# Unfortunate names of real people **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705 "2011-04-08T19:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![TheSeaOtter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@TheSeaOtter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSeaOtter)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/222 "2013-02-22T19:23:57Z")
One of my friends growing up was named Maxx Passion, which I always felt was right on the border between ‘that poor girl!’ and ‘how cool is that?!’. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/223 "2013-06-01T03:47:41Z")
I can’t decide whether this one is unfortunate or kinda cool: Strap Dancer. ---
**Author:** ![weef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@weef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/weef)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/224 "2013-06-01T11:57:00Z")
Johnny Dickshot - major league baseball player in the 1930’s. His nickname was “Ugly”. Dick Swett - politician from New Hampshire. My dermatologist has an associated named Dr. Payne. My sister-in-law worked with someone with the first name Shithead, pronounced Sha-thayed. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/225 "2013-06-19T10:03:40Z")
Obit for a member of [the Cancer family](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestate/obituary.aspx?n=anthony-eugene-cancer&pid=165391252&fhid=23093#fbLoggedOut). That’s one of those names (another one is “Kuntz”) that I might consider changing if I had been born with it. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/226 "2013-06-19T10:14:29Z")
The name of one of my current coworkers translates as Angel Fatman. Many people who hear others address him by lastname at first think it’s a nick; he’s best described as petite. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/227 "2013-06-19T16:13:40Z")
I’m all in favour of modern couples opting to bestow the mother’s surname on the child as well as the father’s, but you’d think Ms Swallow and Mr Koch would have thought twice before giving my son’s classmate Benjamin those two surnames in that order, hyphenated. However, on the “boy named Sue” principle, he should grow up to be the biggest badass for twenty miles, easy. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/228 "2013-06-19T19:01:33Z")
[Randy Baumgardner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Baumgardner), which I think is funnier for Brits. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/229 "2013-06-19T22:35:25Z")
I knew a podiatrist named Dr. Toesie. I knew a young lady named Anita Hickey. I knew an Asian man named Duc Wing. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/230 "2013-06-19T22:38:13Z")
I was just watching the Orioles game, and the commentators were talking about the upcoming series against Toronto, and how the Blue Jays had already set up their rotation for the three games as follows: Dickey, Wang, and Johnson. _snort_ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/231 "2014-07-04T00:08:52Z")
Pro wrestler Bulldog Brower’s real name was Richard ‘Dick’ Gland. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/232 "2014-07-04T00:12:49Z")
I do some database work (typing names into databases and such.) I saw that one of the people I was entering into the database, someone from the Philippines, has the unfortunate last name of “Dumdum.” I kid you not! Though I imagine it’s pronounced differently and has a different meaning in the Philippines. And yes, I know this is an older thread, but I felt like sharing that. ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/233 "2014-07-04T00:16:43Z")
I married a gal whose brother’s name was Dick Swisher, and we bought a new car from Rusty Hymen. The car dealer in Berrien Springs Michigan. That was in 1967, Don’t know if he is still there. But Dick is still swishing. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/234 "2014-07-04T01:17:09Z")
Remember that one college golf team that got suspended for posting that picture of themselves standing naked with their um, “golf equipment” over their junk? The team captain’s name was [Jack Hiscock](http://www.kake.com/sports/headlines/Provacative_Pictures_Suspend_Bethany_Gof_Team_128185618.html?ref=618). ---
**Author:** ![orangeapples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@orangeapples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeapples)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/235 "2014-07-04T02:18:54Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Oh come on - we’ve gotten this far without [Dick Trickle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle)? Gah! I was so gonna answer that. Met someone named Darwin Charles but I actually think that’s an awesome name. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/236 "2014-07-04T03:00:25Z")
Albert Brooks’ birth name was Albert Einstein. [Really](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000983/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1). ---
**Author:** ![IfItComesUp6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecccb3/32.png) [@IfItComesUp6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IfItComesUp6)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/237 "2014-07-04T03:14:03Z")
My Grandmother went to school with a girl called Fanny Drips. In Australia Fanny is not a word for bum but rather another of the many names for female genitalia. My Brother went to school with a Shawn Dick. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/238 "2014-07-04T11:09:58Z")
Years ago, while working retail, I once took a credit card from a Cosmo Uttero. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/239 "2014-07-04T23:35:25Z")
I once had to make a phone call and ask to speak to someone with the unfortunate first name of Supaporn. I tried not to laugh, I really did. It didn’t go so well. Ms. Supaporn, wherever you are, I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![rucciface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/240 "2014-07-07T19:47:24Z")
A guy I knew back in high school. Rusty Koontz. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/241 "2014-07-08T17:34:11Z")
UCLA’s University Research Library (renamed Young Research Library) had a big plaque on the first floor dedicated to early campus librarian Hugh G. Dick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705.md?page=13)