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It must be so disappointing to have a friend with a comic book hero name and yet no supernatural gifts at all.
It’s perfectly possible that she was simply a Trina, but her family would stick the article in front when talking about her among themselves; we often do that to indicate “Trina as in ‘the first Trina you think of when you hear that name’”. La Garbo = Greta; la Lola = Flores; la Rita when not speaking to my mother = Hayworth; la Rita when speaking to my mother = her best friend.
It’s also the Spanish word meaning “long mane”, so? Melina means “honey-like”. One of my last bosses was a Melina (called Meli); she was expecting a Melina-bis which we refered to as Melita (sounds like an Italian brand of coffeemakers).
There’s always a name that’s not like the others on these lists. In fact many of these names are standard somewhere. it may be OK to point out that a name sounds funny to you but how about knocking off all the comments about implied ignorance, stupidity and lack of class. You’re only showing yourselves up.
I have a Facebook FOAF whose kid’s named Kaydance. Since I can’t see their pics I can’t tell if it’s a boy or girl but either way I pity it.
A man who worked with my aunt decades ago:
Donald Dick
Admittedly, he was born before the creation of Donald Duck, but it was still pretty funny.
There was a cashier wearing a name tag with the name “Maleria”. I had to ask her to pronounce it- she said “Mallory, but it looks funny, don’t it?”
I used to know someone who was called “Princess”. Her parents must have thought a lot of her, but it is a difficult name to live up to.
I Roald Dahl’s autobiography “Going Solo” he wrote that he met a person called U.N.Savory.
I think the “Nosmo King” stories come from the Ramona Quimby series, in which the title character (a young girl) tries to make a “No Smoking” sign but it ends up being split between lines as “Nosmo King”. Later, her father asks who this “Mr. King” is.
I used to live across the hall from a family with a little girl named Miracle. I also knew someone with the first name Evans (not Evan, but Evans). I saw a Lewaynia and a female Dominek back when I lived in Detroit, amidst many other similar names.
The funniest name I have encountered was on a TV show featuring the media liaison for the Miami, FL police dept. (I think that was his position) named…DaIrish Moss.
My coworker’s baby-daddy’s fiancee (got that?) name her baby girl Divine, because that’s her stripper stage name!
I went to school with a girl named Sandy Rhodes. She said her father went by “Dusty”. There was a set of red-headed twins named Jack and Jill, which I thought was downright cruel. In the Navy, I knew Darryl and his brother Ferrell; don’t know if he had another brother Ferrell. I worked with a guy in the State Department named Field Cooper. Nothing wrong with that, but his brother was Forest Cooper. I asked him if his sister was “Stream”, but he wasn’t amused.
Could be apocryphal but I have heard of ESPN pronounced es-PEN
There was a kid at my son’s kindergarten named Anzac.
I had a teacher in high school who was called Dusty, and yup, his last name was Rhodes too. Go figure.
Reminds me of someone I know who had a maiden name of Destiny Love. I also know someone who named his daughter Misty Mountain Ayer, though I never thought that was too bad.
One of my daughter’s classmates was named Princess. I work with a woman named Stormy. I’ve known a man named Eunice, and a woman named Mazola. I’ve known women named Fairy,Fairybelle, Dimples, Dumpling and Giggles. I’ve known a man named Lotus and one named Elver.
Parents can be cruel.
I’ve mentioned this in similar threads in the past, but my FIL’s name is Bobbie - that’s what’s on his birth certificate. Not Robert. Not Bob (altho that’s what he goes by.) I’m sure it’s caused him no end to misery in his professional life. And I’m sure his mother gave him that name because he was an adorable child and Bobbie suited him. However, at 82, it is a tad silly… Even odder to me - his middle name is a perfectly acceptable adult name.
The local radio station used to have one of those “todays birthday” things where you could send in someones name & they would get read out on-air.
One morning there were the twins; Korben & Leeloo. Parents were big *Fifth Element *fans I guess.
Possibly, though there was a British music hall comedian who went by the name Nosmo King from the 1930s, so it not likely there’s just the one source.