# 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:** 9
**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:** [August 11, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/161 "2020-08-11T17:51:39Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > This is reminiscent of [Griffith J. Griffith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Park), who donated a mountain property to Los Angeles in 1896 to create Griffith Park. This reminds me of [Boutros Boutros-Ghali](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boutros_Boutros-Ghali), a name that always made me chuckle. ---
**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 11, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/162 "2020-08-11T17:55:59Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > This reminds me of [Boutros Boutros-Ghali](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boutros_Boutros-Ghali), a name that always made me chuckle. - But he was Egyptian, and apparently it’s common in Arab cultures for someone to have (or at least use) the same first and last name. This was pointed out some years ago, regarding Sirhan Sirhan, after he shot Robert Kennedy. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/163 "2020-08-11T18:01:30Z")
I didn’t know that, thanks for fighting ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlax/32/2927_2.png) [@Scarlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlax)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/164 "2020-08-11T18:14:22Z")
Always enjoyed Jeff Feagles as the punter for the Eagles. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlax/32/2927_2.png) [@Scarlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlax)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/165 "2020-08-11T18:15:00Z")
That’s the NFL team, not the band, smartasses. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/166 "2020-08-11T18:30:38Z")
My mother had a cousin named Lawrence Hokenberry. He married Mary Sue Thornton. I only met them once, but I remember laughing my 8 year old ass off at Mary and Larry Hockenberry. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/167 "2020-08-11T18:32:08Z")
Boutros = Peter Anyway, I guess he was named after his grandfather Boutros Ghali, son of Ghali Nayruz. His father was Yusuf Boutros Ghali. > [@Senegoid](#): > > But he was Egyptian, and apparently it’s common in Arab cultures for someone to have (or at least use) the same first and last name. This was pointed out some years ago, regarding Sirhan Sirhan, after he shot Robert Kennedy. But we’re talking about a Copt, and I would not automatically assume a Copt has an Arab identity. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/168 "2020-08-11T18:36:57Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > There is a moderately well-known Indian mathematician H. P. Dikshit. Lipshitz is a fairly common name. I knew a kid with that last name when I was a child. He was pretty weird even then, the name couldn’t have been much help later in life. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/169 "2020-08-11T18:54:35Z")
I remember a Greek fellow by the name of Thmeter Peter Eliogram. There was also a gym teacher in Maryland with the name Argyle Stocks. ---
**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 11, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/170 "2020-08-11T18:55:04Z")
The name of the guy who wrote _Entrance of the Gladiators_ is Julius Fučík . Don’t ask me how that’s pronounced. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/171 "2020-08-11T19:07:58Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > The name of the guy who wrote _Entrance of the Gladiators_ is Julius Fučík . Don’t ask me how that’s pronounced. I guess foo-chick. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/172 "2020-08-11T19:09:21Z")
> [@Scarlax](#): > > That’s the NFL team, not the band, smartasses. Joe Walsh hands off to Glenn Frey, who runs 50 yards for a touchdown! ---
**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 11, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/173 "2020-08-11T19:13:40Z")
Thor Hyerdahl was briefly famous awhile back. ---
**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 11, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/174 "2020-08-11T19:23:16Z")
In the 1970s, the Cleveland Browns had a wide receiver named Fair Hooker. (Full name, according to Pro Football Reference: [Fair A. Hooker, Jr.](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HookFa00.htm)) ---
**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 11, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/175 "2020-08-11T23:38:25Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Lipshitz is a fairly common name. I knew a kid with that last name when I was a child. He was pretty weird even then, the name couldn’t have been much help later in life. [Ralph Lifshitz](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lauren) must have agreed with that. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/176 "2020-08-12T00:55:00Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > My mother had a cousin named Lawrence Hokenberry. He married Mary Sue Thornton. > > I only met them once, but I remember laughing my 8 year old ass off at Mary and Larry Hockenberry. Your post reminded me of an Oklahoma politician named Larry Derryberry. I have relatives in the Tulsa area and would hear the name while watching the news during visits. This was in the 70s when he was the state Attorney General. ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/177 "2020-08-12T01:41:02Z")
Although their individual surnames were not especially unusual, paired together as partners of an oral surgery center they raised eyebrows. Dr. Savage and Dr. Slaughter. ---
**Author:** ![Drummond\_Bays](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@Drummond\_Bays](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drummond_Bays)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/178 "2020-08-12T19:46:01Z")
Went to highschool with a Peter Forskin and a Rainbow Fan. One of my textbooks was previously owned by a “Shitpan.” ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/179 "2020-08-12T20:03:52Z")
Hey! I resemble that remark! ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747/180 "2020-08-12T20:08:49Z")
Which one **DrDeth**? Peter Forskin, Shitpan, or Rainbow Fan? Inquiring minds want to know. I’m guessing 🌈 Fan. You have always seemed too nice for the other two. Not that I’m impugning foreskins. Some of my favorite people have them or had. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-names-youve-ever-heard/915747.md?page=10)