When I was pregnant and people asked me what we were going to name the baby, we used to say “Nimrod Funk.”
We got the name from my husband’s family tree. There was an actual Nimrod Funk in his family. For some unknown reason, the name was not handed down. But when people asked, we’d persist with “Nimrod”. After all, it’s a biblical name and it’s his heritage. How can that be the wrong choice?
Some people actually believed us. That’s probably because my mother, Mildred, actually named her daughter Mildred. How on earth do you look at a baby and think “Mildred”? How can you say “Have you seen my adorable baby, Mildred”? We kidded, of course, about naming my daughter Mildred. We could have had the pleasure of introducing Mildred and Nimrod to the world. Fortunately, we remembered that our children were likely to pick our nursing homes and had a change of heart.
I know these can’t be the only terrible names on earth. What terrible names are floating around your friends and family?
