No offense to anyone named Clovis ....

[KFC911]

Just don't name yer kid Clovis Jr.

Sue Jr. is probably better

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by KC911

Just don't name yer kid Clovis Jr.

Sue Jr. is probably better

I have no idea what you are referencing. I have never met anyone named Clovis, but there is a city in New Mexico called Clovis. Why would it matter to anyone else what someone is named. It is better than Frank Zappa's daughter, Moon Unit's name.

[KFC911]

Matches Dweezil

Just having fun ... saw that name on id10t's subpoena thread.

Cruel name to give a boy

[masraum]

Semi-related note. I saw a a teacher or comedian, or maybe a comedian who had been a teacher talking about how so many folks these days are giving their kids regular names with highly unusual spellings. And it makes sense. If you give your kid a common name, but spelled in a way that's not only uncommon, but invented by you, and it's not able to be phonetically sounded out, then you cannot be irritated or offended if that name gets butchered. You as the parent that invented the name caused this problem. You need to be prepared to deal with it, and teach your kid to deal with it. You shouldn't try to shame people for it.

And Clovis sounds like a name that would have been more common 150-200 years ago. I'd half expect to hear it in old westerns or maybe historic films set in England.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by KC911

Matches Dweezil

Cruel name to give a boy

or a girl.

Yep, Frank was an odd one that made sure his kids had to be a little odd too when he named them Moon Unit (WTF), Dweezil (equally, WTF), Ahmet (needs to move to Egypt, but relatively tame), Diva (also relatively tame compared to the first two). I'm guessing his drug use was reduced as he aged.

[Zeke]

Clovis, CA.

[KFC911]

It's spelled... C l o v i s ....

but pronounced as Bob

[70SATMan]

I had a work colleague named Cloman.

When I revert to my Illinois rural background including a slight twang,,,, my wife will call me Cleetus. If she didn't own half of everything I have, I'd do something about that,,, LOL.

[craigster59]

I work with a guy Clovis. He pronounces his name "Kloh-veese", different from the town near Fresno.

[wdfifteen]

Out here in the country there are lots and lots of obscure Old Testament names that I don't recognize. Names of people I am personally friends or relatives of:

Friends (brothers) Cletus and Orville

MOL's name was Ethelene

Friend Grover Tobin

[KFC911]

^^^^ One of my great grandfather's name was Roma Osco

.... at least I'm not a "III"!

Whew

[IROC]

Cletus Green used to ride my bus when I was a kid. I also worked with a guy named Gathern Ford. He asked me if I wanted to see his bullet hole scar - in his chest. Flem Pectal also worked at the same place.

Gotta love East TN.

[masraum]

There are some interesting names around here. Most of those are of Czech origin, maybe some German too.

[id10t]

Originally Posted by KC911

Matches Dweezil

Just having fun ... saw that name on id10t's subpoena thread.

Cruel name to give a boy

There is actually a III version, and Clovis IV has been in some legal troubles...

[jcwade]

Sounds like a pretty bada$$ guy.

Clovis I

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clovis (Latin: Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlodowig; c. 466 – 27 November 511)[1] was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.[2] He is considered to have been the founder of the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Frankish kingdom for the next two centuries. Clovis is important in the historiography of France as "the first king of what would become France".[3]

Clovis succeeded his father, Childeric I, as a king of Salian Franks in 481, and eventually came to rule an area extending from what is now the southern Netherlands to northern France, corresponding in Roman terms to Gallia Belgica (northern Gaul). At the Battle of Soissons (486) he established his military dominance of the rump state of the fragmenting Western Roman Empire which was then under the command of Syagrius. By the time of his death in either 511 or 513, Clovis had conquered several smaller Frankish kingdoms in the northeast of Gaul including some northern parts of what is now France. Clovis also conquered the Alemanni tribes in eastern Gaul, and the Visigothic kingdom of Aquitania in the southwest. These campaigns added significantly to Clovis's domains, and established his dynasty as a major political and military presence in western Europe.

Clovis is also significant because of his conversion to Nicene Christianity in 496, largely at the behest of his wife, Clotilde, who would later be venerated as a saint for this act, celebrated today in both the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. Clovis was baptized on Christmas Day in 508.[4] The adoption by Clovis of Nicene Christianity (as opposed to the Arianism of most other Germanic tribes) led to widespread conversion among the Frankish peoples; to religious unification across what is now modern-day France, the Low Countries and Germany; three centuries later, to Charlemagne's alliance with the Bishop of Rome; and in the middle of the 10th century under Otto I the Great, to the consequent birth of the early Holy Roman Empire.

[fastfredracing]

I know a Cleetus. Honest to goondess redneck boy . Has mad money from Fracking His family had a lot of land , but he still lives in a run down trailer . You'd never know it

[flipper35]

Wife has an uncle in the SE with that name.

[911 Rod]

I thought it was a female part ....

[wdfifteen]

My son in law has a middle initial but no middle name.

A friend named his son "Sir."

[Zeke]

Apparently any name is OK here but "hillbilly."