“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard
Parents should work hard at choosing a name for their child. It can impact the baby's life well into adulthood, too.
"There is a reason why baby name books are extremely popular," said David Figlio, who at the time was the Orrington Lunt Professor and Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.
"We're always trying to think about the first bit of a child's identity and so if we as a society pay a lot of attention to names it makes a lot of sense that people's names might influence how they think about themselves and the way in which people might think about them."
But things don't always go to plan. Researchers discovered that one in seven parents admit they made a "terrible mistake" with the name they chose for their child.
In an attempt to find out what they sound like, we discovered a thread on Reddit, started by a person who goes on the platform by the nickname PlsDontBanMe. They asked everyone "What name screams 'my parents don't like me?" and got over 4,000 answers.
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There was a girl in my high school named Chastity.
She didn't even know why it was ironic when she got pregnant at 16.
Met a girl called Constance Paine. Really had to wonder what her parents were thinking.
Phelonie - that poor child.
I know several.
Used to work in a jail and we had a regular inmate whose first and middle names, legally, were Baby Boy. Spring Green (first name, last name) also came in frequently.
My mom worked with a doctor…Doctor First…Doctor Safety First. But don’t worry, his parents didn’t just hate him - his sister was named Ladies.
I had a neighbor with a little girl named Commodity. i dont think she disliked her kid, she was just really dumb.
Abcde-supposedly pronounced Absidy. Some might remember that this made the news a few years back.
I once met a little girl named Tilapia. I swear I’m not making this up.
i knew three guys from school and their parents were a******s. parents had klan stuff up in their living room on display and everything. they gave all of their kids names that started with A, and middle names that started with S, so their full initials would be A.S.S. they thought it would be hilarious, and proudly commented on this often. needless to say i felt bad for those kids. who gives all three of their kids those initials, let alone one of them?
Thurman Murman
If their first name is the same as their last name.
William Williams, Michael Michaels, Daniel Daniels, Glen Glenn, John Johnson, etc.
Anything ending in -aiden, using an "X" in place of "cks" (Jaxon vs Jackson), intentional misspelling of names, forcing the kid into a life of correcting the pronunciation of a name that is easy to pronounce when spelled normally, and really just anything stupid that they named a kid because it's "unique".
I am the third of four boys My mother really wanted a girl and when she was pregnant with me she pinned all her hopes on me being a girl. This is before sonograms were common. When I came out a boy she named me Curt. Not Curtis or Kurt, Curt. Which means rude.
You have to stretch at this one being a bad name. I've known a number of Curt's over the years and none of them have ever had an issue with the name.
Gunner. Not Gunnar like the Scandinavian name, or Günther like the Germanic version, but Gunner like the English word for a person who is shooting at someone.
Newt Gingrich.
Imagine having a baby, looking down into its precious face, and saying deadpan to the nurse, “Newt Gingrich. Put that on the birth certificate.”
Going with Chinese dialect of Hokkien here..
Someone named their child "Siew Kia" which isn't a bad name or anything in the language/dialect.. but the family name was Yao (and in Chinese names, the family name comes first)
This made the poor sod "Yao Siew Kia" which meant "baby beast" (or small animal not in a good way and is used as a derogatory term and swear word in Hokkien)
Poor guy
I concur, because Hokkien is my mother tongue and the literal translation for Yao Siew Kia means "Demon child" aka naughty, nasty kid.
“First Name” Junior never felt right with me. Feels narcissistic to name your child the same as yourself. It’s like he’s never gonna carve his own identity he’s always gonna be known as an extension-sequel of you
I am the fifth generation with the same name. It caused confusion with creditors and such for years. But I wouldn't have it any other way. It was really funny when the Army tried to digitize all the BUPERS files while I was in. Suddenly I had stuff on my service record from the battle of Gettysburg.
My cousin is a “The third”. I think he HAS to keep up the streak. His name allows for many nicknames, though, so that’s good. My culture doesn’t do naming after the living (it’s taboo, some consider it akin to wishing the person death), so it’s strange to me, but also can be cool.
Load More Replies...I disagree. Of all the people I know who have the same names as their parents, including my brother, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc., none of them have ever been thought of as an extension of their parents. They are/were all their own people.
I think that this is clear to people in the family, but looking from the outside it can seem confusing
Load More Replies...We've got a name that's been used for 5 generations of our family. Both my uncle and brother use it as a middle name but my great grandad is both junior and senior because his son and father use the same name
I get that - and I find it may be great to have a tradition like that - yet as a middle name. I knew a Leo sr and a Leo jr. While Leo jr. did not hate his name and had his own personality and so ... in the end, he would rather have had a different name.
Load More Replies...Im the 9th in a direct line. My mom, her mother, her mother etc, we all have the first name. Its special, unique and it makes me feel connected with the women in my family when their names are so rarely passed down. Yes, there has been some pressure of "You have to have a daughter to pass the name down" which is kinda refreshing from the traditional "you have to have a son" convos you normally see but not enough for me to freak out. I see nothing naracissistic about the naming convention, we are all our own people.
I agree! I am a sixth generation Josephine. I have a portrait of the first Josephine in our line, in the 1800s, a photo on porcelain.
Load More Replies...And worse, *only* Junior as a first name. Gives the impression as if the bearer is still a child. Imagine being an old man with a load of grandkids - and still be called 'Junior'! Brrrrr
Years ago, I needed PT/OT for a broken elbow. The guy who was helping me introduced himself to me as David, but his business cards, and the hospital website, listed him as Firstname D. Lastname. Turned out that all the males in his family shared the identical first name and last name, only their middle names were different, so that's how they preferred to be addressed, to avoid confusion.
I live in an area where there is a cultural tendency to name a child after his dad and then the kid grows up known as "Junior." Not by his first name, just Junior. My granddaughter just became Mrs Junior and I had to ask what his real name was!
My grandparents gave my Dad the same name as his Dad and then realised it was a dumb idea, so before he was a few months old they started calling him something else, he only found out his real name when he was a teenager and was applying for his first passport. It did make it handy to cut off salespeople who called, "Hi, can I speak to [first name]" when he NEVER used that name.
I have three older bothers, I'm a girl. My dad didn't want any of the boys named after him because he didn't want a Junior. When I was born my mom convinced him to name me after him. I have the feminine version of my father's name.
I new a lovely girl who was named Anna-Maria XXXXX Junior by her horribly abusive narcissistic mother. Happy ending though she got excepted into her dream university 6 hours away and changed her name to Daisy XXXXX after her hero of a grandmother.
I am a junior. It is what it is. But my father and then I were both known/go by our middle names. After a life of explaining to people, "no, I go by middle name", and having to wear name-tags or sign documents printed with a name you do not identify with, why would you do that to your own off-spring? It is just a huge, life-long, PITA!
I'm named after my dad but I go by another name that everyone calls me so its not that bad.
I'm a "Jr." myself. Mailing lists keep getting myself and my dad (in the next state over) confused. The funniest part was when I was 17 and the Navy wanted to recruit me. My dad picked up the phone, and they tried to recruit him instead...but he was a Chief Petty Officer!
That's not so bad. I know a guy whose first name IS Junior. To me that is ridiculous.
Doing genealogy research with generations of this foolishness is almost impossible.
Like George Foreman and his boys named George Jr., George III, George IV.
Haveing the same exact name as your parent can be a issue. My mom worked at a jail in booking and saw the issues with it all the time.
my brother is the fifth of his full name. i am the third female with the same first name. my mom said she named me after HER mom. not sure how it all works, but i'm glad i have my "old" last name!
Like you mean their first name is Junior? I know that there are quite a few people from South America, especially Brazil, who's first name is Junior.
Load More Replies...But this is very important if you are "royalty" and want to make sure everyone know this is their heir. Got to keep that myth of legitimacy/money going after all.
Never heard of any royals naming their child junior. A regnal name used by a Monarch during their reign is entirely different (and not always the same one they're given at birth either), plus it's usually followed by a number to differentiate them from previous holders of that name.
Load More Replies...Any name that's written using their syllabic pronunciation. I know of a kid whose name is Kahydiynn. Like what the f**k?
Used to know a kid in school named Richard Ryder (Rider?) Not sure how the last name was spelled
A boy named Sue.
Ooof Goth Demon, go digging around online for Johnny Cash, you might get the reference. 'And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him... Bill or George! Any-damn-thing but Sue! I still hate that name!'
When the firstname/lastname combination does not work for a name.
Prime example-- North West (Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's daughter). She's either named after a direction on a map or a defunct airline (as if Kimye would fly commercial).
Mine. My first name has an "r" in it. Both of my patents needed speech therapy to say that letter. I COULDN'T SAY MY OWN F*****G NAME UNTIL F*****G HIGH SCHOOL!!! There's a reason I use my middle name. I genuinely think it was spite because I was an oopsie baby. Bullied relentlessly for years, including by my first ex and a famous comedian's nephew.
Any name that is an alternative spelling or fake-Gaelic name.
Like “Jaxon” or “Graclyn.”
As long as it is not Jhackxsonn or Ghraeclynn , I don't have a big problem with that. Names and spelling evolve naturally. Image we would still spell our names like they did 500 or even 200 years ago...
Last name was Hunt, and they still named him Michael. The poor kid.
This sounds more like a Simpson's joke than something that really happened.
My aunt swears that at the hospital a woman named her child A*****e pronounced A-sho-lee
Any name intentionally given by parents that's a character from entertainment. Your kid is not a pet, car, boat, or bong.
Very much depends on the name. That AITA a couple weeks ago about someone whose sister/SIL wanted to name their kid Luffy? Definitely not. People who named their kid Harry, Ron or Hermione after the Harry Potter books/movies? Not nearly as bad.
A first name that rhymes with your last name.
I'll have you know I have a very great friend in Rome named Biggus Dickus.
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When I think of all the time I spent choosing names for my kids: names that were not too popular but not extremely rare (because often rare names are rare for a reason, namely they are ugly), easy to spell, sounding good with their last name, not make stupid/offensive initials, and some parents are just: Eff that.
Right. The endless ”can my get get bullies for this name” seem to just be a challange to some parents
Load More Replies...I go to school with a girl named Treasure. That's a fine name. But the girls last name. Is hunt. Her name is Treasure Hunt. And she always gets called to the office.
Birth announcement in local paper was Holly Caust, I actually posted on fb at the time I was so flabbergasted!
I present Nick Cannons kids: Golden Sagon, Rise Messiah, Powerful Queen, Moroccan, Monroe, Zion Mixolydian, Zillion Heir, Beautiful Zeppelin, Legendary Love, Onyx Ice, Zen, Halo Marie.
Other mad celebrity kids names include: Apple and Genesis - Gwyneth Paltrow; Malibu Barbie - Trisha Paytas; Audio Science - Shannyn Sossaman; Kulture Kiari and Wave Set - Cardi B; Strummer Newcombe - Julia Styles; Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander - Maximilian Cooper; Blue Ivy, Sir and Rumi - Beyonce; Pilot Inspektor - Jason Lee; Denim and Diezel - Toni Braxton; Marmaduke and Huckleberry - Bear Grylls; North, Saint, Chicago, Psalm, Stormi, Aire, True, Tatum, Mason Dash, Penelope Scotland, Reign Aston, and Dream - various Kardashians ( I'll admit that a few are actually alright names); Row Renggli and Grey Oliver - Morgan Stewart; Lyra Antarctica - Ed Sheeran; Shanda Lear - Bill Lear; Rocket, Rebel, Rogue and Racer - Robert Rodriguez; Raddix Chloe Wildflower - Cameron Diaz; Rosalind Arushka Arkadina Altalune Florence - Uma Thurman; Mint - Romee Strijd; Kal El - Clark Kent; Bronx Mowgli - Ashlee Simpson; Seargeoh and Sage Moonblood- Sylvester Stallone; Gravity Blue, Slim Easy and Rumble Honey - Lucky Blue Smith; Olympia Lightning, Thunder, Saint Leo - Usain Bolt; Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, Little Pixie, Heavenly Hiraana Tiger Lily - Bob Geldoff; Oonagh - Amber Heard; Buddy Dessert - Brie Bella; Sno FilmOn Dot Com - Chief Keef; Ode Mountain - Jena Malone; Nakano Oceana - Wilmer Valderrama; Ever Imre, Onyx Solace and Winter Mercy - Alanis Morissette; Summer Moon Honey - Scheana shay; Shakira, Chosen Sebastian, Sovereign-Dior Cambella, Camidas Swain, Cashmere Saint and Caesar Lorenzo - Cam Newton; Osian Lark Elliot - Milla Jovovich; Prince Michael Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson the second - Michael Jackson
Load More Replies...Trashy names = trashy parents. Period. I would go no contact to try and not inherit their stupidity. Edit: wrote dads instead of parents.
Once worked with a woman whose first name was Malaria. While working at the county jail, came across an arrest report with the offender's first name was Bastardo.
Of all names big and small, those that use a creative orthography suck the most. Trashedeigh is, although certainly somewhat true to those named so, just not a name you want to read on your passport. It's a tragedy to your parents to have you ... ok, I get that many, if not even the majority of, children were conceived by accident, including me, and I'm ok with that ... but ... that's a tad above, huh? Ok, THAT name, I haven't read in this list, but still - I've read it. There are people who are ... so...
Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (1884-1917). The first Tollemache is pronounced differently from the second, as is the third, from the fourth.
That's a not uncommon name in Japan, but in pronunciation only. Written down its Reiji.
Load More Replies...My daughter has a name that is not necessarily common, but is well known, in my country. However, if you're from another country (for example, in the country where I currently live), it is difficult for people to pronounce if they read it, or spell it if they hear it. She is going to have trouble with it, but all of the people I know with names like that, they sometimes go through a period as a teenager when they don't like it, but they've *always* ended up liking that they have a name that is a bit different. I haven't tried to name her with some ridiculous name, but with a name that reminds her of her cultural heritage. She's going to grow up in my wife's country, and it's important to both my wife and I that she has as strong ties to my country as she can (until she grows up and decides on how strong she wants her ties to be).
In my (Slavic, south-east Europaean, absolutely non-english related) country, locally famous pop-singer named her baby boy Bloom. :o
Load More Replies...I have a common name with an odd spelling and was named when no one really spelled things 'creatively'. This led me to think that my teachers were all stupid because they couldn't spell my name correctly. I was around ten when I realized that my name was different than the normal spelling when I had thought before that my spelling was the right/correct/only way to spell my name. I never got a single personalized item as a child, my brother Jeff on the other hand... This was when 'personalized items' were whatever was in the bike plates, keyrings, and mugs in very pre-internet times.
There's a racing driver who's a member of the Habsburg family that reigned over the Austrian Empire named Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnham Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen. It's the Keith that cracks me up. Sounds like one of the punters down the pub.
As heard in Northern Calif. wine country; " Chardonnay, please don't do that "
I once saw a kid at the park named 'Anesthesia'. Not Anastasia, anesthesia..
One of the first babies born to a mother offered anaesthetic was in fact called that
Load More Replies...I work with someone named Destiny. Only it's spelled Dystanie.
There were two brothers I went to high school with named Forest Pond and Sky Pond. I also had a Dr. Named Kimberly Iller so she was Dr. K. Iller
Knew two brothers named Lake Trout and River Trout
Load More Replies...I've seen many in my time: 4 brothers named Ezekiel, Zach, Zim, and ZOMBIE, Meth, Paysleigh, Nixon, and Princess-Aimee are a few
To be fair my middle name is JAET, and it's said as JET, yet no one has ever had trouble saying it, although they have problems saying my first name a lot
knew a kid who's last name started with an 's', named paul michael. PMS for initials on a young boy is just as cruel as you think it is
In Sweden we have laws what we can and can't name our children. It can't be a brand name or a name that can induce obvious bullying or disgrace (like Hitler or poo). It goes before a commitee and gets reviewd before accepted. And you have to do it before the child turns 9 months old otherwise you get a fine for every month beyond that. It happend to my sister. She and her husband could never agree on a name in time on any of their 4 children. Just continued to call the child baby lol.
My second cousin’s last name is Dodger. His twin daughters, now pushing 40, are named Brook Lyn & Holly Wood. He knew damn well what he was doing and their birth announcements were miniature baseball bats with their names & vitals etched in.
Good thing he didn't name them Chavez or Ravine.
Load More Replies...Meet the twins. Cliotus and Clitoria. They have a sister named Fallopia. This name thing is really going off the rails. Bring back "Bob!"
I once worked with a guy who loved Cadillacs. His wife got pregnant, so Eldorado if a boy, Seville if a girl,,,
Load More Replies...I have a couple: a coworker whose last name is May married a young lady named April, so her full name was April May. And before my time there was a family near where I live with a bunch of girls, and no boys. They said toward the end they ran out of names so they started numbering them; the last two were named Ada and Nina.
A month ago I took a cab and the name in his Id was River Ridge Mendez (can remember 2nd surename) We live in Perú, not in an english speaking country.
I have a cousin with a surname for a given name. If a Chinese bloke introduces himself as Buchanan, he's my family.
When I think of all the time I spent choosing names for my kids: names that were not too popular but not extremely rare (because often rare names are rare for a reason, namely they are ugly), easy to spell, sounding good with their last name, not make stupid/offensive initials, and some parents are just: Eff that.
Right. The endless ”can my get get bullies for this name” seem to just be a challange to some parents
Load More Replies...I go to school with a girl named Treasure. That's a fine name. But the girls last name. Is hunt. Her name is Treasure Hunt. And she always gets called to the office.
Birth announcement in local paper was Holly Caust, I actually posted on fb at the time I was so flabbergasted!
I present Nick Cannons kids: Golden Sagon, Rise Messiah, Powerful Queen, Moroccan, Monroe, Zion Mixolydian, Zillion Heir, Beautiful Zeppelin, Legendary Love, Onyx Ice, Zen, Halo Marie.
Other mad celebrity kids names include: Apple and Genesis - Gwyneth Paltrow; Malibu Barbie - Trisha Paytas; Audio Science - Shannyn Sossaman; Kulture Kiari and Wave Set - Cardi B; Strummer Newcombe - Julia Styles; Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander - Maximilian Cooper; Blue Ivy, Sir and Rumi - Beyonce; Pilot Inspektor - Jason Lee; Denim and Diezel - Toni Braxton; Marmaduke and Huckleberry - Bear Grylls; North, Saint, Chicago, Psalm, Stormi, Aire, True, Tatum, Mason Dash, Penelope Scotland, Reign Aston, and Dream - various Kardashians ( I'll admit that a few are actually alright names); Row Renggli and Grey Oliver - Morgan Stewart; Lyra Antarctica - Ed Sheeran; Shanda Lear - Bill Lear; Rocket, Rebel, Rogue and Racer - Robert Rodriguez; Raddix Chloe Wildflower - Cameron Diaz; Rosalind Arushka Arkadina Altalune Florence - Uma Thurman; Mint - Romee Strijd; Kal El - Clark Kent; Bronx Mowgli - Ashlee Simpson; Seargeoh and Sage Moonblood- Sylvester Stallone; Gravity Blue, Slim Easy and Rumble Honey - Lucky Blue Smith; Olympia Lightning, Thunder, Saint Leo - Usain Bolt; Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, Little Pixie, Heavenly Hiraana Tiger Lily - Bob Geldoff; Oonagh - Amber Heard; Buddy Dessert - Brie Bella; Sno FilmOn Dot Com - Chief Keef; Ode Mountain - Jena Malone; Nakano Oceana - Wilmer Valderrama; Ever Imre, Onyx Solace and Winter Mercy - Alanis Morissette; Summer Moon Honey - Scheana shay; Shakira, Chosen Sebastian, Sovereign-Dior Cambella, Camidas Swain, Cashmere Saint and Caesar Lorenzo - Cam Newton; Osian Lark Elliot - Milla Jovovich; Prince Michael Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson the second - Michael Jackson
Load More Replies...Trashy names = trashy parents. Period. I would go no contact to try and not inherit their stupidity. Edit: wrote dads instead of parents.
Once worked with a woman whose first name was Malaria. While working at the county jail, came across an arrest report with the offender's first name was Bastardo.
Of all names big and small, those that use a creative orthography suck the most. Trashedeigh is, although certainly somewhat true to those named so, just not a name you want to read on your passport. It's a tragedy to your parents to have you ... ok, I get that many, if not even the majority of, children were conceived by accident, including me, and I'm ok with that ... but ... that's a tad above, huh? Ok, THAT name, I haven't read in this list, but still - I've read it. There are people who are ... so...
Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (1884-1917). The first Tollemache is pronounced differently from the second, as is the third, from the fourth.
That's a not uncommon name in Japan, but in pronunciation only. Written down its Reiji.
Load More Replies...My daughter has a name that is not necessarily common, but is well known, in my country. However, if you're from another country (for example, in the country where I currently live), it is difficult for people to pronounce if they read it, or spell it if they hear it. She is going to have trouble with it, but all of the people I know with names like that, they sometimes go through a period as a teenager when they don't like it, but they've *always* ended up liking that they have a name that is a bit different. I haven't tried to name her with some ridiculous name, but with a name that reminds her of her cultural heritage. She's going to grow up in my wife's country, and it's important to both my wife and I that she has as strong ties to my country as she can (until she grows up and decides on how strong she wants her ties to be).
In my (Slavic, south-east Europaean, absolutely non-english related) country, locally famous pop-singer named her baby boy Bloom. :o
Load More Replies...I have a common name with an odd spelling and was named when no one really spelled things 'creatively'. This led me to think that my teachers were all stupid because they couldn't spell my name correctly. I was around ten when I realized that my name was different than the normal spelling when I had thought before that my spelling was the right/correct/only way to spell my name. I never got a single personalized item as a child, my brother Jeff on the other hand... This was when 'personalized items' were whatever was in the bike plates, keyrings, and mugs in very pre-internet times.
There's a racing driver who's a member of the Habsburg family that reigned over the Austrian Empire named Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnham Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen. It's the Keith that cracks me up. Sounds like one of the punters down the pub.
As heard in Northern Calif. wine country; " Chardonnay, please don't do that "
I once saw a kid at the park named 'Anesthesia'. Not Anastasia, anesthesia..
One of the first babies born to a mother offered anaesthetic was in fact called that
Load More Replies...I work with someone named Destiny. Only it's spelled Dystanie.
There were two brothers I went to high school with named Forest Pond and Sky Pond. I also had a Dr. Named Kimberly Iller so she was Dr. K. Iller
Knew two brothers named Lake Trout and River Trout
Load More Replies...I've seen many in my time: 4 brothers named Ezekiel, Zach, Zim, and ZOMBIE, Meth, Paysleigh, Nixon, and Princess-Aimee are a few
To be fair my middle name is JAET, and it's said as JET, yet no one has ever had trouble saying it, although they have problems saying my first name a lot
knew a kid who's last name started with an 's', named paul michael. PMS for initials on a young boy is just as cruel as you think it is
In Sweden we have laws what we can and can't name our children. It can't be a brand name or a name that can induce obvious bullying or disgrace (like Hitler or poo). It goes before a commitee and gets reviewd before accepted. And you have to do it before the child turns 9 months old otherwise you get a fine for every month beyond that. It happend to my sister. She and her husband could never agree on a name in time on any of their 4 children. Just continued to call the child baby lol.
My second cousin’s last name is Dodger. His twin daughters, now pushing 40, are named Brook Lyn & Holly Wood. He knew damn well what he was doing and their birth announcements were miniature baseball bats with their names & vitals etched in.
Good thing he didn't name them Chavez or Ravine.
Load More Replies...Meet the twins. Cliotus and Clitoria. They have a sister named Fallopia. This name thing is really going off the rails. Bring back "Bob!"
I once worked with a guy who loved Cadillacs. His wife got pregnant, so Eldorado if a boy, Seville if a girl,,,
Load More Replies...I have a couple: a coworker whose last name is May married a young lady named April, so her full name was April May. And before my time there was a family near where I live with a bunch of girls, and no boys. They said toward the end they ran out of names so they started numbering them; the last two were named Ada and Nina.
A month ago I took a cab and the name in his Id was River Ridge Mendez (can remember 2nd surename) We live in Perú, not in an english speaking country.
I have a cousin with a surname for a given name. If a Chinese bloke introduces himself as Buchanan, he's my family.