Bizarre Baby Names: A Growing Trend?

As a teacher, I have run into some truly unusual names. Tremenisha (tree-mu-knee-sha) was a delightful 6th grader. Closeadoora (close ah door ah) was a precious kindergärtner; She later asked to be called Doora. Cornice (cor-niece) was Doora's brother. The children who have unusual names or names with unusual spellings often go through life with a bit of a chip because they have to spell their names for folks and they can never find their name on a "named" object like a cup or tag.

My Mom's primary care physician is Dr. Sumey......and my first thought upon meeting him was "Oh, he really should change his last name!" :-) For the record, he is a wonderful doctor.