My wife (raised in Provo) was not given a middle name, nor were either of her two sisters. Way to tell your daughters their only purpose is to be married off to a man, MIL. :mad:
Well known among haunted attractions and home haunters – Richard “Rickey” Dick. Great guy really ----- but the temptation to call him “Double Dong” is ---------------
I’m a HUGE college football fan (still). Have been for about 35 years. In the late '80s there was a running back for the USC Trojans (I live in Pac-8/10/12 country) named Estrus Crayton. Yes, you read that right. I would submit that many names of people of African descent are, how should I put this?, different. My wife tells me it’s 'cause people in that segment of our population consider “How to name my child in a way that ‘outdoes’ what my neighbor or friend named his or her child” to be an important criterion for coming up with baby names. I’ll leave it at that.
I submit that he missed a golden opportunity by not nicknaming himself Estrus “The Heat” Crayton.
I think the cat walked on the keyboard.
That theory works too.
This isn’t as “different” as some of those upthread, but a friend told me he and his wife plan to name their baby Jax if it is a boy. “Or maybe Jackson”. As much as I think Jackson is too trendy, it’s better than Jax.
And a girl will be Ally. 
That’s why I named my kid “Caret Browsing.”
Seriously, the only reason that I know this is a thing that exists is because I have cats.
(F7 for the record).
I take it you hate naming your kid Joe instead of Joseph but let’s call him Joe? Some of those bother me. But did you see the name “Jaxxon” above? :smack:
“Jackson call him Jax” will either grow up to be a biker, or get his arms ripped off, become a cyborg, and fight himself some Mortal Kombats.
Not sure I see a problem with that name, but then I have a cat named Allie.
I worked (very briefly) with someone named Zeus a few years ago. I had no idea that people named their kids that in this day and age.
Now there’s a name I’ve not come across.
mmm
Let’s see:
Knew/knew of several Athenas. Only one Minerva.
Saw a Juno in a movie. :dubious:
I can’t imagine that there aren’t Ceres running around.
Apollo - yes. Mainly the differently-spelled olympian (heh).
Artemis, yes. Diana, certainly.
Aphrodite/Venus, not personally, but I can’t imagine someone doing that to their kid.
Not really the rest. I bet some Greeks use some of them, though.
One of my sisters had a friend named Venus.
I went to high school with a girl named Venus.
I was watching some college football game this fall and there was a player named Braxton Hicks. Perhaps one or both of his parents are obstetricians.
My son encountered a girl named Mirracclle.
One of my neighbors, back in the early 70s, named her son Omnipotent. She said he would be an omnipotent worker for The Lord, which is nice, but we moved shortly after that so I never found out how he fared with the other kids.
Some I’ve come across first-hand:
Jermajesty
Word-Daily (first name)
Wonderful
London England (first and last name)
Jaxxson
Ariola
Ewenique
Calvin Hobbes (first and last name)
Emerald Jewell (first and last name)
Ginger Rayle (first and last name)
Amanda Rose Early (full name, and a complete sentence)
mmm
I went to high school with some twins - Princess and Precious. At least they were spelled like the way you’re supposed to spell those words.
My favorite though comes from my uncle who was working IT in a school district when they got a new student transferring in. The name was pronounced /Luh dash uh/.
It was written “La-a”. According to her, “The dash ain’t silent”. :dubious:
It caused some interesting problems for the software the were using, which (for whatever reason) didn’t accept hyphens in the first name field.
On the (US) Naval Academy’s football team, there are two brothers - Blaze Ryder and most appropriately for the school, Wave Ryder. IIRC, Wave Ryder’s name was the question to a Jeopardy answer about “perfect college football names.”
Now, his son will be called Oestrus cuz you just have to improve on the spelling from generation to generation.