# Weirdest name you've encountered lately?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 2, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744 "2016-09-02T00:54:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/1 "2016-09-02T00:54:48Z")
An actual person, and in no way an atractive Bond assasin, called Sugar Putzi.
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### Author:  [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/2 "2016-09-02T01:47:16Z")
Abcde, yes that is really what her parents named her.
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### Author:  [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/3 "2016-09-02T02:12:04Z")
I am an administrator for a mid/large Facebook group (maybe 15k members.) One of those is named Sandy Butts. I think I’d have kept my maiden name!
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/4 "2016-09-02T02:23:15Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#):
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> I am an administrator for a mid/large Facebook group (maybe 15k members.) One of those is named Sandy Butts. I think I’d have kept my maiden name!
Does she have a bad temper?
My business page has over 500K followers. It’s a constant source of amusement.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/5 "2016-09-02T13:07:44Z")
A person with the surname “Badboy”.
Particularly ironic in my setting.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/6 "2016-09-02T13:40:12Z")
I was looking at some user data in the database the other day and saw a user with the first name “Imagine”.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/7 "2016-09-02T13:48:49Z")
He was Egyptian, and for all I know, his name is as common as David over there, and may mean “What a great person,” but the guy’s name was Mehat, pronounced Meh-hat," like, “that’s a really mediocre hat.”
I am probably a terrible person, because I couldn’t get “mediocre hat” out of my mind whenever I heard his name.
I also met a “Tamara,” whose parents went nuts and spelled it “Tahmarah.” I’ll bet she just loves spelling it out for every single person she meets.
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### Author:  [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/8 "2016-09-02T14:06:56Z")
I work with a database of generally low income people. One set of new twins were Mazerati and Lamborghini.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/9 "2016-09-02T14:25:10Z")
‘Lately’? No. Back in the '80s, I knew someone named Trixie O’Rear.
In 1996 the FBI investigator at the Altanta Olympics bombing was Woody Johnson.
I keep hoping to meet someone named Ophelia Butts or The Reverend Aloysius Furbearin Hair-pie.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/10 "2016-09-02T14:50:35Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#):
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> I am an administrator for a mid/large Facebook group (maybe 15k members.) One of those is named Sandy Butts. I think I’d have kept my maiden name!
I related in another thread that during a recent genealogy search for the ancestors of my nephew’s wife, I ran across Rhoda Lucky Butts. Lucky was a given name, not a nickname.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/11 "2016-09-02T15:32:40Z")
I was reading a recent issue of Wired magazine and they had a spread about “How Nestle Drumsticks are made” and the plant manager for the plant where Drumsticks are made is named Buttons Coleman.
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### Author:  [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/12 "2016-09-02T20:15:01Z")
I met a woman named Apocalypsis. I can’t imagine naming a tiny baby that.
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/13 "2016-09-02T20:23:06Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> A person with the surname “Badboy”.
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> Particularly ironic in my setting.
Thuth in advertising!
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/14 "2016-09-02T21:16:25Z")
I see hundreds of names each day. Today’s that’s-gotta-be-fake name was “Eliza Doolittle.” Not long ago there’s was “Bonnie Parker.”
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/15 "2016-09-02T22:02:05Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#):
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> Abcde, yes that is really what her parents named her.
This was their fifth child, I assume?
mmm
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### Author:  [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/16 "2016-09-03T02:39:45Z")
This wasn’t that recently, but Oliver Twist Williams jacked the Bank of America in my town.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/17 "2016-09-03T03:22:29Z")
I felt a particular pang of sympathy for how school must have played out for the woman with the last name of Porn. And a curiosity for why she didn’t change it when she worked for a Fortune 50 company.
Ran across an Indian fellow with the first name of Surender.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/18 "2016-09-03T03:27:05Z")
Two of the most unusually named people I’ve met both had surnames-as-first-names: Sagan and Dallow. Not things I’d ever choose to name baby girls, but once upon a time their respective parents apparently felt differently.
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### Author:  [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/19 "2016-09-03T04:01:41Z")
I assume foreign names don’t count. Because my wife teaches in an elementary school in a neighborhood with a lot of immigrants from India, and the names of the Indian kids – well, to English speaking ears one is more bizarre than than the next.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/20 "2016-09-03T13:26:10Z")
There’s a Chinese person at work with the first name “Fenwicks”. “Fenwick” would be an unusual first name, but multiple Fenwicks?
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