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[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

More customer names I've noticed:

-Cyrenthia
-Dee Wren (on a man)
-Delois (duh-LO-iss...ugh)
-Delyott (DEL-ee-ut)
-Dieniel (somehow still pronounced like Daniel; not a typo, I saw the guy's credit card)
-Dorres (ugh)
-Elexandrew (actually not a customer, but a coworker's relative; she asked if I'd ever heard of the name before, and I said I had not; I looked it up on Google and it seems it was a legitimate first name at one time)
-Leorna (male)
-Javeier (guys, come on, guys)
-Josa (male)
-Leno (poor man)
-Letia
-Linnie Bliss (very sweet old woman)
-Linnie Ray (female; from a very rich local family)
-Lowell
-Lubov (female; not even remotely foreign; very thick Brooklyn accent, though)
-Meares (male; mother's maiden name, maybe?)
-Melville (big reader?)
-Oizel (not foreign)
-Orval Junior (his middle name was, in fact, Junior)
-Salinda
-Shary Keil (male, and not foreign)

Comments

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Elexandrew? That's awful! & lol at Melville ;)

[qalanjo.livejournal.com]

Elexandrew is annoying, but maybe it's a trendy mispelling of Alexandru, which is a legit Romanian name.

Javeier...are you sure it wasn't Javier? Because if so, that's a pretty common Spanish name.

Lubov (Lyubov) is legit, it's the Russian word for "love" and it is also a common name.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

Elexandrew was a variation of Alexander that appeared mostly...online, at least...in mid-19th century censuses. All of the instances I found were here in eastern North Carolina. My coworker's old relative whom it currently belongs to is nearly one hundred and has lived in a small North Carolina town for most of his life. We're fairly sure he was named after an old relative. At any rate, I'm guessing neither he nor his parents know anything about trends in Romanian names.

I mentioned Javeier for the very reason that it was a pointless misspelling of Javier. Yes, I'm sure it was Javeier; I had to check the guy's ID, and it was spelled as such on there.

I'm also familiar with Lubov, which is why I mentioned that the holder was not foreign. It just seems fairly out of place on an obnoxious, loud New Yorker.