Officially the strangest name I've seen

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Yes, I’m the one who looks at the baby announcements and shouts “that’s not a name!” or cringes at creative spellyinngz.

But I was watching Family Feud the other day and was brought up short when the camera panned to the next contestant and her name tag read “Malaise”.

<boggle> I am stumped to think of the thought process behind this choice. “Oh, that’s a pretty word”? “I like Malasia except for that pesky extra sound at the end”?

WHAT HOW WHO???! WHY?
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The idea seemed to be shot down six years ago but ended with the ominous

“Do you pronounce it : Mala-ease:?
I am not sure how to pronouce it, but its a cute looking name.
Its different.
Good Luck!”

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I dunno about Malaise (which seems to me a particularly uneducated choice of name.) But several years ago I went to a bank to cash a check, and the bank teller’s name - right on her name tag - was Vageena. We even had a brief conversation about unconventional names and spellings, because my name is very uncommon (although not Vageena, or Malaise, or anything like that.) She seemed unaware that her name was just one syllable away from Vagina.

Me, I would have legally changed my name a long time ago if my parents tried that stunt.

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I work with someone called “Gaye Scarfe”. I have no idea why.

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Are you absolutely sure it wasn’t Malise?

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I used to work at a place with a woman named “Dilda”.

On the way to work today, I saw a vanity license plate that said, “LATRINA”.

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One of my FB friends said the other day that she heard a mother calling to her child in the store. “Get over here, Complicity!”

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Absolutely sure. Found it and her:

http://www.exbobcatblab.com/may-31-2013.html

http://amarillo.com/stories/031608/ann_9858590.shtml

ETA: Crap, one of her (seven!) flower girls was named Frensley. OK, that I can chalk up to “old family name” without other connotations. And maybe that is the case with “Malaise” too, but couldn’t you find a different family name to use for her, one without a drag of a meaning?

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Hmm. One set of her grandparents were named “Coker”. Perhaps Malaise won out over Coker. I think I would have gone the other way.

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Crystal Metheny

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“Malaise” makes me ill.

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The sound of “Malaise” is oddly pleasant, if you don’t know the meaning of the word.

I was waited upon once by a young woman whose nametag read “La Sonja.” I thought, Your parents named you Lasagne??

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Dolores means sorrows.

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I met a Willy Wonka once, long before the first movie came out.

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I know a woman named Cleeta. Close enough that she should get together with Vageena.

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There was a woman at a bar I used to frequent years ago named Doucia, and it was pronounced like the sanitary product.

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We have a neighbor named Susan.

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My name isn’t actually Susan.

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My husband’s cousin is named … Justin Spector. WTH were they thinking?

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Barbara means “barbarian”. I’ve always wondered how that caught on as a name.

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I knew a therapist whose first name and middle initial were “Leighton C.”