Not odd at all when you consider that she is a scion of both the Drew and Barrymore families, American theatrical royalty.
Keanu is a popular name in Hawaii. This particular one was named after his great uncle, Henry Keanu Reeves.
Orlando Bloom, I guess its not really funny, just different, I mean how many peolpe do we know called Orlando?
Joey Buttofuco
Cornelius Crane Chase–named after his grandfather, Cornelius Crane, the founder of Crane Plumbing Fixtures, maker of toilets and urinals.
I’m not kidding.
That’s even funnier than “Chevy Chase.” I keep thinking of Chevy Chase in wrinkling his nose in ape make-up.
Years ago I was looking up a phone number and came across a listing for Serious, Yahoo which made me laugh. From the address it seemed to actually be his office.
Delly, I actually work with an Orlando.
I’ll go along with Viggo. Is that short for something?
Yes, but coupled with his surname, its quiet different…
Maybe his name (Viggo) is dutch, I think I read his parents or grandparents were dutch.
Or Viggo, for that matter?
Judging by his surname of Mortensen, I’d guess Scandinavian.
Baah, anyone would know it’s Carpathian - as in "Viggo The Carpathian " - wherever the hell Carpathia is…
(Okay, so it’s listed on imdb as “Vigo”, but what’s a G between friends?
Viggo’s half-Danish. He’s trilingual in English, Danish and Spanish.
Someone one here mentioned Neve Campbell.
Neve is an phonetic Anglicisation perfectly ordinary Irish given name for girls, Niamh.
It is pronounced with a long e by most people, to rhyme with Eve, but should, more properly, be given a discrete (English language) e-a sound. Not a dipthong.
I have never met anyone in Ireland who spelled her name Neve.
But as has already been pointed out in this thread - this being the SDMB, someone will pop along shortly to correct me, no doubt!
The OP asked “What stars today do you think have weird, silly or funny names?” Didn’t specify that they had to be the original names.
As for Chevy Chase, I’d always heard he named himself after the Maryland town, but I might be wrong there.
Neve is also the Italian word for “snow” and, according to an interview I once read with Ms Campbell, this is the source of her name. Its similarity to “Niamh” is purely coincidental.
Actor M. Emmett Walsh apparently stuttered when giving his name at an audition, otherwise we’d just know him as Emmett Walsh.
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Pardon me, ruadh - I heard that on the radio and like a sap I believed it.
Paprika Steen, hahaha! What a name!
(birds chirping)
Ellis Aponte and wolf_meister
That whole “Kam Fong as Chin Ho” and “Zulu as Kono” thing always confused me.
Wasn’t that a lot like saying, “John Smith as Bob Jones” and “Al as Pete”?