Another case from Eugene Volokh's archives, this one concerning a boy named by his mother "Weather'By Dot Com Chanel Fourcast Sheppard."
The Court: Where did you get the "Dot Com"?
Sheppard: Well, when I worked at NBC, I worked on a Teleprompter computer.
The Court: All right.
Sheppard: All right, and so that's where the Dot Com [came from]. I just thought it was kind of cute, Dot Com, and then instead of — I really didn't have a whole lot of names because I had nothing to work with. I don't know family names. I don't know any names of the Speir family, and I really had nothing to work with, and I thought "Chanel"? No, that's stupid, and I thought "Shanel," I've heard of a black little girl named Shanel.
The Court: Well, where did you get "Fourcast"?
Sheppard: Fourcast? Instead of F-o-r-e, like your future forecast or your weather forecast, F-o-u, as in my fourth son, my fourth child, Fourcast. It was --
The Court: So his name is Fourcast, F-o-u-r-c-a-s-t?
Sheppard: Yes.... [Link]
