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know a family who named their first child Lea. They then proceeded to name their next daughter Perrin, after Lea & Perrin, the Worcestershire sauce manufacturer.
I also went to school with a girl called Summer Forecast who had a sister called Rayne.
Edit: Also, last year one day when I was very bored I read the birth announcements in the Times and found that some crazy person had named their daughter Magenta Poodle Pitman, which has to be up there with Moonunit.
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I have known girls named Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter (admitedly, Winter was a last name).
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Bella, you knew a girl named Rayne? That's what we named our daughter. Rayne Danae, which my mother loves to say "Rayne Danae, Rain Tomorrow". Appropriate, really, given where we live.
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A buddy of mine has the last name Keyes (He pronounces it keys) and he used to joke about naming his kids stuff like Don (Donkeys), Bruce (Brewskis) and my personal favorite; Waters (Water skis). Will he actually do it? I doubt it, but we had a good laugh about it.
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I had a companion on my mission whose last name was Klunker. He was German. I knew a bishop here, a Polynesian guy, whose name was Radio Watch. When I worked at the Polynesian Cultural Center there was a Tongan guy with 23 (!) kids, all named after movie stars. The last name was Fa. So there was Cary Grant Fa, John Wayne Fa, and so on. Then there's Frank Zappa's kids, Moon Unit (girl) and Dweezil (boy).
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I attended elementry school with a Michael Jackson. In high school, I felt really sorry for Harry Balls. My mom's american name is Sunny and her maiden name is Sun. Her Korean clientele refer to her as Sunny-Sun.
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I work with a 'Chinwe'--pronounced 'Chew-a'
My mother worked one year at a Title 1 (which in my town means 'black') school, and every single girl in her class had a 'sha' name: Shaniqua, Shaquana, et cetera. Of course, as a white family, we were so confused as to why this was popular among the black families, becuase we have yet to meet a white girl with the name "Shaquana". Posts: 873 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Initials that spell words aren't so bad as long as it's not HOG or DUM or (in the case of a girl) LES, DYK, MAN, BOY... Et cetera. Or GAY for guys, I assume.
My initials are ALL. I like them.
No odd names that I can remember, though.
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quote: One of my goals in life is to marry a man whose last name begins with a "B" so that my initials would be KGB.
When I was about 7 I realized that some of our initials spelled things out. My mother is Mrs. K (that one was a real revelation for me LOL), my sister is ELK, but I was just JAK. So I decided long before I was interested in boys that I was going to marry someone whose last name started with an L so I could be a jackal.
Fast forward fourteen years. My 7 year old ideas were completely forgotten until my sister reminded me of it after the fact.... I marry a guy with the last initial L.... I am in fact a jackal (in more than one way LOL) but now I'm trying to get rid of that last letter.
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My parents initials are WAT and VAT. My sister's is amusing in the age of computers: ALT. Mine is boring: JLT.
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I am blessed with an unfortunate last name: Kiester. (Pronounced "KEES-ter") Yeah, when I started student teaching this year, my mentor said "So they should probably call you Miss Kiester, right?" and I answered "Oh. Do they have to?" There were several snickers, but they got used to it.
However, I am female and I plan on taking my husband's name...unless it's something even more terrible and I truly hope that fate agrees that I've had enough name teasing in my life. My brothers' wives took on the last name Kiester...and my oldest brother and his wife think of solid, decent names (some of which are unusual actually) for their kids.
My other brother....saints preserve us. You know that article that Brian posted a few pages back? You know how he said not to misspell names on purpose or make up names? Well, here we go. My two nephews are called Gabriel Moziah Kiester and Lazaro Esaias Kiester. They call the first one Moziah because my sister in law couldn't stand that people started shortening "Gabriel" to "Gabe". She had to have total control. So we call him Moziah. With a "z". We call the second one Esaias (ees-EYE-es). (his first name is pronounced la-ZAR-o...I don't even know if I'm spelling it right.) It's hard to call a sweet roly poly baby Esaias Kiester (which we know will eventually be turned into "I saw his Kiester.") I just call him "Babykins." I guess I'll have to cut that out before he's in high school, but heavens!! It's terrible!
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quote:Dick Stubb--owned an appliance store in OKC.
There used to be some store run by a guy named "Dick Power" along by route home from school. Even better, he had giant letters on the side of his building that said:
"Dick Power: 'The Tool Man'"
Sadly, he doesn't have it there anymore, it just says "D.P." instead of Dick Power.
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I had a student named Kenosha who had a twin Kaneesha. I don't think their mom knew that Kenosha is a town in Wisconsin.
My mother in law is an identical twin (there's something sinister in that sentence alone). There names are Margaret and Marjorie.
Back in the video arcade heyday, my friends figured out what all their initials spelled: RED and JAB actually worked. Mine is GWA, which is almost as fun to say as "smock," (see Calvin and Hobbes) even though it doesn't mean anything.
My Grandmother's name was Fanny, but she called herself Teddy. My father called her "Fanny Goonie" (Ha! see if anyone gets THAT reference!), but he was the only one who could get away with that.
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I have met Lily and Heidi Reichsiek. They are cousins. Lily's sister (and Heidi's cousin) is named Anna Marie. Reicksiek is prounounced "rex-ick."
I've met 2 women named Crystal Ball. One had the middle name Lynne, so she was "crystalline ball." Maiden names in both cases, so I'm assuming their parent figured they'd get married and change the names later. . . .
One of the end users that I support at work has last name "Shitole" -- it's pronounced "sheetle."
Another of the users I support has surname "Dikshit." Someone didn't like that spelling in the Org Chart and so there it shows up as "Dixit" but in her username and in the ticketing system it's spelled "the right way."
A place I worked had a customer named Deepa Ashit. We got a copy of her driver's license to verify that was really her name -- it was.
That same place also had a customer named Wanna Sugreekunt. He was actually a very nice man to talk to.
I have also met a couple of women named Damit -- pronounced "duh-MEET."
And for those who wonder "Why would anyone name their kids swear words -- consider this:
The name "Donna" comes from the Spanish/Italian (Latin?) "Dona" meaning "lady." Very nice, we think. But in Cambodia, the sounds "doe-nuh" means "hell." So a Cambodian meeting "Donna" might wonder why she's named for hell. And to us "Joy" is a very nice emotion, and an appropriate female name. In Cambodian, "joy" = "f*ck." And we have now exhausted my knowledge of the Cambodian language. . . .
So names we think are funny becuz they're similar to cusswords in our language, well -- that door swings both ways.
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My sister has three friends who are sisters. They are, in order of age, Cindy (Lee), Lindy (Lou) and Tina.
No, not Cynthia Lee or Linda Louise, etc. Their legal names are Cindy Lee and Lindy Lou, and they are not even twins. Lindy's name is apparently the name of the girl in the original lyrics of 'Peggy Sue'. I wonder if her dad thinks that makes it okay...)
When referring to the three of them, my dad calls them 'Cindy, Lindy and Tindy'.
These are suburban Australian kids and they sound like hillbillies.
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My mother's maiden name is Apple. I have a cousin named Candy Apple, and a grandmother who we called Granny Apple.
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Theca, I know a Latrina and a Gay. Gay is an older woman, obviously.
Tammy, your Arik story cracks me up, because I was engaged for awhile to a guy who's family had a weird naming tratition. His mom had given both him and his brother five letter names where all the letters were a part of their last name. His older brother had a son, and then another while we were dating, and they continued the "all letters must be part of the last name" bit but skipped the five letter requirement, which is good, because while they had eight letters to choose from, that would have been awfully limiting. Anyway, when we were talking about children I said flat out that I would not be continuing that tradition, and at first he was fine with it, said he thought it was a little weird, too. Later, it was like we had never had the conversation... :shakes head: I'm really glad now I never had to deal with it seriously. I thought it was one of the stupidest things I had ever heard of.
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There's a town in Minnesota named Gaylord. I have a gigantic hooded sweatshirt with the town name across the back.
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Anne Kate--I can't quite put my finger on it, but isn't it funny? Someday I'll use it in a book, I think.
When I was doing IT work for the Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment, I was passing through the Dept. of Vital Statistics and overheard a couple of the employees laughing about some guy who had just come in to pick up his birth certificate. His last name, I'm afraid, was "Buttream" .
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Alcon, there's also a kid that goes to your school named Lordmeister, I forget his last name but it's funny too (freshman, mom had him at jcms).
On Katya, the principal was once announcing some sort of award and said Gotcha Hooker.
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This talk of the names "Gay and "Gaylord" remind me that I know 2 women named Gaydra. Mother and daughter, actually. Mom goes by "Gaydra" to "everyone," but her family actually calls her "Mildred" or "Gramma Mil." The daughter goes by her initials "GJ."
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I had a great-aunt and great-uncle who went by the names "Girl" and "Boy" their whole lives. To us, they were Aunt Girlie and Uncle Boy.
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A kid I grew up with had the name Fambrough, which had been passed down from his dad (who went by the name Fam) and his grandfather. Luckily, this fellow went with his middle name.
It's tough to live up to Fambrough.
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Magson, I know of Anna Reicksiek. Her cousin is in our ward (there can be only one in the SW US). I know a bunch of people with the last name Bair. Some with a responsible attitude about naming their kids and some... not so much. Oh yeah, and my husband is related to them. We've already had the "they're kids, not pets" talk.
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Now I don't feel so bad about naming my son "Christopher Robin". Heh.
There is a cadet here at USMA named Celeste Pizza. Heh. When we got a fax from her mother to order her printer, we thought it was a joke. Nope. There's also a cadet here with the last name of "Arrowsmith", which is totally cool.
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There was a professor at my college with the last name Woodcock. My wife knows a Christopher Robin and her parents know some people who had a whole bunch of girls followed by a boy who they named Boy. They had another boy a while later and one of them exclaimed "We did it again" and they named him Did.
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I have worked with a guy with the last name Gay. Thankfully his first name was Brad. Although, since in the Navy you use the last name when addressing someone....
My name thankfully is fairly boring, if just long. Stanislawski...not a whole lot beyond mispronouncing and mis-spelling. However, I prefer just Stan....albeit "the Man" gets tacked on to it a lot. Mostly because it rhymes, sometimes because I did something important.
I work with a guy now who has the last name of Potter, first name Jason. (Thank you no Harry Potter reference.) However, we had a female that had a very different name from what we called her (ok, it was when she wasn't around). We did call her Harry Potter, but only because she looked like him. Too bad she didn't have his attitude....might've made it easier to get along with her. Don't know how her husband put up with her. It was easy to see why he liked going out to sea though.
Other last names of people I know.... Gaytan, Blackwood, Cox, Eatmon (who was once called Eatme by a female officer for a while), Blackman (he's white), and Blackenship.
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I remembered what I was trying to post about the first time I posted on this thread! (cold medication--blast it!)
My sister-in-law's sister (my sister-in-law once removed?) had a baby and named him Van (a family name on her husband's side, apparently). The new baby's middle name is Walter (after maternal grandfather). They plan on (PLAN ON) calling him "VW". That's bad enough. Their last name begins with the letter "D". So his first and last intitials are, yes, "VD". And of course, there is an ailment common amongst German Shepherds called "VWD", but not many people will get that. Heh.
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One of my brother's cellmates had a last name of Sexy and as my brother describes him, he was anything but. At first my brother thought the other inmates were just teasing this guy the way you might tease a tall person by calling them Little [insert appropriate name].
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Oh! I just remembered Theodore Bayer. And we had a Yogi Baehr at work, but I think his real name was Gerald or something.
My maiden name is Bush. I was always glad I wasn't named after Aunt Rose, even though I really like that name. I like Thorn and Briar. Gorse, Creosote, Holly, Mulberry, Groundsel, Hydrangea, Evergreen, Lilac, Spiraea, and Snowball.
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I broke my leg when I was 17, the Drs. who worked on me were Dr. Dick, Dr. Ball, and Dr. Tushman. And Dr. Ubelhart, but his name did not fit in with the rest.
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I just call him "Babykins." I guess I'll have to cut that out before he's in high school, but heavens!! It's terrible!
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