# 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:** 6
### Author:  [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/101 "2003-03-15T23:50:53Z")
Was in a few classes a while back with Holly Wood.
And my teacher’s name is James Bond, though he goes by J. Arthur Bond. He was probably just unfortunate, probably born before the movies came around.
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### Author:  [@sumwunsumwer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sumwunsumwer)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/102 "2003-03-16T00:19:12Z")
I work in payroll with 1500 employees. Our company tends to hire a majority of foreign people, and with no prejudice intended, they have some wild names!!! We have a lot of them that we are amused by like DELTON SHELTON or GENIUS ROGERS or AHMED AHMED, PRINCESS LATISHA MURAN, DICK HALL, ABDULAHE ABDURHAJAMAN, AIMON PAYNE…there are so many more but I cannot remember them all. The best one I have ever seen though was a sign for an OBGYN DR that said R. U. ORNEY which said aloud sounds comical…
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### Author:  [@lurker\_anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurker_anonymous)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/103 "2003-03-16T02:37:42Z")
sorry, dont have last names. when i was a kid, we lived in an apartment complex and a vietnamese family had two kids-truck and van.
my mother worked in the alabama school system. she swore to me (personally i think that this is an urban legend) that there were two twins in the school-o-RAN-jallo, and le-MON-jallo…
orange jello and lemon jello.😉
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/104 "2003-03-16T02:38:47Z")
For more amusing names, may I humbly suggest one of my most successful [threads ever.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=119913&highlight=%2AAmusing+Names%2A)
And, last, but not least, spotted on a marquee wishing happy birthday to a little girl at a daycare: \*\*Autumn Miracle \*\*
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### Author:  [@laserkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laserkitty)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/105 "2003-03-16T20:57:27Z")
There’s a vendor of mine whose name is Sherry Berry.
One of my old bosses names was Thomas L. Thomas. Once when he was filling out paperwork for a work trip to China he asked me if your surname was your first or last name. I just looked at him and asked if it really mattered. We both laughed.
I had a friend in college whos name was Becky Beck.
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### Author:  [@laserkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laserkitty)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/106 "2003-03-16T21:05:24Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Jammers \*
> \*\*There was an article in the newspapers about 6 months ago about a guy who changed his name by deed poll to “Playstation 2” \*\*
I know a guy who had his name legally changed to Tox Ic.
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### Author:  [@ecugrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecugrad)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/107 "2003-03-16T21:50:20Z")
A now deceased individual whose name was printed on the court calendar:
DeLong, Harry Peter
No lie - I had the great privilege of seeing the court bailiff muddle through the reading…
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### Author:  [@ecugrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecugrad)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/108 "2003-03-16T22:01:00Z")
I thought of two more…
Former UNC-Chapel Hill football coach Dick Crum
Former ECU chancellor Richard “Dick” Eakin
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/109 "2003-03-16T22:09:51Z")
In high school, there was a kid named Ranger Whipple.
And, mindful of **Eve** ’s mention of Fuk Yoo…when I worked in fundraising at St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford, we had an Old Member named Yuk Foo. Dr. Spooner, another Old Oxonian, would have been proud.
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### Author:  [@snac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snac)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/110 "2003-03-17T01:39:05Z")
Summer Saltz. I knew her when she was in nursery school, lo these many years ago.
Una Corn. A married name; the first name is pronounced with a consonant Y at the front. I don’t know her personally, but she is active in a group that a friend of mine belongs to.
A man just arrested here in my town was named Omnipotent Unique [Dayton or Drayman or some other perfectly ordinary last name] by his parents. Mrs. snac and I figure his troubles began then.
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### Author:  [@kgriffey79](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kgriffey79)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/111 "2003-03-17T02:47:10Z")
My old english teacher said he went to school with a kid name, **Jack Kenoff**.Nuff Said
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### Author:  [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/112 "2003-03-17T03:26:18Z")
In my little Oregon hometown, the owner of a used car dealership was \*\*Otto Byers \*\*. What other profession could he have gone into, with a name like that?
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### Author:  [@jono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jono)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/113 "2003-03-17T03:44:23Z")
i read in the paper a few years ago of a man who wanted to get personalised platers for his Car, but found it to expensive so he took the cheaper option and changed his name to JXW-173
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### Author:  [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/114 "2003-03-17T05:29:17Z")
I worked with someone named Debbie Dickey-Darby.
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/115 "2003-03-17T08:47:47Z")
Dick Hohl was a grade behind me in grade school and high school. The odd thing is, nobody thought the name was funny at the time.
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### Author:  [@knock\_knock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knock_knock)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/116 "2003-03-17T15:56:53Z")
World B. Free
NBA star. A noble (n)aim. That man could [score](http://www.basketzone.com/html/joueurs/f/free_worldb..html).
Misty Bush
Acquaintance.
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### Author:  [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/117 "2003-03-17T16:28:32Z")
How about our old Optometrist?
Drs. Kahn and Diel
Not names that inspire confidence are they?
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### Author:  [@G.Cornelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Cornelius)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/118 "2003-03-17T17:24:04Z")
A school, I knew a Carmen Dance.
This mildly amusing combination occured because Carmen’s mother remarried wjem Carmen was still very young and she took her step fathers surname.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/119 "2003-03-17T17:35:21Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by fishcheer15 \*
> \*\*Over here, funny names are
>
> Axel Schweiß or
> Claire Grube
>
> (for example). \*\*
Do I need to understand German to know why they’re funny?
hrh
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/120 "2003-03-17T17:41:53Z")
Aren’t there two basketball players, brothers, named Majestic Mapps and Scientific Mapps?
hrh
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