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Weird names

spurgemasturspurgemastur Member Posts: 5,655 ✭✭
edited September 2004 in General Discussion
What are the weirdest first names of people you know or knew?

My grandfather was Decimus. He was the tenth child.
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    interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    I have a brother called Arachtoid, really hairy digits.[:)]

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    DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Your grandfather shares the name of a medici who took as his papal name LEO DECIMUS, which, if you assign Roman numerics to the letters (D=500, C=100, etc.) and remove one letter and add two others, will give you 666.[:0]
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    fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    I have an Aunt Dorcas, but we call her Aunt Dannee.

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    RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My grandfathers middle name was Casket.

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    spurgemasturspurgemastur Member Posts: 5,655 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    LMAO, Dances.

    I've discovered that it only takes about thirteen seconds to transform your name on my computer screen so that it reads: "I'm the devil's plaything."

    [}:)][:D]

    Seriously, though. what's a medici?

    quote:Originally posted by DancesWithSheep
    Your grandfather shares the name of a medici who took as his papal name LEO DECIMUS, which, if you assign Roman numerics to the letters (D=500, C=100, etc.) and remove one letter and add two others, will give you 666.[:0]

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    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,964 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Medici. One of the third generation quartinary ammonia disinfectants.
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    DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The medicis were like the Corleones of The Renaissance, a family of Italian statesmen, bankers, scholars.
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    haroldchrismeyerharoldchrismeyer Member Posts: 2,213 ✭
    edited November -1
    Worked with an older fella named Egypt, grew up with a neighbor named Margil, but was known to everyone as "Bay".
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    spurgemasturspurgemastur Member Posts: 5,655 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was at college with a woman named Asia.

    At same college, another woman's FULL LEGAL NAME was Ptolemy.

    (Ok, so it was a bit of a hippie school.)
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    Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    I'm amused by alternate spellings of familar names, Normally spelled Erin or Aaron, I've also seen Airinn, Erron, and such; other names that have Sh or Ch get even more bizarre: Cheyenne becomes Shyann, Shian, Chian and all sorts of variations on a theme- score another for phonetic spelling.
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    ZERODINZERODIN Member Posts: 6,338
    edited November -1
    I dated a girl whose dad spelled her name wrong on the birth certificate, and it stuck. [;)]
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    the loveable rat...the loveable rat... Member Posts: 969 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    dws- why no caps on medici, but on corleone? horseheads for pillows?
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    toolmaniamtoolmaniam Member Posts: 3,213
    edited November -1
    My dads middle name is Frelan. Had a uncle named Basil.

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    silver6silver6 Member Posts: 613 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I work in a hospital and I see all kinds of names all day. A few I remember lately are Pickford(for a woman), Sparkle, and Cinderella(went by Cindy)and these were all their birth names. I could name all kinds of stupid names like that but the hippie days produced soo many good ones that I here. Funny what drugs make people do.

    Toolman I guess you havent seen CSI?
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    gonepostalgonepostal Member Posts: 604 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i grew up with a kid named

    THOMAS THOMAS THOMAS III

    yes first middle and last name all thomas ,and he was the third

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    IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The "cute" names with which some parents saddle their children should be grounds for execution for terminal stupidity - or involuntary sterilization and child divorce at the least. Sometimes slang or technology evolves to create an unfortunate situation, but when it is done intentionally . . . .

    Fishermanben, I know a family in which the widowed mother who raised the children is named Dorcas; first born daughter of her son inherited the name. Don't know the origin of the name, but it was perpetuated. All exceptional people, nothing "cute" involved and the grand-daughter's name was definitely intended as a sign of respect and love . . . but still I know for a fact the younger endured a lot of BS because of it.

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    concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I work in Detroit; you would be AMAZED at some of the names people have here.

    A couple that I can think of right off the top of my head:

    Princess
    Batoule
    Xzantha
    Tawana
    Baloay
    Marquis
    Au 'Shaunte

    [?]

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    William81William81 Member Posts: 24,627 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gentleman in our local phone book.....Oral Sexton
    A former client.......................Balzar Frezin

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    fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    there was a kid born in my town named Beau Hunter _______.

    My Great Grandfather's name was Oleo Leo Fehrenbacher.

    there was also a guy that lived close to here that named his kids after guns. He had two sons, Colt and Ruger, and a daughter named Beretta.

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    hawkeye6020hawkeye6020 Member Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    my wife used to run a day care. watched a little girl for a family whose last name was jacks, the named the poor girl "cinnimen apple"

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    MosinNagantDiscipleMosinNagantDisciple Member Posts: 2,612
    edited November -1
    Gursel

    My previous signature was incredibly obnoxious.
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    gbeggrowgbeggrow Member Posts: 5,499
    edited November -1
    Not the first name in this instance but check out the last name on this LEO. He's quoted in my local paper all the time. Always get a chuckle out of his name.[:D]

    Judy Stanton's crazed former boyfriend had already killed four
    people, including a four-month-old girl, in a Columbus, Ohio, shooting
    spree and was now headed for Ashland to get her. Just as Stanton and
    her husband, Doug, prepared to flee their home with their four
    children, the assailant arrived, firing at least three rounds through
    a back door before kicking it in. Doug retumed fire with his own
    handgun, striking the killer in the chest. Though the shots failed to
    seriously injure the bulletproof-vest-clad suspect, they did encourage
    a swift retreat. Soon after, he surrendered to police. "He would've
    killed them," Columbus Police Sgt. James Longerbone said of the
    suspect. "And who knows where he would've gone from there." (The
    Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, OH, 11/21/95)
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    Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,878 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know a guy named Clell Dorwin _____. Which makes me wonder if another man I knew who went only by "CD" was also named that.

    A girl I know named her kid Atreyu Dakota _____. Atreyu after the movie character in Never Ending Story. I tried to no avail to convince her before the child was born that this name was not cool in the farm community we live in.

    I have great nephews named Grayden and Brayden (they are cousins, not brothers) and a step granddaughter named Taeler.

    Here are links to this same topic:

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=91290

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13247

    Arguments for using weird names:
    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=122657

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=35315


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    jujujuju Member Posts: 6,321 ✭
    edited November -1
    I know a lady in Tallahassee who named her daughter

    pronounced "shi - thead" but its spelled without the hyphen[:D]

    JuJu(who feels sorry for that poor girl)
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    fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    Life ain't easy for a boy named Sue, or a girl named shThead.

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    ace22ace22 Member Posts: 544 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cleveland Indians got a guy named Cocoa Crisp.Went to school with twin brothers Oranjelo and Lemonjelo

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    mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Receptionist at Mrs. Mudge's Dr. is Sunshine. The receptionist at one of my Dr.'s offices is Pele.
    She'll point out to anyone that's she's named after the Polynesian Goddess of Fire not the soccer player.

    Mudge the monickerist

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    fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    I know a lady that was an OB nurse. There was a Mexican family that had a Baby. The baby was labeled female by the staff. The family liked that name and left it. They pronounced it FEE MAH LAY.

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    TxsTxs Member Posts: 18,801
    edited November -1
    I know a woman whose first name is Fonda. She's married to a man whose last name is Peters. No kiddin'.

    Dang near hurt myself trying to keep from busting up when I was introduced to her.
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    sheepdipsheepdip Member Posts: 3,124
    edited November -1
    Roman J. Claprod
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    jnmiller75jnmiller75 Member Posts: 899 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My girlfriend works with a lady who named her daughter ABCDE, pronounced ab-sa-dee.

    I am not making this up!
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    vafrankovafranko Member Posts: 593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Buddy I knew was name AKA
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    gun_runnergun_runner Member Posts: 8,999
    edited November -1
    Jack Hoff

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    BeeramidBeeramid Member, Moderator Posts: 7,264 ******
    edited November -1
    Nunn don't delete this but "fooeyhead" pronounced (Shi thead) No lie it, a family named their child that at a hospital my dad worked at abou 12 years ago. The hospital admistrator tried talkin to them but they wouldnt listen. Wen't to school with a tequilla (ta-quilla) Ika Mafouma Bona Fe' Ajunkwa(not sure where that fella was from) man there were a bunch more, I may be able to remember later.

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    PJPJ Member Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My Sister in Law's middle name in Hooker (as in Fightin' Joe).
    Pete

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    Queen of SwordsQueen of Swords Member Posts: 14,355
    edited November -1
    We have a mom in our program who named her little girl Neveah...
    "Heaven" spelled backwards...

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    bang250bang250 Member Posts: 8,021
    edited November -1
    Juju - no joke I think my good friend made fun of sh thead. He recently was telling me a story of this persons name and how they were laughing cause they called her what it looks like it says and she got all bent out of shape and started cussing them. Said it started as an honest mistake but then got a little out of control. He was in college then and with a bunch of friends,[;)] sure that didn't help.

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    rcrxmike_2rcrxmike_2 Member Posts: 3,275
    edited November -1
    Don't let my ol
    lady crap ya...she's contributed to the 'weird names' cause.....how about (first) Julian (middle) Shula .......(last name)



    Does not compare to a local kid who's parents named him....and I kid you not.....'Nebraska'. You wanna talk about forethought...this guy has the personality of a board.

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    gobucksgobucks Member Posts: 257 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gbeggrow
    Not the first name in this instance but check out the last name on this LEO. He's quoted in my local paper all the time. Always get a chuckle out of his name.[:D]

    Judy Stanton's crazed former boyfriend had already killed four
    people, including a four-month-old girl, in a Columbus, Ohio, shooting
    spree and was now headed for Ashland to get her. Just as Stanton and
    her husband, Doug, prepared to flee their home with their four
    children, the assailant arrived, firing at least three rounds through
    a back door before kicking it in. Doug retumed fire with his own
    handgun, striking the killer in the chest. Though the shots failed to
    seriously injure the bulletproof-vest-clad suspect, they did encourage
    a swift retreat. Soon after, he surrendered to police. "He would've
    killed them," Columbus Police Sgt. James Longerbone said of the
    suspect. "And who knows where he would've gone from there." (The
    Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, OH, 11/21/95)



    I live in Columbus. Seen Det. Longerbone's name in the paper for years, TV too. In true Beavis and Butthead fashion I chuckle every time.
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    FreudianSlippersFreudianSlippers Member Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I knew a girl in high school named Xena.
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