# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/81 "2014-06-17T15:07:33Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Even Ennui would be better, since it’s vaguely like Henri. This reminds me of one I have told often. A young kid went by the initials O.Z. until his teacher asked what that stood for. He said, Onree Zavier. (It tells better than it writes.) ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/82 "2014-06-17T16:31:03Z")
My husband taught a merit badge course this weekend that included a kid named Senator. Possibly his parents were Lake Woebegon fans. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/83 "2014-06-17T22:11:14Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > My husband’s cousin is named … Justin Spector. WTH were they thinking? Gynaecologist? I worked with a guy call Innocent. He was fired for fraud. There was a young woman who worked at my local pub called Tuppence. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/84 "2014-06-17T22:58:54Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > I was waited upon once by a young woman whose nametag read “La Sonja.” I thought, Your parents named you Lasagne?? Was it an Italian restaurant? 'Cause that would be the best fake name for a nametag ever. ---
**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 17, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/85 "2014-06-17T23:03:55Z")
When I sold my Dad’s house, we came in one day to find the 20 or so business cards of the realtors who had been showing it – one of them, I shit you not, read “Rainey Tarpey”. What a perfect name for a realtor in Portland Oregon. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/86 "2014-06-18T01:28:03Z")
Fans have held up signs at Ducks games saying “LAMICHAEL IS SPANISH FOR ‘THE MICHAEL.’” ---
**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 18, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/87 "2014-06-18T01:57:06Z")
I know of an Esme May May, which was probably about a third less redundant at her birth, right up until she met Mr May. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/88 "2014-06-18T02:27:19Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > I guess it’s like a boy named Sue. With a name like “Precious”, you have to overcompensate. I once went to school with a huge linebacker-type black guy named Baby Boy. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/89 "2014-06-18T05:36:56Z")
I know a woman who named her two sons (both around 12-15 years old now) Happii and Rakkii (Japanese transliterations of “Happy” and “Lucky”). Back when I used to be a teacher, I taught a boy whose name is “Kamuy” which is the Ainu word for a deity or deity-like spirit. Talk about pressure! Also, the kid has to forever explain to people that he is not even remotely Ainu. His parents are just weird is all. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/90 "2014-06-18T08:21:20Z")
> [@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. I think I’ll politely disagree with the Dopers here, IMHO Nemesis is an excellent name, (especially if the surname was something simple/common like Smith or Jones). Nothing wrong with being named for a spirit of divine retribution for hubris. “Nemesis Tisiphone Jones! Get over here right now young lady!!” 🙂 I met a babe in arms a while back whose mother stated that his name was “Legion”. :eek: (and turned out his middle name is “Lestat”). ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/91 "2014-06-18T10:40:14Z")
My aunt said she went to school (probably in the 40s or 50s) with someone named Opal Ballserini, which naturally got shortened to Opal Balls. Ballserini is apparently a [real surname](https://www.google.com/search?q=ballserini&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb). ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/92 "2014-06-18T20:01:35Z")
I have a cousin Melva. Her name always makes me laugh. When I was in London, I met a woman whose last name was Mycock. Which is apparently pronounced Mee-coe. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/93 "2014-06-19T13:47:19Z")
> [@kferr](#): > > There was a young woman who worked at my local pub called Tuppence. I see that one go by in the credits now and then and think “huh?” > **[Tuppence Middleton | Actress, Writer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3095562/?ref_=nv_sr_1)** > > Known for: National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue, Downton Abbey: A New Era, Mank ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/94 "2014-06-19T14:32:05Z")
My 6 year old niece is named “Alexia”, I’ve still never told my sister what the name means. Luckily, she has overcome her name and gets straight As in school. ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/95 "2014-06-20T03:01:52Z")
I once met a young woman whose first name was **Female** (pronounced Fem Ali). I asked her about it and she said that when she was born, her mom couldn’t decide on a name, so the nurse penciled in Female Jones (or whatever her last name was), it got entered into the official system, and her name was Female. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/96 "2014-06-20T03:15:58Z")
My father told me a similar story about a student named Female. She told him that the hospital had named the baby. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/97 "2014-06-20T04:10:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I once knew a Dawn Hays, which sounds like a foggy morning. When I was a little girl I had a friend named Dawn Rose. She married a guy named Smith. I was kind of sad for her to lose such a pretty name for such an ordinary one. I love these threads. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/98 "2014-06-20T14:40:09Z")
Malaise? I guess it could have been worse: > **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)** > > Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo! Best comment: “For a baby, no way. But for a babby, now that makes it a great name!” Malice A. Forethought ? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/99 "2014-06-20T14:52:53Z")
> [@bunyupp](#): > > I once met a young woman whose first name was **Female** (pronounced Fem Ali). I asked her about it and she said that when she was born, her mom couldn’t decide on a name, so the nurse penciled in Female Jones (or whatever her last name was), it got entered into the official system, and her name was Female. \*You \*actually met and spoke to her, or you heard this from someone? :dubious: Because this is a known urban legend. (I can believe someone may be \*named \*Female, but not the story behind it.) Someone explain why Justin Spector is funny? I get that said fast it sounds like Just Inspector, but why does that bring up images of a gynecologist? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732/100 "2014-06-20T14:53:04Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Malaise? I guess it could have been worse: > > [https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080929152045AARwdKi](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080929152045AARwdKi) > > Best comment: “For a baby, no way. But for a babby, now that makes it a great name!” > Malice A. Forethought ? May I just say in reference to that link: Goddamn! Aggressive ignorance! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officially-the-strangest-name-ive-seen/690732.md?page=6)