Monday 23 February 2015

It is All In The Name On Moanday Monday!



I was contemplating all the names she who must be obeyed ignored has given me over the years and I must admit most of them are not worthy of repeating. Then I came across poor Fanny Carlsson, from Sweden, who found that the online registration form for Sainsbury’s Nectar card would not accept her first name. That got me researching other unfortunates stuck with names they would rather not have. 

So next time you criticise your parents, just be thankful they didn’t curse you with any of these horrors
1. Friendless – Friendless Baxter was born in 1871 in Leeds, West Yorks. LOL one for my peeps I say.
2. Faith Hope Charity – Faith Hope Charity Brown was born in 1892 in Gillingham, Kent. Not one for our household.
3. Leicester Railway – Leicester Railway Cope was born in a train carriage at Leicester Railway Station in 1863.
4. Time Of – Time Of Day was born in Hoo, Kent, in 1899. Hilarious not.
5. One Too Many – One Too Many Gouldstone was born in Walthamstow, London, in 1870. His parents needless to say must have had one too many.
6. Windsor – Windsor Castle was born in Nottingham in 1876. Her father was a bricklayer but never built the castle.
7. Zebra – Zebra Lynes was born in Southampton in 1875. There is no record of her born in a zoo.
8. Ann Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Iug Jane Kate Louisa Maud Nora Orphelia Quince Rebecca Starkey Teresa Ulysis Venus Winifred Xenophen Yetty Zeus Pepper – Ann was born in 1882 in West Derby, Lancs, now Liverpool. The first letters spell out the alphabet (apart from Pepper, which was her real surname). 
9. That’s It Who’d Have Thought It – That’s It Who’d Have Thought It Restell was born in Strood, Kent, in 1886. Who’d have thought it indeed!
10. Mineral – Mineral Waters was born in 1892 in Rochford, Essex. 

So there you have it and I thought being called Stop It, Come Here, Enough was bad enough. Do you know of any barking mad names?

Have a marvellous Monday all.

68 comments:

  1. Crikey ..... I'm glad I'm just Charlie. Some of those names are something else, aye?? Ann Pepper must take forever to fill out forms, aye?? Jed I Knight and Jurassic Parke are two of Mum's favourites. Oh and of course, Helen Highwater.

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  2. Hehehehe!! What were those parents thinking? MOL Talking of Fanny's did you see The Chase episode where Bradley Walsh goes into meltdown over Fanny Chmelar? :))))) Have a wonderful week, Molly xx

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  3. Wow! Guess we should be glad that mama just calls us Chloe and LadyBug!! BOL! What on earth were those parents thinking???? Happy Monday Molly!! xo Chloe and LadyBug

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  4. teehee........teeehheeeeeeeeeee

    Miz Molly, you are quite the pooch. Researching, now? But your finds are most interesting! Yep, I've come across some shameful names in my time, and you wonder, "WHY?"

    HAVE A GLORIOUS MONDAY!

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  5. MOL MOL MOL Molly my peeps get the biggest charge out of crazy names. This is so ironic but so very true. Saturday mom was reading the obits in our paper. One name jumped off the page....
    Fannie Leak...we kid you not...that was a ladies name. Can you imagine the looks she must have rec'd when she told someone her name. Then yesterday there was another name in the obit David Creep.
    #8 was hilarious...Mom's first name is Cecilia. It was not a very common name when she was a child. She always had to repeat it. She cannot imagine all the other names tacked on to it.
    Thanks for the lol/mols this morning
    hugs madi your bfff

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  6. You must be kidding us; these names hardly seem real ;-) I can't think of anything better than that. Have a great week.

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  7. Most of those names are a mouthful. I wonder that the parents could remember them...lol.

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  8. Ann Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Iug Jane Kate Louisa Maud Nora Orphelia Quince Rebecca Starkey Teresa Ulysis Venus Winifred Xenophen Yetty Zeus Pepper.... wow that's a name! I love it.... my staff would never be able to call me....:o) Mom's grampy had an army buddy who's lastname was monshit :o)
    have a great monday :o)
    easy rider

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  9. DB for determined bitch, LL for little Lorie because a friend Lorie is pushy and shoves people out of the way.. Princess, DB sometimes is for dumb blond, these are just a few for Baby girl

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  10. Those are sum crazy names. I'm glad I'm jus' lil ol' me.

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  11. Happy Monday! Sometimes Grandma calls me a "Smart Lass", but the way she says it.. the "L" is silent! Oh well! Lassie

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  12. We think this is a pre planned parents revenge - for all the mischief kids will create growing up

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  13. Well, a long time ago, when Ma was a nurse, one of her geriatric patients was named....Seymour Wiener. We kid you not. Imagine growing up with that name...it's just cruel. BOL
    Oz

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  14. I am resigned to being Bertie or, occasionally Bertie-bubs. Gail had a class mate at school who was named Forest as she was born on the day Nottingham Forest won the FA Cup (in 1959).

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  15. Mom read once that these weird ole parents named their little babies IMA PIGG and YOURA PIGG...I hope they sue them when they get older or change their names to something pretty.
    stella rose

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  16. Amazing names. Molly, you look how I feel in her picture.

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  17. Mom was just thinking of Kim Kardashian's daughter who is named North West and Christina Aguilera who calls her newborn daughter Summer Rain LOL. As me I'm called Clobber Chick, and Vaks is called Futterup (I can't translate it) LOL.

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  18. I like 'Mineral Waters' what imaginative parents! When I was a child our neighbour referred to our cat as Cooking Fat (anagram) but of course nobody explained why! :D

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  19. Zebra Lynes and Mineral Waters... THOSE are grrrrreat... really funny.
    We know somebuddy who ended up naming their dawg.... DAMNIT

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  20. Bacon - Sounds so wonderful as a name now. Snorts and oinks my friend. XOXO - Bacon

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  21. What are parents thinking?? I've heard some bad ones too - read an article once about names and how they say more about our parents than about how we'll turn out. There was an actual pair of brothers named Winner and Loser. (Winner was a convicted criminal... Loser was a police officer.)

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  22. Sometimes I'm called "For the Love of Pete Maggie!" Long, but kind of catchy.
    Yours sincerely,
    Margaret Thatcher

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  23. My Mommy has many names she calls me when she forgets my name. Dammit is real popular. i think she just has a bad memory. I like Sasha and Molly is a lovely name as well.

    Love Sasha

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  24. O.M.G! that's what i'd want my initials to be after reading some of these... :)

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  25. Those names are quite the mouthful!

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  26. We have a hard time figuring out why some peeps come up with some of the nutty names that they come up with!

    Love ya lots♥
    Mitch and Molly

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  27. It seems to me that some of these parents ought to have considered getting a dog or a horse- most of those sound like they are straight out of a kennel club show or off of a racetrack! Except for the parents of One Too Many. I sincerely hope they stuck with the theme for their next dozen or bakers dozen children! :)

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  28. I don't pay any attention to the silly names, unless there are treats involved!

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  29. You have to wonder what those parents were thinking! Some of today's Hollywood "royalty" can come up with some doozies as well!

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  30. I was surprised to read that Gwyneth named her first child Apple. You wonder if ,as adults they will change them!

    Jo, Stella and Zkhat

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  31. BOL so funny. Mineral?
    Snorts,
    Lily & Edward

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  32. They must have had celebrity parents....BOL!

    We have LOTS of nicknames....some rather rude.

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  33. Honestly, how can people BE so cruel to their own children - unbelievable.
    Mum's boss told her she used to go to school with a girl called Anette Curtain.
    Dip and Elliot x

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  34. Geesh, we're just glad our mom didn't stick with some of the names she was coming up with for our sister Zuzu like Dumpling Puff Pastry Piroshki or Basketball Jones!

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  35. We will just be happy with our names even if mom calls Stanley Baby Huey sometimes.

    Your Pals,

    Murphy & Stanley

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  36. Ohhhh yessssssssssss I do but none of them are fit to print...well, when Mom is mad at Cody she calls him "the fat striped gray bastard".............OHHHH YESSSSSSSSSS SHE DOES!!! But I didn't tell you that. Love, Dakota

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  37. Mom often shakes her head is dismay at some of the names some humans give their kiddos:) You found some great ones - made us chuckle.

    Woos - Phantom, Ciara, and Lightning

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  38. We totally agree, mom can't believe some of the names people give their kids these days! Love Dolly

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    1. Ima Hogg ..... hahahahaha!!!!!! Too funny. Shoulda called Travis that!!

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  40. Hey Molly!
    Wow, these are hysterical! My Mom likes to call me "Butt Wipe" but I don't really appreciate it. BOL OMD Charlie listed Helen Highwater...that's hysterical too. Mom said she heard of a kid named Justin Case. NUTTY PEEPS! What happened to plain old Bob or Sue? Call me Rover. :)
    Grr and Woof,
    Sarge, Police Commish

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  41. Dear Molly,

    And here I thought "Fatty" and "Grouchy" were bad names... But those are even worse! Of course, I do not care what you call me as long as you are calling me for dinner!

    Licks,
    Cobi

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  42. I had a neighbor once who named her daughter Star and their last name was Gazer ~ Hence the child was baptized Star Gazer. You should have heard those in attendance moan. I like this post Molly. Funny what people want their kids named.
    Thanks for being a friend
    Sweet William The Scot

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  43. Walter doesn't have any nicknames other than the usual variations of his given name. Millie on the other hand is often called "Silly Millie" or Monkey! BOL!

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  44. There are certain celebrities that seem to love picking odd names for their offspring. I figure kids have problems enough growing up without saddling them with anything too weird.

    Pat
    Critter Alley

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  45. Crikey Molly .... that was a VERY funny post. I made a few replies ...... hope you don't mind but I got a bit carried away with all the names. So glad I'm just Charlie. It's not a bad name. Molly is nice too. If I was a sheila I would probably have been called Molly.

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  46. Hi! Someone TW knew actually knew someone named Chanda Lear. Really. I’ll bet punk singers wouldn’t mind some of those names.

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  47. BOL I'm sometimes called Damnit Sully.

    Aroo to you,
    Sully

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  48. My Daddy's name is Edgar Gay. He had an Aunt who was born Beverly Gay. She married a man named Robert Dyke so she became Beverly Dyke. She gave her daughter her maiden name as her middle name so Daddy's cousin's name was, until she got married Janice Gay Dyke

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  49. What names hahahah..well all the furries her have nicknames..and they all answer to them..our surname is Green and our only daughter we named Rhiannon..there was no way she was being named Theresa Green..but she has a partner and his last name is PEASE..so she is tossing up keeping her surname and being called Rhiannon Green-Pease..either the vegetable the liberation group hahhahaah :) thanks for the snickers Molly loves Fozziemum xxx

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  50. Yikes! There ought to be a law against some of those.

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  51. BOL...These are too funny Molly!!
    Smileys!
    Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo

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  52. BOL! Those peeps from the 1800's had some crazy ideas when it comes to names...and here we thought Apple and Zuma were odd.
    Wally & Sammy

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  53. I worked in a high school and you would be astounded at the names! One I remember fondly was D'lanod. (Donald spelled backwards) It was pronounced DaLano. When I questioned the final 'd' he told me that it was silent!

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  54. What is it with Peeps and nick names?! She hardly ever calls me by my REAL name!

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  55. Molly, re-read Mommys P.S. part of the Bowling Post.

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  56. Oh no, these just make me cringe! Like M.K. Clinton, I worked in a high school and saw some pretty funny ones. A lot of students were named for types of cars (ex. Lexus).

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  57. OMD! Now that is just sheer craziness!!
    ღ husky hugz ღ frum our pack at Love is being owned by a husky!

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  58. Hi Molly, That was such an interesting post! I think the worst thing I've ever called one of my pup is stupid-but that i one of those rare moments when I've lost my mind. Mainly it is just little man, bubba, little boy etc.
    Hope you have a wonderful week!
    Wags, Noreen & Hunter

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  59. Oh no, I couldn't get past Friendless Baxter! How sad!

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  60. I was called some rude names when I was a pup, but those names are priceless!

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  61. *cough*choke* Time Of ...DAY?!? Seriouslies? MOL!!!

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  62. Wow, that was great to read, and will come back to re- read
    Happy Wed nesday
    love
    tweedles

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  63. The one with the entire alphabet was a mouthful. Parents can be so thoughtless. The Hollywood people can name their kids pretty dopey things, like North West! Mauricio gets called Turd Bucket a lot! He deserves it. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo

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