Horrible First Names- Page 4

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:06am

Calvin, don't you know this is America, where only the dumb people seem to breed with regular success?
It's almost as if your virility is directly proportionate to your stupidity.

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:09am

Is that how Bush got twins?

Oh, and I should talk on the names. My middle name is a very closely guarded, three-cocktail secret. One of those bizarre family names.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:14am

Well, that settles it, Calvin.
You, me, three cocktails. Very soon.

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:17am

Of course -- although most of my other secrets are two-cocktail secrets, so you never know what you might learn.

But if you really want to know it now, I'll PM it to you.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:26am

Wait, only TWO cocktails?
You're a cheaper date than I am.
And I got your pm and I shared my own personal horrible name story with you.
So there. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I used that knowledge for evil.
The two-drink thing, though, I do intend to use.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:26am

My mom once had a student named Robin Hood. A girl.

Last semester, she taught a girl named Brandi Beers.

I like my name, but it's a little hard to pronounce and is rapidly becoming trendy, which disturbs me.

Updated On: 11/28/05 at 12:26 AM

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:32am

I'm looking forward to it.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:33am

I'll alert the media.

Liz_Bennett, I'm assuming that's not your name, although I know tons of girls named that.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:51am

I guess my own name falls in this thread, too. It's supposed to be Solomon, but due to some freak spelling from my mom, it's spelled "Soloman." Solo Man.

Considering my recent sex life, I'm living up to my namesake.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 1:13am

bwaysinger: No, it isn't. See the "Pride and Prejudice" thread. :)

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 1:38am

Years ago when one of my nephews was in elementary school I was looking through his school yearbook and in one grade there was a boy named Christ. I'm not making this up. Can't remember the last name, but it was pretty common, like Christ Andrews or something.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 1:38am

You know a lot of Elizabeth Bennets? That's interesting.... I don't know anyone with the last name Bennet, but I guess if I had that last name then it would be reasonably tempting....

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 1:48am

Had an Art teacher named Dick Biter.
My theatre teacher's neighbor was Harry Organ.
My grandmother went to school with Imma and Ura Hogg.
A friend of the family was named Iona Couch. (We called her Squeakie)
And I went to school with a girl named Harmony who had sisters named Charity, Honor and Grace and a brother named Joe. Grace's name would have been Benevolence, had she been a boy.
Hmmm, hope none of them read the boards :/

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 2:38am

My name seems to be unique and some might find it horrible but I'm not sure...

Minerva

[DG]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 3:09am

My current favorite is 'Arshpreet' - which I understand is not that unusaul in this little girl's native culture, but in the suburban American one she finds herself immersed in, it's fairly eye-catching.

[Anakela]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 3:34am

SweetQ- I don't know if they were born in these months, but when I was a little kid my mom knew two sisters named August and September.

My high school friend April was actually born in October- her mom just liked the name April.

Twins in my grade came from a family where all the children's names started with "Ch..."- (some of the spellings were trendoid cr8v spellings)- I think their family was something like 13 children total, including three sets of twins: Chantisha, Channon, Chauna, Chantal, Cheyenne, etc. etc.

And then, this one's not so much horrible, I don't know if this is/was a regional thing, but growing up I knew a *ton* of girls who were named after their fathers: Toni-ann, Tonylynn, Bobbisue, Randylee, Stevie-lynn, etc.

[neocomposer]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 3:38am

A good friend was doing Notary work for birth certificates and the name that came up was supposed to sound like ashley or asholey, but you can see where that might go...

As-sho-le

yeah....sad...I mean, you would get in trouble for spelling your own name in class.

[Allie]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 3:50am

I know a family with the last name "Mitton". The kids are named Harmony, Doveasy, and Bo.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 5:22am

Anakela -- strange thing: I also have a friend named April who was born in October.

And funnily enough, she told me some of the strange names of kids she's taught:

Orangelo (orange jello)
Lemongelo (lemon jello) *these have already been posted, I know
Alize
Hennessey *both alcoholic beverages
SH*Tass (pronounced 'shih-tahss')
McDallion (I don't even know...)
Quiyiaimy (pronounced 'kye-eem')
Moisus/Moisius ('moses')

I forget the rest...

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 6:20am

Updated On: 1/3/09 at 06:20 AM

[wink]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 6:57am

There are two cardiac surgeons in Indiana named Drs. French and Fry.

[KelRel]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:32am

My father was a paramedic and he would from time to time have to deliver babies on the way to the hospital or in people's homes if they were too far along to make it to the hospital. He told me some of the more interesting names that parents had named those babies. One was Urine, pronounced Ur-een, because she thought it sounded pretty (she read it off of the cathater bag, and didn't know what it meant). Another was Uterus, again the mother had no clue what it meant. She pronounced it Ut-ris.

[RobbO]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:39am

my math teacher in high school was richard weiner.

he was dick to his friends. dick weiner. (he's lucky he was gorgeous or else no one would ever have married him)

plus, he had brother's named tom and harry.

[KelRel]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:45am

Oh yeah, I almost forgot my father's boss Richard Head (he went by Dick) and a guy I went to high school with named Peter Little.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 9:48am

for an indian woman in western culture, i've always thought Kunti was an unfortunate name-- but it is the name of the mother of the Pandava brothers (Arjuna et al) in THE MAHABHARATA.

my friend swears his mother taught a little girl named "pajamay" who was named after a word her mother saw in a catalogue --pajama.

Updated On: 11/28/05 at 09:48 AM