I’ll take a guess at Fridrik G. Fridrikksons middle name.
Gunnar?
I knew three sisters named Enchantra, Samantha, and Tabitha.
I guess Enchantra sounded better to their mother than Endora.
She was a big fan of Bewitched.
No cite, since it’s a guy I used to work with, but one of the engineers I worked for in Detroit was named Brook Trout. And he had two sisters: Rainbow and Lake. They didn’t talk to their parents much.
This just in.
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Dr. Eugene Rutherfordtonstein, who claims to have a “degree” in adhesive therapy and works on products like nicotine patches and snore strips, has come out with his first-annual list.
What a last name.
The rest of the article is …meh.
I just remembered a guy I knew in college. His last name was Beiter (pronounced “Biter”).
His father’s name was Richard, but he went by “Dick.” But wait, there’s more! He was an Army man and eventually was elevated to Major.
Which made him: Major Dick Beiter.
I also have a pair of sisters at the summer camp I work at who are named Quantasha and Elizabeth. Niether name is uncommon in their neighborhood, but you have to wonder what the mother was thinking… “Hmmm, I’ll go with the most exotic sounding name I can think of and then the most common!”
I went to school with a Michael Hunt (yes, he went by Mike) and a Max Factor.
Had a customer by the name of Richard Upright.
there was a kid at school called Lloyd Coffin
and someone applied for a job at my last place called Rodger Mycock
i aint frontin’
I was driving the other morning and heard this on the radio:
“We’ll now turn to our up-to-the-minute traffic commentator, Page Turner. Page, how’s it looking out there?”
Too bad she didn’t turn out to be a novelist
I also know of this girl who is ::ahem:: a taco short of a combo platter. She insisted on naming her child Mason. His full name is Mason Stone.
My family name is Lamp.
We’ve all toyed with the idea of naming our kids, Tiffany, Hurricane, Jeannie or Flora Cent. But we’ve managed to keep it pretty mundane. So far . . .
I went to college in Ithaca, NY around 1990, and the phone book entry of one Anil Dikshit was well known to everyone in the dorm.
He was apparently Indian.
There was a teacher in my high school named Mr. Hoek (pronounced “hook”).
Yes, he had been in the military.
Yes, he had attained the rank of Captain.
Yes, he RETIRED after attaining said rank.
So this teacher was, officially, Captain Hoek, Ret.
And who here has the worst last name? Mine is Bush. I’m not joking, and I’m okay with it. I’m a guy, and my friends in high school were MERCILESS.
When my younger brother & I were on a sports team together, he was called “Little Bush.” I was “Big Bush.”
My friends would get weird looks when they tried to get my attention with “BUSH!!!”
My nickname, through high school, was “Can’t Get No.” (Right, 'cuz my FRIENDS weren’t also virgins. Riiiiiiiiight.) I’m still in therapy for this.
I went to college in Ithaca, NY around 1990, and the phone book entry of one Anil Dikshit was well known to everyone in the dorm.
He was apparently Indian.
My mom works with Dr. Richard Feellie he goes by Dick… and the best part? He’s a gynocologist!
I love this thread!
I had a co-worker who named her baby girl Wachovia.
There are two brothers in an elementary school nearby named FuRodney and James Brown.
Copper_moon- Page Turner used to be a news traffic person here in Minnesota 
I’ve ran across the names “Exquizit” “Aquanet” “Nimphona” and “DeTrike”
But my favorite- recently come across- shoulda thought before they got married: Petunia Flowers.
When I was growing up, there was a kid at the other high school in town named Kent Clark. He took to signing his name with an “S” in a diamond after it.
This thread reminds me of one of my alltime favorite SNL skits:
A man and a woman are trying to pick a baby’s name. For every name the woman suggests, the man gives examples of how schoolyard taunts can pervert the name, even for common names like John and Steve.
Then there’s a knock on the door, and the husband answers. “Telegram for Ass Wipe Johnson,” the caller at the door announces.
The husband snaps back, very irritated “That’s Azwipe, Azwipe Johnson!” [pronounced azWEEpay].
Please, please think before giving your children unusual names…mine’s Lark and I can’t stand it.
I once worked with a man named Dusty Rhodes. His wife’s name was Abby.
I know this hippy chick whose first two sons are named Sunny Day and Shine Ray. Oy Vay. But the best part is that their last name is Lake. I hope she’s happy that both of her sons’ names sound like locations for day camps.
That reminds me that my HS librarian was named “Sunny Falling Rain”. No one knows how she came about the name but most assumed that she renamed herself in the '70s.