# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/261 "2020-10-28T15:36:52Z")
At an international company I worked for, our Philippines office was headed by **Manuel Pagan-Colon**. I’m pretty sure that’s a normal, well-respected last name there. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/262 "2020-10-28T15:44:01Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Quite possibly, the apostrophe got inserted just to cause other people to pronounce it the way they preferred. According to a former colleague, there is at least one Shi’Tonya loose in the world. That’s a crucial apostrophe right there. > [@Ekroeger](#): > > A former Governor of Wisconsin and former Secretary of Health and Social Services (under W. Bush) is Tommy Thompson. Also, former _Charlotte Observer_ columnist and current WFAE commentator Tommy Tomlinson, whom I’ve met several times and is a prince. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/263 "2020-10-28T17:35:43Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > My name is Yon Yonson, I live in Visconsin, I vork in the lumberyards dere… Although it’s not a weird name on its own, whenever I hear Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin on the news, I always have to say that rhyme. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/264 "2020-10-29T03:17:07Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > . . . reminded me of one of my all-time favorite names in sports: Junior Ah You, a defensive lineman for the Montreal Alouettes . . . If you hie yourself to the polls in Modesto, CA within the next week, you can vote for Kristi Ah You for mayor! [https://kristiahyouformayor2020.com](https://kristiahyouformayor2020.com) What kind of name is Ah You? I’d have guessed Chinese or other East Asian. But her husband, Bart Ah You, doesn’t look at all Asian to me. > **[big-kristi-and-bart-ah-you3247702859581305\_n](https://www.modestoview.com/big-view-the-next-bright-idea/big-kristi-and-bart-ah-you3247702859581305_n/)** > > Visit the post for more. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/265 "2020-10-29T03:23:55Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > What kind of name is Ah You? I’d have guessed Chinese or other East Asian. Polynesian, actually; Junior Ah You was born in American Samoa, though he grew up in Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/266 "2020-10-29T03:25:42Z")
Which reminds me, I’ve seen some campaign signs for a candidate named Chris Bish running for Congress. The slogan is “Send a Bish to Congress.” I don’t think I live in his district though; I don’t recall seeing him on my ballot. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/267 "2020-10-29T03:32:31Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Polynesian, actually; Junior Ah You was born in American Samoa, though he grew up in Hawaii.  I didn’t think the above Bart Ah You looks any kind of Pacific Islander either. The only Samoan I ever actually met was one Tuatoo Tautalatasi (there’s supposed to be an apostrophe, or 'okina maybe, in there somewhere but I don’t remember where). He just called himself Tasi. He was a genuine bona-fide, hereditary Samoan High Talking Chief! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2020, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/268 "2020-10-29T03:41:40Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > If you’re talking about the British singer [Englebert Humperdinck], that’s a stage name. He took it from the late 19th-early 20th century German composer, who is moderately well known in the classical music world. As our Hawaiian posters can attest, Hawaiian entertainers loved to take contrived sesquipedalian Hawaiian-sounding stage names. In the days when I lived there, we had Nina Kealiiwahamanu and Boyce Kaihiihikapuokalani. Okay, there was also Don Ho. Some real Hawaiians had beautific names too, such as surfing champion Duke Kahanamoku. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/269 "2020-11-11T01:07:19Z")
When I was a 2LT in th 70s I ran into a MSGT Officer. I stared at that name tag for a long time before I just decided that was just a name, and not some mysterious rank I slept through a lecture about. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/270 "2020-11-11T01:19:24Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > When I was a 2LT in th 70s I ran into a MSGT Officer. Was his first name Non-Commissioned? ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/271 "2020-11-11T02:50:22Z")
I knew a Tiffany Officer once. When she came to the company where I was working, one waggish co-worker said “I wonder if she knows the other Bond girls.” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/272 "2020-11-11T12:00:04Z")
I worked with a Lawrence Officer, and speculated about the possibility of a news story featuring him being arrested by an Officer Lawrence. ---
**Author:** ![Sepp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Sepp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sepp)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/273 "2020-11-19T23:36:37Z")
Some Chinese names here where I live: Edgar Allan Pe Christian Dee-Ong Washington Dy Sy Chica Go Johnathan Livingston Sy Earvin “Magic” Tiongson ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/274 "2020-11-20T13:38:08Z")
I once heard, on the BBC’s worthy classical music station, something German and baroque, at the end of which the presenter said “This may not be what you expect to hear from a Radio 3 announcer, but I can legitimately tell you that that was a piece of [Scheidt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Scheidt).” A couple of names with nothing weird about them on their own, but they did mean that a commentator on an England/West Indies cricket match did a quick recap for anyone just tuned in: “The bowler’s [Holding](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Holding), the batsman’s [Willey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Willey).” And somebody in an office I worked in somehow found a US high school yearbook which included an entry for [Ginger Minge](https://mobile.twitter.com/daftnames/status/90699914685841408?lang=en) (if that isn’t a slang word in the US, in British English it is yet another word for a woman’s private parts). ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/275 "2020-11-23T00:24:05Z")
Barefoot Sanders (1925-2008) was a district judge in Texas, and counsel to LBJ. > **[Barefoot Sanders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Sanders)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. (February 5, 1925 – September 21, 2008) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was best known for overseeing the lawsuit to desegregate the Dallas Independent School District. > Sanders was born in Dallas, Texas to H.B. Sanders, and the former May Eli... ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/276 "2020-11-23T05:34:50Z")
The 2014 New York Mets had, st one time, three players on their 25-man roster whose names started with a lower case letter – Travis d’Arnaud, Jacob deGrom and Matt den Dekker. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/277 "2020-11-23T05:45:04Z")
[quote=“Mark\_Finn, post:275, topic:915747, full:true”] Barefoot Sanders (1925-2008) was a district judge in Texas, and counsel to LBJ. quote] Barefoot is a fairly common surname in Newfoundland. So are Momster and Freake. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/278 "2020-11-23T17:54:59Z")
I’m off from work this week (the agency is closed all week for the holiday), but I check my work email a few times during the day, just to make sure nothing explodes. I just saw an email from a person at a research supplier with which we do business; his name is Calvin Hobbs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/279 "2020-11-25T12:58:55Z")
I have completed another volume of my journal, and so have another list. People **Anne Pleasant** was an anti-suffrage leader in 1919 **Bainbridge Colby** Wilson’s secretary of state **Robert Doe** flew in the Battle of Britain **Douglas Evill** Air commodore in the RAF **Rudolf Buttman** was a nazi “old fighter” **Sigmund Payne Best** OBE & spy **Jerome Kitchen** lives in Los Angeles **Bimbo Haspel** was the wife of the head of Daimler Benz during & after the war **Noble Wray** is a retired policeman in Madison Wisconsin **Amen Dunes** is British artist **Amy Frogge** serves on the Nashville board of education For some reason my notes say **”Michael Clear** (Ireland) is not **Satoshi Nakamoto,”** but I do not know what that means. FBI agent **Diamond Outlaw** recently arrested **Ben Hung.** **Wave Crooks** was a diver in the Royal Navy **Missy South** was recently mentioned in an obituary Policeman **Myles Cosgrove** killed Bryonna Taylor **Marc Racicot** was governor of Montana **Ben Janloo** ran for office in Oklahoma **Rusty Nix** lives in Montevallo, Alabama **Holly Cost** is the mayor of Montevallo, Alabama **Glen Canada** is the speaker of the house in Tennessee **Peregrine Worsthorne** recently died at age 99 **Dick A Harpootlian** is a state senator in North Carolina **Stephanie Pillersdorf** is a spokesman for some rich person **Xavier Becerra** is a former attorney general of California **Samantha Huge** is the athletic director at William & Mary University **Brandon Whipple** is the mayor of Witchita, Kansas **Dennis Quak** is the president of a police union in New York state **Steve Gallant** got a rare Royal pardon. He is both a murderer and a hero **Dickie Arbiter** was once the spokesman for Buckingham Palace **Percival L Shangraw** was on the Vermont Supreme Court in 1988 **Jasmine deBoo** heads something called “Proveg International” **Journey Gunderson** is the head of the National Cowboy Center **Colin Purrington** is a nature photographer **Karen Xie** of the University of Denver **Austin Mao** lives in Las Vegas **Bob Crow** is in the leadership of the Labour Party **Trevor Milton** is the head of Nikola electric cars **Bernard Looney** head of BP **Bonner Fellers** was a brigadier general in the US Army **Green Hackwood** was in the US State Department in 1945 **Kyle Thousand** is an American sports agent **Antony Blinken** will be secretary of state. He comes from a distinguished family **Eric Toner** is a doctor at Johns Hopkins **Matthew Trump** of Iowa seems to be no relation **Bourke Hickenlooper** was a US senator from Oowa **Gar Alperovitz** lives in Wisconsin **Raja Krishnamoorthi** is a congressman Places There is a **Jermantown Road** in Fairfax, Virginia **Humpty Doo** is a town in Northern Territory. It has a population of 380 **Twisp, Washington** has a population of 963 **Olyphant, Pennsylvania** is in **Lackawanna County** **Moosic, Pennsylvania** is in the “anthracite belt” **Purgatory Correctional Center** is in **Hurricane, Utah** Colorado suffered the **East Troublesome Fire** The **National Cowboy Center** is in Jamestown, New York **Cheesequake, New Jersey** **California, Maryland** **Dick Johnson Township, Indiana** **Rabbit Hash, Kentucky** has elected a dog as mayor Other stuff The **Jewish Motorcycle Alliance** is a thing **O’Bellx Unit** is the future of avalanche control and is replacing the **GAZEX unit** which seems to be the past of avalanche control **Red Wine and Blue** is a group of women who support Joe Biden The accounting firm of **Noiseux, Lyonnais, Gascon, Bedard, Lussier, Senecal & Associates** ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/280 "2020-11-25T15:51:14Z")
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