Weirdest names for people...(Inspired by the cat name thread)

[Alice28]

eek---some scary names out there.....I don't know of any REALLY off the wall ones, but I went to high school with a Charity...I hate trendy names- - a former employee's kids' names were Dakota (boy) and Presley (girl)---made me gag cause we worked in an after school daycare and her kids were allowed to come and she would spend all afternoon sing-songing their names...I wanted to puke or scream some days. My kids' names are Sam and Joshua...can't get too much more traditional than that.

My Dad suggested we name a son Pitch.....our last name is Black.

Tee Hee, Dad.

 

[cats mom]

I had a teacher who named his daughter Hildebuel Myrtle

Just seems like way too much for a tiny baby... in this century!



My daughter has a friend named Hart

I just can't seem to remember that one - I picture the Heart, but that doesn't seem right - so I've called her Love more than once. (I'm not crazy about Love for a name either - but at least I've heard it before)

 

[MAC3]

I'm not big on trendy names either.
I can't compare to the rest posted here but I have a neice named Jordanne. I always thought Jordan was a boys name.

Going back though, my grandmothers name was Leoda (one that I always thought was strange)?

 

[tinksgirl]

I was born in may1967. My mother loved the name Noelle,
so while all the other kids being born were jennifer, sarah,
julie and so on i was lucky enough to be diffrent!It started
in grade school,the teachers could not pronounce my name
so rather than struggle or ask me i was called nicole.I went along with it because i didnt want any extra play ground teasing which
i got anyway. Imagine having the whole class sing the first noelle
all year long.Or adults that would ask if i was born on christmas
sorry my mom just liked the name.When i was young i used to wish i had a normal name.At 36 i still have people that call me nicole its just not worth correcting them.When i see kids with all these wacky names i feel bad but there are many more of them now so im sure they have it a little better. by the way i named my kids Joshua,Heather,and Jessica just to be safe

 

[piratesmate]

Originally posted by MAC3
...........Going back though, my grandmothers name was Leoda (one that I always thought was strange)?

I've been researching my family's genealogy & came across a good one. My great-great-grandmother had a cousin named Saphonisba Hergesheimer.

I have an aunt how was always upset that she was the only kid who wasn't named after someone in the family. I told her she was lucky not to be saddled with Saphonisba!

 

[DCLuvinit]

I know we are all Disney fans here, but I met a family who's 3 boys were named Huey, Duey & Luey (sp?)!

 

[Melora]

My best friend just had her first baby. They named him after the 2 grandfathers.... Roy Woodward.. I don't think it rolls off the tongue, but better Roy for his first name then Woodward!

 

[Mad4Mickey]

I work with a Doctor who named her baby Addison( it is a city here near Dallas) she wanted a Irish name for her middle name and could not think of one . They used the name Irish . Addison Irish
She named her first baby Emmerson Elle
And they thought my teenagers had trendy names ????
Whitney and Derick ......

 

[twinmomplus2new]

We have friends with an Addison Eugene, And he is turning 18 in October. When he was born noone had the name,
Now.... I think It just made the top 20 in the country! I saw the list somewhere? Maybe on AOL?

 

[jvas]

Jerom Filthy Mcnasty........................

 

[kapica3]

I was thinking of some other unusual names I have seen lately and remembered a girl named Babyanne (pronounced Baby Ann) and also brothers named Bramgy and Gybram.

 

[TIdoublegaER]

Well, here goes my list, some have been mentioned before:

Neighbors:
Majia (pronounced Maya like the Mexican Indians)
Autumn
Candi (not Candace, just Candi)
Aja (pronouced Asia)

Family:
Monta (pronounced Mon tuh, my aunt)
Noella (DH's aunt)
Donata DeWayne (DH's aunt)
DH and FIL's middle name is Dane
Gunnar (cousins little boy)
Lottie LuVada (mygreat grandmother)
Hattie (my grandmother)

People at work & their kids:
Baby Lee Hurt
Kevinette (female)
Brennan
Gannon (like the former KC Chiefs QB)

 

[MScott1851]

Many thanks to all the people who said they didn't like Misty.. that happens to be my first name. I am still having to come to terms with it, it is growing on me more and more (especially since I got married and got a new last name that starts with M, too) but come on! It isn't anywhere as freaky as what I think the OP had in mind...It was a VERY common name given mostly to southern girls born during the mid-seventies. I happened to have graduated high school with three other Mistys... and most of us had the same middle name: Dawn. All in all, there were probably about 10 little girls at my school named this.

Of course, my family is full of idiotic names..get a load of these:
Gernith Joyce, my uncle
Venus Laverne, my great aunt
Naomi Delphia, my aunt
Haven Winnell, my grandfather
Vera Adelaide, my grandmother
Ollie Mae, my grandmother
Ellie Dexter, my grandfather

On the upside. I work in a Peds ER..and you wouldn't believe what some of the freaks in Memphis are naming their kids...it's like every name has to have 'K' or 'Q' or 'Y' and NO VOWELS...and end in 'IOUS'! Here are just a few that I've seen this week:

Contreavious
Starkisha
LaShanique
Khadijia
Quaanzenettia

and my personal favorite: Formica Dinette...I am sure this child was conceived in the kitchen...

 

[JenBlaze]

I hate MY name - Jennifer.

It's far too common. It got so bad during high school that in my 9th grade biology class, there were NINE Jennifers. That's roughly 1/3 of the class, and almost all the girls.

As for weird: I knew a kid in middle school whose middle name was Volvo. Guess where he was conceived?

 

[stitchthealmighty]

I met this girl who was in the Navy. Her name was Praire Dawn.

 

[kadaten]

Originally posted by stitchthealmighty
I met this girl who was in the Navy. Her name was Praire Dawn.

Prairie Dawn is also a character (puppet) on Sesame Street!

 

[kadaten]

DH reminded me of the middle names of 3 great uncles in his family....their middle names were after the weather the day they were born

Ollie Clear (clear day?)
_____ Waves (waves on the lake maybe?)
_____Gale (obvoiously during a storm)

Just can't remember the other 2 first names and DH has gone to bed...oh well...they weren't all that unusual that I remember.

Funny thing about "Ollie"...that was the given name. In FIL's family it was a female, but in MIL's family it was a male...guess they've had the either/or names for awhile...

 

[mom2boys]

My son went to kindergarten with a boy named
SHADE

Always wanted to ask the mother where it came from & what she was thinking. But she was one of those who was better than everyone else.

 

[Cindy B]

My DH works for a call center

he has a client named Harry Butz (LOL!)

 

[cajunmommy]

Ok - I've met a Tiara, Crystal Bell, Autumn & Summer. Used to go to school with a Tokelia (wonder the inspiration there??)

Here's a trend I haven't seen in the previous postings....
Prominent family in town has a Princeton & a Duke (don't know if there are a Harvard & Yale as well). Also, was in school with a T'lane (her dad LOVED Tulane Univ.)

Don't even get me started on the old Cajun French aunts & uncles. I used to cringe when reading the mass intentions in church because they sounded so beautiful, but when actually written down - oh my!

The trendy names based on commercial products have me puzzled - my DS has a Lexus in his class!