Do you have a strangely named relative?

Question

While researching my family history, I found one fellow named Phinneas Durkee. I'm sure his name was quite normal at the time, but it just sounds rediculous now. Anyone have a bizarre name in their family's history?

Answer 1

Yea my brother named his daughter Davan

Answer 2

my grandad is named bones

Answer 3

Gwelda Hortense

Leader D'Havelyn

Strange nicknames, when I was growing up, too sisters who attended my church were nicknamed,

Chip and Crack!

Answer 4

i have aunt effie faye

Answer 5

On my father's side I have Ebenezer Larkin, named well before Dickens ruined the name.

On my mother's side Wilhelmina Maasberg, which is not an odd name in the Netherlands, but sure does it for Americans.

Answer 6

My grandpa's name was Vasile Zoltan.

Answer 7

simeon. don't ask.

Answer 8

How about Lubbertus Oostendorp OR  Wilbert Van Appledorn? (my side of the family) OR

My husbands great grandmother was named Tennessee Walker (yes, like the horse)...  Another  relative was Christopher Greenleaf Titsworth Walker.

Answer 9

my friend's grandpa is named Emmerie Begay

Answer 10

Yoy is my uncle.

Len-len is my cousin.

And Lon-lon is my other uncle.

Weird enough for ya?

Answer 11

Thornsberry Bailey.

Answer 12

Ozwitt.  It is my nephew's middle name.  There is a new cartoon called Phinneas and Ferb.

Answer 13

Hehe, thanks for the chuckle... that is a funny name.

And yes, my father-in-law's name is Apollonius. Pretty horrendous, i think.

Answer 14

My poor great grandpa was named Purl. Not weird in and of itself until you hear it and realize it belongs to a man and not a woman.

Answer 15

my dad's uncle  was Nenelle

Answer 16

Green Clay and Missouri Phillips were ancestors, America Maud Brenner was my mom's aunt, Theodore Bear is my nephew.  Middle names in my immediate family include Dessie, Munroe, and Ely (pronounce E-lee).

Answer 17

My momma had an aunt named Kasymira..meaning in spanish "can hardly see"!

Answer 18

My friend's Great-great-great-great Grandfathers  surname was chin chin i think i beat all of your names.

Answer 19

I have an aunt who's legal name Baby Fe.  Her mom is the original Fe.  I swear.  We call her Auntie Baby.

Answer 20

Phinneas Durkee sounds like a character from Harry Potter, and I like it for that reason!

My dad's middle name is "Petley" which apparently was his mother's father's first name.

I always thought the name Petley sounded funny, and continuously made fun of my dad for it during my childhood lol.