# Swear words used as names **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 6, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171 "2001-08-06T20:19:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![simulpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@simulpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simulpost)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/41 "2001-08-08T01:24:54Z")
I had a friend who got a license plate for his motorcycle that said “CLAP”. The state turned him down at first, but he won an appeal because that was his last name. ---
**Author:** ![kspharm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@kspharm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kspharm)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/42 "2001-08-08T01:30:59Z")
While shopping at Target, I met a nice young lady the other day whose name was Fartina. And I’ll never forget about the time that my mother told me about this lady who had just given birth to a little boy in the hospital, and decided to name him Meconium because “it’s such a pretty word”. ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/43 "2001-08-08T01:41:55Z")
One of the top guys in the landscape section of my agency is named: Dick Bush that is so good on so many levels and no, he doesn’t go by Richard ---
**Author:** ![Goldeneldon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Goldeneldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goldeneldon)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/44 "2001-08-08T06:41:21Z")
My favourites have to be the Thai Analyst who works for an investment bank here in HK called: Pornrat …and the former Korean Minister of the Interior who went by the name Bumsuk. Nasty! ---
**Author:** ![MrDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@MrDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDeath)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/45 "2001-08-08T07:09:58Z")
Can’t believe nobody has posted my favourite obscene name yet. The following is a blurb from The Guardian, and you know they don’t lie 🙂 “After being charged £20 for a £10 overdraft, 30-year-old Michael Howard of Leeds changed his name by deed poll to ‘Yorkshire Bank plc are Fascist Bastards’. The bank has now asked him to close his account, and Mr Bastards has asked the bank to repay the 69p balance by cheque, made out in his new name.” ---
**Author:** ![filmyak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@filmyak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmyak)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/46 "2001-08-08T09:04:42Z")
"Anyway, he was at registration for Head Start, when a parent filled out a bus registration form for a child named, you guessed it, “Sh\*thead.” Pronounced “shh-thead.” The mother said that the girl was named for her father. " * * * I have to second that one. Was gonna mention it myself. A good friend of mine was a school teacher in Miami, Florida, and had a student with that name. Though the way he pronounced “Shithead” (hey, it’s not a curse word, it’s the poor fuck’s name!) would be more like “shhh-theeeeed.” On the first day of school, when my friend was taking roll, the student actually had to nerve to be offended at the way his name was pronounced, too. ---
**Author:** ![DEC216](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DEC216](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEC216)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/47 "2001-08-08T10:39:06Z")
One of the RBs for the Cleveland Browns is named Benjamin Gay. And yes he does go by Ben. And then there’s the woman who saw the word “vagina” on a medical chart while in labor; she liked the name so much she decided to name her kid Vagina. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/48 "2001-08-08T12:30:38Z")
After the Centennial Park bombing at the Atlanta Olympics, an FBI agent introduced himself at a press conference. His name was **Woody Johnson**. Really. I laughed and laughed. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if he had a partner named Dick Morningwood. (He didn’t.) BTW: Woody Johnson retired a couple of years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/49 "2001-08-08T12:49:22Z")
Oh yeah: I used to work with a guy named **Dewey Wong**. (He must’ve left it out all night.) And a woman named **Felitia Johnson**. There’s someone often mentioned on NPR reports – I don’t remember if he’s a member of the Olympic Committee or if he’s an economist – named **Dick Pound**. I’ve always wanted to meet someone named Brian whose middle name or surname is Damage. ---
**Author:** ![shannybonanny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@shannybonanny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shannybonanny)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/50 "2001-08-08T15:56:48Z")
When I was in kindergarden my teacher’s name was Mrs. Dick. It was probably 11th or 12th grade before I learned her husband’s name is Harry. (It was my parents who told me this, so I _think_ it’s true. However, they weren’t listed in the phone book, so either they got one prank call too many or my parents are freaks.) ---
**Author:** ![filmyak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@filmyak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmyak)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/51 "2001-08-08T16:16:41Z")
Really now, can we all keep ignoring race car driver Dick Trickle? What the heck were HIS parents thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/52 "2001-08-08T16:28:36Z")
There’s a Rick Drydyk in BC… I had a friend whose last name was Drydyk. Her father taught at Carleton University, here in Ottawa. I shit you not. What a name… [Looked it up in the canada411 pages…](http://canada411.sympatico.ca/english/presults.asp?lastname=Drydyk&firstname=&citytown=&province=Search+All&row=0) 😉 Elly ---
**Author:** ![schief2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@schief2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schief2)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/53 "2001-08-08T16:43:11Z")
Speaking of unfortunately-named Canadians, I recall David Letterman a few years ago calling up and harassing a poor soul who owned a gas station named Dick Assman. In _Regina_, Saskatchewan. Though Dick made a point of pronouncing his surname with a long “a” sound for both vowels, like in “car”. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_Nazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Soup\_Nazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_Nazi)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/54 "2001-08-08T16:46:06Z")
I always thought it was hilarious that my mother’s maiden name is Woodcock. My uncle on her side has an odd name also…Exel Woodcock. Everyone calls him by the nickname Woody. This is all true, I promise. ---
**Author:** ![schief2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@schief2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schief2)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/55 "2001-08-08T16:52:45Z")
And here’s a link to a [story](http://www.nationalpost.com/content/features/festivals/080299a.html) about Dick Assman…I thought that the store was named Assman Gas, but apparently that was just wishful thinking on my par. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/56 "2001-08-08T18:45:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\*So one day, I’m out playing in the rain, and my father yells “Dammit, would you get in here!” > > And I said, “But Dad, I’m Jesus Christ!” \*\* Out of context, this Bill Cosby joke isn’t as funny. ---
**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/57 "2001-08-08T21:36:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\ ***Gent** , did you know the phone company will list just about any name? Some people will just make up a name in order to avoid paying for an unlisted number. There’s a “Bingbang, TTWW” listed in the Denver white pages. > \*\* I checked and Dikshit is actually his last name as listed. Mukesh K. Dikshit. Turns out he lives right down the street from me. I think he’s legit. I may drop by later tonight. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/58 "2001-08-08T22:56:45Z")
My first grade teacher in Rome, GA was named **Mrs. Muckinfoose**. (I’m not sure of the spelling, but it’s phonetically accurate.) As a six-year old, I completely failed to understand why my mother fell to the floor in fits of laughter when I came home from the first day of school and told her my teacher’s name. ---
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/59 "2001-08-08T23:24:36Z")
I went to high school with a Lacey Dicks - her dad’s name was Harry. –tygre ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171/60 "2001-08-09T00:26:41Z")
Oh, and there was a TV anchorman in Denver many years ago named **Dick Cable** – that name always made me and my sister giggle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-words-used-as-names/75171.md?page=4)