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Istari posted:Ramona and Roberta (and probably a dozen others I can't currently think of) also fall into this category, and are perfectly normal names. Albertina and Thomasina, fortunately, have mostly fallen into disuse. Carla and Daniella as well.
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Istari posted:Ramona and Roberta (and probably a dozen others I can't currently think of) also fall into this category, and are perfectly normal names. Albertina and Thomasina, fortunately, have mostly fallen into disuse. I know two Thomasinas. Nigellea is another one. Oh, how about Davina, Willena. There's loads of those, but the get more tenuous tbh Heh, Bobette is a great one tho
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Imagined posted:I call names like this "dad really wanted a junior". Others I've seen: Those are pretty bad. I think "Jr's" are pretty bad as well, to be honest.
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Istari posted:Ramona and Roberta (and probably a dozen others I can't currently think of) also fall into this category, and are perfectly normal names. Albertina and Thomasina, fortunately, have mostly fallen into disuse. the female of albert is alberta and people stopped using that after victorias kid got a giant bit of land named after her
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Rough Lobster posted:Those are pretty bad. I think "Jr's" are pretty bad as well, to be honest. What about "the third"'s?
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Rough Lobster posted:Those are pretty bad. I think "Jr's" are pretty bad as well, to be honest. I'm the third Jerry Cotton in a row and thank god we don't do that Jr. (or III) stuff here. Although when my dad gave me his car the lady at the counter kept looking at me like I was crazy and then said: "Why are you trying to transfer your own vehicle's registration to yourself?" e: Also a co-worker once told me my name was illegal because "it's illegal to have the same name as your parents!" 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 13:38 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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Kurtofan posted:What about "the third"'s? Best Saints Row.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm the third Jerry Cotton in a row and thank god we don't do that Jr. (or III) stuff here. Although when my dad gave me his car the lady at the counter kept looking at me like I was crazy and then said: "Why are you trying to transfer your own vehicle's registration to yourself?" There's a hockey player named Jack Johnson (full name John Joseph Louis Johnson) who has the same name as his father, and grandfather. The father has used this to steal the grandfather's home, and millions of dollars in loans in his son's name.
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Talk about shaming the family name!
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Husband met a Dr. Gert Kwakkel. It's probably a perfectly normal Dutch name, but I can't get over the fact that somewhere out there there's a Doctor Quackle, and he's not a cartoon duck.
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hyperhazard posted:Husband met a Dr. Gert Kwakkel. It's probably a perfectly normal Dutch name, but I can't get over the fact that somewhere out there there's a Doctor Quackle, and he's not a cartoon duck. I love it. That's like this guy. 
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My dad's a junior and hated it so luckily I didn't end up with the middle name Francis.
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Was a camp counselor in college. There was a kid in my group named "Jett Mann", which isn't too weird until you find out his dad's name is "Rocket Mann".
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Soon to be the senior of Plane Mann.
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in_queso_emergency posted:Was a camp counselor in college. There was a kid in my group named "Jett Mann", which isn't too weird until you find out his dad's name is "Rocket Mann". This is loving awesome though. I work IT for a national camp company so I basically live that Key & Peele skit daily.
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fullroundaction posted:This is loving awesome though. I work IT for a national camp company so I basically live that Key & Peele skit daily. Do camps attract the weirdly named or am I just not getting it? (I'm assuming the K&P sketch referred to is the football player names one.)
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Sorry should have been more clear. I run football camps specifically for high school aged guys, and the K&P thing is becoming less and less parody each season.
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fullroundaction posted:Sorry should have been more clear. I run football camps specifically for high school aged guys, and the K&P thing is becoming less and less parody each season. 
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Here is a no effort, unedited dump from this year just based on who has an apostrophe in their first name: code:
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De'Christopher is amazing.
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I'm rather taken with Ja'mes myself. A little disappointed there are none with two or more though.
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Aphrodite posted:De'Christopher is amazing. It's better in French.
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fullroundaction posted:Here is a no effort, unedited dump from this year just based on who has an apostrophe in their first name: Has anyone tried to SQL inject you with their name yet?
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fullroundaction posted:Here is a no effort, unedited dump from this year just based on who has an apostrophe in their first name: Poor Sa'id - he doesn't deserve to be on this list. Maybe Kala'ula too, that sounds Polynesian. R'Mani, though 
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fullroundaction posted:Here is a no effort, unedited dump from this year just based on who has an apostrophe in their first name: To be fair, Namuali'i is just a Hawaiian name (and Kala'ula is probably the same, I've never heard it myself but it parses), glottal stops--represented in English as apostrophes--are actually a phonetic consonant in Austronesian languages 
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About 15 years ago there was a pairing of brothers called Rock and Roell Preston who played football in Canada. They were from somewhere in the United States though. On my hometown team right now, there is a Lin-J (lynne-jay), a Da'Rel and a Jamarkus. Like other, I spent some time in Mainland China and got to witness several people there selecting their own English names. My personal favourite was a corporate recruiter who identified himself as Cookie. I got to play that game there as well, because apparently you need a name that can be written in Chinese characters if you want a bank account so I was Bai Long, which translated to White Dragon. If you get to pick, you may as well pick something awesome.
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I'm sorry that parents of football players are just naturally better at naming their kids, like Leviticus Payne and Silverberry Mouhon and Jazzmar Clax
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Kurtofan posted:What about "the third"'s? That just makes me think of the wonderfully-named League of Legends shoutcaster Rivington Bruce Bisland III
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Antifreeze Head posted:I got to play that game there as well, because apparently you need a name that can be written in Chinese characters if you want a bank account so I was Bai Long, which translated to White Dragon. If you get to pick, you may as well pick something awesome.  shoulda been like dong bang tho
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Jumping in at the end of the thread here; my work deals with names everyday and we see alot. I'm not sure if this is a UK thing but get ready to see a LOT of dumb names in 10-20 years in the workplace. I really really do not get the double-name craze here in the UK; Lexi-Mae, Noah-Jacob. I deal in customised products and some names are just mind bogglingly dumb. Like two names slapped together, not even tongue rollers just straight up two first names. I guess there was some popular TV show which has cultivated this, as that is how most 'mainstream' crazes start (Only way is essex, etc) edit: Lilymae, elliemae, so chavvy. Sevalar has a new favorite as of 12:02 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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fullroundaction posted:Here is a no effort, unedited dump from this year just based on who has an apostrophe in their first name: Is he the token African-American Yosposter?
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M'adam, I'm A'dam.
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Antifreeze Head posted:Like other, I spent some time in Mainland China and got to witness several people there selecting their own English names. My personal favourite was a corporate recruiter who identified himself as Cookie. This is amazing. I know a guy from Guangdong named Andy, and I know his Chinese name, but I swear I've heard people address him as Andy in both Cantonese and Mandarin. .
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This is the littlest big forum ever. Bertrand Hustle posted:This is amazing. I know a guy from Guangdong named Andy, and I know his Chinese name, but I swear I've heard people address him as Andy in both Cantonese and Mandarin. . Andy works since there are Chinese words close enough to get you there. Same with Danny... and probably other names that don't end in Y. Most Chinese words end in a vowel sound, those that don't are pretty much G's and N's. Many western names end with a consonant, so sometimes that just gets dropped so a name like Peter becomes Pea-Ta. That works well if you have to fight off kids from neighbouring communities so people in your district will be given more food, I guess. My name has a "th" which isn't even a sound made in (I think) any of the many forms of Chinese, so I had extra free reign. There was someone at the company I was at for a while who claimed to go by the name Budda Half-Quantum prior to working there, but I only knew him as Colin, so I don't really count that one.
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Alaois posted:I'm sorry that parents of football players are just naturally better at naming their kids, like Leviticus Payne and Silverberry Mouhon and Jazzmar Clax It's tough to beat Plaxico Burress too
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Uh, there's a man named D'Brickashaw.
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Aphrodite posted:Uh, there's a man named D'Brickashaw. sorry, i love D'Brickishaw Ferguson but even that can't beat Raekwon McMillan
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