Barkevious Mingo! The L.S.U. linebacker fended off a late challenge from Iris Macadangdang to be crowned winner of the 2009 Name of the Year competition. Hopefully in 2010 they’ll finally find LemonJello and OrangeJello. [%comments]
And the 2009 Name of the Year Is …
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Of course Iris is a regular name, how can that win, is name of the year no last name of the year.
I love the name of the chairman of the Tata Group – Ratan Tata. If you say it right, it sounds like a fanfare.
An anagram of Barkevious Mingo is: Remaking Obvious
And an anagram of Freakonomics is Oaf Monickers – allowing for the variant spelling of ‘moniker’
I was so Team Macadangdang. I’m totally going to use that as a first name for one of my kids.
Hooray for making fun of people with non-English sounding names!!!
There’s always Mark Lemongello, who played for the Detroit Tigers in 1976. (There are actually a number of people with that last name, though I believe he’d be the most “famous”…)