Time for another round of "Amusing / Really Strange Real Names"

Crystal Bonar
Autumn Rose

I find this one mildly amusing but I’m not exactly sure why. However, the new president of our student union is named Colin Bent.

Well, it’s not quite up there with naming all your sons George, but there was a family in the neighborhood where I grew up, headed by a man named Mike. He had five kids. They were nameed Michael, Mitchell, Michelle, Mikell and Michaela.

Ego trip, much?

I just remembered another one. A doctor (not mine) at my gastroenterologist’s office: Dr. Bizarro.

I know a fellow whose business associate is named Ayman Aswad.

I once knew of a lady whose name was Allie Bolen. In the phone book her name was listed as “Bolen, Allie.”

There are also two guys around here (brothers to each other) who are car salesmen. Their last name is Wolf. Nothing unusual about that, but their first names are Gray and Timber.

I once knew a girl who went by “Dusty”, but whose full name was “Angel Dust Smith” (well, not "Smith, but I don’t remember her last name).

I can think of two customers in my company’s database of names that stick out:

A woman whose first name is Coconut and my personal favorite,

Glorious Feeling.

I have worked with/known:

Candice Cain (Candi)
Russel Boltz (Rusty)
Robert Roberts (parents with no imagination I guess)

In seventh grade, a new girl joined our class. Her name? Sunshine Beam.

The little boy next to me made a lot of fun of her for that. But within a month, he was hopelessly smitten, following her around like a puppy dog :slight_smile:

I had a friend once with the last name “Moorehead.” He said that if he ever had a son, he’d name him “Craven.”
I don’t kow anyone with really werid names, but I do see a lot get thrown out in some of the “pregnant women” communities I visited when I was pregnant. The babycenter.com baby name boards are always good for a laugh.
There’s a woman in some of the LJ communities I’m in/was in who has sons named Calvin and Hobbes. That’s kind of cute.

The band teacher at my high school was named Maximus Starbuck Vanderbeek. I think he’s still cursing the day his full name escaped to the masses.

One of my friends swears he knows a family named Caine who named their daughters Nova and Candace. It’s just plausible enough that I might…almost…

Nah.

A guy who works for our Japanese office has the First name of Takashi and his last name starts with a T.

His email alias is TAKASHIT

The poor poor man.

Was she an artist? I visited the studio of a Candy Barr who paints up in Vermont.

Classmates:

Mike Butt (poor kid)

Alithea Rosenzweig (teachers always mispronounced her name as “Al-thea” on the first days of class, and kids taunted her by saying, “I’ll thee ya later, Alithea”)

I.J. Hines (the “I” stood for Ildephonse)

Ahahaha this thread has brought on a fit of giggles. A friend of mine has a grandfather named Hairy Sack. Ahahahahaha. Then she told my math teacher that. He is not one to tell inappropriate jokes to. I thought he would give her a detention. Ahahahahahaha. Once again I get a funny look from my brother. ahahahah hairy sack. nancy nipples. ahahahahahaha :slight_smile:

toadspittle: I don’t know, it was high school…Is she 50ish from the mid-west?

My friend Aldo Risi’s mom’s name is Cece…Cece Risi.
My sister’s friend Lorenza married a man named Stettzenmyer.

You need to have more kids, so you can name them Emerald, Jade, and Forest.

Gang Green. Heh.

Love this thread–thanks, Flamsterette_X! I almost passsed out, I was laughing so hard.

My favorite name, I’ve mentioned before, but it’s worth repeating. There’s an air force base in North Carolina named Seymour Johnson. I giggle every time they say something about Seymour Johnson in the news.

A few names I’ve run across at work:
Bathsheba Philpott
Buck Trott
Manley Midgett

I’m noticing a new trend in baby names–hairstyling products. I just heard about a woman named Acquenetta. (For all of you Dopers who aren’t into hairstyling products, there’s a hairspray named Aqua Net). And then there’s Saturday Night Live’s Finesse Mitchell. This is giving me lots of ideas for the baby shower name game, where you try to come up with baby names for every letter of the alphabet. Last time, it was cheese–Colby, Muenster, etc. Next time, I’m doing hairstyling products. How about Fructis or Pantene?

ME

Looking through the lawyer section of the phone book, I found an Ann Forest Burns (A. Forest Burns). Wonder if she specializes in arson cases?

And speaking of lawyers, would you rather pick one with the last name of Candoo or Loosmore? They’re there, but not in the same office…

There is an OB/GYN in California named Bonnie Beaver