My husband wants to name our baby (due in April) Nathaniel Thomas. I worry that this is a bit too reminicent of “John Thomas”, but I can’t think of anything better.
A few years ago, I had a job in an MRI office, and part of my duties were to input X-rays into the database for the radiologist to “overread” (that meant he gave them a second look after the primary doctor already had, just to make sure nothing was missed.) We handled several pediatric offices, and the database required that I specify a gender for the patient, but it was frequently not given on the X-ray. This left me wondering about 10 times a day if little Dylan, Taylor, or Riley was a boy or a girl. Eventually I just began alternating M or F, as there was usually no additional information that I could make an educated guess with-- just an X-ray and a slip of paper with the name and birthdate.
One of the child actors in the old Dudly Moore movie “Micki and Maude” is named Aphasia. That means “inability to speak”, and is frequently caused by a stroke.
My stepfather has five sisters. Their names: Hope, Holly, Heather, Hildy, Heidi. My stepfather and his brother are, of course, named Robert and Douglas. My stepfather named his daughter Hillary. The sisters named their daughters Marlo, Jill, Brandy, Megan and Ellie.
My mother used to work with a man whose parents named each of their children after something that happened on the way to the hospital as the child was being born. His name? Yellow Light. I believe he has a sister named Taxi.
There was a girl named Holly Wood that graduated from my school a few years before I did. I also had a Dr. Luna and Dr. Chainy remove my wisdom teeth, all I could think of before going in was “great my doctors are lunatics and one carries a chain saw” great feeling when you getting ready to get your wisdom teeth cut out!
Oh, I’ve been waiting for this thread to come back around!
I work for a general contractor’s office. I had to find a rental agreement in our office manager’s file when she was on vacation. I stumbled across an e-mail from a phone company representative:
Soupharack Khounlivong
Now, I’m sure that there’s a perfectly good linguistic/nationalistic explanation for the name, but great googly moogly!! How in the world would you pronounce it? It’s a good thing our OM didn’t try to call the phone company - she’s Japanese and turned the phone company Global Crossing into Grovel Crossing just last week!
I knew a woman named Dorothy, called Dolly, who very unfortunately married a man whose last name was Dally. This was back in the days when almost all women took their husbands’ last names, so she was Dolly Dally forever.
Two girls went to my high school: Joy O Yule and Gay A Yule. Note that the initials spell the first name. Not too bad, but a tad over-whimsical for my taste.
But then there was the boyfriend of my then-boyfriend’s sister - Roderick Studley, Rod for short. I always thought that would be a great name for a porn star. Can you imagine having to introduce yourself? “Hi, I’m Rod Studley.” “Yeah, right, asshole!”
Last, but certainly not least, were the Lanes: Memory, Melody and Park. Their parents must have been quite sadistic…
That reminds me of something I was reading, also devoted to odd-sounding names. There was this guy whose last name was First. His first name was Safety, and his sister’s name was July.
what you are stating is the truth. I have lived in miami for 60 years and as a boy i found his name in the white pages because it was the header in bold at the top corner. I had to call and ask if he was real and he replied yes and he did landscaping.
A friend recently had twins, named them Juan and Amal. He only carried with him a picture of Juan. If you ask him why, he’ll say “hey, if you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Amal”.