John sends in this article:

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Hate your name?

Consider these doozies: Vasoline Lewis, Emancipation Proclamation Cogshell, Winnie Mac Pough and Texas Moon. Or Toyota Corona Maria Collier, Ima Rose Bush and Rose Royce Hood.

Come on, you say, nobody would stick a little baby with one of those.

But they have.

The Florida Office of Vital Statistics, the state agency that keeps track of all births, deaths, marriages and divorces, has collected unusual names over the years. …”

In case you don’t want to read the whole thing, here’s a key quote from name researcher Albert Mehrabian, a psychology professor at UCLA:

“There are lots of studies showing people with more common names tend to be more successful in school situations, professionally and so forth. People with less common, unique or unusual names don’t seem to be doing as well,” he said. “If a person’s name is somewhat bizarre, they are less likely to be taken seriously.”