I grew up in Hawaii, where parents could get pretty creative with naming children, with some disastrous results:

In my high school alone, there were two sisters named Blessing and Gaiety (I know they had another sister, but can’t remember the name). Another girl was named Blue Hawaii.

In my culture (I won’t name it, for fear that people can poke further fun) parents like to meld their names together when naming their child. As you can imagine, there can be a lot of original and unique names:

Argyle (Gil and Arceli–I used to kid him about being named after a sock…)
Arleigh (Argyle and Leilani–conglomeration of his older sister and brother. I saw this name pop up at the USS Arizona memorial. However, I don’t think the parents had a clue.)
Mariecon (My sister, melding after my mother’s two first names…”maricon” in spanish just happens to be a slang term for homosexual.)
JoMar (Joe and Maria)
I think I may have shared too many clues to remain anonymous.

-Cynthia

Well, I found a bunch of Mariecons, mostly Filipino (a ha! Nice try, Cynthia!). I only mention this because the Philippines was a Spanish colony for over 300 years – apparently the term ‘maricon’ (and it is a very rude term) developed sometime after 1898.

And this is a really obscure comment, but the name JoMar makes me immediately think of the masterwork of film “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” (1964). In this cinematic triumph, most of the Martian’s names end with -mar (for Martian! Get it?!): Bomar, Momar, Girmar (played by Pia Zadora!), etc.