Names...

Post by **Hobie** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:33 pm

I love genealogical research. Sometimes what you find is quite sad, or touching but sometimes it is just funny. I just ran into a lady named "Anna May Day". I don't know what her parents were thinking but that just tickled my funny bone.

I bet you have run into such, what is it that makes parents saddle their kids with such names?

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:37 pm

My Dad worked with a guy in the Bureau with the last name "Brian".

Guess what he called his son?

"Brian"!

Rube Burrows · Post by **Rube Burrows** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:51 pm

I have a few names in my family that are not names you here everyday.

Myrt and Hezzie are a couple. Both men I might add.

shooter · Post by **shooter** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:10 pm

My grandpa's aunt was named Myrte. His great grandmother's name was America...yes, you read right, America. I think there were just a lot more "unusual" names back in those times. My great grandmother's name was Zora. She had siblings named Modini, Cora, Nora, Ozete, and some others I can't remember off the top of my head. People, especially backwoods country folk from the south, just had a unique way of living and thinking. I think a lot of that culture went into the names of the kids.

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:22 pm

Rusty Nail in Broken Arrow, OK

Ray Newman · Post by **Ray Newman** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:43 pm

Some names I came across during my caerer as a Federal civil servant:
William Shake Speare
Olive Green
Maureen Green
Jade Green
Buck Wheat (occupation listed as “farmer”)
Royal Elk
True Blue
China Clipper
Peter Lust
Jack D. Ripper

fordwannabe · Post by **fordwannabe** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:45 pm

One of the teachers at my elementary school was named Anita something or other, then she married the principle Mr Richard Dick so she became ....Anita Dick.. say that fast over a school pa system to a bunch of 5th grade boys and see what ya get.

piller · Post by **piller** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:03 am

One of our Loss Prevention people was named Richard Yaws. Yaws is a disease caused by a type of bacteria called a spirochete. Dick Yaws is a rather funny name for someone around the medical professions. At a pharmacy I worked at a long time ago, there was a girl named Rickettsia. Rickettsia is the name of a type of bacterial infection, and the mother saw the name in a Doctor's office and thought it would make a great name for a child.

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:15 am

I do land title research, and see quite a few interesting names. One of my all time favorites is Floretta Fay Fisher. That was her married name and I wonder if one of her requirements for a husband was that his name started with "F".

soon 2 retire · Post by **soon 2 retire** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:37 am

Used to work with a Jack Frost. This past weekend in the hospital I met a nurse practitioner named Melody Music; I never asked if it was her married or maiden name.

Bob in Friday Harbor

Ravenman · Post by **Ravenman** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:43 am

How would you like your name would be: Hans Judas?

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:38 am

I have a cousin named Iona. It was never a big deal till her first husband died and she remarried a guy with the last name of Nutt.

Stan in SC · Post by **Stan in SC** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:53 am

Many years ago a company were I worked had a customer named Turly Curd.I swear it's true.It was hard to talk to the customer on the phone without screwing up when you called him by name.

Stan in SC

Ji in Hawaii · Post by **Ji in Hawaii** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:00 am

My dad had a friend named Dick Dangler, dad could never say his name with a straight face.

My oldest sis had two friends one named Polly Ester, and the other named Amanda Lynn.

JBledsoe · Post by **JBledsoe** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:49 am

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A friend of mine is named Shitz Stark. Say that with a straight face.

BenT · Post by **BenT** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:02 am

My neighbors name is Glen Glen. Thats right Glen to the power of 2. My cousin's name is Peter Ennis and of course you know how he got razzed in school.

JB · Post by JB » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:10 am

Although the names weren't strange, I had an uncle who had a strange method of naming his kids. With his first wife he had children with names like "Joe Smith Jr., Bill, Mary, Lisa, etc" They had several kids which she took after they divorced. He married a second wife and used the exact same names. So he had two "Joe Smith Jr's, Bill's, Mary's, Lisa's, etc". It was pretty sad yet weird that he seemed to be trying to replace the children he lost.

turnkey · Post by **turnkey** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:21 am

My great-grandfather's name was Ananias. His wife's name was Anna.

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:54 am

I had a neighbor with a passel of kids. Great folks. Their last name was Lien and all the kids names began with the first letter of the alphabet. So their return address labels read Russ, Kari & the A Liens.

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:44 am

Knew a girl in college named Merry Christmas.

I also used to patronize a barbershop called
Al Dente's Barbershop.

-Stretch

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:02 am

I went to High School with the very famous Dick Hertz.............................

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klhill · Post by **klhill** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:24 am

I went to high school with Merry Christmas Trees. She had two brothers, Jack Pines Trees and Douglas Fir Trees!

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:40 am

Y'all ought to read "Freakonomics" sometime. Some doozies in there. My favorite?

Le-a

It's pronounced "Ledasha"...'cause "the dash dont be silent"...

SteveR · Post by **SteveR** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:58 pm

Ysabel Kid wrote:My Dad worked with a guy in the Bureau with the last name "Brian".

Guess what he called his son?

"Brian"!

I guess it was easy to learn how to spell his first and last name!! lol

Steve

Garneteye · Post by **Garneteye** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:55 pm

Worked with a guy who went by PL, his real name: Pleasent Lee Carter. Went to school with a girl named Harriet, who's nickname was "Happy" Senn. Finally had a good friend who's daughter name was Allison. Ok, until she married - Allison Allison.

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:11 pm

One of my sisters, Camille, married Chris McNeil; Camille McNeil... I have a good friend who is a teacher; Mr. Boring.

TX50Cal · Post by **TX50Cal** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:51 pm

Rube Burrows wrote:I have a few names in my family that are not names you here everyday.

Myrt and Hezzie are a couple. Both men I might add.

My Dad's name was Hessie. He always said it was supposed to be spelled with two Z's but the Dr. wrote it wrong on his birth certificate.
Dave in TX

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:21 pm

My Grandfather Homer had sibs named Myrtie,Gertie, Odis, Ottis(twins),Finis(fine), Ernest Darling, Elby, Callie and about eight others. His dad was "Hard" Cash....from his middle name, Hardin.

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:32 pm

Pm sent Hobie

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:06 pm

There was a girl worked in our office at Pratt & Whitney back in the early 80's whose name was Melody Ring. I thought the name unusual, but it had a pretty sound to it.

ollogger · Post by **ollogger** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:12 pm

I knew a guy bye the name of Terry Anderson
he met a gail & married her,her maden was Teri Anderson

My Grandmas name was Amali Alma Wolfgang, her brothers were
wolfers in the early years of the 1900s in Wis.

ollogger

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:50 pm

If two Wongs get together...do they make a Wright?

2571 · Post by **2571** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:07 pm

Know of a poor little kid named Richard Head.

Went to school with Sean Puzdrowski.

Wife knew a person who named her kid Orangserlada Johnson.

spaceman spiff · Post by **spaceman spiff** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:11 pm

A kid I went to school with had the given name Grover.
In itself not bad. But it made everyone crack up when we played
Red Rover..............

spaceman

spaceman spiff · Post by **spaceman spiff** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:15 pm

My Mom's Mom, my Grandmother had 2 brothers. Lewis and Royal.

Their last name? Stoner.

I ain't making that up.

Uncle Royal's dead now but was the coolest dude I ever met.

spaceman

38-55 · Post by **38-55** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:54 pm

My Great Grandfather's name was Quartus

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:03 pm

spaceman spiff wrote:...Uncle Royal's dead now but was the coolest dude I ever met...

Did he leave you his stash?

spaceman spiff · Post by **spaceman spiff** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:20 pm

Old Ironsights wrote:
spaceman spiff wrote:...Uncle Royal's dead now but was the coolest dude I ever met...
Did he leave you his stash?

I don't imagine there was that term to describe some folks when he was born. I last saw him in 1978.
He died a few years later when I was away in the Army.

I really miss him.

I wish his brother My uncle Lew would have me his "stash"
He bought a house and land seaside in Del Mar CA after he got back from WWII, was not expensive then.

spaceman

Shasta · Post by **Shasta** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:32 pm

Went to high school back in the 60's with a Chinese kid named Wee Lee Yee.

The gay guy in our class had the last name of Swisher.

SHASTA

765x53 · Post by **765x53** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:34 pm

2571 wrote:Know of a poor little kid named Richard Head.

Went to school with Sean Puzdrowski.

Wife knew a person who named her kid Orangserlada Johnson.

I also knew a Richard Head. What were his parents thinking?

I used to work with a fellow named Dick Shook.

Ji in Hawaii · Post by **Ji in Hawaii** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:51 pm

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piller · Post by **piller** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:58 pm

Went to school with a Scott Hood. His dad's first name was Robin. Before anyone ever sent anything but voice and morse code by wire, my dad had and uncle named Fax. Back when I worked for Kmart, we had a Pharmacist over in Cedar Hill named Rick Paul Hatley, not so funny until you look at his initials. RPH was a RPh.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:33 pm

"...what were parents thinking..." Well........ I named my son so that his initials would read "JAG"! Anyway... that's what I tell HIM!

20cows · Post by **20cows** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:36 pm

Had a student that went by PL. He was named "Precious Love" by his grandmother.

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:17 am

And then there's this:

Lastmohecken · Post by **Lastmohecken** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:09 am

I know a man named X Dotson. Everyone just calls him X. I always heard that when he was in the service, they made him take another name besides just X.

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:27 am

Had a co-worker once named RG, as in RG Lutz. No initials there and it wasn't short for something - his first name was simply two letters.

When he told me this I rolled my eyes and said something sensitive like, "You gotta be kidding me." Needless to say we did not become fast friends...

Oly

veeman · Post by **veeman** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:56 am

I have a friend who I worked with that lost a couple fingers in a forge press. His name is...

Tad Stubbe.

true story.

Les Staley · Post by **Les Staley** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:15 pm

Two of my grandfather's brothers (he was born 1882) were named Bert and Ernie.. loooooong before Sesame Street...

rodeo kid · Post by **rodeo kid** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:48 pm

When I was in the Army, we had a guy in basic training whose name was "Elmer sees the elk". That was in 1964 and I can still remember it clear as day. However, if I set my glasses down somwhere nowadays and walk off, 5 minutes later I have no idea where I put them.

God Bless.