# Gimme some humorous and fancy fake names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692 "2004-12-08T04:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/1 "2004-12-08T04:20:45Z")
Sometimes I want a random, funny name to insert into some strange story or conversation or something. I mean old-fashioned and fancy or maybe even aristocratic-sounding names- you know, three syllables long or so, etc. I can’t even think of any example to explain what I’m talking about, but hopefully someone gets the idea. Let’s hear some first names and last names that can be combined randomly for endless humor. (I sure hope someone understands what I mean…) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/2 "2004-12-08T04:25:28Z")
How about **CottsWald Devonshire**? Is that the type of thing you are talking about? I just made that one up. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/3 "2004-12-08T04:32:38Z")
I think the following first names have some entertainment value: Reginald Rollie Aubrey Ashley Carlton And these last names may indeed prove mirthsome: Wrigglesworth Finklestein Karp Klamm Hoofer Observe: Ashley Finklestein Carlton Wrigglesworth Rollie Karp Aubrey Klamm Reginald Hoofer Jolly good, what? ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/4 "2004-12-08T04:37:48Z")
Chauncey Dalton Featherstonewaugh III Incidentally, for the purposes of your story, at least, “Featherstonewaugh” is pronounced “Fuh.” Rupert Madden Knickersley-Knockerbotham. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/5 "2004-12-08T04:39:41Z")
Honoria Snodgrass-Wigglesworth ---
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/6 "2004-12-08T04:40:26Z")
Yes, yes… those are just the types I’m looking for! Thanks, keep 'em coming! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/7 "2004-12-08T04:41:43Z")
Reginald T. Witherspoon II …got nothin. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/8 "2004-12-08T04:47:13Z")
Cashinstock Pocketsworthy ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/9 "2004-12-08T04:49:48Z")
Thurston L. McNamara, Sr. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/10 "2004-12-08T04:54:29Z")
Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright (thank PG Wodehouse for that one!) Sylvestre Thruppington-Spence Wellington Henderson III a real person, by the way, who was called “the man with the million-dollar name” (“Get a name like that on your Board of Directors and the suckers will break your doors down to give you money”) ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/11 "2004-12-08T04:54:49Z")
There’s also her sister, Mildred. Mildred Snodgrass-Wigglesworth. Or maybe they’re one person with a middle name: Mildred Honoria Snodgrass-Wigglesworth. Yeah, that’s the ticket. How about Aubrey Whippleston? Octavian Liversluffer? Or Wapcaplet–Adrian Wapcaplet? (With or without miles of string cut into 3 inch lengths.) Eugenia Whangbanger. Oliver Guelphen-Huegelson. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/12 "2004-12-08T04:57:12Z")
I used to subscribe to magazines with this name: **Abijah T. Bindersnatch** The postman made it a point to tell me he loved that name. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/13 "2004-12-08T04:59:02Z")
My name is my cite on this one. Re Americans, the real cachet is in having the initial first: F. Murray Abraham beats Lee J. Cobb every time. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/14 "2004-12-08T05:00:47Z")
Hmmmm… **Sir Blah Von Dingdong III**? No, wait…it’s been used already. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/15 "2004-12-08T05:01:01Z")
Spencer Clippingsworth-Twistleton (relative of Pongo) Aurora Billingsley-Whippen ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/16 "2004-12-08T05:02:06Z")
Another excellent name is Smyth (pronounced Smith). Once knew a man called John Smyth. Classy in that understated British, no-need-for-all-that-initials-numbers-junior-senior-nonsense, kind of way. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/17 "2004-12-08T05:03:38Z")
Oh, wait–QUINCY!!! No-one’s yet used the name “Quincy.” I can’t believe we’ve gotten so far without it. Quincy Thruppinsmurch. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/18 "2004-12-08T05:04:50Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Another excellent name is Smyth (pronounced Smith). Once knew a man called John Smyth. Classy in that understated British, no-need-for-all-that-initials-numbers-junior-senior-nonsense, kind of way. Well, yes. But the point of this thread is to come up with _ridiculous_ names. Classy and understated isn’t ridiculous, no matter how hard you try. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/19 "2004-12-08T05:13:25Z")
Not as aristocratic, but every bit as horrible: Annabelle Throckmorton Mabel Groatsworthy. Well, that one’s not as awful as some of the others in this thread. But that can be fixed with a hyphen and another name. Let’s try Mabel Clackingston-Groatsworthy. Yeah, I think that’s much improved. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/20 "2004-12-08T05:21:28Z")
Lord Oswald Fenkleman Murdoch St. John Fitzgerald Pennypacker IV Rupert Reginald Klinensmythe VIII Happy Lendervedder Crenshaw Jones III Beasley Egon Longfellow Phillip Cedric Highstone, Esq. E. Ron Huckleberry [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692.md?page=2)