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)

[Trajan88]

Not ill’in.. but his legacy lives on: John Crapper :-)

[tanknetter]

Dover kids: Benjamin, Stanley and Eileen.

[Recon Dad]

Can I ask where these names came from?

[Mjaye]

I once worked as a telephone operator back in the stoneages. A favorite listing was Myrtle Purtle.

[radiohead]

The head of Michigan’s Honors Program when I was there was one Otto Graf. We had a family friend named Heyaudrey and my aunts lived next door to the Cabbagestalk family.

[MNJohnnie]

How about Ima Hooker? Her parents must really of hated her

[arasina]

Richard Head

That was actually the name of my high school principal. Everyone called him Richard, of course.

I used to work with a girl named Ria Gano. It wasn't so bad for her except during a roll call.

[Daffynition]

[BulletBobCo]

Ima Dumas

[SAJ]

Or Michael Hunt.

[WWTraveler]

Worked with a guy named Donald Duck. He had sailed with Whitey Mac for the first trip under the North Pole in a submarine.
Have you ever read “Catch 22”. One of the characters was named Major Major Major. Of course the Army Air Corp. had to make him a Major. While he was still in Boot Camp.

[dfwgator]

Former Cleveland Browns receiver, Fair Hooker.

[BulletBobCo]

I knew an old guy by the name Richard Seaman

[P.O.E.]

My college roomate went on to serve in the Air Force on the same base with Major Dick and Captain Cumm.

[60Gunner]

Dick Trickle was a NASCAR driver in the 70s and 80s.

[r9etb]

Don’t forget Ima Hogg. You got to wonder about her parents.

Her father, Jim Hogg, was governor of Texas in the 1890s.

Ima was a very great lady, as it happens.... and lovely enough to live down the name:

[arasina]

Where I once worked, guys would try to get a new or temp receptionist to page Dick Gazinia.

[chasio649]

I knew a Bunker Hill.

[GoldMan]

I worked with a girl named Hope, who had an older sister named Faith. Unfortunately, the third child was a boy, so they named him Charlie.

I went to High School with Faith, Hope, AND Charity!

[MNJohnnie]

Jack Hoffman