Continuing the name post, what was the most unusual name from your childhood?

Had a kid in elementary named Ramsey/Ramsay. Dumbass me had never heard this name before and had no context so I spent several years thinking he was named Ramses like the Egyptian Pharaoh

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I knew a little girl that my mom briefly watched. I thought her name was Murray. Which wasn’t a common name for a girl, but whatever. I kid you not, I only realized a few years ago that her name was actually Marie. I just heard it wrong as a kid. And once I decided it was Murray, that’s all I heard.

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skeletonclock@reddit

That is adorable

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TiKi_Effect@reddit

Mine. I don’t want to say it because there are less than 20 of us in the US lol.

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Persis-@reddit

That’s how I feel about my maiden name. Spelling variations exist, and there’s even a famous person with a variation. But the only people with our spelling are my brother and his daughter, my other brother’s son (brother deceased), my sister, and my aunt. That’s it.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

Wow. I've only run into one other me in my life (spelled differently), but social security ranks it around 5k in the US. I hated it when I was little because it sounded like a boy's name to me, but I really started to appreciate a an adult.

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TheWorldIsNotOkay@reddit

In high school I knew a Breezy (not a nickname), two Tequilas, a Brandy (named after the liquor according to her father), and fraternal twin siblings named Robin and Robyn Hood.

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Persis-@reddit

I knew of a Breezy. I knew his MIL through my grandmother. But the name stuck in my head as a kid. I don’t actually know if it was a nickname or not, I just know he was never called anything else.

I also knew a man named Boots, but I’m pretty sure that one was a nickname.

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Middleage_dad@reddit

I just remembered I knew a young kid named “Despe” which was short form”Desperado”, her moms favored song

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bahaki@reddit

I knew a Breezy as well. Nice girl.

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Logical_Two5639@reddit

just like the movie!

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exqvisitely@reddit

We had a Breeze at my school! We also had Clover, Cinnamon, and Bambi. I'm sure there's more but my memory isn't serving me well right now.

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Indubitalist@reddit

Just how rednecky of an area did you grow up in to have that many liquor names?

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probablyatargaryen@reddit

I grew in the hood and there were soooo many of them. No idea why but poor people love naming kids after vices and cars we can’t afford

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Indubitalist@reddit

I am related to someone named after the car she was conceived in. The mother refuses to acknowledge this now and has made up an alternate explanation she freely tells people but she definitely told us all back when she was pregnant that it was the car that the child was named after.

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probablyatargaryen@reddit

That poor kid. At least her mom matured a tad

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TheWorldIsNotOkay@reddit

It could have been worse, but not by much.

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PuppyJakeKhakiCollar@reddit

I went to school with a Brandy Alexander and used to work with a Jim Collins.

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Coca-colonization@reddit

I’ve never heard of a Jim Collins. Do you mean Tom Collins?

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elphaba00@reddit

My mom grew up with a Jack Daniels. She said he lived up to his name until he “found the Lord”

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elphaba00@reddit

I knew a Tequila growing up. She lived up to the name. Mean and cruel. I worked with her at my first job. I got in her way, and her response was to literally claw me in the back with her nails.

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Fabulous-South-9551@reddit

Hood was the last name or..?

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TheWorldIsNotOkay@reddit

Yep. The guy was Robin Hood and the girl was Robyn Hood.

I'd feel bad for mentioning their actual first and last names on the internet, but according to a quick search there's well over 200 people named Robyn Hood in the US, and considerably more named Robin Hood. Which means there are far more people walking around who shouldn't be allowed to name their own kids than I thought.

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Indubitalist@reddit

Yeah, but it’s funny, though, and think about how great it would be to live your entire life with a funny name, is I assume what his/her parents thought.

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Forever_Forgotten@reddit

How do you suppose their parents distinguished them at home.

“Boy Robin! Take out the trash. Girl Robyn! Wash the dishes.” ???

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TheWorldIsNotOkay@reddit

Unfortunately the parents weren't as clever or funny. They just called the son Rob.

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TuckerCarlsonsOhface@reddit

I knew a girl named Daisy Dew, but her middle name was “walk me out in the morning”.

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moissan2nite@reddit

That’s a show dog name.

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Middleage_dad@reddit

I have an unusual name. Then a kid moved to my town with the same first name and his last name was one letter off from mine. We used to get each others mail all the time.

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Sweet_Deeznuts@reddit

Also the one with an unusual name - Gaelic, usually a male name, and went through my entire childhood cursing the lack of “name” novelty items. To this day, most people are uncertain of how to pronounce it

My husband has a unique last name (Russian) that most people don’t know how to pronounce as well. So when we got married, of course I decided to take his last name. We already have first tricky name, but what about second tricky name?

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

My name is unusual, but not weird. I generally love it except when it came to those damn name novelty souvenirs. My parents promised me that if I ever found me something with my name on it they would buy it for me. They had to pay out on that ONCE, at a custom woodcutter who made nameplates. Twice if you count my letterman’s jacket.

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Sweet_Deeznuts@reddit

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A couple times I was able to find the more common spelling so my mom bought those items and I just changed the letter that was different

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

Brenda and Brianne can both get bent. 🤣

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Hot_Frosty0807@reddit

I used to live across the street from a Polish immigrant boy named Kazimir. I wonder if the names are boy/girl variations of the same thing.

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revdon@reddit

Yeah, too many Nebuchadnezzars in my elementary school; so I went by Bucky. /s

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

That triggers my memory: I grew up with a Katja.

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tevta_@reddit

Hahaha from the part of the woods I'm from (Slovenia), one of the most common names for xennials was Katja. I had two of them in my classroom, both were my best friends. One still is :D

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raerae1991@reddit

That was my great grandma‘s name. Apparently it’s in the Bible somewhere

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Middleage_dad@reddit

Huh. This was a dude.

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raerae1991@reddit

Bawhahaha! It’s a girls name in the Bible too!

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ladyeclectic79@reddit

There was a girl in my class named Yanique (pronounced similar to “unique”).

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BearCat1478@reddit

Chanda Lear. I wanted to slap her parents.

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berthejew@reddit

My cousin is Amanda Lynn and I didn't get it until I was in my 20s...

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BearCat1478@reddit

It probably would have taken me that long too!

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carlucci923@reddit

My best friend from childhood was Rainy. In high school I knew someone whose first name was Fawn and middle name was Phaedra.

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flipzyshitzy@reddit

Rolexus

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PeterPunksNip@reddit

Mine... I had one of these Irish names nobody could pronounce correctly, and in a french speaking country on top of it. No wonder I chose such a common name once I transitionned!

No, I won't say it, just know that it was similar to Saroise, which is pronounced Sur-shay . Why, Ireland, why ? 😝

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Logins-Run@reddit

Saoirse is generally pronounced like "Seer-sheh" in Irish (you can hear it here how the three dialects groups would pronounce it https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/saoirse) but other anglicised pronunciations exist.

But also Irish orthography is actually very consistent and works very well for the language!

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PeterPunksNip@reddit

It sure does. It's funny because we do have a name sounding like this in french too, Circé . It's a reminder that long ago Gaelic had a dialect spoken in France, Breton, on the north part of France, Bretagne. They are now actively trying to save it, like they did in Ireland with Gaelic. Cool! I hate seeing languages die.

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HungryFinding7089@reddit

Gaelic writing.

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PeterPunksNip@reddit

Yeah, the Brits forgot to accurately translate Gaelic, and here we are

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Logins-Run@reddit

Irish was transcribed by Irish speaking monks, and started using the Latin alphabet before English did. It actually makes perfect sense in Irish. It's very consistent. We don't have any keyed, seed, read, lead, mead, dead, read, lead fiascos etc!

But the main challenges that Irish has initial mutations and a lot more phonemes than English which makes it look very odd to English speakers.

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shakespeareriot@reddit

Donchadh (pronounced Donna cuh)

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HungryFinding7089@reddit

Kee-vah?

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1radgirl@reddit

Where I'm from, for at least a little while, it was popular to give boys names that were traditionally female. Inexplicable really. Some weren't so bad, like Ashley and Tracy. But others were rough, like Courtney and Lacy. Yep, a boy named Lacy. I so wish I was making that up! That poor poor kid. I guess a whole group of parents in rural Utah were johnny cash fans?! Idk. Tragedeigh.

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joggingatsea@reddit

Ashley and Courtney were originally male names, looks the same for Lacy. Tracy was gender neutral before getting more popular with girls. So possibly family names?

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1radgirl@reddit

I only know the story behind Ashley and Lacy. Ashley was named after the character in Gone With The Wind, his mom was an English teacher, so that checks out, lol. Lacy's parents had the name picked out for a girl, and when it turned out he was a boy, they decided to use it anyway. You're kinda right that it was a family thing, cause that family had three boys, Kelly, Courtney, and Lacy. That was just their style I guess. But the amount of teasing they got was sad, especially on the rodeo circuit.

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Throw-away17465@reddit

Haaken Haakenson (my area has a large Scandinavian population)

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themoonhasgone@reddit

Klady

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Jewelieta@reddit

My bestfriend's name, Tasmah. Apparently her mom got it from a soap opera?

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HangryHangryHedgie@reddit

I had a friend named Carmel. Car-Mel pronunciation. I was always so jealous of her cool braids and hair ties. My thin blondish hair was so boring in comparison.

I miss that innocence.

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InstantTurnOn@reddit

By any chance, was this in San Luis Obispo? Sounds like you're describing a girl that was in the grade ahead of me in elementary school.

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HangryHangryHedgie@reddit

Suburb of Seattle.

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InstantTurnOn@reddit

I guess we both got lucky knowing a Carmel with fierce braids!

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scizzix@reddit

Peanut Jackson, I hope you are doing well wherever you are.

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avalonfaith@reddit

Petra. It an insane name. I've never met another one in person, though. She still holds a very special place in my heart. Seems to be common for her nationally, and the last name is like...all the last names so, not someone I have found when memory scrolling.

She was like the first ever BFF from grade school to puberty years.

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MaartjeM@reddit

Petra is a common name in the Netherlands. Perhaps she has Dutch ancestors.

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avalonfaith@reddit

I don't think so. I know/knew her family. I just think it was a great name for a cool human. I can't think of anything else. I don't know her whole ancestry, but the family I met was certainly not Nordic.

We live in a big wide, yet small, world. I would not be surprised about much.

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tevta_@reddit

I was replying to another comment how Katja was super popular in my generation, with Petra being even more popular (Slovenia)

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tevta_@reddit

Went to check our statistical agency. Petra is on the list of the most common female name on the 13th place, Katja is at the 16th place. Most common for our generation were Maja and Nina.

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avalonfaith@reddit

This Petra was Mexican. We're talking late 80s early 90s.

I love this convo, though. So interesting that it'd be a popular Slavic name. The city in Jordan, being what I reference, is also different for Mexico.

Maybe a language thing some professor could tell us about. Also, yeah, professor, please chime in.

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kmill0202@reddit

My grandma had a neighbor named Petra. She didn't drive, so she rode an adult sized tricycle around town. Had a big basket mounted to the back to carry her shopping home.

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avalonfaith@reddit

Your Petra is life goals.

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kmill0202@reddit

She was a very nice lady. She had some minor cognitive disabilities but was still able to live independently and take care of herself. She said she rode the trike because she never learned how to drive and had difficulty balancing on a regular bicycle. Her and my grandma got to be pretty good pals over the years. She would bring grandma fresh produce from her garden, and grandma would drive her if she needed to go somewhere that was too far or too dangerous to go on her tricycle.

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Separate-Succotash11@reddit

I work with a young woman Petra. She’s a great OR nurse!

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

The one Petra I knew was an exchange student.

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avalonfaith@reddit

My Petra's family was very rooted in the community. I would guess that most people didn't even know it, unfortunately. At least my mom and whatever husband sure didn't, not that they were outwardly any type of way. (I'm black, grew up with my all white side family) they just would not have ever imagined.

I'll take things I should have been angry about before education, for $200, Alex.

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CerebralAssassin88@reddit

Tad, Thad, Denver, Golden, Cena (female)

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Even-Possession2258@reddit

I knew a set of siblings with the names Justice, Freedom, and Peace. Yes, their parents were hippies.

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DirectMatter3899@reddit

I knew a set that was Sunni, Stormy, and Rainbow

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moondaisgirl@reddit

I raise you Painter, Hunter, and Sailor

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berthejew@reddit

Ocean, Memphis, and Boulder

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berthejew@reddit

Brigette, pronounced the French way (I think) so it sounds like brah-jheet. Thought it was beautiful.

Also Siobhan. It blew my 8th grade mind the first time I saw it written down. "Shavahn"

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xrelaht@reddit

I knew a girl named Aurora, the only one I’ve ever met.

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japhia_aurantia@reddit

Tbh it was probably mine

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Conscious_Home_4253@reddit

Allegra

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BirdNo4838@reddit

Xenia. I found it so cool to know someone who started with an X

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pookiebelle@reddit

There was a girl in my swim class named Desiree and I thought it was so exotic.

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Crowedsource@reddit

Mine is pretty darn rare although it's apparently become more popular over time as an unusual name. I'm probably one of the oldest people with this name, though.

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bullgoose1@reddit

Not unusual ... But in fifth grade there was a Shawn and a Sean. I could not figure out how they were pronounced the same...

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

Oh I'm going to add to my own post with one I hadn't thought of. A boy named Toye. Pronounced toy. I always loved that name, but I think he hated it.

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tarapj@reddit

Cabrini, Funessa (like Vanessa but fun), Jaeger, Dorcus

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

Are those all saints? I know there was a St. Frances Cabrini, and I believe a St. Dorcus.

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Echterspieler@reddit

Had a friend in Kindergarten named Guthrie. I've never ran into another person with that name.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

I knew a guy with the last name Guthrie. I wonder if it was a family name? My sister gave one of her sons our maiden name as their first name because my dad and his sibling both had all girls. 😆

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_NoleFan6@reddit

There was a few. A girl I’ve known since grade school was named Ulyssette. I knew someone in my neighborhood named Quintaviante (we called him Q lol). The last one was an East Asian girl at my high school named…. Beata Ho, I’m dead ass serious.

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Psychological-Bee702@reddit

JaRon and he was the whitest ginger kid ever.

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principled_principal@reddit

I’ll always remember (first name) Star (last name) Powers.

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Rin_thepixie@reddit

One of my friends in first grade was named Jennica her parents couldn't decide between Jennifer and Jessica so they did both.

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No_One7894@reddit

I don’t have an unusual name like at all, but I did have unusual timing. I’m a 1979 Lindsay. I was named after Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere and the Raiders so before Lindsey really became popular. I was not only the only Lindsay in my grade, but also school and TOWN for several years.

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Jolwi@reddit

Shad and Trent. Brothers.

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Traditional-Jicama54@reddit

When I was a kid, we lived near a family whose last name was Ness. They named their son Lock. I knew a guy in high school named Slade. He was at least as cool as his name and all the girls immediately swooned. (No sarcasm, he moved to the Midwest from California, had a really cool haircut and was automatically 50% cooler than all of us.)

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Gab83IMO@reddit

I had this dude in my class in Junior High with the name 'Lefteri' and I was ssooo jelly cuz I thought it was the coolest name ever.

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mom2rka@reddit

I had a friend named Candida. She went by Candy.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

Omg that's the name of a common yeast that causes yeast infections.

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mom2rka@reddit

Yep. I always wondered how her mom thought that was a good idea for a name.

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ActuallyAlexander@reddit

Crystal Diamond

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karenobus@reddit

Kcinnamon, pronounced "cinnamon." I have zero idea why her parents did that.

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star_b_nettor@reddit

Tibby. Not completely unheard of, but definitely not a normal name

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Ridere_et_nutu@reddit

I went to high school with a girl called Zee.

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BrewCityTikiGuy@reddit

I knew a girl named Nomale in elementary school.

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elphaba00@reddit

I went to school with a guy named Esten. Someone asked how he pronounced it. He said, “S-10. Like the truck.”

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kathatter75@reddit

None of the names were insane on their own, but I went to school with a Misty Summer Knight.

Later, once I was married, there was a seafood restaurant we loved going to. One time, our waitress was named Mahogany…

Another time, we had a waitress named Cinnamon. We were chatting and I asked her - with the preemptive “please don’t take this the wrong way” - what’s it like having a stripper name? She burst out laughing and told us the story of how her dad decided to play a prank on his wife and put the name on her birth certificate when her mom was sleeping. Ever since that day, she and her mom used her name as the “reason” she got in trouble. She got pregnant young and they joked that “if you hadn’t given me a stripper name…”. It sounded like she had a supportive family in her life that they were able to joke about things like that.

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

Dixon, I won’t say their last name to protect their identity.

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Colodagh@reddit

Tram, like "Let's ride on the tram."

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DocBEsq@reddit

Not incredibly unusual by itself, but my 7th grade English class had three girls named “Annika.”

I do not live in Scandinavia btw.

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somuchbotox@reddit

Taz. Yes, like the character.

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Indubitalist@reddit

Was that the nickname and on the birth certificate it was Tazbert or something?

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somuchbotox@reddit

Not the nickname, just Taz on his birth certificate.

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Edgarmustavas@reddit

Did he play drums for The Reverend Horton Heat?

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henryhungryhenry@reddit

I remember an Aussie comedian saying his porn name would be Taz Mania.

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Dixie1117@reddit

My name is terrible growing up. And when I was old enough to except it we moved cross country and had a whole new school to introduce myself to.

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flowbkwrds@reddit

Governor

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Dazzling-Pace-7134@reddit

Back when I was a kid, I knew a girl named Tafline . Everyone called her Taffy.

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ryaca@reddit

I went to school with a Kip Pickle

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InstantTurnOn@reddit

At least it wasn't Kip Kinkel...

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VixxenFoxx@reddit

I went to school with a girl named Mardy.

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TheThrivingest@reddit

A girl named [kailey] but it was spelled the Irish way. If I can remember correctly it was something like Caiolaidhe

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DirtMcGirt9484@reddit

No bullshit, I went to elementary school with a kid named Shere Khan. That was his first name and he was white.

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Blackbird136@reddit

I know one that’s probably 10-ish years younger than us, but he’s black.

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DirtMcGirt9484@reddit

That’s crazy.

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erino3120@reddit

Khiron

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oronder@reddit

I went to middle and high school with a Natahnee. She was one of the cool kids, but also a true sweetheart, kind to everyone, and also the homecoming queen.

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queenofcaffeine76@reddit

Caja

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MexicanVanilla22@reddit

....box? Someone is named box?

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Clem_bloody_Fandango@reddit

I know a Box. But spelled Box and pronounced Box.

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

Yakky Doodle and Catfish Mouth

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1980pzx@reddit

Tab or Carmeisha.

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Careful_Sell_7900@reddit

Nephi- Short for Nephrateri. She was in my gym class.

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jayne-eerie@reddit

Kyde, rhymes with ride, on a girl. I also took swim lessons with a girl called Pepsi but I’m not sure that was her legal name.

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Blackbird136@reddit

I know a Pepsi!!! She’s probably late 20s/early 30s and it is her legal name.

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MajesticEmergency@reddit

Girl named Brita, like the filtered water pitcher.

Rhiannon. I guess her parents like Fleetwood Mac so much they named her that.

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Blackbird136@reddit

Rhiannon is suuuuuper common now where I live in kids/young adults ages I’d say age 10-20. I also know one in her late 30s.

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skeletonclock@reddit

Rhiannon is MEGA common here (UK), especially in Wales.

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Blackbird136@reddit

I can’t think of any that were super uncommon per se, but there was a Beulah in my third grade class.

9 year old me didn’t think a thing about it, I’d probably never even heard the name before that, but one day relaying some silly “guess what happened today at school” story to my mom, she was like “there’s a girl named Beulah in your class?!”

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portrait_black@reddit

While not inherently unusual, it was funny to say. There was a guy I knew that went by Dick whose name was Richard Pfister

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SheMack@reddit

I went to elementary school with a girl named Nudaj. Not sure if I'm getting the spelling quite right... pronounced Nuddajay.

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realoctopod@reddit

Zebulon.

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WhiskyStandard@reddit

I knew of a “Sistine”. Eventually she went by Sixteen, which got shortened to Six. She ran for a student body where you could vote for 6 people and her opposition objected that the ballot said “Choose Six”.

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WhoYouBoo_eek789@reddit

I don't want to doxx the person cos their WHOLE government name was wild! Now, individually, the 1st and middle name (more for like a pet) are alright but strung together 🤣 - dudes name was Bud, k, fine. Still weird that its not just a nickname but whatever, but the audacity to be named Bud Irie surname = device to burn 1st name to thus be middle name... I worked on the yearbook and had to double check with the office it was legit. Dude better be a human rights lawyer or something! 😄 I think he moved away after jr high cos he's not in my HS yearbooks.

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schwarzekatze999@reddit

So the last name was Bong?

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ML5815@reddit

Key, English, Tuesday, Sparkle (females) and male twins named Rocky and Bucky.

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

There was a girl in my class named Lesia. It didn't seem unusual at the time, because all names were new to me.

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Ronin1948@reddit

Went to high school with a boy whose first name was Garland

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

Oh I knew a Garland. He also had a brother named Gaelen.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

My bf in second grade. Quiness. I’m not sure if that’s spelled right, probably not because I can’t find him on the internet.

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QueenOfTheSIipstream@reddit

Could it have been Aquinas, for the philosopher/saint?

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

Oooh maybe.

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Ok-Kaleidoscope8945@reddit

Novemba, like November but with an a at the end

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hidinginplainsite13@reddit

Diamond

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jemappelle13@reddit

My best friend in 4th grade was named Katurah

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DirectMatter3899@reddit

Boobity Tobler

Pronounced EXACTLY how you think it is.

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Pandorasopinbox@reddit

I read/heard this in my head as the Key and Peele college football skit

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Indubitalist@reddit

“There’s no such thing as the funniest first name in the wo…”

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602crew@reddit

Z

Yes. Her legal name was the letter Z.

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JamieC1610@reddit

I went to grade school with a Vada; her mom got remarried and her and her brother took their new step-dad's last name and at the same time she changed her first name to Maggie.

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Smrfet8@reddit

My name. To this day I’ve never meet anyone with my name and always here I’m the first they have meet.

My kids have simple common names….

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Indubitalist@reddit

Is it a completely new name or just a weird spelling of a normalish name? Seems like there are a ton of people these days with normal names with arbitrary spellings.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

There's a whole sub for it. r/tragedeigh 😆

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Scarlettlovesyarn@reddit

Same!

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SaladAnnual@reddit

Axle, and not named after the singer because he wasn’t famous yet when I was born. Also, Taquarius and Almondtina.

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JaketheSnake319@reddit

Went to elementary school with a girl named cinnamon. My parents thought it was the craziest thing. I didn’t think much of it. She was nice.

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sal101010@reddit

I am British and I did a semester of US high school - because I could. The head cheerleader was small, blonde, bubbly (and an honours student). Her name was Angyl and I felt like I'd hit peak American cliche.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

r/tragedeigh

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TwainVonnegut@reddit

Youkneeq

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queenquirk@reddit

I went to school with a girl named Chezarae. There were literally just a handful born in her birth year.

I remember sitting in class and being interested by her name. I saw it written down and memorized it. I still remember how surprised she was when I spelled her name correctly once lol.

My name was fairly uncommon but still well known, but lots of people still have trouble spelling it. So I get the feeling when someone actually gets my name right.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

Same! My sister and I both have uncommon names, and it's so nice when someone nails it the first time. I hated my name growing up, but I really like it now.

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ewdavid4856@reddit

I grew up with a girl named BJ (Brandy Jean). She goes by Brandy now

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit (OP)

😆 I knew a BJ (Benjamin). By 4th grade he switched to Ben.

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Sirtriplenipple@reddit

There was a girl in my class named Mary, her middle name was Jowanna. She went by Jowanna.

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skeletonclock@reddit

Jowanna better name

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mid_1990s_death_doom@reddit

I knew pee wee and big Mac. They were twins. Real asshole kids too.

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revdon@reddit

Boboli. Not short for Robert Lee or anything. Literally named like the pizza crust.

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aenflex@reddit

Ovid was one. Destin was another. Heaven. Nyisha. Blue. Snowanne.

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this_might_be_a_test@reddit

Had a kid in our neighborhood named Seven. There was also a Zelda.

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henryhungryhenry@reddit

Seven Costanza?

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Fabulous-South-9551@reddit

I had a huge crush on a boy named Shyla in my elementary school. In middle school one of my friends was named Xochitl (pronounced so-chi) and I loved it so much.

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Ozma1977@reddit

I also knew a Xochitl, along with an Azure and an Isis.

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IndomitableAnyBeth@reddit

Deus, said DEE-us.

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DustedGorilla82@reddit

Deeez nuts!

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Slim_Margins1999@reddit

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animus218@reddit

Chevy Van Pickup. Kind of a local legend actually, for all the wrong reasons.

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BeaniePole1792@reddit

I have a unique first name - for the time and place. I was usually the only one in school. But nowadays it isn’t an unusual name. It weirds me out when I know another person with my name.

We named my kid a unique name with a sea of Ella, Sophia, Olivia, and Isabella. We know there are other people named her name but it’s very rare.

The nice thing about a unique name is people know your name way quicker.

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jenness977@reddit

Clea, Aine (pronounced Anya), Kapeka, Armando, Mello, Rocky, Jep, Seana (pronounced Shawna), Nikita.

I have such a common name for xennials and was always one of at least several Jennifer's in my class, that I always appreciated those with unusual names. Except maybe Jep. Was never a fan of the name

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Unable_Apartment_613@reddit

Trampas

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SisyphusButOnSpeed@reddit

Had a friend named Rock. My favorite though, all through school and lived near a kid named Phillip Flowers. Which isn’t particularly unusual, but it has such a nice sound to it.

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silverwarbler@reddit

Gaylord

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XennialToothFairy@reddit

I grew up with siblings Qiana and Quinlan.

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Abidarthegreat@reddit

Went to school with a very fiery and sadistic redhead named Idonna.

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agentmkultra666@reddit

There was a kid in my grade whose name was Serapis, but he went by Josh. His siblings also had some fantastical names but I can’t remember them.

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beatriceblythe@reddit

I knew an Allegia (uh-LEE-jee-uh). Never heard it before or since!

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BoysenberryKind5599@reddit

L.E.

A girl in high school. I thought we were calling her Ellie until I saw her name "L.E." I asked what it stood for and she said nothing, that was her name.

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poundlandSidBassett@reddit

I work with a English lad called Beejay, (BJ) which i find amusing. I have also met quite a few people who's first name, and surname are the same eg Andrew Andrews or Robert Roberts.

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Forever_Forgotten@reddit

I went to school with a Thomas Thomas!

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Euphoric_Emu9607@reddit

Met two sisters with great names—Farris and Medreen. Not sure about spelling but that was the phonological pronunciation.

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Forever_Forgotten@reddit

In 1st & 2nd grade, it was a guy named Cigaro, who was also literally the only black kid in my hick town elementary school at the time, so he got bullied relentlessly, including for his name. In 4th & 5th grade, it was a girl named Hartley. In high school, it was a girl named Faviola.

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Infamous-Phone-1973@reddit

I went to school with sisters Jerina and Fancy Cox.

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K_Wolfenstien@reddit

Paa Shoua, Bupanark, Tang, Yee, Vue, Xilang etc. Not unusual at all in their culture. I always thought Xilang was a really cool name. My name is not uncommon, but the spelling is. Everyone pronounces it wrong. Paired with a noun as a last name, growing up was not super fun. Throw in a three sylable uncommon middle name for a cherry on top. My kids have basic names with common spelling. They do have two middle names each though, because I can't just be basic.

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SignificantRecipe715@reddit

Me. I was the unusual name lol

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

(US): Uli, Oona (Indian parents), Soren, Katja, Peaches, Nga (immigrated from Vietnam).

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quokkaqrazy@reddit

Qurina, Thea

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LaszloPanaflexxx@reddit

My cousin, Zereth.

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Lumpy_Branch_552@reddit

My name might be one. The name isn’t unusual but the spelling is.

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elpintor91@reddit

Malahyeka. It was always fun when teachers would get to her name. It’s pronounced muh-ly-kuh

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MeButSecret@reddit

Had a friend named Zail. Have never heard that name from anyone else.

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HangryHangryHedgie@reddit

Unusual name here, classmate had same name but with one letter difference. Of course we always ended up seated next to each other and always confused about who they were talking to.

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BadConscious1358@reddit

there was this kid in elementary school named Czar Cooley

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cryingpotato49@reddit

Cayenne

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jelloshot@reddit

Peach

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mom_bombadill@reddit

Hawkeye

Shanti

Élan

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iminmy39thyear@reddit

TLA. A girl in high school.

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Ditzy_Davros@reddit

A friend of mine was named after a river in Europe, I think. Levaida.

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lessthanpi79@reddit

Knew a Thon who was relentless mocked due to the existence of MLB player Dickie Thon.

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raerae1991@reddit

One of my childhood friends would always use the name America when we played games that had make believe names.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

Chardonnay , Azalea

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usernames_suck_ok@reddit

I don't remember any really crazy ones but just crazy spellings and the beginning of last names being used as first names. "Valjean" is the last name thing, to me. Classmate named Spencer in 4th grade, and a girl named Tiffany but it being spelled, like...Tifina, in 3rd grade. I think her parents legally changed the spelling a few years later, like when we were in 6th or 7th grade.