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I always found it odd that in America (im sure in other western nations as well) people get a middle name after birth, like a first name. And that its often used. In E. Europe your middle name is your fathers first name. And its almost never used
 
Dennis The B said:
I grew up in Kentucky, and knew two men who were named Shirley. They were both of about the same age as my mother (born in 1926).
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I've had the pleasure of getting to know 2 male Shirleys. One is a retired county
deputy, one of the nicest LEO that I ever met, the other a road master for the BNSF, also a very nice guy. But darn, that would be tough enough today for a kid, much less being a kid back 50+ years ago.

Fortunately, my real name is Aloyisious Horatio Hortence Mathison, or Hobie for short.;):D

Hobie
 
We had folks naming kids in Cameron Parish -- Starsky Hebert
Hutch Fontenot -- I have met someone named "Mortimer" (what were his parents thinking) and Giaseppi (in Louisiana, no less).

But my favorite was: Mervyn Spervin (Holy cow, what were those parents thinking, drinking or smoking).

We do have good nicknames in south Louisiana: T-Coon, T-Boy,
(for the juniors of the clan); Possum, Gator, Goose, Coot (and any other animal) -- my favorite is "Uncle Pup" (nickname of an old gentleman from Grand Chenier).
and the
 
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Met a guy named Tracy...don't know if he spelled that way.
Worked with a guy named Karon.
Best friend growing up was a guy named Kym. When we got in high school and he turned out to be 6'4 and about 240 nobody made fun of his name.
 
Rangerpat said:
"A Boy Named Sue"
Johnny Cash sang a song years ago (in prison, no less) that explains it.
Maybe Jessica wants her daughter to grow up tough!
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Johnny Cash was never in prison, he did spend a short time in jail though.
olcop
 
How about old George Foreman. He has a knack for naming his kids. :D

Seems like a nice guy though.

"Foreman has 11 children, and each of his five sons is named George: George Jr., George III, George IV, George V and George VI. His four younger sons are distinguished from one another by the nicknames "Monk," "Big Wheel," "Red" and "Little Joey." Also of issue in his marriage are two daughters named Natalia and Leola. He also has three daughters from a separate relationship: Michi, Freeda and Georgetta. He also adopted a daughter, Isabella Brandie Lilja (Foreman), in 2009."
 
While there have been traditions in naming, biblical names, famous names, family names and Roman names were popular at one time, there's just no excuse for what some folks call their kids.

I met a kid from VMI once, the family was into Roman names way back when and the tradition stuck: Octavius Augustus Can'tremember IV. I didn't ask, I hope they called him Augie.

A college buddy who went by TA admitted it stood for Theron Alexander and yes, there were numerals after.

As for the no excuses.....I recall hearing a gent being booked who was allegedly named Dacron Polyester. Can't recall the last name, too long ago and I was just.....amazed. Thinking about it now, it might have been a street name and the clerk was pulling my leg, I didn't see the paperwork, but he did answer to "Dacron".
 
There's a Ephriam and a Neamiah in my ancestry, and a nephew is named Eusebius. He goes by 'Sebe".
 
Who the **** is Jessica Simpson, and why would anyone care what she (?) named her kid? Being blissfully ignorant of the increasingly low-brow icons of contemporary pop "culture" is, well --- blissful. Frank Zappa famously named an offspring --- female --- I think, "Moon Unit" --- must have been uproarious at every new school year's first roll call...

It's a pity that some attention-seeking celebrities will curse their kids with a screwball moniker to garner a few moments of additional publicity. I, thankfully, was spared this recurring lifelong mortification by simply being named with a lower case acronym, "jkc", which, if actually spelled out, would cause barbarians to blush, cannibals to cringe, censors to cower, demons to duck, and moderators to go apoplectic ...
 
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Cooter Brown said:
Could be that Maxwell and Drew are family names?

Pretty long tradition of that in the south. It occasionally makes for some interesting names, particularly middle names.

My great great great grandfather was named Merideth, in 1700s Virginia.
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A very close friend goes by the name N.F. His given name is that of two of the ancient family names, Norville and Franklin. While visiting Atlanta recently, he found himself standing on the corner of......Norville and Franklin streets!
 
I've mentioned the Harvey family in the past. Mom was named Queen Esther, son #1 was simply Ray, son #2 After Ray (he was born after Ray), and daughter Polly Esther. There's a guy near here named Part Free. He goes by Bubba, except when he's being booked in. I know a guy who had three different women in a family way at the same time. Three boys were born and he gave them all the same name followed by Jr. Hopefully two of them will move when they get older. I guess if George Foreman can do it he can too. My grandfather's name was Marzillar. He went by Morris. I never did know how he got that name but so far it hasn't become a family tradition. My dad was born in 1919 and was named Woodrow Pershing. He was called Jack all his life and didn't know about his real name until he applied for a passport to go to Japan on a business trip back in the 60's. He has Jack on his headstone. We named our kids something other people could spell and pronounce.
 
I was given an old family moniker for a middle name.The few women I've told it to have kept a straight face.Bless them.
 
Our neighbor across the street when I was growing up was named "Buck". I did not find out until 30 years later his name was actually Maurice. I finally found out that he was badgered alot by the other hoodlums at school. His grandpa started calling him "Buck" after he shot his first deer, a dang gigantic buck at the age of 8!!
 
peyton said:
Our neighbor across the street when I was growing up was named "Buck". I did not find out until 30 years later his name was actually Maurice. I finally found out that he was badgered alot by the other hoodlums at school. His grandpa started calling him "Buck" after he shot his first deer, a dang gigantic buck at the age of 8!!
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All the Maurice named men I have known pronounce it "Morris".
 
.....and there's the woman my honey knew who named her daughter Latrina, the two guys I went to school with by the names of Jack Frost and Casey Jones.....
 
In the song he says it was for being out after curfew. "40 dollars a night in jail for picking flowers"

They're bound to get you
'Cause they got a curfew
And you go to the - Starkville City Jail
And you go to the - Starkville City Jail
 
You must realize so many "good names" are already taken. I say we need to look to the past, honor both sides of the family and not offend either. Say it's not possible.

There is a ladies name, common among the older generation, that we all love, but nobody names their kids it today. Had I been able to advise her, I would have told her to name her...................


GRANDMA

Yeah, expectant mothers are right there hanging on each sentence until the end.
 
In school in Vermont on the 1950s we learned about Vermont history, and of course about Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, one of who was Ethan Allen's first cousin-Remember Baker. And he was the son of Remember Baker.
Harry S. Truman's middle initial "S" stood for nothing, though both of his grandfathers had names starting with S.
Two Presidents of the United States are known by slight different versions of their given names-Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Then there's the 18th President of the US. He was named Hiram-after a grandfather, Ulysses after the Greek hero-the Greeks were fighting for their independence at the time of his birth. He received an appointment to West Point, when he saw his initials were HUG he reversed his middle and first names to avoid a ridiculous nickname, at West Point a clerk mistakenly entered his mother's maiden name as his middle name, hence-U.S. Grant.
Jeb Stuart got his nickname from his given names-James Ewell Brown Stuart.
In Russian and Ukrainian the middle name-the patronymic derived from the father's first name-is used as the polite form of address-Mikhail Sergeyevich (Gorbachev) is how you would address the last head of the USSR.
Theodore Roosevelt was the son of Theodore Roosevelt Sr. but he was just Theodore Roosevelt, TR's eldest son was Theodore Jr.
 
My Godfather's name is Norville. He's Bud to everyone in his town. I think he was the town's only handgun dealer. He's been Uncle Bud to me and my sister. Funny thing is, he's not our uncle.
 
Odd Names

What about 'Sally Jim' for the wife of who I think was the best gun writer ever, Skeeter Skelton. I never heard 'the rest of the story' about her name, but she did a great job on the 'I remember Skeeter' book.


Art
 
We named ours after four of the Disciples. Our second was about 10 when he announced that we should have named him "Wolf."
 
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