This has got to be the best so far!
Maybe we need to work on some others like
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“Rampersandy” made me giggle.
And an episode of Cagney & Lacey…
There’s a woman in England with kids called Truth and Justice. No news on the arrival of American Way, but it’s early days yet
(yes the parents’ are comicbook addicts)
We have friends who named their two sons: Fisher and Hunter. I am waiting for them to have a third and name him Gatherer. Or maybe Farmer.
Also - a person who works with my husband named: Elvis Mom
I’ve never seen a cite for it, but I once heard the granddaughter of the guy who founded Leer jets has a first name of Crystal & a middle name of Chanda; if it’s true, I bet she’s illuminating.
Hashstone, I believe.
Nitpick: it’s Lear jets; the founder was Bill Lear.
I remember a MAD TV sketch where someone asks a kid how his name is spelled, and he says something like “q u e a v e apostrophe a n”
“and how is that pronounced?”
“Kevin”
Reminds me of Myq Kaplan (pronounced Mike Kaplan - I know… a strange way to spell Kaplan)
This reminds me of some friends of my grandparents.
Their names were Phillip and Priscilla, but they went by
Phil and Prill Rothermill
I’ve posted before about the couple I went to school with, who went to Paris for their honeymoon, and she became pregnant on that trip. So naturally, they named their son Eiffel. Which you could argue isn’t so awful - except that their answer to “what an unusual name” is “Oh, we just love Paris. He was conceived in Paris.” Gah!. Really “we love Paris” is all the information anyone who wasn’t present at the conception needs.
My sister claims that not only is that story true, but the poor kid was in her class! (She used to teach in LA County.)
I once substitute taught in a school in which a child’s name (first and last) was Pepper Salt.
Can’t tell you how much I detest those names. I always have to bite my tongue to keep from asking if “Hunter” has a sister named “Plumber”, or perhaps “Market Researcher”. Fads suck, but people think they’re being so original. I remember the days of 14 Tiffanys in a classroom and 10 Tanyas. Now every other boy is either Hunter, Fisher, or Chance.
Actually, in Italy, Ilaria is a standard name - not the most common, but it definitely wouldn’t be considered at all weird. Hilaria (or Hilary) is just the Anglicised form of that. If her parents were Italian, they may have been giving her a fairly standard name that turned out not to cross the culture border as well as they thought.
The Seriously Weird Names thing doesn’t seem to have taken off here the way it has in the US. Yet, anyway.
It’s their daughter, Prostitute, who’s really had the burden.
Thanks for pointing out the way to interpret her name. At first glance all I saw was “hilarious” which would be good for a stand-up comic.
Yeah, at first glance I just saw ‘Hilarity’, which would mainly be good for tedious puns about hilarity ensuing…
The other one I’ve noticed that doesn’t seem to travel well is Aidan. Here (Ireland) that’s an old standard, classic to the point of verging on boring. It’s like naming your kid Daniel, or Matthew. But in the US, it seems to come across as ridiculous makey-uppy trendiness - probably because it gets lumped in with Jayden and Kayden and Braiden and blah blah blah.
Close. Her given name is Shanda. She was born in 1944. Lear’s offspring are named Mary Louise, William, Jr., Patti, John, Shanda, David, and Tina.
I saw a picture of a tombstone with the name Increase Clapp. Perfectly normal in the olden days but damn funny now.
Ilaria makes me think of malaria…which reminds me of the people I know who named their kids Sam and Ella. (Salmonella.)