# Names changed to protect the innocent?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 3, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088 "2001-10-03T01:05:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@GKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GKW)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/1 "2001-10-03T01:05:15Z")
Have you ever really met someone with the name of Cecil? I’ve only heard this name used in a cartoon.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/2 "2001-10-03T01:21:04Z")
Well, of course there _is_ the famous sea monster. And I have known several Cecilias and Celias.
Hey, what are you getting at here?
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### Author:  [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/3 "2001-10-03T01:23:09Z")
It’s not uncommon. My grandfather, my uncle, and my neighbor are all named Cecil.
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### Author:  [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/4 "2001-10-03T01:33:25Z")
Yup…my husband’s boss is a Cecil.
But he sure isn’t THE Cecil 😉
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/5 "2001-10-03T01:57:17Z")
Mr. S has a brother and an uncle named Cecil.
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/6 "2001-10-03T04:15:12Z")
Well, just in the world of baseball, there was slugger Cecil Cooper, and relief pitcher Cecil Upshaw (who had the most unorthodox pitching delivery I’ve ever seen).
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### Author:  [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/7 "2001-10-03T04:45:41Z")
my boss is a Cecil.
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/8 "2001-10-03T05:13:02Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by atypicalcarl \*
> \*\*It’s not uncommon. My grandfather, my uncle, and my neighbor are all named Cecil. \*\*
But then, you **are** atypical.
I’m sorry, I just couldn’t resist. And, no, I don’t know any Cecils, but I’ve known _of_ at least a few.
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### Author:  [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/9 "2001-10-03T07:09:53Z")
I have a great uncle Cecil. He (ahem) used to brew moonshine back in the twenties and thirties. My gradnfather would load it in the car and drive around making deliveries around their area of southwest Tennessee.
I say “ahem” because when I was a tyke in the 70s and 80s and we’d go down to visit I’d help him run copper tubing in exchange for a half a dixie cup of “cough syrup,” and there’s no way in hell that stuff had been aged 50 years.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/10 "2001-10-03T08:06:58Z")
Many years ago I had a pet rat named Cecil.
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### Author:  [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2001, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-changed-to-protect-the-innocent/85088/11 "2001-10-03T12:09:34Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by astorian \*
> \*\*Well, just in the world of baseball, there was slugger Cecil Cooper, and relief pitcher Cecil Upshaw (who had the most unorthodox pitching delivery I’ve ever seen). \*\*
Not to mention Cecil Fielder.