And now we’re back to Shi’Tonya.
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.
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?
Sounds like the parents were big Foster’s Home for Imaginary Home fans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s a better name than Precious (Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire).
Wait, Nemesis was the good one? Which one had the goatee?
It’s a perfectly good middle name 
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.
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.
A famous weightlifter from South Africa, UK and New Zealand.
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.
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.
You’d better stay out of Eastern Italy then. Wouldn’t want you to wander into Trst.
-hiss!-
Begone, evil one!
I guess it’s like a boy named Sue. With a name like “Precious”, you have to overcompensate.
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.
Even Ennui would be better, since it’s vaguely like Henri.