# Weirdest names you've ever heard

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> [@dtilque](#):
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> Having what’s usually a last name as a first name isn’t super rare. Anderson Cooper, for example. Another one is Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame. IIRC, Meriwether was his mother’s maiden name. I’m sure we could find other examples.

It’s a New England WASP thing.

Old joke, from Calvin Trillin:

> When I went to college, I met my roommate, Hatcher Thatcher Baxter III. Then I started dating his sister, Thatcher Hatcher Baxter.

Or something along those lines, anyway. I haven’t looked it up, I just remember it from something or other.

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