If we’re making fun of last names, my IRL last name is Hancock. When I was in elementary school, my hockey team had a Glasscock, an Alcock (pronounced all-cock), and a Hancock. I still think I got the least bad name out of that batch.
Back to stupid baby names, my dad is a doctor. He says he delivered a baby that the parents named Uranus Chance ____. Poor kid.
Re: Hiscocks, Glasscock, etc…
I had a professor whose last name was Oldendick. If it were me, I would probably claim it was pronounced Ol-DEN-dick, or something like that, but it was actually pronounced in the most obvious way. The freshman frat rats in my class enjoyed riffing on the name every time they came to class.
I have met kids with the following unfortunate “trendy” names: Kansas, Brooklyn, Karson McCall, Slater, and Treasure (a boy!). I will never do that to my kids. Ever.
“There are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.” – Dr. Morgenes, The Dragonbone Chair
I have a Chinese friend named Harry. Since he is an immigrant, I wondered how he came by an English name. Turns out, when he first came here, he had a (Native-American) friend in his apartment complex. He hated Harry’s Chinese name and one day told him. “I hate calling you Yuhai, from now on, I’m gonna call you Harry”. It’s been Harry from that moment forward.
Incidently, his given name translates in to something like “the sea” and he has brothers named the equivalent of “the sky” and “the earth”. Harry (the sea) named his son the Chinese phrase for “little wave”. Pretty cool.
“Did you ever wake up,
Bullfrogs on your mind?”
That name rocks! If I’m ever banned from the board (highly likely, I suspect) look for me under that, lol.
Random musings on the topic:
My best friend in grade school (1970’s) was named LaVaughn…and she was white, so you can’t claim the LaQwerty phenom is confined to minorities or is less than 30 years old. I’m not saying it’s older than that, I’m just saying I have proof that it’s at least 30 years EXACTLY. LOL.
One of the patients in my ortho office is named “Sunshine” and I think that’s 100x worse than any made-up, misspelled name!
My best friend in HS claimed her family’s Fuller Brush man was named Harry Dick.
Remember the episode of “The PJ’s” where the woman was naming off the names of her octoplet grandchildren? I was rolling! They were like: Dorito, L’ancome, Nutrogena, Nuprin, etc…
Movie LA Story: the “heroine”'s name is Sandy…spelled SaNDeE* 
Now there’s nothing unexpected about the water giving out; “Land” is not a word we have to shout.
Oh YEAH!, vixen! I meant to bring up that PJ’s episode. That was one of the funniest things I’ve seen on TV. As near as I can remember, some of the other names were (as the title of the thread), Lexus, DisLexus, Chevron and Absorbine, Jr. Hilarious!
“Did you ever wake up,
Bullfrogs on your mind?”
So, if I name my sons Swift, Tempest, Sterling, and Arn, you’ll hate me?
“In my nightmares I am chased by algorithms”–crewman Celes, ST:V
…oh yeah, and then there was the (self Identified) lesbian activist/reporter on either CNN or NPR w/ the name of “Anita Johnson”…(I’ll just bet that you do sweetheart)…oink,oink
The funniest one I ever heard of was the daughter of the (late) engineer/businessman Bill Lear (of Learjet fame): he named his daughter “Shanda”-as in shandalear!