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golfed with a guy named Richard Head.

I worked with a guy named Richard Hair.

One of my clients in a previous life was named Richard Hummer.

I had a client named Richard Forehand. It’s not as on-the-nose as those are, but it made me giggle anyways.

Besides the previously mentioned Heidi Mycock I used to work with, I also worked with Richard Hare at the same company.

He did not like being called the common nickname for Richard, Dick.

Grocery store cashier with that name. I thought about asking her about it, mostly about how to pronounce it, but didn't. Nuh-VAY-uh?

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Grocery store cashier with that name. I thought about asking her about it, mostly about how to pronounce it, but didn't. Nuh-VAY-uh?

I have seen the names Semaj and Nomar multiple times.

Antoine is a perfectly good, if slightly foreign-sounding (well it is French) name. Antuan, Antwan and other variations, some with apostrophes, are not. At least they sound and are pronounced like Antoine. I worked with an Antione once. I asked if the spelling on his uniform shirt name tag was a typo and he said no. Nice guy, but dumb as a fencepost.

Years ago I worked for a rental car agency at the Atlanta airport, the counter agents used to print out copies of rental contracts with really funny names and spellings. That stack was at least a foot tall and I used to look thru it to see new ones that had been added.

Was on vacation year ago. In a Florida Walmart they announce a call for Bo Tie

If your family name is Hunt, don't give your boys names like Michael, or Richard.

I once knew twin girls named PregNancy and SiPhylis, I'm not joking. A friend that was a maternity ward nurse told me that a baby girl born prematurely got named T9C.

Somewhere I read where someone said that being at a loss for a child’s name they grab a bunch of Scrabble tiles, shake them and toss them. And that’s how some of these names are created.

I tend to believe that.

Cousin teaches middle school in North Carolina. Has 5 Bo’s in her class named DeShawn, all 5 have different spellings.

My friends mother was a nurse. She told about the time a new mother wanted to name her child Chlamydia because she heard the doctor reading her chart mention it and thought it was a pretty name.

"Semaj" always just sounds like a Balkan terrorist to me.

Have also seen a baby-mama whose gimmick is combining her name with the sperm donor's name for each progeny.

Ray'Mo.
Shaw'Nique.
Mo'Quan.

I'd argue all of these are a form of child abuse.