Weirdest family name contest.

[TNDemo]

Here's mine and Mr. TNDemo's -

Rondo Judson
Dorcas Victoria
Oliver Clyde
Gerdline
Grandparents named Walter and Mildred who named their set of twins after themselves - so Walter and Mildred cubed. They are still called Brother and Sister. So I have an Uncle Brother and Aunt Sister.

[phaseolus]

1. Grandma

Wilhelmina Johannah Susannah Froehlich. "Minnie" for short.

[DODI]

2. These are our stand outs

Dorcas Miller
Merritt PenDell
Adele Mildred


Second names are all middle names

[Padraig18]

3. A great aunt:

Zelphia Arzula O'Reilly, called "Zel", for short.

[texas_teacher]

4. Here's mine

Mom's Side
Great Grandmother -- Orlinda
Grandmother -- Cordella Gladys
Great Grandfather -- Merrit Miller
Grandfather -- Merrill Wright Miller
Uncle -- Merrill Cordell Miller

Dad's side
Grandfather & Brother's = Leo, Roman, Julius, Arno

[Palacsinta]

5. Daronda and Bernzetta

They were just lucky they didn't get the "Lou" middle name that most of us other cousins have. (No more need to wonder why I picked "Jethrine" as my DU name. It's an improvement!!!)

[Bossy Monkey]

6. Not my family, but Utah Mormon baby names are always fun

Just follow the link; it has nothing to do with Wes Clark as far as I can see. It's just the Utah Baby Namer (ie ubn):
http://wesclark.com/ubn/
Some are just beyond all belief and understanding. All are supposed to be real, 'though some are from the nineteenth century.

Some samples:
Boylynn
Bucket
Chevrollette
Dude
Dull

Chinchilla Zest
Christmas Holiday
Clonell
DeFonda Virtue
Dickalyn

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. With the names I've just seen in the A and B sections...

It makes me wonder if these people are reading Romance novels. Brik? Aries? What the hell are these people thinking?
Duckie

[Bossy Monkey]

25. Thinking?

Here's a few more:
Marvelous Man
M'Kay
Moyle
Orange
Thermos
Tugdick

Hallah Lujah
Iola Violate
Magpie
Patches
Pork Chop
Sin'D
Sleeza
Speedy

[nini]

7. Monterville was my Grandpa's middle name

Henry Monterville...


not sure why

[TNDemo]

8. A couple more...

Forgot one - Juanell.

I have a friend that has two sets of twins in her family. They are named Reda and Weda and Regina and Wegina. What weed were they smoking when they named their kids?

[DODI]

9. Twins in our family -- Emma and Gemma

[MissMillie]

21. twins in my family too

and their names are Mary and..... Mary.

(different middle names: Alice and Marguerite)

[Red State Rebel]

10. Mom was Lillian Mathilda, her sisters were Gertha, Agnes, Mary Emma..

Grandfather was Etherton

[Nikia]

11. Great Grandmother Elma

My grandfather said that people when they saw her name thought that she was male and her name was Elmer. Another great grandmother is Angelia, but I like that name.

[SmileyBoy]

12. It's more unique and ethnic than weird, but...

...my last name is Gurkanlar (GER-kaan-laar). It's a Turkish last name that's even rare in Turkey. It's not even like it's a common Turkish surname.

[SheilaT]

13. No one in my mother's family

could bother with their real names. My mom, Catherine, was known as Kitty. Margaret was Gaggy, Anne was Sis, Pat was Buds, and Robert was Brud (for brother, I think. At least Kitty was a standard nickname for Catherine back then.

[XNASA]

14. I have a double name, name........

Like William Williams, or Peter Peters, or Edward Edwards, or Robert Roberts.

In fact, it's one of the 4 above names. Plus, I'm a Jr. So it gets really confusing.

On my Mom's side, she and all of her siblings have the letter "Y" somewhere in their first name. There's...

Floyd, Corey, Maryland, Sylvia, Gayland and Hal Ray.

And........I have a cousin named Amanda Lynn.

My wife has a cousin named Dorcas as well.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. My Grandfather---Veryl Bobo.

He went by Bud. I miss him so very much.

[MSchreader]

16. The Schreaders

My late grandfather (father's side) was named "Clarence Franklin Schreader". Everyone called him "Bill". Two of his sons -- two of my uncles -- are named "Clarence Franklin" (called "Butch" -- never "Junior"!) and "Franklin Clarence" ("Frank"). The other two sons are Tim (who looks just like Tommy Chong) and Tom (my father).

All four of them were born in February: Frank on Lincoln's Birthday (2/12); Butch on Valentine's Day (2/14); Tim on Washington's Birthday (2/18); Tom on President's Day (2/22) ... all different years. Bill's birthday was also Lincoln's Birthday.

Bill's mother's name was Merm Schreader. She lived to be 110.

Martin

[BigMcLargehuge]

18. we had a congressman in NH named Dick Swett

LOL...

His wife Katrina Swett ran for congress last election but lost to Repubican Charlie Bass.

[central scrutinizer]

19. three aunts

Prudence, Constance, Delphinium

[politicat]

27. Constance isn't strange....

that one's mine.

Couldn't they think of another virtue?

Politicat

[MissMillie]

20. family name is Wood, it was changed (as the fam crossed the pond)

Over in England the family name was "Death"

[LizW]

22. My grandfather was named after the fighter

John L. Sullivan. His friends and contemporaries called him "Sully" although Sullivan was not actually part of his name.

My father was a "Jr." and his parents and sister called him June and sometimes Junie. I was tickled when I started watching the Sopranos and Tony called his uncle "Uncle June".

[Cat Atomic]

23. I collect weird and interesting names. :)

Here are a few from my list...

Pele Juju

Wolf Deathrage

Harry Balz (But he went by Harold, for obvious reasons).

Matt Black

[HEyHEY]

24. When you say my older sister's first and last name fast......

It sounds like genital

[politicat]

26. Mom is Vernda. Sis had a near miss: Elvira Jolene.

Yes, that's what my father the psycho wanted to name his poor, innocent, third daughter. He wanted to nickname her Ellie Jo. (this was the 1980s, in suburbia.)

She got lucky. Daniella is not nearly as bad.

Daughter 1 is Constance, a nice virtue. That's me.

Daughter 2 was born when 1 was 3. At that impatient, temperamental, can't wait for anything stage.

Daughter 2 is named Patience. (It worked about as well as naming a girl Chastity works.....)

Daughter 1 wanted to name daughter 3 Silence, but got voted down. (At 7, she thought it would make a great deal of sense - shout for the baby, and everyone shuts up.)

Politicat

[trof]

34. Oh yeah, "bigs" and "littles".

Another southern thang.
My grandmother was Mildred.
So was my mom.
Hence the family called them "Big Mildred" and "Little Mildred".
We had a Big Helen and a Little Helen too.
I was "Little Buddy" for a while, but thankfully it didn't take. My grandfather's sisters called him Bud.

on edit: woops-replied to wrong post
:-(

[ChickMagic]

28. We had

My grandmother Ola Gilley and her sisters Dola and Eula. My grandfather was Vardy Gilley. Can you guess where they were from? :)
My great aunt was named Dizera. She was born shipboard on the way over here, and her illiterate parents tried to name her Desiree, but nobody in steerage could spell it. It's become a family name. At last check, there were 24 Dizeras.

[undergroundpanther]

29. Alright

One of my Anscetors was named Baney Caney.That's what his birth record says.Where that name came from I have no clue.
Ther's alot of weird names in my anscestors.
I can go dig up more where that one came from.
I know a woman her name is,Virginia Hamm.
And my married name now is Pupa.
Glad my name isn't Baney Caney Pupa.

Go figure.

[trof]

30. Southerners win, hands down.

Many of us have old, family last names for first names.
I guess it's an immortality complex?
I have a cousin who's first name is Gross.
And Cullpepper Bragg Exum is a kid I was in grammar school with.
Another close childhood buddy was Branch Bernard Burton III.
We called him B.B. and, later B3 (B cubed).
For some reason, the name Ledbetter conjures up double wides with an old pick up on blocks and a sofa on the porch.
Millard Bren Sweat was a neighbor who passed away recently.
And last, but far from least, I am...
Massey Sanford Lambard, Jr.
Maybe that's why I go by "Butch".

OK, jump on THAT, NSMA!
;-)

[amandae]

31. Dick Head

Seriously, this guy in the town my parents live in is named Richard Head and he goes by the first name Dick. I had heard about him through people I worked with when I lived up there, but never met him. My father did meet him though, and he introduced himself as "Dick Head."

I also knew of a couple (they were VERY young) who had a child and named the child Jamie. The father's name was also Jamie. The mother's name was also Jamie. Talk about confusing!

In high school there was this guy named Scott Scott ... his father was an administrator in our school.

:eyes:

[Pattib]

32. Paternal great-great-grandma..Headwigga.

My sister used it for her confirmation name about 25 yrs. ago. We teased her incessantly. I don't know why she chose that name.

[Roon]

33. My Grandfather's

Orval

Sorry Grandpa! :-)