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Canada and Monaco, are not normally used as names. However it appeas that there are a few Canadas and Monacos running around.

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Skipper and Scooter are more commonly nicknames, probably based on personal traits.

Apparently there are 123 people named Canada, 88 named Monaco, 839 named Skipper and 593 named Scooter in the US.
I have seen Skipper and Scooter as nicknames more often (as in the case of Scooter Barry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Barry).

This message was edited 12/15/2010, 12:19 PM

My husband's cousin knows a Canada.

Though these are very rare as first names in the USA, they have all been used.

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There are easily searchable online databases of all names given children born in Oregon since 1960 and in Nebraska since 1990.

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In Nebraska, there was one girl born named Scooter in 1996.

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Except during the last two years, the Oregon database only gives the decade the name was used, not the exact year.

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There was one girl named Canada born in Oregon in the 1980s.

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There was one boy named Monaco born in Oregon in 2009.

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There was one girl named Skipper born in Oregon in the 1990s, and two boys named Skipper born in Oregon since 1960, one in the 1960s and one in the 1970s.

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There was one girl named Scooter born in Oregon in the 1990s, and two boys named Scooter born in Oregon in the 1980s.

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I'm fairly sure that the above would not be the only examples if we had a 100% searchable database for the entire USA.

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Skipper and Scooter are both fairly common as nicknames in the USA. I have known more than one American man named Scott whose friends call him Scooter; I socialize with one of them regularly right now. Some parent will eventually give almost any common nickname to a child as an official name. I have another friend who is dating a young man named officially named Spike right now, whose father named him after some athlete for whom Spike was a nickname.

This message was edited 12/12/2010, 5:57 AM