Political pundit Molly Jong-Fast is the daughter of author Erica Jong and the granddaughter of historian Howard Fast. She is married to professor Matthew Greenfield. Their son is named Max Jongfast-Greenfield.
Increase Clapp. Saw it on a gravestone.
One I just recently learned: Thurgood Marshall’s original name was Thoroughgood Marshall.
I’m all for hyphenated names, but they can get out of hand pretty quick.
Which reminds me of the town of Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec. 
Then there’s the famous mathematician, Bernard B Mandelbrot. His middle initial (he claimed) stood for “Bernard B Mandelbrot.”
That’s hilarious. Really.
On the other hand, he used the name Benoit B. Mandelbrot. But maybe he was born Bernard and changed it to Benoit when he was growing up in France. Doesn’t change the story though.
:smack:
In high school football, I had 4 teammates last names which became our rallying cry for the year(s). Because no administrator could really get us in trouble for just using our teammates’ names in our cheer. They were chanted as “the law office of:
Young
Stiff
Cox
& Bush”
I will omit their first names to prevent that meme from continuing to plague them in adulthood.
I once knew a guy, Laotian I think, named Phuc.
If I have failed to mention the famous Johns Hopkins pathologist Arthur Purdy Stout in this thread, I apologize for the omission.
Myrtle Scrupnuck (Someone from my wife’s side of the family)
I. Quentin Duck (Sounds like someone taking an oath)
Clarence P. Gnau (The last name is pronounced “now”)
I just remembered former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, whose name does sound like a cartoon character. Then, while skimming Frankfurter’s Wikipedia article, I discovered another awesome name: judge and legal scholar Learned Hand.
That’s a Vietnamese name.
A few of my relatives’ relatives, as recorded on Ancestry.com:
Lumina Liberty
Experience Paine (born c. 1700, when Puritan names were in vogue. Her sisters included Temperance and Reliance).
My favorite, though, is probably Florence Bowling, who married a Mr. Ball.
I worked with a guy whose first name was “M2”. I’m not sure if that was his real legal name or just an affectation.
If she lived today, it would be a given that she would become a dominatrix.
My ex wife knew a Candy Dish when she was growing up, and her mother (my mother in law) worked with a woman named Spring Greene, though she married into that surname.
My parents’ social circle has always largely consisted of the people with whom they play bridge. When we moved to Wisconsin in the mid '70s, they joined a bridge club there; one of the other couples in the group had the last name Buob (pronounced “boob”) – that was hilarious enough of a name to a 10 year old like me. But, then, I learned that Mrs. Buob’s maiden name was “Chickie,” and I wished that she had hyphenated her name when she had married Mr. Buob, because “Chickie-Buob” would have been an incredible name.
Another couple in that same bridge club had the last name “Wahl” (pronounced “Wall”), and they had a son, Brick Wahl. 
Very late reply, but I apparently missed this thread the first time around.
“Edie” (/ˈiːdi/ or /ˈiːdɪ/) and “eating” (/iːdiŋ/ or /iːdɪŋ/) differ by only the /ŋ/ sound in many (or even most) American dialects, and that final consonant often gets deemphasized (reduced in volume) or even completely elided in fast speech.
I admit it took me a minute, as I initially read it as Eddie (/ˈɛ.di/ or /ˈɛ.dɪ/) instead of Edie.