A woman I worked with had the last name of Gonya. Her fiance had the last name Rial. I asked her if they were going to hyphenate their names and we paused for a few seconds pondering the name “Gonya-Rial” and quickly moved on.
Technically it’s an ex-bull’s testicles. He’s a steer now.
See also: lamb fries, same idea.
The old name was groundnut, and nothing wrong with that name. The peanut belongs to the botanical family Fabaceae aka legumes- which does include peas.
But in the case of the groundnut- which is a perfectly cromulent name- we dont eat the seeds or seedpods that grow above ground. We eat the underground part.
This does go afielded of the OP however. Yes, the most common name is peanut, and that isnt a bad name, nor is groundnut.
HW Baals center wouldnt be silly, that is why.
Right, KFC and Nova are both fake news.
I think Mahi Mahi and Dorado were common names also, they didnt suddenly drop “Dolphinfish” in favor of either. They just picked the one that sounded best.
No idea if this actually happened in real life, but in case it did as a byproduct of the US/Soviet rivalry, there’s that scene in The Right Stuff where the Life magazine guy objects to Grissom using his nickname of Gus in a Life article byline. Gus refuses to use his real first name of Virgil, so the Life magazine guy tries to compromise and asks Gus what is his middle name. It’s Ivan. The Life magazine guy is like, “Okay, you can be Gus.”
We do eat the seeds. How can you not realise peanuts are seeds?
After peanut flowers are pollinated, the plant extends the flower stalk, pushing the developing pea-pod into the soil, where it continues to develop and ripen. The pea pod dries and becomes wrinkly and the mature seeds - peas or beans by any reasonable measure, are peanuts.
And yet despite the propensity for bad oysters to cause illness or death, I give you…
And yes I realise this is precisely an inversion of what the OP was looking for.
It’s not about the tap-water end of the business - who’s going to be the first to talk about “Poogate”?
The school district in which I live has multiple schools that teach grades 6-8. All are called middle schools except one, which is somehow a “junior middle school,” despite teaching the exact same grades.
The name of the town starts with P, and I guess they pitied the kids who would otherwise have had to say, “I go to P.M.S.”
The town of Kensington, California, which borders on Berkeley, has a church with the name “First Unitarian Church of Berkeley.” This is despite the fact that there’s another Unitarian church that’s actually in Berkeley called the “Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley.”
Why is the one in Kensington named after Berkeley? If its name were “First Unitarian Church of Kensington,” it would lead to an unfortunate abbreviation/initialism.
For the record, this is entirely unofficial, created by pranksters unaffiliated with the university, which uses a different set of initials as their identity.
I went to Preston East Technical School. One of my brothers, much sportier than me, had sports prize ribbons proudly proclaiming PETS.
Which is why one of the middle schools in my district is called “Park View” instead of “Parkview.”
They are still routinely called dorado when caught in the Gulf of Mexico. Dolphin (without the fish suffix) is also still used, mostly by oldtimers like me 
I can understand the dolphinfish-Flipper issue, but there’s nothing wrong about dorado.
Mahi mahi is one of those terms that you only hear of on TV or the internet for a while(unless you’re from Hawaii) and then it suddenly seems to be everywhere. But I’ve still only seen it used in restaurant menus, never when discussing the live (or recently dead in-the-cooler fish). Even old independent restaurants on the coast use mahi mahi (presumably for the tourists), though some will add dorado parenthetically.
From Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and the wonderful Roy Blunt Jr.
EJ Junior Senior Junior High (audio link)
Prior to WWI the British royal family’s name was Sax-Coburg-Gotha. At the end of the war they decided that the name sounded too Germanic and they changed it to Windsor. I don’t know if it’s true but I seem to remember reading that even Windsor was a English adaptation of a much more Germanic sounding name.
Jacksonville FL was originally named Cowford.
I went to a PMS school that had no problem proudly displaying “PMS”, even on cheerleader uniforms. (Not to mention that my college’s sports mascot was The Trojan.)
“Hey, Grandpa, what’s fer supper?”
“Slimehead! I mean Orange Roughy.”
“Yum, yum!”
But not the ones that grow above ground. We eat the seeds that grow underground.
Peanuts give a whole new meaning to self-seeding
The one in Kensington is now called the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley so the acronym doesn’t work either way. I think another one in Berkeley has closed.
But also I think a lot of people aren’t even aware Kensington exists. Not easy to just wander through.