Funny Names

[LemonBanana]

I'm very fascinated by names, especially fun names! I have also heard about authors getting funny names and putting them in books. So, what is an interesting name you have heard... and no, you can't say LemonBanana OR LemonBananaBum!

 

[The Bronze]

Used to get emails at work from Sandy Cocks. Not scam emails, real person.

 

[gwenogjones]

I heard of a little girl whose name is Athena Sunflower - I think she'd make a great plucky little heroine in a children's book.

 

[M]

I have an ancestor named Square and another named Equation. I thought those were pretty ridiculous names.

 

[Bop]

There's an actor on The 100 called Bob Morley I find it really funny 😂

 

[DeadlyDuo]

There's an actual sports person called Fanny Chmelar.

 

[thetopher]

I met a Justin Thyme once. He was Jamaican. And a tardy one at that.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

Dick Butkus. And yes, that's pronounced Butt Kiss.

Let's all say it together. Dick Butt Kiss.

Considering the name, that statue has a very unfortunate stance.

 

[Ethan Reigns]

We used to deal with a printed circuit board company whose salesman was a guy by the name of Dinko Mutag. I might still have his business card.

 

[M]

I once knew a Dingus Wiggins.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

I once knew a Dingus Wiggins.

This does not surprise me. 😛

 

[gwenogjones]

How can real people be called Dingus and Dinko? I hope they're twins ... speaking of which, not technically strange names in and of themselves but I did once know a pair of twin boys called David and Dave. If you ever shortened David's name to Dave he would look very confused and say 'that's my brother'.

As other ancestors have been named, I do have one that rejoiced in the name of 'Gilbertus Haddock' - I am descended from many Haddocks (and one Chadocke, who I think was a Haddock pretending) as they did have a tendency to marry their cousins.
However Gilbertus looked possible sensible when I found an ancestor whose name was 'Flarswort' ... you can't just go around calling people Flarswort - that's not a name it's not OK!

 

[nightshade]

How can real people be called Dingus and Dinko? I hope they're twins ... speaking of which, not technically strange names in and of themselves but I did once know a pair of twin boys called David and Dave. If you ever shortened David's name to Dave he would look very confused and say 'that's my brother'.

Makes my grandmother sound quite inventive when she named her twins Paul and Pauline!

 

[DeadlyDuo]

I am descended from many Haddocks

Your claim sounds a little fishy to me 😛

 

[ILLYRIAN]

So you think that Myheadsgonenumb's claim of an ancestor named Gilbertus Haddock sounds fishy. I wonder how he might react to a friend of that descendant being known as DeadlyDuo, and it being brought to peoples attention by an Illyrian?