# Any one up for more crazy names? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744 "2009-04-11T15:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/21 "2009-04-14T02:26:29Z")
I worked with a guy named Palm Tropix My sister named her son Seref, pronounced “Sheriff” (yawn) ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/22 "2009-04-14T04:24:23Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > We’re not talking about “naming practices.” We’re making fun of stupid people. If you don’t like it, then don’t play- I would have thought the thread title was quite self-explanatory… Sorry, it’s just the unsubtle racism of “black people names are hilariously stupid” wears on me every time it comes up. I guess I should go back to lurking in the pit if I’m looking for a fight. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/23 "2009-04-14T04:36:26Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > - Justice (I ask the same question as the other year: what happens if he gets named to the Supreme Court?) Eh, he’ll get by. [Dean Dean Mills](http://journalism.missouri.edu/faculty/dean-mills.html) does OK for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/24 "2009-04-14T04:37:17Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Sorry, it’s just the unsubtle racism of “black people names are hilariously stupid” wears on me every time it comes up. I guess I should go back to lurking in the pit if I’m looking for a fight. No, “black people names” are not hilariously stupid. “Stupid black people names,” however, are. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/25 "2009-04-14T10:44:19Z")
There was a TV reporter where I used to live named… (wait for it)… Wei Wong. Every time she’d say “For Channel (don’t remember) News, I’m Wei Wong” I’d just lose it. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/26 "2009-04-14T10:49:42Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Sorry, it’s just the unsubtle racism of “black people names are hilariously stupid” wears on me every time it comes up. I guess I should go back to lurking in the pit if I’m looking for a fight. What makes you assume that the hilarious names we’ve been mentioning are all “black people” names? I’m noticing that these moronic monikers have been more or less racially equal up to now. You may want to look into that sometime. ETA: Sparrowfart. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/27 "2009-04-14T10:52:00Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Sorry, it’s just the unsubtle racism of “black people names are hilariously stupid” wears on me every time it comes up. I guess I should go back to lurking in the pit if I’m looking for a fight. While we’re on hilarious names, it reminds me that I met a guy once whose name was just that: _Hilarious_ (last name _Soreng_, or something like that). He was the security guy at the small sawmill in Port Blair in the Andaman Islands. I politely restrained myself from pointing out the hilarious nature of his name to the poor guy who didn’t speak a word of English anyway. If I can dig out the picture of his name sign I’ll scan it later as a cite. ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/28 "2009-04-14T11:22:18Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Sorry, it’s just the unsubtle racism of “black people names are hilariously stupid” wears on me every time it comes up. I guess I should go back to lurking in the pit if I’m looking for a fight. Yeah, some of the names sounded black, but some sounded caucasian. All are stupid though. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/29 "2009-04-14T13:35:34Z")
[This makes me smile](http://oddee.com/item_92594.aspx). “They call me Bond… James Dr No From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die The Man with the Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill The Living Daylights Licence to Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale … Bond”. Hate to be the guy stuck behind him at the passport office. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/30 "2009-04-14T13:52:36Z")
Ooooh, you better watch out! You posted a list of 15 people with silly names, and one of them was black! :eek: Another may have been brown! :eek: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/31 "2009-04-14T19:49:40Z")
When a friend of mine had her son, they put his picture up on the hospital’s webpage. Also born that day were Vintage and Tuff. (Both were white, FWIW.) In the guestbook on Tuff’s page, someone had written: “You’re lucky dude. I want to name my boy that, but my wife won’t let me.” ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/32 "2009-04-14T20:29:00Z")
I guess it depends on your interpretation of “crazy”. I constantly have people saying, “Oh, that’s an _interesting_ name…” with regards to my son, Dashiell. It’s one of those names that you always have to explain. “We named him after Dashiell Hammett.” _puzzled stare, as if showing a card trick to a cat_ “The writer?” _blank stare_ “He wrote some really famous detective novels back in the 40s.” _blank stare_ “Practically invented the ‘hard-boiled detective’ genre.” _blank stare_ “The Maltese Falcon”? “The Thin Man”? _blank stare_ “They made a few of his books into movies…” _blank stare_ “It was a long time ago.” _uncomfortable smile_ Of course, if we introduce him by his common diminutive ‘Dash’ we get, “Oh, like the kid in that movie ‘The Incredibles’?” ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/33 "2009-04-14T20:32:18Z")
I was reading a Baby Name Blog where someone had written in begging for an alternative name that would satisfy her brother’s desire to name his unborn daughter “Felony Fever Vice.” Not sure about the race and if everyone who spoke up against the name was therefore a racist oppressor or just against naming a baby like it’s a character in Grand Theft Auto. I believe people suggested other “weird” but accepted names like Clarity and Verity so the brother eventually agreed to Verity Clarity Vice. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/34 "2009-04-14T20:49:15Z")
There was a guy who worked at my local Blockbuster’s named, D’Shaun. He was a cool guy. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/35 "2009-04-14T21:09:27Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Sorry, it’s just the unsubtle racism of “black people names are hilariously stupid” wears on me every time it comes up. I guess I should go back to lurking in the pit if I’m looking for a fight. Right, because nothing smacks more of racism than a list of baby names from Alberta, the Whitest Spot On Earth. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/36 "2009-04-14T21:22:13Z")
> [@PeskiPiksi](#): > > I once knew a guy with the last name Case, who always swore if he ever had a son he was going to name him Justin. I wonder if he ever did? > > Hmmm…maybe he’s on Facebook… My maiden name is Case. You hear that particular joke A LOT. Thanks **matt** - I know now my girl is one of only 6 girls with her name born in 2006. That’s pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/37 "2009-04-14T21:25:17Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > I guess it’s time for my annual review of the Alberta Baby Names List. > > - Alias (who’s on first?) > - Ashes (do not name your kid after a cricket match) > - Blayze (you have given your son the name of a stripper. And not even a male stripper) > - Gonzo (do \*not \*name your child after a Muppet!!) > - Legacy “Alias” could be very useful, in adopting an alias of “Real Name”. Perhaps Ashes was born to a mother named Angela? As for Legacy, well I guess it’s better than “Inheritance”, “Progeny” or “Sprog”. Or perhaps the boy is named after the family Subaru, and has a sister named Impreza and the dog’s Outback. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/38 "2009-04-14T21:38:24Z")
**McPears**? Really? You know, I wasn’t planning on having any more children but am now strangely inspired to try for one more. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/39 "2009-04-15T15:41:47Z")
I have oddly-named people appear in court before me with some regularity, and have kept a list for several years now. My family and friends know to send me funny names when they see them. Some of my favorites: Daphne Threat Medley (band name!) Darmisha Alphabet Imhotep Box Sunbrelli Consulers Sabin D. Puterbaugh Uranniee Bates Latrina Woods Vonometrice Wright Elven Finger Wadney Gandy Honey Gates Handyside (a man!) Mahogany Luster (sounds like a furniture polish) Upendo Sisson …and about a thousand others. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/40 "2009-04-15T16:20:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I have oddly-named people appear in court before me with some regularity, and have kept a list for several years now. My family and friends know to send me funny names when they see them. > > Some of my favorites: > > Daphne Threat Medley (band name!) > Darmisha Alphabet > Imhotep Box > Sunbrelli Consulers > Sabin D. Puterbaugh > Uranniee Bates > Latrina Woods > Vonometrice Wright > Elven Finger > Wadney Gandy > Honey Gates Handyside (a man!) > Mahogany Luster (sounds like a furniture polish) > Upendo Sisson > > …and about a thousand others. Hmm … I wonder if there is some connection between odd names and the likelihood of ending up in court? By the way, I think Felony could be a nice name if you pronounced it Fey-lone-ay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744.md?page=3)