# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/81 "2000-06-20T08:06:02Z")
Seeing people with the surname Dick always brings a bit of sympathy out. But the couple who named their second daughter Ophelia deserve to be shot. I kid you not. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/82 "2000-06-20T11:03:45Z")
The state of Texas once had a Governor named Hogg. (I don’t remember his first name.) He had two daughters, Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg. Believe it, it is true. ---
**Author:** ![GregMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@GregMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GregMoose)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/83 "2000-06-20T13:14:16Z")
Normally I’m just a lurker, but I had to reply to this. I worked with a woman named Janice Hurlbutt. Her assistant was Wendell Wingo. Ladies, if you’re marrying a man named “Hurlbutt”, why would you change your last name?? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/84 "2000-06-20T14:42:11Z")
I had a high school teacher named Richard Swett. He went by Dick. The oral surgeon who extracted a tooth from my jaw last year was named Dr. Fear. I thought my dentist was putting me on when he gave the referral. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/85 "2000-06-20T16:11:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Kinsey! So nice to see another Baltimoron on the boards! Why didn’t you come to the get together last weekend? \*\* Hi WeirdDave! Or should I say “Hi, Hon” ? I have been a lurker for a while, but just recently registered. I don’t really “know” anyone enough to go to the get together. Sounded like fun, though! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/86 "2000-06-20T20:03:27Z")
There is a golf instructor who appears regularly on the Golf Channel, named Dick Tiddy. In my previous marriage, when my then-wife became pregnant, I had wanted to name our child Coagulatedaluminum if it was a girl, or Krizmo Bizmark of Nazareth if it was a boy. I was overruled. ---
**Author:** ![Shadenwawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Shadenwawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadenwawa)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/87 "2000-06-20T22:33:27Z")
My mom works with a lawyer named Mr. Narowdick. She says she can’t help but laugh when she talks to him. -S ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/88 "2000-06-20T22:39:01Z")
> [@](#): > > My sister’s third grade teacher was Richard Dick. I had a professor in college named Richard Dick… apparently he’s moving up in the world. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/89 "2000-06-21T07:23:55Z")
My parents have a good friend named Charlie Chan. Not Charles. Charlie. And on another board ([about.com](http://about.com)’s urban legends discussions, I think), somebody claimed to know twins named…wait for it…Lavoris and Clitoris. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/90 "2000-06-21T07:26:52Z")
All this reminds me of that Nicholas Cage (?) skit on Saturday Night Live. This isn’t verbatim, but close enough: “This is your name?” “Yeah…you got a problem with that?” “Well…no…Mister…uh…Asswipe…?” “HEY! IT’S AZ-WEEP-AY!” ---
**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 22, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/91 "2000-06-22T05:36:27Z")
I went to high school with a girl named Saytion Conver (on the roll book, of course, it read Conver, Saytion [spelling approximate; it’s been awhile] ) Quentin McCracken, when last I checked played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. ---
**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 22, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/92 "2000-06-22T14:15:40Z")
Listening to the sports report on the radio this morning, I was reminded of a famous-person name I love: **Moises Alou**. My husband and I always put on our “Billy Crystal You Look Mah-vellous” voice and say, “He is just the _Moist-est_ Alou!!” (Yes, we’re easily entertained.) ---
**Author:** ![bovary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@bovary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bovary)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/93 "2000-06-22T15:14:11Z")
I have a cousin named Jesse James, he has a half brother named this is true Harley David ---
**Author:** ![\_dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9e5f3/32.png) [@\_dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_dpr)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/94 "2000-06-28T06:46:40Z")
I thought Ayesha was a stange joke for the longest time, because it’s so easy to pronounce dirty. ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/95 "2000-06-28T08:35:13Z")
Hello, dpr’s imposter/troll. You think Ayesha is a strange name ? Good, that insures me that you will remember it for a long time to come. While I will have forgotten you by morning. The strangest name I ever came across was NaNa, a women I knew named her daughter that. She said she named the baby for the song, NaNa NaNa, hey hey goodbye. Of course she also said she was on acid when the baby was born. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/96 "2000-06-28T10:05:59Z")
Hey Ayesha! I remember that song! Bananarama! Cool. 😃 Anyway, how about that guy that hosts that show Blind Date? Roger Lodge. ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@Me\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Joe)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/97 "2000-06-28T16:05:31Z")
Several years ago while I was temping at an investment firm, there was a manager there who had the name of “Richard Head.” As you might have already guessed, everyone referred to him as “Dick” (Head). In my scant three months at that job, I came to the conclusion that no man alive had been more appropriately named. ---
**Author:** ![spark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@spark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spark)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/98 "2000-06-28T16:17:29Z")
My dad’s childhood Sunday School teacher: Ima Rose Bush Know a fella named: Ivan Oder Went to school with: Jim Hackett. Not weird? He was pre-med, OB-GYN. Would you like your doc named Dr. Hackett? The joke was, “Dr. Hackett, at your cervix” ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/99 "2000-06-28T16:38:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > My sister’s third grade teacher was Richard Dick. > > I had a professor in college named Richard Dick… apparently he’s moving up in the world. > \*\* Cornell Engineering? I remember that prof. There was a grad student there when I was an undergrad named Anil Dikshit. I worked in the library and we used to have to send him overdue notices all the time. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346/100 "2000-06-28T17:04:10Z")
All right, **jesuslynch, JBirdman12, Nacho4Sara**. I’d like to see some documentation for any of the following names: Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Orangejello, Lemonjello, Shithead, or Pajamas. Smells to me like the familiar “African-American woman reads words off poster, doesn’t know what they mean, and uses them as a name” UL. Snopes covers this UL [here](http://www.snopes.com/spoons/fracture/names.htm). This writeup actually lists some of the “names” above. **I** think you’ve been had. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-names/22346.md?page=6)