# I met a person today whose first name is Virus. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795 "2012-06-20T22:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/101 "2012-06-26T15:05:18Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > If parents can name their kids Paris, or Sydney after towns, I don’t see such a big leap to **[Paisley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley)**… 😉 (The fabric pattern is named after the Scottish town where it originated.) [Paris](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_%28mythology%29) was a name **long** before it was a town. The town of Sydney was named after [a person](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Townshend,_1st_Viscount_Sydney), and the original form of the name, spelled with an I, is a [very old name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_%28surname%29), too. So, there’s a long history of both of those names as personal names before either was a place-name. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/102 "2012-06-26T15:47:22Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > At an upscale department store, I overheard a woman telling her daughter to knock off throwing a tantrum. Girl’s name? “Melodrama.” Yeah, like Rachellelogram said, this was probably commentary on the kid’s behaviour rather than an actual name. I’ve been known to say ‘Hey, Melodrama/High Drama/Greek Tragedy, knock it off,’ when my daughter starts heading for opera territory, and her name’s nothing at all like any of those. Now I’m wondering if there’s someone out there thinking ‘Who the hell names her kid Greektragedy?!’ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/103 "2012-06-26T16:01:59Z")
2 patients today, with less common first names. Bicannon Quantae ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/104 "2012-06-26T16:39:44Z")
A couple years ago, my coworker was relating to me a conversation about his daughter’s name: Someone had heard it and said, “Yeah, great motorcycle, man.” “No, idiot.” My coworker remarked to me and revealed, “The name comes from the sword.” The daughter’s name: Kitana She’s turning 15 soon. It was already too late to tell him the vowels are all A’s and, for that matter, the Suzuki motorcycle is in fact named after the sword: Katana —G!? You know, you know, you know my name… . --Lennon and McCartney . _You know my name (Look up the number)_ . B-side to Let It Be (single) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/105 "2012-06-26T16:41:38Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Once the kid found out what did that really long thing his father would call him mean, he though it was The Coolest - “like a cartoon character! Like, like, like the OLDEST cartoon character!” I don’t get it. > [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > I just received a booking from someone with the first name Viral. I know a Viral at work. It’s pronounced Vih Rahl, not Vie Ruhl. He’s Indian. > [@Eve](#): > > as he thinks he hears people calling to him on the street all the time? Trying to meet girls in bars? “Hi, there, what’s your name?” “Fuk Yu, Miss!” [_slap_] I think it’s probably pronounced “Fook Yu”. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/106 "2012-06-26T16:53:04Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I think it’s probably pronounced “Fook Yu”. That’s OK, he’s probably moved to Ireland by now. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/107 "2012-06-26T20:41:46Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > IIRC, that’s a pretty common name in… India, I think? Pronounced something like “Shi-theed.” > [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > You are correct sir! The patron was Indian he did say it was pronounced “Shi-theed.” > > Still funny from an American context though. I have never met nor heard of an Indian person with this name. I’ve heard this claim so many times. I’m simply not going to believe it in the absence of documented proof. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/108 "2012-06-26T22:03:10Z")
I deal with a lot of names at work; my favorite so far was the woman whose first name was Latrina. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/109 "2012-06-26T22:58:35Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > [Paris](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_%28mythology%29) was a name **long** before it was a town. > > The town of Sydney was named after [a person](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Townshend,_1st_Viscount_Sydney), and the original form of the name, spelled with an I, is a [very old name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_%28surname%29), too. > > So, there’s a long history of both of those names as personal names before either was a place-name. Be that as it may, people still name their children after the cities, not realizing the name belonged to a person first. So, my point is still somewhat valid. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/110 "2012-06-26T23:37:34Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I have never met nor heard of an Indian person with this name. I’ve heard this claim so many times. I’m simply not going to believe it in the absence of documented proof. :rolleyes: You’re right, I should have copied his driver’s license. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/111 "2012-06-26T23:38:17Z")
I once knew a guy named Bob. You know like what corks do in water! Craaaaazy! ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/112 "2012-06-27T00:01:50Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I have never met nor heard of an Indian person with this name. I’ve heard this claim so many times. I’m simply not going to believe it in the absence of documented proof. Well, [Here’s an Africo-American](http://www.facebook.com/#!/shitheed.willowbrook) chap with this name (although I presume the pic is when he was somewhat younger). ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/113 "2012-06-27T00:02:23Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > :rolleyes: You’re right, I should have copied his driver’s license. Well you had a choice. You could have copied his driver’s license, I guess. But I think I would have just taken the easier choice to stop spreading silly urban legends. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/114 "2012-06-27T00:49:50Z")
My drill sergeant, back in 1974 at Ft. Jackson, SC, was named Ogg. Sgt. Carol S. Ogg. I wish I knew where she was, I’d like to say hi. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/115 "2012-06-27T01:06:54Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > My drill sergeant, back in 1974 at Ft. Jackson, SC, was named Ogg. > > Sgt. Carol S. Ogg. I wish I knew where she was, I’d like to say hi. [???](http://www.facebook.com/writeruno) ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/116 "2012-06-27T01:34:51Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Braxton doesn’t strike me as a terribly odd name. The medical term is named after the physician who first described them, and using surnames as first names is a time-honored practice. It’s unusual, but not without precedent. Ft. Bragg in North Carolina is named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, and there are plenty of people before and after him named that. The Ohio State quarterback this year is named Braxton Miller also. ---
**Author:** ![crazydoglady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@crazydoglady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazydoglady)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/117 "2012-06-27T05:40:47Z")
I am VERY curious to hear anyone’s thoughts on 2 girls (sisters) I attended middle school with in the 80’s. They were a white family, but I have somehow got it into my head that they were immigrants, possibly from eastern Europe. I could be misremebering that, tho. So, their names were: Dewygoo and Deedum - pronounced as they are written. These were their real first names, they are in the yearbook and the teachers all called them these names, too. Were the parents just weirdos or is there some culture these names could legit be from? I have never heard similiar names since knowing these 2 girls in school…not even close. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/118 "2012-06-27T12:25:08Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I don’t get it. When The Proud Daddy gets real irritated at my nephew, he calls the kid “the fifth horseman of the Apocalypsis”. I happen to be one of the kid’s Grown Ups Who Answer Difficult Questions, so he asked me what does that mean. I explained, and he thought that the Four Horsemen were “the COOLEST” and sound like something out of his beloved action cartoons (I know it’s not Gormiti any more, those were last year, but that same style). Not the first person to think so (cf. tons of X-Men comics, half of Pterry’s books), but you should’a seen him bouncing up and down exclaiming “that’s SO cool!” Appetite for destruction indeed. And it would be the oldest cartoon character because the Kid knows that St John was writing before there were TVs, that’s why we don’t have live footage of Jesus entering Jerusalem and so forth (he did ask “why are there all these different movies with actors playing Jesus and Mary and so forth? Don’t they have the old _telediarios_?”) Telediario: the evening news. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/119 "2012-06-27T12:33:27Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Well you had a choice. You could have copied his driver’s license, I guess. But I think I would have just taken the easier choice to stop spreading silly urban legends. So you’re saying that I didn’t see a driver’s license that I say I personally witnessed? Are you honestly calling me a liar in a silly thread about silly names? ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795/120 "2012-06-27T14:25:14Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > So you’re saying that I didn’t see a driver’s license that I say I personally witnessed? > > Are you honestly calling me a liar in a silly thread about silly names? Yes. Was gonna try to hedge it to avoid a warning from the mods, but fuck it. I’ll take the hit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-a-person-today-whose-first-name-is-virus/625795.md?page=7)