Snopes says as far as they know, it’s a load of baloney.
You mean pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis .
My personal favorites: for a boy, the name “Er”. (Hebrew, means ‘guardian’.) Er. for a girl, the name “Cunegond” (used in the Dark Ages, but that all I know). Cunegond.
Worst. Real. Names. EVER! Hopefully not given to any baby on the planet.
Bear Grylls named his newest “Huckleberry”. I like it! “Huck” Grylls…
Er is a biblical name, if I recall correctly. One of Judah’s sons who died for not consummating his marriage with Tamar.
My husaband went to high school with the Morning sisters … Misty, Sunny, and Stormy.
I went to junior high with a girl name Whiskey.
My brother’s friend had two sisters … Amber Dawn and Autumn Fawn (they were twins).
My best friend’s nephews are Xeo - maybe it’s spelled Xao - (pronounced like ZAY-oh) and Dante.
I swore up and down to my friend that if she named her son Chaise (just an alternate spelling for “Chase,” you know) that I was going to call him “chaise lounge” for the rest of his life. They picked a different name.
That’s actually kinda cool. I mean, probably not the names you’d want to have in real life, but as characters in a novel or a stage name they’d be great.
This bloke’s name was pronounced “Seen”
http://stats.rleague.com/rl/scorers/players/Sean_Watson.html
Another teacher checking in. My all-time favorite for the WTF? quality was a boy named Lyndon B. Johnson II. He’s still not even in high school, so it’s not like this was decades ago (that, and I’m not that…erm…seasoned). Seriously, parents, WTH?
Then there was Bladimir. I’m pretty sure his Spanish-speaking parents misheard the name and didn’t know how to spell it; B and V are commonly confused.
I had a girl named Joseph. (She went by Josie, though.) Last year, I had a boy named Anibal.
I had fraternal twins (a boy and girl) both named Angel.
I will say those Angels were an exception to a rule I have learned on the job: Any child named Angel is almost guaranteed to be a hellion. I’ve had 6; the other 4 were the worst behaved kids of their respective classes.
Being preggo with child #2, and married to a teacher, means finding names is a collossal PITA for us. I like Ethan, he cringes…“Ooh, Ethan so-and-so.” Of course…he likes the name Cosmo. COSMO. I still can’t tell if he’s kidding, but it didn’t stick with our first child, and it won’t be happening with this one either.
Sorry, I didn’t take that dictionary with me when I left the job. (I think I did good to remember as much as I did.)
I thought it looked kinda short.
One I encountered personally: a woman who named her two daughters Eboknea (eb-oh-NEE-uh) and Ivoreah (eye-voh-REE-uh). Really. Ebony and Ivory.
And my wife oversees a probationer whose daughter is named, I swear to FSM, “L-a”. You’re supposed to pronounce the dash. “luh-DASH-uh”. How the hell do you fill that in on a Scantron?
What’s weird about that? It’s the Spanish transliteration of Hannibal, and it’s not that uncommon.
Because in English, Annabelle/Anabell/however-you-spell-it is a girl’s name. A girly girl’s name. Most non-Hispanic Americans, when they hear those syllables, aren’t likely to think “It may be a Spanish form of Hannibal”.
If you really have proof that you know a L-a, contact Snopes.
It looks like “Annabelle” in print, but they’re not pronounced the same way.
I knew a guy named Gay.
I always thought it was Gabe and I was mis-hearing it. Then I saw it in print.
His sisters were named Happy and Joy. So apparently his parents were just hippies and not actually trying to get him made fun of on the schoolyard…
Florida Marlins pitcher Anibal Sanchez doesn’t seem to get any shit over it. It’s pronounced quite distinctly from the superficially similar girl’s name, anyway: ah-knee-baal.
Plus, it’s gonna be paired with a Hispanic surname.
ETA: Many people have also seen this guy in the news recently.
Well, the Hollywood kids with the weird names will all be in kindergarten together. They will point and laugh at the kids named Stephen and Emma, whose parents didn’t bother to think up a new name that nobody had ever had in the history of the world (like Moxie Crimefighter).
Football players named Anibal and Fran also probably don’t have to worry.
I once had a hair stylist whose name was Latrena. If it put people in mind of “latrine” that didn’t seem to bother her (she pronounced it “LaTRAYna”). At the same salon was a woman whose mother had been an Elvis fan and who named her Elvisa. She introduced herself by saying, “Yes, my mother was a big Elvis fan,” but she also had the emphasis on the middle syllable, so her named sounded more like a bank card than a rock star.
SweetLime, I also knew a guy named Gay. And I had a roommate who married a guy named Coy. Both these guys were from Texas and were kind of cowboy-culture (by profession, Coy was a teacher; I think Gay did some kind of construction, but they both did rodeo stuff in their free time).
A Children Services worker here told me about A-a (Adasha), Oranjello and Lemonjello, and Shi’thead. I still don’t believe them, until I see documentation.
My real name is Maverick and I always loved it and lots of other people say they do. I have never met another one though.
My youngest kid is Dashiell. I’m gonna start spelling it -L!
(We usually jest calls him Dash.)