# Significant others that you dumped because they had a dumb name **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390 "2000-11-30T16:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/41 "2000-12-01T05:24:51Z")
I married a man named BIFF. Yes, really. The worst part of it was becoming “Muffy”, to everyone who thinks that “Biff and Muffy” jsut belong together! Also dated a guy nicknamed Kermit, making me, you guessed it, Miss Piggy. I could hardly conceal my delight… ---
**Author:** ![Cyndar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cyndar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyndar)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/42 "2000-12-01T06:17:00Z")
I have never dated anyone with a strange name. But I know of a woman who has the last name of Dickover. If that was my last name I would have changed it as soon as I could! I know a guy with the last name Dingwald. Now, my own last name isn’t exactly something to be proud of…and I’m hoping that one day I’ll be able to change it…::sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/43 "2000-12-01T06:37:43Z")
Would my dad’s best pal, **Sherwood Exador Twitchell** , please stand up? Hear he was a pretty good skier, perhaps because he had the spare time. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/44 "2000-12-01T06:39:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cyndar \* > \*\*Now, my own last name isn’t exactly something to be proud of…and I’m hoping that one day I’ll be able to change it…::sigh:: \*\* “Robyn Michelle Young” has a nice ring to it! 😃 ::fleeing:: ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/45 "2000-12-01T06:47:53Z")
I’ve never dumped or turned down someone because of their name, but I don’t think I could ever get serious with a woman named Mami (pronounced “Mommy”) or Nana (both common Japanese names). Those are just two things I could never say while having sex. My father, however has given me some good-natured flak over the last names of some girls I dated in college. One was named Kong, the other was Yip. I’m sure you can fill in the rest. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/46 "2000-12-01T07:21:32Z")
I just realized this because of the thread, but all the women I’ve been involved with have had completely normal, easily pronounced, mainstream European names. Compensating for my own counterintuitively pronounced (if short) Polish last name? Only my hairdresser knows for sure. I do have a friend named John Thomas. Doesn’t go by that name, so it took me a bit to put two and two together. Cackled like an idiot for a good long time when it finally hit me, though. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/47 "2000-12-01T07:33:09Z")
My initials are KRAF. For awhile I was dating someone whose last name was Todd…this bothered me on some fundamental level. Oh, and I think you should all meet my friend Elsburgh Octavious Clarke the Third. He went by Tres… can you blame the boy? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/48 "2000-12-01T07:54:55Z")
I could never date a guy named Theo (my brother’s name). But I had no trouble dating a guy named Matt. The Esperantists called us “la Matearo” (the set of Matts). ---
**Author:** ![BigGiantHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@BigGiantHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigGiantHead)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/49 "2000-12-01T08:26:01Z")
Well, it’s not entirely relative to the OP, but… When I was in the Navy I ran across a fellow whose last name was Swallower. He was, at the time, a Seaman. Think about it. ::shudder:: Poor guy. - Dave ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/50 "2000-12-01T09:03:19Z")
I never dated her, but back when I was working in retail, I had an assistant manager whose name started out beautifully, then halfway through started to fall apart and by the end had completely become a disaster in your mouth : Sheryl Elizabeth Delilah Stockschlager ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/51 "2000-12-01T09:15:19Z")
I just wanted to state for the record that I loathe the user name **TwistofFate** and I whined, cried, begged, everything to get Cubby to change it. Why do you think I call him Cubby?!? No, if MisterTot ever dies, I am going to marry Cubby (or one of his brothers) IRL (poor baby) and take his real last name. I might still keep tater as my first name, though. I would also be willing to marry somebody with the last name Degiovanni, I just really like saying that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/52 "2000-12-01T09:17:41Z")
There’s a journalist in my hometown named Debbie Greenslit. Those Dopers who know my last name know I can’t really afford to make fun of others. I’m not a huge fan of the name Greg, and the one guy I dated with that name turned out to be a huge dud. In college, an aquaintance of mine named Regina Ricketts married a guy named Gifford Grobeine, so now she is either Regina Grobeine, Mrs. Gifford Grobeine, or Regina Ricketts-Grobeine. Now that’s love. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/53 "2000-12-01T10:08:29Z")
what else would I call myself? for the record, I love my username, but I love my nicknames more, Twisty and Cubby. Tater rocks! ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/54 "2000-12-01T10:15:32Z")
If you changed your name to Chicken of Bristol, **bethie** might see fit to make you a very happy Cubby indeed. 😃 _I’d_ still hate your user name, but I already hate it so what difference does it make? You’ll always be Cubby to me. ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/55 "2000-12-01T11:00:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sue Duhnym \* > \*\*I briefly dated a guy who’s last name was Meek. > > I stopped dating him because not only did I hate his name, but I just couldn’t ever see myself having sex with him. > > He was a really nice guy though. \*\* But just think of the inheritance he’ll get! ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/56 "2000-12-01T12:57:16Z")
All right, now there’s two posters suggesting “Greg” is a lame name. I take back what I said about being gentlemanly. Name-ist bastards! :mad: What’s so wrong about it, eh? _Greg_ Duke ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/57 "2000-12-01T13:12:17Z")
**Duke** , you should go by “Gregory”. I dunno, there is just something so manly and sexy about men who go by their full names. A Mike, ah, it’s okay…but a Michael, mmmmmm. There are exceptions, for example if your given name is Althered, by all means go by Al. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/58 "2000-12-01T13:23:57Z")
I have a brother named **T** imothy **I** saac **M** ellor. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/59 "2000-12-01T13:36:34Z")
**tatertot** : Er, actually…usually I do. Thanks so much for the vote of confidence \ BTW, “Tracey” is such a nice name too! \ ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390/60 "2000-12-01T13:42:30Z")
Arghhh, it’s Tracy, dammit T-R-A-C-Y!!! Sorry, all these years of having to spell my name for people has made me irratible. You know, if my parents had named me something more consistantly spelled, I probably wouldn’t have the need for evil plots. (and for some reason my sister Stacey’s name is spelled with an e. my parents are weird) Oooh, and I’m so glad you go by “Gregory”. Makes me think of Gregory Peck. Swooon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significant-others-that-you-dumped-because-they-had-a-dumb-name/43390.md?page=4)