There is a pretty well regarded guy in my field of immunology. Dr. Beat Imhof.
My dad went to school with Pete Rabbit. He still lives around here.
There’s a pro baseball player who’s name is Angel Pagan
Pronounced AHN-hel PA-gahn…but still funny when read in “english”
Oh my god, there’s more than one?! My mom showed me this name yesterday. She said the parent insisted that, “The dash isn’t silent.”
So, La-Dash-A? Mercy!
If she lived outside Moscow, she could have a dacha.
Joie is a perfectly-good French word. It means ‘joy’ and is pronounced something like ‘zhwah’.
If little Joie ever comes to Canada, she may have problems.
Would you mind telling us a little about how your mom came across the name?
The reason for the question is that there’s pretty good reason to believe this is most likely an urban legend.
In the interest of fairness, I’ll provide a random Google cite showing that the name I supplied to this thread does apparently exist.
In Spanish, Ambrosía (ambroSEEah) is the food of the gods; Ambrosia (amBROseeah - 3 syllables only) is the female form of Ambrosio. It doesn’t sound pr0n to me, just old fashioned.
Ángel “Theypay”? Do you know where the lastname is originally from? I suspect it’s not originally from Spain, even if he is Hispanic as your phonetics appear to indicate.
He was born in Puerto Rico, and Sir T-Cups didn’t give the right stress. The last name would be “Pa-GAN,” and if you want to include all the accents, the guy’s name is Ángel Pagán.
I don’t think this is going to be an issue.
Awesome.
In Toronto we have Dr. Stubbs who specializes in penis lengthening surgery.
(No pics, but link is potentially NSFW and/or embarrassing to be caught viewing due to mentions of phalloplasty and genital enhancement)
There’s a guy at my church named Dusty Rhodes.
I was reading some (knitting?) article and the woman featured had the very cool and rather humorous last name of Heyho.
Heyho! Let’s Go!
Someone at our dentist office has the last name of Heythaler. Which always cracks me up.
There was an old guy in my hometown when I was growing up who was named Dusty Rhodes. I presume he’s dead by now.
I have come in direct contact with people with the following names:
Dorkelisha (Silent “i”)
Christine Mohammed (whose middle name, IMHO, should have been Judith)
Dilla Lopp
Lalonnie Lynn (pronounced like Leilani)
Grail (hated to be called “Cup” and had *never heard *of wicked, bad, naughty Zoot)
Richard Rust
Tara Cotton
Grace Belcher
Angel Beavers
Sparkles
Conye (pronounced “Connie”)
Gerl (like Gerald, only not)
Geral (see previous)
Nixb Slyder (Pronounced Nixby. Female, and very cool)
I have secondhand knowledge of these:
Siblings named Excaliber (female) and Essex (male)
The Detroit Tigers have a reliever by the name of Fu-Te Ni. Yep, the game chatter I was casually watching was soon full of Monty Python jokes and pics…