# You've GOT to be shitting me!! Names.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 21, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361 "2008-01-21T11:20:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Orca\_Eyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orca_Eyes)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/141 "2012-05-31T20:02:07Z")
I once knew a man named Frederick Kroger. He’s probably around 55 now. He used to go by Freddy until _A Nightmare on Elm Street_ came out. Now he only goes by Fred. (To make things funny, Kroger and Krueger are variants of the same last name.)
I also know a Jessica Simpson. She goes by Jessie most of the time since she hates getting references to the celebrity Jessica Simpson. And she’s nothing like the famous bimbo:D. This girl has very dark hair. She’s also very smart and gets good grades.
Sometimes a name with a pleasant meaning in one language is a negative word in another. I think Zina is an unfortunate name. I’m Muslim, and in Islam “zina” means adultery. I once saw it as the name of a Russian woman mentioned on a news station:confused:. Though I think Zina is a Russian nickname for something, so it’s fine to them.
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### Author:  [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/142 "2012-05-31T20:29:33Z")
New Hampshire is full of fun ones… we had a congressman named Dick Swett. There is an insurance agent in Merrimack NH named Dick Tingloff.
I once had to set up a Blackberry account for a fellow named Mohammed Jihad. I thought it was a joke at first, but upon checking with the corporate directory, and HR, determined that it was a very unfortunate name combination for a post 9/11 environment.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/143 "2012-05-31T21:22:02Z")
Perhaps not the least of his problems at the moment, nonetheless I present the curiously redundant moniker of one [Anthony Antonio Norman](http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/cops-teen-pregnant-after-1449182.html).
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/144 "2012-05-31T21:36:55Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> The version I heard was from a nurse, of course with a minority baby involved, and the pronunciation being shuh-TAY-uh. :rolleyes:
Yeah, I still don’t believe it. I need proof. This is too common as an urban legend.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/145 "2012-05-31T22:08:11Z")
> [@Acsenray](#):
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> Yeah, I still don’t believe it. I need proof. This is too common as an urban legend.
I don’t believe it, either. Sorry if the rolleyes weren’t clear–they were directed at the whole story of the minority baby with the vulgar English name with a different pronunciation urban legend.
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### Author:  [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/146 "2012-06-01T01:17:20Z")
There was a fellow in the phonebook where I grew up named Orel Sexton. Yes, I’m suprised he kept his number listed, too.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/147 "2012-06-01T01:35:43Z")
Ah, this old thread resurrected once again. Timely.
The other day I came across;
Ailing Wang.
A woman with the last name of Porn. Can you imagine the hell of highschool for her?
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### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/148 "2012-06-01T03:07:11Z")
I see Jessica Simpson has named her daughter Maxwell. She’d better be a pretty girl because that’s a stunningly unsexy name for a woman.
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### Author:  [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2012, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/149 "2012-06-01T12:09:17Z")
I once dated a girl named Happy Easter. She went by her middle name Heather.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/150 "2012-06-02T14:12:20Z")
While teaching English in Moscow, I got a new student one night: Olesiya Vagina. All I could think of to say when I read her registration card was “Are you sure your name is spelled correctly…?”
I was told later that her last name came from the Ukrainian word for “scales” (like “Libra”), akin to the German word _Waage_.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/151 "2012-06-02T15:43:50Z")
I was a records clerk in an Army Reserve unit, and there was one woman whose father had obviously wanted a boy but didn’t get on. The jerk seemed to have wanted a kid named after himself, is my guess.
Her name? Floydene Earlene.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/152 "2012-06-02T16:06:57Z")
> [@Baker](#):
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> I was a records clerk in an Army Reserve unit, and there was one woman whose father had obviously wanted a boy but didn’t get on. The jerk seemed to have wanted a kid named after himself, is my guess.
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> Her name? Floydene Earlene.
Just the name itself isn’t enough to hang all your conclusions on.
Feminizing a father’s name is very common. In fact, it’s a tradition that goes at least as far back as the Romans. Every woman was named after her father. So all of Claudius’s daughters were named Claudia.
A huge chunk of traditional European women’s names are just feminized masculine names – Antonia, Andrea, Charlene, Thomasina, Wilhelmina, Roberta, Georgina, Victoria, Jane, Jacqueline, Adriana, Alexandra, etc.
And it’s now fairly popular among African-Americans who are generally disposed towards inventing new names.
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### Author:  [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/153 "2012-06-02T16:35:06Z")
> [@Chimera](#):
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> A woman with the last name of Porn. Can you imagine the hell of highschool for her?
Porn seems to be a perfectly acceptable syllable in Thai names. I’ve run into a Papaporn and a Krittaporn.
A friend of mine encountered the Bornfreedoms, [Allpowerful and Allmighty](http://www.baseball-teams.com/teams/crawfords/index.cfm?method=Roster_List).
But my favorite funny name is, and will always be, [Randy Bender](http://thebendergroup.net/). I love it because it’s quite probably that as an American, he has no idea what’s funny about his name.
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### Author:  [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/154 "2012-06-02T16:44:17Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#):
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> But my favorite funny name is, and will always be, [Randy Bender](http://thebendergroup.net/). I love it because it’s quite probably that as an American, he has no idea what’s funny about his name.
I have a feeling he knows but his parents didn’t.
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### Author:  [@I\_Like\_Pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Like_Pie)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/155 "2012-06-02T16:53:35Z")
We can’t forget about Nascar legend Dick Trickle.
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### Author:  [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/156 "2012-06-02T17:14:38Z")
A former co-worker said there was a guy in his home town named Deal (could have been Diehl, I guess). His first name was Harry. And he was big.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/157 "2012-06-02T17:55:41Z")
> [@Acsenray](#):
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> A huge chunk of traditional European women’s names are just feminized masculine names – Antonia, Andrea, Charlene, Thomasina, Wilhelmina, Roberta, Georgina, Victoria, Jane, Jacqueline, Adriana, Alexandra, etc.
And don’t forget that “Ashley” and, I think, “Lindsay” started out as masculine names.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/158 "2012-06-02T18:11:42Z")
“Lindsay” took off in a big way as a girl’s name when Lindsay Wagner became “The Bionic Woman.”
There was a recent local story about a woman who stole a $900 money order. Her first name was Shatonia–pretty close to the Shitonya, Sh’tonya names that show up in FOAF accounts.
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### Author:  [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/159 "2012-06-02T20:08:48Z")
What about NBA star[Penny Hardaway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfernee_Hardaway) , who’s given name is “Anfernee”?
An acquaintance of mine said he went to school with the son of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher [Elroy Face](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elroy_Face)’s son, Richard. Another zero points for this kid’s nickname…
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### Author:  [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/160 "2012-06-03T00:52:14Z")
> [@Baker](#):
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> I was a records clerk in an Army Reserve unit, and there was one woman whose father had obviously wanted a boy but didn’t get on. The jerk seemed to have wanted a kid named after himself, is my guess.
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> Her name? Floydene Earlene.
We have one of those in my family. My cousin Junior is named Roberta Jean after her father, Robert Eugene. And yes, the family does call her Junior. 😃
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