Strange but true BIRTHnames of NORMAL people you've known

My wife added that she had an aerobic instructor named Fern Bunn.

Also a real estate in our locale Paul Pasgass.

A teacher friend of mine came across a cultural mispronunciation. It is She-themed, but spelt Shithead. She was warned about it ahead of the first day of class.

And if you doubt these, then think again. After 62 years, you come across some strange ones. They tend to stick in your memories.

Stagger Lee wrote:

I just though of a couple more.

There were two brothers from around here named Lemonjello and Orangejello (pronounced O-ron-ja-low and Lem-on-ja-low). Not kidding.

I believe it, because my Dad worked with someone who named her two daughters Lemongenade and Orangenade.

isssss wrote:

One of my sister's friends is called Iona Rocket

Sports Illustrated once had a piece about a high school football team, or in 'faces in the crowd,' or some capacity in which one of the key players was Skyler Rocket. He went by Sky. The story even talked about his parents and why he was named Skyler.

No innuendo here, but strange none the less.

I made recruiting calls to a sprinter once whose name was La'shonvondalequa (I can't remember if that was the exact spelling or not - but that's pretty close). If I remember correctly she went by "Shon".

My wife told me she overheard a conversation between a mother and a nurse over some confusion of the name of the woman's daughter: La-a. The mother was infuriated that the nurse couldn't figure out how to say it "properly". It was supposed to be pronounced: La(dash)a. YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO PRONOUNCE THE DASH! Poor kid never had a chance.

Daughter of the guy who owns Belle Tire is named Michelle Lynn. Yes - Michelin.

Had a Michael Hunt on my cross team freshman year, and I knew a Robert Faget in Elementary school. Terrible.

Went to kindergarden with John Mooseburger.

Had a neighbor whose mom was F.M. Mooberry - she insisted on being called "F.M." and said she didn't have a first name. Turns out she did have one and the "F.M." stood for "Fanny Mae".

In high school, I met Otho Elmer Hooper.

I knew an Elmo Elmer Crump.

Went to high school with LaMont Larobederre

Went to high school with Bill Ix ("icks")

Met a Filipino girl whose name I can't spell, but it was pronounced Lose-uh-two-nell-zah To-lose-uh-pickle. (I swear to God.)

Abcde (ab-see-dee) real name given to a kid.

After John Kennedy was assassinated and was resting in state in the capital before burial a pregnant mother in Albany, GA was so moved she named her daughter born then "Capital Rotunda". I never followed up on her but always wondered if she became obese.

Mary Christmas

C senor wrote:

Stagger Lee wrote:

I just though of a couple more.

There were two brothers from around here named Lemonjello and Orangejello (pronounced O-ron-ja-low and Lem-on-ja-low). Not kidding.

I knew this BS would pop up in this thread. Every thread about weird name, someone claims this...... and you were at Woodstock, too, right.

I heard about this from several people around here. Looks like I bought into the urban legend as well.

B.J. Weiner

I knew a lady named Happy Savage.

In my sister's class there was a girl named Female (pronounced Fa -Molly) Jackson.

I knew a pharmaceudical rep named Gaye Davy. I'd call her mobile phone and her standard greeting was "Gaye Davy!". She was obviously quite comfortable with it.

Justin Butts

A couple of women named BJ

Any guy named Dick, but most memorable was Dick Ball Wilcox

One couple named third child Five

A woman named Kevon

Randy Persson

Mary Christmas

We had two girls at our old school, Erica Willy and Teresa Green. Could never understand why their parents would do that to them.

Back in my youth track days I ran on a team with three brothers named Shaka, Menachem, and Ramses Dukes after the respective historical leaders. They had an older sister named Egypt.

I also had a friend who rented out an his guest house to a man who moved to the US from Korea named Phuk Yu Ho. That is probably the best one I have ever heard. He eventually changed his name to Phil to Americanize it. Honestly, Phil Yu Ho is equally funny.

Here are some other interesting names I have come across either via running, school or work:

Richard "Dick" Dent IV

Harry Pitts

Mason Cock

Nimrod Pigee

An entire family with the last name Glasscock (There were three brothers)

Did you grow up in Illinois? I know those guys too, that's crazy. I'm from South Elgin.