Unfortunate Christian & Surnames.

[mawnansmiff]

Whilst doing some more genealogical research into my family I stumbled upon this poor chap.....

Name:	Wellington Boot
Age:	32
Estimated Birth Year:	1869
Relation to Head:	Son
Gender:	Male
Father:	William Boot
Mother:	Louisa Boot
Birth Place:	Sauston, Cambridgeshire, England
Civil Parish:	Nottingham
Search Photos:	Search for 'Nottingham' in the UK City, Town and Village Photos collection
Ecclesiastical parish:	Holy Trinity
County/Island:	Nottinghamshire
Country:	England

One has to wonder what the parents were thinking when naming their son thus.

And for those with a schoolboy sense of humour I also have a Jenny Taylor on my tree, not Jennifer but Jenny!

Anyone else got any odd/humorous names in the family?

Regards,

Jay.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Anyone else got any odd/humorous names in the family?

Maybe not in the family, but as a teacher, I have had some crazy student names through the years. Some of them were fad names. For a while I had a ton of kids named after alcoholic beverages. I had Merlots, Courvoisiers, and Cabernets in damn near every class. Then it was cars. Mostly Porsches and Mercedes (which is an actual name, though I have a hunch that was not known). There was a Lexus as well.
My wife had a student in one of her classes whose legal given name was Playboy. Kind of a career-limiting name, really. I mean, that pretty much narrows his choices to porn star or rapper unless he gets it changed. Then there are aspirational names. I’ve had several Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, and one President. Still waiting on a Prime Minister.

 

[mso489]

I had a teacher friend who taught a young man named Sirloin. And a young woman named Reanalysis. While I find those somewhat "out there," I have been discouraged by my own very traditional name, in that many share the same name. I used to be called regularly to the Dean's office in high school for some young rebel who had my same name, and there is an NBA star, a beat poet, and a local real estate agent who sings in a choir who also share my name. So Sirloin ends up not sounding so bad. Hey Sirloin! Which one?

 

[Ettrick puffer]

The worst combo ever is Issac Hunt?
Happy smokes
Ettrick puffer

 

[Ettrick puffer]

I have also had a student whose Christian name was BJ, poor beggar ?
Happy smokes
Ettrick puffer

 

[sumusfumus]

A contestant on an old, 1970s TV game show...her name was...... Ima Hogg.

I hope the hapless lady had a good sense-of-humor, because the audience went into hysterics. Gene Rayburn was the TV host and could barely stifle himself from laughing right into the woman's face.

Ima.... is obviously not a good name for a girl.

 

[mawnansmiff]

I seem to recall a story I heard that the first child born to a mother who was given gas to assist in her birthing called the unfortunate child Anaesthesia! How true that is I cannot say.

Regards,

Jay.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I had a deabte teamer named Annalease, pronounced anna-lees, but you can figure out where I kept mispronouncing….

 

[sablebrush52]

One has to wonder what the parents were thinking when naming their son thus.

Sense of humor in dour times? Tribute to the Duke?

I once worked with a VFX producer named Mike Hunt. The receptionists had great fun with that over the intercom.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

A contestant on an old, 1970s TV game show...her name was...... Ima Hogg.

I hope the hapless lady had a good sense-of-humor, because the audience went into hysterics. Gene Rayburn was the TV host and could barely stifle himself from laughing right into the woman's face.

Ima.... is obviously not a good name for a girl.

A famous, now deceased, philanthropist and daughter of Texas governor “Big Jim” Hogg, was named Ima Hogg.

 

[BarrelProof]

The town I grew up in had a guy named Sandy Faggett. He changed his name once he got older.

Also, as kids, we used to prank call a guy named Dusan Mandix with regularity.

I also went to church with a girl named C.C. Dick who was good friends with another girl named Randall Elmo.

 

[anotherbob]

Well for bad names to have if you don't want to be laughed at ole H.B. takes the cake. See both his parents are really smart and foreign. How smart they where able to get offered really great jobs here that didn't require them to learn English the company provided translators (that's what happens when you're really smart and good at what you do). For whatever reason they never learned the English good. They wanted their son to be American and have a very good strong American name They thought Harry fit the bill, which it would have if their last name wasn't Butz. H.B. is a great guy by the way.
Also went to school with a Justin Case.
And had a customer named Misery Anguish (found out that in the area she lived there was a small cult that thought Jesus was a holy sadist. Basically they thought the more you suffered the more Jesus liked you and the better chance of going to heaven.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Well for bad names to have if you don't want to be laughed at ole H.B. takes the cake. See both his parents are really smart and foreign. How smart they where able to get offered really great jobs here that didn't require them to learn English the company provided translators (that's what happens when you're really smart and good at what you do). For whatever reason they never learned the English good. They wanted their son to be American and have a very good strong American name They thought Harry fit the bill, which it would have if their last name wasn't Butz. H.B. is a great guy by the way.
Also went to school with a Justin Case.
And had a customer named Misery Anguish (found out that in the area she lived there was a small cult that thought Jesus was a holy sadist. Basically they thought the more you suffered the more Jesus liked you and the better chance of going to heaven.

My mother in law went to school with a girl named Fanny Shaver. She’d have been the perfect wife for Harry Butz.

 

[anotherbob]

My mother in law went to school with a girl named Fanny Shaver. She’d have been the perfect wife for Harry Butz.

Just remember that in Britain a fanny is at the same latitude but on the other side of the body. Which reminds me of a bad joke. "Two old ladies are sitting at church in the front pew". The first old lady whispers to the other "look in the back row I can't tell but is that Fanny Green?" The other old ladies turns around and looks, when she turns back she says "no dear it's just looks like that because of the sunlight through the stained glass"
Not a great joke, but I love bad jokes.

 

[dcon]

I have encountered a few of these throughout the years. When I managed a Best Buy, years ago, the POS Help Desk tech’s name and number was posted on all of the registers. Appropriately, he was named Dick Head.

My ex worked in a maternity/delivery ward in college. She reported a new mother, when asked to have her child’s name recorded for the birth certificate, insisted that the girl already had a name listed: Female (pronounced fee-molly).

My all time favorite was a name I ran into when I was doing collections back in college. A customer had the name Borah Hymen.

 

[BlackSwampPiper]

In Toledo, there is a urologist of some name whose given name was Richard Tapper. He went by Dick and he was THE man to get your vasectomy from around here. Anecdotally, a family member of mine asked if anybody makes fun of his name and his response was “not when they are in your position!”

 

[Casual]

An ancestor a hundred years ago was apparently named N B. These letters weren’t short for anything, the name was the letters.

Upon joining the army, the recruiter didn’t accept the letters and asked him to fill out his full name on the form. He wrote, “N only, B only.” The drill sergeant pronounced it as best he could.

And that is how my ancestor came to known as Nonely Bonely.

 

[kcghost]

For some reason my grandfather named may father Alpha Eugene.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Back home growing up, there was a farmer named Harden Long. No joke.

 

[irishearl]

I think some parents in naming their kids don't give enough thought to what they're saddling their kids with. Back in the early 70's had a pot head philosophy prof who named his kid cowboy buckeroo. sheesh.