The funniest (human) names you've come across

There is in New Zealand.

Not sure if it helps but I did find This.

In my high school in rural Minnesota, there were multiple Dean Johnsons. So they had to be referred to including middle initial whenever paged. For one year, there were two Dean E. Johnsons, so they had to page either “Dean E Johnson, the sophomore” or “Dean E Johnson, the senior”. Not to be confused with Dave E Johnson, the junior. Or about a dozen other Johnsons in the school.

And a fair number of Olsons, Swensons, etc. in this Scandinavian area.

i have an ancestor whose first name was “buzzard”. i’ve run across a few “belchers”, “boozers”, “roaches”, and “glasscocks”. knew one guy who changed his last name from “dick” to “dixon”.
and here in texas, you can’t forget “ima hogg” and “h. e. butt”, (founder of the h-e-b groceries and central markets.

…who changed his last name to Adams before applying for a job at a certain newspaper, right?

I collect students’ names from my colleagues and from my own rosters in college. Here are some:

King Koc
Bich
Hung Wei Lo (this is my favorite)
Dung Phuoc
Phuoc Yu
Wonderful Splendid Harris
Twat
Yur Majesty
Boogie
Precious
Ruru
Ruzzle
Libertine
So Hung
How Wong
Jigger
Jonnifer
Sherlock Ho
Sin Li
King Nip
Bunly
Yuk
InHee Her (imagine the possibilities)
Burgundy Bridges
Mignon

I’ve worked with both a Dr Payne and a Dr Ache (ah kee). Figured they should have gone into practice together.

Also have seen

Green Lipps

Red Bush

Stirling Silver

Cindy Rellie

Cinderella and her daughter Snow White

Harley Jean Davidson

Jacquline Daniels

Shannen Shannon

Pam Hamm

My band director was Mr Mann and my HS librarian was Mrs Lady

My cousin is named Snow, her daughter is Snow Baby and I’m told that Snow Baby is pregnant…if it’s a girl, she’ll most likely be called Snow III

I know where the Oranjello and Lemonjello “myth” started, but because of patient confidentiality laws, I can’t prove it. (Much to my eternal frustration!!!) (and yes, I’m sure I’ll get called on this one. Don’t care. I’ve seen the Driver’s licenses. G)

Kae

It’s not real clear, but I think I got it.

Let’s say his name is Jackson Smith.
Hers is Mary Jackson.

So if she were to use a possesive form as a user name here, she’d be Jackson’s Jackson.

I think.

Kinda like that joke, if Olivia Newton John were to marry Elton John, she’d be Olivia Newton John-John.

I think it works better if the woman’s first name is the same as the guy’s last name. Like if his name was John Nancy, and her name was Nancy Smith, and they married, she’d be Nancy Nancy.

Or something.


I forgot, I know a Shannon Bannon - which is her married name.

I had a friend named Robert Roberts. He had seven older brothers, and always defended his parents by saying they ran out of names. But, the brothers had very common names like Joe, Bill, Tom… I think it was just a lack of imagination.

My mom had a friend with the last name of Pickleheimer.

We knew a family of O’Dears

Maybe it would help if you parsed it as “generous stems”. Not that “stems” is a synonym for “breasts” as far as I know, but…

If her name is Amy Roberts, his first name is Robert.

The “golden girl” of the 1984 USA Olympic gymnastics team would have been known as Mary Lou Rotunda had none of her ancestors been gifted with the foresight to change the family surname.

My all-time classic: Roosevelt Cabbagestalk.

Mr. C appears only on a few lists of “Funny Real Names” on the web, but IIRC from some sites now vanished, he is now deceased and lived in the Detroit area.

At one point I was going to name a rhythm & blues band Roosevelt Cabbagestalk and the Hydrocephalic Presbyterians, until I realized that I had no rhythm & blues band, nor any gigs for one. Also, far be it from me to offend hydrocephalics, Presbyterians, hydrocephalic Presbyterians, or anyone else who might be named Roosevelt Cabbagestalk.

Still. What a name.

We had a family joke about a friend or acquintance of my parents who was named Jack Knoff. The story was around for so long that I thought it might be an urban (rural?) legend. This would have been in Idaho in the 40s, though. Sad to think there might have been two.

My mom has a cousin named Theda Butt, poor woman. (Tame compared to some of your doozies.)

I read it as his name is, say, Carl, and her name is Mary Carls. Or if he were Jim, she would be Mary Jims. Which, if you add the apostrophe, indicates the possessive. So she is Mary, and she is Jim’s.

At LAST!

(Stands up, walks to filing cabinet, removes battered, creased piece of notebook paper)

I KNEW this day would come!

I used to work at a call center for a major cell phone company. I have quite a few, but here are my favorites. I’ll omit the foreign names I have, as most are just odd or silly sounding, and don’t measure up to the ones posted before me.

Mike Hammer
Virginia Hamm
Huck Finn
Robin Masters (as in the Magnum, PI novelist/estate owner)
Sean Francisco
Magazine Punch

A couple of unfortunate surnames:
Janis Lint
Lisa Slutz

Nice combo of middle initial and surname.
Brian F. Her

I didn’t run into a Joe Coffey, but I did talk to a Joe Booze.

I smiled fairly broadly when I helped Karl Marx Freund. “Freund” is German for friend. I don’t know if it makes it funnier, but it doesn’t make it less odd.

When I worked at a bank, my boss and I were looking thru an email list, and saw the name Baby Girl (surname). He said he saw “Caraway Seed” one time, but I didn’t see it myself.

One of the reps I sat next to was named, Omega Renee (surname). She went by Renee, sensibly enough, but fessed up to Omega when she saw the list I was making. I rather thought her to be a very good sport because of that. She said her older sister’s first name was Alpha. I can’t vouch for Alpha, but I saw Omega’s drivers license. :smiley:

And my all-time favorite customer name was Nippy Toes Jackson. I think Nippy Toes was his full first name, rather than first-middle.

Bear in mind that these were contract customers, and needed to pass a credit check with these names, so they were real enough. I did work on prepaid occasionally, and had an irate customer who claimed his name was “Anger Fuck”, so that was the name I put on his acct when I activated it. I don’t think it was his real name, but it would’ve gone a long way towards explaining his attitude.

An obituary I recently saw, of a woman named Lempi Patja, which translates accurately to Favorite Mattress (or even Lust Mattress, in slightly arcane Finnish). What were her parents thinking?

I know of a Dick Wunderlich.

My sister worked at a call center and heard a coworker ask for the Pukers of Amarillo, TX.

There was a Sandy Butt at my high school.

I worked with a guy named Hung. He changed it legally to Alex.

My paternal grandfathers first and middle names are Forney Hybritt.

Was he from Liberia? If so, he’s mentioned here (about halfway down the page, with a singular Toe).

When I was in elementary school, I knew a guy named Dusty Rhodes.

And I worked once with someone whose first and middle names were Clytemnestra Lysistrata.

At work I’ve seen La’Treena, Rotunda, and Charnel. :eek:

I went to school with a girl named Sandy Lane, and also an unfortunate boy named Richard Nibler. Also many moons ago there was a dentist in Pomona California named Dr. Toothacher.

More recently, we have actually printed business cards here at work for Dorcas Moo and Parlie Gates.

Not a real one, but there ought to be a gynecologist named Buster Hyman and a geneticist named Imogene Splicer and a urologist named Peter Leaky.

I tried unsuccessfully to get my niece whose last name was Van to name her daughter Minnie, Cara or Lisa.