Unusual Names

Odd and Even are common names in Norway. There are 4 Odd-Even's on LinkedIn.
Richard Face was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1972 and 2003.
Misty Hyman was an Olympian for the USA. Her full name is Misty Dawn Marie Hyman, which is quite nice.
My reading of Freakonomics suggests that "Shi-TEED" is an urban myth.

On Kath and Kim (ABC TV Australia) while Kim was pregnant she considered names like "Tiramisu" and "Papilloma" before settling on Epponnee-Raelene Kathleen Darlene Charlene [Craig], shortened to Epponnee-Rae.

 

I have an unfair advantage, having lived in Hong Kong. I once met an Oral B Wong. And I did some work with an Ophelia Kok. You get used to the surname Kok in Hong Kong, but Ophelia was a deeply inappropriate choice of first name.

And the large law firm I worked in had two receptionists, called Coffee and Honey.

 

I went through Air Force tech school with a guy named Dick Sweat. Several years later, one of the mechanics where I worked was named Dick Palmer.

Out cat's nick name is Shi-thead.

 

When I worked in the audio industry two of my customers were Darryl Dingler and Vincent Dangler.

We often thought of introducing them so they could start a law firm.

 

I worked at a telemarketing company back in college. One of that names on a lead card inspired the supervisor to call as she could not believe the name: Neva Diklik. For real.

She was a real person who answered the phone and chatted (she sounded "older" according to the supervisor) but she was not interested in the product we were marketing.

Also had a lady who called me during a stint in a medical billing office. With a 1976 birthday, her given name was Freedom...

 

This thread reminds me of some non-real but strange names...
it's quiet old story, perhaps most of you have seen this:

 

Oh boy... almost as bad as a girl new to the service desk at a grocery store I worked at about twenty five years ago - some local college kids came in looking for their friend Mike Hunt and wanted him paged. The service girl did not get it until she made the third announcement and by then the college kids could not hold in their laughter and oh, the look of horror and embarrassment on her face... I am sure it has been done elsewhere...

The store manager was not too happy with the college kids but maybe that was their revenge for being under-aged kids unable to buy beer when their fake IDs were conviscated.

 

Dick Trickle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If I had to guess, anyone named Dick Trickle is going to grow up mean.

 

Probably a perfectly respectable name from another culture or language where it doesn't carry our baggage.

I just returned from a tour in India, where our guide had a proper and common Hindu given name of Parikshit. But with English speaking clients, he went by Pari (Perry).

In another English speaking country, they might also have asked to page Mr. Bates. Meaningless here, but embarrassing where that title is 'Master'.

 

Suggesting names like Cletus and Cleterus as twin names is frowned apon by hospital admins in Wash DC.
Shi thead was part of a Lewis Black routine.
Dick Trickle had a cig lighter in the dash of his Nascar and smoked during caution flags. As seen on TV.
Family in US census circa late 1800's with 10 kids named after Berry fruits. Also had Christian names by the way.
Fetus , Creed, and Brozena are names in my family. I can't even begin to pronounce the old Dutch names of the New Holland days pre 1800's.
Have Uncle and cousins named Bates. Ha Ha Ha that's an old one.
Have a neighbor named Thomas A. Hauck. Tom for short.
I have never met Richard Hertz but I know 2 Dick Brake's (Ones a Rich).
Have a Viet friend named Phuc Hu "*****"
My Christmas doesn't start until Christmas eve and then for 12 days so this is what I'm doing instead of shopping.

 

Oh yeah and the Nez sisters from the grade school honor roll in Az where I lives in the early 90's. Polyvinyl and Polyethylene. Crayola at McD's ( She dropped the C) and her friend Kim Chee. Ah the Rez life.

 

A friend who is a family practitioner cared for a woman (from the US) who named her daughter Cloaca because she "liked the way it sounded." For city folks (I am a hobby farmer), the cloaca is where everything comes out of a chicken.