# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/162 "2011-05-26T01:08:07Z")
> [@silvermist](#): > > If she marries a Chinese man it may be Heidi Hidy Ho! Oh, those Ho names. Here are a few: Sherlock Ho Peiyu Ho ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/163 "2011-05-26T07:24:26Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > As far as Anil Dikshit mentioned above, there was an Indian diplomat (Ambassador to the US, I believe) named Dixit and I wonder if that is the same name, with a better transliteration. An economics textbook, [Investment Under Uncertainty](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5474.html), is by A.K. Dixit and R.S. Pindyck. Yep, Dickshit and Pindick. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/164 "2011-05-26T12:02:50Z")
There is a woman on FB whose name is **Zucchini Jones**. It’s so wrong and so awesome. I went to school with a **Charles Brown** and a **Ronald McDonald** and a **Jackie Fagg** I met a guy whose nick name is Bucky. His real name is **Conway Twitty ( Last Name).** Same night I met a guy whose last name is **Richendollar.** There was a family by my cousins whose last name was **Hitler**. They were the nicest family. ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/165 "2011-05-26T13:17:45Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > An economics textbook, [Investment Under Uncertainty](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5474.html), is by A.K. Dixit and R.S. Pindyck. Yep, Dickshit and Pindick. How funny. I actually met Prof Pindyck at an economics conference and a colleague in all seriousness called him ‘Pindick’. He wasn’t amused… ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/166 "2011-05-26T13:19:57Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > I knew this [Anil Dikshit](http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=16169016&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=C2yo&locale=en_US&srchid=69fd395b-8157-450f-b93e-dfec135a4d7b-0&srchindex=1&srchtotal=10&pvs=ps&pohelp=&goback=.fps_*1_anil_dikshit) at Cornell (only in passing) Which year were you? I remember laughing at this name in the Cornell new student directory (aka ‘The Pig Book’) Endemic (Cornell ALS, '93) ---
**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:** [May 26, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/167 "2011-05-26T16:41:18Z")
The lead singer of the Southern gospel group “The Blue Ridge Quartet” was [Elmo Fagg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLfGCs_sV1A). His name might have actually been “Juan Elmo Fagg.” Doesn’t strike me as particularly Spanish/Hispanic looking. There were some pro wrestling brothers name “Faggart.” They changed their wrestling names to “Fargo.” ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/168 "2011-05-26T17:02:56Z")
My husband and I were doing some banking arrangement and the representative was named Aneeda Knapp. Her parents were not native speakers of English so they get a pass on it. I offered the suggestion that she not marry anyone named “Mann.” She’d heard that before. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/169 "2011-05-26T18:03:58Z")
There’s a Portland newscaster named [Anita Kissee](http://www.katu.com/about/people/reporters/3517961.html). Unfortunately she pronounces it Kiss-AY. Still makes me giggle every time she comes on. ---
**Author:** ![Soliloquy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Soliloquy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soliloquy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/170 "2011-05-26T18:36:18Z")
A few favorites that I’ve run into at work: Richard Ryder Richard Small Anul Ramm Bunny Fallis (Yes, his real first name) And the BEST name I’ve ever seen! Strike Force Thao Strike Force was this tiny Asian dude that got arrested for some pathetic weapons charge. My partner and I decided he completely missed his calling. He should have gone into the military. Sergeant Strike Force? Corporal Strike Force? General? Rank never would have mattered; they all sound awesome with a name like that! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/171 "2011-05-26T18:53:15Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > My husband and I were doing some banking arrangement and the representative was named Aneeda Knapp. Her parents were not native speakers of English so they get a pass on it. I offered the suggestion that she not marry anyone named “Mann.” She’d heard that before. I hope you guys weren’t asking for a loan … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/172 "2011-05-26T19:38:19Z")
Ha Ha. No, we were opening an account, or a safety deposit box or some such mundane thing. I’m sure we could have thought of a whole lot of last names she didn’t want. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/173 "2011-05-27T04:33:45Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > My wifes best friend used to be a social worker. One of her clients (I think that’s the term) was woman named La Trina. > > There is a sociologist called [Dennis Wrong](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wrong). I was once told he once co-authored a book with a man named Wright, but that may be apocryphal. However, I see from his Wikipedia page that “The award for the best graduate paper of the year in the sociology department at New York University is named in honor of Dennis Wrong.” The Wrong award? Physicists Ralph Alpher and George Gamow cowrote an important paper on cosmogony, and then contrived to have the name of colleague Hans Bethe added as co-author (apparently without his knowledge) so that it could be known as the “Alpher-Bethe-Gamow” theory. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/174 "2011-06-01T23:41:28Z")
Unfortunate, I dunno, but some magazine once said that the actor [Zak Orth](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651008/) sounded like some kind of space alien. And the more I think about it, that magazine was right. I AM ZAK ORTH. I COME IN PEACE. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/175 "2011-06-02T02:42:44Z")
Is the surname “Cockburn” pronounced the way I think it is? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/176 "2011-06-02T02:45:13Z")
It’s pronounced “Coburn.” ---
**Author:** ![bahia\_hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@bahia\_hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahia_hombre)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/177 "2011-06-22T21:46:56Z")
Then there’s the infamous Mr. Weiwei: [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=13902471](http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=13902471) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/178 "2011-06-23T00:00:45Z")
'There is a moderately well-known mathematician who signs his papers “A. Dikshit”. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/179 "2011-06-23T09:41:01Z")
Sheesh, and I always felt bad for the Buttland sisters I went to jr high and high school with. Not so much now ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/180 "2011-06-23T10:39:47Z")
I’m working on a list of fabulous first names from our client database. I’m really excited to see both Cletis and Cletus. Hooray for rural America! ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705/181 "2011-06-24T05:42:40Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > E-3 in the Navy is Seaman. I’ve met Seaman Seeman, Seaman Dick, Seaman Stanko, Seaman Hunter, and the best of all, Seaman Coffee. Holy Crap, this reminds me, I knew a Private Hare and Specialist Raper in the army, how did I miss this the first time? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-names-of-real-people/577705.md?page=10)