Do you ever wonder what would possess a parent to name their kid something funny or weird? What are some that you have heard? Please share....

As I just wrote about Plaxico Burris, I have to say that I shake my head everytime I hear that name - Plaxico - on the news. What were they thinking? It sounds like some kind of pharmacuetical or something??

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I once had a client named Asia M. Smith. (Smith isn't his real name) The M. stood for Minor.

Remember the Three Stooges? My daughter works with a woman who named her son Lawrence Moe Curley.

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I have come across a lot of strange names because of my job, here is a recent list of nams I have come across that made me wonder what the parents were thinking:

Prince
Princess
Why-Sun


I also knew a girl and her parents gave her the middle names of Frank-Joseph because that would have been her name if she was a boy

My boyfriends parents also could not name children None of their sons go by their legal names, they all go by the shortened version of their middle names

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Lemonjello -- pronounced Lee-mon-ja-lo

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A few of my students over the years:

Penny Nickel
Genesis (boy)
Genesis (girl)
Psalms (girl)
Job (boy)
Aza (pronounced Asia)
Goldie (girl)
Junior (actual first name)

Robert Blue Bird
Ima Blue Bird
Justin Other Bird
Peter Leak

These were at some point customers at the place I work. Makes ya scratch your head sometimes.....

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DS went to school with an Elvis King.

Have a coworker named Phil McCracken.

My mother once said she had a client named "Precious"...and at the time she met him he was a very large 50 year old man.

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I had a customer "Snow White" when I worked at at bank years ago.

Kids at my school named:
Atilla (like the hun)
Chevelleane (guess her dad liked the car?)
Devine (a boy, pronounced like Dev-in)
Monique (not weird, but they pronounce it Moni-QUE)

and one poor kid that the mom named "BJ" and not it's not short for anything....can you imagine when he gets older?

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We had a student this last year named Tear Drop. I have seen a lot of different names being a teacher. I know a guy named Famous.

My precious little Kindergarten student that was murdered this year was named Four. He was named after the four angels in the bible. When he told me the story, I did not think his name was so strange after all.

I went to school with Sterling Silver and Chanda Lear.

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Many years ago when I was a teenager my Mom worked with a Native American lady, and her name was Halloween. My Great Great Grandmother on my Mother's side was also Native American and her name was Easter.

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If Vegetarians eat Vegetables. Do Humanitarians eat Humans?

'Vegetarian' is an old Native American word for bad hunter.

Many years ago my friend worked with a lady that changed her name to Shirley Ujest. The judge told her that most people change their names from names like these. lol My friend named her dd Dusty Rhodes. I always thought that was cute.

My son's school has an Anakin Skywalker Garcia.

OMG...that made me think of when we were picking our baby names. My DH is Bart (which is bad when it comes to things kids do with names) and I was thinking...okay, how about Bart Jr or "BJ". I was thinking of BJ and the Bear (yes, dumb...I know). He wasn't sure. He took the list of names into the guys at work and right away...NO WAY...do not go with BJ! I felt like the V8 commercial where they slap their heads and said "I should have had a V8". I am SO GLAD those guys have the mentality of children

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Students' names:

Starr
Princess Jessica
Cavelier with brother Knight
Waking (pronounced Wa-King)

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"Lemonjello -- pronounced Lee-mon-ja-lo "

He has a brother named Orangello Pronounced Or-an-galo

My two faves:
Placenta Pronounced: pla-shenshia

Vagina Pronounced Va GEEna

I worked in an inner city ER. Trust me those two were real!

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My daughter went to school with a Precious Loving.

A social worker I knew once told me about a family that last name was "Sheets". She said they had triplet daughters and named them Satin,Linen and Cotton.

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Lemonjello and oranjello are urban legends. Everyone claims they knew a lady that named her twins this, or worked at a hospital where they were born, etc.

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"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."

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I also work at a school, some of the *different* names I can think of:
Luke Sky Walker
Saint (actual name is Jacob, but mom says he is a "saint" so he should be referred to by this)
Gypsy

I also teach so I have see a few!

This year we had :
Dezire and Diamond (brothers)
Mahogoni (girl)
Aspen (girl)
Sehrena (girl)

I wish I would have kept a list over the years!

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A lady where I used to work named one of her children Huggy, pronounced just like it sounds, like the diapers..

oh and at a school where I worked, there was a little girl whose named sounded like Dijonnaise, but it was spelled differently with a z, a couple h's, and twice as many vowels.

Is this like Serena? (ser ee na)

If so, I always thought it was a beautiful name, since way back on bewitched.

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"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."

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For those who mentioned Goldie and Asia. I have those in my family. My mother-in law, who was born in 1913, was named Goldie. And I have a distant cousin who named his daughter Asia.

My daughter went to school with a boy named Wolf. I have a cousin named Temre which I have never heard before or since.

My mother's lifelong friend was named Frances but for her entire life she was called Fruzzie. Pronounced froo-zee. I'm not sure where it came from but I never heard her called anything else. Even her kids would refer to her as Fruzzie or sometimes Fruz (frooze).

So, what do you think the parents are thinking when they choose these names?
Do they think they're cute names? Do they want something that will help their kid stand out in a crowd and/or be memorable?
It does seem more common for blacks to choose unique names.....or am I off-base, or worse yet, a racist? Some of the names posted here do sound like they could be a Asian names translated to be English-like....I work with some people who have done that to make it easier for folks in the US to pronounce or relate to.

cj/

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Now that I think about it, I guess my mom was called by a odd name. Her given name was Sara Ophelia, but everyone called her Ofear. Yes as in Oh Fear. HAHA! She was one tough lady and a lot of people did fear her, I guess you do take on the characteristics of what you're called.

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'Vegetarian' is an old Native American word for bad hunter.

I think some people like thinking of themselves as inventive perhaps. I don't know where it happens the most. I think in the south you get what seem to be strange names at times because they like to name their kids their maiden names, parent's maiden name, or after the crazy aunt who lived in the attic. And some names come about like my MIL Goldie, because her mother, who was just learning English, gave birth to a stunningly pretty baby girl with white blond hair.

Oh yes I remember now coming back from Japan many years ago. The flight was carrying about 8 Korean infants that one couple had brought on board. All these babies were being delivered to their new adoptive homes. The largest was about 18 months old, very large for his age and his name was King Kong. I do hope they changed that when they got him.

Goldie usually comes from the Yiddish name Golda (think Golda Meir). I remember older ladies where my Grandmother lived named Goldie.

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My mother in laws name is Oriette.

When I worked at the telephone company, there was a woman named Secret Fryer.

Girlfriend's daughter is Tyranny.

I've known a couple of Precious women.

I had a girlfriend named Florence. If she would have married her boyfriend her name would have been Florence Welk. Alas, they broke up.

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Betsy B. Goode
Mickey McMick
John Walton - he was was a teenager when it first aired. He fancied himself to be a "bad boy," so it was pretty funny.
Doris Cloris (who had a cat named Morris)

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True story, I promise. The principal at my high school was Wesley Dick. His wife, who was the assistant principal at the middle school, was named "Anita". I think I'd have kept my maiden name.

lol. My highschool English teacher was named Ann Head. She was talking with us one day about her family and told us her son was named Richard, but they called him Dick....hmmm................wonder if he had a different last name?

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I can beat it all (forgive me ahead of time, Dick, whom I think is a fabulous human being):
My dh works w/ a great man named Dick Geyser.
Can you even imagine what his folks may have been thinking?!

My neice is Heather Hope Hill he daughter is Shenoah Cheyenne and her fist cousin is Shyla, I can't remember the middle name right this momen, by is slid off the wall with the rest of the names. My grand daughter is Gabrielle Michelle Gilchrist and grandson is Hunter Nathon Brannon. My other neices are Madison, Morgan and McKinsey and yep those three are sisters.

another tidbit of insanity, my login is just a string of my maiden and married initials, which if you look at it all it needs is a noun in front to make a sentence.

Fifteen years ago my dh quite seriously wanted to name our first son "Justin Case <insert last name>". I put the brakes on that. Justin is Austin, middle name NOT Case.

Way back in my family line, we do have a Justin Case (one of my great (x 3??) grandfathers founded Case tractors.

Candy Cane
Dick Lipps (the name on his check was Richard, but he went by Dick)

Three sisters: Stevie, Ray and Vaugn

Another one I thought of, years ago I used to sell a lot on ebay. I had one regular customer that's name was Christmas Fish. They were a great buyer!

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OH I forgot! We have an neighbor that named her daughter Justin.......Justin Love Smith.

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we had a "Golden Brown" from my town years ago. my mother sews names on ffa jackets so she tells me some doozies...she seen a Maxi Pad come thru before. that's just wrong! my last name is sheets and i have 3 daughters, but never considered satin, cotton, and linen. lol my middle daughter's initials are BS, wasn't thinking about that one at the time. my sister was going to name her son Brock Lee, but decided against it.

You just made me remember. I had a 7th grade english teacher who's name was Zimeka Ziggafoose (I can't remember if that's how it was spelled or not). We used to call her Ziggy.

Sabrina was on Bewitched, not Serena.

The flight attendant on my flight this past weekend was named Nissan. I thought I misheard it when the flight attendants were introduced, but I checked it on her name tag. I remember her name, but not any of the others.

Sorry, it was her cousin, not her sister, but the name is Serena, not sabrina. I know because I watched this a lot when I was young and always wished my name was Serena. I just watched an episode today.YouTube - Serena visits Samantha - Bewitched

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Sabrina the teenage witch and then there was Cousin Serena on Bewitched

http://www.dvdizzy.com/sabrina-season2.html


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I had a friend who named her son tyneol.
knew a little girl named booklyn bridges.
know a little boy named draco .

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Sorry no offense to anyone but I find the name Neveah annoying as hell. (pun intended) Why not just name them Heaven? It sounds a lot better.

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oh I almost forgot I saw an article recently about a lady who grew up in a ghetto and overcame a life of child prostitution and drug use, and became a lawyer..her name is Cupcake Brown. She said her mom was woozy and hungry when she woke up after giving birth and asked the nurse for a cupcake...that was recorded as her official name and they wouldn't change it..she wrote a book called "A Piece of Cake"

Don't forget about Dick Trickle. That one always cracks me up!

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I had that book but never got around to reading it.

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

Yes, I was thinking of Sabrina the teenage witch (Melissa Joan Hart)

Thanks for posting - that brought back memories!

I love to go to youtube and watch old shows. Today I had my daughter in here watching Family Afair, The Torkelsons, Romper Room, and lots of other ones I watched when I was young.

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"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."

John Lennon

LMAO..... we got solicited by ADT last week, and I was in a silly mood. We were not interested, but they kept persisting. DS told them his name was Phil McCracken. So, we were joking around with funny names......

Ben Dover


I went to a business convention, and the lady was talking about a guy named Chip Dicks. I could NOT stop laughing.

I went to school with a girl who had the last name Hiney. Poor thing....

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