# Funny Real Life Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773 "2007-03-13T18:20:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/162 "2022-07-30T04:02:51Z")
I joked that the second gentleman, Doug Emhoff’s father’s name is Jack (its not). But there are people with that name out there. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/163 "2022-07-30T19:26:46Z")
There is a professional poker player (I’ve seen him on TV) named Huckleberry Seed. I had a HS classmate named Coleman Paul. Although the name is not inherently funny, people always wanted to reverse them. There was an Indian mathematician named Dickshit, although googling suggests he changed it to Dixit. ---
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/164 "2022-07-31T05:11:56Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Indian mathematician named Dickshit, although googling suggests he changed it to Dixit. It is indeed funny and we made fun of fellow classmates with that name when young. May I know the mathematician’s first name ? Dixit or Dikshit is a common name in the western state of Maharashtra but never have I ever seen it spelled **Dickshit** like you say. When you say “googling …” can you please tell what you googled ? ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/165 "2022-07-31T07:29:46Z")
> [@am77494](#): > > Dixit or Dikshit is a common name in the western state of Maharashtra but never have I ever seen it spelled **Dickshit** like you say. One of our contractors has the first name Parikshit. I asked how to pronounce it before saying it the first time. ---
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/166 "2022-07-31T15:12:24Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > There was an Indian mathematician named **Dickshit,** > [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > One of our contractors has the first name **Parikshit.** @Acsenray can explain this better Sanskrit has declensions for nouns, just like latin. The “suffix” shit is like -ed in English. Diksha = Initiation, + shit = Dikshit (Initiated or Consecrated) Pariksha = Test, + shit = Parikhit (Tested or Proven) Shiksha = Education + shit = Shikshit (Educated) ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/167 "2022-07-31T19:32:08Z")
I had a classmate named Duc Wing and a girlfriend named Anita Hickey. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/168 "2022-08-01T00:17:40Z")
> [@am77494](#): > > When you say “googling …” can you please tell what you googled ? I don’t recall, but when I googled “mathematician Dickshit” just now, I actually found someone named H.P. Dikshit who was identified as president of an Indian mathematical society. On a different occasion, I did find a Dixit. Here is the link I found: [Prof. H.P. Dikshit – ISIAM](https://siam-india.in/associated-persons/108-2/). ---
**Author:** ![pgcotype](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pgcotype/32/8743_2.png) [@pgcotype](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pgcotype)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/169 "2022-10-10T20:31:24Z")
I worked at an HMO while I was in college. There were patients named Milweena Slappy and Yoko Ono (not _that_ one, though.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773.md?page=8)