IMHO, we’re conflating a couple different categories – the kind-of-weird names and the freaky-ass names. Apple, Moxie, and Moon are all in the first category. Kahlel is very much in the second.
–Cliffy
No way! I like it too, and I was planning on considering the middle name “Danger,” but now I’ll just look like I’m copying Billie Joe. 
I had Mr. Frail almost sold on it, too!
That name actually works, which I find surprising. You can picture the kid when he’s grown up, saying “I’m Jack Armstrong. Danger is my middle name.”
Of course, he’ll probably become an accountant, so it might be a wash.
Jason Lee’s baby is Pilot Inspektor. I predict a little sister named Faa.
The child of the Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner and Grace Slick was originally named god, with a lowercase g. It was Grace’s idea. Her explanation: “No one else was using the name.”
I guess she and Paul had second thoughts about the trouble that kid might have, and changed her name to China. China Slick Kantner was a VJ on MTV for a while, but I have no idea what happened to her after that. She’d be 36 by now, I think.
Well, blow me down. You’d think someone who owns every single Jefferson Whateveryoucallit record would have known this already, but I didn’t. Thanks for the clarification.
There are a million weird named celeb kids, but don’t forget that it isn’t relegated just to them. There was a baby in my paper last week named Myracul, which I suppose is supposed to be Miracle. I had a Jehovah in class once (I used to be a teacher), and knew a girl in high school named Y. It was her first name, it wasn’t short for anything, and that is what she went by. A good friend of mine has a dad whose first name was E, though he went by his middle name.
Also in recent birth announcemens I’ve seen Denim DiCaprio (that’s his first/middle name) and Beautiful MyLove and LilMike (don’t remember the middle name).
I do think someone famous has a Denim though, Toni Braxton maybe? Yup, Denim Cole and Diezel Ky are her sons. And there are two celebs with female Jamisons, which is a little strange (Jim Belushi has Jamison Bess & Chynna Phillips has Jamison Leon!). Eddie Van Halen has Wolfgang.
Has anyone mentioned Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily yet, daughter of Paula Yates?
Dennis Miller’s sons are named Marlon (after Brando) and Holden (after Caulfield). While not bad names in and of themselves I thought the etymology was goofy.
Let’s see- Holden Caulfied: teenage mental patient who hates his parents and is thoroughly miserable and self centered, and Marlon Brando- a by all accounts (including his own) self absorbed and depressed and thoroughly debauched actor turned morbidly obese and increasingly psychotic impossible to work with old bastard presiding over a murderously dysfunctional family… yeah, that’s who I’d hope my sons would emulate with their lives. Then I could have daughters and name them AnnaKarenina and Plath.
Ya know, a smart celeb might name their spawn Rose Issa Rose Alice B…
Not to start a trend, at all, at all…
Bill Murray has a son named Homer.
So does Richard Gere ( named after his father, which is cool.)
That especially works if you consider that Jack Armstrong was the name of a famous adventure character from the early days of radio: “Jack Armstrong, All American Boy,” kind of an early Johnny Quest.
I had a teacher who swore she once had a student in Arkansas named Lemonjello. Except the kid insisted it was pronounced leMONjello.
So does Matt Groening (named after his father, which is cool.)
Though to give Eddie a bone here his background is Dutch so there’s some justification for ‘Wolfgang’. He was born in Nijmegan and moved to the States when 7.
The story of two brothers named Lemonjello and Oranjello seems to be an urban legend:
http://www.babynamewizard.com/blog/archive/2004_09_01_nameblog-archive.html
But Mia Farrow changed Satchel’s name to Seamus. Which is sad, because Satchel’s a kick-ass name.
But as davmilasav mentioned earlier, I think the worst is Rob Morrow naming his daughter “Tu.” That’s just so wrong.
No, Seamus changed his name when the family was living in Ireland. Mia respected his wishes. She must have done something right–Seamus graduated from law school at age 17!
How is naming a child “Tu” any different that naming one “Elle”?
Because her last name is ‘Morrow.’
The poor kid’s name is ‘tomorrow.’
And the Edge and his first wife named one of their daughters Blue Angel. Kinda pretty, if a bit odd.
Damn you, Mrs. Chichester, you lead me astray! (I think. She didn’t say anything about a twin, just insisted she had a student named Lemonjello.)