In the ancient past, the Seine spread throughout the entire bowl-shaped valley that now forms the Paris region, and at one 
time, it split into two arms. To the south, the slightly wider branch roughly followed the river’s present-day path. To the north, an arc of water swept across what is now the Right Bank, through Bastille, Menilmontant, parts of Belleville, and lower Montmartre. It reached all the way to the present-day locations of Chaillot and L’Alma, just across the river from the Eiffel Tower. When these two branches flooded, the whole basin filled to become a lake several miles wide. Little by little, the northern arm of the Seine dried up, and by 30,000 BCE, it had vanished completely, leaving more or less the Seine we know today. Large parts of the Right Bank remained wetlands for some time. The neighborhood called the Marais—which means “the swamp”—was once a marsh adjacent to the river. It is no wonder that when the Romans first invaded the area inhabited by the Parisii tribe in the first century BCE, they chose to construct their city on the less soggy Left Bank. No wonder either that they named the city Lutetia, likely derived from lutum, the Latin word for mud.
—Jeffrey H. Jackson, Paris Under Water
And then there is the infamous Dr. Mudd of Lincoln fame. A name is a lot sometimes. Makes me wonder why some folk fail to change their name. A dentist named Pain is likely to starve.
There was a family in the place where I grew up called the Gotobeds. Why they soldiered on with such a name, and even sent their children to school burdened with it, passed my understanding.
Then there was the first-generation Irish immigrant family monikered the Irelands. Pretty basic.
Here, I think it took a lot of “gaul,” for the Romans to call Paris, mud.
There was a business owner who had trouble figuring why a flower shop named “Weeds” failed. Go figure.
They say that a weed is just a plant you don’t want. So yeah, even considering that, the Weeds flower-shop dude was no doubt doomed to failure.
It occurs to me he should have opened a dope shop. Would probably be a millionaire by now.
Or maybe attracting unwanted attention and wearing an orange suit by now.