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In our local paper today.quote:Scentia Maria Michael, 25, and Scentina Marie Michael, 24, are facing charges of robbery with violence and breach of undertaking, Cape Breton Regional Police said in a news release. The name so nice, they couldn't be bothered to come up with a different one next year.
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MorgaineDax posted:In our local paper today. I don't think this is too uncommon. I saw a mother walking around with two toddler twin girls. Each had on a big sunhat hat on with her name stitched on the front: Kaylie and Kayline.
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Used to deliver pizzas to a guy named Richard Cockman.
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AjaxoftheSouth posted:Used to deliver pizzas to a guy named Richard Cockman. My dad used to work in the hotel industry and he once had a guest who signed in as Dick Allcock. No way of knowing if it was his real name or not.
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Florida Betty posted:I don't think this is too uncommon. I saw a mother walking around with two toddler twin girls. Each had on a big sunhat hat on with her name stitched on the front: Kaylie and Kayline. I know fraternal twins named Nick and Nicole. I think themed names for twins are pretty common (if a bit twee), but it's a little more unusual to see siblings who are not twins and have such similar names.
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TheWorstAtWords posted:There's a dude living on the third floor of my dorm called Loki. I have no idea if that's his real name, but it's what's on his school ID. I can only hope that there's a Thor somewhere so I can introduce them. I went to art school with a Thor. About the least Thor-like person one could imagine.
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RazorBunny posted:I know fraternal twins named Nick and Nicole. I think themed names for twins are pretty common (if a bit twee), but it's a little more unusual to see siblings who are not twins and have such similar names. My tenth grade English teacher had a daughter named Samantha and a son named Samuel and they both went by Sam. I hated that teacher so much (for unrelated reasons).
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Hummingbirds posted:My tenth grade English teacher had a daughter named Samantha and a son named Samuel and they both went by Sam. Having two kids in a household who go by the same name is a total comedy of errors, more than you would even guess. One of my stepsisters has the same first name as me, and it could be both hilarious and frustrating.
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More Adventures with Western Union: Glenn Dinner Someone named Streisand sending to her sister, Tangerine
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I still don't know any Catherines, but I was a brief acquaintance of a Kaytii. Yesterday I encountered an Eowyn, as well.
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I knew a guy who named his *son* June Thunder. My sister wanted to name her child if was a girl Sida, pronounced sid-ah, but spelled like the French for AIDS. Living in Canada this could be construed as a major oversight. I know a woman who when she was pregnant was addicted to rhubarb pie, so she decided that if she had a girl the first name would be rhubarb middle name pie. She had a boy and named him Rhupert Bear. I don't even have words...
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Some names are awful at the same time that they are freaking amazing. I stayed to watch the credits for Iron Man 3, and one of the welders on the set was named Christian Anguish. That's not a name, that's the subtitle for Passion of the Christ!
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Arquebus posted:I still don't know any Catherines, but I was a brief acquaintance of a Kaytii. Yesterday I encountered an Eowyn, as well. What's wrong with Eowyn? The spellings a bit archaic but it's not uncommon.
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jojoinnit posted:What's wrong with Eowyn? The spellings a bit archaic but it's not uncommon. The same thing that's wrong with Mateo, I guess. Outside of a certain cultural context it looks pretentious to some people.
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When my girlfriend's little brother was born, they were deciding between either Agamemnon or Nebuchadnezzar. Eventually they settled on... Nicolas (thankfully). Also when I was a cadet, our commander and trainer was Lt. Thrasher
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This thread makes me worry that people misinterpret my name. I'm Ariel (pronounced airy-ELLE, there's a couple different ways to say the name) and I often go by Arie. Which is pronounced Airy, and so there are probably people wandering around scoffing at my parents for naming me after a good quality for a sunroom. That's still better than people singing "Under The Sea" at me, though.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:This thread makes me worry that people misinterpret my name. Oh man, I go by my middle name these days, since my (fairly common) first name kept getting mixed up with other (very common) similar ones. Except now, everybody pronounces Viola like the instrument (vee-ola) rather than the flower (v-eye-ola). Even when I go by 'Vi', people still ask me why I go by (V-eye) when they think my name is pronounced (Vee-ola). It takes so long to explain, I just say my name is Vi and leave it at that. As for terrible names? I knew a Martin Martin back in grade school, and while not terrible, per se, I did tutor a student whose name was basically pronounced as 'we win' in English, which tickled me pink any time he did well on an assignment we worked on together.
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ghosthorse posted:News from Florida (surprise!) about a couple who got caught selling identities. The woman's name is Tiwanna Tenise Thomason. I just don't even I'd want a new identity, too, if that was my name 
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I met a kid whose parent named them Dorkus tonight. Yep. Dorkus.
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Dorcas is an ancient name for Hebrew women, if I remember right. (Also a beefy dude in a Fire Emblem game.) Did they really spell it that way?
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When I was in school we had a teacher called Mr. Raper, his son was called Ali Raper. That must have been tough going through school with.
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My first name is Aleta, because my dad really liked Prince Valiant comic strips growing up. I like it, don't get me wrong. However, combined with my very long and difficult to pronounce last name, I've had to spend a lot of time explaining my ethnicity to strangers who think that's an appropriate question to ask someone.
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Lotish posted:Dorcas is an ancient name for Hebrew women, if I remember right. (Also a beefy dude in a Fire Emblem game.) Nope. Dorkus.
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jojoinnit posted:What's wrong with Eowyn? The spellings a bit archaic but it's not uncommon. It could be worse, though it is a name that (as far as I can tell with a bit of cursory googling) was invented by JRR Tolkien for Lord of the Rings. The character was good, name doesn't sound too horrible, not too difficult to spell, so... OK I guess? I mean, there's the "you named your kid something out of a book about elves and magic" bit, but it's not the worst name. Honestly, if I hadn't read the book and seen the movie I'd assume it was a Welsh or Gaelic name and think nothing of it.
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Big Grunty Secret posted:Also when I was a cadet, our commander and trainer was Lt. Thrasher That reminds me- one of my best childhood friends would go on to join the military and became Sgt. Slaughter. 
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Arquebus posted:I still don't know any Catherines, but I was a brief acquaintance of a Kaytii. Yesterday I encountered an Eowyn, as well. Just curious, what's wrong with Catherine? My sister's called Catherine and as far as I'm aware it's a perfectly legit spelling of that name. Like, my name is Niklas and there's tons of other legitimate ways you find that spelled (Nicholas, Nicklas etc.)
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Arquebus posted:I still don't know any Catherines, but I was a brief acquaintance of a Kaytii. NLJP posted:Just curious, what's wrong with Catherine? My sister's called Catherine and as far as I'm aware it's a perfectly legit spelling of that name. It'd be like if you'd only met one Joe in your entire life and he spelled it Djoughe.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I think the joke was that he's never met anyone with the relatively common name of Catherine but has, somehow, managed instead to meet someone with the mutant variation of Kaytii. Ah I am dumb, sorry.
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Lotish posted:Dorcas is an ancient name for Hebrew women, if I remember right. (Also a beefy dude in a Fire Emblem game.) I met a lady named "Dorcas Knight" once. I'm sorry, did you say "dark as night"?
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My coworker's daughter's friend's name is Nautica. Didn't realize I was living in District 1.
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My entire life my dad told me he wanted to name me Frisbee or Jello. He somehow thought that would make me super cool and popular. My dad doesn't always make sense. I've never worked with the kid, but at my school there's a student named Demon. Pronounced just like its read, dee-mon.
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