Funny names

**ZombieFriedNuts** · 07-03-2006, 12:05

You thought that apple and pear where strange names, but you know your parents hate you when they call you polyester. Its true I swear

**Quid** · 07-03-2006, 12:23

I have heard some strange names in my time...hardly any of which I can still remember...

One of which that stuck, however, is Star. Why would anyone call their daughter Star for crying out loud. Very odd. Will search in my personal memory banks for others...

Quid

**Aenlic** · 07-03-2006, 13:30

It's not a recent thing either. People from several generations back seem to have suffered from the "let's saddle our poor kids with stupid names they'll have to live with forever" disease.

In Texas, Ima Hogg was a well-known philanthropist (they found oil on her land in the 1920's) and daughter of a turn-of-the-century Texas governor. She was named after a Civil War poem written by a relative, but they apparently didn't consider how it would sound attached to the family name.

I once had a neighbor, a very sweet 90-year old woman, here in Texas named Hortense Sweatt, which name will forever be indelibly etched in my memory as probably the worst concatenation of syllables possible.

I went to school with a guy named Park King. Say it really fast. Yes, his parents did do that. Oddly enough, years later in another school, I had a classmate named King Park.

There's an amusing list here:

http://f2.org/humour/language/oddnames.html

Names like Humperdink Fangboner and a nurse in Ohio named Fanny Fangboner.

But the prize has to go to the man who started the first fire insurance firm in Britain, a year after the Great Fire of 1666 in London. He was known as Nicholas Barbon, the son of a man named Praise-God Barebone. But his actual name, as recorded in the official records of the time was...

If-Jesus-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone.

Over 3 and 1/2 centuries ago, people were already doing nasty things to their children with names.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 07-03-2006, 14:03

Originally Posted by Aenlic

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If-Jesus-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone.

Over 3 and 1/2 centuries ago, people were already doing nasty things to their children with names.

Wow, that's pretty bad

Celebrities are always giving their kids weird names:

Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily

Paris Michael Katherine
Steveanna Genevieve
Moon Unit
Phoenix Chi
Fifi-Trixibelle

**Lemur** · 07-03-2006, 15:28

A couple more weird celeb names:

Moxie Crimefighter
Bluebell Madonna

**Al Khalifah** · 07-03-2006, 15:33

Personally, I hate the Californian trend of naming your children after abstract concepts:
Love, Charity, Faith, Hope, Justice, Honour..... (all real names)

Why? Why? Why? I might call my children Hatred, Selfishness, Despair, Injustice and Disgrace.

**Fragony** · 07-03-2006, 15:44

My mother is called 'Hendrika Pietje'. Of course this is just her artist name, it's really just 'Sheena Moonsilk'.

**yesdachi** · 07-03-2006, 16:59

I know someone who named his daughter Mercedes because of the unexpected pregnancy he would not be able to have one, a Mercedes that is.

My wife has a job where she gets to see many people’s official names and she tells me some of the more off the wall ones. One I remember well is, Ima Koochi, her maiden name was Door. “Nice to meet you, I’m a door.” Not that Koochi is any better!

Who names a kid Ima?

**ZombieFriedNuts** · 07-03-2006, 20:16

I know I started this thread but I just remembered my uncle is called Joe King giving rise to the family joke “you must be joking, no he’s my uncle” ha ha ha

I know ill get my coat

**Perplexed** · 07-03-2006, 20:21

I've always thought "Moon Unit" was a strange name.

Edit: It's already been mentioned. Oh, well.

**Oaty** · 07-03-2006, 22:22

Originally Posted by Al Khalifah

Personally, I hate the Californian trend of naming your children after abstract concepts:
Love, Charity, Faith, Hope, Justice, Honour..... (all real names)

Why? Why? Why? I might call my children Hatred, Selfishness, Despair, Injustice and Disgrace.

And for a religous couple what would they name a child out of wedlock

Sin, Lust, bastard

**scotchedpommes** · 07-03-2006, 22:47

Originally Posted by Perplexed

I've always thought "Moon Unit" was a strange name.

Edit: It's already been mentioned. Oh, well.

Was just going to ask who on Earth has that, then realised the unfortunate
choice of wording. I wonder what the reaction of the grandparents would have
been.

[Looked them up. Not sure which combination is worse: Moon Unit, Moon Unit
Zappa, or just Moon Zappa.]