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My first name is Eamon. It's not terrible, but it's uncommon and apparently incredibly different to pronounce. Also, there's a woman who's involved in state politics around here named Dudley Dudley.
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Silly Hippie posted:This is basically exactly what I would have named myself at that age if I had been given the option. "Little Fatty Pancakes" was what I actually claimed I was naming my firstborn. FWIW, Sequoyah is an actual name, she probably wasn't named after the tree. Edit: In fact, the trees were named after the person, who was illiterate but invented an alphabet for the Cherokee Language, which is still in use today. 
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May 29, 2013 19:16
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Silly Hippie posted:I actually knew this, my family is Cherokee. I guess it is a bit racist to assume she wasn't named after the person just because she was white. Oops. Cool. And maybe she had a Cherokee ancestor, or her parents just thought it was a cool name.
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May 29, 2013 19:55
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DemonDarkhorse posted:Indalecia, nicknamed Indy. What exactly is wrong with that name? Uncommon and hard to pronounce, sure, but it's not terrible, just unfamiliar.
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Jun 11, 2013 01:20
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There's "1 or fewer" people in the US with my name! And only 1581 with my first name, and 2650 with my last name.
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Jul 17, 2013 03:46
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VodeAndreas posted:My new niece's middle name is Zelda but she gets some excuse for it by having a pair of German grandparents and a German surname. Eh, Zelda is at least a real name that existed before the games, and they had the good sense to make that her middle name to boot.
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Sep 28, 2013 15:52
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I know a woman who named her son Aidan, or possibly Aiden. And as for common names, I knew a lot of Kates (And variations on it) in high school. Hell my mom told me that if I'd been a girl I would have been named Katherine. Instead I got saddled with Eamon, which is bizarrely difficult for a lot of people to pronounce, especially if they read it before I can tell them how to say it. And no, it's not made up.
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Oct 11, 2013 23:52
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flakeloaf posted:Ottawa has a realtor named Anita Hoare. And that would appear to be her married name There's a politician in my neck of the woods named Dudley Dudley. She was apparently named Dudley after her grandmother or something, and then she married a guy with the last name "Dudley". 
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Oct 16, 2013 20:36
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Istari posted:My parents were leaning towards Tolkien names as well. But my grandmother threatened to sever ties if they did. So instead of being named after an awesome character from an awesome series, I'm named after a saint  Speaking as this thread's resident unusual-name-haver, it's not all it's cracked up to be. There's something to be said for names that people can actually pronounce when they read them. I mean, you don't have to name your kid John Smith, but something like Celebrimbor is a little out there. And there are some pretty wacky saint names to, by the way. There's anything from Abanoub to Michael to Zephaniah.
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Oct 23, 2013 06:11
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Snowy posted:I met a young woman named Milady, which was pronounced as m'lady. Just addressing her by her name puts you beneath her. It was especially annoying since she had a generally lovely attitude and unsuccessfully tried to steal my position at work. Her parents must have been big fans of the Three Musketeers.
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Nov 4, 2013 06:27
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flakeloaf posted:In my school, having a name that could be pronounced was a guarantee of that. It's worse when you have a difficult to pronounce name. Sham bam bamina! posted:A name that couldn't be pronounced, however, was unassailable. No, that's not true at all.
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Dec 14, 2013 15:48
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Ezekiel, though uncommon, is at least not something made up.
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Aug 12, 2014 22:01
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The MSJ posted:Singer Vanessa Carlton named her daughter Sidney Aoibheann Carlton-McCauley. Any Irish can tell us how to say that middle name? At least it's her middle name that's weird, that's not as big a deal.
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Feb 13, 2015 08:23
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There's a young guy where I work named Kale.
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Mar 2, 2015 07:01
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Niton posted:There's a councilwoman in a nearby town by the name of Sunday F. Coward. I have no idea how you go into politics without changing that. There was a politician in NH a while ago called Dudley Dudley. To make it even better it was a woman.
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Apr 5, 2015 04:58
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Dr. Chainsaws PhD posted:Please tell me she at least put someone through a table. All I know about her is that one of uncles stole a bunch of her campaign signs when he was drunk in college.
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Apr 5, 2015 06:53
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UltraVariant posted:Seeing as how I have to shave for my summer job on Saturday, I decided to have the shittiest sideburns/mutton chop hybrid for a day. Yes, but is your name terrible?
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May 22, 2015 04:13
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Stik3 posted:Atticus. It's probably from "To Kill a Mockingbird".
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Jan 21, 2016 11:20
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Khazar-khum posted:It's that magical season when all the campaign signs are out, so you can see whose lives were living hells. Thus far, my favorite is for a man whose surname is Lovingood. Nothing can beat Dudley Dudley.
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Oct 24, 2016 07:40
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Istari posted:I see this a lot, and find it really odd. Like, naming your child Amon instead of Eamon, or Aron instead of Aaron, isn't making anything easier, it's just forcing them to correct people on the spelling of their otherwise-relatively-easily-understood name. Unless you're in Ireland, or maybe the UK, Eamon is nowhere near relatively easily understood. I have been dealing with people mispronouncing it for 27 years. At least here in the US, people always mispronounce it if they read it, or if I introduce myself, they can say it, but have no idea how to spell it.
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dirby posted:There is apparently a law professor named Kermit Roosevelt. He might be descended from Theodore himself, one of his sons was named Kermit.
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