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blurgalurgalurga · Joined: 18 Oct 2007

Come to think of it, the one I knew was named Crysta Shanda Lear. So they're still unique after all.

littlelisa · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Location: Seoul

My grandmother wanted to name my mother Anna because she thought it was a nice name. She was from India, and at the time my mother was born was living in Iran. She finally chose another name when a friend clued her in -- seems Anna meant "*beep*" in Farsi.

(I don't know any Farsi, so I don't know, but I've heard this story from my grandmother and assume it's true)

davai! · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Location: Kuwait

Lucious Pusey Revealed

By Daniel Gale-Grogen

Imagine, if you will, a situation in which your parents named you Lucious Pusey. (Easy, Brick.) The thing is, you are a 22-year-old football player for Eastern Illinois University, not a top-heavy, gymnastically able blonde who completely misunderstood what your righteous high school classmates meant when they said, "See you at the pole!"

Well, if you had to endure the taunts of pigskin fans every weekend because your father, Horatius Felix Pusey, wanted to endow his son with a similarly flowery name, but instead everyone thinks your name sounds like the subtlely implied image of a Georgia O'Keeffe painting, you would visit an attorney, too.

The Smoking Gun has the paperwork for his official surname dump, in which the linebacker will now change his name to Lucious Seymour, after his mother's maiden name. The problem is that now fans are likely to call him "Seymour Lucious Pusey," which is even better than before.

Now, back to our seriousness.

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

I saw a sign for a Doctor Foote, who was a podiatrist, in Washington, DC.

The worst (best?), though, was a friend's father who was a gynecologist in Northern Virginia. His name was Harry Beaver.

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Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

My Mom was a school teacher for 30-something years and she had some real doozies.

The only one I can remember offhand was a child named "Tenasitee".

Complete with alternative spelling yet.

I've got the same name as a famous, gay movie star. Googling myself is useless.

blurgalurgalurga · Joined: 18 Oct 2007

Jarome_Turner · Joined: 10 Sep 2004

My cousin has the family name "Lyric". She named her kid Summer Song.

Summer Song Lyric.

Kinda cool, in a hippy sort of way.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

I trained with a guy in the army. His last name was Smallboy.

Darashii · Joined: 08 Jan 2008

I know a Princess Small and her father's name is Prince Edward Small (could have been worse: "Prince Albert"). They both get it from her grandfather, whose name is also Prince Small, but I don't know what his middle name is. Anyway, she says the tradition ends with her. :lol

Met a guy J. Dyck, but apparently there're many Dyck's in his hometown, so no one gets flack for it.

I know a Mercedes and a Porche.

I think that's all I have.

daskalos · Joined: 19 May 2006 Location: The Road to Ithaca

In the Navy I knew a Richard Skinner (he went by Richard).

I also saw men with the last names of Dickover and Manlick. (You know, you can change that name.)

In high school I knew a woman named Barbie Dahl.

I wonder if anyone has ever sued his/her parents over a scarring name.

blurgalurgalurga · Joined: 18 Oct 2007

I was just watching an old 'the Wire' re-run and noticed there's an actor on the show named--no kidding--"Alfonso Christian Lover."
Sounds like a Frank Zappa song or something.