Strangest Name you've ever come across...

[Irieguy]

Working at the health department in Bradenton, FL I would see a lot crazy names.

There is definitely some type of Black-American cultural tradition to try and come up with the funkiest names possible for your newborn, and the girls at the health department were fed plenty of inspiration. Here are a few that I can remember off the top of my head (these are either patients' names or the names of their babies

Candida (Can-dee-da)
Chlamydia (Klah-mi-dee-ah)
Staforius (mom must have heard the word "staph. aureus" at some point)

And my personal favorite:

Vulva

When I met lovely Vulva it was right around the time of the Seinfeld episode when he couldn't remember his girlfriend's name... only that it sounded like a female organ. He guessed "Mulva." I was thinking how funny it was that the idea of girl named Mulva was so absurd that it was the punch line for an episode of Seinfeld... meanwhile I'm sitting there talking to girl named Vulva.

Irieguy

PS- These types of names are not unique to underserved Florida... i've since met several patients named after diseases and have heard colleagues tell their stories of similar names. So, they are almost like urban medical myths, but real. If you had 10 minutes of free access at University Medical Center's records here in Vegas, you'd be able to find a Candida.

[Alobar]

In Jr high we had a speaker come to our school assembly who was named "Mike Hunt" (guess there is a lot of them out there) Us cool kids laughed when he was introduced. Never could figure out why he wouldnt go by micheal

[Evan]

I met a girl at a party named Evan once. I thought that was pretty weird. The conversation went something like:

Me: My name's Evan
Her: Me too!

I didn't really believe her, but she showed me her license. Nothing weird for objective reasons that I can remember.

[TheMainEvent]

I did some work on a database for a charity that runs a summer camp for urban youth. Needless to say, there were some outlandish names in it. I remember one kid's first name was Lord Justice.

[A S U]

I went to College with a Candida. BTW my last name pwns all those you mentioned, but I'll be damned if I say what it is!

[beenben]

someone at my company is named Holly Wood. it's her original name.

[blaze666]

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Criteria is that you had to have at least had a breif conversation with the person, or hung out with them for a while. (In other words I don't want to see people saying "I heard this guy has a cousin named Dick Head"...)

Mine is without a doubt: Swastika Gandhi (think Nazi symbols and purveyors of peace). This was a cousin of an Indian friend of mine whom I met about 4 years ago.

Runner-up: Merry Christmas (yes, spelled Merry). She came through my line when I worked in a grocery store. I saw it on her check. We had a little discussion about it.

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Alistair Willy Dick Cockburn

[prohornblower]

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Chlamydia (Klah-mi-dee-ah)


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Why not just call her A.I.D.S, and be done with it??

[heater]

My older sister went to college with a guy named O.K. Doak.
Nobody ever believes me, so I looked it up. He's listed here:

http://www.hope.edu/student/organiza...ll/people.html

[posnera]

Candida is a pretty common one.
Female (fa-mal-ay) is another favorite.

I went to college with a Richard Hardon.

**addendum**
I almost forgot - also in college - Edith DeKoch