Geez, some of these names are hilarious. The worst I’ve heard at my school is some girl named Misty Knight.
Oh dear…
I’m a Jon Thomas myself. blush My family seems to have a history of embarrassing names : my grandmother is a Phyllis Butt, and her maiden name used to be Cox.
Our family doctor is Dr De’Ath…
Mates at school were Dick Hedley and Dick Cummings.
Quite unfortunate!
And there’s a urologist in Toledo - name of Dick Tapper.
I went to high school with a girl names Heidi Horowitz, middle name Claire – she said here parents swore they hadn’t taken the first-middle combo out for a test drive before bestowing it.
Also Tim Fallis, whose father, rumor had it, ran the Pussycat Theaters in town.
I knew a kid whose last name is Dick. His father’s name was Harold. His father was in fact well-known in the community and went by Harry Dick.
I kid you not, when I was in school, I had a friend who’s father was on the school board, and his name was Harry Beavers. There’s someone else around here that can confirm this.
I worked with a guy named Love Horne. Now THAT’s a great porn name!!
Pine-Coffin
Shitmore
D;eath
Mary Ada Little Lamb
<useless point of information> Rysdad The name Athol or Atholl is from a place name in Scotland.
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Not only is it well known, it’s the name of a town here in Massachusetts.
When I first came here, it formed part of a joke: “Who’s the only man in Massachusetts with four towns named after him?”
Answer: (former governor) Endicott Peabody. If you look on a map of Massachusetts, you can follow along – Endicott, Peabody, Marblehead, and Athol.
I went to school with Harry Dong.
I know someone named Harry Wang.
I hired a temp whose name was Lok Di Do. I always felt safe letting him close up shop.
I saw a woman in the paper whose name was Supa Porn.
A friend of mine is a teacher at an elementary school who works with another teacher named Hiscock. She says the students don’t make anything of it, but the faculty is constanty saying “Hey, have you seen Hiscock? Hiscock is looking a little droopy this morning. Look at that slouch, go and get Hiscock to stand up straight.” They’re merciless.
Of all those mentioned in this thread, I like Velvet Beaver the best. It sounds so…inviting.
Maybe Velvet Beaver was the name of the sex toy being used when Velvet Beaver was conceived. You know, to mark the occasion.
Anyway, my FIL has a friend and co-worker named Richard Hardin. He preferred the nickname Dick, for some unknown reason.
I currently work, not play mind you, with a guy named Hai Da Wang whose parents apparently had the same intent as Barrie Mycock’s.
Or the man I used to know by the name of
Dick Hickey
No kidding!
I went to high school with a girl named Heidi Ho.
I recall the “Guardian” newspaper running a similar theme on the letters page, and one chap mentioned that as a young solder, he ( and others) were appalled to find they were in the charge of a Sergeant named “Bastard”.
The poor kids spent ages trying to work out a non-offensive way to use it. But when someone did pronounce it as something like “B’stard”, he was roundly told off.
Sarge shouted “NO, sonny! Bastard by name, and Bastard by nature and don’t you forget it”.
I bet the guy was really called Smith and had deliberately changed it. 
sivispacem, I hate to burst your bubble, but that’s an urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm
The best names I’ve run across have been Cherry Love, Phuc Ngo, and Lolita Sage (an excellent name for the heroine of a Western romance novel).
My mom used to have a client who would call her up, announcing, “Hi, this is Lotta Dick.” Lotta had remarried and was so proud of her new married name.
And, there’s a post-operative male-to-female transsexual here in town whose last name is unfortunately Adcock.
When I was an undergrad, there was a grad student named Anil Dikshit. I never met him, but I stuffed a lot of overdue notices into envelopes to send to him (I worked at one of the libraries on campus).
Meh, I highly doubt snopes has gone through all the name databases in the country to prove that one - I’m sticking to my bowls of Jello!!
There was a great story in Reader’s Digest about how upon arriving at bootcamp all the Marines were required to print their names on their footlockers, last name followed by first initial. When the drill sergent got to Rob Locke’s bunk he immediately bellowed, “Alright!! Who’s the smartass?!”
I once work with a guy called Joseph King. (Joe King.)
I told him he should be thankful his name wasn’t Jack.