A few years ago, I Googled the number of a spam call and stumbled onto something called “Hodges Directory,” which appears to be a database of fake phone numbers accompanied by fake names and addresses. I posted about it here.
People are probably more inclined to answer a call if the caller ID information has a name, so apparently somebody cooked up a lot of fake names for spammers to use. Many of the names are peculiar. For example, the Hodges listing for Foosland, Illinois (a real town with a population of 101) includes Molzen Molzen, Aaron Pedowitz, Tylyn Blaylock, and Ozzie Abalde.