Here’s a long list of unusual name combinations I’ve been collecting over the years. I found these names on censuses, birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, and in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI).
First Name + Middle Name
Above Hope Demmell
(female, married in 1619 in England)
Alma Mater Hughes
(female, born in 1887 in Texas)
American Queen Ingrain
(female, born circa 1894 in Alabama)
Americus Discoverer Le Ballister
(male, born in 1838 in Maine)
Apple Pie Bell
(male, born in 1886 in Georgia)
Birds Eye Conrad
(male, born in 1871 in Indiana)
Biscuit Foot Cobbin
(female, born circa 1939 in Texas)
Cloudy Day Canaan
(male, born in 1885 in Pennsylvania)
Confederate American Kenner
(female, born in 1863 in Utah)
Easter Daybreak Mullarkey
(female, born in 1891 in Scotland)
Emancipator Lincoln Quinn
(male, born in 1889 in Mississippi)
Equal Rights Gotcher
(male, born circa 1865 in Arkansas)
Gold and Silver Gadbury
(female, gave birth in 1909 in Texas)
Gold Dollar Davis
(female, born in 1893 in Virginia)
Gold Dust Fauntlery
(female, born circa 1903 in Arkansas)
Holly Berry Pharo
(female, born in 1880 in England)
Ice Snow Franklin
(female, born in 1899 in Georgia)
Jelly Bean Carlton
(female, born in 1931 in Texas)
Mint Julip Wilson
(male, born circa 1921 in Illinois)
Northern Pacific White
(male, born in Minnesota in 1872)
Ocean Wave Hamilton
(male, born in 1888 in Texas)
Orange Lemon Thomas
(male, born in 1859 in Ohio)
Panama Canal Caldwell
(female, born in 1912 in North Carolina)
Pearl Shell Adams
(female, born circa 1901 in Tennessee)
Red Apple Thomas
(female, born circa 1885 in Iowa)
Rocky Mountain Kennedy
(male, born in 1884 in Arizona)
Rose Of The Sea McKay
(female, born in 1884 at sea aboard the Duke of Westminster steamship)
Salary Grab Hamrick
(male, born in 1880 in Illinois – a reference to the Salary Grab Act apparently)
South Pole Mitchell
(male, born circa 1908 in Georgia)
Treasure Trove Kittenger
(female, born circa 1895 in West Virginia)
Vocal Refrain Rose
(female, married in 1951 in West Virginia)
Washington Territory Stockand
(male, born circa 1869 in Washington Territory)
First Name + Last Name
Bitter Apple
(female, born in 1874 in Tennessee)
Bitter Berry
(female, born in 1845 in Alabama)
Constant Agony
(male, born circa 1805 in the Province of Canada East)
Continent Walker
(female, born in 1594 in England)
Death Knox
(female, born circa 1927 in Mississippi)
Elder Berry
(male, born circa 1901 in Minnesota)
Every Evelyn
(female, born circa 1917 in Alabama)
Gold Mine
(male, born circa 1901 in Alabama)
Green Land
(male, born in 1886 in Tennessee)
London England
(male, born circa 1914 in Canada)
Lottery Lament
(female, born circa 1852 in New York)
Married Young
(female, born circa 1923 in Tennessee)
Minnie Merrycats
(female, born circa 1880 in Utah)
Mud Brown
(born in 1877 in Wisconsin)
Orchestra Harp
(male, born in 1873 in Kentucky)
Phoebe Beebee
(female, born in 1876 in England)
Scot Land
(born in 1959 in Wisconsin)
Sea Shore
(male, born circa 1892 in Kansas)
Silence Bellows*
(female, born in 1896 in New York)
*Another married name.
Middle Name + Middle Name
Beata Apple Tree Hitchens
(female, born circa 1845 in England)
Sidney Sweet Apple Granger
(male, born circa 1880 in England)
First Name + Middle Name + Last Name
Henry Ford Carr
(male, born in 1924 in Minnesota)
Jolly Jingle Bell
(male, born circa 1926 in Arkansas)
South East West
(male, born circa 1932 in Oregon – an older brother was named North)
Sun Shine Summers
(female, born circa 1924 in Texas)
Which of these name combinations is your favorite?
P.S. I did my best tracking down birth years and birthplaces, but in some cases I had to assume that the state where the Social Security Number was issued was also the birth-state, even though this isn’t always the case.
