When my husband and I switched from Sprint to AT&T, the salesperson was named Drama. HE was a really nice guy.
I work with a wonderful woman from India named Seemin. I think it’s basically pronounced see-meen, but half the place stumbles over it.
I’m sure in India it’s a lovely name.
… it seems to me as if the thing that surprised you most wasn’t the choice of word, but that for some reason you think it would have been a female name if anything. If that’s so, I’d like to point out that the -a ending is often masculine in Greek.
Yeah, but the ones ending in -ma, like drama, are often third declension neuter ones, smartypants. link
I just saw two on a moms’ Facebook group … Rowdy and Cannon.
I am so sick of hearing the name Nevaeh (Heaven spelled backwards). Hate it.
I had two Rowdys over the years as I taught. They would both be in their twenties now, and they lived up to their name.
Llareggub might be a good name.
Years ago the young lady who worked the checkout at the local drugstore was named Trudicka. At least that’s what her nametag read.
My son went to school with a set of twins named Lemonjello and Orangejello, pronounced like the Italian fruit drinks, not the gelatin desert, but still very very strange.
I once knew a guy named Harry Chassey. And it was. He had a hairy chest and a hairy back.
Lemonjello and Orangello sure get around. Everyone knows someone who knows them. Or knows someone who knows someone who knows them.
My first grandchild was born a few weeks ago, and his mother named him Midas. (Insert jokes about mufflers here). It’s…not a* good* name but I guess it will grow on us. Could be worse. My husband’s grandchild’s name has an apostrophe in it.
No. No he didn’t.
Yup, they’ve attained urban legend status, haven’t they? I’ve wondered if there was some pop culture ‘thing’ out there around that time that gave all the expectant mothers of twins this idea. Sounds like they started off as fictional characters.
Oddly enough, I’d asked my son last weekend if he’d ever heard anything from these twins after high school. He told me one, Lemonjello, who is now known as Jeff, was one of his Facebook friends. Didn’t have any info on the other twin.
And the truly bizarre wrinkle in this tale is that these boys are Caucasian. I believe the apocryphal twins from the urban legend were black, or so I’ve heard.
Here’s some updated info on Oranjello. Looks like he’s doing pretty well.
Hee! He’s gotten quite a tan since I last saw him, too. 
My sister gave both of her kids the same middle name: J’aime
:rolleyes:
Well, it’s French for “I love”, which isn’t horrible, but sorta weird.
I can’t wait til I run into a kid named Lleh.
mmm
Still not particularly feminine, you know. But for some reason, a lot of anglos have acquired the idea that any word which ends in -a, in any language, is feminine.
Have his mother’s tits turned to gold?