# Officially the strangest name I've seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732 "2014-06-13T21:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/61 "2014-06-16T13:27:53Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Just like George Costanza’s “manure.” And now we’re back to Shi’Tonya. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/62 "2014-06-16T14:54:42Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Any of these names would be welcome on my class rosters, which are replete with Taylors and Jordans (both sexes), Kyles (male) and MacKenzies (females, perhaps named after Spuds). My wife’s a teacher and the older sibling of a problem child she has in her class now is named “Nemesis”. I can’t imaging the thought process that went into that one. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/63 "2014-06-16T15:06:51Z")
On the last season of MasterChef, one of the contestants had a son named Danger. She thought it was cool. How do you look at a baby and call him Danger? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/64 "2014-06-16T15:08:30Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > My wife’s a teacher and the older sibling of a problem child she has in her class now is named “Nemesis”. I can’t imaging the thought process that went into that one. Sounds like the parents were big _[Foster’s Home for Imaginary Home](http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Nemesis_%28Foster%27s_Home%29)_ fans. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/65 "2014-06-16T15:13:53Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > My wife’s a teacher and the older sibling of a problem child she has in her class now is named “Nemesis”. I can’t imaging the thought process that went into that one. Whenever I see names like this (or Vageena) I’m forced to conclude that there are some people out there who just hate all children, their own included, and have adopted a passive-agressive technique of deliberately saddling their offspring with aweful names that will ensure the child gets teased. I mean, it’s possible that Precious’ mother just thought “Oh, what an adorable little baby” and named him without considering how the name would fair as the boy got older. Nemesis’ parents don’t have that excuse. ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/66 "2014-06-16T15:21:45Z")
I once dated a girl named Happy Easter. We met at a party and talked. She told me her name and I demanded to see her driver’s license. She went by her middle name which was much more common. Also as to St. Barbara. She is the patron saint of artillerymen. There is even an award in her honor, [the Order of St. Barbara.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Barbara) ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/67 "2014-06-16T15:28:17Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I was told by someone early in my library career about her days in the children’s room, signing little kids up for library cards. She signed up one child name Shi’Tonya. > > Now look at it without the apostrophe in all caps, as it went into the computer: SHITONYA. I was more than a bit apprehensive when I received the printout informing me that my roommate my freshman year of college was DEMON. Turns out, DeMon was a really nice guy. ---
**Author:** ![slalexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@slalexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slalexan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/68 "2014-06-16T20:07:30Z")
I named my child Persephone. We call her Sophie. As a child, I was afflicted not with a unique name but a rather decidedly common name. I was once in a choir of 12 people, I shared my first name with another in the group. I wanted to protect her from that. Sometimes I wonder if I made a horrible mistake. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/69 "2014-06-16T21:12:53Z")
I once knew a Dawn Hays, which sounds like a foggy morning. One time in a bar, she took exception to a guy’s T-Shirt, _I’m so Horny the Crack of Dawn Isn’t Safe_ – as I recall, she left with him that night. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/70 "2014-06-16T21:22:03Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Just the other day my wife, who is a substitute teacher, mentioned that she’d taught a student named Precious. It’s a better name than **Precious (Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire)**. > [@Telemark](#): > > My wife’s a teacher and the older sibling of a problem child she has in her class now is named “Nemesis”. I can’t imaging the thought process that went into that one. Wait, Nemesis was the _good_ one? Which one had the goatee? > [@Red\_Stilettos](#): > > On the last season of MasterChef, one of the contestants had a son named Danger. She thought it was cool. How do you look at a baby and call him Danger? It’s a perfectly good middle name 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/71 "2014-06-16T21:34:19Z")
An employee at one of our clients has the first name Gijuan. Pronounced G-wan. I have to think about it every time I call her. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/72 "2014-06-17T02:56:52Z")
Not really a funny name, but I always liked the name of the then CEO of a company my father worked for back in the 40’s; Ignatius Aloysius O’Shaughnessy. That one just rolls off the tongue. Mr O’Shaughnessy. had a steamboat (yes, a real honest to God stern-wheeler) named after him. Since the pilot house wasn’t near big enough to get all that name on, they had to shorten it to “I. A. O’Shaughnessy”. I remember many years ago seeing the boat tied up to a dock near Alton, Illinois. Bonus points if you can guess what religion Mr. O’Shaughnessy was. ---
**Author:** ![Kiwi\_Fruit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiwi_fruit/32/12_2.png) [@Kiwi\_Fruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiwi_Fruit)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/73 "2014-06-17T03:09:46Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Just the other day my wife, who is a substitute teacher, mentioned that she’d taught a student named Precious. > > Precious is a boy. > > A boy who, I’m sure, gets teased incessantly. A famous [weightlifter](http://www.preciousmckenzie.co.nz/his_story.htm) from South Africa, UK and New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/74 "2014-06-17T03:24:05Z")
27 years ago I saw a woman on a game show named **Tmne** (pronounced something like temney). I know it was 27 years ago because it was an easy thing to Google. A distinctive name makes you memorable… But you might have to sacrifice some privacy. IIRC, she said the name came to her father in a dream. Even at 10, I was horrified by the lack of functional vowels. Sadly, she wasn’t on the sort of game show where she could buy one. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/75 "2014-06-17T03:50:09Z")
> [@BobArrgh](#): > > On the way to work today, I saw a vanity license plate that said, “LATRINA”. I think I used to work with her. Her dad was career Army, so you’d think he’d know better. Or it was a joke. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/76 "2014-06-17T04:30:42Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > IIRC, she said the name came to her father in a dream. Even at 10, I was horrified by the lack of functional vowels. Sadly, she wasn’t on the sort of game show where she could buy one. You’d better stay out of Eastern Italy then. Wouldn’t want you to wander into [Trst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste). ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/77 "2014-06-17T04:39:47Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > You’d better stay out of Eastern Italy then. Wouldn’t want you to wander into [Trst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste). -hiss!- Begone, evil one! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/78 "2014-06-17T06:54:08Z")
> [@Kiwi\_Fruit](#): > > A famous [weightlifter](http://www.preciousmckenzie.co.nz/his_story.htm) from South Africa, UK and New Zealand. I guess it’s like a boy named Sue. With a name like “Precious”, you have to overcompensate. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/79 "2014-06-17T08:02:38Z")
One of my wife’s cousins has a 8 year old girl named Easytoe, that is almost certainly not the correct spelling but how it is pronounced. To make matters worse everyone calls her Easy as a nickname, family and friends. Middleschool and up will be a blast I bet. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/80 "2014-06-17T15:03:42Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > That’s so bad, it’s good. Even Ennui would be better, since it’s vaguely like Henri. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732.md?page=5)