My high school driver’s ed teacher was Mr. Carr. I kid you not.
My grandma and great-aunts were Millie Gray, Eunice, Sophronia, and Celestial. I’m not sure where the last three names came from, since they all grew up in rural North Carolina during the Depression, and Millie Gray is my great-aunt’s first name (like Betty Sue). Millie, I get, but Gray?
My boss’s maiden name was Putz. If there was ever a name to Americanize…