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What are the most unfortunate real names of people you've known?

Asked by Trustinglife (6671points) April 7th, 2009

Some people have ridiculously funny names. These are the kind of names that make you wonder what the parent was thinking.

In high school, my tennis doubles partner’s name was Jon Dumpys. (Jon, you don’t visit this site, do you?) He got made fun of for his name frequently – I sure felt sorry for him. What are your favorite names of real people?

I’m more curious about real names than nicknames, but if you can’t resist sharing a nickname, well, all right, go ahead.

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googlybear's avatar

Phuc Yu…one of my wife’s cousins :)

noelasun's avatar

Tenna Ahn.
Normal right? but now, say it the asian way (surname first).

Ahn Tenna.

say it alltogether… get it?

classyfied's avatar

I had a friend in high school named Dat Ho. He’s Vietnamese.

Deathcabforhottie's avatar

Kennedy ficks well… A girl in
My class in be high. I felt so sorry. And I didn’t know them but one time at a store there was a kid named astrid… They were pretty young but later in life I want to see if there in the guniess book of world records
For person on most anti depressents

VzzBzz's avatar

Colastica
Demetrius
Alemendan

augustlan's avatar

More great examples here.

cak's avatar

Girl in High School – yes, her parents were hippies. Sunni Skye. She had it legally changed when she turned 22.

upholstry's avatar

I work with a Harry Bush. Don’t have to interact with him though… just see his name on emails.

PupnTaco's avatar

Steve Nosenchuck
Carmen Schminkey

Likeradar's avatar

Amanda Gripp. a man to grip

crisw's avatar

We had a family at at our school named the Swinehearts.

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aisyna's avatar

a kid at my HS is Patrick Enis, P. Enis

another kids in named Jack Seeman, just not a good combination

Bluefreedom's avatar

When I was stationed in South Korea in the Army, we had an orderly room clerk by the name of James Loser. He was an Irish kid that had orange/red hair, about 6’2” and 140 pounds with a perpetually goofy look on his face. Needless to say, he got teased all the time.

filmfann's avatar

Judy Boody and Rick Van Winkle.

hug_of_war's avatar

When I was in high school my teacher had to show around some administrative guy named….Mike Hunt. That’s one that looks harmless enough in writing but in speech…not so good.

shockvalue's avatar

Young Ho… she was an exchange student.

oh, and Cherry Sin.

There were a lot of “me love you long time” jokes. I felt bad

allen_o's avatar

Ronnie McDonald, not ronald, ronnie.

Rob Nash, which is an anogram of nob rash

And phillip michael hunt, say his name fast. Phil mike hunt

electricsky's avatar

Not really a name but initials… my friend’s name is Rebecca, but everyone calls her Bekki for short. Her initials are B.A.G. with Bekki. R.A.G. with Rebecca. Her mothers initials are H.A.G., so sometimes our friends affectionately call her… Rag bag the hag bag.
It’s a really good thing she finds it funny.
And my initials are LES, which can sometimes be slang for lesbian. Yay me.

Trustinglife's avatar

Aug, whoops! That thread is classic – should be nominated for something. I’ve got tears in my eyes from reading it.

I’ll add another one: a high school acquaintance was named Michael Oder. Good thing he didn’t smell.

TjHare's avatar

Oh I have the winner FOR SURE!!! I dated a girl who’s last name was Hole, her grampa’s name is Harry Hole! He has a plaque in City Agricom. It was less funny to her than it was to me ^^

Divalicious's avatar

I’ve run across a lot of names like Shatequa, Shatavia, and Shatwana. Any name based on the word shat can’t be a good thing.

Harp's avatar

Rusty Nail. Yeah real name, not a nickname

qualitycontrol's avatar

I work with a girl named Dorcas (pronounced dorkus). I feel bad saying her name ;(

Poser's avatar

One guy on my old ship had the unfortunate last name “Samples.” And yes, he worked in Deck Department, which made him…Seaman Samples.

Not even joking.

I knew a guy in high school whose last name was Dick. His dad’s name was Rusty.

avalmez's avatar

need know spanish to get this w/o explanation, but a girl named Bettega.

explanation: pronounced properly, to a spanish ear sounds exactly like the spanish word “verga” which is equivalent to the english word “dick”.

also, a female named swallow (last name).

kayysamm's avatar

Marc Roch. ( My crotch. )

We all make fun of him. :)

adri027's avatar

I don’t personally know this kid but I’ve seen his name it’s z bo weird right? I know a kid named magic. My grandpas name is horrible fernando Fernández and his daughter is named Fernanda. I don’t understand why someone would do that to their child! My grandmas named Lazara. I’ve heard a lot of funny/weird names I just can’t think right now

squilky's avatar

Two names come to mind…

I went to high school with a girl named Michelle Stanks.

And there was a formed US Senator named Dick Army.

Ashpea9288's avatar

My adviser’s last name is Kock.

elijah's avatar

There is a car dealership in Rochester. The owner’s name is Dick Ide (Dick eyed). It makes me laugh when I see a car with the dealership sticker on it.

TjHare's avatar

Oh upon further remembering, I remembered a kid in our school named Abad moody.

ru2bz46's avatar

@Harp My cousin went to school with a Rusty Nail. Popular name!

I work with Mike Colon.

I’ve also wondered why actor/director Peter Bonerz never changed his name.

filmfann's avatar

I went to kindergarden with Susan Smells. It’s just unfair to be that age with that name.

drClaw's avatar

I had a client from India named Aashit pronounced Awww Shit. He was a great guy and had a really good sense of humor about his name.

Poser's avatar

I heard about a woman who named her daughter “Le—a.” She pronounced it “Ledasha,” saying “The dash don’t be silent.”

aisyna's avatar

another kids at my school is named Thebryan, not really a bad name to have just a funny one (that will give you a big ego)

fullOFuselessINFO's avatar

my mom is a nurse…
and she had TWIN patients named Ima and Ura….
their last name was Piggee.

for real.
true story.

noelasun's avatar

It struck me out of the blue today that in highschool there were two Ashleys by the name of Ashley Tittles and Ashley Booblets.
Yea, the boys brought them up in conversation a lot.

avalmez's avatar

@fullOFuselessINFO this may be too much much of a coincidence but a former governor of Texas named his daughters Ima and Ura – last name Hogg.

ru2bz46's avatar

Twin boys named Lindsey and Lindsay.

jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities's avatar

Chris Cringle. The same as Santa. Seriously.

Strauss's avatar

My kids swear they had a classmate named Sum Fat Ho.
I guess with Ho being a very common oriental name that crosses languages…

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