# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/61 "2000-06-17T18:15:53Z")
The Doc that performs the vasectomies on the Isle of Skye here in Scotland is called Dr. Ball. My cousin worked at a college where one of the students was called Henrietta Dick. I used to have clients called Michael Kane, Paul Newman, and one poor sod named after a foreign soccer player on the local team - Zoltan Varga Anderson. My friend’s brother at school was called Attila. I recently saw a police report relating to one John Fitzgerald Kennedy - conspiracy theorists take note! ---
**Author:** ![Mamapotomus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mamapotomus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mamapotomus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/62 "2000-06-18T00:45:41Z")
I went to school with Velvet Lipps - isn’t that a great porn star name? I’ve also known a Seargant Major and two Mike Hunts. Some parents should be shot. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/63 "2000-06-18T04:02:02Z")
The psychologist at my middle school was named Richard Seaman. Guess how he abbreviated Richard? No, not “Rich.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e68b1a/32.png) [@Evil\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Twin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/64 "2000-06-18T05:30:37Z")
I always thought Sally Ride was both suggestive and prophetic. ---
**Author:** ![flikker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8baadc/32.png) [@flikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flikker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/65 "2000-06-18T06:54:49Z")
There was a girl in my grade at high school named Crystal Powers, her parents are hippies…actually the whole family is…lol ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/66 "2000-06-18T08:13:02Z")
Real life major league baseball player: Rusty Kuntz Minor league baseball player who might make it up for a cup of coffee: Ethan Faggett (no offense intended on my part) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/67 "2000-06-18T18:20:27Z")
Here in Baltimore there is an optomitrist named Dr. Glasser and a plumber named John Flood. I am a teacher and have also seen some weird names. Within the last few years, I have had some famous kids in my class, like Courtney Cox, Kristin Johnston, John Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Carrie Grant (female), Grace Kelly, Leah Thompson, Michael Fox (no J.), Jordan Michaels (say it backwards…Michael Jordan), 3 Keanu’s, 2 Uma’s and several kids with parents named Bill & Monica. Strangest I ever had was Holly Berry. Her father was (no kidding) Barry Berry and her mother was Kerry Berry. Weird. One year I also had a kid whose last name was George…dad was George George. That borders on child abuse, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/68 "2000-06-19T10:27:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > And don’t forget everybody’s favorite race car driver - Dick Trickle > \*\* My borther has a customer named Richard Shivers. He **HATES** to call this tool cause he INSISTS on being called “Dick”! Dick Shivers. I’ve spoken with Ova Shanker before(ovum chancre)! Oy… -Sam ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/69 "2000-06-19T13:31:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > Went to college with a guy named Jack Frost. he was a Jr. too. > > \*\* > > Ahh. Another [Hendrix](http://www.hendrix.edu) alum, obviously (I recall you’re from Arkansas from other posts). His dad worked in the development office when I was there in the early eighties. > > rackensack > Hendrix College Class of '86. > \*\* I was thinging of the same Jack in the development office. He was the Junior I was thinking about. From your posts, I figured you we a Warrior. Jesus is just my name for the board. The real name’s Kelton Phillips. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/70 "2000-06-19T16:02:27Z")
[hijack on] Kelton. Of course. I’d prefer (more from paranoia than for any good reason) to keep my real name off the board, but I’ve e-mailed the address in your profile. [/hijack off] I’d forgotten that Jack Frost was a Junior. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/71 "2000-06-19T18:07:14Z")
My mother worked in a dry cleaner owned by a Hertz family. Their son was Richard. Dick Hertz . . . And one of the people at my church is married to a man named Peter Long. And then we have, in our midst, a Shirley Ujest. ---
**Author:** ![EmBug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4da419/32.png) [@EmBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmBug)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/72 "2000-06-19T18:39:26Z")
My high school math teacher was Ben Gay… I kid you not. I just registered because I had to share that. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/73 "2000-06-19T18:48:26Z")
there is positively a baseball player named Quentin McCracken. There was another ballplayer named Enos “Country” Slaughter. How about Mordecai “Three-Fingered” Brown? He actually only had three fingers (part of one and all of two) on his pitching hand. A looong time ago I was watching a special on Nolan Ryan and they came up with all these great jokes about who he struck out. One of them was “Law and Orta”. ---
**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 19, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/74 "2000-06-19T19:37:57Z")
I have no way to verify this – and I suppose she could have been pulling my leg. However, when I was in high school, one of my teachers moved away to Texas; Houston, I think. She later returned for a visit and told us one of the girls she taught music was named **Diarrhea**. “No!!” we all said. “Yes,” she insisted, telling us she’d try to purposely misprounounce it, saying “Dee-AREY-ah” or some other painful dodge. “No, ma’am,” the child would always insist (according to her), “it’s Diarrhea!!” Since I graduated from high school almost 20 years ago, this supposed fifth grader would be 'bout 30 by now. I hope she changed her name! ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/75 "2000-06-19T20:34:37Z")
Kinsey! So nice to see another Baltimoron on the boards! Why didn’t you come to the get together last weekend? You said: > [@](#): > > Here in Baltimore there is an optomitrist named Dr. Glasser Yup. And I went to elementary school with his daughter. The one I like is the Oby/Gyn from Northern Virginia named Dr.Bush. And my wife had a boy in one of her classes named Luscious. Poor kid. ---
**Author:** ![shimmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shimmery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shimmery)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/76 "2000-06-19T22:33:23Z")
My friend once had a doctor named Dr. Shlockter. When I was in kindergarten, the three teachers were Mrs. Supel (soup bowl) Mrs. Broccolari (broccoli) and Mrs. Taffee (duh). (It was funnier when I was in kindergarten) Two of the teachers in my school, Mr. Furry and Mrs. Dickes got married – Mrs. Dickes-Furry Phillip Ip cracked me up for a good 10 minutes :o) ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/77 "2000-06-19T23:55:56Z")
I know a pair of twins named Jennifer Rebekah and Jeana Renee. Their brother and father are John R. So, the whole family has the same initials–J.R.N. Last name–and the twins get a lot of jokes about it, mostly from me–Nutt. (I won’t explain any of the jokes, but it’s easy to figure out… ;)) Truly weird names: any child of Frank Zappa. ---
**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 20, 2000, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/78 "2000-06-20T00:01:14Z")
Smeghead sez: [QUOTE] \*\* JBirdman12 - I knew an Orangejello and Lemonjello, too. Perhaps they were the same. I can’t imagine there’re too many jellos running around. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/79 "2000-06-20T00:04:15Z")
There was a family in my town who named their kids Michael, Mitchell, Michelle, and Mikell. I think the father was Mike, Sr. Seems a bit of an ego trip. ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/80 "2000-06-20T04:13:53Z")
A couple of grades below me is Randy Dick, and his older sister Mandy. Not only perverse, rhyming as well…::shudder:: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346.md?page=5)