I work for one, and his Uncle and cousin also carry the name. Usually it is shortened to “Subby”
Not at all odd in an Italian, (or in this case, Sicilian) community
Martin
Zoltar, Destroyer of Worlds, Swallower of Souls, and Friend to All Puppies.
I seriously doubt I’ll ever find a woman willing to name their kid that.
If I had twins, I’d like to name them Jesus and Lucifer, but I think that would be stretching it a little too much.
I always use Slade as a name for characters I play in video games. It kinda works if you live in a fantasy world and battle dragons, but in real life, not so usefull.
Achilles is nice to, along with Astianax, but I don’t think those would go over so well.
I used to be in love with a boy from Jasper, Georgia. I just knew we would name any son we might have Jasper. Alas, a few years later I taught a Jasper who ruined it all for me.
We wanted our son’s name to be Ignatio, but decided not to be that cruel. So we named him Kieran instead. Now everyone asks why he has a girls name. :rolleyes:
For the longest time, I wanted to name a daughter Cicada Lilly, and call her “Cady” for short. Too bad the bug is really ugly.
Peace,
~mixie
Stilton Cheesworth.
I know two Sebastians and a famous soccer player in my region is called Kieron.
But the worst name I’ve ever come across IRL is…
Ann Key
One of my older brothers used to claim that he’d like to name a daughter Aurora Borealis. There were a couple of aspects to this that were troubling…first, the name itself is one that I don’t like at all. Next, combine it with the last name and you get the initials A.B.C. …just something about that bugs me.
godzillatemple, I have a co-worker named Christine who just married a guy with a classic Jewish last name. It is, indeed, very cool.
If I had a boy child, I’d be tempted to name him Wombat 'Druthers. Just because Wombat and 'Druthers are neat words and together they rock. But in reality I know it’d be rough on the kid.
uhh… Gastron the Magnificent.
Or better yet, name all your children with the same letters.
Planetoids Asunder
Dandelion Pastures
Desiderata Nonplus
etc.
-James
Happy you reminded me of something when you mentioned naming a child “mayor”.
I know someone whose name is “major”. I guess that’s not so weird, but one time another guy was dissing him and said,
“just think - if his momma had named him General he might have made something out of himself”.
I went to high school with a kid named “Merry Christmas”. He was a football player; we called hiim M.C.
We had a foreign exchange student named Sebastian; everybody called him “Sea Bass.”
Now if you’ll excuse me, I must find a cure for these extremely painful hiccups…
Beefy… Crap Nelson… If ginger ale through the nose is the price I must pay… 
Percy. I did a paper on Percy Grainger my junior year of high school and I really like it. Too bad the kid would get his ass kicked everyday because of it.
Big Beatles fan that I am I also like George Harold, but no one, but me seems to like it.
Pannonica.
We would call her Nicky for short.
Happy is my aunt’s name. She was born in 1940 or so. She uses her middle name instead because of the whole seven dwarf stigma.
I always thought it would be cool to have a daughter named after me and call her Junior. Cool!
I want to do this, now!
The princess in Sleeping Beauty… wasn’t she called Aurora?
Oh yeah, forgot one:
My grandmother’s name was Pinky.
There are some Shakespearan names that wouldn’t quite work. I wanted to name a girl Desdemona and call her Desi.
I always thought Petruchio would be a great middle name for a boy.
Barcelona.
You forgot to mention Luthien Tinuviel. I would almost be tempted to consider that one. Also Galadriel.
(Someday I’m going to be known as “that crazy old lady who has a dozen cats named after Tolkien characters”.)