Weird names - Page 5

monster · 06-22-2010, 11:35 AM

One of my kids has a friend called Marley Beaver. Poor thing.

classicman · 06-22-2010, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jinx

I had a friend named Windy. Also one named Stormy, although they didn't know each other...

We have a stormie here too.

Sheldonrs · 06-22-2010, 01:03 PM

Not so much weird name as weird coincidence.

I had just got off the phone with someone who's last name is Moriarty. When I reached for the next donation form to process, the name it is in Memory of is Sherlock!

Rhianne · 06-22-2010, 01:47 PM

Not too weird, there was a Joe King, presumably Joseph, where I worked about ten years ago.

Clodfobble · 06-22-2010, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

FWIW: I've read that the name Wendy is recorded nowhere in history before the story about Peter Pan.

The Straight Dope says no, although they agree it gave a major popularity boost to what was a pretty uncommon name at the time.

Spexxvet · 06-23-2010, 01:11 PM

Bill Lear, who invented the Lear Jet, named his daughter Shanda, as in Shanda Lear.

Pie · 06-23-2010, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

FWIW: I've read that the name Wendy is recorded nowhere in history before the story about Peter Pan.

Nope.

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J. M. Barrie did not invent the name Wendy for his 1904 play Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (the book form of the story, Peter and Wendy, was published in 1911). He did popularize it, though.
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But we have absolute proof that there were earlier Wendys, thanks to the just-released 1880 U.S. Census and the 1881 British Census (available here). These documents show that the name Wendy, while not common, was indeed used in both the U.S. and Great Britain throughout the 1800s. I had no trouble finding twenty females with the first name Wendy in the United States, the earliest being Wendy Gram of Ohio (born in 1828). If you include such spelling variations as Windy, Wendi, Wenda, and Wandy the number triples.

Shawnee123 · 06-23-2010, 01:21 PM

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Bill Lear, who invented the Lear Jet, named his daughter Shanda, as in Shanda Lear

She was a bright girl. It was so sad when she hung herself.

Undertoad · 06-23-2010, 01:26 PM

you killed me with that one shaw

Spexxvet · 06-23-2010, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

She was a bright girl. It was so sad when she hung herself.

Double bonus points!

wanderer · 06-25-2010, 05:41 AM

I don't know if this should be in list of weird names or list of long names. But we have got this guy from South India working for us. He's named:
"Kinnera Srinivasa Ravishankara Kumara"
(I didn't even remembered it (other than that its really long). Just copy-pasted it from his mail

)

Clodfobble · 06-25-2010, 05:04 PM

Better hope he never googles himself.

jinx · 06-25-2010, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by wanderer

we have got this guy from South India working for us. He's named:
"Kinnera Srinivasa Ravishankara Kumara"

Better than Michael Bolton at least...

ZenGum · 06-25-2010, 07:30 PM

I rather enjoyed paging Mr Supakit Charnvanichborikoran at the library where I worked.

Gravdigr · 06-26-2010, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

The Straight Dope says no, although they agree it gave a major popularity boost to what was a pretty uncommon name at the time.

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Originally Posted by Pie

Nope.

That's an interesting article. Thanks, to both of you, for pointing it out. Twice.

06-22-2010, 11:35 AM	#61
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	One of my kids has a friend called Marley Beaver. Poor thing. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

06-22-2010, 01:03 PM	#63
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	Not so much weird name as weird coincidence. I had just got off the phone with someone who's last name is Moriarty. When I reached for the next donation form to process, the name it is in Memory of is Sherlock! __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

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06-25-2010, 05:41 AM	#71
wanderer Master of the Domain Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 225	I don't know if this should be in list of weird names or list of long names. But we have got this guy from South India working for us. He's named: "Kinnera Srinivasa Ravishankara Kumara" (I didn't even remembered it (other than that its really long). Just copy-pasted it from his mail ) __________________ smoke on the water

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06-22-2010, 01:47 PM	#64
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	Not too weird, there was a Joe King, presumably Joseph, where I worked about ten years ago.

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Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	you killed me with that one shaw

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