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

The name itself is not that odd, but…

A basketball player named Tyson Gay had a really stellar game one day last week. The next morning, the Indianapolis Star’s sports section had a big headline.

GAY IS GREAT AGAIN

I went to grade school with a poor girl named Bologna. I assume her mother named her after the Italian city, but you can guess what we all called her: Baloney.

Might be a good time to mention my nephew who’s just been named Phuc.

My brother’s first name is Glen, his last name is Hill.

Our parents had a thing of geographical names. I was named after a South African diamond mine. Luckily, its not as obvious as bro’s. :smiley:

I had a customer a few weeks ago named Phuc Dat. Fortunately I didn’t have to speak to him (was all by email) because I don’t think I would have been able to say it without laughing.

Phuc Dat!

Oh lord. I once saw a fax at work from Kimball Pugmire to Henrietta Roudabush. There was also a guy there named Dwayne Macadangdang. All pretty regular names, but the first name - last name combos still crack me up.

The one I thought was funniest was apparently inspired by a billboard: Vaseline Hair B____

Just 2 days ago my friend was talking about a kid her aunt had in class named Knievel

My ex’s mom went to school with 3 sisters: Swimmea, Brimmea, and Spookaleen (sp?)

A guy I went to college with was named Gayland Trim. Don’t know why it’s funny exactly, it just is.

Back in residency, I had as my patients a mon and son combo. Her first name was Philistine. Her son was named Eunuch.

You have a 13 year old boy inside you?

The girl behind the counter at the pizza place last Sunday had a nametage that said Aisol. I didn’t ask her how she pronounced it.

Now I’m hoping I meet a Phuc Dat Aisol.

I know someone whose given name was Yumi Alovus (say it out loud). As soon as he was old enough, he legally changed it to something less…hippie.

I taught two sisters named Mona Lisa and Ophelia. Also had a Princess Bernard in my class. One of my senior students saw that name on a paper and asked, “What, does she have a brother named ‘Saint?’”

My daughter went to school with Brandy Coffee.

We also met a bank teller named Aneeda Gnap. Pronounced “I need a nap.”

Oh dear. Paging Dr. Freud…

I went to school with a girl named Merry Christmas Trees. With father/brothers named such things as Pine Forest Trees, Jack Pine Trees, etc.

Heh, I just remembered (having been reminded of Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing), that one of our friends named her daughter Sierra. Except she spelled it Ciairya.

<shudder>

I had a classmate named Adam Smithers last quarter. Economics major, too.

I know a woman named Romaine.

I now know two men named Maverick. The other one goes by “Mav”.

There’s a woman named Toshiba who works at the local Wal-Mart.

In 1978, my cousin named her daughter Charisma. Is that bad? I kind of like it. :slight_smile: