<p>I have had a job where I come into contact with a lot of names, from all over the globe. My team likes to collect them. Some good ones have been Velvet Brown, Cinnamon Powder, Matt Tress, Bong Oh…the other day we hired someone named Happiness.</p>
<p>My all time fave is Sheik Mahb**b. Fill in the blanks with matching vowels and say it out loud. If I find more I will post them.</p>
<p>I have noticed a few of the younger female political talking heads use initials instead of a first name. I wonder if this has to do with not liking their first name.</p>
<p>"We live in a community with a large Nigerian population. I love some very common Nigerian first names, including Prince and Princess "</p>
<p>Have you looked at the MEANING of some West African names? Not Prince or Princess, but when I looked op the meaning of the more traditional names, oy, vey! I crossed several off my list.</p>
<p>So my oldest ended up with a name that did NOT mean, “child who was born during the time of the Locust’s”, and my second with a Gaelic name that would defy m attempts at racial profiling. Both missed out on the “slave name” that my brother abhorred as a child, but is pretty cool right now.</p>
<p>I have to spell my first name, and point out that my last name is hyphenated . In spelling my first name, I start with “N as in NO!”</p>
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<p>Was this the guy? :D</p>
<p>[Ex-mayor’s</a> name too funny for Ind. center - U.S. news - Weird news - msnbc.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41480994/ns/us_news-weird_news/]Ex-mayor’s”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41480994/ns/us_news-weird_news/)
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<p>There was an ob/gyn in the area with the name Harry Beaver - would not have believed it if I hadn’t seen it on the door plate when heading to a sonogram in an office nearby many years ago when pregnant with one of my teens!</p>
<p>My mom encountered a woman in her work named Peculiar Sprinkle. Seriously.</p>
<p>Of course in Dallas there is the major freeway “Harry Hines Blvd”…</p>