Once of my dearest friends is a labor and delivery nurse who passes on the following jewels:
A baby girl named ABCDE pronounced absedee
The couple named King who named their son Nosmo. Do you get it? Nosmo King? No Smoking? What a laugh riot.
Sadistic assholes.
Of course I wish my parents had at least a little bit of originality.
-John
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*Originally posted by Dale The Bold *
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She was from Minneapolis, MN. Truth be told, she wasn’t very literate, and she saw the word in a magazine and thought it would make a neat name…even after she was told what it meant.
A boy in my daughter’s class is named Semaj. It’s his daddy’s name spelled backwards. I also know of a boy named Ether. Really.
As for names you’re afraid to pronounce out loud, I once had to make sales calls. Two of the men on the list were Mike Litt (oh, the horror) and John Dodo (I wasn’t sure if it was “doe-doe” or “doo-doo”, but either way I didn’t want to ask for him).
My friend and I used to make up names to amuse ourselves.
A sampling:
Abcessa
Abortina
Abysma
Acetalene
Adenoma
Amnesia
Amnesty
Anemia
Angioma
Apathy
Avarice
Bovina
Cacophany
Cayenne
Chemise
Chimera
Clorene
Churlisha
Commodity
Complicity
Concertina
Connifer
Doldra
Flotilla
Droola
Epiphany
Eppie
Faustina
Fluenza
Gluttany
Hostility
Inanity
Javelina
Labyrinthine
Latrina
Mahogany
Malaria
Menstretta
Miasma
Mongrella
Polly Ethyl Lynn
Rotunda
Sardonica
Spirulina
Tamponya
Tundra
Twinklette
Ubiquity
Uvula
Urethra
Vacuity
Velveetah
Veranda
Volatilla
Vulvette
Wenchetta
Zitzy
I had a friend in college named Wendy 9 ______. Not “Nine”, but “9”. She went by 9, of course. She was an excellent hockey player, care to guess her number?
One of her brothers was 7. She wasn’t the 9th child, he wasn’t the 7th, it’s just their names.
All joking aside (well… most of it maybe), it’s good to see traditional naming methods still being used in this modern world.
My sister-in-law (a nurse) told me about a little boy she knows who was named from the label on something in the delivery room.
I guess it could have been much worse. Hewlett-Packard is quite a nice name. 
My nephew is named Nathan Kali. Why would they name a boy after the goddess of death, rebirth, and menstruation?
Knew a guy named Bryian. His mother couldn’t decide whether to spell it with a Y or an I, so she used both.
I named my son Vincent Blackshadow, after the Vincent Blackshadow motorcycle. Of course, he goes by Vinnie or Vincent, so he doesnt get crap from the kids at school. When he was born, one of the people from the hospital thought that Blackshadow was my last name, and therefore the kids last name. I guess that just assumed it was a Native American name or something. They had to go back and correct the paperwork.
Okay.
Friend of mine works as an air hostess.
Her name:Siobhan.
Correct pronunciation: Shivon
She was tralking to an American customer ona flight one day and was told “well goodness my daughters name is
Sio-ba-han too!”
Took her a while to figure out. Somewhere out there there’s a little girl who is in for a shock one day.
Years ago when I first began teaching preschool I had twin girls who were named Destiny and Ecstasy. By now they are pushing 30, I wonder how they’ve done with those names, especially Ecstasy.
Then there is the old hippie family in the neighborhood who named their children, both boys, Passion and Zenith.
Judging from personal experience, I don’t think that* having* an unusual moniker is nearly as unfortunate as having either a cutesy and/or difficult spelling of the name. In day-to-day life, an unusual name can be pleasurable, but the potential practicalities of spelling it can be troublesome.
My sisters name is Kille.
(think it means “boy” in swedish)
yeah-yeah… put an “r” in the end…
One more question:
would you consider Triinu a female/male name?
How would you pronounce it?
I own a delightful book called “Remarkable Names of Real People” by John Train, with illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan. It contains, as the title suggests, odd names of real people.
Unfortunately, I’ve misplaced it. Here are some of the names that I can remember:
Iona Victory Bond
Boo, Moo, Goo and Little Miss May (quads)
Original Bug
Dr Zoltan Ovary (gyno)
Laryngitis Jackson
Chanda Lear
Sort of. A better translation would by guy.
…until they get to organic chem…
Wry - Semaj has some company - that’s how Red Sox SS Nomar Garciaparra got his name - his father’s reversed…
My best friend’s mother works in the maternity ward of a Chicago-area hospital, and one interesting name she came across was: “Shi’thead,” apparently pronounced “shuh-TAYD”
She mispronounced it and was summarily corrected by the mother…
I once handed a university ID card to one Dikshit Patel.
I pity the man, I really, really do.
But then again, people will always get saddled with nicknames that are even worse than what people have here.
For a long while I was known as Fucking [last name]. Right now I’m The [last name].
I’m just going to take an issue with the supposed weird spelling of “Aleksander”. All of the people with this name that I know personally spell it exactly this way.
The shortening of this name is either to Alek or Alec (no s sound at the end). Didn’t you ever read “The Black Stallion”? For you to imply that this is an “unusual spelling” is very strange to me.
My name is Melania, which gets annoying because people don’t like names with four syllables. My parents are Aija and Egils so I guess I lucked out, though.
Friends of a friend named their son Steel. (not too bad) They plan on naming their next son Titanium. (Tit?) They named thier daughter Sapphire Blue. Also, other friends neighbors have daughters Chablis, Chardonny, Champaigne and Merlot. What are some people thinking? 