My maiden name wasn't odd at the time I was born, but it became so.
In a childbirth education class I was teaching about 5 years ago, we were talking about names. I mentioned that my name is a self-given name, written into my divorce decree, because, at the age of 57 when I divorced, I didn't feel like "my mommy's daughter" any more and didn't care to return to my maiden name. And, as I had two DD by different fathers (exes), I didn't need to keep one married name over the other. So I took a name from my mother's side of the family and a name from my father's side and hyphenated them for my new legal last name.
At this point a couple asked me what my maiden name had been. (Keep in mind that I was 60 years old--) I replied,
"Janet Jackson." The woman, who was maybe 26-27 yrs. old, looked at me with wide eyes and actually said to me, "Oh! Were you named for her?"
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These people vote! That scares me silly.
Jan in VA