Stupid Names
 

My mother is a school teacher, and she is always telling me about kids she has with strange names. There was this one girl in her class that the kids called "Iwilla". This is a strange name, but she later found out that the girl's name on her birth certificate was "IwillriseandshineforJesusChrist Jones". Who would do this? Does anybody else out there know somebody whose parents subjected them to a lifetime of mockery because of a dumb name?

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From the book Freakonomics

[censored] (Pronounced Shih-theed) Johnson
Twins named OrangeJello and LemonJello

There were more, but I don't have the book in front of me.

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Pretty sure the entire Phoenix family qualifies. Also, anyone with a generic name with a non-generic spelling (Chone Figgins) inspires my mockery.

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Guy I worked with whose name was Dick Seeman (no lie).
Laughter would ensue when he was paged over the speaker system. Why he didn't go by Richard or Rich I'll never know, maybe Dick was not a nickname.

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This kid I work with is named Shawn (or Shaun, not sure) Vancourt. But for some reason I thought his last name was Vachon. And I started thinking how awesome of a name that would be. Shawn Vachon. I wish my last name was Vachon so I could name my kid Shawn.

Shawn Vachon.

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I know some kids from college (bro & sis) named Lady Elizabeth and Lord Gregory. Their mom was a gigantic hippie. Liz was smart enough to get it changed but the dude refused to do it. Somehow, he was not a total dbagger...he just had the name of one...

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When I was younger my Dad had a golf buddy named Dick Little. What's even funnier is everytime he called the house the caller ID showed, "Little Dick". As a 12 year old I was quite amused by that.

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Zappa family qualifies as well.

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This girl came into work yesterday to apply for a job and her name was Shakita. When I first met her, I was like "Shakita, you mean like the banana?" That didn't go over too well.

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the lady that checked me out today at the grocery store's name was "Moonbeam," i think she thought i was staring at her breasts but i really just kept reading her name tag over and over making sure i was reading it correctly.