How about a weird name thread

mndsm wrote: There is an urban legend of kids named orangelo, and lemongelo. I can confirm they are real, and at least used to live im the state of MN. I can't say much more because that would violate hipaa, though I can say there was also an tangelo.

Many years ago my wife worked for DNA diagnostic laboratories (the place Maury Povich used). She came home telling me about running DNA on Orangelo, Lemongelo and Tangelo. Many years later my wife's sister became a speech pathologist in Jacksonville FL. and told us at Christmas about working with them...

And now you...

I'm beginning to think you are all playing a trick on me

Jumper K. Balls wrote:

chandlerGTi wrote: My dad says that he dated a girl in college named Kandy Barr.

Somewhere in Iowa? Might be my mother in law. Seriously!

Oh my goodness... yes

There was a Hispanic woman in my class, married to a non-hispanic man. On the first day of class in Gross Anatomy, the teachers mentioned that her first and last names translated from the Latin as "Cow in the woods."

Nick (Bo) Comstock wrote:

mndsm wrote: There is an urban legend of kids named orangelo, and lemongelo. I can confirm they are real, and at least used to live im the state of MN. I can't say much more because that would violate hipaa, though I can say there was also an tangelo.

Many years ago my wife worked for DNA diagnostic laboratories (the place Maury Povich used). She came home telling me about running DNA on Orangelo, Lemongelo and Tangelo. Many years later my wife's sister became a speech pathologist in Jacksonville FL. and told us at Christmas about working with them... And now you... I'm beginning to think you are all playing a trick on me

I have heard this from my SLP wife as well and I'm in Texas.

I've heard it from a friend whose mother was an elementary teacher. Tangelo seems to be a new sibling, however.

Out west we would read the police blotter for kicks. We also lived about 20 miles from the Crow/Cheyenne reservation. There was a native lady in the blotter by the name of Dorkus Bighair.

3 pages before Dick Trickle?

In middle school my friends and I prank called a man named Dewey Butt. Our little town also had a preacher named Richard Everhard.

Two weeks ago I met a man whose last name is Muckenfuss.

I heard an urban legend of a child named Nosmo King. Spelled just like No Smoking.

Years ago I worked with Bill Weirdo.

In reply to OHSCrifle:

The other urban legend I heard was twin girls, Syphilis and Gonorrhea, pronounced si-FYE-luss and gone-OR-ee-ah.

My son plays hockey with a kid named "Rhythm". As if that wasn't enough he has an older brother named..."Seven". Since when did these become names?

I also used to know a girl named "Jen Eitel" pronounced eye-tell. Say it quickly.

Iona Biervagen. I think it's urban myth, because I've heard it from various sources.

Riley_88 wrote: ...As if that wasn't enough he has an older brother named..."Seven". Since when did these become names?

His parents must be Seinfeld fans.

Lemmy from Motorhead tells a story in an interview of the first landlord the band had.

An older gay gentleman named "Mr. Brownsword"

Bill Lear, inventor of the Lear Jet, named his daughter Crystal Chanda Lear.

My name is William Grow (Will Grow). I'm the third so there are two other "Will Grows" in my family. When i joined the Navy I became "Seaman Grow" which was kind of funny but was immediately outdone when I realized my Aunt was once "Seaman Flood". Not kidding.

You're welcome

I've also known a Stormy Fields, a Morning Star (we just called her "star"), a Mary Christmas (her brother was Noel), and a Gomer Pyle.

In Hungary, instead of big celebrations on birthdays, they celebrate name days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_days_in_Hungary

I'm sure you could create a unique name for your child but then it would spend its whole life not having a name day and that'd be worse than denying your kid birthdays. Parents then, are encouraged to stick to normal names.

Also: Attila is still a very popular Hungarian name (Attila the Hun)

etifosi wrote: 3 pages before Dick Trickle?

Or Dick Seaman

In basic I had a friend named Private Love. Later I worked with Sergent Blood and Sergent Battle.

Just being different my sister named her kids Vienne and Carrver. Yes spelled like that and yes, they are going to have their names misspelled by everyone they ever meet forever.

In the Netherlands, last names used to follow the Viking tradition, still practiced in Iceland, of a son being named the father's son, like Stevenson if your father was named Steven, Jackson, etc. Then Napoleon came along and took over most of Europe, including the Netherlands. He said everyone had to have a last name and forced the Dutch to take one. People had to go and register a last name. People adopted names like "From the warf", "From the town", "Keeper of the ducks", etc. Dutch people being somewhat hard headed (Y0, dat be raysis...), some of them wouldn't do it and when absolutely forced to, said, "OK, my name is E36 M3! From the E36 M3!! You got that?" And today, their family name is Van Der Schijt.

KyAllroad wrote: In basic I had a friend named Private Love. Later I worked with Sergent Blood and Sergent Battle.

I know a guy who was once in a scout troop led by a Sgt. Doom. No word on whether he looked like this:

He's an older guy so Sgt. Doom has likely passed on by now...

You know....I've hear about Le-a, E36 M3head, and Lemonjello and Orangejello about four hundred times.
NEVER from anyone who can actually confirm that they've laid eyes on these mythical people.

Here is a link to the name of every person who's applied for a social security card since the program's inception. If anyone finds me any of these names on that list, I'll eat my goddamned hat.

Here's some fact-checking on some of the names.

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

Nosmo King is real, but it was done under a name change.

Unfortunately the SSA list couldn't be used to prove or disprove the reality of any extremely uncommon names:

To safeguard privacy, we exclude from these files certain names that would indicate, or would allow the ability to determine, names with fewer than 5 occurrences in any geographic area.

Edit: There is at least one real LeMonjelo, based on a hispanic name:

https://suburbanbanshee.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/lemonjelo-is-a-real-name/

Edit2: As far as anyone can tell, Le-a/Ledasha is not real.

In reply to psteav:

on my phone, I don't have a search option. But just scrolling through 2013 girls names(girls names are listed first), and I'm finding things far stranger than lemonjelo or orangelo already.

Isis, mariajose, Queen, princess, cattleya, gentry

At least they could have put this stuff in alphabetical order.

Edit: I just found an "unknown" as a first name for a girl