People with ill-considered names

San Antonio Express-News ^ | 01/29/2010 | Source: “Bad Baby Names,” by Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback; http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/2363

[Responsibility2nd]

• Fever Bender (born 1856)

• Leper Priest (1929)

• Cholera Priest (1830)

• Rubella Graves (1814)

• Typhus Black (1897)

• Hysteria Johnson (1881)

• Emma Royd (1850)

• Kathryn E. Coli (1894)

• Mumps Sykes (1891)

[Responsibility2nd]

Psshh.

That's it? These names pale in comparion to the handles today's kid are stuck with.

[painter]

I personally knew a guy with the name of Soda Popp and he had a sister named Lolly.

[ClearCase_guy]

Barack Hussein Obama

[capt. norm]

On the "Judge Joe Brown" TV program I heard one of the litigants introduce as Latrina.

I have heard some pretty creative first names, but that one got me.

[Lakeshark]

I knew a Jack Frost, and a Theodore Beyer.

[Farmer Dean]

Knew a truck driver named Dick Small back in the 1970s.Those last name first,first name last government forms must have been a bitch for him.

[MNJohnnie]

Richard Head

[goseminoles]

Haywood Yadome?

Phil McCracken?

Ophelia Balls?

[Rennes Templar]

How about Ketchum Cold?

[supremedoctrine]

How about inappropriate names, like my favorite from
Hackensack, NJ
Dr. Carunchio, DDS

[mad_as_he$$]

Illiteracy in Louisiana ?

(don’t even try to top this!)

How would you pronounce this child’s name?
She spells her name “Le-a”
So how would YOU pronounce her name?
Leah? .....................NO.
Lee - A? .................. NOPE.
Lay - a? ............ NOT A CHANCE.
Lei?..........NICE TRY, BUT GUESS AGAIN!

This child attends a school in Livingston Parish, LA.
Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her child’s name wrong.
She says it’s pronounced “Ledasha.”
When the Mother was asked how in the world she figured
it should be pronounced that way, she said,
“cause the dash don’t be silent!”
So, if you see a name come across your desk like this,
please remember to pronounce the dash.
And if anyone axes you why, tell them it’s ‘cause the dash don’t be silent!
They live among us, they vote, and they breed

[Joe 6-pack]

E. Norm Espinas

[JHENN22499]

I know a Dick Peachak

[mollynme]

My mother, who never lies, swears she went to college with a Harold (aka Harry) Openbottom.

[mad_as_he$$]

Years ago I worked with a guy whose last name was Copp. His kids were “Motorcycle” and “Traffic”. The next one to be born was destined to be “Homicide”.

[aruanan]

Here's my not-yet-updated list:

Boys' names: Amber, Canard, Chalance, Cigarette, Cook, Dang, De-Ante, De-rice, De-arse, Delante, Dell, Devoid, Diante, Farad, Ferric, FoFo, Lathe, Natron, Romain, Rondel, T’Corian, Sheik, Talon, Tauraus, Tobacco, Tron, Wait

Girls' names: Arthurine, Baileen, Brie, Butterfly, Cambria, Chanel, Choclate, Ciera, Deja, Destiny, Hosanna, Java, Kia, Latrina, Lavoria, Milka, Monay, Necia, Necie, Ocolor, Phalopia, Phyla, Raven, Regime, Tandy, Tea, TyLenol, Unique, Yelling, Yo-Yo

[frankenMonkey]

Gay Jonhson's in Colorado.

[frankenMonkey]

er, Johnsons

[Doohickey]

Heywood Jablome
Amanda Hugginkiss
Anita Koch
Emerson Bignutz
Craven Morecock

[La Lydia]

Some notes on your girls’ names. “Latrina” is the woman in Washington DC who killed one of her children and then sued to get custody of the ones who survived. “Necia” means stubbornly foolish in Spanish.