<p>So don’t you think that the pet + street names are fun? Imagine a soap opera or perhaps some sort of stage show (!) with this cast of characters:</p>
<p>Penny Timber, Sundae Knott, Princess Musket, Purrl Lexington, Cheetah Cherry, and Fanny Ferry!!!</p>
<p>And Mac Thorndike…the man who loved them all…</p>
<p>There IS a stripper who uses my full first, last, and middle names for her name… how do I know this? Many many people have sent me links to her website. She’s VERY pretty.</p>
<p>Here in Portland, our mayor, Sam Adams, had an affair with a young man whose parents gave him a stripper name for his real name: Beau Breedlove. [Mayor</a> Sam Adams-Beau Breedlove scandal shakes up Portland | Local News | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington](<a href=“http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_011909_news_adams_breedlove_relationship.e142c06.html]Mayor”>http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_011909_news_adams_breedlove_relationship.e142c06.html)</p>
<p>I have to ask: what were his parents thinking?</p>
<p>Umm… Toto Pebblebrook??</p>
<p>I work in a school district and -yeesh- every other girl seems to be named Brittany/Brittney.</p>
<p>As a porn star, I’d be Vicki Burlington. Sounds classy to me.</p>
<p>I’d be Whiskers Chemung. That doesn’t sound like anyone who should take off clothes in public. It sounds like some old guy that lives alone on a mountain.</p>
<p>I’ve always loved my first name - Anna. Common enough that people know how to spell it but rare enough that I’m usually the only one in the room, it sounds lovely, it’s versatile, and it’s a palindrome!</p>
<p>After living with an unusual name, I was determined that my children would not have to deal with that. And since mine is so unusual that it is not immediately known to be feminine or masculine, their names would be gender specific. I just get very tired of having to either tell people how to pronounce my name (and they still get it wrong) or remind them what my name is. I have been called Angela, Audrey, Andrea, Angie, and others I can’t even remember. Now I pretty much answer to anything that starts with an A.</p>
<p>kitty56, my favorite female name is Angharad. It’s a Welsh name, that was the name of the oldest sister in How Green Was My Valley. In the movie, it is pronounced correctly and it’s lovely. In a book-on-tape version of Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword–great book–the reader mispronounced it horribly and made it ugly.</p>
<p>Of course there are those who would say it is lucky I never had a girl. :D</p>
<p>My grandmothers were Julia and Anna, grandfathers Royal and Matti (Matthew). Others of that generation were Patrick, Margaret (Peggy), John (Jack), Martin, and James. Nothing strange except for Royal. I read somewhere that that was also Nancy Reagan’s father’s name.</p>
<p>My stripper name would be Freddie Blanchard. Sounds more like the villain of a horror movie!</p>
<p>if i ever have kids, a girl would be Ilse Majorie and a boy would be Aviator Brodie
i’m pretty sure they’ll hate me, but at least it’s interesting</p>
<p>Consolation - I love that name. Know a girl with it, nickname is Harry which I don’t like much at all. However she says people mispronounce it all the time, and she is from London and lives there - so they should know better. </p>
<p>In doing genealogy I got back to the 1400’s and found…Grizzell…a female. I told my D2 who said, “Isn’t that the tough stuff on meat that you don’t really eat”- gristle - LOL! Thank god we didn’t go 600 years passing THAT name down…we did do Dorothy (ick, IMHO, no offense to any out there on CC) but fortunately it went through the eldest D line and my mother was D2. </p>
<p>Have gmo who was Phyllis Estella and Aunt Estella Lillian. Say those 3 times fast…and an uncle Grover. Also gfa Archer, family name…found that out doing genealogy, too!</p>
<p>My gfather was Jake. DH’s was Elwood. We talked about naming our kids after them. Always was a fan of The Blues Brothers:)</p>
<p>Using the cat’s name, I’m Sabine Vernal. Definitely porn star/stripper material there IMO.</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered… why Margaret turns into Peggy. Henry into Hank. Edward into Ted.</p>
<p>If I can use the hamster’s name, I’d be Nibbles Cherry. Now that’s truly pornographic.</p>
<p>
Back when therre only about 100 names in circulation in England, nicknames took on a high degree of creativity. Margeret went to Maggie, went to Peggy, etc.
See the book “Beyond Jason and Jennifer”.</p>
<p>thanks dragon mom! I would order the book on Amazon but I’m afraid my husband would have a heart attack.</p>
<p>The name Nan also developed as a playful variant of Ann. It’s not clear whether Nancy came from that, or developed independently. Hannah is somewhere in the Ann-Nan loop as well.</p>
<p>There is a porn star who has a version of my first name and the same and EXTREMELY unusual spelling of my last name.</p>
<p>Some of the nicknaming that ILoveLA asks about is related to English rhyming slang. Edward becomes Ed becomes Ned. William becomes Will becomes Bill. Robert becomes Rob becomes Bob. Margaret becomes Meg becomes Peg. Etc., etc.</p>
<p>I just met a boy on my son’s high school soccer term named Anakin! He named himself Luke Skywalker for a laser tag game.</p>
<p>Both my grandfathers where named John.</p>
<p>Other than my husband, I have never met any one with the same name as anyone in my family, nor my father/ brother (same name).</p>