DO NOT TURN THIS INTO A SILLY THREAD (string?)

This thread will no doubt have you staring blanking ahead at your screen as you come up with people's real birth names that are unusual.

-Try to avoid shortened or nicknames.
-Try to keep this to people that you have met or known personally
-List unusually funny sounding or unusually cool sounding names

And most importantly, please keep yourself from trouble by avoiding listing names of members at this site unless they truly qualify in the above criteria. NO PERSONAL ATTACKS!

I wish that I could remember all of the unusual names of people I have met over the years. LOL, I wish I could remember more than just recently.

In the States this might be easier as this is a huge melting pot. To be politically correct, a multi-ethnically diverse country. So true where I live. I have found the most 'inventive' names to come from the African-American subculture.

OK, I'll start with my own birth name. I was born Mortimer E Poindexter III. Due to peer pressure and frequent bodily harm I changed to simply Bob. J/K

Seriously, here are some people that I've met:

Tequila
Obi (from Africa)
Prince
Fancy
Gaye
Mercedes
Asia
Bing Cherry
CoCo
Chi Chi
LeZahna (pronounced like the food)
Reevance (unusually cool)
Duck Park (elderly Korean woman)
Hope
Faith
Joy
Luvie (large black man)
Chester
Herman
Knute and Newt
Kermit

Dweezil & Moon Unit don't count as I have not met them

More will come to me, I'll add as I remember.

My Nguyen (pronounced "Me When") - went to high school with him

My uncle.. Glen Owen Durrance

Initials - GOD.

My Great Grandfather on my mom's side was named Kermit.
"Duck Park" had me ROLLING!!!! AAAAHAHAAHHAHAA!!!! ^_^

One of the former residents where I work has a daughter named "Concretia".
(pronounced con-cree-shah)

My mom's mom named all her kids unique names.
Doris (my mom), Gail (my uncle), Bernice (my aunt) and Lyle (my uncle)

I know a girl named Skyler.

Went to high school with a guy named Chance.

Guy I used to work with was named Gaelin. (pronounced gay-lin)

I've known several women named Lucretia. (not that unusual though)

When I grew up, there was some kids I carpooled to school with.
Their names were Tavis (boy) and Majesta (girl). (tavis pronounced like tay-vis)

My best friend's wife is named Stacia.
Her sister's name is Shayla.

My cousins kids are named McKinley and McKinnah.

A kid at our church is named Stone.

A guy I went to school with was named Mark Stretch. On the roll, he was Stretch, Mark

Taught a girl named Summer Knight. Knew a girl named Tiziana (pronounced Tit-siana, who had her name abbreviated to..... ). And for the Doctor Who fans, I've also taught an Adric and Romana.

Then there's Otis, Kenaniah, Saxon, Taron, Talyssia, Gage and Jeames, to name a few...

My nephew [who is a medical technologist] once had a patient called Santísima Muerte, which means in English "Holy Death".

Cool.

Sutekh wrote:

A guy I went to school with was named Mark Stretch. On the roll, he was Stretch, Mark

One of the producers for one of those Law and Order shows is "Dick Wolf".

That's got to be weird he picks up some medication and it says "Wolf Dick" on the bottle.

Don't you find something weird in the name of the vocalist of Iron Maiden?

Peruvians...

oldschooldoom wrote:

Tequila

I've met someone named Tequila before as well lol.

I had a friend in 2nd grade whose full name was Raul Redy Gopu

If you add the word get between Raul and Redy, it is just fascinating for someone in second grade

Perhaps this thread could just as easily been titled 'What were the parents thinking?!?'

a SSG in my company 1st name is Aquarius.

I new a friend back in the day named Mansur (pronounced: Man-Sore)

I have a friend in the Air Force named Tabor Cleberg. (Tay-bur Klee-burg)

My names is Abner Layton Sutton (but I go by A.j.)

I have a cousin named Ebony

and another named Xavier

New a guy named Tony Ho, but his original Vietnamese name was something like Fiy jun Woo

New a girl in Basic training named Montes-Diot

new a guy in AIT named Skyler Keen

hmmm.......i'll try to remember more.......hahaha

There are a few girls at our school named Abcde (pronounced Ab-ceh-dee).
I know a kid whose birth name is King.
There's a girl named Nesta...as in Bob Marley's middle name.
I know a girl named Julianita.
I know a kid named Zion.
And i won't even start with all the Hawaiian, Japanese, Tongan, Samoan, and Filipino names I've heard XD

Nixon (from Africa)
Darth
and a couple people named Elvis

I had a pupil during internship that was called Beer De Bruyne, which is, translated "Bear The Brown", or "The Brown Bear"

Mr Arrasmith (Welsh)-10th grade biology teacher
Harsh (Iran). Probably not funny in his country

Summa Knight

Happy

in all honesty: teddy bear. she's chinese (and bear is the family name...)

another one: in a class, my lecturer calls out: honey!

Yesterday I met someone with the last name 'Outlander'. I thought that was very cool.

I remember watching Beavis and Butthead making fun of a Blondie video.

Butthead: "Hey, Beavis, this chick real name is like, Deborah Harry. If you look her up in the phone book, it says 'Harry (hairy) Deborah'. huh huh"

My birth name is Launcelot Nicholas Sutton, but I'm sure most of you know that already.

Most of the names my brother listed apply here.

My grandma's real first name was Myrna. (R.I.P.)

I found plenty of interesting names on the boat. I met a guy whose last name is Force, another person whose last name is Stuff.

I didn't meet him personally, but an e-mail was sent to everyone on the Team Truman mailing list from a Navy Ensign named James Bond. lol

I knew a guy in high school named My Pham.
I know two Albanian girls from high school who were named Marcela and Nimela.
My pastor's daughter back in Clearwater is named Kalyx.
A good friend of mine is named Coty Harney.
A sailor I work with in Beaufort's first name is Bernardo.
My first girlfriend's name was Jashelle.
A sailor I work with on the boat's real first name is Archie.
A sailor who works in the shop across from ours' real first name is Sammy.
There's a girl who went to my middle school who's first name was literally Shardonnay (like the alcoholic beverage). lol
A girl who goes to my home church's first name is Ioana, and one of her brothers' names is Elisei.
A guy I work with back home's first name is Shannon. His wife's name is Mikal. lol
A guy I knew in high school's name was Graham Culkar. During graduation ceremony he was called out as "Graham Cracker". lol

I'm sure I can think of a whole bunch of others, but that should be enough.

Someone I know has a wife with the name Sonica.
I cannot think of a cooler name for a woman, especially if in the music scene.

Stormie