Officially the strangest name I've seen

…Dick Armey. :cool:

Have you ever met her?

But its pronounced, “Throat-wobbler Mangrove”.

And barbarian etytomologically comes from a crude onomatopoeic rendering of non-Greek speech bah bah bah , (similar to unrefined people calling Chinese people Ching-Chongs)

Babies also make funny bah bah noises, so calling a newborn girl Barbara doesn’t seem that weird.

Very popular among families of artillery soldiers, St Barbara being the patron saint of Things That Go Boom. In Spanish it also means “superb”, it probably started in sarcasm but most people would go for the “superb” meaning and don’t realize the relationship with “barbarian”.

There’s a Native American artist named Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds.

Rhymes with Mulva.

Was it after the book?

I’ve run across some funny names in my life. Precious Blue-Eyes Jones is one that stands out.

And I remember talking, way back when, with the guy that headed up the project for converting the Texas driver records to computer format. They put in logic checks for various things. One of them was that names had to be all letters. Imagine their surprise when the computer kicked out several people whose legal first name was T9C.

I guess people might think it sounds French/foreign. Though of course, it comes from French and has a similar meaning in French.

Joybubbles should have been on a gameshow.

I saw a Trashon.

I know it was meant to be pronounced as Trey-Shawn
But I saw it as Trash-on.

Huh. I first though you were joking, but then I checked Wikipedia. I may be weird, but it really makes me happy that there is a patron saint for that.

I work with a guy named Shrek Ouch. No middle initial or name. His parents are from Cambodia and he says both are common name there.

One of the names for explosives depots in Spanish is santabárbara; they used to be labeled with an image of the saint, back when the assumption was that people would be illiterate. And we describe someone who only calls when he wants to ask for something as being “someone who only remembers Saint Barbara when there’s thunder” (sólo se acuerda de Santa Bárbara cuando truena).

It’s okay. I can just change my shirt. Having spit coffee all over it. :smiley:

Yeah, friends of mine had a baby girl and named her Lilias Lutz. Had they never said it out loud??

Back in the 60’s I worked with a guy who had a high school classmate named T. Holygotham Temblance. He had no idea what the T was for.

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).

I worked with one once, but it was spelled Cleata. Her father’s name was Cleatus and they were going for the feminized version.