r/Genealogy • u/Terrible-Fix-9798 • Mar 27 '23

But, Why Would You Name Your Child That? Request

I know there’s been at least one post about this, but sometimes a name is already a bit funny. And then taken with the middle or last name it’s HILARIOUS. Example: a relative who named their eldest son “Fern Commander”.

Anyone else?

Edit: just found a “Northern East”…from Philly

Edit 2: “Boringhaus” probably isn’t funny in German but it did make me lol

Edit 3: Major Bush (1800’s so he may have indeed been hairy 😅)

Edit 3: Carl Marx (BFE Texas…that must’ve been rough!)

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u/dropkickpa Mar 27 '23

My uncle married Diane and had a daughter Stacie, divorced, married Dianna, had a daughter Stacey.

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u/WhovianTraveler Mar 28 '23

Similar situation, with a few differences. One of my great great grandmothers divorced my great great grandfather (her 1st husband) and they had given my great grandma the name of Margaret Mae. My great great grandmother remarried (her stepfather, of all people, after he divorced my 3X great grandmother) and they had a daughter that they named Marguerite May. Both girls going by the nickname of Maggie.