Posted on 03/22/2008 8:56:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
What would compel a parent to bestow a newborn with a name like “Tiny Hooker” or “Fanny Large”? Or an amusing choice like “Wanna Towell"? It’s not just Hollywood’s elite opting for unique, embarrassing names—throughout history, normal people separated their offspring from the masses with truly terrible names.
In “Bad Baby Names,” Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, of the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, share thousands of shocking names given to real people, as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau. Discover the funny names based around common themes, like diseases (Fever Bender, Cholera Peace), food (Bread White, Pomegranate Purple), pets (Good Dog), and if you thought Wednesday Addams was unfortunate—wait till you meet Monday Monday.
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I knew a man once whose last name was Hood, he and his wife had a baby boy and named him Robin.
Anybody who names their kid Fanny Large should be shot. Geeze.
I know a guy named Lake Trout. Nice guy, really bad name.
I knew a kid named Bronco Buck. Yes, saw his birth certificate. Then you have parents who obviously named their kid for whatever their spoon of alphabet soup said. Just proves once again, there should be a license to be a parent.
My science teacher in 10th grade was named Harry Baum (H Baum) and he named his son Adam.
Middle name “Ng”.
I once went on a skiing trip and I sat next to this guy who put his name all over his skis, his name was “Rental.”
My best friend is a teacher and he had a student once who was unfortunate to have the first name of Lion. His middle name was Dragon. His parents must’ve played too much D&D. LOL!
A friend of mine had a student in class named “Shithead.” No joke, that is how it was spelled. It was pronounced “Shih-Thee-ed” with the “th” non-voiced as in “theta.”
When I worked in wholesale travel there was an owner of an agency who named it after himself—Dick Held Travel (yep, his real name).
In San Francisco no less.
Ima Pigg was a real person - Can’t remember if it was Pig or Pigg...
What about Dick Trickle, the auto racer.
PGA golfer dicky pride
Why? Because Eliot is a kid that eats paste... (or gets taken down hard by his own actions).
Now a good name: Nick... Nick's a guy you can drink beer with ;-)
Or the trucking company: A Duie Pyle
I’ve known chiropractors, Dr. Bones, Dr. Thumper, Dear sweet men. terrific doctors.
guy I work with Ping Pong, no kidding.
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