On naming children - are parents insane?

[feralmerril]

I had a buddy with last name of roo or rue? Anyway I told him to name his son kanger, but he wouldnt.

 

[JoeR]

Yeah, I guess now that you mention it. Mr McQueer gets called Billy at work........

 

[rimfired]

Originally posted by Mickey D:
My parents names us four boys...Mark, Mike, Steven & Scott. All with normal middle names too.
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And you're the only one who can't light a friggin cigar!!!!!

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

It's not always the parents. I read of a man
named John None Benedict from Trinidad and Tobago. On his immigration papers for "middle name" he wrote down "None". I worked with a man named Rodrigue. Somehow the INS lost his family's Z.

 

[Beaver]

A baby born in our OB department was named "Splash". The mother got up to pee, had the baby in the toilet. Named the kid "Splash". True story. beaver.

 

[tyusclan]

Knew a kid once with a name that was pronounced Paj' a mus. It was spelled Pajamas.

When the mother was asked where she found the name, she said, "Out the Sears-Roebuck catalog."

And don't forget about Frank Zappa. Dwiezel and Moonbeam.

Or the Phoenix's, River, Leaf and a coupla others I can't think of right now.

 

[Rich S]

i don't know about others here but i have passed over job candidates because i simply didn't want to hear their dumb name around the shop. FWIW we do have a Zeniya,(Zen-ya) Jhoan (yo-han)and a woman named Michael (is that really a southern thing? she's from KY)and my inlaws are Japanese, last name Ichinose (Itchy no say) so we have a tolerance level for names 'round here but the resistance/ chip on shoulder type of names would get old fast.
Regards,
Rich

 

[Mickey D]

Originally posted by tyusclan:


And don't forget about Frank Zappa. Dwiezel and Moonbeam.

I belive they had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen.

 

[Davwingman]

I always liked descriptive names like Retch Sweeney & Rancid Crabtree. You never forget them!

 

[sipowicz]

I like Penn Gillette's little girl's name.

Moxy Crimefighter. Go ahead, snope it.

 

[charlie sherrill]

Nosmoking (pronounced Noz Mo King) Jones,After Ray Harvey (he was born after his older brother Ray) and his mother Queen Ester Harvey and sister Pollyester Harvey. Local Walmart manager's name is Airfonzie Peterson.

 

[nicky4968]

A distant relative on my maternal grandmother's side. Henrietta Legg. My grandfather couldn't get over that name.
As far as spellings, there are 37 spellings of "Catherine". 18 with "C" and 19 with "K". The odd one? "Kthrn"

 

[kmyers]

Originally posted by ArcticFox:
There was a girl in the neighborhood where we used to live named Xochitl, which is Spanish for flower I think. When you hear her say her name you just throw you pen in the air because you can't spell what you just heard...

Xochi is Nahuatl for flower. The language of the Aztecs.

 

[zoom6zoom]

I know one family with at least one boy in each generation with the middle name of G'sell, because a general named G'sell saved an ancestor's life in battle.

Klingons?

One of the kids I went to grade school used to get beat up a lot. His last name was Hoar. Mom's name was Ima. No, I swear I'm not making that up.

 

[Eagle Guns]

Here's an e-mail I got just the other day.

How would you pronounce this child's name? LE-A








Leah?? NO
Lee - A?? NOPE
Lay - a?? NO
Lei?? Guess again









It's pronounced "Ledasha"
Oh yes...you read it right. This child attends a school in Livingston Parish, LA.. Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong.

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When the mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "The dash don't be silent."

 

[RonJ]

Heard about a girl named Nancy-Ann Seancee. Not sure about the surname spelling.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...can't understand the cutesy names like Candy...can you imagine a ninety year old grandmother named Candy?...went to school with a girl named Candy Bush...but that's another story...

 

[BarbC]

I knew a girl named Candy Cohn.

And one named Autumn Fogg.

My 16-year old roommate in the maternity ward 23 years ago named her baby boy "Shon" because she had two boyfriends and didn't know if the father was John or Sean.

 

[bumpfire]

My third grandson, born last December was named Saginaw Mountain I will leave out the last name.
I pleaded for months not to do that. I am beside myself. I learned that They don't allow guns in the house and voted for Obama;-(

I am so sad

 

[Bruce Bannister]

My, but we do have some dandies!

I worked for many years with a gent christened "Harry Dyck"...not Harold, Harry!

He came from a Mennonite family in southern Manitoba, and I often wondered if the folks were simply too clean-minded to realize what they'd done...