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Just wanted to add some interesting ones.

A college roommate of mine had the name Kirstla (KEAR-stla) but it was often mispronounced CURSE-sla.  She had a younger brother named Jedydya, he went by Jedi.  Another of her brothers was Dakin, named after the toy  company. Another was Jorgan.

-E.

I have a friend whose name is Karla. Her husbands name is Karl. Their last name is K****.

Three years ago they had their first baby, a girl. They named her Karlie. So the family became Karl, Karla and Karlie K****. Are you nauseated yet?

This summer they had a second baby. They named her Kara.

Sigh. If they got any cuter, I’d be puking on my shoes.

Thanks!

-C

When my dad was in the military he processed military personnel documentation. He once told me he encountered paperwork on a man named Precious (last name). What was even stranger than the name was that he encountered the same name on paperwork at the next base to which he was assigned. Apparently Mr. (name) was transferred to the same place.

-Cynthia

Here are a few odd ones I found for you:

-My boyfriend grew up in Coral Springs, FL with a guy whose dad’s name is Seymour Heimann. They called him Sy. Apparently, though, there’s another one (actually spelled Seymour Hyman) who is a former vice-chancellor of the City University of NY.

-My parents have some “unique” friends whose children are named Loen (low-en), Callia (kal-yah) and Moss. Moss!! He grows on damp logs.

-F

Actor Jason Lee and his fiancée named their son Pilot Inspektor Riesgraf Lee.

Tennis superstars Steffi Graf and Angre Agassi  have two children, a son names Jaden Gil Agassi and a newborn daughter Jaz Ella Agassi.

-Terri

People I know:

Barton Bartle – he is a teacher at my school, now try saying that name five times fast

Richard Slutter – or “Dick” Slutter if you will, a student at my school, and if that is not bad enough, Dick Slutter has a stutter (he is a very sweet boy though)

Sparkle Wisdom – a former classmate of mine

I cannot remember his last name, but at my old high school there was a boy several years my junior named Nimrod… I do not jest.

A friend of mine’s sister just had a baby boy, his name is Lincoln Park

What surprises me is than no one has suggested one of the many horrendous names of “Lindsey” it has been spelled: Lindsay, Lyndsay, Lyndsey, Lyndsei, Lynsai, Lindzy, Linzay, Lynzee, Linsay, and so many more spellings my eyes go googly.

Interesting note for the poor child named, Gennavieve Luaraleigh, Luraleigh is obviously an atrocious variant of Loreley. This person gets an ‘F’ for research because the “ley” is not pronounced like “lee” or in this case “leigh” because it is a Germanic name and the first vowel is always silent so it sounds like “lie.” Also, it would be nice to mention that the Loreley a folklore about a siren who lives on the Rhine River and lures sailors to their deaths upon the rocks.

Sincerely,
L.A. Kopp

p.s. yes, these are my actual initials and last name

My son once had a nurse called Morag Bogey.

He thought it was the funniest thing.

-W

The neighbor two doors down from us has named her daughter Destinee. I’m sorry … I just do not get the trend in giving one’s daughter a name that marks her as president of the Future Strippers of America Club.

I also participate on a reproductive rights debate board. There is a woman on there with 10 (egad) kids, and not one normal name among them. The worst, IMO, is her eldest son, Rogerick. I don’t even know what else to say about that.

-S.

I have a “classic” for you.

I used to work in Holland, Michigan. Living next door to our business, was a wonderful family,…fun, helpful, artistic, intelligent. This couple had young two sons. The eldest went by Stu,…Stewart Douglas Baker. I never gave it much thought until his mother mentioned that he was named after a car,…Stu D. Baker!

Then she added that her younger son also had a play on words in his name and left us to figure it out. Much to my dismay, I never discovered it before they moved & we lost contact. Can you help me with this one. It has been nagging at me for five years now. What kind of play on words can come out of Phillip Morton Baker?

-Betsy

I once met a lady named NoRhett. When I asked her about her unusual name, she told me that her parents had really wanted a boy, to be named Rhett after the character in Gone with the Wind. The doctor thought she was a boy, and when she arrived everyone was very surprised. NoRhett’s father took one look at his new baby girl and said “That’s no Rhett”, so they named her NoRhett. Isn’t it awful? Not only is she saddled with a terrible name, but she will constantly be reminded that her parents really wanted a boy instead.

-Marcella