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There's a friend of my family named Buddah. Oh, and a kid my little brother went to school with named Atilla, you know, like the ruler of the Hun empire? And for some reason, probably because they're boring assholes, more than a few people who went to my small, liberal arts college changed their names, always during their second or third year of college. I remember a girl in college who changed her name to Adelaida (I guess they technically don't count, because they weren't their legal names, but she was really obnoxious about being referred to by that name).
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I dated a guy named Arian, pronounced like Aryan. Never did find out why he was named that. Went to school with a girl named Preshus, like Precious. Also went to school with a Shugar. I know a Native American man named TallWhiteMan. My boyfriend has a friend named Mike Hunt.
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Sep 18, 2012 06:19
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Jabs posted:
Reminds me of Blixa Bargeld.
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Sep 18, 2012 06:46
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Cadillac Limitededition Smith Oh TERRIBLE names nm I got nothin
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Sep 18, 2012 08:13
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An Indian man asking for a job came to our work one day, his first name was Gagarin.
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Sep 18, 2012 08:19
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VideoTapir posted:Reminds me of Blixa Bargeld. Or HE HATE ME
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Sep 18, 2012 09:02
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When I worked selling kid's clothes I heard some interesting names. One time there were sisters named Majesty and Empress. They were both as spoiled and entitled acting as their names suggested. I think the weirdest one I met was Melisandre, like the name of the character from GRRM. As far as I know that's where that name originated. I also watched a home improvement show where there were twins named Chanel and Armani.
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Sep 18, 2012 13:16
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Barry J. Bumgardner is apparently some US lawyer according to RPS. Great thread though, "Gay beavers" is my favourite so far.
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Sep 18, 2012 13:30
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I was once flipping through the local newspaper and they had a page of baby pictures for a Beautiful Baby competition. One of them was called Berk. An unfortunate example of a perfectly normal name in one language taking on a completely different meaning in another. Didn't look like a happy baby, and who can blame it.
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Sep 18, 2012 13:38
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Sagebrush posted:Oh, and I don't know if this is actually a Shithead/Lemonjello/La-A/Abcde thing, but my cousin told me once about a show she'd seen about people with weird names, and apparently they introduced two brothers named Winner and Loser. Loser goes by "Lou", founded a successful business selling office supplies or something like that, and generally lives a good life. Winner is currently in prison for sticking up a gas station. This is a true story. The father decided to name his first-born "Winner" expecting high hopes, and then named his second son "Loser" to even it out. Winner amounted to nothing but a life of crime, and ironically, Loser is actually a detective in the Chicago PD, and he does go by "Lou." Their story was mentioned in the book "Freakonomics."
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Sep 18, 2012 15:47
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skog posted:Latisha Blesseddaughterofzion Robinson Legal name or facebook name?
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Sep 18, 2012 15:53
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I had a friend in college who's dad was named Steven Stevens. I've posted this before, but I had a teacher in high school who had recently left his job at another school. In one of his classes there, he had a student named Sir Love. To make things worse, Sir Love had a sister named Sexaline.
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Sep 18, 2012 16:31
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These might not count, but I live in Taiwan and most of the younger people here have actual English names. Like on their passports and official documents and such, they'll have both the Chinese and English- so it sort of does count. Anyway, I've encountered all of the following names with each particular person being completely serious about the fact that this was, in fact, their English name: Puppet Knife Ladybug Belly Ellie (but they pronounced it Eel-y) Mint We also have a kid at the school I work at whose parents wanted us to call him Gaga, as in Lady Gaga, but we told them that wasn't a good idea so they switched to George.
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Sep 18, 2012 16:50
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There's a guy in my work place with the name Jedi Aragorn Starbuck. I'm assuming he changed his name because he's 35, I kind of want to find out where he's working but it could be in one of several locations and I'm not sure I'd like what I find. Also took me a while to realise the probable reason he included his middle name was because Jedi is a title and not a name.
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Sep 18, 2012 17:09
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Names like Steven Stevens, William Williams, etc., were all pretty popular about one hundred years ago. They never rose to mass popularity, but had a rather "high class" feel to them. There was a fantastic book written in 1880 by Charles Bardsley, called Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature. He looked up old records and came up with some very interesting names given to Puritan children. In trying to get away from saint names, Puritans had to get creative. Most fell into a class called virtue names, like Faith, Hope, Charity, and Patience. Some were... a little further afield. This Puritan influence is also the reason why virtue names have always been more popular in the US than in any other predominately English-speaking nation. A small selection of genuine Puritan names: Tribulation Renewed Stedfast Sorry-for-sin Sin-denie Free-gift Delivery The-Lord-is-Near Original Discipline Continent (The author says, "I think the father should be whipped most incontinently in the open market who would inflict such a name on his infant daughter") Zeal-of-the-Land More-fruite Elected Arise Wrestling Revolt Peacable Remember What-God-Will Supply Pardon Given Humanity Experience Endure Humiliation Repentence Abstinence Godly Magnify Refrayne Return Lamentation Stand-fast-on-high Helpless Aid-on-high Forsaken Wealthy Flie-fornication (probably given to an illegitimate child as a reminder of their sinful origin) Then there were the Barebones. There was a Praise-God Barebone (Barbon), and a Nicholas If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone.
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Koivunen posted:Went to school with a girl named Preshus, like Precious. Here in South Africa, Precious is a common name in the African community. Other common ones I can think of off the top of my head are Gift, Beauty and Doctor. Other less common South African names I've come across: Nomore (Pronounced "no more". She was the youngest of a large number of siblings.) Nopetticoat Boesman (Bush man) Oubaas (Old boss) And here's a rogues gallery:    
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Sep 18, 2012 21:40
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I thought of another one that makes me chuckle every now and then. Mostly because spoonerisms haunt me constantly. Carrie Hunter. There is a law firm out here run by Dewey, Cheetum and Howe. (this one is a joke obviously.)
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Sep 18, 2012 21:43
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Radio Paranoia posted:Nomore (Pronounced "no more". She was the youngest of a large number of siblings.) Something about that is actually quite sad.
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Sep 18, 2012 21:47
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My old driving instructor had a guy on his books called Wu Hu. I've also encountered Blue Page (male) and Flame Cotton (female) - I just wish her middle name was 'Retardant'.
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Sep 18, 2012 22:08
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More coincidental and amusing than unfortunate or terrible, but when I did dancing in my early childhood/teen years, my dance teacher was Jenny Stretch, and the dance studio she worked for was owned by Viv Pullin. Their names used to make more than a few of us chuckle.
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Sep 18, 2012 22:10
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I'm friends with a guy named Jor-el.
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Invalid Octopus posted:I'm friends with a guy named Jor-el. fe: I do get the reference. 
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Sep 18, 2012 23:04
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I was good friends with a guy who was also Michael Jackson. When he died, I got strange looks from people who didn't know him because the big celebrity had died a couple of months or so previous and they couldn't work out why I was so upset about that dude dying.
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Sep 18, 2012 23:24
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My mom works at an OBGYN office. A patient named her son Bob. It wasn't short for anything. Just Bob.
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What sort of person named their kid 'Mittens'?
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The school I went to had some winners. We had a kid named Murf and it wasn't short for Murphy. There was another kid named Lart who definitely looked like the kind of person who would be named Lart. The one I'll never forget is the kid named JonJon who would spend all recess terrorizing the aides, he O.D.ed in 6th grade on painkillers.
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Sep 19, 2012 09:12
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Not someone I've actually encountered, but: Lord Jesus Christ
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Lady Arcadia posted:I think the weirdest one I met was Melisandre, like the name of the character from GRRM. As far as I know that's where that name originated. To be fair, Melisandre is, on its own merits, a super pretty name  I don't live in an English-speaking country, but a teacher in my elementary school had a last name that translates to Ourfather. Like the first words of the Lord's Prayer. It was just as weird in the original and he ended up taking his wife's last name when he got married.
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Radio Paranoia posted:
Thanks for posting these, if you hadn't I would have put most of them up  South Africa almost doesn't count in this regard, it's almost on the same level as the Asian names mentioned previously. People choose their own names and make bad (or awesome) decisions. My favourite is this one. It's not quite the same as the rest in this thread (although Aviance probably qualifies):  This lady wrote a little note on her ID book application form to make sure they put the acute accent in the "i" in her name, but put it in the blocks where you write your names. I assume she changed it eventually, but for a while at least her name was essentially Aviance Anmeri Pleasenotetheacute Oni du Plessis.
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In my area, there is a Moses Jesus Moses and his son Lemon Moses. (At least, I think Lemon is the son; it might be vice-versa.) I also got yelled at once at work for making a conference name tag for a guy named Mahmoud Mahmoud because the director thought it was a typo.
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crumpuppet posted:
poo poo, a genuine Margaret Esmerelda Note Spelling Garlick
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Koivunen posted:I dated a guy named Arian, pronounced like Aryan. Never did find out why he was named that. Theologian parents? I went to a summer camp with a guy named Balthazar. He looked like his family was from the region where that would be common, so it's not that odd. But I really hope they named him that before they moved to whitebread Colorado. Otherwise it's just cruel. edit: I forgot. Another camper, while trying to read his name, pronounced it "Ball tazer". 22 Eargesplitten has a new favorite as of 22:22 on Sep 19, 2012 |
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I mentioned Puritan names last time - I thought I might do another post of historical names. A lot of these are just really strange spellings. People wrote what they said, so Henrietta turned into Henryetter. Others, like Casket and Mourning, might have been given to stillbirths or infants who died. Others are just weird. State names were used back then: Missippssy (1843) Tennessa (1843) Wyoma (1927) Masouria (1836) Some were strange spellings: Burial (1936 - probably Beryl) Matilday (1817) Cleatess (1909) Presellia (1937) Dorcorrs (1728 - Dorcas) Darkis (1844 - before "dork" took over as a major slang term, Dorcas was actually quite popular in the US) Abergale (1848) Henryetor (1842) Binjaminy (1826) Suffiah (1733 - probably Sophia) Zacry (1847) Eloweze (1830) Liller (1832) Some are just strange: RasBerry (1901) Boss (1835) Dimples (1908) Fourteen (1888) Memory (1856) Famous (1914) Glee (1923) Parolee (1848 - probably Pearly) Anarchy (1800) Organ (1840) Mutt (1749)
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Bonster posted:Puritans are awesome Bonster, your posts are amazing. Please keep it up!!! I got one more, fellas: my freshman year suitemate has a cousin named Star of Peace Quinn. She's a professional snowboarder!
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I live and work in a Filipino area and sometimes have heard odd names like; Princess Cherry Pie Baby Tommy
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Bonster posted:I mentioned Puritan names last time - I thought I might do another post of historical names. A lot of these are just really strange spellings. People wrote what they said, so Henrietta turned into Henryetter. Others, like Casket and Mourning, might have been given to stillbirths or infants who died. Others are just weird. *Actually the lead singer of a band that was a very early form of black metal **Early model android: very strong; but slow and impossible to pass as human ***Star of silent porn films and Daguerreotypes, famous for his eight-inch mustache and nine-inch prick I'm something of a natural expert on weird names; my grandfather's name was Junior (they filled out the paperwork wrong and stuck with it)
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Breetai posted:On a similar note; a Singaporean ex-client named Dorkus. Dorkus is some obscure biblical name. One of my great-aunts had that name.
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GOO PUNCH!! posted:Dorkus is some obscure biblical name. One of my great-aunts had that name. I think Dorcas is the more usual spelling, meaning deer-like, or something similar...?
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ibntumart posted:This is fairly tame compared to most of the other names, but my childhood dentist was Dr. Bonkers. I had 4 teeth pulled by Dr. Pepper And went to high school with a Harry Ness no idea if his middle initial was P. AcetylCoA! has a new favorite as of 05:02 on Sep 20, 2012 |
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