A friend’s sister knew someone who deliberately gave her child initials that would spell out EGO. Yes, she was a psychiatrist.
Of course all those Thayla, Thane, etc. family names can’t help but remind me of the KKKardashians. I hate it when businesses replace a C with a K (Kash & Karry grocery store), it’s even worse when it’s Khloe, ugh.
Actually, Chloe is the Biblical version of a Greek word meaning “small green shoot of a plant”, which is spelled - surprise - Khlóē (Χλοη) from the word “khloros” meaning “greenish-yellow”.
So really, Chloe is a variant of Khloe and not the other way around.
That explanation of Khloe/ Chloe is incredibly interesting. That one fact changed my perception instantly. Thanks!
“Strange” names and the US Supreme Court (limiting it to first names), according to what seem to be the majority sentiments on this thread, including surname-looking first names, in chronological order: Bushrod, Smith, Ward, Morrison (a chief justice!), Lucius,* Melville, Rufus, Willis, Mahlon, Pierce, Harlan, Wiley, Potter, Byron, Thurgood.
And, of course, the one everyone thought would be named to SCOTUS for decades but never was, Learned Hand—plus others that some people on this thread wouldn’t like, like the alliterative Felix Frankfurter.
Just pointing out that “odd” names don’t really seem to be a problem for the bearers of them, but rather only for the people who can’t wrap their heads around difference.
Wisconsin has a current supreme court justice whose first name is Patience.
I still don’t like Khloe. The Kardashians are not trying to be Greek, they’re trying to be kutesy.
I’ve heard of that Greek K spelling in general before. Scholars used to think a C or Ch was appropriate but they switched to a K relatively recently. Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote about it regarding her book “The Firebrand” which was about Kassandra. She hated the K spelling but used it anyway.
So, Chloe/Khloe is related to the word “chlorophyll”?
It isn’t the fact that the name is odd/uncommon–like those listed above for SCOTUS. It is the connotation of the name. A first name like Melville, or Wiley or Thurgood doesn’t really bring to mind the same thing as a Tyfannee or LaFawnduh. Surname-looking first names have preppy (upper-class) connotations, imo.
@eyemamom - my kids also went to school and played sports with a kid named Jihad. He uses it proudly - it isn’t his fault that the name was tarnished by people of ill will.
I am well acquainted with a young man named Peter who in 21 years has never been teased about his name. People do tend to call him Pete, though. He is most definitely not a Pete.
There was a Peter Johnson at my high school.
We had a dentist here named Dr. Payne. He worked in the Hurt Bldg. Not kididing.
Having more than one surname is traditional in some cultures: http://perez.cs.vt.edu/twolastnames
I do not understand the Peter references.
Romani, you just need to think like an 11yrold boy. From 1972.
I think it’s a reference to a slang term back in my day for a male body part. I went to Catholic elementary school and there was a Peter or three in every grade and I don’t ever remember hearing any teasing. And some of them went on to be very successful.
Well now I feel old…Peter has been replaced by Johnson
I assumed that’s what it meant but I have personally never heard that.
Johnson… now that one I’ve heard.
Not even my father is old enough to have been 11 in 1972 :-"
I was in college in 1972. Thanks, romani. :-t
What is it that Tyfannee and LaFawnduh keep getting mentioned? Seriously, what’s wrong with them? Aside from being thought of as black, I mean?
That was the point, dfbdfb. It actually took longer than I expected in this thread, but romani called it very early on.