What is wrong with Richard?
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Yup, that name has been around for a long time. I also know a Portia. Porsche has slipped in a new spelling for Portia in more recent years.

Most of those names, having meaning in some other language, just because its not common useage in English, we think of it as a "name". Andrew is borrowed from greek, imagine the outcry in briton when someone tried to name their child Andrew!

I knew a girl in college named Andrea Beaver. Her grandmother was named Eda. She said her grandmother never understood why that was funny.:)

My high school coachs last name was Bimbo. His mothers first name is Ida. :eek:

90% of the italian boys in South Philly would look if you yelled... Yo Ant-knee is dat you? I know at least 10 Ant-knees.:D

knew a girl while working college last name Doll. her mom's name is Barbie. she has an uncle named Ken.

reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ

Brendy Champagne...

One that was in the papers here a while ago: first name, Flower, last name, Pot.
It was rejected by the civil servant who registers newborn infants...
And rightly so, IMO.

Glad my parents weren't trying to be clever when they named me...

I have a Black friend who named his son Michael. I asked if it was a family name and he said "No, but have you ever heard of a CEO whose first name was LaBron?"

Sam is a nick-name my father gave me when I was young, it's a long-accepted short for the biblical "Samuel" which apparently you are not familar with.
IIRC, he wrote two of the books of the old testiment.

Ironically, Samuel was a hebrew profit and judge. Back then, judges didn't evolve from the genetic ooze we now refer to as lawyers SmileWavy

Something many of the aforementioned folks on this thread were likely not considering.

"you're strange
but don't change"

I saw a recent TV documentary that covered this trend of "unusual" names being given. In summary, most of the cases the name was given thinking it would make their child "unique" and important. It covered many of the names in this thread and that most were given to ethnic children.
The narrator mentioned if you want your child to have a unique/different name - perhaps name them Mike or Mary, Bill or Sue, etc.

my lady has counseled some of her staff..
seems some could not constrain themselves when doing the birth certificates..
so no more..
:rolleyes:,:confused:, or outright laughter..
kicker..some of those clowns make up the spelling on the spot..

Rika

but they are ALL unique - just like everybody else

My married last name is Doll and my son Jordan has the middle name of Edward Kenneth... He looks nothing like Ken... SmileWavy

I thought it was weird when we named my son that the government would not allow us to include numbers as part of the spelling of his name... now I know why.

Wasn't 'Portia' a Shakespeare character?

yup - Merchant of Venice according to wikipedia...

My name is Kairos Trekkor.


KT