# A name you maybe wouldn't want to have **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519 "2008-06-19T21:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/1 "2008-06-19T21:57:26Z")
Would you like to be named Peter Schmuck? I swear it’s for real. He’s a sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/2 "2008-06-19T23:14:16Z")
[Coulda been worse](http://mitchieville.blogspot.com/2008/03/sarah-cox-gives-birth-to-baby-isaac.html) . That’s one kid that’ll learn to fight. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/3 "2008-06-19T23:47:04Z")
There was a podiatrist in Dallas who had his name in big letters outside his office. His name was Richard Weiner. Yep, Dick Weiner. Maybe he shares an office with an OB/GYN named Harold Beaver. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/4 "2008-06-20T00:10:32Z")
[My usual example, Dick Johnson, newscaster.](http://www.nbc5.com/meetthenewsteam/1658773/detail.html)[And the other one, Pete Sack, meteorologist.](http://www.nbc5.com/meetthenewsteam/2486504/detail.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/5 "2008-06-20T00:28:33Z")
I saw a headstone with the name Increase Clapp. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/6 "2008-06-20T01:24:43Z")
I work with a guy who’s last name is Noschese. Ok, it’s not Dick Wiener, but Nose Cheese ain’t pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/7 "2008-06-20T02:03:41Z")
There is a guy here named Peter Rabbitt. My dad went to high school with him. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/8 "2008-06-20T02:11:08Z")
While helping my (then) wife research Russian History in the 1910-15 period, I found a classified ad, in Great Britain, saying that "I _Harry Horschitz_, do hereby change my name to _Harry Horst_. Well, _duh!_. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/9 "2008-06-20T02:20:39Z")
And of course, there was a very nice girl I went to high school with named Charity Muff. Swear to God. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ShermanAter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/10 "2008-06-20T02:28:22Z")
How about a guy by the name of Lucious Pusey? > **[Ladies And Gentlemen, Meet Lucious Pusey](https://deadspin.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-meet-lucious-pusey-188653)** > > The Realests are going bonkers this morning over their latest discovery, but we have to say that we do not find this funny at all. What is so hilarious, after all, about a college football player named Lucious Pusey? (Roman guard begins to giggle).... ---
**Author:** ![Neverender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/848f3c/32.png) [@Neverender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverender)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-name-you-maybe-wouldnt-want-to-have/453519/11 "2008-06-20T02:34:33Z")
No sexual inuendo, but my housemates cousin just named her firstborn Paris Star Austin. Eek.