Strange names

Sonofabiscuit2
Sonofabiscuit2 Posts: 323 Member
edited September 27 in Chit-Chat
I spend my day looking at the odd names people choose for their children. The other day I came across a family with 7 kids, some of the names were Belle, Sebastian, Aurora and Cinderella. I also knew a guy named Jack Mehoff (never used his first name). One that is only funny in navy terms, a First Sergeant Standfast (standfast means don't move in naval terms) the first time I met him a young Corporal yelled out First Sergeant Standfast and I thought wow this kid has some balls. Also my Grandmother was named.Flora and her mother was named Flossie. So tell me the funny names you've heard or seen.
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  • KristenAnn711
    KristenAnn711 Posts: 783
    how about naming a baby Thor
  • kristarablue
    kristarablue Posts: 702 Member
    La-a ........I kid you not....pronounced.....Ladasha...cracks me up every time I see it
  • skittybang
    skittybang Posts: 1,525 Member
    I know a guy who's first name is Justin, middle name Case
  • AngelaPowPowPOW
    AngelaPowPowPOW Posts: 293
    I went to college with a girl named "No Name" ...pronounced "No' nahhmay". Her mom was illiterate and thought the nurse, on the birth certificate application, already filled it in for her and chose that name. Thank gawd she was a beautiful girl, or it would've been awkward.
  • littttlelaurra
    littttlelaurra Posts: 229 Member
    my favorite Aunt's name is Honey, I think its a cute name and would of used it for my own daughter but got veto'd by every male in my entire family saying that she would have a heck of a time as a teenager lol so sighs poor Aunt Honey will not have any one named after her just yet. and yes my Aunt's name fits her , she is super cute, extra sweet, and just plain adorable, she is 80 now and still full of wit vim and vigar lol... :o)
  • littttlelaurra
    littttlelaurra Posts: 229 Member
    this one was a co workers child, Amber Star last name Smith, I am sure she will be happy to lose that and gets married young lol.
    I know she wont want to use her intials on anything!
  • McKayMachina
    McKayMachina Posts: 2,670 Member
    I love uncommon names. I don't understand why people keep naming their kids John and Mary and now this rash of Ashleys Megans and Taylors and all the other popular names. I grew up in classes where we had three boys named Chris per hour. Ridiculous. So I am all for uncommon names. :)

    But contrived is bad. Like "Her name isn't Megan, it's Myeeghianne" or w/e. :laugh:
  • skittybang
    skittybang Posts: 1,525 Member
    My husband worked for a health center that mostly dealt with lower income individuals with no medical insurance. This woman, could barely speak English, had a baby there. As she was planning to leave the hospital the nurse's said "We still need a name for her." She pointed to the wrist band and pronounced "Fe-malley".... No lie, she thought that the hospital named her daughter for her. The wrist band just showed "Female."

    :)
  • louiseshields
    louiseshields Posts: 12 Member
    I work in a school and one of our past pupils was called Callum Charlton Corey Campbell Connor Chesterton - WHAT????!!!!??? Crazy!
  • bestdaysahead
    bestdaysahead Posts: 90 Member
    I knew a boy named Cash Will Dew. Was in the Navy with a man whose name was Petty Officer Dic*. Another man's first name was Lieutenant. He was in the Navy too.
    BTW, My daughter's nickname is Honey!
  • zave
    zave Posts: 238
    I have known Jackie Tracky and a Jim Grimm. Why would parents give kids a name that rhymes?
  • diverchic73
    diverchic73 Posts: 314 Member
    I went to school with a boy named Tree, another one named Thijs (pronounced Thais) and a girl named Sunny.

    Also knew a family whose kids are named Kip, Klint, Kass, Kole and I can't remember the other one but it was another K name.
  • wheelieblade
    wheelieblade Posts: 323
    friend of mine named her new daughter Eladia Dawn
  • diverchic73
    diverchic73 Posts: 314 Member
    Oh, I forgot... someone I know named their two kids Stryker and Harley... their last name? Ryder!
  • Sonofabiscuit2
    Sonofabiscuit2 Posts: 323 Member
    Love the names so far. If my daughter had been a boy we had discussed naming her Punter Faire, but we named her for my sister and mother who both passed when I was 5. Rebecca Constance nicknamed BooBoo. Oh and punter because she was a kicker in the womb and faire because that is where her mother and I met.
  • healthyjen342
    healthyjen342 Posts: 1,435 Member
    Let's see...my youngest neice's middle is Anlalynn....A cross between 3 different names..It was going to be Olivia, but then her initials would have been L.O.L...

    I also went to school with twins Long and Phong Pham...I always liked the unique-ness of their names...
  • fitnessjch
    fitnessjch Posts: 449 Member
    I know someone with 3 kids under 4. They are named Florence, Fleur and Fletcher.

    I also know someone with 6 kids, named Kurtis, Keely, Kian, Keira, and some other K names!

    The father has 3 brothers, and all 4 of them have names starting with G that are 5 letters long each!
  • FTIM2015
    FTIM2015 Posts: 460 Member
    I work with a lady called Gale (instead of Gail) as when they registered her birth the registrar was a bit thick and spelt it wrong!

    I also know a Marie Antoinette (Poor girl!) and a Felix (named after a cat food... nice!)
  • irishblonde2011
    irishblonde2011 Posts: 618 Member
    How about twins- sam and ella

    I also know a bloke called Ross second name stritch

    I always loved the name bailey but my boyfriends second name in daly...bummer lol
  • mmtiernan
    mmtiernan Posts: 702 Member
    I went to school with a Frankie Frank III - incredible - you'd think it would have stopped after the first one!

    I also went to school with a Dusty Rhoades and a Charlie Brown.

    Ha ha about all of the "Taylors" nowadays - my daughter was at a TKD tournament several years ago and our of nearly 100 mats in the arena, nearly every one seemed to have a "Taylor" - we joked that if there were ever a fire, all they'd have to do is announce "Would Taylor please come to the front of the building!" and that would clear half of it out right there! :laugh:
  • McKayMachina
    McKayMachina Posts: 2,670 Member
    Grew up with a Cinnamon Styles. Also two red-headed twins called Barbi and Bambi. How much shall we bet they grew up to do porn? :laugh:

    My great uncle's name is Richard Wascher. He goes by D!ck. Yeah. I know.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • craftylatvian
    craftylatvian Posts: 599 Member
    I worked customer service for a phone company and one name I came across was Baby Girl Green. Also a Candy Cane.
    I know someone who named their kids Oona and Vladimir.
    My name is Aija, pronounced eye-ya. It is Latvian.
  • mmtiernan
    mmtiernan Posts: 702 Member
    Forgot to add: I also worked once with a woman who named her kids Bart Maverick and Bret Maverick. Gun Smoke fan, I think!
  • Dtho5159
    Dtho5159 Posts: 1,054 Member
    When I lived in Florida there was family that rode the same bus for me with 3 kids: Summer, Autumn and Winter..

    My mom works for a mortgage company doing credit applications and saw some weird names: orangelo and lemongelo (they said it was orange jello and lemon jello lol), another one first name was Chevy middle name was Van and the last name was Pickup.. Seriously was on their SS card and Birth certificate.
  • angela828
    angela828 Posts: 498 Member
    Um, my education professor last semester woudl always go on rants about parents naming their kids weird names but the BEST one he ever told us was about a girl named TOY... and her last name was LET. Toy Let...

    I am seriously not even making this up, and my professor swore up and down it is a true story.....It makes me laugh everytime I think about it !haha
  • raychybabe
    raychybabe Posts: 121 Member
    Baby Girl Green is what Phoebe in friends thinks Rachel's baby is called (because of her ID tag).

    I've met a Coral and Reef (sister and brother) which I thought was quite cute :)
  • anikkim0915
    anikkim0915 Posts: 100 Member
    I went to school with a Cinnamon Wetzel (sounded like Pretzel if you said it fast)

    And a Willow Tree


    I went with an unusual name for my DD... Her name is Clairece (as in Silence of the Lambs).. I guess it isn't unusual, just uncommon.
  • navvs15
    navvs15 Posts: 165
    The other day I came across a family with 7 kids, some of the names were Belle, Sebastian, Aurora and Cinderella.

    You're kidding, right? Come on, Cinderella?! They must be Disney freaks...all of those names come from Disney characters. :noway:

    I've not heard THAT many unusual names. There's a police officer around here named Thom DeLeuw. I'm a collector of strange/unusual names, and I certainly had to write that one down.
  • goron59
    goron59 Posts: 890 Member
    I love to look up funny names in the corporate phone book.

    I think my all time favourite (and extremely unfortunate) was a Roger Smallboys.
    Lots of people with last name of Fuchs.
    And over here in UK we find Americans with names like Fanny and Randy very amusing.

    Right, that's my afternoon gone, trawling through the phone book again!
  • Sonofabiscuit2
    Sonofabiscuit2 Posts: 323 Member
    The other day I came across a family with 7 kids, some of the names were Belle, Sebastian, Aurora and Cinderella.

    You're kidding, right? Come on, Cinderella?! They must be Disney freaks...all of those names come from Disney characters. :noway:

    I've not heard THAT many unusual names. There's a police officer around here named Thom DeLeuw. I'm a collector of strange/unusual names, and I certainly had to write that one down.
    lol yep I wrote down the account for the trainers, I also ran across Paul McCartney not the singer.
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