Unfortunate names of real people

Yes, and you can meet them on certain dating sites as well as through Pornhub.

There are a few here:

http://www.anorak.co.uk/252524/strange-but-true/the-best-nominative-determinism-pictures-ever-presented-by-mr-phani-tikkala.html

When I used to manage a country club bar back in the day, one of our member’s names was Berning. You guessed it, first name Richard…but he went by Dick.

They shoulda played this song when he entered the room.

Was she from Long Island? There was a boy in my grade with that last name and he had a sister whose name started with “m”.

LOL. That would have been great. Could have been his grand entrance song, like when a prizefighter enters the ring.

What’s funnier still was that Dick would always sidle up to the bar after dinner with his family to have a cigar and an apertif, usually a tawny port or some Gran Marnier.

Just for him, the next time he came into the bar, I unveiled a bottle of 20 year old tawny port I’d ordered just for him…yup, you guessed it: Cockburn’s 20 Year Old Tawny.

It was a source of immature laughs amongst the bar patrons thereafter as it became a “tradition” for one of the regulars to buy Dick Berning his after dinner Cockburn.

Ulysses, Molly Bloom thinking OP thought:

…my name Bloom when I used to write it in print to see how it looked on a visiting card or practising for the butcher and oblige M Bloom youre looking blooming Josie used to say after I married him well its better than Breen or Briggs does brig or those awful names with bottom in them Mrs Ramsbottom or some other kind of a bottom…

When I was the secretary, for one year, of my Reserve unit I came across the name of a woman whose father had obviously wanted here to be a boy. She was Floydene Earlene Surname. What a cruel thing to do.

Cruel? Really? A huge proportion of feminine names in the Anglo-American tradition are just feminized versions of masculine names.

Joan, Andrea, Thomasina, Wilhelmina, Caroline/Charlene, Christine, Claudia, Stephanie, Danielle, Michelle, Julia, Alexandra, Anastasia, Victoria, Adrienne, Antonia, Patricia, Paula, …

Many now-feminine names are simply co-opted masculine names — Francis, Leslie, Kelly, Tracy, Lindsay, Hillary, Vivian, Lynn, Valery, …

And I’ve met more than a few African-American women whose names are novel feminized versions of their fathers’ names, …

So I don’t think there’s anything particularly cruel about this. Maybe Floydene will catch on, maybe it won’t.

I don’t find Floydene or Earlene anywhere near that ballpark.

Good GOD is that cruel.

My family had a historical pattern where a newborn male would get his paternal grandfather’s name as his middle name. My grandfather’s name was Floyd. My parents broke the pattern.

That kind of arbitrary conclusion is not really persuasive evidence of cruelty.

I’ve come across Supaporn too! Unless there’s more than one…

I once had the pleasure of speaking to a man named Shiting. :smiley:

Our 1970s Unitarian minister was a Slutsky, also in the NY metro area (but not Long Island). My grandmother would say “A nice man, but what an unfortunate name!” First thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread.

I’m not sure I knew even then - I occasionally hung around with a group that she was part of, but didn’t know her that well.

There are tons, it being a common name for Thai ladies. Alas! I is not pronounced anything like what you would think: “Soo-pah-pawn.”

While testing the fie alarm in an elementary school, I walked past a classroom. On the door was the teacher’s name: Miss Assmann

Dick Assman passed away a couple of years ago.

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Not unfortunate, but the name fits the job: the sheriff of Washington County, Oregon is named Pat Garrett.