***Funny Family Names***

[SkunkMomma]

We have had some wierd names in the past.
Swaney Ethel XXX my grandmother.
Icey Dora XXX my great grandmother
Mahaley Pearl XXX great grandmother
General XXX My cousin.
Armstrong used as a middle name several times
Can you tell I'm from the South?

 

[DDD]

:surprise: One of our boys who is a "naturalist" hooked up with
an RN who also thrived on a vegan diet etc....and they (sad to say) accidentally reproduced.

When the baby was due to be born, easy child called home to talk and my husband asked him "is it going to be girl or a boy?" The response was
"a boy BUT we haven't agreed on a name yet!" husband (a/k/a "the innocent one") :smile: replied "I'm sure it will be a terrific name!"

The baby is born. The call comes. Congrats are proffered. Then
the question "what is his name?" easy child says it was a rough choice
but we went with Phoenix. husband saids "what was the other name?"
easy child replies "we really didn't decide until today because it was a
toss up between Phonix and Uranus!"

:smile: Yep.....that was a Cutty moment! LOL! Can you imagine
ANY human being actually contemplating naming their kid "Uranus".
:nonono: DDD

 

[everywoman]

Okay---I teach in a small town in the south so I have taught a lot of kids with weird names---

One boy's name was
Felecia (pronounced Fellow see a)
His brother....Daddy Lock

My granfather's sisters
Minnie
Daughter (we called her Aunt Daughter)

My grandparents raised my younger sister and I. I have an aunt named Patty Rebecca (we called her Becky, but she went by Patty professinally). My younger sister is Patricia Lynn. We call her Patti. When they were younger they lived together and worked for the same school district where they were known as Patty with a y and Patti with an i because they had the same last name.

 

[DammitJanet]

Katmom...

The patty/i's remind me of what is happening in my family now. We have my oldest son who goes by Billy, my dad who is Bill, my son Jamies girlfriend who is Billie! When someone hollers Billy no one knows who the heck anyone is talking about...lmao.

I will never forget when I called my dad to tell him Jamie was having a baby. I didnt know he didnt know that Jamies girlfriend was named Billie so I told him that Jamie and Billie were having a baby and he was soooooooo confused! He thought I was saying Jamie and Billy....lmao. Poor 81 year old man.

 

[Sheila]

Oh, I remembered a really unusual name. In Houston, there was a philanthropist named Ima Hogg. Can you imagine anyone naming their child such?!?!

There was a joke that use to go around that Ima had two sisters, Youra Hogg and Theyrea Hogg -- but that's not true. But Ima -- she must have had some hard school years -- no matter how wealthy her family was.

 

[donna723]

We don't have too many funny ones in our family, but I've heard of a lot of strange ones. My 85 year old aunt never knew what her real name was until she started school. For some reason my grandmother named her "Bertha Laverne". /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/sick.gif My dad and the other older siblings refused to call her that and she's been "Toodie" since the day she was born - and still is! When she has to, she goes by "Laverne" or "B. Laverne". She was registered for school as "Laverne" but had no idea that was her name! She always thought her name was "Toodie". She went to Catholic school and she found out what her name was the very first day of school when the nun calling the roll called out "Laverne?" several times and she didn't answer. She finally looked up at the nun, who was hovering right over her by that time, and in the colorful vocabulary picked up from her older brothers said, "Who the H*ll is Laverne?"
:rofl:
I once worked with a very proper straight-laced lady with the unfortunate first name of "Lovey". Why she chose to marry a man whose last name was "Hussy" we will never know ... but she spent the rest of her life with a name that sounded like she was a porn star!
:kisses:
And I cracked up the first time I met my son-in-law's dad - his name is "Calvin", which isn't really funny. But he said he's the fifth and youngest son in his family. His older brothers are named, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. He said, "All those beautiful Biblical names ... and they named ME 'Calvin'!"
:smile:
But my all-time favorite ... this is kind of hard to do writing it down - it's easier if you tell it ... My son-in-law was telling us about two boys who go to school with his younger brother. These boys are identical twins. Their names are pronounced "La-mahn-gello" and "Or-ongh-gello". On their birth certificates, their mother spelled their names ...

L-E-M-O-N-J-E-L-L-O :salute: and

O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O :salute:

I kid you not!

 

[stepmonster]

My nephew's middle name is Prendergast.
My Mom worked with a guy named Chris Pissamissus.
I want to school with a family with the last name Bukunt.
All true.

 

[Fran]

Candace Kane worked with husband. It's sort of cute.

 

[Wiped Out]

What a great thread! My dad's middle name is Alphonse-one of my friends always called him Alphie. My mom's name is Leonie (I've never met anyone else with that name ever).

 

[I'm Hangin' on by a Thread]

My Dad had to go through life with his mother's maiden name as his first name - DeWolf!!!! And his last name (my maiden name) could have been a girl's first name so he was always listed as "girls name" DeWolf. His father called him Major for some reason - but the rest of the world knew him as simply De (pronounced Dee).

I went to school with a boy named Mike Guay (pronounced gay). His father's first name was Ben!!

I also knew a guy who's real last name was Green. I never knew why - but people called him Mr. Clean. He had a son late in life - and named the boy Ajax!

The most original name I ever heard was a girl I worked with years ago. Her name was (and I kid you NOT) was Starlina Lipe. We called her Star.

Fun Thread - thanks Suz!

Amy

 

[Big Bad Kitty]

Pixie's name is Cheyenne. If she were a boy, she was going to be named Reno.

 

[Suz]

I am loving all of these stories! Thanks so much!!! :bravo:

Donna, when I was very young I couldn't say "Susie" so I called myself "tu tu". That evolved into Tootlebug...then Tootie...then Tudie.

To this day, my Uncle Gordon and cousin Peach and my best friend in 8th grade call me Tudie. :rofl:

Suz

 

[donna723]

When I was very young, back in the Dark Ages :wink: I shared one side of a duplex with a couple of roommates. And the guy living on the other side was one of the best DJ's from the most popular radio station in town - back when everybody listened to the radio in their cars and it was a really big deal! People went into fits of envy when they found out he was our neighbor. He was this big, macho bearded type, very intellligent and well educated. He was a really neat guy, super nice, and had one of those cool "radio alias" names for when he was on the air. Which almost made up for his real name ... his mother, who seemed like a really nice lady otherwise, had chosen to name him "Gay" as a first name! It didn't have the same connotation back when he was born as it does now, of course. Back then it meant "happy", but it still sounded like a girls name. So he went by his middle name - "Carroll"! Poor thing.
:rofl:

 

[donna723]

Suz -

You have a cousin named "Peach"??????? :grin:

 

[Suz]

Yep, my cousin Anne is nicknamed Peach (like me and Tudie)...and I dated a guy named Carroll. :rofl:

Suz

 

[flutterbee]

My grandmother's name is Erie Avanelle and she married LeRoy.

My mother's name is Eugenia, but goes by Genia (pronounced Gina).

My uncle's name is Michael Walter, but (much to my grandmother's chagrin) goes by Wallie.

I went to school with a girl named Freedom and worked with a girl named Rebel.

My daughter's name is Wynter Grace and I often use both first and middle name with her...and she's about as graceful as a bull in a china shop. LOL Poor thing.

My exH's middle name is Shearl.

My former sister in law's daughter's name is Indie Soleil and I have a cousin named Lyric. My grandmother hated that name and called her "Baby L" until my uncle told her that she would either call her by her name or not see her.

A friend of my parent's is named Doug, but I've always known him as Tube. Have no idea how he got that name. Don't think I want to know, to be honest.

My uncle Dennis married a Jacque. My dad's name is Jack, but my grandmother always called him Jackie. So, we had Big Jacque and Little Jackie because my dad is only 5'9" and Jacque is 5'11". :rofl:

 

['Chelle]

I see a lot of names go through the computer in our office, and the two that stick in my mind as "what were their parents thinking" are a gentleman named Hilarious (I believe he went by Larry) and one name Harry Dyck. That one gave the whole office a chuckle.

 

[SearchingForRainbows]

Suz,

Thanks for starting this. I don't have anything to add right now, but its great to start the day :rofl: !!! WFEN

 

[Fran]

These are names of others husband has worked with over the years.
Blossom Wood
Cherry Canary
Chip Wood.

I love the name Peach, Suz. Something about her sounds so sweet.

 

[Big Bad Kitty]

Fran,
Not only sweet, but fuzzy too.