Great Real Names

Corky Boozé

http://sfist.com/2012/04/18/a_man_named_butt_and_a_man_named_bo.php

Booz-AY

Senior researcher at the biotech company I work for is called Dr Cr@ze

She is a supervillain obv

flipping through a Baptist hymnal I found a tune credited to one Horatius Bonar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatius_Bonar

Two ppl from my job:

Sh3rry Fav0rs
Z3stty Cl4rk

There's a Cree artist named Garnet Tobacco.

Curious given-names among my second-generation ancestors, not necessarily great but kinda intriguing: My grandfather Ellar Brown and his brother Mac were jointly named for their mother, Mary MacEllar. Yet Ellar was born first - how'd he get the SECOND half of the name??

Also of minor note: In a double union, Ellar and Mac married a pair of sisters, Bernice and Dorothea Haley, both of whom hated their names and refused to be called anything but "Bunny" and "Toots" respectively. And their younger brother Harold similarly wouldn't answer to anything but "Pete".

what is it with that generation and random mystery names

we have buckets of ancestors from that era who were known as something other than their actual names (some of which only became clear at their funerals)

Two more (real names) from that same generation, great-aunts this time: Pearl and Ruby (twins!)

Ruby's currently the UK's 19th most popular baby name. Bit surprised Pearl is outside the top 200 tbh - all these granny names are making a massive comeback.
http://www.babynames.co.uk/blog/the-top-40-boys-and-top-40-girls-from-2013-so-far/

Telegraph Messersmitt (born in Kentucky in February 1878 to German-American immigrants)

how did you find that

Electric Music Sparks (born in 1895/1896 in West Virginia)

xpost - I just started typing weird shit into the first name field on familysearch.org. great waste of time!

X Ray Childress (born in Iowa in June 1898)

http://i.imgur.com/X8ESEXg.jpg

Treeship Von Wassergessicht!!1!

i was psyched and i googled that name but it doesn't seem to be a real person. :-(

Hitler Firestone

Wife

i want to make a poll: how many years before the name "adolph" sheds its current associations enough to be popular again?

i'm not going to make that poll. i think minimum 1,000 years though.

this is as close to tree ship as you're likely to get

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VSSS-3ZD

jesus that guy died in 2006 at age 21

John Wilkes Booth Winston(born in Texas in 1865)
John Wilkes Booth Sharp (born in Georgia in 1871)
John Wilkes Booth Greer (born in Texas in December 1872)
John Wilkes Booth Wagoner (born in West Virginia in 1873)
John Wilkes Booth Thomas (born on July 30, 1874 in Marion County, West Virginia)

what a coincidence that all of these people were born in the south

so fucking creepy! (and sad)

Adolph Hitler Witcher of Caswell County, North Carolina (February 7, 1941 - March 1, 1941)

Adolf Hitler Hargrove of Warren County, North Carolina (died on March 2, 1941 at age 0)

(both of them were black)

Your search - jameson perdelfurg - did not match any documents.

one of my best friends is named credulous medulous

seriously?

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KQT2-ZS5

and what exactly is going on in this household (Manhattan, 1940)?

Head Beebee (F/40)
Lodger Sundial Love (F/30)
Lodger Mary Magdalene (F/30)
Lodger Peace Morning Star (F/60)
Lodger Beloved Love (F/30)
Lodger Sincereness And Truth (F/30)

(I'm using that site for real geneaological stuff, btw. not just getting high and fucking around)

it sounds to me like those people were religious, xp

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3683/9382853707_aa3f13a164.jpg
Japheth Tickle by madchen, on Flickr

ah, those people lived at a place called Zion War Orphanage, so religious sounds about right.

Noah The Ark Hill (born in Kansas in 1874/1875)

really wish i had musical talent right now so i could create a band/sound project called Zion War Orphanage

I can't decide which sub-genre of metal that would be

i was thinking it would just be an indie band

maybe a noise act that incorporates fragments of radio broadcasts from the 30s and 40s

other great real names from my work:

Ga1l Va1l
Ch4nte B3nn3tt
T0m H4nk

What it do, I'm Ga11 Va11, I'm the peoples' champ

best work names:
George Yawn
Randy Quick
Dickon Love

Mrs. Wang Look Fung

Kum Weng

Sunny K00k

We have a Brian In0 at work

Psychology Maziwisa

Foxy Demeanor was genuine student name way back in the past when I worked in the library.

Richairo Zivkovic

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_1216_zps7d8ea1e8.jpg