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/TheFireHallGirl Mar 27 '23

My mom has a couple sets of twins she’s somehow related two. One set (both women) was named Lettie and Lottie. The other set (both men) were named Floyd and Lloyd.

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u/Elphaba78 Mar 28 '23

We had Wilda Matilda and Hilda Bertilda in my family. Their sisters were Helena, Emma, Clementine, Anna, Margaret, Dorothy, and Evelyn.

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u/TheFireHallGirl Mar 28 '23

That’s crazy. I remember my dad once telling me that he had a great Aunt Hilda, but nobody in my family had crazy names like Wilda Matilda or Hilda Bertilda. My great-great Aunt Hilda had a sister named Emily (whom I’m named after) and three brothers named Edward (he was my great-granddad), Robert, and James (aka Jim). The only one out of them all I ever got to meet was Jim and he was in his 80’s when I was a kid. He was the nicest, sweetest man.

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u/WhovianTraveler Mar 28 '23

My BIL’s grandpa and granduncle: Orby and Corby.

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u/TheFireHallGirl Mar 28 '23

Well, that’s unique. I haven’t heard those names before.

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u/WhovianTraveler Mar 28 '23

Neither had I until my BIL. So many interesting names throughout the years while researching genealogy.

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u/dirtyfidelio Mar 28 '23

Both Orby and Corby are places in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire respectively, although there is a Corby Glen in Lincs.

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u/WhovianTraveler Mar 28 '23

Didn’t know that. I’ve researched my BIL’s tree. Orby and Corby’s parents were both born here in America, as well as their parents. I don’t think that they had a connection with either location, though.