People you've known who had (or have) an unusual name.

[Redstone]

I went to school in Vermont with a kid named Linwood Magoon. Nice kid. Good friend.

And my brother's Godmother's name was (I shit you not) Florida Bacon. She was a really nice old lady.

Redstone

[MiniMandaRuth]

1. A really good trumpet player in band...

Frank Megeekie.

[Ariana Celeste]

2. I always thought my first name was unusual

Only because I had never met anyone with my name. It's Lena, by the way. :)

[Redstone]

3. Lena somethingorother, the actress? Not that unusual.

I think especially not in Russia.

Redstone

[Redstone]

9. Lean Olin! I remembered!

Redstone

[Ariana Celeste]

18. Ahso

I hated it in school when I was the only one with my name, but now that I'm older it's pretty cool. :)

[av8rdave]

7. The great jazz singer Lena Horne

Great name, btw

[Ariana Celeste]

19. Thank you. :)

[u4ic]

23. I've known a few Lena's

Even have a friend now named that. :hi:

[Ariana Celeste]

26. Right on!

I wonder if it's just my generation or the area I grew up that I didn't know anyone else with my name? (21yrs and western WA state?)

[u4ic]

30. I live in Edmonchuk

Ukrainian Central. :D :hi:

Though all of the Lena's I know are over 40...

[Ariana Celeste]

52. Its gotta to be the generation then

:D

My mom named me after a friend of hers from her early school days- a girl who was her best friend back then. :) And my mom is in her mid 40's. :hi:

[u4ic]

76. Lena is a lovely name

:-) :hi:

[RetroLounge]

80. That's my G-G-grandmother's name...

:thumbsup:

RL

[bicentennial_baby]

4. My ex...

Jubal :)

On edit: I went to school with people with names like Branch, Blue, Una...

and I once had an acquaintance named Rani Day...as in Rainy Day...Her sister was named Nissa Rainbow.

[Redstone]

11. Children of hippies....nothing can match that group for odd names.

Redstone

[bicentennial_baby]

22. Hehe, hippy private skool in western MA

:D

[Redstone]

28. Funny how the hippies would rail against "the money-grubbing

Establishment," then send their kids to a (no doubt expensive) private school.

Or was it a like free, like wow man, just let the kids learn by wandering around and like sleeping late, because if it's their THING, man, the kids will get all the like, wisdom they need from, like, the TREES, man" kind of place, like Goddard College is?

PS: I spent a week as a "guest lecturer" sort of thing, teaching a photography class at Goddard College over 30 years ago. Boy, were they glad to see me go.

Redstone

[bicentennial_baby]

29. Actually, not that expensive...

It was sliding-scale, 10% of your income. Or something like that...It's the Greenfield Center School, started by the N.E. Foundation for Children...A great place to grow up. I went there from grades 3-8. It works on a model where you're grouped by your developmental age, instead of chronologically. Did wonders for me, and I ended up in an A+ N.E. prep school as a result :)

http://www.centerschool.net/index.html

[Redstone]

32. Greenfield is a wonderful little town. And that sounds like a

great school. Is it still around?

Redstone

[bicentennial_baby]

36. Oh yes!

Check the link, it's alive and well. The model they use is called "The Responsive Classroom". Teachers around the country have been emulating it for some time. A very nurturing and healthy place to develop, imho. :)

And thank you...I miss my hometown, as lil' and backwards as it can be at times...Quincy is a little too loud and busy for me sometimes. My mom keeps me updated though, since she still can't speak, she writes every week and sends me newspaper clippings from the Greenfield Recorder...This week it was the raccoon that escaped from the county fair! :rofl:

:pals:

[Redstone]

39. Ah, small-town life. Do you know that I was actually written about in

the newspaper of the town in New Hampshire where we're moving, just because I had paid a visit to an old friend in the town across the river from that one?

I love places that not only have slow news days, but entire slow new YEARS.

Redstone

[bicentennial_baby]

41. Me too!

I really miss it, now that I'm gone...I didn't the first time I moved away, or the second...But, I'm older now...Once I finish my B.A., we're probably moving back, so I can do my M.A. at UMASS Amherst... *fingers crossed*

:hug:

[Redstone]

43. Amherst is a wonderful town as well. And we'll just be three hours

north of you, hint hint for when you need to decompress.

Redstone

[bicentennial_baby]

47. Excellent

;)

:loveya:

[Redstone]

49. Heart of the White Mountains. No better place for R & R.

Redstone

[Lautremont]

45. Testify.

[Redstone]

50. Signify.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Redstone.........

Did I ever tell you my maiden name?

Love.....

It was bad, growing up with that!

I guess I was very teasable......my brother had no problem with it...

*sigh*

:hi:

[joneschick]

8. hey Peggy

I went to school with a Dearlove, and when she got married her husband took her name!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Well, good for her........

Maybe she had a better and stronger childhood than I did.....

I was a scared and shy child for many years.......

:hi:

[Redstone]

15. Good thiing your parents didn't name you Ida...because every time

you told someone your name, they'd reply "You'd love what?"

Jesus, that's lame, isn't it? Must be more tired than I thought.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. LOL! My dear Redstone!

I'm afraid I have to agree, sweetie!

They were waaaay more sensible than that!

:rofl:

You know I appreciate your humor, even so! :loveya:

[Redstone]

51. Even when it's lame. You're a peach.

Redstone

[joneschick]

6. I once had a customer

by the name of Dewey C. Snart. there was also an Arthur Narf and a Faith Hofarth. You have to say them outloud. and more recently Chris P. Bacon. Whyyyyy would you use the middle initial? Wouldn't you go by Christopher? :shrug:

[Redstone]

12. And there was the well-known (and very real) Ima Hogg.

And, by the way, those names are HILARIOUS spoken aloud. My neighbors must think I'm a lunatic, because I just did that and cackcled uncontrollably for three minutes...and I'm outside on the screen porch, and their windows are open.

Redstone

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. Harry B. Hynd.

He was the father-in-law of someone my father worked with. Always gave his name with the middle initial. :shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. I went to Middle School with Leif Erikson. nt

[Redstone]

16. Well, I don't suppose that's all that unusual if you're in Norway, or even

Minnesota. And wasn't there a dreadful pop singer by that name, years ago?

Redstone

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. I think you're thinking of Leif Garrett.

However, this was just a random kid from NJ who's parents randomly decided to name him after a viking because he had red hair. He caught a lot of shit for it. Now he deals drugs and races cars.

[Redstone]

33. Asshole parents cause kids SO much grief with odd names...

Redstone

[lizziegrace]

21. I went to HS with Leif Erikson

:)

[YankeyMCC]

17. I guy in my OTS Wing was named

Wid

That was his first name. Not short for anything...just Wid

But just for a little something extra he was Wid the 3rd



Also from OTS there was a guy named Vernon, a name I never knew anyone else by but had heard of, but he went by Scott. That's the weird part, never could figure out how Scott comes out of Vernon.

[Redstone]

40. I went to high school with a kid whose name was Jacob, but called Scott.

And Scott wasn't his middle name, either.

And NOW he calls himself Jacob. Go figure.

Redstone

[achtung_circus]

25. I ran into a woman some years ago named Suzanne

except that she spelled it Sioux-Zane.

Thw Western theme, Sioux as in tribe, Zane as in author Grey.

[Redstone]

38. God, spare me. I knew two sisters: One's name was Constance, so

she spelled the shortened version Kahni, and when she introduced me to her sister, whose birth name was Victoria, I couldn't resist asking, "Vikki, right?"

Right.

What the HELL is it with women and bizarre, self-inflicted name spellings?

Khrystyne. I swear it's real I've seen it. I don't know how you'd pronounce it phonetically, but a cough followed immediately by a sneeze should come close.

Redstone

[Hell Hath No Fury]

27. My sister was named Lesbia...

the minute she turned 18 she changed it to Theresa. :)

[Redstone]

35. What the hell was wrong with your parents, if I may ask?

Redstone

[SeattleGirl]

31. A few....

Had a TA in high school named Lanny Pitts. His wife's name is Lana. His dad's name is Harry (no, I am NOT kidding).

My paternal grandfather's first and middle names: Luther Solon.

My maternal grandfather's first and middle names: Welton Marion.

[Lautremont]

34. I have a very weird name, such that I know there is no other

person in the world with that name. Google (though I have banished thee) bears this up.

That said, I know a guy named Parris Rollwagon Filbert. And no, I'm not making that up.

[joneschick]

37. you have to say it all in one breath

Renate Sofia Katrinka Hubertine Schlossmacher

HS stoner friend. I wonder where she is now :shrug:

[Redstone]

44. Good thing I speak German, or I WOULDN'T be able to say it all at once.

Helluva mouthful, right there.

Redstone

[mzteris]

42. My grandmother's

first and middle names: Athie Nisarah

My other grandmother: Ruby Leona

[MoseyWalker]

46. Ziltlath

She and her husband (who has a run of the mill name) are applying for jobs.

[Midlodemocrat]

48. I can't tell you. Not that you would believe me anyway.

[Redstone]

53. Why not?

Redstone

[johnnie]

54. I know a woman named Cricket

That's her real name. She is an old friend of Elvis Presley, but I yap with her a lot. I think Cricket is a strange name if you ask me.

[femmocrat]

58. I had a student named Cricket last year. She is in 7th grade now.

Cute on a pre-teen, no so much on an adult woman!

[Crabby Appleton]

55. I have a cousin

Peter (Pete) Moss

[hyphenate]

56. In my novel

I named one of my characters "Janelle." I thought it was relatively unusual, and that made it perfect for the kind of person she was.

However, after that, I kept running into women with that very same name--there must have been at least 4 over the space of four years which I thought was bizarre. But it isn't as unusual as I thought it was.

[Redstone]

60. It's just like when you buy a Volvo S60, you start noticing S60s

all around town.

I knew a lovely young lady named Janelle about 25 years ago; dammit, when you mentioned the name it reminded me that she was a keeper, even though I was too dumb to realize it at the time.

But, hell, if I had realized it, I wouldn't have Mrs R. so it's always for the best.

Redstone

[femmocrat]

57. Great topic!

Two former students:

McKeever Cabbagestalk and Jewel Dozier (and she was built like one!)

I recently had these two in the same year: Ry and Ky (first names, no relation)

If I look back through my grade books I could probably find about a million variations of
Katelyn, Kaylee, and Megan. It's really getting ridiculous.... and they expect the teachers to remember all those weird spellings! LOL

[Redstone]

61. And how about the current plague of "Makayla" and variants? God, that

name just grinds my gears for some reason. I'ts worse than the "J" plague of the 1980s...Jennifer, Justin, Jason, and on and on...

Redstone

[Lethe]

59. knew a guy named Kite

but nobody knew that was his real name except a close few.

oh one of my uncle's first names is Norflett

[Redstone]

62. You owe me a keyboard - I just spat vodka all over it.

NORFLETT? I love it!

Redstone

[Lethe]

63. lol. he was so paranoid that nobody knew his real name

except his wife. not even his best friends knew his real name. nobody found out until he died. (recently)

everybody called him Shorty. lol.

sorry bout the keyboard :P

[Redstone]

68. Well, he could have changed it. So I'll blame the keyboard on him

instead of on you.

Deal?

Redstone

[crim son]

64. My maiden name was

Schonblom. Nobody ever got it right... they pronounced the "c" or got lost in the "blom". We got mail for "Sconlolom". And when I was a young kid my schoolmates made it simple for themselves and called me "shitbomb". Builds character, so they say!

[RumpusCat]

65. I know a girl named Champagne

It's her real name, too.

[begin_within]

66. We had a neighbor named Fanny Large. Her first name was

Frances, but all her friends called her Fanny, so she was Fanny Large.

[begin_within]

67. My Dad had a co-worker named Minerva Texas Snodgrass.

[TOhioLiberal]

69. There's a girl I used to work with...

...Her first name is Twinkle. I asked her once if that was a nic or her real name. It's real.

[begin_within]

70. My Mom had a friend named Patti Titsworth.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

71. I had a friend in high school named Eena...

I had to be careful to say "hello" when I saw her, and not "hi".

"Hi Eena." :blush:

[Jamastiene]

72. Lorie Rorie.

Her mother tagged her with that one. If anyone ever writes a poem about her, she'll be legendary.

I on the other hand have 5 names, too damn many. And none of them are short either. Even my last name is 8 letters long. It takes me 10 freaking minutes to write my name. I got hyphens and accents over letters. Lucky for me there are no i's to dot and no t's to cross though. That'd take another 10 minutes with the way I write. :crazy:

If I ever get to become a journalist, I hope to go by "Eileen Left." That name just sounds so wonderful to me.

[Control-Z]

73. I knew a girl

named Dorcus and a guy named Arty Fishal. Oh, and my physician, when I was very young, was Dr. Bonebrake.

[radwriter0555]

74. Bentley Sears Craw. My grandpa. And my Uncle Macadoo.

Great names

[jus_the_facts]

75. How many Amberley's do you know?

....well that's my unusual first name. :hi:

[jobycom]

77. Back in 92 I met a man named Clinton Bush. nt

[Scruffbunny]

78. Okay. Names from my school.

Chquita. Shquita. (Same school. Same class.) Three Tiara's in one class (tee-AH-ra or tee-EAR-r, pronunctionation was optional). Laquesha, yar. 6 Ebony's. Shinara. Shiquanta. Laquandra.

My hands are now all tied up from typing those names

Mostly parents today are just grabbing consenants. Also, Mr. Chojnacki (hoi-nots-SKEE) in fourth grade, who everyone agrees was a... I'm not supposed to repeat that word... Actually, at that school, everyone had very confusing German last names.

My Great Grandmother's name was Bernice Ortha Scutt.

August Arrhenius. Great scientist. Great name.

[silverlib]

79. Dr. Richard Chop

in Austin, Texas - my husband's urologist - and yes, he does vasectomies.

[RetroLounge]

81. A Couple come to mind

I dated a girl once a long time ago named Grace. Her realname was Graszena Anna Maria Theresa Kanewski. I can't remember what she looked like, but I can never forget that name, it's so musical.

Then there's my Grandfather. His middle name was Hardin, which always intrigued me. The story goes: His mom wanted to name him Abraham after Lincoln, but hi father said it was too Jewish sounding (This was 1906) so they named him Albert, but the compromise was his middle name, Hardin. Abraham Lincoln was born in what is now Hardin County, KY.

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/sites/birth.htm

RL

[blondeatlast]

82. My hubby's first name is so unusual I won't post it here.nt

[Richard Steele]

83. Modesty forbids.

:rofl:

[5thGenDemocrat]

84. My grandmother G's middle name was Engleberta

Her husband's mother's name was Sophronia (which I always thought was kind of cool).
And I went to college in Petoskey, MI with a gal named Daneen Dunnette. She said it sounded like a train going down the tracks, which it surely does.
John
Not, thankfully, an unusual name. But my last name sounds like a belch.

[judaspriestess]

85. my fiance's sister named her kid

Spurr - personally I don't like it, it sounds to much like sperm