It might be a transliteration of a South Asian name that also can be written as “Bhatt.”
Butt also is a common German last name. There’s Hans Jörg Butt for instance, a former goalkeeper for the German national football team:
Not a name but a title, Beyond Meat Chief Operating Officer
Ah.
Thanks.
This is a real place.
ETA: They have their own line of products, including a CBD-infused Butt Balm, FOR THE LIPS.
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.
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.
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.
Not weirdest, but mighty long last name:
PUTHUKKUDIKKUNNUMMAL
(digital artist for a movie)
Yeah I heard that guy was a real jerk.
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.
There was some hilarity in Anglophone diplomatic circles when the Turkish Embassy in Moscow announced its new military attaché: Mustafa Kunt.
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.
I was one of three kids named Rick in my third grade class. The teacher named us Rick, Rich and Richard. I was Richard.
Diosdado Macapagal
Philippine ex president
Diosdado means God-given.
I recently read this book by the First Lady of Iceland, who is Canadian-born.
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.)
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.
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].
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.