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My grandma's sister-in-law (Aloha - pronounced Alo-a) gave birth to my mom's cousin (who has a normal name) but in the other bed in the room with her was a woman who couldn't name her baby girl. This was back when you could stay in the hospital for a week after a normal birth. Anyhow, said roomate still couldn't come up with a name for her baby by the time she left, so the hospital staff on the birth certificate had to put "FEMALE" as the first name and then whatever the woman's last name was. The woman took one look at the BC and said, (according to my Aunt Aloha) "Female, (pron Fem-alie) I like that!"

So, consequently my mom's cousins had a cat named Female growing up.

Let's not get too into the bad names discussion, I could regale you all with tales of my students' names. I've been teaching 7 years now...there's always at least one bad name per year. I even had a student get prego and then name her daughter, (yep you guessed it) Alizee.

DUMB.

Oh yeah, ETA, my mom works in sales and had a client for the longest time from Thailand or Burma...anyhow name was Phat Bui....yeah, "fat boy", that was funny when I was 12. She also had a teacher in school named Mr. Glasscock...god, what a horrible name.

I also had a friend who took German in HS. There was a sub one day with the last name Ball. He told the students just to call him by his first name...(in German, Mr. is Herr (pron. Hair)...Herr Ball. heheh