# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/21 "2000-06-14T19:44:27Z")
A friend of mine had a doctor whose name was Vijun Dixit. We were out once goofing around and he dislocated and fractured a finger, so we went to his doctor to have it reset. After that, I always referred to him as “Vijun Dixit the digit fixer”. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/22 "2000-06-14T21:05:04Z")
I have a customer named B. Uneek. No, seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Spaulding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5a626/32.png) [@Capt.Spaulding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Spaulding)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/23 "2000-06-14T21:41:24Z")
Moley Hebron - a childhood friend of a friend. Candy Kane and Sandy Klaus - childhood schoolmates. And the piece-de-resistance, a current vendor, (guys, put your knees together) Dick Grater. _wince_ ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/24 "2000-06-14T23:38:18Z")
My Dad grew up in a small town where one family ran several of the stores. The barber shop was called: Hackett & Hackett Barbers. One son ran the Butchers shop, and a daughter (Miss Hackett) was the local dressmaker. As for twin names… I have heard of a pair named “Lux” and “Persil”… actually good classical type names… except for the fact that (around here at least) they are both laundry detergents. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/25 "2000-06-15T02:48:08Z")
runs a guest house in Bandung, Java, Indonesia. Loved it when I read it on his business card, and never forgot it. ---
**Author:** ![Tisme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Tisme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisme)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/26 "2000-06-15T03:02:21Z")
Over here (In Australia) we have a gynaecologist named Dr Seman. True story!! ---
**Author:** ![Brunetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Brunetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunetter)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/27 "2000-06-15T05:49:01Z")
My dentist, Dr. Smillie. No joke! ---
**Author:** ![CreaseMunky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@CreaseMunky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CreaseMunky)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/28 "2000-06-15T12:22:40Z")
I once worked with a girl named Rainy Summer Day. She had a sister named Bright Autumn. I had a class with a girl named April May January. Retired teacher Mama Crease had a kid in her class named Doctor (forget the last name) one year. And I thought **my** name was bad… ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/29 "2000-06-15T12:55:10Z")
I delivered fire wood to a woman who came to the door wearing a tie-dyed moo-moo, long salt and pepper hair, a joint in her mouth, and a bottle of vodka in her hand. In the other hand was a cheque for the wood. The name on the cheque? Starchild Freebird. ---
**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 15, 2000, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/30 "2000-06-15T13:25:07Z")
Perhaps we should stick to punning names, not just …interesting ones. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/31 "2000-06-15T13:38:25Z")
My favorite locally is **Phenus Head**. Feel free to confirm this for yourself in any of the online phone directories (search for first name = “p”, last name = “head” in the Atlanta, GA area). ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/32 "2000-06-15T14:02:33Z")
It had to happen sooner or later… I actually have one of those odd names. Married into it, actually. Makes naming kids very hard. My last name is an adjective (and a funny on at that) and we made the mistake of paying more attention to picking a good first name than listening to the whole thing together. Consequently, my kids all have middle names that start with either ‘B’ or ‘M’. Yeah. So that means their names read as sentences–and ungrammatical ones too: I won’t give you their real names, but here’s an example– Fred B. Large or Sally M. Crooked. I asked my son if he thought it was child abuse and he said he liked his name. What a great kid. My eye doctor was named Dr. Reader. My grampa knew a guy named Harry Rump. Knew a family who’s last name was Jacobi. Almost named their son Obi Wan. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/33 "2000-06-15T14:38:10Z")
A good friend of the girl I dated in high school had the first and middle names (brace for it): Donny Marie. OH, the pain… ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/34 "2000-06-15T14:56:44Z")
My mom tells me that when she was a teenager, a popular joke to play on friends was to hand them the local phone book, telling them the proper page and how many names down the column to count, and telling them to “Look and see what Richard Burton gave Elizabeth Taylor for her birthday.” The unfortunate target name? Hiscock. ---
**Author:** ![GolfWidow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GolfWidow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GolfWidow)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/35 "2000-06-15T15:47:42Z")
There’s a CPA firm in our town by the name of Cheatham & Company, PA. ---
**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 15, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/36 "2000-06-15T16:50:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > 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 > \*\* Couldn’t tell ya’…he was an author of an article in a reading list I had to type up for a Prosthodontics literature review. The journal it was published in only gave the last name and initials, so I don’t even know what his first name was. I thought of a couple more…back in the Dental Department, a fellow secretary had to correspond with a family named Dastrange (Da Strange? Something like that), which was funny enough, until a week later, I was working in another department and came upon a person named Deweird. I almost fell off my chair giggling… ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/37 "2000-06-15T23:43:35Z")
My wife knew a girl in high school named Sandy Claus. Her name wasn’t Sandra or anything. Her parents actually named her Sandy. I also heard of a family last name of Green. They named one kid Forrest, one kid Kelly…Parents can be so cruel. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/38 "2000-06-16T00:07:15Z")
There was a Kelly Kelly at my high school. I suppose her parents figured she would get married someday, that hardly seems an excuse for 20 or 30 years of ragging. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/39 "2000-06-16T00:38:45Z")
I’ve heard of people named Orangejello (Or-ON-jillo), Lemonjello (lem-ON-jillo) and Shithead (Sha-TEE-ad)(now that’s tortured pronunciation). My all time fave: a prostitute named Sandra Goodhead. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/40 "2000-06-16T01:11:40Z")
My cousin encountered a woman who named her child (pronounced) PAH-jah-mah Chiquita. Melissa said, “How do you spell the first name?” and the woman said, “P-A-J-A-M-A-S.” Turns out she saw it in a Sears catalogue and thought it was pretty. I knew a girl named Dainty Peach Ceurvos (sounds like a tequila flavor to me!) and another named Champagne Love. Eeesh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346.md?page=3)