Dr. Frank's What's-it

I have a couple for you. My wife's cousin named her child Sierra Brooke Hill. We call her geography girl. Again, my wife's new freind's daughter is named Luna Solstice (sp???). In the immortal words of Homer, "doh!".

Ha ha...just ran into another one here at work. A woman in Latin America has the first name of "Lady". It's like having a title and a sense of regalness built in as your birthright, isn't it? Could you imagine introducing yourself to this person in a public place? "Hello, my name is Joe Smith." She replies, "Glad to meet you Joe, I'm Lady Sexton". It would be a bit awkward, no doubt. Could you imagine if your parents named you Doctor Frank Portman?? This situation is actually brought up in the comic strip "Jump Start", there is a preschooler named Doctor Appleby. It's an amusing read, try it out!

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/jumpstart/

Austria is another country that has laws about what you can name your kids. It's pretty strange, but I don't know if it's a bad thing. Some names are just irritating. I had a friend once that wanted to name his kid Justice Skye...I laughed at him. I'm not very nice, but it is ridiculous.

There was a name (feminine?) that was popularized by a song
(either the name was really unpopular before the song arrived, or
the name didn't exist before this song).
Also, the name became more popular than the song or the band who performed it.
What was this name/song?

Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow named their kid Apple. Apple. Might as well call him Bully Me Please.

oh my god. give me a fucking break. does this country have no *real* problems/issues or something?

oh and as a child named "raedy", i rather liked having an unusual name. justice skye is a little extreme though.

um, i think apple is a girl.

I think George Foreman had the right idea. Nothing pretentious about naming your four sons George Edward...a good sturdy name. Prince Michael I and Prince Michael II are clever names, too. Of course, Prince Michael II is more commonly known by his "normal" name: Blanket.

I like names that are "deliberately misspelled with lots of 'y's" or even just a few ‘y’s – or hardly any ‘y’s at all - like Jym, for instance.

Q&A - Shouldn't you have posted the answer upside-down?

I'm going to play along with Q&A and take a couple of stabs at the anwer. How about "Hey Jude" Paul McCartney/Beatles. I doubt it though because I'm sure Jude is short for Judith, which was probably a feminine form of Judas or a variation of the city Judea.

Sometimes more conventional names can be cruelly chosen. I knew a man named Richard Wacker, and another named Richard Dick. Both actually went by Dick, surprisingly. The latter sometimes went by "Double Dick" among close family, his grandson told me. I'm guessing behind his back.

My cousin's son is named Reality. Poor kid, just wait he's old enough to start school!

PS Q&A: Is the answer Brandy?

Judas is illegal as a first name in Germany, that's what I know. And names of football (=soccer) clubs are not allowed - which is good, because I could see me going for that, haha.

Okay. My legal name is Coyote Graves. It was fine when I was in school but do you know how hard it is to get a job with a name like that? Plus it's a drag to have to show everone you meet your ID just to prove your parents hated you the moment you were born. And also every person I've ever talked to who didn't laugh at me when I told them my name has said 'that's really interesting. I think a person's name says a lot about them' which leads me to believe I'm the type of person you bury skinny dogs in. It's not cool.
On an interesting side note I have a sister named Nicole and a brother named Roger.

The best one I ever heard was in a of class first graders. This very sweet-faced, well-mannered boy was named Diabolique. A friend of mine taught a girl named Tyranny.

The worst name ever is Dick Butkis. Good thing he became a football player or else his life would've been a living hell.

Oh, I guess it's Butkus, but same difference in terms of pronunciation.

I'm down with the Tolkien names but not with names like Princess or Wynter. I know someone names Arwen Evenstar.
If I want my kid to have an unusual name I'll put it in the middle. C'mon, you don't want to draw more attention to a kid in school.

yes a weird middle name wouldn't be so bad. if i ever have a kid,i want to name him(if its a boy)
a relatively normal but not overused first name
but middle name Paris. It would give it a kind of a Hollywoodish sophistication I think,but that could just be my brand of reality. Maybe i'm just as bad as the other parents.

I believe Billie Joe Armstrong named his kid Jakob Danger. That's a gift for the boy.

when he gets older he can start calling himself
J.D. and when people ask him what the D stands
it really will be for danger. ;)

The name Wendy didn't exist before "Peter & Wendy" (Peter Pan).

I gotcha one upped. :) A friend of mine was teaching first grade in Alabama and, on the first day of class, received the role list. On there was, and I kid you not, a kid name Shithead. Apparently the mother pronounced it Shi-deed. And saw NOTHING wrong with that. Poor Shithead. :)

Not to be rude, Rude Girl, but Wendy is short for Gwendolyn. I'm sure that's been around a lot longer than Peter Pan.

sorry, i don't actually know the answer
to the "name that eclipses band/song" question.
i read about it in a book about brand marketing.
it is something like "raleigh" or "kayleen".
please post if anyone knows the actual answer.
thanks.

Well, you beat me, M. Shithead is the worst name ever.

I just remembered a name that I came across when working at a military archive. I had to pull the file of a Marine named Chico Butt. Ah, the cruel jokes parents play.

I am a teacher and have seen the name Shithead in a Brooklyn school and one in Atlanta. They also pronounced it shi-deed.

ok here it is i am having a contest to see who can give the weirdest/funniest/awesomeist name ever!!!!! just e mail me!!!!! and post Thanks to all