Originally Posted by nancy59
The very worse one I heard of was a lady that needed service on her typewriter, and I asked for a name that the serviceman could ask for and she said her name was Urinal. I had to put her on hold and laugh, Seriously, what mama would do that!!!
Unfortunately, the way some people pronounce "Yarina",which is a perfectly nice Russian name, ends up sounding fairly similar.
I knew a lady who had triplet boys and she named them all "John" but in different languages: Ian, Ivan and Sean (her husband was "John").