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Revision as of 16:30, 15 January 2017
My personal lists of some the best names in Birmingham history:
Fun names
- Hul-Cee Acton
- Rucker Agee
- Spurgeon Banyard
- Young Boozer III
- Lone Jensen Broussard
- Ottakar Čadek
- Sander Cakebread
- Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh
- Godfrey Chryssoverges
- Eleanor Clinkscales
- Alfred E. Conybear
- Lexi Coon
- Spright Dowell
- Culpepper Exum
- Logwood Ulysses Goin
- Magnus Miller Gorrie
- Electric Griffin, Birmingham High School Class of 1916
- Two-Boys Gumede
- Leven Savage Hazlegrove
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt
- Freeman Alphonsa Hrabowski III
- Zenko John-Gregory Hrynkiw
- Hewlett Chervis Isom Jr
- Sam Will John
- Theophilus Calvin Jowers
- Wulf Koch
- Garnet Leader
- Sang Lyda
- Ocllo R. Mason
- Dolester Miles
- Sydenham Moore
- Sigmund Nesselroth
- Retin Obasohan
- Paget Pizitz
- Memory Leake Robinson
- Cherokee Jemison Van de Graaff Rountree
- Audrey Marx Skirball-Kenis
- JoJo Starbuck
- Stan Stefansic
- Walladean Streeter
- Ninian Tannehill
- Trygve Olaf Tollefsbol
- Sidney William Jiroušek van Sheck
Classical names
- Armenius Bennett
- Leonidas Cicero Dickey
- Orion Theophilus Dozier
- Logwood Ulysses Goin
- Magnus Miller Gorrie
- Theophilus Calvin Jowers
- Orlandus Regulus, orderly at South Highlands Infirmary
Pun names
- Kris Cross
- Olden Young (1894-1976), miner
Redundant names
- Chris Christ, attorney and judge
- David David, real estate agent
- Henry Henry, vice-president at Alabama Power
- Joe Joseph, restuarateur
- Swaid Swaid, neurosurgeon
- William Williams, architect
Commonly misspelled names
- Karon Bowdre
- Georges Bridges
- E. G. Burchfiel
- Chriss Doss
- Heman Drummond
- David Hobdy
- Emmet O'Neal
- Gray Plosser
- Shelia Smoot
- Ferd Weil
- Stimson Woodward
- Louis Armstrong, director of Indian Springs School
- Charlie Brown, assistant superintendent of schools
- Cindy Crawford, newspaper editor
- Bill Morgan Freeman, artist and crafstman
- Richard Harris, president of the South Pratt neighborhood
- Ted Kennedy, founder of BE&K
- Fred Rogers, mayor of Roosevelt City
- Kaiser Wilhelm, Barons pitcher and manager
Men with names (now) more commonly given to girls
- Laurie Battle
- Maxie Baughan
- Brooke Burnham
- Ashley Curry
- Camille Desmarais
- Luellen Foster
- Courtney Haden, Courtney Shropshire
- Carol Hayes
- Beverly Head
- Hilary Herbert
- Jan Jeffries
- Gail Joyce
- Brooksie Lovvorn
- Rosamond McDuff
- Shelley Stewart
- Francis White
- Leslie Wright