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Unusual Names

   Discussion: Unusual Names
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 20 years, 1 month ago
I just heard of my favorite names on the radio, Gurf Morlix. He's a guitarist producer that produced albums by Slaid Cleaves, Rod Picott, The Kennedys, and Lucinda Williams to name a few. It sounds like he should come from Mars. Slaid said that as far as he knew that is Gurf's real name.

Another fun class of names is the appropriate ones. When you go from NJ to Staten Island you can go over the Outerbridge Crossing. You might think it was named that because it is the Outer Bridge. You'd be wrong. George Outerbridge was the first director of the Port Authority, that agency that mangages the bridge.

What are some good names you've heard?
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
My mistake, Gurf didn't produce a Rod Picott album, he just co-wrote one song on Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues.
Nik Chaikin · 20 years, 1 month ago
Harry Anus (no lie)
Rimbo Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
Heh.� I have a friend who can't stop laughing when she starts, and once she went to a funeral.� While at the cemetary (that doesn't look like it's spelled right), she came across a stone with the name "Harry Balls" written on it.� You can see where it goes from here.
Bender · 20 years, 1 month ago
Two brothers at my old high school: Nam and Viet. Not twins.

Dimple.

Mohammed Islam.

Aquanetta.

The oft-rumored but never-encountered Placenta.

Zishan Zishan.

Jimmy Hendricks.

Cmdr. Richard Head (Navy. Coast Guard? I'm pretty sure that's his rank, I could be wrong.)

Oh. And these aren't strange, per se, but these names make me quite happy because the people are great and they're fun to say: Nitsa, Zilpha, Renita :)
Rimbo Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
RIMBO!��I love my (last) name.� If my band ever becomes moderately successful, I'm going to drop my first name altogether.
nate... · 20 years, 1 month ago
Ping Zhang

Sounds like sound effects. :D
Joe Navratil · 20 years, 1 month ago
I had a friend who was teaching preschool in inner-city Detroit. Parents come with their kids for the first day at this school.

She was reading off attendance, and saw the following:

Lemonjello Wilson
Orangejello Wilson

"Uh, Lemon Jell-O and Orange Jell-O Wilson?"

Their mother -- they were twins -- got rather upset. "Excuse you! That's leMON'jeLO" and orAN'jeLO"!"

Like I said, more of an audible thing. "orANjeLO" cracks me up every time.
Rimbo Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
HA!� This is weird -- I've heard of that . . . I'm from the Detroit area, . . . but I can't say where I've heard that before . . . maybe from you . . . arrgh.
goovie is married! Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
*cracks up*

that's like the yo-kid version of hyacinth bucket, i think.
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 1 month ago

Are you sure that's not just a joke? Paul's been telling me the same story for a coupla years now. :) (I think he tried to tell it at FRFF one year, too)

Mamalissa! Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
Pardon me, but it's pronounced Bucket.

(I guess it *is* more of an audible thing...)
lawrence Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
only not...
Joe Navratil Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
Well, shoot. Thanks for pointing that out; now I'm going to have to go confront a friend who I haven't talked to since a wedding last year, and won't see again until another wedding this year.

D'oh. Not the first time I've been snookered by a good story.
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 20 years, 1 month ago
There is an astronomer named Starfield. That had to affect his career choice.
lawrence Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
D'oh. Not the first time I've been snookered by a good story.

well, those are the best ones, aren't they? if they weren't believable, they probably wouldn't be as entertaining. :)
J. Andrew World · 20 years, 1 month ago
Who needs a pen name when you have my name! It totally rocks! I even have my own web site, http://www.jandrewworld.com how cool is that?
100% dainty! Back · 20 years, 1 month ago

heheheh! although that is not as funny if you don't pronounce Harry like "hairy."� (as is the case for me)� but i suppose if i�pretended I was�affecting an english accent . . . . .

dirty life & times · 20 years, 1 month ago
i watched shrek 2 last night, & one of the animation techs was named Sunny Park. how can you ever be sad with a name like that.

also, there is a doctor's office i drive past all the time, the doctor of which is listed as D. Lovely. i hear ella fitzgerald every time.
Rachel Marie aka RAI Back · 20 years, 1 month ago

You know an Aquanetta?! I thought that was just something that this guy made up... it was awful, he was saying that that was proof that black parents just pick an object and add extra vowels. :o/

A girl named Becca · 20 years, 1 month ago
There's a funeral home in Amsterdam, NY (on my route between home and school) run by a family named (this is my best attempt to remember the spelling) Jendrzejczak.

I do a double-take every time I pass their sign.
Paul · 20 years, 1 month ago
Dirk Niblet a character from PBS childrens show about math
Slappy Squirrel from Animaniacs
ChrisChin is Getting Old Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
heh...I know a Jian Ping Zhang that worked with me at my old job. :)
ChrisChin is Getting Old Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
yay Square One and Animaniacs!
ChrisChin is Getting Old · 20 years, 1 month ago
I once knew someone in high school named Skye Blue Davis.
Paul Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
I still watch animaniacs with my kids my wife just shakes her head in disbelief
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 20 years, 1 month ago
I can't remember he was a captain or a lieutenent but my father served in WWII under Clark Battle Fitzgerald. How's that for a martial name?
Agent Scully · 20 years, 1 month ago
Blonde and Little Insurance Ltd.
siobhan's a londoner · 20 years, 1 month ago
Kristal Ireland

we all did porn star names but her real name works just fine. She says that herself. Also good for when meeting people,
"Hey, do you know Kristal...?"etc
if you know her you do not forget her name in a hurry.
Alan Mendelsohn · 20 years, 1 month ago
K. Eric Niedermeyer. And his trusty band of transvoicetites.
hkath Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
Dassssirght!
Rachel Marie aka RAI Back · 20 years, 1 month ago

There was an english teacher in my HS named "Miss English."

Apparently, that's not that uncommon, for someone to have their name be their profession later in life.

To prove my point, I also had a health/gym teacher named Dick Butts, and he was an arsehole. ;o)

hkath · 20 years, 1 month ago
In my first grade class there was a kid named Aristotle. This would have been fine except this was French-speaking Quebec, so his name was actually "Aristote"... Stop signs in Quebec say "Arr�t-Stop". Which is what he was called. Probably for his whole life.

Albertine Koko-Mpaka - this girl at my high school whose name always made me smile. "Albertine" sounds so fresh and then the last name evokes so many colours. It's crazy.
goovie is married! Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
yes!! k. eric niedermeyer is still the best name ever.
Mamalissa! · 20 years, 1 month ago
My sister had a friend in high school named Starfinder Stanley. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley were hippies, it seems, and named their kid Starfinder. Everyone called him "Starf" for short - except substitute teachers, who always looked for "Stan."

Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
Starf sounds kinda like a vomity word.
Laura P. Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
The staff shrink at my college was "Dr. Sane."
sheryls · 20 years, 1 month ago

my friend diana collects these - she works at a bank and sees some great names on accounts:

http://www.dianacook.net/the.details/names.htm

sheryls · 20 years, 1 month ago
Oh yeah - and when i worked at the Coast Guard Recruiting Office in Detroit, we had a recruit whose last name was Samples.

now, coming out of boot camp, much like the navy, you are either a Seaman or a Fireman.

..he didn't make Fireman.

...poor Seaman Samples.

he'll get paged to the deck for fun. "Seaman Samples to the deck please."
Rimbo Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
Sorry, Sheryl.� A little late, there.� *points to Lawrence's post*
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
There was , might still be, Cardinal Sin in the Phillipines.

I've always loved the name of the Karen Horney Clinic.
Real-Accordion! · 20 years, 1 month ago
Jessica Stillborn. She has one of those school sweaters with her name on the back of it... its really funny if you don't know its her name.
Autumn Noname.

... people here have really funny names. I'll see if I can remember it next time I see one.
Beth Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
My clarinet teacher's name is Melodey.
Beth · 20 years, 1 month ago
The other day, early in the morning, I was watching the 1999 Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. They were rerunning it on cable for some reason. Anyway, the girl who won was named Nupur Lala. I'd never heard a name like that before.
Phoenix · 20 years, 1 month ago
ok this is only fiction but it *so* belongs here. Taken from Neil Simon's movie "Murder by Death". The best detective/crime parody. Evah.

BENSONMUM:..... Not many people come to the manor these days. It's nice to hear guests again.
DORA: ......... Oh, thank you, er...
BENSONMUM: .... Bensonmum.
DORA: ......... Thank you, Benson.
BENSONMUM: .... No, that's Bensonmum. Jamessir Bensonmum.
DICK: ......... Jamessir?
BENSONMUM: .... Yes sir.
DICK: ......... How odd.
BENSONMUM: .... My father's name, sir.
DICK: ......... What was your father's name?
BENSONMUM: .... How-ard. Howard Bensonmum.
It's a girl! Back · 20 years, 1 month ago

There was a girl named Dimple in my kindergarten class. She used to beat me up.

Bender Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
Aquanetta is either caucasian, hispanic, or biracial (I can't tell) and she works in my scary supermarket.
Rachel Marie aka RAI Back · 20 years, 1 month ago

I had a friend named C.J. Cupps who went into the army. He was looking forward to being called "Private Cupps."

Luckily, he was definitely the type of guy who could take it.

Rimbo Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
By the way, when watching ROTK, keep your ears open for me.� When preparing for the final battle, Aragorn actually calls out commands to "Rimbold," but it sounded close enough for me and my wife to stand up in the theatre and say, "Yes?"� We were really into the movie at that point.� We really would have done anything he told us to.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
I can't swear to it but i"m guessing the name is actually Grimbold as that is a character in the book.
Rimbo Back · 20 years, 1 month ago

There ya go.� Still sounded like me, though.

Agent Scully · 20 years, 1 month ago
we had to talk to someone at our headquarters in NY named "high-mee".

Little did we know it was spelled "Hymen" until we had to start sending reports to him.
Mamalissa! Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!
meh · 20 years, 1 month ago
Vegas Strumsky.
He played Guitar.
I got to write a bass line for him once in the Theory Lab.
Uhm, yeah.
Phoenix Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
So do I! It's just gorgeous... And I purchased the DVD lately so it's still in my head...
Everytime I watch it�a number of �new "goodies"�come to�my attention. Oh.� I really love Truman Capote's grammar lessons. And Charlie Chan's Wang's aphorisms:

''Where are we going anyway, pop?''
''Questions like athlete's foot. After while, very irritating.''


Agreed. I will stop liek now ;)
Prinut · 20 years, 1 month ago
A certain crewmember on "Hey, Arnold!" has the name Tuck Tucker. I find that absolutely fabulous.
Also my good friend used to date this guy named Rich Mitchell and I always got into the habit of calling him Mitch Mitchell, because I thought that he should change his name to that.
Nik Chaikin Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
I've knpwn a Joy and a Faith.
A girl named Becca Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
In a workshop I was in there was a Memory, a Faith and...some month. Maybe January? And they were all working together in a small-group activity and when they presented to the large group they introduced themselves and added, "and we're all abstract nouns, isn't that cool?"
Chaya Papaya Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
Oh that is so weird!

I'm not sure how we heard of that, but last year that same story, about people named lemonjello and orangejello (pronounced le-MON-jelo and or-RANGE-jelo), found its way to me and my roommates. We all ended up with jello names, I had completely forgotten about this until just now. I was limejello (la-Mig-elo), my roommate was strawberryjello, and my other two roomates were lemonjello and orangejello.

weird.
renita · 20 years, 1 month ago
i worked with a john johns.

and when i worked doign data entry we had some good ones in the system.

phuc huu ho.
and lots more doubles.
stephen stephens, richard richards... etc. i think parents who do that are evil and mean and should have their parenting licenses revoked. yo.

renita Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
:D

*hugs* thank you.

an italian guy went nutso over my name last week, how do you spell that? where is it from? what are it's roots? where did your parents get it? and so on. it was wild.
data ARE · 20 years, 1 month ago
At my last job, there was a phlebotomist named Herhighness Wells. We would always see her signature on the phlebotomy paperwork that would come up to the lab. When we first saw the name, we thought for sure that someone down in phlebotomy had a good sense of humor.... nope, it was a real name!
Rachel Marie aka RAI Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
My great-grandfater was named Morgan Morgan. Whatcha gonna do about that, punk? ;o)
Bruce Rose Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
I've known Joy, Faith, Hope, Charity, and Chastity (the last two were twins)... but I never thought of the names as odd.
Bender Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
my grandfather had a patient�with the given name of Queen Esther.
Nik Chaikin Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
I knew a girl in MS by the name of Princess Snowden.
J. Andrew World Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
My daughter has�that awsome name, too, Maddie World, and my wife also seem to have that same last name!�
Julia Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
My friend's name is Dennis Seamen. His mother's name? Sharen.

You do the math, my friends.
Julia Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
My friend's father came to the US with only one name, his family name, Nirmalan. When asked for his first name, he quickly came up with one: Nirm!

Nirm Nirmalan.
Joy- new picture! Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
My best friend in 8th grade was named Faith. That was not fun. :P
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 1 month ago

It's�a Maddie Maddie Maddie Maddie World.

Mamalissa! Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
Hyman used to be a fairly common Jewish first name (with the nickname hymie). And I know a few people who have it as a last name. I knew a Sharon Hyman who says her father's college nickname was "Buster."
ChrisChin is Getting Old Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
.oO and I'm far away from home...Oo.
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 1 month ago
I think you're a rare person who will earn both a *groan* AND andreapoints for that. :)
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 20 years ago
My friend told me about a couple she knows. Richard Love married a woman named Gay. The thing is Richard was known as Dick to his friends. So that's right, the couple is now Dick Love and Gay Love.
Samantha · 20 years ago
I always thought Jian Ghomeshi was a funny name.. god.. who would name their kid Jee-ahn?

*is entirely jesting*
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years ago

Wait....was her name Gay or game?

goovie is married! Back · 20 years ago
omg, i love that movie, too. eeeee.
renita Back · 20 years ago
i'm guessing game but as a nickname it was shortened to gay.

*shrug*
Jºnªthªn Back · 20 years ago
How do you pronounce Harry? Webster's has the same pronunciation for both words...
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years ago

Heee....if so, there was a step missing in the explanation. :) I'm easily confused.

Jºnªthªn Back · 20 years ago
I have a freind who was getting hit on by an Italian guy, and when he asked her her name, she said "Bertha." He called her "Berta" and said that he'd never heard such beautiful name. Yeah right.
Jºnªthªn · 20 years ago
My cousin Rita married Mort Creeda, making her Rita Creeda.
And Jack LaLanne's wife is Elaine LaLanne.
Brigit - Portugal Sucks · 20 years ago
Oranjello and Lemonjello. Only, since their mother was trying to be cool, they are pronounced "Oh-ron-ja-lo" and "La-mon-ja-lo." I shit you not.
Joe Navratil Back · 20 years ago
Hey.

Psst.

Over here
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years ago
Her name was Gay and I corrected it in the original post. Sorry, sometimes there is a delay between my typing and the letters coming up on the screen which leads to even more ridiculous typos than I usually make.
Rachel Marie aka RAI Back · 20 years ago
My dad's name is Rex Morgan... so his friends called him Sex Organ.

::groans even though she's heard it before::
nitsita · 20 years ago
...you'd be surprised at the number of Jean Thibault's in the phone book. Looking at the name like that really isn't that funny, but phonetically, it sounds like "gentil beau", which basically translates to "nice beautiful" ... yeah.
100% dainty! Back · 20 years ago
really? . . interesting . . . . . Okay. I pronounce it with the short "a" like that in "apple," "cat," (unless you're from the midwest. then i dont know what words to use)� . . . . Instead of "hairy" . . or. . .�basically the way they pronounce it in the movie, just a little less british.
renita Back · 20 years ago
:)

this guy wasn't trying to hit on me. he's a friend of my sister's godparents. plus his wife was there ;)
Jºnªthªn Back · 20 years ago
I forgot to mention that my friend in the story above is named Denise.
elfy, teacher of many · 20 years ago
allrighty!!

In high school, my best friend's neighbours' daughters had um, religious names. one was:
(no word of a lie) "God's Love and Kindness" which could be an interesting acronym (glak)
Other names from various places:
America (for a girl - pronounced like the country)
Jamaykha (also for a girl - sounds like "Jamaica")
Noah Vale (say it fast - "no avail")
elfy, teacher of many Back · 20 years ago
I wish Aragorn gave a command to a "Tanya"

SIGH
Rimbo Back · 20 years ago
I guess because they're officially from another culture they're not that funny, but during my time in Africa, I met a lot of people who were named after English (and poor English) "-ness" words, such as "Goodness" or "Thankfulness" or "Loveliness."� And then of course was the guy named Michael Jackson.� No lie.� No coincidence, either.� Just named their kid after Michael Jackson.� I love African people.
danced with Lazlo · 20 years ago
Ok, in high school my sister had a friend named May. One day in gym May brought two friends over to my sister to introduce them:

"Adina, these are my friends April and June."

Adina started laughing. May was confused.

Before I was born my parents wanted to name me Gella Leah. One day Lenny, a friend at the synagogue asked what they were going to name the baby and my mother said "We were thinking of Gella Leah." He started to laugh and said oh, you can't name her that! "Why not?" my mom asked. "Gella Leah... GellaLeah... Galileo?" "Oh dear..."

So that's why I'm Gella Rachel.

Oh, also there's a guy at my synagogue named Phil Phillips.

And growing up I had a rabbi named Deborah Cantor. Rabbi Cantor is funny enough... but even better was that we got to call her Rebbe Debbie

Oh, and one more... there's a married couple at my synagogue... the Rabbi's brother Simkha is married to a lovely woman... also named Simkha. We call them boy-Simkha and girl-Simkha.
ChrisChin is Getting Old · 20 years ago
In high school, there was a guy in my English class named Franklin Benjamin.
elfy, teacher of many · 20 years ago
In addition to "God's Love And Kindness", there is a family that has a child with the name "Hosannah"

"God's Love and Kindness" is a bit more memorable as far as Odd names go.
Samantha · 20 years ago
I came *this* close to being "Moonbeam"... that's my pennance for being raised by hippies, I suppose..

My middle name is Eden..like the garden..

my boyfriend's middle name is "Kidwell".. named after his dad's friends family...

My sister's name was going to mean "Laughing Bumblebee" in hebrew
Jºnªthªn Back · 20 years ago
Sit Tanya! Good girl.
renita Back · 20 years ago
when my mother's mother remarried, she married a man who also already had children.

they ended up with claire the girl and clare the boy.
Will work for anime Back · 20 years ago
last week in the birth announcments in the paper was one "Heaven Ablessin' Tyme"...i can't remember his/her last name but is was somthing common...like Perry or the like....that poor child is going to have one hell of a time in school
Joe Navratil Back · 20 years ago
Perhaps s/he will go with his/her initials. HAT Perry has something of a ring to it, no?
jen Back · 20 years ago
continuing on the harry thread, my cousin's ex boyfriend was Harry Butt... what kind of parents are these??
jen · 20 years ago
Theres a girl at my school named Freedom Bright. thats cool :)
goovie is married! Back · 20 years ago
wait, wait, like rex morgan, md?
Jºnªthªn Back · 20 years ago
I get it. My mom, who grew up in NY pronounced it that way for me, but she really had to exaggerate it before I heard it. I still think the connection to Hairy Balls isn't much of a stretch, especially if you read it.
Samantha Back · 20 years ago

"Tanya" is elvish for "stop"....

now, it would probably be in your best interest not to ask how or why I know that :D

Jºnªthªn Back · 20 years ago
Not to outnerd, but it means "that."
Samantha Back · 20 years ago
it depends,really.. are we talking Sindarin or Quenya here?... and since you know what I'm talking about... do you want to be my friend?
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years ago
I am not aware of it being an Elvish word at all but if it were it would most likely be Quenya. Most Quenya words end with a vowel, most Sindarin with a consonent.

I just checked it isn't in my Elvish-English dictionary.
Jºnªthªn Back · 20 years ago
Sorry, I only have a Klingon dictionary... I looked it up on the net, and got a number of hits on Elvish phrases & poetry. No idea of their reference material, but here's one page that claims it's Quenya:

Click me!
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years ago
OK I found my more definitive Quenya dictionary and it has

Tana: To show, indicate. Also the demonstrative "that." I really should do more research but right now I'm too lazy. Too bad my Tolkien Language Group disbanded.
Mamalissa! Back · 20 years ago

The former mayor of Providence, Rhode Island is Vincent "Buddy" Cianci (pronounced See-ann-see).� His ex-wife is named Nancy Ann.� Nancy Ann Cianci.�

Mamalissa! Back · 20 years ago
Not so much a strange name, but my band teacher was named Mr. Hollander.� When "Mr. Holland's Opus" came out, some kids did a mock-up of the movie poster as �"Mr. Hollander's Faux Pas."� It was quite funny.
Mamalissa! Back · 20 years ago
My Rabbi's name is Rabbi Kenter.� Not as bad as "Cantor", but keep in mind that for a bunch of years, we had Rabbi Kenter and Cantor Giventer.
Laura P. Back · 20 years ago
I once knew a Dawn Joy and she was constantly teased for being named after two dish detergents
Laura P. Back · 20 years ago

That movie, although very un-PC, is hilarious!

Laura P. Back · 20 years ago
It's on DVD? Yay! Any good extras?
Laura P. Back · 20 years ago
I knew a Lady. And my mother-in-law met a Herhighness. Wonder if it was the same one...
Laura P. Back · 20 years ago

Oh, and one more... there's a married couple at my synagogue... the Rabbi's brother Simkha is married to a lovely woman... also named Simkha. We call them boy-Simkha and girl-Simkha.

I knew a couple with a similar situation, except it was Tracey/Tracy.

elfy, teacher of many Back · 20 years ago
HEY I also know a Dawn Joy! From Northern Canada??
Rachel Marie aka RAI Back · 20 years ago
Actually, the comic strip character was named after my grandfather, Rex Morgan Sr. He was a officer in the army and did some famous stuff (mortician for the Nuremburg trials, was a kid's show host), and apparently the guy who created Rex Morgan M.D. heard his name somewhere and asked my grampa if he could use it for a comic strip. And it thus is history.
Rachel Marie aka RAI Back · 20 years ago

Well, I came *this* close to being named Clover. ;o)

Them damn dirty hippies. (Like I should� talk... :oD)

Phoenix Back · 20 years ago
not that much. But you get an interesting interview with Neil Simon with his comments on key scenes and a filmography of the actors.

This applies to the European version of the DVD though...
Vegas Strumsky Back · 18 years, 10 months ago

It is very true because I am him and he is I.� Crazy what you come up with when you google your own name.

Peace out my hommies

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