounded exactly like “and this lady.”

Sounds Puerto Rican or Cuban (ex: Elian Gonzalez's cousin Marisleysis).

Brazilians often have off-the-wall names as well.

And of course, let's not forget Utah Mormons.

Othan Birba

This actress on Deep Space Nine- Nana Visitor

Déjeuner

Yes, it means “lunch” in French. The American woman named her daughter that because it sounded pretty. When advised by others what déjeuner means in French, she got indignant and said “this is America so fuck the French!” The girl, once older, only went by Dez. Poor thing.

I've encountered more than one Uniqua, proving the name is just false advertising.

Surprised no DLer has repeated the urban myths about children named Syphilis (pronounced "SIGH-Phyllis"), Female (pronounced "Feh-MA-Lay") and "Lemongello"

I'm German. When I was a kid, my grandmother used to tell this story about a woman whose last name was the German translation of 'chirping buttocks'. I still suspect grandma made that one up though.

And a few years back, I met a young girl whose last name (again, translated from German) was 'a child's grave'. The poor thing must have been eager to get hitched.

Salome Jens- she played a shapeshifter female on Star Trek Voyager.

There's a Dutch soccer player whose name is Jizz Hornkamp

Back in the 80s I worked with a girl named Linda Lasagna. Had a boss in the same dept. named Bob Fagg. He was huge, big as a football player, so maybe he didn't get teased about it too much as a kid.

The woman who gave me my first vaccine shot was named INXS. She wasn't named after the band, she said her parents didn't even know who they were they just liked the name. She seemed pretty cool with it and said most people's reactions were positive.

My mom went to high school with Kandy Kane.

I was watching a game show and the contestants name was Qwoy.

Lady at work complained her niece was naming her new baby boy Labius.

My Co worker is called DaBottom

A child named “Cohen”. They weren’t even Jewish. So weird.

My co-worker was named Thirley

Oh! And I had a Chinese-Filipina neighbour called Rex whose full name according the post is Resurrection.

Back in my ESOL teacher days, I had a Thai student who went by the pseud of Cloudy, because her real name (escapes me, now) was hard to say and spell in English.

Also, my mum’s friend has a preteen granddaughter named Tippany. I keep referring to her as ‘Timpani’ by accident.

A girl I used to know when we were little kids now has a young son and a daughter of her own, named Levison and Eden respectively.

[quote] All the hippie parents who named their kids crackpot names... and the kids later in life losing them. David and Angie Bowie named their kid Zowie Bowie... later he changed his name to Joe.

Kinda. His birth name is Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, and he reverted from his self-selected childhood name of Joey to Duncan in adulthood. And things have come full circle as he named his baby daughter Zowie.

[Quote] Christmas (Chrissy) Snow was a character on "Three's Company".

I liked that too. Corky marries and to her horror becomes Corky Sherwood Forrest in Murphy Brown. That was fun too.

Nancy-Ann Ciancy..............

I went to university with Richard Harden.

One of my cousins has a granddaughter named "Viper."

Fanny Flagg

Marlboro Mann......... When he said it, I paused, looked @ him & he said, "Yeah my dad was the ultimate cowboy". His girlfriend piped up & said, "everyone calls him Marley".

I used to have a "specific" first name.

When I was a bag boy at Safeway, customers would ask me if that was my real name on the nametag.

I told them it was my official company name.

Meanwhile, there was another employee name "T H E R O N" and I assumed it some silly nickname like "The Ron." He was Greek and superhot and boringly heterosexual.

And yes, this was before Charlize Theron became famous.

I am old.

I work with an Asian lady called Purple and a black guy called Dabottom

"Tolerance". Her mother referred to her as "Tol" for short. Tolerance can be a good thing, but it also has negative connotations. She may as well have named her "Mediocrity" or something similar.

That said, the woman who named her daughter "Tolerance" was quite an histrionic, who seemed psychologically and emotionally stunted (she was in her sixties at the time), but was also a "know-it-all". It was all very strange.

Ureen is pretty bizarre.

Tere, pronounced Terry. I've also heard lots of common names with bizarre spelling, people do that to be 'different'.

I worked with a woman named Paige Turner, her parents had some sense of humor.

Summer Rain

How about parents who saddle their kids with names usually reserved for the opposite sex?

Such as naming females Michael, Cameron, Elliot, Chandler, Jude, Tyler, Wyatt, Julian, Connor etc. ugh

R271 know a mom who named her daughter Ryan and her resume went to the top for a job interview and she got the job

A grandma raising her granddaughter named Arson

Jermajesty

I went to high school with Nancy-Ann Ciancy........ Say it quickly.......

I delivered a doordash to one "Continuous Jefferson" years ago, I was absolutely floored.

There's a Polish Catholic cemetery where I live. One of the tombstones has the surname "Niejedli". In Polish that means "They didn't eat."

Conan O'Brien

George Shorthose. I never got a chance to verify.

Shuvette Hardin

We had two immigrant kids from, I think, the Philippines at my high school. They were twins, two girls.

One was called Apple, and her sister's name was Cherry. I kid you not.

Of course, we all wondered what other names in that family where taken from the fruit basket.

I knew a woman named Economy Jones. To this day I just can't figure how someone thought the name "Economy" was a good idea

A butch Cuban named Miller, after her father's favorite beer.

A surly, Best Buy employee named Kuntara

A star wrestler named Matt.

BTW, He's fine, he just left his phone at home for a week to go camping. Thanks for your concern.

[quote] I knew twins many years ago- Nova and Solar. Family name was Caine.

R28 at least it's not "Novo".

Worked with 3 women named Delight, Miracle, and Malibu. Those were their real names.

As given names...Ransom and Stone

True, R285. Matt is a bizarre name. Never heard it before.

Maybe O'Brien's father was a big fan of the "Conan the Barbarian" movie.

Fanny Croissant.

Not likely, R290, as O’Brien was 19 when the movie came out.

Oh right, R292. I wasn't thinking.

I found online that he may have been named after a character on The Bayeux Tapestry. If it's true, what a pretentious way to choose a name. He must have been teased all through school.

Sometimes you feel like a “D” and sometimes you don’t in which case you’re just “Sunshine.”

A business associate of mine has the first name of Goodnews.

When I landed my first office job in 1979 when I was 18 years old I worked with a woman named April Showers. She had a sister named May.

A woman who went to my church when I was a Christian in the early 90s named her daughter Omni.

No one in the family named "Golden" though, R296?

I legally changed my name when I was 36 years old. My dad gave us all names so that our initials were MNO. And that caused a shit load of problems in school with grades getting crossed from one person to another. When I got older and started establishing credit lines, that also caused a major problem because my brothers’ shitty credit was constantly getting leaked into mine. So when I legally changed my name I went to the local bookstore and found a baby name book and I picked my new name from there. I made it so different from my birth name that it’s virtually impossible for all of those credit issues to happen now. That and I had a credit freeze established about 20 years ago.

Diep Do

Son. I thought it was Sun but no.

[quote] I just spoke with a customer service rep named Jovial.

Philippines.

I wish Hunter Biden would change his name to Hunter Email Benghazi, just to make FOX news say it over and over.

Worked as a bank teller. Had a customer whose first name was “Silence.”

Virgin Gaylord

Yes, he was a Civil War casualty from Maine.

Enamel

Cohen McDonogh.

I have ancestors named Royal and Jupiter

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