I have a really weird name
Ryle Ludwig Goehausen
top that! heh, the only name anyone has ever pronounced correctly is Ludwig, and I haaaaate that name. At least my parents figured out my personality (ryle=riled up person) in other words I’m always hyper.
There’s something inappropriate about that?
Funny you mention that name because a friend of mine is acquainted with a girl by the same name but she pronounces it Ta mah rah.
She was always miffed about people pronouncing her name “Ta mair uh” and was glad that I said her name correctly, due to spanish being a language I speak fluently.
Nonono. I wasn’t offended. It’s just that I DID Anglicize it all the way. It was originally Giuliana… and as a little kid, I got tired of being called “Ghoulie” pretty friggin’ quickly. So I changed to the Anglicized spelling, which would be Julianne. Only then I got called “Julian”. And up til then, nobody called me by my full name anyhow, so I further shortened Julianne to Juli, which was what I was always called anyhow. Adding an E would have been just plain silly at that point.
On the other hand, I can easily see why it looks like affect, having known a number of Nanci, Teri, Tami, Jami, Cari, etc. variations.
Out of curiosity, why not Juliana?
Only two letters different from Guiliana, no Ghoulie, no Julian, no lonely “i” on the end…
Juliana’s not so very “out there”, it’s a real name and even then I don’t have a big problem with different names… just normal names spelt totally unexpectedly!
Again from the odd twins names file; this from my nurse sister-in-law:
Twin boys. Longitude and Latitude.
When I was in the army there was a Sgt. Miracle in my brigade. Sounds like a christian super hero.
The commander of one of the companies in my batallion had the unfortunate last name of Fochop, pronounced Fŏk’-ŏp. The really hilarious thing was the brass oak leaf clusters on his collars, making him a Major Fochop.
When I was in the army there was a Sgt. Miracle in my brigade. Sounds like a christian super hero.
The commander of one of the companies in my batallion had the unfortunate last name of Fochop, pronounced Fŏk’-ŏp. The really hilarious thing was the brass oak leaf clusters on his collars, making him a Major Fochop.
Sorry about double-posting in 1337, the character map phonetics didn’t come out the way I expected.
There was an Asian girl at my school who’s first name was Even [pronounced like the normal word ‘even’]. I love it. It’s a beautiful name, but very uncommon.
I can’t stand the name Crystal even though it’s a common name of girls. It just seems so white trash, especially when it’s spelled a different way. Beh.
one of my mother’s friends married a man whose last name was Lear…
so they called their kid Crystal Chandel.
Not as bad as some of the names I’ve seen here…
I’ve always (jokingly) told my SO that I want to name our first child Mordecai.
She says I can only name a mouse that.
I went to school with someone named Tamara, but is was pronounced “Tam - rah”. As if there was an ‘a’ missing.
Oh yeah, I know a couple of people named Tamra as well. I guess it has a lot to do with Australians shortening words and stuff, I guess.
Hearkening back to the OP, I saw a woman on television last night named “Lolita”. Hmm…
I work for a large company. I used to get calls for someone else with the same first name, different sex and gender. Her parents were expecting a boy.
She divorced, and used the opportunity to change not only her last name but her first also. Company-wide e-mails about name change are fairly common (most are surname-only changes, due to women getting married). This one was memorable.
Years ago, I had a friend named Phenelphia. Her mother couldn’t decide between Penelope or Philamina. Go figure.
I worked with a Richard (don’t call me Dick) Head. He named his son Ed.
I currently work with a woman named Tequila.
When I was in the army one of the guys in my unit wrote to his GF, Dorkus. Bad enough for sure, but her last name: Klappsadle.
Last, and a little more personal, my (ex) stepson is named Dustin (Dusty) Rowe. His mother did redeem herself when she named his brother. His name? Cecil, of course.
One of my mom’s cousins is named Dorkus. They call her Dodo for short. :rolleyes:
I know a little boy whose parents named him Dustin Garrett. So basically the kid’s name is Dusty Attic. 
Wasn’t one of Jubal Harshaw’s ladies named Dorcas? (Heinlien reference) I liked the name while I was reading the book–I didn’t think of the “dork” thing at all. Maybe becuase I pronounced it in my head more like “dor-cas.” The spelling “Dorkus” is really really unfortunate.
Brothers:
O Ryan
Beau
Aero
Their mother just likes the name. I pity O- That kind of name would drive me nuts.
There was a guy that my parents knew named David Davis. I always thought it was cool.
My cousin’s girlfriend/fiancée/live-in’s name is Ashleigh (my mom always derrogatorily refers to it as Ash-lay).
I would like to name my first born son Roy Elroy McElroy, just because I could. Many people say I shouldn’t… but how many people do you know that can chop their last name down to their first? Of course, in most places he’d be McElroy, Roy. Sort of redundant, but what the hay.
I have a friend whose name is Raymond Basil Young. He told me that his dad wanted him to have a B middle name so he’d sign things Raymond B Young. Works out nicely in the military when you HAVE to sign your middle initial.
My fiancée wants to name our first daughter after her GreatGrandmother, Zada. Her middle name will be after her mom, Reneé. Has a nice ring, but I fear for her school years. It’s bad being the only Toby…
I want to name my first boy David Alan after my uncle (David Allen) but with my middle name spelling.
Had a friend name Joel, and all his friends called him Joe for short…
Mom’s name is Marcia, the french and proper way to spell it, but it’s always spelled Marsha or pronounced Marseeya. Oh well.
If my last name was Schmidt, I’d name my son Jack. “You don’t know Jack Schmidt?”
If my last name was Wiser, I’d name him Bud.
If my last name was Ski, I’d name him Bruce.
A guy I knew in the AF had a last name of Rider. He said he’d name his son Milo. I called him Milo after that.
Granted I’m a big StarWars fan, I’d never name my kids after it. Especially Shmi. Sounds like that bee from the Chris Rock days of SNL.
I work with a Spring. She came in the other day and I said, Spring’s here! Of course everyone thought I was nuts because it’s obviouly fall.
Former band director named his daughter Shimica or something like that. Sounds like shuh-mik-uh.
There’s at least two of them out there. I also went to school with a Latrina, and also a Retriva, a Capricious and a Coquette, and an Asian boy named Phuc. OTOH, I have great-aunts named Earladene, Glencora, Threedamae, and Cecil, a great-uncle named Ruby, and a great-grandfather named Admira.