Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Le Nom Jeu

Our family heritage contains a cheerful mess of nationalities. Our last name, however, is French... or at least it was. Originally Robidoux or Rabideaux, it was eventually Americanized and allegedly simplified by one of our southbound Quebecois relatives. It's now just Rabdau (pronounced intermittently rab-daw or rab-dow). But as you can see from my (partial) collection, we answer to just about anything.
























Note: If you're one of us, you've also probably been called one or more of the following: Rab, Rabbi, Rabdelicious, Rabadoobie, Ramjet, Ragmop or Ragdoll.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Nice, I can relate! I do wonder though- why are all your examples from the deep south? hmmm

James said...

Ha! Purely coincidental. I stopped collecting after about 25 or so.

Fritz said...

Highly (HIGHLY!) entertaining.