Why don't Americans have proper names?

[Cold Meat Platter]

[Dex Sawash]

Nevermind Winkleman

[kalowski]

[Sebastian Cobb]

Sorry, British rather than American but I recently watched a youtube video from a tech commentator called Kevlin.

Which looks like a typo of two common names.

[Steven88]

I post on a dog group on Facebook with Americans, a woman liked my post and her name seems to genuinely be Gay Rapin.

[robhug]

[El Unicornio, mang]

Familiar to any NFL fans

[Bigfella]

American girl's names are getting worse.  Taylor was bad enough, then McKenzie became popular.  Come on, McKenzie as a girl's first name?  What next - McGurk, Farqhuarson?

[Inspector Norse]

Now here's the face of a man whose name is Rexford G Tugwell and he's damn proud of that fact



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexford_Tugwell

[shoulders]

https://twitter.com/robertwilfort/status/1467408918657839111?t=7FeFrUKwH368Vk2H31Lm3Q&s=19

[Dr Rock]

Madison is now a popular girls name. That's totally from Splash! isn't it?

[Jittlebags]

There are at least 20 American scud performers called Madison.

[Jittlebags]

Cornelis D Dobber

https://www.mashvisor.com/real-estate-agent/cornelis-d-dobber/hawaii/87977

[Jittlebags]

One more: Marjorie J Skidders



https://nuwber.com/person/563a9f9acf00835c7f3fd17b

[touchingcloth]

Madison is now a popular girls name. That's totally from Splash! isn't it?

I've got an aunt called Madison Tugwell.

[dissolute ocelot]

Madison is now a popular girls name. That's totally from Splash! isn't it?

Wikipedia also blames Splash; it was apparently almost non-existent before 1985, although was occasionally used as a boy's name. Other boring surnames turned into girls names include Harper, Addison, Kennedy, Hadley, Cassidy, Emerson, and even allegedly Remington. Parker too although it's more androgynous.

[Gurke and Hare]

This guy's not American but he's not got a proper name.

https://twitter.com/ElecHighway/status/1468910713393586177/photo/1

[Dex Sawash]

Elec Highway is not that wrong

[ImmaculateClump]

Haaaaaa!

[PlanktonSideburns]

Can't get musician and animator David Crognale out of my mind

[Famous Mortimer]

Looking like a poorly inflated Vincent Price, here's local lawyer Derald Gab:

[seepage]

I don't know why they called him Derald

[beanheadmcginty]

A Guy Called Derald

[gilbertharding]

Looking like a poorly inflated Vincent Price, here's local lawyer Derald Gab:

This thread has started a turn towards territory covered by the defunct blog Sexy Executives

[purlieu]

Looking like a poorly inflated Vincent Price, here's local lawyer Derald Gab:

The employees of 'The Law Offices of Derald L. Gab' - described on their website as "Honest and Aggressive Personal Injury Attorneys" - are Derald and Jared Gab, and Bert and Kyle Kleefuss. They even offer representation for "Truck/Semi-Truck Accidents" cases.

I find it very hard to believe these people are real.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

Most of these names seem quite sensible to me compared to some of the names compiled in this blog. Possibly the best of all is Preserved Fish, who was a New York shipping merchant (naturally) and politician of the late 18th/early 18th C: https://politicalstrangenames.blogspot.com/2011/07/preserved-fish-1766-1846.html

Apparently, his forename was pronounced 'Pres-er-ved'.

Most of the others are more traditional Day Today/Toast of London-style fare: Outerbridge Horsey, Supply Belcher, Experience Estabrook, Shearjashub Bourne, etc.

[ImmaculateClump]

Originally from Israel, so cheating a bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0CC99hVK8

[The Mollusk]

My friend's band had been pestering Nicolas Cage to "get in touch" recently (including standing outside an Edinburgh film festival he was attending with a fuck off massive banner) until they received a cease and desist from Cage's attorney.

His name?

Jimmy J. Sunset

Naturally they then went on to name their latest song after him.

[Porky]

A Guy Called Derald

Derailed?

[QDRPHNC]