Digging through my closet I found a copy of my family tree, with names dating back to 1640.
Turns out, I have a Venerated Ancestor named…
…PRESERVED CLAPP!!!
Anyone care to top that?
It’s not quite as hilarious as yours, but I have a great-great-grandmother named Bertha Wilhelmina Caroline Hammmermeister.
Gee, she wasn’t German, was she?
I have 5 aunts named:
Shishy
Toppy
Oakie
Oudi
Shuey
And 2 uncles named:
Zermie
Zonny
Yes, they’re all brothers and sisters. And yes, those are their real names.
Great Aunt California Kansas McCravy. I always wondered why the state names? As far as I know, she never lived in either California or Kansas.
Have a very distant relative who lived in the 17th century, named Roger Crapp; he married a lady named Radigon. Radigon Crapp.
Have a ninth cousin (six times removed) named Ellen Vosper Ferret Wilton. No idea why they gave their daughter the middle name Ferret.
my husband has an aunt name Charmie Dimple.
My great grand-aunt Jacomina married Charles Ennema, to become Jacomina Ennema.
The family has since changed the last name to Ennette.
My sisters name is Farrow. Dad’s middle name, his father’s middle name, was one of that last names, you get the picture.
Anyway, people hear her name as “Pharoah.”
They must think my parents had illusions of grandeur or something!
Had a student whose last name was “Cabbagestalk”.
Had another with the last name of “Stringfellow.”
Then there was the kid whose first name was “Ross” and whose last name… was “Ross”. Yep, Ross Ross. Don’t think he had a middle name. Can’t imagine why the parents resisted the urge to throw a third “Ross” in there.
My last name is Carr. I know it’s not SUCH an unusual name, but do you have any idea what it’s like to go through school with a last name like that? Even one of my teachers made fun it.
There was a coach in high school named Bahr who had a daughter named…
you guessed it–Candy. What was that :wally thinking?
Squiggleflorp.
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Well, my great-grandmother’s maiden name was Mouchemore (pronounce moosh-more in case you’re interested), and she married a man whose surname was Nener.
Yep, as in nener-nener-nener when you make fun of someone.
I was going to be called Vanessa, but then my mum realised my initials would be VD and so she changed her mind. Needless to say, I love my mum.
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Has anyone ever met someone with the surname Nener? I’ve never met anyone outside my family called Nener.
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strange names…I’ve seen a lot over here. Like the couple that called their daughter Coconuts because they like summer. Also Tiger and Atom.
My family contains a Napoleon Bonaparte Horn, not to mention a Leonidas and an Orlando. At least somebody was reading.
I also had a great-grandmother named Alerter, a cousin named Doine and two great-uncles named Otis and Opie. All first names.
We’re a tad rural. 
If it was Ken, I love his work with the Posies. 
Well, it’s not a funny name, it’s more of a cool name: My great-great-grandfather was a Cherokee named Blackhawk Sixkiller. Man, I betcha he could break up a barfight with the best of 'em.
I met someone at a dinner party recently who swore, I mean SWORE up and down, that she had grown up down the street from a family whose last name was Poopoowalker. Still not sure I believe her.
And finally, here in Memphis we have a minor-league baseball team called the Redbirds, whose shortstop is named Stubby Clapp. Stubby Clapp. His father and grandfather were also called Stubby. He’s a big local hero, and (baseball fans may recall) spent a month or two in the majors with St. Louis last season. King Kaufman, of salon.com, wrote a great article on baseball names occasioned by Stubby’s going up to the majors.
I forgot to mention this before.
Remember how I said my last name is Carr?
In the 3rd grade, my best friends last name was Traicher, but for some reason that I cannot possibly fathom, it was pronounced Tractor. Imagine, if you will the taunting of countless snotty nosed brats.
Carr and Tractor, sittin in a tree…
You get the picture.
I had an Aunt Lolly and an Aunt Flossie Belle. I think Flossie Belle is a very funny name and would’ve thought it to be quite unique. Oddly enough, a Google search turned up dozens of Flossie Belle’s in people’s genealogy. Anyone know the history of that name?
Shayna-
I know what you mean about Flossie Belle. I had a great-aunt
Mamie-Toi! I have no idea about that one.
Distant relative named Meta bare whose daughters name is Penny Candy. We have a neighbor whose daughter’s name is Shimmery Timber.