In honor of T-giving family time...

erinms

Post your weirdest, craziest family names.

Mine: Lady Fred and Beulah  (both born in early 1900s)

ccorso

My grandmother - Fanny Marie born 1887

kle+spd

My great-great-great Grandma was Katorah (my mom suggests this name everytime someone gets pregnant-ugh!)

My husbands is his grandpa...his name was Buster....! He was 1 of 18 kids! Crazy!

scoutkate

DH's great-grandmother:  Flotilla

msmerymac

My great-grandmother and her siblings:

 

Frances

Freida

Grace

Laura

George

Marion

Scharlie

 

(Where did the last one come from?)

 

Family legend has it that my grandmother had some distant, "country" cousins who named a kid Spooky. 

shellybird101

DH grpa's name is Reinhard and his father was Reinhold

kellyloveszach

My Grandmother is Gernith and her older brother was Balboa.  Their mom was just plain cruel

ames71

We have an "Experience" on my mother's side. My grandfather was Arvine with the nn Gus (which I love).

queenbone

DH's grandfather is Pearl

My great uncle is Guy Elmer LN III

My dad discovered sisters Missouri Jane and Tennessee Mary in his genealogy

KallieandJustin

Grandma:  Luonna Georgine (Lou-Wanna)

Becky262

DH's aunts are Comet and Boots

erinms

Gah! I love these!

Careful mentioning Scharlie- I could see someone LOVING that for a little girl.

Flotilla and Villa Etoile would make an awesome sibset!

Conniebird

Mine is only funny from a certain perspective

My moms sister is named Florence, her nickname is Flo

I am the only person I know who always has an aunt Flo

msmerymac

erinms:

Gah! I love these!

Careful mentioning Scharlie- I could see someone LOVING that for a little girl.

Flotilla and Villa Etoile would make an awesome sibset!

 

She actually has a namesake! There's a little girl Scharlie running around out there somewhere. It's not terrible (sort of an alternative to Charlotte), I've just NEVER heard it elsewhere! Her family was German and Dutch, but her parents were born in the US.

 

Edit: Aunt Scharlie's still alive, too. She's 92. I rather like her mother's name - Magdalena. I hope if I do use Magdalena she'll still be alive so I can tell her, "I named her after your mother."

KristenRizz

Its not in my family but this name always makes me giggle he is a good friend of the familys

first name King middle name John

King John its so funny i cant even dislike it

Mrs.KK

Here are few I don't think I'll be using as inspiration for my future LO:

Marthuis (1833)

Meta Marie Martha (1898)

Gardener Allen (1914)

Elda Anna Alberta (1901)

LauraM82

My grandmothers name is Lambertha Cornelia ~ I think she was named after her father

starlight8323

Great idea Erin! We've never had such a great excuse to talk bad family names.

I've done a LOT of ancestry research, so I have quite a few gems on my family list. Middle names are included if I have them.

Warning: I have deep Southern roots, so brace yourselves.

Albert Texas (male 1875- Texas had become a state 5 years earlier)- born in Louisiana

Cloteal (female 1920s)

Exa Elizabeth (female 1882)

Louetta (female 1920s)

Nettie Lou (female 1912)

Permelia Anne (female 1838)

Pernesia Anne (female 1865)- not related to Permelia Anne

Pinckney (male 1872)- A user-submitted name on BTN even says this is known as being a given name in the South

Semeria (female 1861)

Sorkas (female 1839)

Vasina (female 1862)

Virdie (female 1907)

Baby*Kisses

my great grandma's name was mildred... we have a dawnette whose name is a combo of parents names (donald n jeanette) n goes by the nn gus (no idea how that happenedd but ya)... i think thats all really lol

waterfly

I've probably shared some of these before, but...my grandmother's older siblings included:

Queenie Victoria

Talmadge

Iverlene

Imajean

Beulah

In my great-grands' defense, they did have 17 kids(14 lived past the first year, 10 girls and 4 boys) to name...on the other hand, Great-Aunt Queenie was the first-born daughter.  They didn't get around to the normal girl-names until the second-to-last, Joyce.  Great-Aunt Beatrice might count as a normal one, but they pronounced it bee-AT-riss, not BEE-uh-tris.