That name is probably “Oisin”. It’s gaelic and pronounced “O’Sheen” in Ireland, but “ocean” over here. My friend has a kid named that and they call him “Ohey” for short.
In one of my high school history classes there was a girl named Tyce.
Every time we had a sub, they’d pronounce it the way it is spelled, rhyming with rice. She’d always get very loud and indignant “Um EXCUSE ME, my name is TY-CEE.”
Shit kid, tell your mom to spell it correctly, don’t get mad at the stranger who doesn’t know you and is using common sense to pronoince your name.
A professor that’s a close family friend has a daughter who named her kids Zeus and Athena. As he was leaving my parents house, he said while rolling his eyes that he was headed over to the acropolis to visit his grandkids.
A neighbor my freshman year of college (whose birthday was in late December), said that her parents nearly named her that - their last name was Maus.
Her roommate’s boyfriend was from Minnesota, and of Norwegian descent. He got a traditional name that was kind of odd, but it was better than his parents’ other choice - Thor.
I think I’ve posted this before, but it’s worth repeating. My wife is an adoptions social worker, and the names that some birth moms give their kids are tantamount to child abuse. Some examples:
Six children pumped into the system by a prostitute:
One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six.
Children born to a woman who had a fondness for convicts:
Folsom, Quentin, Avenal and Centinela,
named after prisons in which their fathers were incarcerated.
Two children born to a mother that clearly wanted a boy, not a girl:
Your Highness (a boy) and Cunty (a girl)
A good friend was a PICU nurse and had to convince a new mother not to name her baby Chlamydia. :eek: (She thought it sounded pretty.)
Took a couple of tries and hints that this wasn’t a good idea until he finally broke down and told her what chlamydia is.
Friends of mine named their first son Harrison. They were considering naming their second son Lennon, but at the last minute decided to forgo the Beatles theme. They went with Leonid instead. His nickname is Leo.
Just talked to a woman at work today whose daughter was named Deleria (sp?)
My initials used to be SEC; wait a sec., South Eastern Conference, Space Environment Center, etc.
Now it’s SES. Add another S and we got Sess. 
If I had married an Xavier…
Good to know it’s actually a name. I’d heard the name O’Sheen before but never knew that’s how it was spelled. Thanks fot the info. ~S
Not at all. 
Anybody ever call you “Bam Bam”?
That second name is terrible. I just pictured Mr. Hunt’s workplace. A female co-worker picks up the phone. It’s for Mike…
*“Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?”
“I said, has anyone seen Mike Hunt?”*
:eek:
I knew a girl with the last name of Head. Her first name was fine, but some of the guys in junior high gave her the middle name “Gives-Good”. Poor girl…
Anyhoo…
Makes you wonder how any of the women in James Bond films made it through high school alive.
My friend’s mother teaches second grade, and in her class there was a poor, unfortunate child that went by the name of “Harley Davidson”.
Apparently, the kid has plenty of other problems in his life, the least of which is being stuck with such a name.