People you've seen/heard of with strange names

[Breezy du Nord]

My list:

Fanny Pistor Bogdanoff (what's a "bodgan"?)

Hazel B. Good

Dr. Zoltan Ovary, gynecologist.

Dr. McNutt, head of a mental hospital, and Dr. Looney, psychiatrist

physicians named Doktor, Doctor, etc.

Mr. A. Moran, teacher.

Reverend Christian Church and Rev. God.

Have you got any?

edit: these are from a name book I have called "The Very Best Baby Name Book", by Bruce Lansky.

[maxanne]

1. we had an NH

Congressman named Dick Swett....:eyes:

[Champion Jack]

2. Wayzata De Camerone

[Az]

3. The odd names I have known

I work with a Darren Death. We are comp techs and one time he had to log onto everyones pc over a weekend and make some mods. The next monday we got calls all day about some hacker named DrDeath trying to hack into their system because his login id (ddeath) was still on their screen.

I used to work with a Harry Bott. Try saying that name over the PA.

I used to know a Crystal Shanda Leer.

Apparently Faris is arabic for Peter and my dad's name is meaning after translation my dad's name is Dick Peter Johnson.

[diplomats]

5. I once read a deed for a woman named

Melissa Boob.

[Az]

8. You get some interesting login ids

Typically a login Id is made by taking the first letter of the first name and the first 5 letters of the last name. Our company uses a different method. First letter is A (I have no idea why this is and I do security testing). then you take the first 5 letters of the last name. Finally the first letter of the first name.

Here is the worst login Id I have come across:

asoltit Yes it is a womans.

[King_Crimson]

25. Former Mayor of the city I live in...

Harry Baals, Mayor back in the 50's... Fort Wayne, Indiana! How'dya like to grow up with that one hanging on ya?

[blondeatlast]

4. La Trine--I kid you not.

Apparently mom and dad never saw M*A*S*H!

[I AM SPARTACUS]

6. I had a counselor at camp named "Ben Dover"...

...being 12 year-olds, we were merciless...

believe it or not, he has a sister named "Eileen Dover"...

[Kolesar]

7. Classmate named: Blaise Hale

We did this thread last year and someone noted the surname "Clownpenis".

Clownpenis

[Az]

9. Highly suspect

My fiancee has a client (music library) who claims his name is really Rex Hiscox(sp?).

[SmileyBoy]

10. The JV football coach at my old HS was Todd Looney.

I had an english teacher in the 11th grade named Ms. Wilfahrt (pronounced will-fart).

[BlueJazz]

11. I once met a woman named..

...Bertha Fluck
I did'nt bat an eye when she was introduced to me but I thought "Damn, who would stick a handle like that on a kid?"

[JVS]

12. Richard Wood

Who insists on being called Dick.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

13. Was on a ship once where there was a guy named...

Peter Stain, and what's worse, his rate was Seaman. The OOD loved to pipe him to the quarterdeck...
Now, Seamen Peter Stain, lay to the quarterdeck.


Another one is a doctor who is currently working at my wife's hospital... her name is Fuk Yu


and then there is my favorite friend from Africa... Heywood Jablome

[diplomats]

17. How about

Bertha Belch? I read that name somewhere. Apparently it's not made up.

[CO Liberal]

22. That's From the "Church Bulletin Blunders"

"Bertha belch, a missionary from Africa, will speak after the service next Sunday. Come and hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa."

:-)

[Archae]

14. Try this last name...

Sauer.

Yup. Pronounced like sour.

Do I know anyone named that? Yup.

Me, for one. It's my last name.
Will I ever change it? No.

[OrdinaryTa]

21. Hank Sauer

Hank Sauer played 15 seasons in the National League, batting .266 and hitting nearly 300 home runs. In 1952 he was the league's most valuable player, and he tied Ralph Kiner for the league lead in home runs.

One of his contemporaries, in the American League, was Hank Bauer.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sauerha01.shtml

[MisterP]

33. that's what it means in German

[Archae]

34. I know.

I'm just glad my Father changed his name before he got married.

(It was Sauermilch. No, I'm not making this up!)

[Pert_UK]

15. Genius thread! Good work!

I have a good friend who's a doctor specialising in mental illness - he's Doctor Downer (imagine being sent to see Dr Downer if you were a manic depressive, it might just tip you over the edge). There was a Dr De'ath and a Dr Love at the med school at my university, as well as a Dr Ng.

I've also seen on TV in the UK a Mr Lennox Cumberbatch, which was pretty cool, and there was a woman on TV in Australia the other day called Fifi Aleida Yaya.

I still think that US weathermen and anchors are the best - Wolf Blitzer and Flip Spiceland come to mind.

I've also heard of a guy in the US named Jesus No, which could cause some confusion.

Almost forgot the caretaker at my college - a Mr Richard Head (really!). And my very gorgeous friend Virginia Walls (say that quickly to a gynacologist), although I think she's married now.

[On the Road]

16. An Old Classic Book: "Remarkabilia"

is largely devoted to names like this.

One unusual first name is "Fartina." Another is "Theanderblast."

A former Turkish emissary to the Soviet Union had the name "Mustafa Kunt." And then there was Prime Minister Plasteras of Greece, of whom Winston Churchill said: "I hope he does not have feet of clay."

The only one I can personally vouch for, however, is a friend of my grandmother named Ima Menke.

[Aristus]

18. I once knew a guy named

Ian Smellie. No lie.

[jobycom]

19. The AD for UTexas is named Deloss. And during the 92 elections I knew

someone named Clinton Bush.

[GOPisEvil]

36. There's another Austin great name. Dr. Dick Chop, a urologist!

OK, so he goes by Richard, but where's the fun in that?! :D

[NightTrain]

20. Since you asked...

In high school, a fellow student was named Valvo DePumpo.

One of my ex-girlfriends had a kid sister who was learning the piano at Julliard. The young pianist's name was Melody.

One of my favorite 1950s R&B singers is the late, great Smiley Lewis, whose real name was Overton Lemon.

Speaking of R&B singers, how about Etta James' first cousin, '60s soul vocalist Sugar Pie DeSanto, whose real name is Umpheylia Marsema Balinton! (She's half-black, half-Filipino, in case you're interested.)

[dweller]

23. Deuteronomy Rasshocker

lived in the town next to mine.
We found him in the phone book while we were committing prank calls as a kid.

dp

<and for those of you thinking, 'punk kids whatta bunch of jerks', the phones were rotary dialup and the connections took forever to complete and we'd probably ask about prince albert in a can and if a refrigerator was running.....it was more trouble than it was worth...>

edit: whatever

[Pert_UK]

24. Neville Neville - so good, they named him twice!

He's the father of Phil and Gary Neville, the professional footballers.

Also, I have a good friend named Aaron Hunt, who wanted to name his first baby Anuke.......Anuke Hunt.............ANUKE HUNT!!!! for the love of God.

Fortunately his wife talked him out of it.

[Piltdown13]

46. Similarly....

I knew a guy in high school named Alonso Alonso. His middle initial was "A"...I never could find out if it was a three-peat. :-)

[Pert_UK]

26. Molecules with silly names - Arshole!

I love this site.....

Altogether now....."I feel like Cummingtonite, like Cummingtonite!"

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/silly/sillymols.htm

[Dookus]

27. There's a police detective in San Francisco...

named Napoleon Hendrix.

Always loved that name.

[REP]

28. My Mom Worked with Dick Smalls

and I once had a customer call named Sampson Tampon, and I'm not making that up.

My last name and my Loved One's last name aren't funny or double entendres, but they are damned near impossible for most to pronounce or spell.

[HawkerHurricane]

29. Sailor's I've known.

Petty Officer Sargent

Leiutenant Blank (had his name on his stateroom door: Blank)

Chief Petty Officer Glzynski: 8 letters, one vowel. Was always asking if he could borrow one from...

Ensign Aiea.

Fireman Snipe. Only funny if you know that shipboard engineers are called 'snipes'.

Petty Officer Flag. He was a signalman.

Leiutenant Thomas Loss. He was the navigator, and was listed by his position, last name and first initial, like so: Navigator; LossT

[TankLV]

30. Picture this: Highschool, 1970's. Kenmore, NY

Whilhelmina Blomberg & Vladimir Livermoore were boyfriend-girlfriend. Really never did remember what they looked like (it was a very big HSchool).

I always looked forward to the morning announcements for "Mike Hunt - has anyone seen Mike Hunt?".

[leftyandproud]

31. beat this

from a YMCA camp when I was a kid...don't ask me how I remember it

a boy named..

Azoranova Kamaletha

[foxglove1]

32. Had a client once named Harry Wang

I couldn't look at him without biting my lip to keep from chuckling

Sue

[carolinayellowdog]

35. Fannie Butt went to our church

and she was unmarried so her parents are to blame for the name.

[progressivejazz]

37. Ophelia Busam

was a professor at Worcester State College for many years.

[gypsy11]

38. Dr. Open

He was my dentist when I was a kid.

[sleepyhead]

39. When I worked at a medical school

The head of their surgery department was Dr. Butcher. I knew 2 students when I was in college, brother and sister, named Clay and Sandy Beach.

[scucci]

40. I had an "unusual name" growing up

It was awful. The teasing was pure torture at times. I'm not going to tell you what it was because it's that rare.
I was so happy the day I went to the Social Security office for my official name change after I was married.

[iluvchicago86]

41. A "bogdan"...

is a name for a guy in serbian. if you separate the two words in the name you have "bog" and "dan". Bog is god...Dan is day.

[UrbScotty]

42. Muskegon County (MI) Commissioner Tony Mulatsiotis.

I don't know how to pronounce that!

I'm sure most of you have heard of a US Congressman from Wisconsin named James Sensenbrenner. Say that. Sen-sen-brenner.

You might also know the name of Georgia's junior Senator, Saxby Chambliss. WHO?

And let us not forget about Governors Rod Blagojevich (IL), Kathleen Sebelius (KS), Janet Napolitano (AZ), and Ted Kulongoski (OR)!

[roguevalley]

45. Trucking Along Cedarhome

Alcan Sunrise Brinkerhoff <'conceived on the Al-Can at
sunrise ... don't you just HATE hippy parents?!?!?!>

Essie, Glessie and Mossie, twins and sister.

Noma Burlingame whose mail was always addressed
no name burlingame

Rhonda Crapp

Lipshitz

Cardinal Jamie Sin

Ordelma

Minerva Schlegelmilch <My g.grannie>

My dad went to school with a girl named Ima Hoag

[Nikia]

43. I met

Early Jack Frost
Abbey and Dusty Rhode
Joe King
When my great grandmother died, we saw election signs in her town "Bias (Evidently the candidates last name) for judge."

[JohnKleeb]

44. My friend who goes to Catholic school told me about

Mr. Dick Pedofile.

[annagull]

47. Judas Priest

My husband went to school with him, and my mother in law worked with his mom, Mrs. Priest. Don't ask me why they would name their kid Judas--this was in the '80s too, mind you. Needless to say, last we heard poor Judas was in a mental hospital. :-(