What's the most absurd name you've ever heard in real life?

[LostInAnomie]

I went to high school with an exchange student from Africa whose name was I'eeta N'ofuda, pronounced I-eat-a No-food-a.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

1. I dad told me once that...

one of his client's (when he was a practicing attorney years ago) named their kid Meconium. :wtf:

[kay1864]

44. Maybe she heard

the OB use the term after delivery.

Yuk. Poor kid...

[Derailer]

2. Harry Butts

I kid you not I met his wife the travel advisor at AAA while planning a trip

EDIT: yes, she was aware of it and begged him to change it or at least go by his middle name or something

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

24. You wouldn't happen to live in Indianapolis would you?

I know my old man knew a Harry Butts and I think the guy was a Indianapolis police officer.

[seemunkee]

62. Harry Bally

My cousins grandfather. Funny thing is it never even dawned on me that his name was odd until about 2 years ago.

[BlueJazz]

3. I knew a Kid in grade school named Froklo (Frock-Low)

Poor Bastard!

[JVS]

23. Were his parents hobbits or something?

[Floogeldy]

4. LostInAnomie

Bwahahaha! ;)

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[Floogeldy]

11. I'm not worthy!

;)

[Arkham House]

6. I once knew a girl named...drumroll, please...

Galadriel Elysium O'Connor...

[u4ic]

7. John Bruised Head

I take it he was Native - and named for whatever was unusual about him at birth. (There was also a Milton Born With a Tooth who was infamous a few years back) Perhaps a port wine stain? Never met him, but registered his car when I was doing data entry eons ago.

I always felt bad for the guy. But that's my Eurocentric take on it - perhaps it's something to be proud of, what distinguishes you from others. :shrug:

[swag]

8. Bud Wiser

was the name of this sort of con man/motivational speaker who used to barge into our high school classrooms every couple of years and bullshit us on whatever power-that-is-within-you shit that he was selling that day.

I have the feeling he just toured the high plains, bullying school principals to give him $100 to scare some students in a randomly selected classroom for an hour or so.

I used to have some funnily named financial data salespersons, but they are nice who are still alive so I shouldn't name them. I will just say that one seemed to have been named after a Beatles song wherein a barber shaves another customer, and another's name reminds me of the Christian naming ceremony of a newborn lesbian prostitute.

It's a good life.

[SofaKingLiberal]

9. President Bush

[RandomKoolzip]

Tyroid.

My friend's ex-girlfriend was a schoolteacher, and that was the name of one of her students.

[Ava]

10. Harry Butts

and i swear to god that really is his name. I've met the man on several occasions! He's from a little Redneck town here in Bama.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

25. So there are two Harry Butts confirmed in existance

There is a Harry Butts a police officer in Indiana as well.

[reyd reid reed]

12. Crystal Schitz

Amanda Gieck
Dick Cox

There's more but I can't think of 'em right now. Oh, twins named Heaven Leah and Sky.

I hear a Bunch of 'em at work.

[MiniMandaRuth]

13. Something that was prounounced like Hayman Look.

(Hey, man, look)

Nice guy, though. :)

[Sabriel]

14. Bub Light

Seriously.

[allalone]

15. Twinkle Star Deiffendorf

receptionist where I worked

[Reverend_Smitty]

16. Dick Wacker...

I swear to God...he was the head football coach at my college, years ago

[regularguy]

39. Dang....ya beat me to it. (no pun)

Go Profs!

[Ravenseye]

70. Dick Feit

pronounced Dick Fight

*on edit* dang it wrong posting place...ah well...sort of related....Dick related at least...meh *edit*

[KitchenWitch]

17. The famed racecar driver Dick Trickle

[amitten]

18. Toonces. n/t

[Hardrada]

31. Hey, that's of my favorites!

Almost want it for a nickname.

[Hardrada]

32. Dick Harder

Used to sing in the local UCC choir.

[ContraBass Black]

19. Thomas Morrow.

He went by Tom.

[Ladyhawk]

20. Rusty Butt. I also knew a Paige Turner and a Candi Barr. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

21. Harry Pitts.

Dad of a kid I went to high school with.

[trackfan]

22. At a place where I worked they had some old nameplates

of people no longer with the company. One was Audi Sana Rattannannappabb. The kicker: according to the guys that had been there a while, that was not his real name, but an alias.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

26. my sister went to high school with a guy named

Harry crotch, I pity him.

[HEyHEY]

27. Steele Mallot

[Sgent]

28. A high school buddy

had the given name of Robin Hood.

[lpbk2713]

29. Used to work with a guy named Ashit. Just like Ah-Shit.

Pakistani IIRC.

[retrospective66]

30. I'm turning my sister in... She named her kid ....Zuzu

You know, after Zuzu in "It's a Wonderful Life"?....

In her defense I've gotta say this is her 5th biological child (she's adopted 2 and fostered 6) One of her biologicals died at the age of 27 months of cancer. She was 42 when she gave birth to this baby and it was planned. She's a schoolteacher and always went back to work w/her other kids. This time they set themselves up so she could be home.

History aside, the name Zuzu is kind of 'different'. Who knows; this could be good thing for the child. Maybe make her stand out. And since they've a very common last name, there is some mitigation there.

Still. I'd be afraid my kid, if named that, would have a rough time in school.

[mdmc]

33. First name FURIOUS, middle name TUPAC

last name jones... I also had a client named money (he illiterate parents wanted to name her monet. thats what they call her)/

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. I had a friend in high school whose name was Eena

I eventually learned to greet her with, "Hello" or "Good morning" instead of "Hi Eena!"

[OnionPatch]

35. Dr. Holeman

I'm not kidding; he was my gynecologist!

[SacredCow]

61. On a similar note...

My friend's dad had gallstones removed by a surgeon named Dr. Slaughter.

[Giant Robot]

36. Sister-in-law told me this one

She's a nurse and when she went to call this patient, she saw the name and thought it was prank the new girl time. Then she saw the Medicaid card and knew it was, sadly, for real. The name was pronounced Sha-theed.

Spelled: Shithead

[leftofthedial]

37. Fuk Yoo

was pretty humorous


but Escapula Archibeck has stuck with me too

[HughBeaumont]

38. Derek Gyongzoifs

Serious as a heart attack. First/Second grade classmate. Always smelled like dried mustard. Still to this DAY don't know how to pronounce that name. Gan'-jefs? Gyan-chufs?

Derek. If you're out there and haven't changed your unpronounceable last name . . . talk to me.

[RedStateShame]

40. Ukiah

Yes, Ukiah. Yes, it's Haiku backwards. Yes, this is a real name.

[flvegan]

41. Gimmie Cox

Honest. Grantor on a Warranty Deed I saw.

[regularguy]

42. Hugh G. Dick

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16346

[wildhorses]

43. Birch Ball

Sterling Silver

[Gato Moteado]

45. i saw a hot lookin' chick working at a mickey dee's in chicago....

...and her name tag said Shitonya

i wanted to ask her what they call her for short.

[Nye Bevan]

46. Dick Bluitt

honorable mention: Dick Long.

[mzteris]

47. a girl that went to school

with my daughter....

Her name was Scartisia.

yikes.

[Shell Beau]

48. Okay, I kid you not, but Orangejello!

Named after orange-jello but pronounced A-ron-ja-low!

[NewWaveChick1981]

50. That's been circulating around here for a long time...

...Supposedly Orangejello and Lemonjello were twins who drove orange and yellow VW Bugs. :P Did you meet Orangejello?

[Shell Beau]

54. No, but there is a class taught here at a local

predominantly black college about certain names & a fair playing field when it comes to resumes! That name is a focal point of sorts. Also, a friend of mine is a maternity ward nurse and knows the person who did name her child that!!!

[Saphire]

84. and his brother Lemonjello?

[Shell Beau]

85. I really wish it were a joke!!

A kid was named that here in good ole Mississippi!! x( Poor thing!

[NewWaveChick1981]

49. Every one of these is true:

(I personally saw these. This is what you find when you work at college campuses for 20 years! LOL)

Women/girls (last names omitted unless they're too funny!):

Rotunda
Jackie Booviea Kennedy (yes, it was spelled like that!)
Mystery Bubble
Douglas Nottingham (last name omitted; her mom REALLY wanted her to be a boy!)
Jackie Blue

Men/boys (also last names omitted unless they're too funny!):

Bob White
Peter Brady
Shakeel Oneal (last name omitted; this was the son of one of our students and the name was spelled like that)
Poor guy with the last name of Rape; he later changed it legally

There may be others that I've forgotten, but these are the best! :D

Edited to add: Forgot about the ones from high school! Went to HS with a guy named Dick Fuller (not short for Richard, but real name Dick), and it was much fun hearing the roll called each morning. :P Had a classmate whose uncle was named Ben Dover. Oh, and a girl with the last name of Tiddy. You can just imagine what that poor girl went through. Kids were teasing her about it all the time. Oh, and there was Precious Jade Stone...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

51. A few...

I went to middle school with a kid named Leif Erikson. Could you imagine moving to a new middle school mid-year and you're name is Leif Erikson? He has a criminal record now.

My cousin's gf's name is Dicie. Yup, it's her given name.

We had a neighbor growing up named Hi. Hello Hi!

[Jokerman]

52. Penny Wise

Her parents had a warped sense of humor.

[Deep13]

77. baby Champale

Her parents were drug addicts and the local snews ran a story about two couples trying to get custody.

[nini]

53. Primatene.... I swear to God

.. cruel parents

[SteppingRazor]

55. I once met the Minte sisters...

Pepper and Speara

[Left_Winger]

56. Wendy Anne Rainey

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

57. Hao Luong

Pronounce "How Long"

[NewJeffCT]

63. literal translation is "good dragon"

but, I'm sure they got a snicker or two in high school from their name.

[Rob H.]

58. Marvalista Jones

She was in my high school graduating class. Don't know that I would call it absurd, though, just different.

[radwriter0555]

59. Schlomo.

Now... really... need I say more?

[bertha katzenengel]

60. Candy Barr. And John van Ten Dyck. eom

[NewJeffCT]

64. A grocery store called "A Dong"

It's a huge Vietnamese/Chinese grocery in West Hartford, CT... not the typical Asian grocer with a couple of overstuffed aisles of food, this is a full sized grocery store nearly the size of your typical big box place.

[kwassa]

81. Club Dong Bang

Third Street, Los Angeles

[scarpa43]

65. Santa Claus Robinson

First name is Santa Claus, no middle name.
I have seen both his drivers license and his birth cert and it is real.

[MadHound]

66. A few

Car dealer here in town: Dick Head
Tire dealer, same town: Dick Ewers(pronounced "yours")
Went to church with Candy Kane
Knew the Pop sisters, Soda and Loli.

Some parents should just be shot for being too cutesy with their kids' names.

[Inspired]

67. Bunny Hop and Candy Kisses

[Inspired]

68. and Dick Rasch

[LaraMN]

69. "Tommorow's Dreams."

I went to elementary school with her. She liked Cyndi Lauper and her parents were both blind.

[Downtown Hound]

71. Ima Hooker, pronounced, "I'm a Hooker"

Dead serious. Her first name was Ima and then she married a guy who's last name was Hooker. If there's ever an argument for women not taking the man's name upon marriage, there it is right there.

[noonwitch]

72. Crystal Shanda Lear

A member of the Lear family, of Lear Jet fame.

[JuniperLea]

73. Peter Boyle... always cracked me up

Pedro Schwartz is another...

My great-granny and some of her 9 daughters picked out floral and mineral names for their daughters...

Lily
Fern
Crystal
Arbutis
Opal
Olive



No wonder I ended up Juniper Lea:)

[ceile]

74. Shithead....yes, you read that right

pronounced "sha-theed"

[scarlet_owl]

75. There was a guy in the deli at Meijer named Dung.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

76. My 3X great grandmother: Ladufsia Pounds Bullock

[Magrittes Pipe]

78. Marijuana Pepsi.

I won't post her last name here, as I'd hate to invade the poor woman's privacy more than it already has been in this, the internet age. It is, nonetheless, a common (pedestrian, even) surname.

Suffice to say, she went to high school in the same town and at the same time as I went to college. She then attended a nearby state university (on scholarship).

Dunno how the name came about, but I guess her folks just named her after their two favorite things.

[momophile]

79. Harry Dix

I worked with him at a place where radios were used to reach people. Everyone always just called for people by their first names - "hey Craig", "Jim are you there?", "Mike, call me" - stuff like that. But not with Harry Dix - the only Harry there. He ALWAYS got called with his first and last name. Too funny.

[Jed Dilligan]

80. Gary Gugelchuk and Viet Duong (pronounced "Dung")

[kwassa]

82. Violet Fedora, Gorgeous Trimble, Jaime Gesundheit

all real names.

My podiatrist is named Dr. Footer. Really.

[madinmaryland]

83. There's special agent Hunt, first name Mike..

[Saphire]

86. Dick Head has a restaurant in Houston.