Heh…we have a list of good names from court, too. Two of my favorites were Alpacino and Bonjovi…I’m pretty sure both of those guys were white.
My daughter has a friend named Taylor Oakes. I maintain she sounds like a subdivision.
There’s a (black) rapper in the movie Tropic Thunder whose stage name is Alpa Chino.
I knew a guy in college named Brian Bouttle (Bow-till). He wanted three children: Twoliter, Pepsi and Coke.
I pray he never actually reproduced.
In college I was a tour guide and a girl on my tour was named…
get ready…
Asshole
pronounced ashley (well more like ash-oh-lee…she pronounced all three syllables).
I used to go to school with a girl named Xerces. She joked that her parents named her by pulling letters out of the Scrabble bag. Apparently, the real explanation was that there was a character from the Atlantis myth with that name.
Hopefully, you’ve taught him how to fight.
I went to school with a girl named Sandy Rhodes. Her father, of course, went by “Dusty.”
The guy who does handyman work for our condo neighborhood, including trimming back tree branches, is named Les Sapp. Seriously.
Back when I worked for the County Council, the Registrars of Births were allowed to refuse stupid, silly, or obscene names, but they told me that they often had to say to parents, “Do you really want to call your child that?” And the answer would usually be affirmative.
La-a
Pronounced “La’Dasha”
I wonder if he went on to become the auditorof Hamilton County, Ohio. There is a certain joy in seeing the auditor’s seal on most gas pumps, proudly endorsed by Dusty Rhodes.
I would enjoy to name my daughter Amanda (pronounced Sarah)
Interesting. “La-a” is Arabic for “no”.
Used to be the standard nickname for anyone by that last name.
Atlanta Braves catcher Bruce Benedict was known as “Eggs” for that same reason.
Please tell me you’re joking.
In all seriousness, and I’ve mentioned this before on here: I went to elementary school with Pepsi Hooker. There were a lot of Hookers where I grew up. I knew the name long before I knew about the profession. But Pepsi? Really?
Friends of the family, (lovely people, I might add) recently had a daughter named Joie. That’s pronounced Joe-E, Joey. Not Joy. Now who is ever going to see “Joie” written down and work out that it’s supposed to be “joey”? No one, is my guess. The kid’s going to be explaining that one forever.
There are two bad ways to name a kid, IMHO. One, a name that will be ridiculed and lead to fights. Two, a name that, although not necessarily silly or objectionable, has an unusual spelling or pronunciation that its bearer must forever after explain and/or correct. What loving parent would do that to a child?
Used to work for a company that had an official with the last name Pagan-Colon.
Probably an honorable and respected name in the Philippines, but somewhat alarming in US English.
I’m always a bit wary of bringing this up, because he was in the news for committing first degree murder, but…
I’m sorry, there’s no way I can’t boggle at the name Rohan Ranger.
I work with a lovely lady named Cherished Hope Paradise.