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Did I tell y'all about my cousin Beth's new baby? The third boy. I was just discussing baby cousins with Vanessa and remembered him, and that Beth and DJ gave him an absolutely horrid Biblical name, so we spent twenty minutes combing a Bible and two websites before my memory was jogged.

They named him Jethro.

Jethro.

They now have Jamie, Jedidiah, and Jethro.

Those poor, poor children. Why would somebody do that to their innocent, powerless infants?

If any of you can beat me for weird, wacky baby names, hit me!

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Jethro is an awesome name! Now people will think of both a great band and the agricultural pioneer.

Jamie's from James, I assume, which is about as typical as one could hope to get...Jedidiah, though, has no hope. I'm sorry to say.

You want bad baby names? Knock yourself out.

Jethro Tull is my second level of reference. The first, unfortunately, is Jethro from "The Beverly Hillbillies." Not a pleasant association.

I'm looking for personal experiences, people you have actually met and presumably not punched in the face for naming their kid something heinous :)

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The what-now? Oh, right, that show. I can't say I've ever been exposed to it.

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Well, there's always Dorcas, a former co-worker of mine (which is also a Biblical name).

Yeah, we came across that one, and were surprised to learn that it means 'gazelle.' It...just does not look like a gazelle-like name, you know?

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Of course not. It looks dorky. :-P

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Aww, Jethro?

There was a girl I knew in high school called Michael (pronounced "Mick-hail") and a girl I knew in college who went by "Diz" (her first name? Disraeli, after a British prime minister. Her parents were history professors, what can you expect?).

I knew a girl named Michael once -- pronounced it the regular way, though -- but am I horrible for thinking Disraeli is sort of cool? :) I mean, Diz is a cute nickname!

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Michael Learned (Mother Walton) was a woman ...

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I think Nicholas Cage naming his son Kal-el trumps all.

True, that is a weird fucking name. But celebrities get a pass -- it's the normal, salt-of-the-earth people I expect sanity in child-naming from.

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Jedidiah?!?! That's just *crazy*.

My cousin was going to name her kid 'X-ray'. No joke. She was nineteen and had all these ideas about going against the norm and not being boring...she relented in the end and went for 'Indy-Blue.' One word, not two. *shrugs* It's better than 'X-ray'.

I also went to preschool with a girl that was named 'Morning Star.' And her last name, if I remember correctly, was 'Bloom.' *grin* Honestly, that tops anything I could ever come up with.

I KNOW. We keep trying to call him JD, but it hasn't caught on.

On jeez, X-Ray is horrible. And Morning Star Bloom MUST have hippie parents.

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Joe Flanigan (Sheppard on SGA) and his wife recently named their third son Fergus.

Fergus Flanigan.

I love the man but DEAR GOD.

::cracks up:: Dammit people, cultural heritage is no excuse for ridiculous names!

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This kid is lulier than his brother Jedidiah, cause Jethro Tull was an awesome band.

I named my little brother Abraham.

it was advanced revenge.

Come on, you know you are going to name your son Jebediah, hehe.

My boss is naming her son Canyon, but I like that name, different without being too different.

And I still stand by my brother naming his son Jack, Jack Kass.

My best friend just named her son Gunner. That's the strangest one I know.

I had two good friends in high school who were best friends, their first names were Lyman and Guy. Now Guy isn't that rare, but Lyman was odd. Yes, we all called him sprite.

Two I saw on caseloads years ago:

Mo'Lester for a boy

&

Sweet Peaches for a girl

Personally, I think both these people should be able to sue their parents for Cruelty based on those names alone.

Long-time lurker chipping in...

A friend's dad who is a priest was approached by parents who wanted to call their son Elvis Agamemnon. He told them to go home and think about it, so I'm not sure if they just found another priest.

The wierdest one I know of is the baby christened Shrek: middle name, fortunately. They asked his kid brother to choose.

A friend of mine from high school is the worst at naming her children. I'm not kidding. The three boys are: Ivan Duane (he's the fourth, you know, Ivan the Terrible), Alex Seifer Almasy and Bishop Richter. The little girl is Isabelle Aeris.

My seventh grade science teacher was a tough, tough man. You would have to be, if you taught a bunch of twelve year olds and were named Harry Wiener. Yep, pronounced "Weener".

I have a cousin who named her son Gideon. I have no objection to biblical names (both of my kids have them) but the kid is always going to wonder if he was conceived in a hotel or something.

Kaya Lotus. Uh-huh.

And on the other side of the family, Alister. I don't know his middle name, but I will be calling him Mad-Eye, even if it's not technically spelled the same way.

Thank God one set of cousins is normal, and named their baby Charles Stephen. (Of course, Charlie wants to name his soon-to-be born baby brother "Rocky Baby," so. Who knows?)

Oh dear. Jamie is lucky.

*thinks of Jethro Gibbs from NCIS*

There's a girl in one of my friend's classes called Apolena. I also remember my Year Eleven Chemistry teacher naming his first son Kaspa. Poor kid.

My mom has an illegally copied birth certificate for someone named "Lovey Heavenly Angel J--". From when she was doing records in the local indigent hospital.
I've always kind of hoped she made it up.

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