friend of a friend…ya, ya I know… but, named thier kid…
first name: Justin
Last name: Outlaw
actually i kind of dig it.
Justin is just a few years old but i gotta feeling he is going to live up to his namesake
Back in the days when I used to do customer service over the phone, I received a call from a customer whose name was Richard Cunningham. Alas, he did not live in Milwalkee or Greenland…
Zev Steinhardt
One family in Columbus Ohio named their daughter Scarlet Ann Gray. (Scarlet and Gray being the OSU school colors)
A college buddy of mine has a middle name Zardoz.
Apparently his parents love that movie.
Oh, I know! Don’t remember how I stumbled across it originally (maybe I did a web search for “multiples” one day?), but I’ve been going to that site for the last three or four years at least. There’s a LOT of interesting info on the site, for sure.
Yeah, I remember that one. Not sure which set of quadruplets that was (and right now, I don’t have the energy to look at the links provided)… but that’s astronomically rare.
Hey bittersweet, nice quote from the Foo Fighters’ “This is A Call” in your sig! 
F_X
Three very stupid kids live in the house across the street from me. The youngest two are Brendan and Jake. These are exceptionally normal, average names. So what did the parents name their oldest child, you ask?
Cosmo.
After Kramer, perhaps?
IIRC, there was a Texas governor named Hogg. He is reputed to have named his daughters “Ima” and “Ura.” Cruel and unusual…
The twit parents aren’t that clever. 
It’s a family name, I’m sure (they’re Italian), but they must’ve had no idea the misery they were inflicting on this kid.
Sidewinder, Governor James Hogg did name his daughter “Ima.” But, there was not a “Ura Hogg.” Another Urban Legend—I am a native Texan and absolutely believed there existed an Ima and a Ura Hogg. It took the SDMB to set me straight but I no longer remember who the poster was.
I went to high school with a guy named: Justin Case.
When I worked for an insurance company I processed claims for a woman named: Purification. I also processed a childbirth claim for a woman who had quintuplets, all girls, named: Faith, Hope, Grace, Joy, and Prudence.
At the San Diego Zoo while on vacation, my husband and I kept hearing a mother calling for her daughter: Galaxy.
These names are not completely absurd, but I just have to ask: Why? Why do people WANT their kids to hate them?
Well, my parents named me:
Ginger Rogers.
And enrolled me in tap-dancing when I was 3.
<sigh>
In high school, I knew an unfortunate girl (friend of a friend) whose first and middle names were Donnie Marie. Can you guess the era in which she was born? I knew you could.
Ol Dirty Bastards new name is Dirt Mcgirt.
Zappa’s children are Moon (middle name Unit, no “Two”), Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva. As Zappa pointed out, the local word for “Moon” is used as a name in various cultures: Luna in Spanish, Chandra in Hindi, and isn’t Qamar a girl’s name in Arabic?
My full name is Fridrik G. Fridriksson. To other Icelanders this name makes perfect sense, as in our naming conventions a person’s last name is a product of their father’s (or mother’s if the parents so choose) first name, with the appendage -son (for guys) or -dottir (for girls) tacked on. Thus, since my father’s name was Fridrik, I am Fridriksson.
I went to high school in the United States, where people naturally don’t know the intricacies of the archaic Icelandic naming system. All my life I’ve gone by my middle name, but due to it being almost completely unpronouncable to anyone not born in Iceland, most teachers skipped my middle name entirely. And so I became Fridrik Fridriksson. As you can imagine, roll call was the worst part of Fridrik Fridriksson’s day.
I work as an OB/GYN RN and I have heard some fast talking by doctors and nurses to ‘suggest’ altering first choices for such elegant-sounding names as Chlamydia and Mennorhea. There is a large population of non-English speaking clients, but most of their primary care providers speak the languages. Didn’t stop one man who insisted his son be named for the circumstances of his birth. Slow. The kid’s first name on his birth certificate is Slow.
I know of a patient who called her son Prince Phillip, a dr called Dr Death - both for real.
There was a guy a couple years ahead of me in high school named Ronald McDonald. At the time, his parents probably thought it was a fine name. He’s very likely one of the LAST people ever to be named that. He definitely went by Ron.
Knew a kid named Steven King, and my youngest sister went to school with a Chuck Norris…
He said it in a W.C. Fields voice, I hope?
The school doctor and nurse in my high school were Dr. Hertz and Mrs. Paine.
And—a few years ago—there was a guy living on 15th Street in NYC with the name Fuk Yu. I so wanted to date him, just so I could loudly introduce him at parties. He has since either gone unlisted or learned to speak English and hurriedly changed his name.