# Strange but true names
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 11, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544 "2003-03-11T14:09:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/41 "2003-03-11T19:48:54Z")
While looking for dial a bottle a few years back I came across the poor sap… **Diala, Jose**. By the time the next phone book came out, he was gone.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/42 "2003-03-11T19:49:36Z")
A customer at the video store I use do manage was named Annelise Wunderlich.
Anal Ease Wonder Lick.
hrh
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/43 "2003-03-11T19:51:19Z")
My wife worked in a Hospital. One of her superiors was
Dr. Wachter.
Pronounced Doctor-Woctor.
hrh
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/44 "2003-03-11T19:55:34Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by xizor \*
> \*\*I know a Harold (Harry) Peters. \*\*
My Sis-In-Law worked for a publisher and author (of educational books) named
Harry Wong
hrh
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### Author:  [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/45 "2003-03-11T20:21:33Z")
I know a teacher named Shannon Bannon. That is her married name, and she generally uses her maiden name with a hyphen in formal circumstances. Very fortunately for her, the maiden name is NOT “Banana Fanna Fo.”
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### Author:  [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/46 "2003-03-11T21:10:46Z")
I once typeset a list of physician’s names, including Dr. Ow.
I knew a woman whose last name was Kupper, who dated a man whose last name was Coffee. If they’d gotten married, she could have gone by Kupper-Coffee.
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### Author:  [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/47 "2003-03-11T21:44:33Z")
Many years ago a person named Forna, Kate was listed in the SF phone book. I’ve known a couple guys named of Micheal Hunt. Never Mike. Say that name fast a couple of times.
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### Author:  [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/48 "2003-03-11T22:01:38Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by hrhomer \*
> \*\*A customer at the video store I use do manage was named Annelise Wunderlich.
>
> Anal Ease Wonder Lick.
>
> hrh \*\*
Then again, that’s a perfectly normal German name.
Over here, funny names are
Axel Schweiß or
Claire Grube
(for example).
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/49 "2003-03-11T22:03:28Z")
“Ah kin descrabe it in two words—Mmmm, mmm. Dat’s good chicken.”
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/50 "2003-03-11T22:56:46Z")
The book store I work at ships books and periodicals to people in jail, which is how i know this his legal name and not a porn star psuedonym:
Randy Palomino
Also bookstore related, apparently there’s an author named Richard Schwing. One assumes he was not thrilled when Wayne’s World came out.
And my local phone book has a listing for a Mr. and Mrs. Virgin.
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/51 "2003-03-11T23:12:00Z")
I’ve had doctors named Dr. Breaststicker and Dr. Midol.
I’ve got a friend named Peter Johnson. (And he’s very sick of people going… “Hey, if your middle name was Richard…!”)
I’ve checked out books at the library to an Asian girl named Yin Yang.
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### Author:  [@MarkD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkD)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/52 "2003-03-12T00:19:41Z")
Grant Helmerci
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/53 "2003-03-12T00:35:07Z")
I know a woman whose last name is Biggs-Tinker. What makes it sillier is that she must have **chosen** to use that hyphenated name.
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### Author:  [@mishaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mishaa)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/54 "2003-03-12T00:45:37Z")
In Oklahoma City, there is a Dr. Beaver.
He is, of course, an OB-GYN.
His father was also an OB-GYN. Beaver and Son Health Clinic.
I kid you not.
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### Author:  [@ladydisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladydisco)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/55 "2003-03-12T00:47:54Z")
Ok…
Dentist named Dr. Payne.
Chiropractor named Dr. Harddick
My high school typing teacher: Alan Gee
“Al Gee…he’s a real fun gi”
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### Author:  [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/56 "2003-03-12T01:13:57Z")
There was a girl at my school named Anita Faber. Say it out loud. (What were her parents thinking?)
On a related note, my university automatically gives students email addresses with usernames as:
first three letters of first name + middle initial + first four letters of last name
which made Harold D. Cochran = hardcoch
and Nakia D. Butts = nakdbutt
There were other funny ones, but I forgot what they were.
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### Author:  [@POOH\_BABE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/POOH_BABE)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/57 "2003-03-12T01:44:25Z")
I had this subsitude teacher whos last name was Right. So everyone in my class bothered him because his name was Mr. Right. They would say things like can u see Mr. Right is talking shut up and listen to him because he’s always right!!
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### Author:  [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/58 "2003-03-12T01:52:01Z")
I know people named Dick Companion, Dick Sweat, Dick Powers and – my favorite – Rodney Rash.
You can’t make that shit up.
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### Author:  [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/59 "2003-03-12T02:46:26Z")
I’m waiting for Oranjello and Lemonjello.
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### Author:  [@DOOM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DOOM)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/60 "2003-03-12T02:52:03Z")
A friend of mine where I work was going through some complaints that were filed against the company, and one of these was from a woman named, get this… Joy Himmler. I shit you not.
Apparently an older lady, you really have to wonder about her parents. I mean did they just not clue in, or not care? Maybe they were supporters of the Reich, who knows? But you think you’d want to change a name like that.
Joy Himmler. I can just picture it: two aides come running up to der Reichsfuhrer at the same time with different news for him;
First Aide: “Herr Himmler, your wife just gave birth to a girl. They want to know what you’ve decided on for a name”
Other Aide: “Herr Himmler, there’s been an attempt on the Fuhrer’s life!”
Himmler: “Joy…”
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