Unfortunate name much?

[Jay 2K Winger]

There's always the possibility that the person mentioned in the OP did not supply their real name.

I've no idea where they might have gotten the name, though.

[greek_jester]

A rather well-endowed friend of mine decided to keep her maiden name when she married. Her husband-to-be's surname was Grabem...

[Marmalady]

When my dad was at school, he used to sit next to a girl called Olive Hoyle. I've known a girl called Jo King and a man called Sydney Harbour.

My favourite one, though, is a man that my mother used to work with, whose surname was Sitch. His first name was Ralph, which doesn't sound so bad - unless you just use the initial in front of the surname.....

[MoonCat]

A friend of my sister's used to work in a hospital and swore that a patient wanted to name her newborn daughter "Chlamydia" because she'd heard the word and thought it was pretty. They had to finally tell her it was illegal to name your kid after a disease because they couldn't talk her out of it any other way.

No idea if that was a true story.

[fireheart]

A rather well-endowed friend of mine decided to keep her maiden name when she married. Her husband-to-be's surname was Grabem...

That's not uncommon these days. A married couple friends of my partner and I are married, with the wife not taking the husbands surname. I actually didn't realise they were married until someone explained it to me!

A friend of my sister's used to work in a hospital and swore that a patient wanted to name her newborn daughter "Chlamydia" because she'd heard the word and thought it was pretty. They had to finally tell her it was illegal to name your kid after a disease because they couldn't talk her out of it any other way.

No idea if that was a true story.

There was an episode of ER where two of the med students were doing a NICU rotation and one of the new mums wanted to name her baby boy "chare kirk" pronounced "chair." I think they wound up rethinking it.

[mjr]

A couple of fake funny ones I've heard are Heywood Jablome (pronounced "Ja-blow-me"), and Richard Cranium (aka "Dick Head")

[Blue Ginger]

At my first job, their was a client who's name was Andrew Richard Dick. So he was A Dick Dick. His school years must have been hell. His wife's initials were S S Dick.

When working in London and Dublin, I came across a number of not so great names but can only remember a woman named I. Fulaluv (pronounced like Full-a-Love).

[drunkenwildmage]

I went to High School with "Brandy Alexander"
Local Urologist: Dr Richard Tapper. (insists on being called 'Dick')
My gym teacher in Elementary school was 'Mr. Ball'

[Aragarthiel]

There was an algebra teacher at my high school who was named David Cline. D. Cline.

[Waggy6]

I went to High School with "Brandy Alexander"
Local Urologist: Dr Richard Tapper. (insists on being called 'Dick')
My gym teacher in Elementary school was 'Mr. Ball'

Either you don't live far from me or there is more that one Richard Tapper the urologist.

[dalesys]

My daughter took classes in the "Dick Science Building" (Vestmuenster College, SLC, UT)

[drunkenwildmage]

Either you don't live far from me or there is more that one Richard Tapper the urologist.

Depends... Are you from the land of the 'Mud Hen?'

[jnd4rusty]

My niece is named Certyn Leah Legg...when it is said fast it sounds like "certainly a Legg" and I used to have a customer whose actual first name was "Pepsi"!!

[EricKei]

What, no Li-a in the house?

[DeltaSierra]

I went to school with a girl named Anita Hardick. That wasn't too bad though - her eldest brother was Richard.