To me, John Paul George Ringo makes the kid’s name a (bad) joke. Maybe that’s because I knew the parents. I don’t think that a person’s name should be used to display your supposedly cool ironic sense of humor. Save it for your cat.
I know someone who named her S after two medieval writers: Geoffrey Chaucer and William Dunbar. But the child’s name is Geoffrey William lastname, not Geoffrey Chaucer William Dunbar lastname. Because she had taste and discretion, and wasn’t trying to prove something at the expense of her child.
I always wonder why parents would choose Thomas Thompson or John Johnson.
I volunteered at D’s school and tutored a little girl named Mercedes. She told me her dad really wanted a car but got her instead. I hope he was joking, but she didn’t seem to get the joke.
Im sure the poster above knows that fact, dfb. She did not say the name was unusual; the origin of it was. The fact that there is such a name is not irreconcilable with her story, either. The name is not that common in the US, so it would not be unusual to ask someone named Mercedes about the origin of the name, and it is totally plausible that the father, upon learning of his wife’s unplanned pregnancy, exclaimed, “There goes my Mercedes!”
