My brother named his on Logan after Wolverine, but it’s a good name in general, so not much of an event. He’s a very normal and grounded guy, and wouldn’t have done it if he thought it would have any real downside.
The doper Cyn used to work Labor & Delivery/Post Partum unit.
The naming stories are legion.
They spent a while talking a lady out of naming her daughter Chlamydia.
I think they had one named “Airforce”
That kind of clarification would be nice if given diplomatically.
Chlamydia sounds like a girls name.
What the hell is Shanda Jet supposed to mean?
You got it all wrong, it’s Shanda Inventor.
I thought it was Shanda Khan, Shanda Khan.
My step-brother’s name is David Harry Bottom. He got into a lot of fights in High School.
Now ex-wife. 
But still close friends.
So, in 9 years and 2 resurrections, only Bricker made a post worthy of keeping this thread out of IMHO?
That said, since we’re just listing strange names, years ago I was working in an elementary school and these are the first names of 3 of the kids in that classroom: Javelan, Morpheus, and Knowledje (yes, it’s spelled with a “j”, but pronounced like it was spelled with a “g”)
When I worked at a store years ago we had to write down the customer’s driver license number when they paid by check. It was almost impossible to keep a straight face when you saw some of their names. Two of the regular customers were named Barry Horney and Barry Cuda.
At least it wasn’t Heywood Jablowme. I had some co-workers who got a bad check and tried to find this person in the phone book.
Interesting article here about different laws in different countries. It reinforces that in the USA you can just about call a kid anything.
My favourite is that in NZ which has reasonably strict laws, a kid was able to be named “Number 16 Bus Shelter” 
In Aus, we have similar laws to NZ.
There was a teacher at my junior high named Mrs. Gay, and yes, it’s true, her husband’s name really was Benjamin. Her initials were F.A.G., too.
So, has anyone met the Lemonjello and Orangejello twins yet? There aren’t enough twins anywhere for there to be as many as some people say there are. I have personally encountered “Ozzy” (not John Michael, but OZZY) and a man whose first name was Friend.
And there really was a woman named Ima Hogg.
p.s. Prince did at one time say that the symbol was pronounced “Christopher”.
I’ve said many times since last December that if the kids who died at Sandy Hook had those kind of names, that story would have disappeared from the news faster than the story about the UFO over O’Hare Airport, and would only be getting discussed on racist blogs.
On a lighter note, I used to hear a lot about an artist whose name was Sha4ron. It was pronounced like her birth name, Sharon, but she legally had the spelling changed.
We’ve all had fun joking around and I think we are in agreement that a judge can’t use personal religious reasons to change a name in the U.S. But what about the 9 year old OP? If I name my child Giggles McClusterfuck Shitstain Johnson, can a judge in the “best interests” of the child change the name?
Bumped.
This couple has ran afoul of a Tennessee law against creating a new family lastname: Creating Your Baby's Last Name? Tennessee Says No : NPR