There is a guy on Average Joe 2 named Phuc and he pronounces it like "book", but with a "f" sound in front.

I think the name "Phuc" is Vietnamese too (given that there are a helluva lot of Vietnamese restaurants that have "phuc" in their name, somewhere), but the guy on Average Joe 2 said on camera that he is Chinese (I think someone asked him if he was Thai? And he countered that, no, he was Chinese).

Perhaps he has various Asian ethnicities / countries in his heritage.....

He spells his name "Phuc".
http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Average_Joe:_Hawaii/phuc.shtml

Fuk is a Chinese last name. Sometimes spelled Fook (I think). The Anglicized pronunciation is usually Fook (as in shoe)

If you have twins, how about a nice set of Greek "twin names" like, Hermes and Herpes? ;)
BWAH HA HA HA HA.....

I've got an "ethnic" name - its French. Aimée. My middle name is another French name; its a family last name. My last name is also French.

No one can frickin' pronounce it. And when I teach people, most choose not to and call me Amy. It's a perfectly nice name, but ITS NOT MINE.

I would never take the trendy route with names for my kids. My SIL named her little boy Liam, which is way too trendy, and doesn't go with their last name. Thank God it wasn't a girl, she would have been Lola, which is just sending your kid down the road to stripperdom.

Her SIL's kids are named Peyton, Parker and Lauren...really, they should have carried the P-theme. Lauren just doesn't seem to go with the others.

With names, like so much else, one man's trash is another man's treasure!

I can pronounce it, as can most people if you tell them. It's really not that hard. I have a name that people don't pronounce correctly--until I show them how. After one or two times, everyone gets it!

Well, I suppose if we had twins, we could name them after famous mythological Greek twins:
Castor and Polydeuces; or, if girls
Helen and Clytemnestra; or even
Apollo and Artemis.

Yuck! Lets keep our fingers crossed for no twins, lol. ;)

I don't suggest Paris and Helen, or Oedipus and Electra...nor Vulcan and Aprhodite...

You know my kids are going to have some crazy Norwegian names like Thor, Gunnar, Freya, or Astrid. Valkyrie and Valhalla anyone?

I have a sister (no lie) named Astrid.

If my last name were Banks (it's not) I wouldn't name my kid Robin. It's just asking for it.

I like Skandinavian names. Astrid is a beautiful name for a girl, and for boys, I like Sven, Lars, or Skaar.

Jeg liker å lære norsk! ;)

Ohhh, will you be my ViKing, as I am a ViQueen? I bet you'd look hot in a Norwegian sweater!

If you're ELCA Lutheran I couldn't ask for more.

Oh and my friend from Iowa says GO CYCLONES... :D

I have a close friend whose name is Astrid. Shes one of those people whose name fits her perfectly- she is extremly unique, so when people ask me and my friends to explain Astrid, we simply look at each other and say "Astrid is, well, Astrid like".

I actually like the name Astrid, and from what she tells me its actually quite common in Denmark (which she speaks, and we always try and convince her to talk more!!! it sounds soooo fun!!)

But since my name is fairly common, but cannot be found on stickers, pens, kid's bike license plates, etc I REFUSE to put my child through that. My child will be named something she can find everywhere.

Hahaha

I think they named him that b/c they thought it sounded prestigious or something. His parents are real wealthy, uppity, high society people so I guess they figured it sounded...rich. Who knows! :rolleyes:

I went to college with a guy named Rocky. His brother's name is Stoney.His parents were geologists.

Greeklawgirl, I went to Greek school with a girl named Aphrodite.

I was named after my grandmother as were 6 other cousins so family get togethers are a riot.

Here comes the ViKing ... ;)

http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/obop/spo/im...king_small.JPG