# The funniest (human) names you've come across **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224 "2008-09-05T19:28:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/81 "2008-09-06T05:36:50Z")
Fun thread. I’ve known: Scarlet Angel Plymouth Rock Velvet Night Delight (not adding her last name, but the first always knocked me for a loop) Augustus “Gus” Cesar (yes, his brother was named Julius) My Latin teacher was named Mr. Fear. I thought the subject matter was terrifying but he was a lovely, dorky bloke. My wife’s cousin is named Ronald McDonald as well, and he’s a judge. When I was teaching, I had a friend who had a student named Boy Sanchez. ---
**Author:** ![Avast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Avast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avast)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/82 "2008-09-06T06:54:17Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I met a guy named Mr. Turnipseed once. > > Poor guy. I work with a Mr. Turnipseed!! Much too young to be the same guy but maybe a relative… ---
**Author:** ![robotic\_panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@robotic\_panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robotic_panda)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/83 "2008-09-06T09:16:55Z")
I once met a Barbie Angel. It was at a school dance and she was bleach blond with a pink dress, very tan… the name fit! I went to school with an Anthony Anthonis. (sp? It was pronounced that way.) > [@Shayna](#): > > Heh, sounds like my old neurologist; Dr. Head, first name Richard. I shit you not, either. 😛 When I was in high school my best friend wanted to prank call a Richard Head that lived around town. I remember a teenage girl answered the phone, my friend just said “Is Dickhead there?” (all one word, she didn’t even attempt to separate it into the actual name), and I could just hear the eyeroll as the other girl yelled “DAAAAAD”… ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/84 "2008-09-06T09:56:35Z")
I once knew a Johnny-John Johnson. He had a lazy eye and his sister never wore a bra. Worked with a guy named Palm Tropix Went to school with a guy named Foday Tarawali del Pieve Gobi Fortier Worked with a girl named Jenna Tole ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/85 "2008-09-06T10:05:14Z")
> [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](#): > > Richard Dicky Had that name at work today. Probably a different person. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/86 "2008-09-06T11:07:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Had that name at work today. Probably a different person Lets hope so, otherwise he is more famous than he realises. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/87 "2008-09-06T11:08:36Z")
I know a psychiatric worker called Chuck Honeybun. To make it worse, Chuck is not a usual christian name here in the UK. And to make it even worse, there used to be a local TV show that had a three feet high bunny called Gus Honeybun. You could (or the parents could) write in on the child’s birthday, and Gus would jump up and down once for each year. (My god, we had fun in those days!) ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/88 "2008-09-06T11:57:29Z")
I knew a Chinese guy named Long Wang. We joked that it would be really funny if it turned out his real name was Steve or something, and that Long Wang was just a self given nickname. ---
**Author:** ![Dreamy\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dreamy\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dreamy_B)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/89 "2008-09-06T12:14:18Z")
There are users on our work network named pnutter and phart. My high school auditorium was the “Harry A. Putt Memorial Auditorium”. The sign was regularly vandalized. ---
**Author:** ![Penthelesia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Penthelesia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penthelesia)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/90 "2008-09-06T12:30:32Z")
Through work I’ve seen Warwick Hunt Ocean Bridge Olive Bridge Orson Cart My uncle knew some people called Curtin who called their daughter, Annette. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/91 "2008-09-06T13:11:53Z")
i went to high school with a Pat Hiscock. He always joked that if he had a daughter he would name her Caress. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/92 "2008-09-06T13:50:43Z")
My two contributions: Dick Rapp and Peter Tutor. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/93 "2008-09-06T14:17:23Z")
In the 80s, I was friends with a guy named Lewis Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/94 "2008-09-06T14:18:02Z")
I once found a paper left in my classroom that was written by Sparkle Moore. The wife of a guy I know once delivered a baby named Luscious Cox. I went to elementary school with a girl whose last name was Raper. That’s an uncomfortable name to have. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/95 "2008-09-06T14:23:58Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > G. Riddle (his parents could not come to an agreement on a name so they settled the fight by naming him G. Don’t ask me how that makes sense but I saw his driver’s license.) One of my great-uncles was named JT. Just JT. His parents had nine boys and a girl and I guess they got tired of coming up with boys names after a while. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/96 "2008-09-06T14:27:34Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I went to elementary school with a girl whose last name was Raper. That’s an uncomfortable name to have. There’s an RV dealer in Indiana named Tom Raper. For forty miles in either direction on I-70, there are signs proclaiming “Now approaching ‘Raper Country’”, “Now entering ‘Raper Country’” and so on. Well thought out, that one. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/97 "2008-09-06T14:48:56Z")
I worked at an answering service while in university, and kept a list of odd names I encountered. It’s probably still stuffed into a drawer somewhere. I do distinctly recall: Venus Piano Beryl Bigcanoe Honey Palm Velvet Warrior Harry Palm (elderly fellow in nursing home) Ruby Diamond Dr. Dong Now I see the occasional good one on an application to rent: girls named Saffron, Clover, Crimson. I liked Clover so much that I had it in mind for when we got our dog, and yes, she’s Clover the dog. There’s a realtor in our office named Ron(ald) MacDonald. ---
**Author:** ![Sqwerticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Sqwerticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqwerticus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/98 "2008-09-06T15:08:59Z")
Nick Burns-Cox Enough of a name in its own right, you might think. Add to the mix that he’s a Urologist at a hospital nearby. Maybe it’s some kind of medical synchronicity that makes them choose a particular speciality, but I’ve also worked with a Mr Pipe, Gynaecologist. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/99 "2008-09-06T15:40:29Z")
My, Mike Hunt sure gets around… Wolfgang Wolf used to be the trainer of German soccer club VFL Wolfsburg. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224/100 "2008-09-06T16:00:44Z")
> [@Auntbeast](#): > > I am one of those people, I keep wondering when my name will show up here. I’m married now, but I consider it a gift when I tell people my maiden name. It is a name that will give them laughs for a lifetime. However, my chance of being a shy, delicate lady pretty much went out the window the day I was born. Post it! Post it! Post it! Post it! At a nearby school when I was growing up, there was a Cannon and Crystal Ball. They were brother and sister. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funniest-human-names-youve-come-across/462224.md?page=6)