I hope you post these on occasion as topics occur to you. I guess I have turned into an onomastics geek, because I enjoy it.
My most interesting modern name was a baby my mom delivered (my mom was an OB/GYN). The mother named her son "Uniroyal", because while in labor on the way to the hospital, she saw a billboard advertising the tires and liked the way the word sounded. It kind of harks back to a whole genre of "bad Indian name" jokes, but this one was for real.
The other modern name I love is the (possibly apocryphal) fellow whose mom named him "R B". First name was the letter "R", middle was the letter "B". His family pronounced it "Arby". However, the military geeked out. On the paperwork for his dogtags, they returned it with a note that he had to put his full names. So he wrote down "R (only)" and "B (only)". His dogtags then read "Ronly Bonly Jones". I dunno if I love this story mostly because of working for the guvmint, but it's really the mindset!
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My most interesting modern name was a baby my mom delivered (my mom was an OB/GYN). The mother named her son "Uniroyal", because while in labor on the way to the hospital, she saw a billboard advertising the tires and liked the way the word sounded. It kind of harks back to a whole genre of "bad Indian name" jokes, but this one was for real.
The other modern name I love is the (possibly apocryphal) fellow whose mom named him "R B". First name was the letter "R", middle was the letter "B". His family pronounced it "Arby". However, the military geeked out. On the paperwork for his dogtags, they returned it with a note that he had to put his full names. So he wrote down "R (only)" and "B (only)". His dogtags then read "Ronly Bonly Jones". I dunno if I love this story mostly because of working for the guvmint, but it's really the mindset!