# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/121 "2020-07-22T20:43:59Z")
A bit of a clarification I guess. Luke Easter played for the **Rochester** Red Wings, a minor league baseball team. He played for the Cleveland Indians from 1949 to 1954 after a couple of years in the Negro Leagues. He played in the minors for several years after his major league career ended. That included the Rochester Red Wings. He finally retired at age 48 in 1963. Sadly, he was murdered in an armed robbery in 1979 taking payroll deposits to a bank in Cleveland. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/122 "2020-07-22T22:48:49Z")
Edwin Atwater was responsible for setting up Montreal’s water purification system in the 1850’s. The original buildings are still there - on the major street named after him. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/123 "2020-07-23T01:24:51Z")
> [@I.Dunno](#): > > A bit of a clarification I guess. Luke Easter played for the **Rochester** Red Wings, a minor league baseball team. He played for the Cleveland Indians from 1949 to 1954 after a couple of years in the Negro Leagues. His actual first name was Luscious. On a related note, the band Luscious Jackson took its moniker from Olympic and NBA basketball player Lucious Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/124 "2020-07-23T12:59:34Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Please say he has a wife, sister or daughter named Patti. And a brother named Tally! ---
**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:** [July 23, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/125 "2020-07-23T13:11:22Z")
Of the people I’ve actually known, nothing (not even having known a guy named Robin Hood and two people at more or less the same time who went by Nonie) will ever come close to a girl I went to high school with whose parents chose to name her Common Bush. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/126 "2020-07-23T16:06:56Z")
I went to school with a girl named Rainy Marsh. No, not “Renee”. Her parents named her “Rainy”. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/127 "2020-07-23T17:27:08Z")
Went to Junior High School with Harry Burger. He was famous for streaking (this was the 70’s), and getting caught by Mr. A, who was the Vice Principal and had a hook for an arm. Also, I have an ancestor (1700’s?) with the first name Wrestling. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/128 "2020-07-24T03:19:29Z")
Julia? Augusta? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/129 "2020-07-24T03:21:59Z")
Perhaps she was a fan of Tom Lehrer. “I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know whose name was Henry, only to give you an idea of what a individualist he was, he spelled it H-E-N-3-R-Y - the three was silent, you see.” ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/130 "2020-07-24T03:32:11Z")
I wonder why they didn’t simply translate it to “Fox”. Come to think of it, “Fox” ought to sound like a silly name, but because we are used to it, it doesn’t get the same wtf reaction that “Cow” or " “Hedgehog” might. And it’s ok to be named Mr/Ms Hare, but not “Rabbit”. ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/131 "2020-07-24T04:20:44Z")
The Publick Universal Friend — self-given name, but I like that it’s not just, y’know, someone being silly. > **[Public Universal Friend](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Universal_Friend)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > > > The Public Universal Friend\[a\] (born Jemima Wilkinson; November 29, 1752 – July 1, 1819) was an American preacher born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, to Quaker parents. After suffering a severe illness in 1776, the Friend claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend, and afterward shunned both birth name and gendered pronouns. In androgynous clothes, the Friend preached throughout the north... ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/132 "2020-07-24T07:59:33Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Some profession choices are just pre-ordained. Forgot one. My youth pastor’s last name was Sinn. Yep, a youth pastor. So he’s uses the short version of his first name Randall. Which in American English is quite innocent. So it’s a good thing he doesn’t live in the U.K., because Randy is not a good name for a pastor. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/133 "2020-07-24T10:05:21Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce the reverend Randy Sinn, to give a sermon to today’s youth. 😂 ---
**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:** [July 24, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/134 "2020-07-24T11:50:16Z")
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first commissioner of baseball. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/135 "2020-07-24T11:57:42Z")
Barkevious Mingo - saw his name several times while on a US trip, watching sports in a bar. There’s something about it that just tickles me 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 24, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/136 "2020-07-24T13:25:26Z")
Lionel Tiger - a Canadian-born, American-based anthropologist. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. [Wikipedia] ---
**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:** [July 24, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/137 "2020-07-24T13:38:31Z")
I went to school with the following. While not necessarily weird, one has to wonder about their parents. Zachary Taylor and his sister Elizabeth Taylor. Sandy Rhodes Harry Crouch Otillio Mighty I worked for a man named Dick Peters. In the Navy, I knew a Phil Dick, a Maynard Lipp, and a guy with the last name of Brickhouse. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/138 "2020-07-24T14:42:57Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Lol! Some profession choices are just pre-ordained. When Dansby Swanson first joined the Braves, my first comment was, “That boy’s parents were determined that he would become either a baseball player or a butler.” ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/139 "2020-07-25T04:16:45Z")
I think there was a Cardinal Sin in the Philippines some years ago. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/140 "2020-07-25T04:36:09Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > I don’t think anyone has yet mentioned the pioneering figure from the Industrial Revolution, **Isambard Kingdom Brunel** , which I maintain is the most badass name in the history of the world. It is, indeed, an awesome name, and seeing mention of it reminds me of another English inventor with a great name: the civil engineer [Joseph Bazalgette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bazalgette) (last name is pronounced Basil-Jet), who developed the London sewer system. And, my contributions to the list of unusual names are the sons of former bodybuilder (and Mr. World) John Brown. John felt that his name was very common, and he gave his three sons (all of whom are accomplished wide receivers) some outstanding names. From oldest to youngest, his sons are: - Equanimeous Tristan Imhotep J. St. Brown (currently plays for the Green Bay Packers) - Osiris Adrian Amon-Ra J. St. Brown (currently plays for Stanford) - Amon-Ra Julian Heru J. St. Brown (currently plays for USC) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747.md?page=8)