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There are names with more than one possible etymology.
Weighing in on the "Have a nice day" debate (for a recent entry, click ); look up the etymology of "nice" in a good dictionary (I used Webster's New World ), and you'll find that the root meaning of the word is "stupid, foolish, ignorant."
Multer adds that these conflicting bits of evidence make the etymology of Ajo difficult to confirm.
I was pleased to see that Beale accepts the etymology of (British) po-faced as coming from po `chamber pot,' disagreeing with Collins English Dictionary [Editorial Director: L. Urdang] which traces it to a modification of poor-faced . I never cared for that, on the grounds that I know of no British dialect that pronounces poor as [pou].
While folk etymology might be at play here, this explanation certainly seems possible and may explain another etymological puzzle.