# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/41 "2009-04-15T16:34:04Z")
Heh…we have a list of good names from court, too. Two of my favorites were Alpacino and Bonjovi…I’m pretty sure both of those guys were white. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/42 "2009-04-15T16:38:23Z")
Has anybody mentioned Sara Struggles Nicely? Have I, perhaps? Anyway, she [does](http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=%22sara+struggles+nicely%22&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=). ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/43 "2009-04-15T16:45:41Z")
My daughter has a friend named Taylor Oakes. I maintain she sounds like a subdivision. ---
**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, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/44 "2009-04-15T16:57:03Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Heh… Two of my favorites were Alpacino… There’s a (black) rapper in the movie _Tropic Thunder_ whose stage name is Alpa Chino. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/45 "2009-04-15T22:14:22Z")
I knew a guy in college named Brian Bouttle (Bow-till). He wanted three children: Twoliter, Pepsi and Coke. I pray he never actually reproduced. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/46 "2009-04-15T22:40:35Z")
In college I was a tour guide and a girl on my tour was named… get ready… Asshole pronounced ashley (well more like ash-oh-lee…she pronounced all three syllables). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/47 "2009-04-15T22:47:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Mostly they seem pretty blasé about their names. There’s a Sxylyn (Sigh-lynn), Whalea, Forever Love, and Usa. Usa wanted to name a daughter Usarmy and a son Usnavy. I used to go to school with a girl named Xerces. She joked that her parents named her by pulling letters out of the Scrabble bag. Apparently, the real explanation was that there was a character from the Atlantis myth with that name. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/48 "2009-04-15T22:50:35Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > 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’?” Hopefully, you’ve taught him how to fight. I went to school with a girl named Sandy Rhodes. Her father, of course, went by “Dusty.” The guy who does handyman work for our condo neighborhood, including trimming back tree branches, is named Les Sapp. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/49 "2009-04-15T22:55:42Z")
Back when I worked for the County Council, the Registrars of Births were allowed to refuse stupid, silly, or obscene names, but they told me that they often had to say to parents, “Do you _really_ want to call your child that?” And the answer would usually be affirmative. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/50 "2009-04-15T23:06:07Z")
La-a Pronounced “La’Dasha” ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/51 "2009-04-15T23:10:41Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I went to school with a girl named Sandy Rhodes. Her father, of course, went by “Dusty.” I wonder if he went on to become the [auditor](http://www.hamiltoncountyauditor.org/)of Hamilton County, Ohio. There is a certain joy in seeing the auditor’s seal on most gas pumps, proudly endorsed by Dusty Rhodes. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/52 "2009-04-15T23:24:11Z")
I would enjoy to name my daughter Amanda (pronounced Sarah) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/53 "2009-04-16T01:52:05Z")
> [@USCDiver](#): > > La-a > > Pronounced “La’Dasha” Interesting. “La-a” is Arabic for “no”. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/54 "2009-04-16T02:39:06Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I wonder if he went on to become the [auditor](http://www.hamiltoncountyauditor.org/)of Hamilton County, Ohio. There is a certain joy in seeing the auditor’s seal on most gas pumps, proudly endorsed by Dusty Rhodes. Used to be the standard nickname for anyone by that last name. Atlanta Braves catcher [Bruce Benedict](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Benedict) was known as “Eggs” for that same reason. ---
**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 16, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/55 "2009-04-16T14:27:44Z")
> [@FallenAngel](#): > > I knew a guy in college named Brian Bouttle (Bow-till). He wanted three children: Twoliter, Pepsi and Coke. > > I pray he never actually reproduced. Please tell me you’re joking. In all seriousness, and I’ve mentioned this before on here: I went to elementary school with Pepsi Hooker. There were a lot of Hookers where I grew up. I knew the name long before I knew about the profession. But Pepsi? Really? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/56 "2009-04-16T15:22:35Z")
Friends of the family, (lovely people, I might add) recently had a daughter named Joie. That’s pronounced Joe-E, Joey. Not Joy. Now who is ever going to see “Joie” written down and work out that it’s supposed to be “joey”? No one, is my guess. The kid’s going to be explaining that one forever. ---
**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 16, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/57 "2009-04-16T15:36:35Z")
There are two bad ways to name a kid, IMHO. One, a name that will be ridiculed and lead to fights. Two, a name that, although not necessarily silly or objectionable, has an unusual spelling or pronunciation that its bearer must forever after explain and/or correct. What loving parent would do that to a child? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/58 "2009-04-16T19:02:51Z")
Used to work for a company that had an official with the last name **Pagan-Colon**. Probably an honorable and respected name in the Philippines, but somewhat alarming in US English. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/59 "2009-04-16T19:11:45Z")
I’m always a bit wary of bringing this up, because he was in the news for committing first degree murder, but… I’m sorry, there’s no way I can’t boggle at the name Rohan Ranger. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-one-up-for-more-crazy-names/492744/60 "2009-04-16T21:14:13Z")
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