What about Josh, John David, Jana, Jenna, Jessa, Joy Anna, Josiah, Jeddidiah, Jackson, Jennifer, Johannah, Josie and wait for it... Jinger! Plus about another 8 whose names I can't remember.
That stunt is the purview of the enthusiastic reproducers. I guess they think it's clever.
My daughter married a TBM, and his gigantic TBM family have come up with some doozy names, such as "Diem" as in carpe diem, "Sedi, "Zoei", "Lenzo", and another that I can never remember, because it is not a real name or even a real word, and it isn't spelled out phonetically. The rest of the girls have boy's names, like Smith, Eliot, Garet, Jensen. That will be fun, when they go to 6th Grade camp, and they are assigned to the boy's tents.
But "Spurgeon" is my new favorite! (I wonder if it's a girl?)
Spurgeon was a very famous Baptist preacher in England in the nineteenth century - able to speak to thousands at a time - some voice! I have ten volumes of his sermons.
elderolddog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I met Cubby Bear in 8th grade. He had an older > brother named Teddy. > no way! I knew a girl in high school named Panda. last name: Bear. did Cubby and Teddy have a sibling?
what am I thinking. this was in mormon/Arizona. Did Cubby/Teddy have a cousin/aunt/niece/1st cuz once removed/ grandmother/great-aunt, etc. etc. etc. ?
reminds of a definitely apocryphal obstetric hospital story:
A woman from a rural area in the south gave birth to twins, back in the day when the mothers got to spend some recovery time at the hospital. The fraternal twins were unexpected, so they had started over again in their name search, to get complimentary names for the boy and girl. She must have been listening to some conversation between the professionals, because she ended up naming them Urethra and Ureter.
When I worked at Primary Children's Medical Center in the 80s, a Laotian couple named their kid Salt Lake City. They probably weren't even Mormon, just a funny story.
My dad's first name was Arza, and I've discovered in looking at obits and cemeteries etc, that there are lots of men named Arza in Utah, assuming it's TSCC related, although his parents weren't active. His middle name was Lephell and he said his mom was having trouble with a name for him so she made that up. (He was child #9)
He had brothers named Delos, (they called him Los) and Ruben. The rest were girls and they were all fairly common names.
All of his adult life, he was known as Art, at least at work. When my parents got religion in about 1964, someone called him Arza and that kind of stuck until he died.