Urban legend.
There are people actually named Abcde though (pronounced Ab-suh-dee, as I’ve heard it). I knew at least one in college.
Did they show you their birth certificate?
My girls were Twin One and Twin Two for the first week of their lives…the nurses begged us to come up with names. It took me longer to come p with middle names and I was fined $100 each by the Quebec government for failing to register them on time.
Good thing I took my time with the middle names…one insists on going by her middle name now…although she didn’t tell anyone and it took her teachers a while to figure out who Alexandra’s assignments belonged to.
In Germany, this situation would be dealt with by the family court. At least that’s the case when the parents can’t agree upon a name for the child.
Broken Rubber?
Sounds like an American Indian name.
Yea, and ones from Hawaii don’t count.
Actually, Drewtwo, I am coming in here to back you up.
I took a look at the SS website, and with a little investigation they have a page that lists all the names that have at least five occurrences in each calendar year.
I only looked in 2010, but there were 29 instances of “Female” and 25 instances of “Abcde.”
Now, maybe the parents went back and named their children something else later, but I bet not all of them did. And I only looked in 2010. If I went back further, who knows what I would find.
SUCK ON THAT URBAN LEGENDS!
I have a friend with two dogs. One is deaf, and follows the hearing dog around. So, my friend calls “Fluffy” (the hearing dog) and both dogs come running.
He never named the deaf dog. Why would he?
/hijack
… and of course his little brother Nopar!
It’s a possibility, but I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it as such. People have been able to get away with weirder or more outlandish; it was maggenpye’s link that reminded me. The girl in the link was named Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii for the first 9 years of her life and in it
Bolding for emphasis mine. These are of course from NZ, but we grow them just as weird locally:
Hitler’s Parents Claim Judge Found No Abuse of Little Adolf, Aryan Nation
Then there is always of course Dweezil and Moon Unit.
Yet:dubious:
A search through the entire file downloaded from the SSA link (in a previous post), turns up not a single instance of “Nosmo” from 1880 to 2011. If there was ever a “Nosmo”, of whatever surname, in that time, there was never more than 4 in a given year. I’d dismiss it as such, absent an actual, verifiable example of a real-life “Nosmo King”.
Some ardent soccer fans in England in the 70s named their sons after all the members of their favourite team, which amounts to 22 forenames. Perhaps they still do. Nothing would surprise me. I imagine there’s a limit though. If you wanted to name your child -every word in the Bible- surname I should imagine the registrar would object!
I’d agree, but doing the exact same search turns up not a single instance of “Dweezil” from 1880 to 2011. Nonetheless, Dweezil Zappa isn’t an urban legend. There very well may never have been a Nosmo, but if there was it isn’t the poor boy’s fault his father wasn’t a rock star and the name never caught on. I highly doubt that there are more than 5 children a year named Number 16 Bus Shelter or Violence in NZ, the US, or the entire world for that matter but they’re real too.
ETA Oh, and I don’t see what’s so wrong with Yeah Detroit. The poor parents 
As I said. There are no more than 4 in a given year. There was likely only 1 “Dweezil” in that birth year, and there was demonstrably less than 5, so it would not be reported in the released SSA database. Show me a documented “Nosmo”, and I might be more inclined to believe your story.
I was pointing out an upper limit. There must have been less than this amount of “X”. X < 5, by definition. If you want to assert that one exists, present evidence that one does. I merely put a (very low, i.e 4) upper limit on the ones that might actually exist.
I await your evidence that one ever did…
Dweezil Zappa’s registered birth name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa.
In the 60s, there was a kid’s TV show called Adventure Time. It was hosted by Paul Shannon.
One of his characters was Nosmo King. As a 5 year old, I was a dummy who did not recognize the source of the name.
In one of the Ramona books, Ramona (an elementary school kid) is trying to get her father to stop smoking. She writes “Nosmo King” on a piece of paper, and he asks her who that is. I seem to recall a character named that from a Kurt Vonnegut book too, but I can’t recall which one.