Baby Name: ten
Seven, 8, Ten – Numbers as Baby Names
I posted recently about using a number system to choose names. But what about using numbers themselves as names? An old episode of Seinfeld made fun of number-names. In it, George mused over the name Seven: “It’s a beautiful name for a boy or a girl… especially a girl. Or a boy.” A year after [...]
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Ten Million and Decillion Million
Ten Million (1889-1964) was a minor league baseball player from the state of Washington. Decillion Million was his daughter. Ten’s grandmother was apparently the person behind both names. She convinced Ten’s parents to go with “Ten,” and later convinced Ten and his wife Christine to pick “Decillion” with a bribe of $50. (That’d be over [...]
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Wikipedia’s List of Unusual Personal Names