What tricks people do not go to become famous, stand out, become “not like everyone else”. For some reason, it seems to many parents that it is worthwhile to name the child somehow fancifully, and he will automatically inherit a unique, inimitable fate. And such unusual names are born that you are simply amazed!
It would seem, what additional glory is needed for the children of famous people? They are already all their life under the guns and close attention of the paparazzi. But no! Mick-Angel Crist and Eva-Vlad Anisina-Dzhigurda, Apollon Sergeyevich Shnurov and Harry Maksimovich Galkin are born.
Foreign stars are not far behind. David Beckham calls his son Brooklyn - in honor of the district of New York, where he was born. Frank Zappa calls the Moon Unit’s favorite daughter Moonlight, and Gwyneth Peltrow (apparently for advertising purposes) came up with the name Apple (Apple) for her baby.
Unusual names appear annually around the world. In France, in the 19th century, a family lived by the name of 1792. Parents who were deprived of fantasy were named children in honor of the months of the year: January, February, March, April. It is not clear why, following their bizarre logic, these Frenchmen did not give birth to a dozen children - it would be possible to create a family saga called “12 months”.
With typical American humor, Mom and Dad Jackson from Chicago called (otherwise you cannot formulate) their unfortunate children Meningitis, Laryngitis, Appendicitis, Peritonitis and Tonsillitis. And the couple from New Orleans picked up their daughters, probably, “the most unusual and beautiful” names - Mu, Wu and Gu.
In Spain, there are often names consisting of many words. So, the full name (with the surname) of the famous artist Pablo Picasso consisted of 93 letters. There are long nicknames in other regions of the planet. 102 letters in the name of an American from Honolulu, 598 - from a lady from Montana. But
the longest name in the world is Indian. Its owner bears the simple name Brahmatra. But his name is made up of 1478 letters. It only takes 10 minutes to read it out loud!
In general, in India, unusual names are not uncommon. Here you can meet young people whose name is I love potatoes, Silver dollar or Two kilograms of rice. The last name was given to its owner not because he can eat such a portion of porridge in one sitting, but because it is precisely the amount of cereal that the state gives to the parents of the baby. Apparently, in this case, mother and father were driven by simple human gratitude.
Unusual Russian names are also not uncommon. After the October Revolution, it seemed to many citizens of the young state that everything should change in the world, including names. During this period, the Russian name-book was replenished with borrowed names and “word-making” of parents. It was a flurry of new, unusual names. Tractors and Industrializations, Diesels and Dazdraperms were born. Many of the names of the revolutionary era, by the way, have taken root and are found today: Ninel, Kim, Vladlen.
Later, there were also examples of such "neologisms." Such unusual names are known as Uryurvkos (“Hurray! Yuri in space!”), Dazdrasmygda (“Long live the bow of the city and the village!”) And Kukutsapol (from “corn is the queen of the fields”).
In the family of the poet Todor Klyashtorny, repressed in the 30s, the eldest daughter was named Tadian (from the names of parents: Todor and Ioannina)
There were also romantic stories associated with unusual names. The poet George Ushakov participated in the battles for the liberation of the Belarusian Vitebsk in 1944. In the area of the Luchesa River, the front stood for 9 months. Ushakov wrote a poem in which there were lines:
"And in memory of those in the dew grass
Fell forever, giving your duty honestly
I will name the future daughter
By your beautiful name, Luchesa. ”
The poet died near Vitebsk, but the story continued. Sister Georgy Ushakov had four sons. The elder named his daughter Luchesa. Today, the only planet on the planet Luches lives in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. But even she bitterly says that the unusual name was the object of ridicule in childhood, and interfered in adulthood.
Therefore, it is completely unclear what drives people who give children fanciful names. How does the 11-year-old BOCH rVF 260602, as well as Viagra, Casper the Beloved, Lettuce, Air Traffic Controller or Fifi Trixibel feel today?
Probably for good reason, every year tens of thousands of people change their name in the registry office. Fortunately, this is allowed.