# Strangest Names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346 "2000-06-14T14:56:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/1 "2000-06-14T14:56:32Z")
You know what I mean…Harry Hole, Barry Breathing,Tupac Shakur and so on. I know a: Dr. Chu, (dentist) Barb Bell, Trudy Shoot, Ann Ram just to name a few. Got any good ones? ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/2 "2000-06-14T15:00:31Z")
At work, I have run across a Dr. Doctor, a dentist named Dr. Toothaker, a gynecologist named Dr. Good, and another gynecologist named (prepare yourself for something sick and wrong) Dr. Fish. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/3 "2000-06-14T15:09:13Z")
When I was in college I knew a Roxanne Clay. For real. ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/4 "2000-06-14T15:09:26Z")
In the town I grew up in, the were twins (fraternal) with the names syphilis (Su-file’-us) and Gonorrhea (Go-nair’-re-a). I shit you not. ---
**Author:** ![jayron\_32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jayron\_32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayron_32)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/5 "2000-06-14T15:12:04Z")
I hade a Mike Hunt that I went to High School with. He graduated a few years before me. ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/6 "2000-06-14T15:24:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > In the town I grew up in, the were twins (fraternal) with the names syphilis (Su-file’-us) and Gonorrhea (Go-nair’-re-a). I shit you not. > \*\* Oh my god…what are some parents thinking? I take it, that’s some sort of ethnic thing? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/7 "2000-06-14T15:26:41Z")
My friend’s father is named Harry Peters ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/8 "2000-06-14T15:32:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > In the town I grew up in, the were twins (fraternal) with the names syphilis (Su-file’-us) and Gonorrhea (Go-nair’-re-a). I shit you not. > > \*\* > > Oh my god…what are some parents thinking? > I take it, that’s some sort of ethnic thing? > > \*\* She saw a poster with the words on in on the way to the delivery room and thought they were pretty. May have been the drugs but yeah. ---
**Author:** ![SilentKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SilentKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SilentKnight)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/9 "2000-06-14T15:43:57Z")
On the radio awhile ago, the morning show staff called a guy named Hue G. Rector. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Pebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Johnny\_Pebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Pebs)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/10 "2000-06-14T15:49:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > At work, I have run across a Dr. Doctor, a dentist named Dr. Toothaker, a gynecologist named Dr. Good, and another gynecologist named (prepare yourself for something sick and wrong) Dr. Fish. > \*\* How bizarre! My wife’s dentist when she was a kid was Dr. Toothaker. I wonder if it’s the same one. Pebs ---
**Author:** ![SilentKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SilentKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SilentKnight)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/11 "2000-06-14T15:55:50Z")
Duh!! It was Hue G. Rection. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/12 "2000-06-14T15:56:18Z")
My friend’s husband is a vet, and when he worked at his old clinic he was part of this ominous duo: Dr. Black & Dr. Slaughter ---
**Author:** ![Linney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@Linney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linney)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/13 "2000-06-14T16:05:59Z")
Being an RA at school, I’m privy to some things that other students don’t have easy access to, including master lists of who lives on campus and who does not. In the past, we have had a student named, are you ready for this, Lettice Haver. Prounounced Leteece Hay-ver…but still! Of course, the big joke was to call her “Let us have her”. I guess that’s my two cents. ---
**Author:** ![Americhronic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@Americhronic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Americhronic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/14 "2000-06-14T16:30:10Z")
I read an article that mentioned someone by the name of Frank N. Stein. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/15 "2000-06-14T16:41:54Z")
My eighth grade science teacher’s name was Carol Teach. In Louisville at one time there was an obstetrician named Dr. Baby. I grew up with a girl named Sandy Banks. I used to work with a guy named David Brinkley, which was just one of those unfortunate famous-name things. But consider this: his wife’s name is Christy. There’s a lawyer in these parts who legally changed his name to Natty Bummpo. Why, I know not. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/16 "2000-06-14T17:00:00Z")
There is a Dr. here in New York, I know because I entered him into my databank a few days ago, named Gaddam Reddy. I have been enterng doctor’s names into a databank for a few months now. Doctors have strange names. ---
**Author:** ![Ozone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e95f7d/32.png) [@Ozone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ozone)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/17 "2000-06-14T17:11:09Z")
I knew a guy who’s name was Forest. I know Forest isn’t that unusual of a name, but his brother’s name was Cedar, and their dog’s name was Juniper. His mom was a tree hugger. 🙂 Just the other day I talked to a guy by the name of Sandy Peter. I wondered if “Sandy” was a name or an adjective… 😛 My sister went to school with a girl named Emerald Green, who, btw, had a sister named Jade. Another girl in her school was Jessica (Jessy) James. How about those poor people with the last name Balls? My dad worked with a Harry Balls. How about Crystal Balls, or my personal favorite, Rosey Balls… There is also Mike Hawk, and my mom works with a Ralph Couch ---
**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:** [June 14, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/18 "2000-06-14T19:06:13Z")
My mom once knew a girl called Laurel Spriggs and another girl named Crystal Lear, middle name Shanda, if you please. And of course there was that unfortunate señora named Dolores Fuertes who married a man whose last name was La Cabeza, ending up as Dolores Fuertes de La Cabeza (“Powerful Headaches”). ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/19 "2000-06-14T19:10:04Z")
Whip Hubley. Red Buttons. Tuesday Weld. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/20 "2000-06-14T19:30:08Z")
And don’t forget everybody’s favorite race car driver - Dick Trickle [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346.md?page=2)