# Weirdest names you've ever heard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747 "2020-07-19T12:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/181 "2020-08-12T20:17:59Z")
DrDeth was responding to Tabco’s post #177. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/182 "2020-08-12T20:24:15Z")
I had a classmate from elementary through high school whose full name was **Lieutenant George** (70’s-80’s). I’m guessing his parents never wanted him to be considered just enlisted, or maybe they were huge fans of Columbo. I have never met or heard of anyone else with the first name Lieutenant. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/183 "2020-08-12T21:27:26Z")
Yep. His post was funny tho. Dr. Savage, Dr. Slaughter, DrDeth. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/184 "2020-08-13T00:12:41Z")
I went to college with a guy name Pogue. It’s pronounced with the ogue in brogue. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/185 "2020-08-13T00:17:07Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I went to college with a guy name Pogue. Please tell me his last name was Mahone. 😃 “Pogue Mahone” is the Anglicization of the Irish phrase “_póg mo thóin_,” which means “Kiss My Ass.” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/186 "2020-08-13T02:40:47Z")
When I was a kid (early to mid-1960’s), I spent many hours enjoying my Play Puzzle City, which was designed by Arnold C. Arnold ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/187 "2020-08-13T05:26:01Z")
Ele-Noir Roose-Velvet. Wife’s rabbit. It’s black and soft, so I hear. I ain’t touchin’ no filthy rabbit. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/188 "2020-08-13T08:07:08Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Thor Hyerdahl was briefly famous awhile back. I always thought that was a cool name. I cleaned up at Trivial Pursuit back in the day, in part, by answering, “Thor Heyerdahl” to any question regarding both exploring and sailing. I knew a guy named, 'Ellwood Cridge", which I also thought was a great name. Sounds like it would be the name of a Scooby-Doo villain, or maybe the name of the Tall Man in the, “Phantasm” movies. Figured if I ever wrote a book, I’d find a way to use that name. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/189 "2020-08-13T15:22:28Z")
I met a Terry Terry once. Even stranger, his middle name started with N, so his initials were TNT. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/190 "2020-08-13T15:25:23Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > I met a Terry Terry once. > … Was he from Walla Walla? ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/191 "2020-08-13T18:32:17Z")
I once had a job interview with an interviewer whose last name was De’ath. It was pronounced “Dee-ath,” but it sure looked like I was going to be interviewed by Ms. Death. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/192 "2020-08-13T19:27:53Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > I once had a job interview with an interviewer whose last name was De’ath. > > It was pronounced “Dee-ath,” but it sure looked like I was going to be interviewed by Ms. Death Quite possibly, the apostrophe got inserted just to cause other people to pronounce it the way they preferred. I knew a guy once named DicKard, with the accent on the second syllable. I suspect that he spelled it with the capital K just to get people to say it that way. If it were written Dickard, how would you most likely pronounce it? (He said the name was derived from the French name DesCartes.) ETA: In the early early days of computer graphics/animation, there was a prominent player named Stan VanDerBeeK. Rumor had it that he capitalized the final K just for the symmetry of it. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/193 "2020-08-13T19:43:07Z")
Cary Grant’s real name was Archibald Leach, which I always thought sounded like the name of a villain in a Dicken’s novel. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/194 "2020-08-14T17:57:03Z")
There was a story on the news last night about a police officer who saved a guy on the RR tracks. They never showed her name on the bottom crawl, so I don’t know how it was spelled, but her last name was pronounced “Urea”. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/195 "2020-08-14T20:53:07Z")
Officer Erica Urrea ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/196 "2020-08-15T01:15:16Z")
Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/197 "2020-08-15T06:50:41Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@MrAtoz](#): > > > > I once had a job interview with an interviewer whose last name was De’ath. > > > > > It was pronounced “Dee-ath,” but it sure looked like I was going to be interviewed by Ms. Death > > Quite possibly, the apostrophe got inserted just to cause other people to pronounce it the way they preferred. It is not necessarily a gratuitous apostrophe. Ath is a real place; so is Eth. Therefore you run into the occasional d’Ath, Death, De’Ath, d’Eth… ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/198 "2020-08-16T18:59:39Z")
The pediatricians my parents took my brother and I to were Dr. Skinner and Dr. Feeley. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/199 "2020-08-16T20:25:32Z")
Has no one mentioned Randy Rainbow? That’s his real name, although his father had changed it. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/200 "2020-08-16T21:04:44Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@elfkin477](#): > > > > I went to college with a guy name Pogue. > > Please tell me his last name was Mahone. 😃 No, it wasn’t. I can’t recall where in EU country his parents were from (he and his siblings were born here, however) but it wasn’t one in the UK. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747.md?page=11)