Elvis' dad was Vernon Elvis Presley.  I believe they traced his roots back to Wales.  He is also a distant cousin of Oprah.  Lisa Marie didn't stick Elvis' name in any of her childrens, I find that kinda odd.  Usually children want to pass on the name of a deceased parent, especially when the parent died when the child was so young.

Elvis' dad was Vernon Elvis Presley.  I believe they traced his roots back to Wales.  He is also a distant cousin of Oprah.  Lisa Marie didn't stick Elvis' name in any of her childrens, I find that kinda odd.  Usually children want to pass on the name of a deceased parent, especially when the parent died when the child was so young.


I don't know what kids she has, but Lisa Marie did the right thing, now they are their own person not having to live up to their name sake.

Elvis' dad was Vernon Elvis Presley.  I believe they traced his roots back to Wales.  He is also a distant cousin of Oprah.  Lisa Marie didn't stick Elvis' name in any of her childrens, I find that kinda odd.  Usually children want to pass on the name of a deceased parent, especially when the parent died when the child was so young.
Another branch of his family come from Scotland.

Another branch of his family come from Scotland.


That is the way with us Americans,  we're all from someplace else anyway, and most of us are from a half dozen somewhere elses  ;)

That is the way with us Americans,  we're all from someplace else anyway, and most of us are from a half dozen somewhere elses   ;)
Now I what like to see a Ancestry Chart for EP.

You can google Presley ancestry, but the problem is a lot of people try very hard to tie Elvis and his ancestors to their own family tree that it can be a bit unreliable, but the first few generations a pretty solid.  All southern USA

You can google Presley ancestry, but the problem is a lot of people try very hard to tie Elvis and his ancestors to their own family tree that it can be a bit unreliable, but the first few generations a pretty solid.  All southern USA
I will still look online, but it is just the line back from his parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc, that interests me.

Then there is the great unknown, he may have had a sister he didn't know about. 

www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/sep/25/woman-claims-kinship-to-elvis/?partner=RSS

People named Elvis
Elvis Brajkovic (born 1969), retired Croatian football player
Elvis Crespo (born 1971), Puerto Rican Merengue singer
Elvis Dumervil (born 1984), African-American football player, currently a defensive end for the NFL's Denver Broncos
Elvis Grbac (born 1970), U.S-born former NFL quarterback
Elvis Hammond (born 1980), Ghanaian footballer playing in Britain
Elvis Knapman (born 1985), Canadian race car driver
Elvis Mitchell (born 1958), African-American film critic, formerly with the New York Times
Elvis Perkins (born 1976), U.S-born singer/songwriter, son of actor Anthony Perkins
Elvis Sinosic (born 1971), Australian Mixed Martial Artist amd UFC Veteran aka The King of Rock N Rumble
Elvis Stojko (born 1972), former world champion figure skater from Canada
Elvis Vermeulen (born 1979), French rugby player
Saint Elvis of Munster

This is a site my daughter goes to for baby names
http://www.babynames.com/name/ELVIS
It tells you the meaning,how popular the name is and where it places on the Social Security list

If you go into Ancestry and put the name Elvis in you will find lots of them.  I wouldn't say it was very common, but there are quite a few. 

This is a site my daughter goes to for baby names
http://www.babynames.com/name/ELVIS
It tells you the meaning,how popular the name is and where it places on the Social Security list
The origin of the name Elvis is Scandinavian?

The origin of the name Elvis is Scandinavian?
Wōden Heart ?

The origin of the name Elvis is Scandinavian?

I also found this
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Elvis

I also found this
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Elvis
True, in one sense, parents should think before naming their child?

Wōden Heart ?


That's a good one!  ha! ha! ha!

That's a good one!  ha! ha! ha!

True, in one sense, parents should think before naming their child?


Kid's should have a legal birth certificate "out clause" attached to it, giving them the right  to change their name they were given at birth if they wanted to, then if they wanted to called Elvis it was thier choice and not by a star struck parent to live with it.

Kid's should have a legal birth certificate "out clause" attached to it, giving them the right  to change their name they were given at birth if they wanted to, then if they wanted to called Elvis it was thier choice and not by a star struck parent to live with it.
...but if you have changed your name, your schoolfriends will not know who you are?

...but if you have changed your name, your schoolfriends will not know who you are?


They'll get used to it quickly.

...but if you have changed your name, your schoolfriends will not know who you are?


They'll remember you if you wanted your name to be Sponge Bob Square Pants Jones.

They'll remember you if you wanted your name to be Sponge Bob Square Pants Jones.
...but how about twenty years at the School Reunion?

...but how about twenty years at the School Reunion?


Why not? if you changed it at 5, 8 or 10 years old they'll know you at 38 with the name you chose to be called. I bet their are people out reading this now that would have changed their name as a child before they can a do it legally as an adult. I know people today who changed their name as soon as it was legal for them to do so, I think 21 but it could be 18. People I know changed their names from Clement to Dominic and an Iris to Laura, and their was a boy named Francis who hated it and would kill you if you called them that. I like my given first name it was my grandfather's name, my last name is another thing, oh I like it alrigth, but I had to smack a few kids around from time to time who thought they can make some silly rhymes with it, after they called me MR. ......

Again, they will know you even in the obituaries. 

Elvis is a good name for a DOG!

Elvis is a good name for a DOG!


I thought "hound dog" was a cool name for a dog, but only if it was a mutt.

I thought "hound dog" was a cool name for a dog, but only if it was a mutt.
Shep, or even Old Shep....

Good work, but you're showing me what I'm saying, they're foreighborn or probably born in the Biblebelt and are not named Elvis pretentiously except for the Perkins kid who was probably named Elvis for Elvis Presley, that's show business mentality, they're weird that way anyway.  

If I were born in 1955 or after, while Elvis Presley was the center of the universe in the USA starting from 1955 and my parents named me Elvis, I'd dis-owned them for setting me up to fight my way through life with that name, or just change to John or Paul or George, or even Harry, I'd blend a little more into society with those more common names other then Elvis which carries a lot of high profile bagage with it.

Could or would anyone today name their kid Pope John Paul or Your Highness how about Ghengis Khan, maybe Adolph Hitler? and if they did, think of the problems that kid would have...what do you think?     


Did you see the news today, a cracked pot named his son Adolph Hitler Campbell. For his 3d birthday party he wanted a birthday cake with his name Adolph Hitler written on it and a Shoprite refused to write that name on the cake and turned him away. That poor kid is only 3 years old already is getting a taste of what's in front of him next 80 years being shuned by society because of his insaine father and ignorant mother for agreeing to this maddness. The kid don't know now because he's to young to know anything, but when he gets the crap kicked out of him time after time because of that name he will change it to fit in and have a normal life in the USA or move to Germany and join the neo-nazi party where he'll be idolized for his name sake.

Oh!I almost forgot, he named his first daughter JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell she'll be 2 years old soon and he named his 1 year old daughter Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell. He says he's not a racist they're only names. Like I said before,there sould be a law that kids could change their names without parents permission at any time in their childhood life just to save their life.

PS...His father got a Wallmart to write his name on a birthday cake...shame on them!

Did you see the news today, a cracked pot named his son Adolph Hitler Campbell. For his 3d birthday party he wanted a birthday cake with his name Adolph Hitler written on it and a Shoprite refused to write that name on the cake and turned him away. That poor kid is only 3 years old already is getting a taste of what's in front of him next 80 years being shuned by society because of his insaine father and ignorant mother for agreeing to this maddness. The kid don't know now because he's to young to know anything, but when he gets the crap kicked out of him time after time because of that name he will change it to fit in and have a normal life in the USA or move to Germany and join the neo-nazi party where he'll be idolized for his name sake.

Oh!I almost forgot, he named his first daughter JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell she'll be 2 years old soon and he named his 1 year old daughter Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell. He says he's not a racist they're only names. Like I said before,there sould be a law that kids could change their names without parents permission at any time in their childhood life just to save their life.

PS...His father got a Wallmart to write his name on a birthday cake...shame on them!


There are some, sick, sorry, excuses for parents in this world

Adolf Hitler Campbell!  ;D

Adolf Hitler Campbell!  ;D
Elvis Campbell?

I know a guy whose last name is Campbell and everyone calls him Soupy, he hates it! 

I know a guy whose last name is Campbell and everyone calls him Soupy, he hates it! 


What can he do, there's certain names that have baggage attached to them, I think that's pretty creative even cool to have that as a nic name, or even The Souper would be cool too.