Unusual Name of The Week...or Mom, what were you thinking?

You are my new bestest friend forever. I’ve never met someone who collected odd names.

I think you should change your name to Naked Doctor. Then you could be Dr. Naked Doctor and of course, Dr. Doctor. gimme the news, I got a bad case in lovin’ you… You could earworm people to death.

Leonard Nimoy played a character named “Paris” on the “Mission: Impossible” series, replacing Martin Landau’s “Rollin” character.

And, not really that outrageous, but somewhat interesting: There is a little girl in South Florida who was injured in a “teacup” amusement park ride. Somehow she banged her head pretty badly, but at last report (last week) had started showing signs of improvement. Anyway, she is a twin. Her name is Natashia. Her sister is Tanashia. Almost hearkens back to the days when it was commonplace to give twins rhyming names.

I post on another board with a really wonderful lady whose youngest son is Keldon - after herself, Kelley, and her husband Don. She really is a great person though.

Our old intern and his wife just had a baby girl named Harper, after Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbirg . Their dog is Boo.

Friends of mine have a little girl named Harper, and I’ve run across a few others. It’s becoming the name du jour…along with all the Olivias.

I realize that kittenblue has already realized her error. I just wanted to add that Enjoli’s theme song was “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan…”

You are pure evil, you know! :stuck_out_tongue: At least the Aviance tune is gone now…

Entirely possible, since Freakis (male) and Groovy Nipples (female) Palikas grew up in Sonoma County and went to school with my cousin (the Forestville/Guerneville/Monte Rio area). Your friend’s dad just got the names a little wrong! Palikas (I think that’s how it’s spelled) rhymes with Freakis. They had a younger sibiling named Sky who was a boy. My cousin also had a classmate named Ocean Littlefield and friends named Harmony and Oriole - lots of hippies giving their kids weird names in that area.

Until last year, I worked in summer conferences at a university, so I assigned rooms to the attendees of various camps and conferences. One guy came back year after year – I never actually met him, so I can’t promise that it was his given name, but:

Hummingbird St. Clair.

There were others, of course, but the funny name list stayed with the job, so that’s the only one I remember.

Who names their son Hummingbird?

Also, I went to college with a guy named Destiny. He said his parents were hippies. He was a sweet guy, though.

I know this has already been addressed, but the first thing that came to mind is the (male) Paris whom Juliet was supposed to wed when the trollop ran off with that putz Romeo.

Even further back, the handsome young Paris legendarily ran off with Helen of Troy and inadvertently started the Trojan War.

Today’s entry is brought to you by the silent consonant J. A woman named Ninja, pronounced Neena. Riiiight.

It’s not so unbelievable. There are several languages in which J is pronounced as [h] or [j] (English “Y”). Ninha or Ninya to Nina is not a huge step.

2 for 1 for you here: The highest scoring US flying ace of WWII was Dick Bong.

While I was in the Army Reserves, after my active duty was over, I was records clerk for our unit. We had a gal whose parents had obviously wanted a boy. They did sort of the same thing as above. How would *you * like to be named Floydene Earlene?

Kimberley, is that you?

An old friend’s mother was named for her father, whose name was Harvey. You guessed it, Harviene (sp? I only ever heard it, never saw it.) I always thought it made it worse that her twin sister’s name was Kate. So she was the only one who got stuck with strange.

One of the local dirt track racers here is named Dick Trickle…always gets a mention no matter where he finishes in the race.