Why are there so many odd names in UFC?

[CasualBot]

How are the names Tyson, Forrest, Myles, Gideon, Uriah, Brock, Wade and Kendall weird names? Are you from an extremely tiny town and have you ever left?

I've travelled the world, work in 4 countries currently, lived in Canada, Ireland, Spain ...

I have never met people named "forrest, tyson, gideon, miles, uriah"

Met a girl named Kendall, a guy named Brock, and i know a Wade (from PigPen / Alexisonfire).

Yeah bud, they are weird fuckin names.

 

[CasualBot]

I either graduated with people who share those names or knew one from the graduating class ahead of me. Not uncommon names.

Where are you from that people have such idiotic naming criteria.

You know a shaquanda as well?

How about Sha-Dynasty?

 

[GuanoApes]

some of these are in the bible... how can they be considered odd?

Tubal-cain is a biblical name. You don’t think it would be a little strange to meet someone nowadays named Tubal-cain?

Gomer is a biblical name. You don’t think Gomer is a funny name nowadays?

Nimrod is also a name in the Bible..

 

[BowserJr]

These are just some names that I've seen.
Urijah Faber
Uriah Hall
Jens Pulver
Chael Sonnen
Dana White
Junie Browning
Tyson Griffin
Sage Northcutt
Carmelo Marrero
Brock Larson, Lesnar
Cub Swanson
Kit Cope
Kalib Starnes
Kendall Grove
Lodune Sincaid
Tiki Ghosn
Wade Shipp
Roland Payne
Baby Jay Penn
Tra Telligman
Mac Danzig
Gideon Ray
Gil Castillo
Gan McGee
Jules Bruchez
Court McGee
Ovince St. Preux
Guy Mezger
Kelly Dullanty
Benji Radach
Tamdan McCrory
He-Man Ali Gipson
Myles Jury
Gray Maynard
Benson Henderson
Bubba Bush
Asbel Cancio
Forrest Griffin
Rudyard Moncayo
Roli Delgado
Gian Villante
Yancy Medeiros

Who names their son Kelly?

And these are all good-old American boys, let me remind you. Starnes is an exception though.

Feel free to add to the list, if you can..

Half of those are not weird at all

 

[Pierce 34]

1) a lot of these names arent "odd". perhaps we need to learn your definition of the word.

2) America is known to be the great melting pot of the world. strictly going of american names you will get names that have influence from around the world. Stipe is American, born in the USA, but that name is Croatian.

3) because of mass migration and how language works (think of the similarities of the Romance language), certain words change over the years (ie spelling, how its pronounced, etc). an example of this is Colby, which is derived from Jacob, which is derived from Jacoby/Jacobi.

4) Some of these arent even their real names. BJ Penn's name isnt Baby, its Jay. Or, you have Kit, thats not his name. Kit is short for names like Christopher (which is his name). it is akin to calling Theodore "Ted"

5) You mentioned like 4 or 5 names from the bible, the number 1 selling book ever. Urijah is in the bible.

6) Perhaps you are from a small town and havent travelled much. many of these names are common

7) If you can name a celebrity with the same name its difficult to call it odd (although i can argue the other way for that too). Dana Carvey, for example, is a famous actor, costar of the movie Wayne's World.

7a) Did you know there was a super famous movie with a super famous quote using the name Forrest? its called Forrest Gump, and the quote is "Run, Forrest, run!"

8) Americans have been using crazy names more and more as the years go on. Main character syndrome? Perhaps.

Debate club leader here

 

[Bork Neslar]

Why not?

 

[BroScienceTalkatWork]

Athletes and dumb names: a tale as old as time

 

[JakePaulMMA]

Tamden McCrory: Top 3 all-time MMA name you'll never see duplicated.

 

[dubhlinn]

These are just some names that I've seen.
Urijah Faber
Uriah Hall
Jens Pulver
Chael Sonnen
Dana White
Junie Browning
Tyson Griffin
Sage Northcutt
Carmelo Marrero
Brock Larson, Lesnar
Cub Swanson
Kit Cope
Kalib Starnes
Kendall Grove
Lodune Sincaid
Tiki Ghosn
Wade Shipp
Roland Payne
Baby Jay Penn
Tra Telligman
Mac Danzig
Gideon Ray
Gil Castillo
Gan McGee
Jules Bruchez
Court McGee
Ovince St. Preux
Guy Mezger
Kelly Dullanty
Benji Radach
Tamdan McCrory
He-Man Ali Gipson
Myles Jury
Gray Maynard
Benson Henderson
Bubba Bush
Asbel Cancio
Forrest Griffin
Rudyard Moncayo
Roli Delgado
Gian Villante
Yancy Medeiros

Who names their son Kelly?

And these are all good-old American boys, let me remind you. Starnes is an exception though.

Feel free to add to the list, if you can..

im not sure what names you would like to see that are considered normal

 

[Doctor Grudge]

I've travelled the world, work in 4 countries currently, lived in Canada, Ireland, Spain ...

I have never met people named "forrest, tyson, gideon, miles, uriah"

Met a girl named Kendall, a guy named Brock, and i know a Wade (from PigPen / Alexisonfire).

Yeah bud, they are weird fuckin names.

I mean they're not common names, but hardly weird. Forrest Whittaker. Tyson Fury. Miles Davis.