My gf gets some amazing names at her work. The winner this year:
L-a
Pronounced leh Dash uh. :eek:
My gob was smacked, my flabber was well and truly gasted.
Don’t you think here mom was aiming for “Ofrah”, which is Hebrew for “Fawn”? It’s a common name in these parts.
Can there *ever *be a thread on names on this board that doesn’t include the same standard urban legends? I don’t understand how people still believe some of these.
Just don’t tell him he makes you sick.
She comes from different parts than you do. 
In any event the story has been told very often. Winfrey says the name on her birth certificate actually is Orpah:
I’ve found a cite that says we’re both wrong, though I was a hair closer than you.
[QUOTE=Oprah Winfrey, in the link above]
I was born, as I said, in rural Mississippi in 1954. I was born at home. There were not a lot of educated people around and my name had been chosen from the Bible. My Aunt Ida had chosen the name, but nobody really knew how to spell it, so it went down as “Orpah” on my birth certificate, but people didn’t know how to pronounce it, so they put the “P” before the “R” in every place else other than the birth certificate. On the birth certificate it is Orpah, but then it got translated to Oprah, so here we are. But that’s great because Oprah spells Harpo backwards. I don’t know what Orpah spells.
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And from a 99er, no less.
I have a friend of a friend whose kids are called Sam and Ella. Nothing unusual about either name, but sounds like Sam an’ Ella when she talks about the two of them. 
We have friends with an oldest who goes by TJ. When they were pregnant with another son, they contemplated Max until my wife pointed out the connection with TJ Maxx, the discount store chain. They went with a different choice.
In a similar vein, I had a math teacher named Dr. Sprows. He told us that he had considered naming his son after famous mathematician Bertrand Russell, until he realized that that would make the kid B. Russel Sprows.
I’m still not sure to what extent he was joking.
In this case, I think the odds are against it.
I interviewed a girl two days ago named Genesis. Pronounced “Hen-uh-see.” Smart kid, rough name.
If we’re collecting data on whether intelligence is inherited, this would go in the “no” column.
There is (or was; he died in 1996) a fairly well-known author named Og Mandino, but his actual first name was Augustine.
A friend of mine met a woman and a little girl in the park the other day while he (my friend) was walking his dog. The little girl’s name was Wasabi.
Not necessarily. Genesis’s parents could have been intelligent but cruel.
True. Meanwhile I am wondering if Virus has a twin sister named Vera.
Other than the frequent use of alliterative names for twins, I don’t get it.
I can imagine someone thinking Virus and Vera sounds like a male-female pair of names. I can’t imagine a lot of people thinking that way, but if you’re the kind of person who thinks naming your son Virus is a good idea, you’re already in a very small minority.
Fifteen or twenty years ago I briefly dated a woman with two little kids named Sunshine and Shadow. Sadly, Sunshine was the little boy.
She’s saucy!