On naming children - are parents insane?

[novalty]

My last name has been my headache, Lowd pronounced Loud. Of Scottish dissent originally McLowde (I believe), ancestor's Americanized it long ago. When our son was born I wanted his middle name to be Mick, that way if he didn't want to introduce himself with the last name Lowd he could say his full name and it would sound like McLowde--but my wife wouldn't go for it. I guess it is better than at my last job, when of my client's last names was Pusy. I know it is impolite, but when I spoke with him on the phone--I always called him by his first name.

The sister of a good college buddy just had a baby a couple years ago, and named it Zeppelin Kiddo. Imagine going through life with that name....as a girl.

 

[PALADIN85020]

My wife and I had four female offspring, all with pretty ordinary names. We joked that if we ever had a boy, we should name him after the middle names of my father and her father.

Newton Snodgrass????

Nah.

 

[GRIZZLYBEAR]

I dated a girl in the early '70 that was named Barbie Dauhl (pronounced Doll).


grizz

 

[afriqueart]

Every time I hear one of the People of Walmart crowd (and we've got a county full of 'em) hollering at their offspring that they named Caleb, I wonder; "Why the heck would anyone name their kid after a Jewish dog?"

 

[bigolddave]

Scoutsdad, if you think you have it tough, we share our names, and the city I live in has a lot of Swedes. There are at least fifty David Johnsons in the phone book; in the church I go to (about 400 members) we had four of us until one recently passed away.

At my doctor's office, there is another with the same middle initial, and the same month and day of birth. When I applied for a home equity loan about twelve years ago, the IRS had a lien against every single David Johnson in town!

 

[afriqueart]

Knew a nurse in Waterville, ME named Ima Whore. No kidding!

 

[ladder13]

Must be a full moon or sumthin'

 

[The Highlander]

Well-known surname in my parts is Horney.

"Honey, that Horney boy is here for our daughter..."

 

[The Highlander]

Then there is the girl that was a few years ahead of me in school:

Juanita Jockenfuss

Both "J's" are pronounced as "w's"

 

[Onomea]

I think some of the names are spelled the way they are out of ignorance, not creativity or imagination.

I once met a woman named "Autumn Swing." I think that a lovely name for a woman.

 

[Raider]

I went to school with a girl named Fonda Cox. The head of City ROTC was Major Hunter Butt; he was quite the ladies man by reputation.

Charlie

 

[enfield]

From my personal collection:

B. Tyndle Fooks
Peregrine Worsthorne
Porkie LaPine
E. Lou Hoos
Ripley Hotch
Ura Goofinoff
Gwendolyn Smoot Necessary
Noodie Runner
Shane Bacon
Canaan Banana
Duncan Puckett
Duncan Puckett Jr.
Polk Lafoon IV
Obra S. Kernodle III
Pliny W. Sigafoose
Gillie Watson Webb
Monica Hockey
Pott W. Poon
Osbra Eye
Noah Potti
V. Lonnie Peek Jr.
Ray Cobbledick
Max Clapsaddle
Ferd W. Flick

I've met some of these people.

 

[Pyromike]

My wife used to work with Dick Rasch (Rash) and still works w/ Dick Burns. Nobody thinks twice about it.

 

[mtgianni]

I am friends with Sharon Peters. However, I am not her only friend.

 

[Krull]

Personally I'm not 100% found of my first and middle name,but it does have a fix,thank gawd.

First is Marc (French spelling I believe) but it's way too common for my taste.

Middle is Charles,oh boy just batting a hundred aren't I?

I shorten it down to M.C. but I have been eyeing my screen name "Krull" as it's one I always liked......

 

[rm06]

I am friends with Sharon Peters. However, I am not her only friend.

I'm afraid I cannot get even close to this one, but I worked with a gentleman named Phil, which on the surface isn't remotely strange. However, as I found out later by accident and without his knowledge, his full first name is Philanderer - regretfully, I didn't have the courage to ask.

 

[OLDFED]

I interviewed a woman in D.C. whose first name was "Female"...pronounced fe-MAL-e, like tamale. She said her parents got the birth certificate from the hospital and it said "Female Doggett" and thanked the hospital for helping name her.

My favorite has been the birth name of the actress Cyd Charisse...Tula Ellice Finklea.

There's a road outside of Sequim, WA called Kitchen Dick Road.

 

[KingBee]

I know a woman with the first name of Comfort, and there is a UAW vice President named General Holiefield. First name, General.

 

[Texas Star]

Ian Fleming had some interesting names for his heroines in the James Bond books. Honeychile Ryder, ***** Galore, Domino Petacchi, etc.

And I liked Peter O'Donnell's heroine, Modesty Blaise. She was a displaced person, not knowing her own name. Chose "Blaise" as it was the name of King Arthur's magician, or something...although I thought that name was Merlin.


T-Star

 

[spearcrow]

My sister,a neonatal nurse, is always telling me about the unique names parents are choosing to name their kids. A while back, she came in and said she filled out the birth certificate for a woman that morning, and her new baby boy's first name was ****head...and of course, that is pronounced.. ****h - A - ed... poor kid, he won't even be able to shorten it down, that'll just make it worse.