Bussy Bleeker.

I kind of like the name Apple for someone else's baby. Not mine, obviously, but insofar as lame celebrity names goes, it's no Kal-El Cage.

Esme used to be a boy's name. Though obviously, that had changed by the 1870s when my great-grandmother was born.

Whitney Rushmore.

Also, from way back, the "funniest religious jokes", I especially like this one (and not just because of who submitted it!)

Joke submitted by Spike:

A man ran through a crowded train looking very agitated, calling out, "Is there a Catholic priest on board?"

When he got no reply, he ran back up the train shouting, "Is there an Anglican priest on board?" Still no reply.

By now becoming more desparate, he ran down the train shouting, "Is there a Rabbi on board?"

Eventually, a gentleman stood up and said, "Can I be of any assistance, my friend? I'm a Methodist minister."

The man looked at him and said, "No, you're no bloody good. I need a corkscrew!"

Cinder 35th Ave SW just doesn't work.

Ruff Longstone

(Full-immersion baptism is eccentric to my peeps who are presbyterians and scowl at the minister if the baby's dress gets sprinkled during the christening)

Werve Prospect doesn't really make it either. (My first pet was an abandoned kitten who ended up sleeping in the UPI copy at my college radio station, WRVU.)

I wanted to give her an uncommon name because there were four Susans in my high school class of ~120

Oh, totally understood. I'm very grateful that my ex and I changed our daughter's name one month before she was born. It's all hindsight now, but if we'd gone ahead with the original name, she would have ended up with the same thing--5 little girls all with the same name in her class. I have to admit, I didn't much care for my own name in grade or high school, but I never had to worry about being mistaken for someone else based on my name.

As for my son, we purposely chose a name that could go either way because that was back in the day when ultrasounds were much less detailed than today and we weren't sure what the sex was. We had such arguments over a boy's name with the first one, it's a damn good thing we had a girl, where we were in complete agreement on names. So, the first was Alexia (originally Rachel) and the second was Jesse (where we could have spelled it "ie" if it was a girl.)

Fancy Edgewood

Sounds more like a soap name, actually.

Random and all-powerful ~ma to anyone who needs it -- I've been gone for three days at a funeral, and have skipped like a madly skipping thing.

Daisy Ridgeway

While we were in Dallas, we picked up a friend of the family who lives on a street named Spanky Branch, and I immediately thought of porn star names.

eta: AmyLiz, how are you doing? And your friend and her son?

I like the name Apple, too. Also not for my kid ("Apple Griswold?" Please.) But I like Apple Paltrow just fine. Does the kid actually have her last name?