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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

I found your site quite by accident, but it certainly was hilarious and sad to read. And I knew I had to tell you of this name. To my shame, I invented it, but never intended it to be used!

I write science fiction stories, where it’s more “acceptable”, even encouraged to have very different names. I started publishing on the internet where I was “discovered”. And in posting my stories for others to read, I often got email about not just the stories but also the names. I would reply that I didn’t care if they used the names, but just don’t tell your kid where you got it! I don’t want to be the victim of his/her rage later in life.

Once in a humorous tale, I came up with the totally goofy, and consonant-less, name of Mr. Uaeio. It’s pronounced just as it looks (boy have you heard that a lot!)…U-a-e-i-o. Imagine my shock to hear from a lady who LOVED the name with no consonants and said she wanted to name her boy that! And she’d call him
Ua for short, which she said would be pronounced “Ew-ay”. She would not be dissauded.

And to think I started putting my maiden name with my married name so I’d be harder to find after being stalked once. There’s no Lindley-Anderson in the phone book, but I’ll bet “Ua” will find me anyway…

Keep it up because I need the laughs.

B. L.

Not quite so far out there as some others, but for baby names, my favorite has to be that of Perry, the darling daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Winkle. We went to high school together.

Cheers,
Dennis

I had a neighbor who named her son Romance , who grow up to be a gay cross dresser. And his sister was named Love. This lady was absolutely insane. I think she was on drugs.

-J