God… I just did a Google search for “Mike Hunt Aiken” at work.
Aiken is pronounced like “aching”
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**Reminds me of this family I know at church… the father’s name is John; the sons are Ian and Sean. Hmm… they seem nice enough, though.**Now see, I don’t think that’s weird at all. I think it’s very sweet.
Anyway, I used to know a woman named Jade, which wasn’t too odd … until she married a guy with the last name Stone.
I was referencing DaisyFace’s post, not bughunter’s. (which slipped in whilst I was composing my own post)
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Sigh … pretend I’d previewed that last post, will ya?
I dunno, Judge Lust lost in my county last year despite huge yellow signs. The only thing you could read on them was his name.
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I thought it was a little odd at first, but certainly not WEIRD in any sort of demented way. 
The mom’s name is Ada, so it’s kind of difficult to do anything with that if they have a daughter. (if they plan on having any more kids, that is!) Maybe name her Ady / Adi, perhaps? 
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Sure, skeptic_ev… not a problem!
My friend’s name is Jenni, but she’d quite often spell it Djeghnie in HS. And, if he child was going to be a boy, she was going to name him something strange with about a billion letters that was pronouced Conner. Luckily, she’s having a girl, and naming her Constance.
I don’t get it…I’m a radish? That’s all I could think of.
It’s not that weird.
Okay, I cannot find a cite to back myself up here, so other Vancouverites may have to weigh in. This poor sap entered a radio contest in 1998 billed as “The Toughest Contest Ever.” People were challenged to do some damned funny/nasty things to win the prize, which IIRC was $10,000 CDN. Mr Corbett, a financial advisor of some sort, WON the contest by taking this step, and had to operate with his new moniker for about a month before behaving normally again.
My question to you is this: If your seemingly normal financial advisor suddenly started doing business as Heywood Jablowme, would you continue to have faith in his good judgement vis-a-vis your hard-earned money?
And in other news, we had a colleague at the office named Michael Knight. One of the techies got a lot of Knight Rider sounders off the internet and we planned to change the settings on his computer when he was out of the office. Instead of the ping when you make an error in Windows, his computer was going to say “Now, Michael, I’m not certain that’s right.” Fortunately for him, we never got around to it.
To add another Justin to the list: Justin Time.
One can only hope he wasn’t the tardy sort…
I went to school with a Paul Revere. Also with a Spring Sommer. Neither of those overly weird. Here’s the weird thing: people who give their kids really strange names, then criticize other people for doing the same thing. My FIL’s first name is Heru (it’s an Egyptian name; his father was a Professor of Egyptology and The University of Missouri). They named their eldest son (my husband) Heru II. Now, the name is odd, but I have no argument with it. The thing is, when my best friend named her little girl Millena (because she was a millennium baby, get it?) my MIL said “What kind of name is Millena?” I said “I hardly think anyone who named their son Heru has room to talk”, she said “Well, I had my reasons.” WTF? My friend had her reasons, too! People who live in glass houses and all that. . .
My high school algebra teacher’s name was Alan Wayne Allen. He went by Wayne.
My college bio professor said she had a student named Gonorrhea, and she wasn’t kidding.
I went to school with a girl named Gay Pilgrim
Guin, I know it’s not THAT weird… but I certainly thought it was in Gr. 8.
Ooh! I remember that one! Let’s see…
I can’t find a cite either… but yes, it was real.
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The closest I can find is this. (scroll down to where it says “name change shite”) It says the source is a US paper, but that’s just the site owner being US-centric. 
Cite for the Toughest Contest Ever.
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Reminds me of the poet William Carlos Williams.
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I went to school with Christal Chlear and Turquoise Jones (I don’t remember his last name).
I also had a class with TWO Michael Scott Smiths. They both went by Mike.
When I was in law school I was an intern for an appellate judge. I did the research and wrote a first draft of the opinion for the judge’s clerk. The topic you ask? See for yourself:
APPEAL from an order of the circuit court for Racine County: DENNIS J. FLYNN, Judge. Affirmed.
Before Brown, Nettesheim and Snyder, JJ.
SNYDER, J. Adrian Scott Williams appeals from an order denying his petition for a name change. On appeal, Williams argues that he was denied equal protection under the law, that his right to religious freedom was violated, that the trial court erred when it assigned Williams the burden to show sufficient cause for the name change, and that the trial court abused its discretion in denying his motion. Because we conclude that Williams' equal protection and religious freedom arguments are unfounded, and that the court properly exercised its discretion in determining that the State has a legitimate interest in knowing Williams by his current name, we affirm.
Williams is an inmate in the Racine Correctional Institution. He filed a petition for a name change seeking to legally acquire the name “**Romanceo Sir Tasty Maxibillion** .” The trial court, without a hearing, dismissed Williams' petition on the grounds that it failed to state a reasonable basis for the change.1 Williams appealed. In a summary disposition pursuant to Rule 809.21, Stats., we reversed and remanded, concluding that the trial court erred when it denied Williams a hearing.Hm, my brother and I are named Theodore and Matthew, which mean the same thing too (in Greek and Hebrew, respectively).