There’s a gentleman named James Bond in my town.
I have a boy named James Bond in our high school. Yes, he introduces himself in the classic way. (I must admit, if my last name was Bond, James would be my first boy’s name on the list.)
Last week I had to teach a biology class on syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlyamidia, and I swore that if any of them named any of their children names like this I would hunt them down and bitch slap them.
Beastly Rotter: Yeah, even sven’s just letting some of her less-educated prejudices show through; probably best to ignore her for a while. Bless her heart.
My dad’s dentist was Jerry Derryberry.
I went to school with identical twins Ludvig and Wolfgang Nietzsche. Poor boys.
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Does he drive a monster truck to make up for his Little Organ?
I went to high school with a James Bond, but he went by Jimmy.
I work with a woman named Miracle. When I hear the name Miracle, it conjures up an image of a petite woman, very feminine, very much a girly-girl.
My co-worker is about 6’3", easily 300 pounds and built like a linebacker. She has a loud, gruff voice, and from her tone, you’d think she was always angry. She has a very heavy step, and the floor rumbles when she walks past. The name doesn’t fit her at all, in my opinion.
Nimrod was the great-grandson of Noah. So it’s a name with legitimate origins and is sometimes used by Israelis. Of course, that doesn’t change two basic facts:
- It means “idiot” in English.
- The Nimrod of the Torah was a rasha (wicked person).
I knew a girl named Meghan. Her name was fine by itself, but she had a younger half-sister named Megan. They have the same last name, can’t imagine how many problems that can cause.
I had a former female customer whose first name was Gay and her last name was Sailor. Yes, her name was Gay Sailor. Due to the nature of what I sold her I saw her driver’s license and a person check so this was her legal name. I remember thinking, I hope Sailor is her married name and her parents were really not that cruel or clueless.
HOF football player Carl Eller named his daughter Cinder. Wrong in two ways.
Nimrod was a mighty hunter; there have been military aircraft named after him. Honestly, a lot of this thread isn’t strange names, it’s hurr-durr ignorance HAW HAW SHE CALLED SHIVAWN HURDY DURR LOL.
So, are you saying Latrina is not a primarily African-American name (in the sense that in the US, Guadalupe would be a primarily Latina name)? The white bikini models in that Google Search, by the way, are on a blog authored by someone named Latrina.
African-American naming traditions are a real thing, including the use of prefixes such as “La”. We’ve already seen earlier in this thread how a list of names that often had a lot of history, meaning and culture behind them were put up for ridicule. Reflexively assuming that people who have a name that doesn’t fit you convention must be uneducated is exactly why we see effects like resumes with traditional African American names being automatically tossed out. I’m not saying you guys are bad people or racists, but it’s worth giving some critical thought to what you are doing and what the wider implications of the cultural trope are. And I’d hope that at some people, at some point in the future, turn to look up a name they don’t recognize and give parents the benefit of the doubt before making fun of them.
Is it ok to make fun of people who name their kids ShyAnne and Quasar? Because I intend to do so regardless. Just checking to see how non-PC I am being. And really, Latrina is funny because it sounds like Latrine. The END.
I knew a Chancellor (1st name). He said when he entered college the President said he resented being outranked by a freshman. I knew twins named Ray and Raymond - SS didn’t want to give them 2 checks. My wife had a student named Rainy April Knight. There’s a flower, named for its developer, called Backhouse - pronounced Ba-kou-sie (German?) Imhotep was a 27th cent. BC Egyptian, chancellor, priest, architect, engineer & physician. Agatha Christie has a story,Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?[/U#129 I think in the story Evans is a first name, but I may be wrong. Nimrod was a hunter.
I got a few good ones, in Spanish. Because the Spanish naming convention gives all of us Spaniards two surnames (one from the father and one from the mother), not just one, the chances of somebody having a weird combination increase. Also, there are a few names that, when translated into other languages, sound downright bizarre.
I have, by the way, a very good friend whose name is, honest to God, Iñigo Montoya. given that he was born before “The Princess Bride” was published, we’ll have to chalk this one to a crazy coincidence. He takes it in stride, though; he sometimes introduces himself as “The dread Pirate Roberts” XD
Now for the weird combinations: A friend if my father’s had, as surnames, “Guerra” and “Gorda” (“War” and “Big”, respectively). His parents saddled him with the name “Armando” (in English, “Armand”). Doesn’t sound too bad, but unfortunately, the whole combination (“Armando Guerra Gorda”) can be translated as “Starting a Big War”. I knew this man, couldn’t believe his name, and he showed me his ID papers.
Then you have this little gem from a small-town newspaper, in the “Local Society” section: “Mr. <Xxx> Laca <Yyy> and Ms. <Zzz> Gamos <Www> [N.B.: the wife has different surnames than the husband because in Spain, traditionally, women do not take the husband’s surname when they marry] have had a baby girl, whose name is Felisa Laca Gamos”. Quite an unfortunate selection of surnames, because, when spoken, her full name sounds like “Felisa, la cagamos” – Which can be understood as either “Felisa: we shat her”, or “Felisa: we made a huge blunder”.
As to weird names, the best examples might be “Socorro” (“Help”) or “Dolores” (“Pains”); both not uncommon women’s names in Spain. A couple more might be “Luz” (“Light”) or, like the daughter of a good friend of mine, “Blanca” (“White”). In my city of birth, a locally very popular name for women is “Llanos” (“Flat”). Not a really flattering name for a woman, I’d say… :)P
Among men, the custom of giving people the name of the Saint whose feast-day it was when they were born has produced tragedies, so to speak… my father knew a “Cojoncio” and a “Cagancio” (names of obscure Saints from the days of the Roman Empire, in modern Spanish these names might be understood as “Testicle” and “Shitty”, respectively). Another name which is not absolutely uncommon and is also Saint-related is “Marciano”, which in modern Spanish means “Martian”. I personally knew two of these…
The nurse at my elementary school was named Gay Love. I don’t know if that was her given name or her married name, that was a long time ago. 
I worked at a place some years back where one of the mechanics was named Ben Gay. Another was General Lee - yep, first name General. Yep, it was in the south.
Note that Dolores is also very common in the US, albeit generally spelled Delores. And Blanca, at least in Navarra where it’s very common, does not quite mean “White”… “Our White Lady” is a nickname given to Nuestra Señora de las Nieves (Our Lady of Snows), so your Navarrese Whites are… Snows.
And the Marcianos are Martians in Latin as well, but as in “related to the Roman God of War” rather than “related to the planet named after the Roman God of War”.
Nimrod does not mean idiot in English, it means idiot in North American slang. See this blog for confirmation that the idiot meaning is unknown outside the US.
My nephew graduated with Courtesy Booth. I heard the man call her name.
My sisters are married to Bill Murray and James Brown. But not the ones you know.