# Plaxico Burress? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plaxico-burress/435034 "2008-01-26T00:24:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BlackNGold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BlackNGold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackNGold)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plaxico-burress/435034/21 "2008-01-27T20:58:31Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] I always wonder if Burress gets annoyed that all the TV announcers call him “Plexico.” Do they not have time to read? None of them say his name the way it’s spelled. [/QUOTE] From what I recall of his time here in Yinzer Nation, the full name was mostly “Plaxico” but shortened to “Plex”. ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plaxico-burress/435034/22 "2008-01-27T22:21:54Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] I’ll see your Plaxico Burress and raise you one [Flex Plexico](http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&ned=us&q=flex+plexico&ie=UTF-8), who has the coolest name of any senior officer in the US armed forces. [/QUOTE] Sorry to hijack but this reminded me of this [manliest names in the world list](http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plaxico-burress/435034/23 "2008-01-27T22:46:15Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I was already aware of his origins. I googled six ways from sunday trying to find out if it was Dutch. I couldn’t find any indication that it is, nor could I find any indication that it’s a Dutch Antilles variant. Andruw Jones seems to be the only person in the world with that spelling. The -uw- letter combination is something that is virtually non-existent in any language. [/QUOTE] For the fun of it, I checked some Census records. My first name is the most popular first name in the US. This is not actually all that good of a thing. Andruw did not exist in the 1990 Census and I checked, my daughters name did not either, even though there are a few others out there with the odd spelling I gave her of an ancient Welsh name. The Welsh version had far too many Ws and Ys. BTW, no Diogenes in the census either. Jim ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plaxico-burress/435034/24 "2008-01-27T23:27:33Z")
[QUOTE=DataZak] [Yancey Thigpen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yancey_Thigpen). C’mon, who didn’t hear it as “Pigpen” the first time? I did. [/QUOTE] Thigpen is a common family name in Louisiana and Mississippi. So is Yancey, come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plaxico-burress/435034/25 "2008-01-28T00:38:55Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] The Packers have a safety named Atari Bigby. I’d like to think he wasn’t named after an obsolete video game console, but who knows? [/QUOTE] Likewise, I’d like to think the mother of Bengals DT Frostee Rucker had more important things in her life than Wendy’s milkshakes. But who knows that, either? Lonnie Plaxico is a moderately well-known jazz bassist. So apparently it’s a real family name, however rare. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plaxico-burress/435034/26 "2008-01-28T01:37:45Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] Likewise, I’d like to think the mother of Bengals DT Frostee Rucker had more important things in her life than Wendy’s milkshakes. But who knows that, either? Lonnie Plaxico is a moderately well-known jazz bassist. So apparently it’s a real family name, however rare. [/QUOTE] In Jimmy Carter’s boyhood memoirs “An Hour Before Sunrise”, he mentions a prominent family in southeastern Georgia with the last name “Plexico.” (At least, I think that’s how he spelled it.) So my guess is an old family name. But we still call him “Plexiglass” in our house. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plaxico-burress/435034.md?page=1)