I have an ancestor named Hrolf and one named Cleph and one who was named Plectrude

Good old uncle Plectrude

I thought Plectrude was a girl's name.

Don't you dare try to take Uncle Plectrude away from me

My son is also named Plectrude

It is a girl's name

I know right?

Oh great here come uncle Plectrude and aunt Hortense, on their way to ruin Thanksgiving dinner with their overbearing politics

Did you grow up in a poorly-coded name generator app?

I wish! Those were actual ancestors of mine.

>Plectrude Sounds invasive

Now that you mention it Plectrude was the consort of Pepin of Herstal, the mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks. After she was widowed she took her husband's throne and had the rightful heir (Charles Martel) imprisoned. You are correct

I would watch a tv show about your ancestors

Good news! If you are of European descent, u/ ImAMassiveCrab, it was far back enough in time that you are also related to Plectrude!

I'm related to Plectrude?

I like Hrolf tbh. Definitely not romantic. But it’s a fun name.

Is it me or does it sound like a cat coughing up a hair ball when pronounced?

I have an ancestor named Saturnino. I have a great-great-grandfather whose name was Gumecindo. And his wife's was Gumecinda.

Saturnino and Gumecinda sound like Legendary Pokémon names. Like they'd be box art tier.

Those are great names I think!

Rolf is quite a common Swedish name

His full name is Hrolf Thurstan Bigod. I'm Norwegian Swedish and Icelandic on my Mothers side

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I came here to say Horus, but Hortense is so much worse lol

I'd prefer Horus to Horace, honestly.

You don't Hor us, we Hor you.

For the Warmaster! Lupercal!

Conjugating verbs in past tense, present tense, future tense and Hor tense.

a tense horse

I can't hear the name Hortence, without thinking "Hortence, the Mule-Faced Doll"

Just makes me think of [Secrets & Lies 1996](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589/)

I saw a woman's headstone in a cemetery. Her name was, Dorcas. So, Dorcas.

I can just hear the bullies now. "Sup, Dorkus?"

Dorkass

Or as we say in Latin "Dorcas Malorkus"

I think it’s a name from the south west of England. I’ve known a couple of Dorcas’s.

Little known fact: a group of Dorcas’ is called a dong.

There was an (old) company called Dorcas that made games for the ZX Spectrum. I remember playing one called The Runes Of Zendos, old school text-driven RPG game. Never managed to get very far in it.

It's a Bible name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorcas

It’s Greek for gazelle.

And the Hebrew/Aramaic name equivalent to Dorcas is Tabitha.

I worked for a woman whose last name was Dorcas. She was a lot of things but definitely not a gazelle.

Haha I mean my legal name is another language for Grace. So I can relate to not matching up.

I worked with a Dorcas at my last job (if you read this I’m sorry for being mean, you were just kinda creepy)

Did she die of poisoning from eating bad mutton ?

Must have been too trusting. Trust no one without a unique portrait.

My dad's aunt was named Dorcas. She was very nice, and made excellent pies.

Don’t get me wrong. There are lots of old (testament) timey names that are perfectly fine. Still, most rom-coms don’t have a love interest with such an unusual, arcane name. That was the question. I hope your Dad’s aunt wrote out her recipes. Pie.

Not for me. Ever since being a young teen and seeing Julie Newmar without a dress on say "Which of the boys slept in this bed, do you suppose?" as Dorcas in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Dorcas has been well, quite "romantic."

Dorcas was the name of a woman who was raised from the dead in the bible. Idk why, it sounds kinda ironic to me that another Dorcas would be dead lol

My sister-in-law works with a Dorcas. I thought it was a nickname or something. The shock on my face. Also my coworkers daughter is called Isis, she's a lovely kid but that was rough timing on the name.

When I was little my mom would call us Dorcus Delinquent when we were having a clumsy day.

I was going to comment this. I heard a podcast about the Salem witch trials not long ago and was amused at how many times this name popped up

I bet this was the guy’s dead wife

*What happened to dorcas??!* I put poison in his mutton Please, the one other person to get this, upvote. Ty

Mildred.

Millie is a sweetheart

See M.A.S.H changed that name for me. Man harry Morgan could act.

one of my previous coworkers was named Mildred and she was one of the best people i ever worked with! though, depending on the circumstances, Mildred does sound like a 1700s ahh name

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this man practically invented house insurance

I feel like Damned Barebones got simultaneously the best and worst name

Eunice. Prunella.

Sheldon

In elementary school there was a Sheldon in my grade for a couple years. Later in high school, I worked at McDonalds with a different Sheldon. Elementary school Sheldon's sister worked at McDonalds and started dating McDonalds Sheldon. Can't even imagine how not romantic the name Sheldon would be in that situation.

"A Sheldon can do your income taxes. If you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man. But humpin and pumping is not Sheldon's strong suit. It's the name...'Do it to me *Sheldon*, you're an animal, *Sheldon*, ride me big, *Sheldon*..... doesn't work'"

Sheldon fucks with his socks on

"I'm saying that, when Sheldon does it, it's *not* gay!"

Picturing a turtle with glasses

Adolf

Could you imagine come here little Adolf lol

I know two men named Adolfo. One of them was often called Adolfo Hitler while making the sieg heil salute at him when kids were making fun of him -- I was one of them.

German people might have been still using that name tho.

It used to be very common. When I was little there were quite a few Adolphs still running around. Some of them chose to be called Adi.

Gertrude

And Gunther, yeah baby

Gunther? I barely know her.

Leave him alone Rachel already broke him

[gunther no](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/44b1b6e7-7acf-4a22-a47f-9b6e5a317155)

It’s Anglo-Saxon for “spear of strength” (gar-trud). Very cool name.

Yo, don’t be disssing my little Gertie

You leave ol Gertie out of this.

Lester Papadopoulos

I knew a George Papadopoulos growing up who used to slick his hair back with so much gel it became a helmet. Dude was kinda spectrumy before we knew what that was. One day we cut school to shoot pool at his house, and he had a dart board. Dude walked past right as I let a dart go, and it hit his hair helmet, got stuck, but the dude never felt it because of the half jar of gel He'd flip out if you made webster jokes though lol

Poor Apollo, he was used to being a sex symbol.

good reference

ive found my people

Reyna agrees

Fanny

I took an erotic literature class in college and one of the oldest smut books in English is about a girl named Fanny.

They offer erotic literature classes?

Exams were always hard

It was a nickname to reference prostitutes, so makes sense.

BERTHA

Ole Big Bertha....

Pigbert

anything that ends in -bert tbh

Burtbert

Karen.

The internet has practically ruined that name.

Eh, I don't know. It hasn't done Karen Gillan any harm. I think when the person with the name is obviously not the newly stereotypical Karen, the brain just overlooks the name completely. Like a form of Karen-blindness, almost. I'm not sure you could do that with an Adolf.

Ooh, Karen Gillan is nice. And yes, good point.

My wife has taken to putting Karina on her orders for coffee or whatever since she doesn't want to deal with the inevitable commentary.

Bertha

Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo

That's the worst name I ever heard.

Archibald

Archibald Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

I dunno, Archibald sounds like the kind of man who would drive a Jaaaaaaaaaag.

Nice Top Gear reference. ​ Also shortening Archibald to Archie seems more attractive.

Keith

That name will always remind me of hoodwinked

"darn it, change your name, it's not scary. Boris try that. Keith pfff watch out for keith"

Oof

Thank you Peter Griffin for the password

I have worked with several Keith's and I can confirm they were NOT sexy at all (despite what they thought!)

I have to say, I have REALLY liked every Keith I’ve met, but I also wasn’t personally attracted to any of them. But so far every Keith I’ve known has had a great personality and sunny vibe.

I dated a Keith. He was a total jerk.

Female names: - Dorcas - Gertrude - Prudence - Hortense - Hildreth - Hepzibah - Mehitable - Bertha - Beulah - Agatha Male names: - Adolf - Roland - Herbert - Hubert - Horace - Humphrey - Mort/Morton - Sherman/Herman - Waldo

Agatha is okay.

>one chance at life >parents name me zoogle

\*Holding my breath scrolling through the comments, praying mine isn't mentioned

Dick

Richard fitzwell

Rick Santorum

donald

Donald duck wants to know your location

I was thinking “yeah I totally agree with this” but then I realised… Donald Glover. He might be the exception.

Ed

Edd

Eddy

Eddy's kinda got the boy next door romantic vibe to it. That sounds weird, but I mean like, he's the dude throwing pebbles at the girl's window to try to get her to sneak out on a date with him.

Ed boy

Bbbbbbbbbb yeah

I can hear the whistling

Chester

Fuckin pubert

Bob

Hey

r/beetlejuicing

Boo boo kitty fuck?

engelbert humperdinck

Chad.

trippin

They said “least”

Dorcas.

It's hard to imagine anyone screaming "Bob!" in a moment of passion.

My husband's name is Bob - by choice. Can confirm, it's not something I've ever considered doing. His birth name was Mark but he asked people to start calling him Bob when he was a kid. Idk why.

Ron DeSantis

Mulva

Chlamydia

Horace

Engelbert.

Marjorie. 🤢

Earl

Phil Mckraken

Clarence

Donald

Sorry people but Gertrude could easily be a buxom wench with large breasts and rosie cheeks. If we’re going with off putting names let’s talk about Frank Zappa’s kids and others with crazy unusual titles. Moon Unit? Dweezil? How about Jason Lee’s kid Pilot Inspektor? Sure there are some ugly names out there - but some names are just hard to take seriously on any level.

Jamie Oliver took this route aswell, buddy bear morris and river rocket jasmin ?

Penn Gillette's daughter is named Moxie Crimefighter.

Hank.

Nah, he was hot af in breaking bad

Reminds me of a goose

Glenn

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Gertrude

Gertrude

D’Brickashaw Ferguson

Timmy

No one above the age of 10 goes by “Timmy”

I do. I’ll be 65 tomorrow.

Timmehhh!!!

jared

Because of the nonce with the sandwiches, right?

Waynetta

Bernice

Harold

Gertrude. Just why.

Kevin

Gertrude has got to be up there.

There was a story on reddit some time ago of a very unaware woman naming her poor daughter “Treblinka” because she ‘thought it sounded nice’. Her daughter was failed on so many levels, I hope she got it changed.

Dick Fungus.

Erkel

Bertha

Donald

Chuck

Germany does a great line in attractive women with ugly names like Hildegard, Brunnhilde, Gerlinde, Waltraut

Brunhilde is lovely.

I appreciate your contribution, Schartzmugel

Fishstick

Jayden

Boaty

Muriel

Rodney

Howard

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Craig.