Okay, what first name do you never hear...

[Boswells_Johnson]

I've never met an "Adolf"

[RetroLounge]

1. Phillmore

is my Wife's grandfather's name.

unusual...

RL

[Boswells_Johnson]

6. That's a pretty cool name! It suits a grandpa!

[RetroLounge]

11. It suits him, yet he goes by "Sam"

for some reason.

RL

[Wat_Tyler]

2. Nairn.

No-one meets that guy.

[Turn CO Blue]

3. Brunhilda.

[Boswells_Johnson]

13. LOL...in high school, there was a girl named Hilda Bruhm

when they'd do alphabetical roll call, there were always a few chuckles.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Alfaro

from Al-Pharo, "the light"

Though I often hear the variant Alvaro.

[Wat_Tyler]

8. Like Ar-Pharazon the Golden, from the Silmarillion?

That bloody thief, JRR Tolkien!

[cruadin]

5. I've never actually met an Oscar. I did meet a Felix once. n/t

[Xipe Totec]

9. I knew an Oscar

last name Cienfuegos, which means 100 flames. That's even weirder than the first name.

[RevolutionaryActs]

7. Bob... you never meet someone named Bob......

:silly:

[AlCzervik]

10. sure he's not exactly a person, but his name is Bob

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. My SO's name is Bob.

:)

[Left Is Write]

31. I know six or eight Bobs! When my husband and I talk about them,

we have to be sure to specify which Bob.

[barb162]

45. Felix

[Seabiscuit]

12. Rugathurd; Gladdis

[Maddy McCall]

15. My best friend's grandmother was named Gladys

We called her "Happy Bottom." :D

{Glad Ass...get it?)

[Maddy McCall]

14. Poindexter or Seymour

[Boswells_Johnson]

17. Ha! Jesus, could you imagine looking at a newborn baby

and calling him Poindexter?!

[bowens43]

16. Glibneyfufle

Never met a Glibneyfufle

[baby_mouse]

19. Spartacus

Plenty of Brians, though

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Tiglith-Pileser, Artexerxes, Nebuchedrezzar, Habakkuk,

[elfin]

21. Murray, Homer (except Simpson) eom

[miss_kitty]

22. Clive

[Longgrain]

23. I've only met one Martha in my entire life...

Stewart not with standing...

I've never met an Aloysius or a Cornelius either...both names that I thought were pretty cool...

I've always liked Dulcinea too...It's what I want to name my first born daughter...

[yellowdogintexas]

27. I have a young friend named Martha (about 20 years old) and went to

college with a woman named Cornelia (she went by Connie, though)

[Left Is Write]

32. I know two Marthas.

[hickman1937]

24. Hortense. My great aunt. one of a kind.

[Wapsie B]

25. Hortense.

[gfr4656]

26. rush limbauh

isn't his real first name mortimer

[Hans Delbrook]

28. Never met a Mortimer.

Nor an Agatha, Rex (unless dogs count) or Bertha.

[doc03]

29. Milfred

[LDS Jock]

30. Rufus

but I do know a Cletus

[Not_Giving_Up]

42. The JROTC instructor at my high school was a Rufus n/t

[Left Is Write]

33. Clyde.

[pansypoo53219]

34. i am always sad when

a chester or sylvester dies.

[gfr4656]

35. how about gunther?

[lpbk2713]

36. Boutros-Boutros.

How many hyphenated first names do you know of?

[jpgray]

37. I've never met an Algernon (nt)

[St. Jarvitude]

38. I've never met a Humperdink

But I will as soon as I father my first son :evilgrin:

[u4ic]

39. Hansel OR Gretel

were they just frigging with our brains or what??

[Spacemom]

40. Bertha. (n/t)

[Dr Fate]

41. Not too many Waldos or Hermans or Gertrudes anymore. n/t

n/t

[Solly Mack]

43. I went to school with an Adolf

Poor child got picked on constantly because of his name.

[andino]

44. Elis

nt

[Carson]

46. Jezebel. The name got a Biblical bad-rap. nt