the John Johnsons, Tommy Thompsons/Thomas seem to be fairly common.  (I get a lot of names in my line of work…)

I have seen quite a few Patrick FitzPatricks,  Michael Michaels, and lots of names that rhyme….Nancy Fancy…Jerry Perry…

I do know a guy whose name is B.C.  His mom took a lot of B.C. powder while she was pregnant, and decided it was a good name.  When he first got his driver’s license, the form was filled out by his driving instructer.  And his instructer knew that B.C. was not initials, so on the form wrote
First name:  B (only) C (only)
His driver’s license came out as Bonlyconly…

A girl I went to school with had the last name…Cockswallower…..........her dad was also a doctor…...we use to give her shit that her first name should have been “Anita”...

Someone here in Leiden goes by the name of Herman Riool - riool means “sewer” in Dutch.

I once read a scientific paper on archaeological evidence for cannibalism, one of the authors was named Agnes LaMort.

The number of funny family names here in Holland is high. Family names were forcibly introduced here by the French in the Napoleontic era. Apparently many peope thought it would only be temporary and that it was fun to pull the French’ legs by giving themselves mildly or not-so-mildly obscene or plain weird names because the French wouldn’t understand the Dutch anyway. A well known Dutch family name that probably has its origin in this is “Pielkenrood”, which is archaeic Dutch translating to about something like “red dick”.

My family name actually means “trousers” or “long pants”.

What does the Agnes LaMort mean???

Agnes the Mort.

Agnes the Dead, I believe.
Or Agnes the Death.

Basically, Agnes is dead, or Agnes brings death.

I did not know that…..

I had a boss called Flicker who had to be careful how he wrote his name

I also saw a story in a paper about a family called Peacock
Decided to name their son Drew
Poor kid

I thought a guys nametag read Phlebotomist once…but when I looked closer, his actual name tag read “Eric”.

Sir Stephen - 13 September 2005 09:28 AM

What does the Agnes LaMort mean???

La Mort = Death, or “the Death”.

Well, I didn’t do so badly, then.