# 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:  [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/81 "2016-09-18T01:59:50Z")
> [@wickky](#):
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> Years ago I worked in I.T. One of our company employees was named Harry Dong.
A coworker of mine claims she worked with a man whose name was Harold Dyck, and his wife’s name was Anita. She also claimed he hated being called by the usual nickname for “Harold” for obvious reasons.
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### Author:  [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/82 "2016-09-18T15:31:09Z")
> [@guestchaz](#):
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> hmmm, weird names.
> Far as the girls named Abcde, how do you even pronounce that? Do you suppose they just go by the nickname Abby?
“Ab-sa-dee”
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/83 "2016-09-18T16:31:51Z")
There’s a review of a novel today by a writer named **Affinity Konar** , which sounds like a small aerospace parts supplier.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/84 "2016-09-18T16:50:06Z")
> [@wickky](#):
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> Years ago I worked in I.T. One of our company employees was named Harry Dong.
I was working with a client a while back who was named Yumi Dong. It was pronounced with a long U, not like “yummy”, but my inner 12-year-old still found it funny.
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### Author:  [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/85 "2016-09-18T17:41:44Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#):
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> I was working with a client a while back who was named Yumi Dong. It was pronounced with a long U, not like “yummy”, but my inner 12-year-old still found it funny.
That made me think of “Dr. Weiping Wang” (actual nane) and wondering if he ever treated any gonorrhea patients.
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### Author:  [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/86 "2016-09-18T20:35:24Z")
Over at Youtube, there’s a series of vids about an adorable, tow-headed little boy named
… wait for it … Frumpkin Love. _Frumpkin_. Who the _fuck_ names their kid Frumpkin?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ky8sEwg1oY)
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### Author:  [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/87 "2016-09-18T23:20:18Z")
I encountered a person with the first name of Pornrat.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/88 "2016-09-18T23:44:16Z")
> [@Mallard](#):
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> A coworker of mine claims she worked with a man whose name was Harold Dyck, and his wife’s name was Anita. She also claimed he hated being called by the usual nickname for “Harold” for obvious reasons.
Hal?
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/89 "2016-09-19T17:59:02Z")
I’ve edited your post how you wanted, **Waltzes With Cacti.**
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### Author:  [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/90 "2016-09-19T20:27:13Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#):
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> I’ve edited your post how you wanted, **Waltzes With Cacti.**
Thank you, **Idle Thoughts**! I’m afraid I sent the request in twice; please ignore the 2nd one. I thought the 1st didn’t go through.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/91 "2016-09-19T20:40:37Z")
> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#):
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> Over at Youtube, there’s a series of vids about an adorable, tow-headed little boy named
> … wait for it … Frumpkin Love. _Frumpkin_. Who the _fuck_ names their kid Frumpkin?
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> [www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ky8sEwg1oY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ky8sEwg1oY)
And apparently his last name is Love?
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### Author:  [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/92 "2016-09-19T20:47:53Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> And apparently his last name is Love?
So it seems. I just can’t get over Frumpkin as a first name. It sounds like the name of a character that Dinklage or Warwick Davis would play.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/93 "2016-09-19T20:55:27Z")
Isn’t there a character named Frumpkin in Rugrats?
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/94 "2016-09-19T20:59:49Z")
Doing some ancestry research last week I came across a relative a couple generations back named “Ruhama.” Never heard the name before; apparently it’s biblical.
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/95 "2016-09-19T21:27:37Z")
> [@Shoeless](#):
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> I was looking at some user data in the database the other day and saw a user with the first name “Imagine”.
Yeah, I saw a person with the first name “Zillion” the other day in one of ours. Had to double-check that one to make sure I’d seen it right.
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### Author:  [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/96 "2016-09-20T00:14:21Z")
When I first heard of Jhonny Peralta (then shortstop for the Cleveland Indians), I assumed someone had made a typo on his birth certificate and it stuck, but no. Apparently Jhonny is a name parents actually give out.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/97 "2016-09-20T00:47:54Z")
> [@OldGuy](#):
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> When I first heard of Jhonny Peralta (then shortstop for the Cleveland Indians), I assumed someone had made a typo on his birth certificate and it stuck, but no. Apparently Jhonny is a name parents actually give out.
My son’s name is John. We call him Johnny. People ask us how to spell it. I used to try answering “Conventional spelling,” but that isn’t even meaningful for people under 35.
I expect him to go through a “Jack” phase when he is a teenager. People will probably ask how to spell that. Of course, given that he will be a teenager, who knows how he’ll want to spell it.
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### Author:  [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/98 "2016-09-20T03:16:56Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> My son’s name is John. We call him Johnny. People ask us how to spell it. I used to try answering “Conventional spelling,” but that isn’t even meaningful for people under 35.
Interestingly enough, my name is Jonathan, and as a little kid I was also called Jonny, though spelled that way as there’s no h in Jonathan (well not there anyway). Apparently I came home from my first day at nursery school crying because I changed the sign on my cubby or desk and the teacher insisted I was misspelling my name.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/99 "2016-09-20T03:48:24Z")
> [@breezman](#):
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> I encountered a person with the first name of Pornrat.
That’s probably Thai.
In my old town, there was a medical resident named Dr. Seaman, and one of the other pharmacists, a married woman in her 30s, cracked up when she heard his name. :smack:
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-name-youve-encountered-lately/764744/100 "2016-09-20T05:07:15Z")
> [@OldGuy](#):
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> Interestingly enough, my name is Jonathan, and as a little kid I was also called Jonny, though spelled that way as there’s no h in Jonathan (well not there anyway). Apparently I came home from my first day at nursery school crying because I changed the sign on my cubby or desk and the teacher insisted I was misspelling my name.
I mean, if people say “What’s his name?” and I answer “John, but we call him Johnny; conventional spelling,” that means one thing. Saying “Jonathan, but we call him Jonny; conventional spelling,” means something different. If I said “Gianni; Italian spelling,” I’d expect to still have to spell it, but a few people might know, and it would stop people from reflexively writing the wrong thing before I had a chance to spell it.
If I just tell people his name is “Johnny,” I say “Johnny with an H.” I occasionally get “Johhny,” but I’m sure that’s a brain cramp. So far, I have not gotten “Jhonny.”
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