Think you've seen some odd names? Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback compiled thousands of peculiar names that they found in U.S. federal, state, and British census records and were enumerated (recorded) in the year 1930 or earlier.

Please understand that the names, below, are real people; they sojourned through life bearing these names.

What would it be like to attend middle or junior high school with a name like: Pig Walker, Hades Fryer, Pencil Officer, Helen Back, or Ura Scholar? (Oh, kids can be cruel!)

Be prepared to be amazed, amused, and awed! (And no, you won't find any Clewell ancestor listed here--at least none that I've found, yet!)

~ These United States ~

~ Ahhhhh, Nature ~

~ Out of this World! ~

~ A Whole Lotta Lotta ~

~ The Other White Meat ~

~ Poor Ima ~

~ Amanda What? ~

~ Good vs. Evil ~

~ The Pledge of Allegiance ~

I Pledge (Partridge) Allegiance (Gove) to the Flag (Hill) of the United (States) of America (Rodgers) and to the republic for Which (Clement) it Stands (Good), One (Taylor) Nation (Hamilton) Under (Borie) God (Brown), indivisible, with Liberty (Yeager) and Justice (Hall) for All (Hardy).

~ Mary A. What? ~

Names with a "*" are men.

By the Numbers

~ Say it ain't so! ~

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