What's the oddest name you've encountered?

[stinkerbelle]

Originally posted by Beth
I was watching Oprah yesterday - as they were transforming Paige Davis's (Trading Spaces) apartment. She said that her husband's last name was Page. Had she taken his name, she would have been Paige Page.

Isn't her first name Mindy?

Mindy Paige Page.

heheh...DH still calls her Paige Page.

 

[monkeyboy]

I grew up with a kid names Passive
His parents were 'flower children" and loved that name.

He was really good at baseball, so we would call him
Super Passive

 

[phillybeth]

Zenobiannadidy. Zenobia I have heard of, Zenobianna is not too bad, but Zenobiannadidy?

 

[Beth]

Originally posted by stinkerbelle
Isn't her first name Mindy?

Mindy Paige Page.

heheh...DH still calls her Paige Page.

...Yeah - she said her <i>official</i> name is
Mindy Paige Davis-Page

Too Funny...

 

[Sleepy]

A man that frequented my aunts store had the name Oddly. I swear! When she told me I thought she was joking. It's on his drivers license.

 

[ILUVDXL]

I use to work with twin sisters. Their names were Poppy and Sesame Seed.

 

[faithinkarma]

I once knew a woman whose married name was Heather Jean Green Bean

Also once had a Brownie whose given name was Pebbles and her surname translated to English was Rock

 

[piglet too]

A guest in my store had a boy named Anakin and their last name was Walker, did not ask what his middle name was! I thought it was strange enough to name your kid after Darth Vader, but when I saw their last name, that took the cake.

 

[edcrbnsoul]

We had a teacher in HS her name was October Frost, she married into that last name, and yes her husbands name was Jack.

I've worked with a Louis Lane and my BIL is Jimmy Olson

My friend worked for Dick Burns

 

[wdwgirl03]

There was a teacher at my middle school whose husband's name was Dick Tracy, and her name was Tracy Tracy. hee hee

 

[mrsheppo]

My favorites are customers I've had over the years. One man's name was Bruce Hiscock and his wife's name was Mary.

My absolute favorite was a poor little old man whose name was:

LOUIS LONGWENUS

What were the parents thinking?????

 

[campinggal]

How about Sterling Silver and Candace Kiss (Candy Kiss)!

 

[mickeysdsnyprncs]

My ex boyfriend wanted to name his kid Lincoln. Which is fine except when you pair it up with his last name, Laud. Lincoln Laud (Lincoln Log)

Also I work with a guy named Ebay (25 or so years old) and I used to live by a guy named Email (25 or so years old).

i know there is more but I can't think of them

 

[joyjoy]

Originally posted by mrsheppo

My absolute favorite was a poor little old man whose name was:

LOUIS LONGWENUS

Bwahhhhhahahahaaaa!! Allow me to leave lurkdom for a moment to say this was freakin' hilarious.

 

[missypie]

I had a professor in college whose name was Dr. Balls. (Not Ball but Balls.) Fortunately, his first name was Jerry and not Harry.

At my sister's graduation, there was a girl whose first and middle name were "Precious Joy." I'm sure that sounded great when she was an infant, but imagine when her mom got mad at her. ("Precious Joy, you get in here!!!")

After all the names with unfortunate sexual connotations, here is a nice story: I have a business acquaintance whose last name was "Dick." When his daughter got to be junior high age, the teasing was just too much, so they legally changed the entire family's surname to "Dickson." If I had been dating him, I might have insisted on that before I married him, but at least he was willing to change his name for his daughter.

(I work with a guy with the last name of Crapster. He's about the sweetest guy you'd ever want to meet, but I fear that wouldn't have gotten past the first date with a name like that.)

 

[KingsFanInRI]

We have a customer named Shakespeare Christmas and another names Princess Lloyd.

One of our other stores has one that I don't think I can print here. PM me if you just have to know lol

 

[phamton]

Originally posted by Disney Princess 6
My friend used to work in child care and she insists she once had twins at her daycare named "Lemonjello" and "Orangejello." Pronounced le-MON-jalo and or-RAN-jalo! They were literally named after jello....

I hate to dispute a stranger, but I cannot believe this is true. And this is why:
I have heard this exact same claim at least ten times from different persons in different locations. All of them claim to have kids in their class named Lemonjello and Orangello.
I believe this is an urban legend that has gotten passed around as truth by anyone willing to claim they know someone who knows someone who knows someone who taught them.

The alternatives are:
1) everyone is telling the truth -- and is it really likely that there are so many sets of twins named Lemonjello and Orangello running around? I doubt it.
2) everyone who has told me this story is referring to the same twins -- is it possible that the world is that small? I doubt it.

Maybe you should point your friend to this debunking at: http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm
http://www.namenerds.com/uucn/advice/urbanlegends.html

 

[TinkBoo&ElliesMum]

Growing up I had a lot of friends with "natural" names, Summer, Alder, Willow. Summer had a little brother named Tuna and that one pretty much takes the cake!

 

[missypie]

Thanks for the link, Phamton...someone told me that their cleaning lady had named her daughter Pajama (PA-ja-ma); that one is mentioned in the link, too.

 

[carole88]

At work we always got a laugh out of one of the clients names. It was a man called Primrose Perkins.

Another funny one while going to school was Richard Cox.