Unusual Names

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In the back of my journal I have kept a small list of unusual names I have encountered in my reading. As I am ready to start a new volume, I suppose I ought to share it.

William Coney Goldbolt, mass killer
Orange Lewis early settler of Ulysses, Pennsylvania
Einar Axel Malstrom (no note, but an excellent supervillan name)
J. Pius Barbour Crozen, seems to be a biographer of Martin Luther King
Astro Teller, Head of Alphabet’s X-Labs
Welcome Wilson, head of civil defense in Texas in 1960 (A lovely name)
Professor Carlos Silvestre Frenk, on the Honours List for a CBE
Jewel Lightfoot, Attorney General of Texas in 1910
Thomas Scattergood, a Quaker minster. (Another lovely name)

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Urban Shocker, pitcher for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns

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Albert Schweitzer (December 23, 1882 – January 27, 1969) outfielder for the Browns. His nickname was “Cheese.”

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Irvin Key “Kaiser” Wilhelm (January 26, 1874 – May 22, 1936) played for Boston, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and Baltimore.

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Sounds like a very specific sexual move with a definition on Urban Dictionary.

“She eagerly went along with his weirdness, then he tried the Urban Shocker, which, of course, was too much even for her.”

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Bizarre Books By Russell Ash and Brian Lake has a list of “Remarkable Names of Real Authors”.

The list includes:

Sue Mee
Hugh Ray
Myrtle Berry
Nancy Boy
Dee Day
Al Burt
John Thomas Jeffcock
Jacques Off
Willy Prick
Violet Organ
Solon Toothacker Kimble

O. Hell
W. Anker
K. Kong

Yoshimoto Banana
Rebecca Hammering Bang
Marmaduke Baglehole
Mari Anus Cuming
Achilles Fang
Ludwig von Baldass
Urban Grosskipper von Wipper
Count Jacques de Silly
Anna Ethel Twitt de Vere
Professor A. Moron

This is just a small selection. Most of list is available via the Look Inside feature at Amazon. (Page through to near the end of the available pages.)

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And I could add

Praise-God Barebone, a 17th century Puritan preacher and Member of Parliament.

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Worst name for an international alliance:

The Schmalkaldic League

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When I Google search that name all I get are links redirecting me to Willie Cory Godbolt, spree killer.

Is that who you mean?

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Increase Mather and his son Cotton Mather, early American Puritans.

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Probably. I will blame by handwriting.

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I’ve always been fond of the name Athol Fugard, the playwright and novelist.

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In recent news, there was Reality Winner, the intelligence agency subcontractor who leaked classified information about the Russia investigation.

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Saw the name Increase Clapp on a gravestone once.

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Oh, yes, I saw that in the news. “Reality” is a pretty name.

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The name Horatio Hornblower always comes to mind thanks to President Carter.

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The name Horatio Hornblower always comes to mind thanks to President Carter.

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Horatio Hornblower was a fictional character. This thread is about real people.

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There were Coke commercials many years ago where they did taste tests with “real people”. One of them was a woman by the name of Toppie Smelly (or perhaps Smellie). It entertained me no end.

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I vaguely remember that name because I remember my neighbor and I cracking up about it. That would have been late 70s or early 80s because I would have been in HS or just starting college. But I could not have told you where it came from. A Coke ad, huh?

I guy I used to work with had an obituary taped to his filing cabinet, which he had clipped and saved just because of the name: Edna May Swallow-Cox.