# 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:** 22
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/423 "2022-09-22T12:53:08Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Ismail Butt It might be a transliteration of a South Asian name that also can be written as “Bhatt.” ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/424 "2022-09-22T13:32:53Z")
Butt also is a common German last name. There’s Hans Jörg Butt for instance, a former goalkeeper for the German national football team: > **[Hans-Jörg Butt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-J%C3%B6rg_Butt)** > > Hans-Jörg Butt (German pronunciation: \[hans ˈjœʁk ˈbʊt\]; born 28 May 1974) is a German former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. > Known for taking penalty kicks, and for often running into the opposing penalty box in an attempt to find a winner whenever his team were trailing, he scored 26 goals in the Bundesliga. He played for Hamburger SV, Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich in his country, having arrived at Munich already aged 34. > Butt represented Germany in two World Cups and Euro 2000... ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/425 "2022-09-22T13:46:33Z")
Not a name but a title, Beyond Meat **C** hief **O** perating **O** fficer ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/426 "2022-09-22T15:58:17Z")
Ah. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/427 "2022-09-24T05:21:58Z")
This is a real place. > **[Butt Drugs](https://www.buttdrugs.com/)** > > Welcome to Butt Drugs, your local hometown pharmacy since 1952, featuring cheeky apparel and an old-fashioned soda fountain with ice cream & famous butt shakes! Located in Harrison County, in Downtown Corydon. ETA: They have their own line of products, including a CBD-infused Butt Balm, FOR THE LIPS. [https://www.buttdrugs.com/cbdoil](https://www.buttdrugs.com/cbdoil) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/428 "2022-09-24T18:25:15Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The book _Take Her Deep_ (not porn, it’s about a submarine operating in the Pacific in WWII) describes the sub having crew members with the last names French and Ffrench. To avoid confusion, the latter crewman was referred to as “Double F”. Reminds me of when we had two Carls (or Karls) in our smallish (maybe 12 people?) workgroup. One was Carl, and the other was Karl, so they were always referred to as C-Carl or K-Karl. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/429 "2022-09-30T16:38:20Z")
When my dad’s house was up for sale, I came in one afternoon to find a heap of business cards left on the dining room table by the various real estate agents who had shown it. The one that caught my eye was, I shit you not, Rainey Tarpey. > [@Limmin](#): > > There was a noodle shop in the Tacoma area (IIRC) called > > Pho Queue > > The joke went over my head, until I learned that Pho is pronounced “Fu…” I was on jury duty a while back, and the woman running the show was telling everyone about the numerous options for lunch in downtown Tacoma. She told us of a pho shop a couple blocks up, but refrained from naming it. Apparently it took its name from the fact that it was on King street. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/430 "2022-10-09T01:01:21Z")
Not weirdest, but mighty long last name: PUTHUKKUDIKKUNNUMMAL (digital artist for a movie) ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/431 "2022-10-09T08:07:30Z")
Yeah I heard that guy was a real jerk. ---
**Author:** ![pgcotype](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pgcotype/32/8743_2.png) [@pgcotype](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pgcotype)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/432 "2022-10-10T20:27:51Z")
Milweena Slappy. (I’ve always wondered if she had a brother named Hap.) I taught 7th grade, and had students named; Jimmy Hendrix (pale skin, light blond hair, and blue eyes), James Joyce, and Chris Brown. The last kid got a hard time from the others every single day. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2022, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/433 "2022-10-11T07:23:33Z")
There was some hilarity in Anglophone diplomatic circles when the Turkish Embassy in Moscow announced its new military attaché: [Mustafa Kunt](https://lettersofnote.com/2009/10/28/we-all-feel-like-that-now-and-then/). ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/434 "2022-10-11T21:33:39Z")
How ‘bout good ol’ **Snorri Thorfinnsson** —the first white person born in North America. I had a classmate named **Duc Wing** and a girlfriend named **Anita Hickey**. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/435 "2022-10-11T23:36:49Z")
[Sixtus Quintus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sixtus_V) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/436 "2022-10-16T02:49:55Z")
I was one of three kids named Rick in my third grade class. The teacher named us Rick, Rich and Richard. I was Richard. ---
**Author:** ![cincinnatus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cincinnatus/32/7990_2.png) [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/437 "2022-10-16T02:55:30Z")
Diosdado Macapagal Philippine ex president ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/438 "2022-10-16T02:59:33Z")
> [@cincinnatus](#): > > Diosdado Macapagal Diosdado means God-given. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/439 "2022-10-16T03:58:55Z")
I recently read this book by the First Lady of Iceland, who is Canadian-born. > **[Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing...](https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Sprakkar-Icelands-Extraordinary-Changing/dp/1728242169)** > > Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World \[Reid, Eliza\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World One of her friends has the given name Unnar Bra. (I also found myself wondering if Iceland was a nation, or a cult with 350,000 members. Don’t think I would enjoy living there.) ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/440 "2022-10-16T12:11:55Z")
Early Vinland colonist, **Freydís Eiríksdóttir** , daughter of Erik the Red and sister to Lief Erikson must have lived a colorful life (though she is only mentioned once in _The Saga of the Greenlanders_). The account tells of a time when natives (Skrælingjar in Icelandic) attacked the expedition camp Freydís was part of during the night. Many of the Nordic invaders fled in fear, but not 8-month pregnant Freydís. She yelled, _“Why run you away from such worthless creatures, stout men that ye are, when, as seems to me likely, you might slaughter them like so many cattle? Let me but have a weapon, I know I could fight better than any of you.”_ Freydís retrieved the sword of the fallen Thorbrand Snorrisson and attacked the natives. Surrounded by enemies, she undid her garment and beat the sword upon her breast. Seeing this, the natives retreated to their boats in fear and fled. > **[Freydís Eiríksdóttir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyd%C3%ADs_Eir%C3%ADksd%C3%B3ttir)** > > Freydís Eiríksdóttir (born c. 970) was a Icelandic woman said to be the daughter of Erik the Red (as in her patronym), who figured prominently in the Norse exploration of North America as an early colonist of Vinland, while her brother, Leif Erikson, is credited in early histories of the region with the first European contact. The medieval and primary sources that mention Freydís are the two Vinland sagas: the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red. The two sagas offer differing ac... ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/441 "2022-10-16T15:07:45Z")
Saw a birth certificate once for a Wosbaldo. Went to college with Alison Riddle, and her parents had given her the middle name “Wonderland.” Ditto a girl named Cindy Rella [Whatevs]. Almost certainly apocryphal, but a girl I went to high school with said she had a cousin who was going to name her kid Anna Histamine [Whatevs]. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/442 "2022-10-16T17:32:30Z")
I recently had the honor of meeting King David Canada, he does not go by King, it’s King David tyvm. Is Canada a common last name? Must’ve had sovereign citizens for parents. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747.md?page=23)