<p>In my twenties I had a gynecologist named Dr. Cherry.</p>
<p>Some of these names are bonkers. I’m afraid Storm and Ocean are from two different families, but in the same class at school! They’re both white British and aged 14 / 15. </p>
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Is Welsh, and far from unheard of around these parts (though I am about an hour away from Wales!). I did used to know a Cairistiona (pronounced cah-rish-tina) who now goes by the name of Carrie as it was a mystery to most people she met. </p>
<p>There’s a doctor’s surgery near me, and according to the sign outside one of the doctors there is a Dr M. A. Butt. Oh dear. </p>
<p>I was also recently doing some admin work in an office, and one of the names that I had to type in was a Mrs Victoria Cross. Now, this sounds fine until you realise that it is one of the highest military honours available to British soldiers (and yes, this was in Britain). I can only assume that she married into it. </p>
<p>@Jea828 - I nearly spat my tea onto my keyboard. </p>
<p>Mum always reckoned that names should go through three tests:
“Can x come out to play?”
“Do you think x is ready for promotion?” and
“X, will you marry me?”
I have a relatively sensible name, but for some reason people do like to use non-phonetic pronunciations. Honestly, it’s a three syllable name and not hard to just say as it’s written!</p>
<p>I went to school with a girl whose last name was Crotchtangle.</p>
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<p>What a great piece of advice!! I wish everyone listened to your mum! ;)</p>
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<p>The same thing is true of my surname. It is pronounced exactly as written. But no one can do it. Some people come close, only putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable, which is understandable, because the correct emphasis is not normal in Indo-European languages. (My name hails from another language group. 
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<p>The chief judge of the Ingham County (Michigan) Circuit Court is Judge Lawless.
[Honorable</a> Janelle A. Lawless](<a href=“http://cc.ingham.org/GeneralInformation/Judges/HonorableJanelleALawless.aspx]Honorable”>http://cc.ingham.org/GeneralInformation/Judges/HonorableJanelleALawless.aspx)
I knew a dentist who’s last name was Doctor.</p>
<p>Hey Garland, there is a Wealthy Ann in my family tree as well! Maybe we’re related.</p>
<p>My kids went to school with a boy named Yamajesty.</p>
<p>There was a boy in our old neighborhood named Crispin. Also a girl whose name was spelled Amanda – but the parents were adamant that it was pronounced A-MON-da, and were constantly angrily correcting people.</p>
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<p>I have one of those names too. Not a particularly unusual name, not (apparently) difficult to spell or pronounce, but so many people get it wrong.</p>
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<p>Reminds me of the kid’s movie Milo and Otis, when the mother dog importantly announces that one of her puppies’ names is SON-dra, not SAN-dra.</p>
<p>I like Crispin. </p>
<p>“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>My Grandfather’s first and middle name was Benjamin Franklin. His brother was George Washington. He died before I was born and never got to know him. My Grandma always referred to him as Frank and others as Ben and so I always assumed she had been married twice, who knew?</p>
<p>One of my kids had a classmate named Story. I truly love that name.</p>
<p>Had an OB named Dr. Gianokakkis (pronounced Gynocockus)</p>
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That’s FRONK-en-STEEN, not FRANK-en-STINE!</p>
<p>I had a great uncle named Holly Berry Ivey. He was a submariner & died in WWII.
Oldest also had two kids in her class ( not related) named Venus & Jupiter.
Unusual but good names I think.</p>
<p>I knew Madera Roja de la Sequoia (translated redwood of the sequoia), he is a guy (madera is a feminine noun in Spanish)
I also knew doctor Smiley, a dentist</p>
<p>There was a man named Jaime Lachica Sin who eventually became a cardinal in the Roman Catholic church – Cardinal Sin.</p>
<p>[Jaime</a> Sin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sin]Jaime”>Jaime Sin - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>This is just the best thread ever.</p>
<p>Years ago there was a Dr. Donald Duckles by us. Squire Butts lives near me now.</p>
<p>We lived near a dentist named Dr. Hertz.
I also worked with a Dr. Nurse and a nurse named Mary Dokter.</p>
<p>My younger d teaches music and movement to toddlers and works part-time as a nanny while doing the audition rounds and performing when she has a gig… in the heart of hipster Brooklyn. Not only do the kids have a collection of outstanding and unusual names, many are being raised gender neutral (no pink or blue). She has a kid in one of her classes, a 2 year old named Dashiell and so she cannot tell if the child is male or female. Dashiell is generally a boy’s name but the hair is long and the facial features look female but you cannot judge by that- the family might choose to keep the hair long or haven’ t yet gotten around to the first haircut. They are wearing somewhat unisex clothes… no pink for sure … she is somewhat embarrassed to admit that after working with this child in a class for several months she has no idea. Okay she does only see the child once a week and there isn’t any diaper changing going on… and they’ve never asked her for any extra babysitting…
One of our friends taught in Brooklyn and his best was a student with the name Female…pronounced Fe-Mal-E… because the parents never got around to giving the girl a real name.</p>
<p>Crotchtangle. >>>>>>>>>></p>
<p>Okay, now THAT is definitely change worthy!!! Yikes.</p>