Did your parents give you a crummy name?

When we were younger we got invited to stay at a lodge up on the French River. These folks were friends of my parents and they were great. I got my own bedroom and for breakfast they bought us captain crunch. Junky cereal. We never got junky cereal so we just loved this woman. We said we wanted to stay with her so she said she rename us. The names so picked were hideous but we laughed and laughed.
 

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when i was in college the dean of men was Dean Judy. he had a son... named DEAN Judy. he had a daughter... named... NO LIE... JUDY Judy.

we got a Dalmatian puppy when i was a kid. my Dad named it Louise... his sister's middle name. my sister would freckle like crazy in the summer sun...we called her Spot! she would say some of the dumbest things. after one particular bon mot, Dad called her "Chuck"... short for Charlie McCarthy. she was clueless. this was many MANY years ago... no google... dad told her to go look it up in the encyclopedia.
 
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I've never liked my name, don't know where my parents got it from, although my father said he read a book when he was young, and the heroine's name was just that. I thought it sounded more Irish.
 
My dad was heavily into watching Westens when I was born, movies & TV shows. I was named after a leading character in a Western TV show. Apparently, in the UK last year, only 9 newborn boys were recorded with my name.

When my brother was born several years later, my dad wanted to call him John, with the middle name Wayne. My mother was having none of it! :)
 
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Wayne said:
Nope not at all, I was named after my mother's dad and last boyfriend before my dad, My name was changed on day #2 after birth. I like Wayne.
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Wayne was a very popular name here in the 70's and 80's... many of my Daughters' ( she was born mid 70's) contemporariness were called Wayne
 
An update from my post #88.

Apparently, according to the Interweb, my first name is most popular in Australia, although it ranks low in the per capita rankings there. Then following in order of popularity are New Zealand, the USA, Canada, the UK; and South Africa. Then followed, by of all places, Saudi Arabia then Thailand!

All very strange considering that in part the name's origins are French. The name arriving in England after the Norman conquest of 1066.

Contrary to the belief of some young people I know, I'm not as old as the year 1066 might suggest! This first name of mine was first 'recorded' in England as a family name in the 'Domesday Book' (Doomsday) of 1086.
 
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