My hometown had an orthodontist named Dr. Byron Bonebreak. Ouch.
Ha! I used to know a veterinarian named Dr. Bone. Bone, veterinarian, ha ha, right? But what always amused me was the thought of him as a young man trying to score with the ladies in nightclubs saying, “Hello ladies, I’m doctor Bone.”
That guy owns every billboard in Ohio.
I had a client whose last name was Swackhammer. The first time he called after I started working at that office, he identified himself and I said “oh no you’re not”. Oops.
My childhood dentist was named Dr. Payne.
In middle school there was a boy with the last name of Raper.
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Lipschtiz baby Lipschtiz. Pronounced just like it is spelled. Lip Shitz
Top that.
I had a fourth grade teacher named Ms. Bane that I hated. She really was the bane of my existence.
Yesterday I engraved something for a nurse whose last name was Germ.
Today on the news there was a story about emminent domain, and one of the litigants was named Horney, and I thought about this thread.
I once opend a bank account for someone named Turnipseed. Which isn’t embarassing, but odd.
I have family named Tarbutton. I have no idea where it originates.
I grew up across the street from people named Doolittle, and the people next door to them were named Drinkwater.
I knew a Captain Major who later became Major Major.
I wish him all luck in becoming Major General Major…generally?
I knew a person named Mr. I’mgoingtocompletelyignoretheOPandjustlistfunnynamesinthisthread.
The OP was so ridiculously, elaborately specific that I lost track of what he/she might have been asking about halfway through.
I used to know a guy named Sexsmith.
A not-unheard-of Danish name is Kofoed, “cow’s hoof.” I’ve also heard tell of Germans named Kuhfuss, which means the same thing.
Given his rapid homophobia – Marvin Gay. He added the ‘e.’
As a civilian contractor on a military base, I met an Army Captain who’s last name is Skipandgolightly.
He was a lighthearted and fun individual. Maybe not representative of his name in the truest sense, but close.
In my old job I met customers with the names Luckcock and Glasscock.
I know of people with the last name of “Raper” and “Colon”. Both are pronounced exactly as the words normally are.
In Czech, “Sourek” is a not completely uncommon last name. It means “scrotum.”
My old boss use to work with a guy whose last name was Sexour ( spelling is iffy, but it was pronounced: Sex Hour.)
“Is there a Sexour there?”
“Oh, don’t we wish!” Was the common joke in my old bosses office then.