# Let's help people choose unusual baby names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665 "2008-05-17T17:05:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/81 "2008-05-19T15:15:03Z")
[QUOTE=Tamryne] I’m in the midst of doing a genealogy record for my mothers family and these are the interesting names I’ve found so far: Hyman (nicknamed hymie) (male) Rae Wyne [/QUOTE] Rae is my middle name. It’s in honor of an uncle, a truck driver who died in an accident. I’ve always liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/82 "2008-05-19T15:21:14Z")
A co-worker had a baby and decided on a name. From her hospital bed, she called into the office and asked how to spell the name she’d decided on. We all consulted and told her she was on her own: If you make up a name, you can spell it any damn way you please. The end result: Tawndalay. The baby’s last name: Boddie. Yes, folks, Tawny Boddie. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/83 "2008-05-19T15:28:35Z")
Three people I have known in real life: Teal Eye Earlita (named after her daddy, Earl) Soli All female. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/84 "2008-05-19T16:48:23Z")
My friend named his daughter Trinity. First time I ever heard that as a name outside of “The Matrix”. And now for the really strange part. She was born on December 8, 2004. The day the movie “Blade: **Trinity** ” was released. I joked with him that they must have had labor induced to make that happen. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/85 "2008-05-19T16:57:39Z")
I forgot: my dad was drunk when he filled out the birth certificate for my youngest sister, so although she was supposed to be ‘Leah’, she ended up ‘Leha’. Of course, we all called her “Little Lee-haw”. Evil siblings. And at the medical clinic I took my babies to for shots, there was a clerk named Tiger Love. ick. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/86 "2008-05-19T18:17:50Z")
I also know a woman who had two embryos implanted through IVF. While they were both developing, we called them _Kang_ and _Kodos_. One of them eventually was aborted, and I never learned which one. The mom, despite my protests, assigned another name after birth. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/87 "2008-05-19T18:29:27Z")
One of my fomer managers had a daughter, which she named Story. Then there’s my grandmother’s first and middle names: Mae Bea. ---
**Author:** ![Aangelica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/88 "2008-05-19T19:11:25Z")
I, personally, know a child named “Cocoa Fudge” with no middle name.\* Sadly, he has a brother named “Cosmo”. I am also related to a person saddled with the unfortunate moniker “Richard Lust”. My sister-in-law was just barely talked out of naming my poor niece “Tinkerbell Elaine”. My sister-in-law now denies the accusation, but we’re all fairly sure that was the pregnancy hormones talking on that one. \*I say child, but the kid has to be in his late-teens, early-20’s now. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/89 "2008-05-19T19:22:00Z")
Lorelei (Lor-EL-la)-my wonderful 5th grade teacher. Viola (vye-OL-a)- my grandmother. Ivory- the most beautiful woman I ever actually knew. Theada (thee-AY-da, with a hard th)-a guy I went through school with. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/90 "2008-05-19T19:37:42Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] Theada (thee-AY-da, with a hard th)-a guy I went through school with. [/QUOTE] Oooh, I knew a Theoda. Lovely lady, tons of class. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/91 "2008-05-19T19:56:30Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] I know a girl named Treasure and a guy named Ori. [/QUOTE] My brother’s name is Ori. Of course, it’s probably more common here than where you live. ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/92 "2008-05-19T20:30:14Z")
I have great-aunts named Celestial and Sophronia. Also know an older lady named Exxa, which I’ve never heard anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/93 "2008-05-19T20:47:10Z")
Oh, duh! And my brother-in-law’s name is Orion! (Which, for some reason, most people mispronounce as or-EE-on.) ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/94 "2008-05-19T21:58:51Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] No mention yet of Osama? I am shocked [/QUOTE] We have an Osama at my school. He’s an 8th Grader, which would have made him a 2nd grader on Sept 11. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/95 "2008-05-19T22:11:06Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Not at all an uncommon name in the US/Canada years ago. I know a Merlin about my age, a Scot raised in Vancouver. [/QUOTE] I had an aunt named Merlyn. She was born just after the turn of the century (the last one, not the most recent). ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/96 "2008-05-19T22:18:21Z")
[QUOTE=nashiitashii] In googling Melena, the medical definition/description pages took up the entire first page. Is this an actual name somewhere? [/QUOTE] Yes, I worked with a **nurse** named Melena. (The name suited her BTW). ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/97 "2008-05-19T22:21:25Z")
My Granddad went by his middle name of Jurd. On some old documents it’s spelled Jord. One of his brothers was named Aud. My Grandmother went by her middle name of Colene (pronounced Colleen). My Dad was named Billy but it got spelled wrong on his birth certificate. He didn’t find out the mistake until he needed a copy of the certificate to join the Air Force. It was very humiliating to find out your name is really spelled “Billie” (the female form of Billy). ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/98 "2008-05-20T01:44:14Z")
[QUOTE=ENugent] Hm, that’s a pretty strict list. I know a woman named Sola and a boy named Raven. [/QUOTE] I know/know of two guys who are called Raven, but only one is actually named Raven; the other just uses the name. The guy who is really named Raven is blonde, which always seemed funny to me. [QUOTE=mlerose] Three people I have known in real life: Teal Eye Earlita (named after her daddy, Earl) Soli All female. [/QUOTE] I too have known a female named Teal. She was a few grades ahead of me in elementary, so she’s probably 22 now. Females I have known: LaRee (luh-REE) and her big sister LaCee. Fanchon Amia Immaculee The only odd male name I can recall is Billot. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/99 "2008-05-20T14:05:50Z")
I worked with a woman with two daughters named Ebokneah and Ivoreah (eh-bo-KNEE-uh and eye-voh-REE-uh). My nephew is named Beck. My father went to high school with a girl named Eulabelle. They met again at their 50th high school reunion and email each other now and then. You get some odd names like that from the older generations; two of my grandparents, for example, were named Addeline and Lorenz. And that reminds me of a name from a cookbook in the **Gallery of Regrettable Food** : “Mrs. Leavenworth Wheeler”. Who names their baby “Leavenworth”? My wife’s friend named her baby girl Avery, which cracks me up because “Avery” was the name of this ornery old coot my grandmother used to play cards with, so I picture him every time I hear her name. I should add that my father’s parents were about the world’s most UN-creative people in the world when it came to naming their kids. Their four children were John, James, Mary, and Annie. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665/100 "2008-05-20T15:19:42Z")
My wife came up with a couple of lists. People she knows: Cayman Aria Arwen Kingston Jael Amyah Mysteria Shiri Mordechay Karin Sander Laith Willow Lincoln Karis Brock Gage Sidalee People she works with: Odeyo Fayetta Iola Shaniqua Comissia Kanayo Ranice Shatika Jerelene Lamar Gordana Bente Audalene Wilberta Lucretia Loreen Adenike Hadah Netter Fathiyyah Deron Nimelydee Byena Delametrius Talibah Almira Ronneisha Zaniel Jamay Mirvine Sharina Kiana Derr Foday Comfort Chineye Hacinda Gerson Tokenbo WC (name, not initials) Tasheen Demoe Nkechi Hawa Kazeem Miatta Archtrea Jammel Everett Lynwood (male) Natking (middle name Cole) Nyzia Zahara Pennewon Chivonne Donesha [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-people-choose-unusual-baby-names/449665.md?page=6)