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Thirteen Actual Names In My Family That I'm So Glad My Parents Didn't Feel Obligated to Pass On!
1. Alti - This was my great grandfather's name. No middle name, just Alti.
2. Lesley, Wesley, Kesley, Fesley - Lesley and Wesley aren't really that bad, but these are the names of four brothers who are my mom's cousins, and all of them's middle name was Neil. Had their parents had another boy, they were going to name it Mesley (I honestly think that some of my mom's family may have been on crack!)
3. Bunk - Yet another of mom's cousins
4. Bayzalbie - You guessed it, my mom's cousin, Not really sure of the spelling of this, but it sounds like I spelled it!
5. Cleater - The wife of Bunk
6. Olita - Cleater and Bunk's child, don't you think that if you had to suffer through life with a name like Cleater or Bunk you would have given your kid a more normal name like May or something
7.Thomasedaby Northewe - I'm not so sure of the spelling of this one, but this is how it sounds, this was Alti's daddy, may explain why Alti got such a short simple name
8. Talmadge - my mom's uncle, I have heard this one before, but still it isn't a name I'd really want
9. Posey - my mom's other uncle, that's right I said uncle, they named a BOY Posey, I guess Talmadge would've been much better than this. Talmadge and Posey also had a sister named Ruperta (a name which I'm also thankful didn't get passed to me) and a brother named Bennie (my grandpa) Thankfully grandpa got the normal name of the lot!
10. Ossie - yet another of my mother's weirdly named cousins
11. Rosey Emmerinnis - My mom's grandmother, the one who named her child Posey
12. Delilah - my mom's sister, all of my mom's other brothers and sisters have normal names, but for some reason my grandpa and grandma decided to name my aunt after a Biblical harlot, actually I think it was a family name, probably the least weird one that they could find to give to one of their children! My aunt dropped this name when she got married!
13. Rudolph - This was my dad's uncle who died as an infant, and I put him in here simply because I couldn't let you think that all the weird names were on mom's side!
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17 comments:
Good night nurse! Heather, you'd better stick to naming your kids on your own when your time comes. Just make sure that you marry a Jack or Robert or Michael to give the normalcy a fighting chance. (This being from a Shalee who named her kids "differently" as well. And yes, Mr. Right has a "normal" name.)
Great names there, we did have a Mary Ellen, and a Mary Alice, but no really odd names.
Goodness gracious! Your family certainly was inventive, weren't they? ;)
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Holy cow, batman. But I like interesting names.
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Phew! Those names are difficult to pronounce much more spell it. Poor kids if these names were given to them.
My T13 is up too.
And are you going to pass any of these names on? LOL I find our ancestors had very strange names.. at least to me they did.
Same family, truly? And you are Heather Smith? There are probably thousands of those. Too funny.
We have some odd names in our family. Ora, Alma, Verna Dean. My great grandmother was Sarah Tom. I'm not sure what the Tom was for- a real name, nick name, maiden name or what. Any way, I'm glad my mom went with something new at the time - Karen.
LMAO! Oh my! That is quite a list of strange names! Thanks for visiting me today :)
Are these names for real? LOL!
I'm all for interesting names, but Oh My those are ones, are doozies!!
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# 2 ....seriously???? Wow.
Yeah. Don't use any of those!
Those are some very interesting names to be sure. Usually you can tell something about a person by their name but I am afraid to even guess here. Be blessed today.
And I thought my human pet being named Marina was weird! I know better now for sure! I really enjoyed this list because it was fresh and different. Great work!
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Man, those are some bizarre names!!! Thanks for sharing! Happy TT!!!
OH my heavens! I am glad for your sake they didn't pass those on. Thanks for visiting my TT!
It's amazing the names people give their children... We have some odd ones, too like Secondo, Aurelio, Sitzi and more....
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I found this to be very amusing... my name is Kesley Posey... we're practically related! hahaha :)
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