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Title: What's in a name?
Post by: gunug on July 27, 2008, 10:12:42 AM

Some parents in New Zealand decided 9 or so years ago to name their daughter "Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii" and they've now been overruled and have had their child taken away!  This is from a blog at USA Today:

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The government tells various news organizations that parents were blocked from giving these names to their children: Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Stallion, Twisty Poi, Keenan Got Lucky, Sex Fruit, Fat Boy, Satan, Adolf Hitler and 4Real.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/...ts-lose-cu.html

What's the weirdest name you've come across?

Title: What's in a name?
Post by: jwboyd on July 27, 2008, 02:43:05 PM

From the baby announcements in our local paper dated July 26, 2008:

"Maximilian Sebastian (last name withheld by me) was welcomed home by his sister, Lothorien."

EDIT to add:

My wife had a distant relative named Montana Louisiana. They called her Monty Lou.

Title: What's in a name?
Post by: krissel on July 27, 2008, 10:16:33 PM

Once had a student whose name was "Summer".  

Not that bad... except it was a boy.  

Title: What's in a name?
Post by: gunug on July 27, 2008, 10:42:34 PM

I really liked the name America Burroughs & Burrows that I saw in the Old Protestant Burying Ground in Rockville, MD (F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife were originally buried there because they were out of sorts with the Catholic Church).  This was I learned later a pretty popular name during the 1880's - 1910 period.

Title: What's in a name?
Post by: Gregg on July 28, 2008, 06:54:58 AM

QUOTE(krissel @ Jul 27 2008, 10:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Once had a student whose name was "Summer".

My wife has had some good ones:

Twins: Marco and Demarco
Sparshay
Shiya-Nyale
Yahouna (yo-hunna)
Shawntaria (shay-shay)
Linquill (len-quell)
Dequese

They just make 'em up!

Title: What's in a name?
Post by: Highmac on July 28, 2008, 11:48:12 AM

It would seem from that story there was no official objection to naming twins Benson and Hedges, a well-known UK brand of cigarette... generally regarded a few years ago as upmarket

And do you reckon No 16 Bus Shelter's parents were following the fashion for naming the child after where it was conceived?

Title: What's in a name?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on July 28, 2008, 03:02:37 PM

We once had Col. Nickoll's daughter, Penny, baby sit our youngster... We though they should have another girl and let them become a touring show. "Penny Nicholl's & Dines!" Might be a good name for a 'savings bank!'