As a kid, one of the neighbors was named Mike Hunt.
Went to school with a girl named Kim Morrow.
We called her....

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I knew a guy a few years ago named Dick Beaver.

High school teacher named Melvin Mothershead.

Old boss named Paul Gethard.

Or Ilya.

There's a Dick Skinner at work and Ann Jobs is a friend of my wife's.

I have an incredibly ethnic name. It is what Swedish hillbillies name their kids. Sort of their equivalent of Cletus Buford Scruggs.

Growing up in the Midwest at least people understood the concept. In Los Angeles I was constantly being met with blank stares, as if I had just coughed in stead of giving my name.


When I was younger I wanted to change it. Now I'm just indifferent.

I work for a large, global financial company. We've found lots and lots of whacky names. Many are spread throughout Asia (although not all). There are some real doozies in the Philippines, Singapore and India.

One of the first one's that comes to mind is D i k s h i t.

Went to HS with a guy named woody cox. as well as james bond.

If my name was Woody Cox, I wouldn't think of changing it.

My wife is Indian. There is a surname in India, Dixit. I swear, it is pronounced, dick*****.

I went to school with a kid whose last name was semens.... that was rough enough I am sure, and occasinally there would be a joke that his dad's name is Richard... ha ha! In high school we played on the same soccer team, my dad was the coach and so collected the dues for uniforms. His dad paid by check and... it was true. First name Richard, last name Semens. Rough going!

I have also personally known someone whose name, which was chinese, was pronounced "shining shoe."

I knew an Asian lady many years ago who's first name was Rhonda. I commented it was a unique name considering where she came from. She told me she had changed it after coming to America. I asked what her real first name was, & she said Yuksuk. I told her I understood.

Saw a documentary about Navy pilots that featured a guy w/ the last name Ballsitis...call sign "Itchy".

How about Samuel Chuffart, the design director for Italian exotic car hopefuls Icona?

No kidding - Chuffart. http://www.2luxury2.com/icona-vulcano-ultra-powerful-hybrid-supercar-revealed/

Talk about someone who would have interesting memories of his school days if he was in an English-speaking country.

(Some of you might remember the UK Top Gear guys mentioning this fellow in series 20, ep. 1.)

And sometime names can take on new meanings in context. Here's an example from my HS days:

Our German teacher was in the habit of calling on people by saying "Master (last name), could you read section..." He did this until he called on Dave Bader. It took him a moment to figure out why the class had such an outburst of laughter when he called on "Master Bader".

I have an unusual middle name. I thought about changing it awhile ago, but because it is my late dad's first name, there is no way I'd consider changing it now. Besides, how many people actually know other people's middle names, and I just use a middle initial when I need to write my full name.

I have a friend in FL, Casey Jones and his brother Davey Jones. Both catch a lot of KC Jones at bat and Davey Jones locker thing. A guy at work is leslie Manley, nick name Les Manley.

Ha, I know of a guy through work with that same name.

We just hired someone with the last name Knott-_____. Giving her name over the phone always leads to much confusion.
"You need to call Brenda Knott-McKenzie."
"Ok, what's her last name?"

Richard and Peter Holder in High School....big as mountains....I never laughed.

hahaha...

my wife's cute cousin moved here from Taiwan. she got to choose her name. she went with "amber". when she told me, i just blurted out.."so you went with a stripper name?"

i still get stink eye from everyone now and again.

My grandfather's last name was Allcock. I did mention before that he engaged in garage sex so he lived up to his name.
Guy.

reminded of the scene in 'Ted' where marky mark guesses all the white trash names.

Love that movie, and that scene.

With a name like Zoltan, I was teased a lot when I was a kid. That changed in my college years where my unique name (at least here in the USA) garnered positive feedback.

Now, I'm proud of my name, and would not change it for the world. It's a derrivative of the word Sultan, as in an officer of high rank. Now all I need are some minions...

-Z

At your service Z :D

ps: I remember running across your name on a mainframe site many years ago (and confirmed with you here that it was indeed you)...

I work with Debbie Downer. no joke.

I'd quite like to change my surname to Buzby. No real reason, I just like the name.

Knew the Hickeys, and the Hornys (changed to Horning). Also a Buzz Hoff.

It was a sad day when I ran across the termination notice for Charlie Brown.

A few I've known:

Mi Ho (she is Vietnamese. Imagine introducing her to someone)
Rich Coffee
Tom Olly (said fast sounds like tamale)

"Jerker" is rather common Swedish name. And I bet every William serving in the army had pucker moment when sarge yelled "fire at will!".

My brother had a buddy in high school named Benjamin Dover.

Yeah... Ben Dover...

angela

Sue Glue. She said "Yeah, I married the wrong guy."

A friend of mine worked at the unemployment office in Oakland,Ca. She said the best first name she ever came across was Latrina.....oh boy.

Worked with a guy named Harry Fagget, pronounced just like it's spelled. No silent "t" or French-style pronunciation. It was fun when people tried to ask for him by name on the phone. "May I speak to, Mr., uh, Harry, um..." Oh and he was also a Junior, so it's not like his father didn't know what he was doing.

He told me he got involved in martial arts from an early age. Probably the only way he stayed sane in high school.

Used to work with a John Holmes.

Wow I remember hearing some woman screaming for her daughter in the grocery store years ago and that was her name. Small world lol.

So did I. My boss and I always had a giggle when we talked to John Holmes.

In Britian they are getting sick of hyphenated names when people get married. So some people are making a new name out of the couples surnames. For instance my GF is a Bateson and I'm a Douglas so we would be a Bouglas, pronounced Bug-less I guess. GF was explaining this to her cousin Coombes who married a Mr. Bunt. She didn't think it was such a good idea in her case.

I had an engineering professor named Cudlip Jahar. He always wore a white turban, so we called him "Coolwhip"
When I was a kid our neighbor was Grover Tobin. It's not a bad name, just kind of quaint. It fit his personality.

Had friends growing up named Chauncy Cappalbury, Mingus Mapps, knew a guy named Enoch with a last name of something I can't spell but it had a bunch of letters and very few vowels, a neighbor named Cosmo and a girl friend whose last name was Gay (she was very far from it...) and another girl friend with the last name Stank - she didn't stink at all in fact she was prolly absolute 'sweetest' girl I have ever known.

I had a rather generic 40's/50's nickname all of my early years... named after my dad's younger brother who died before he was 5/6 from complications from pneumonia, as I remember it.

I didn't really dislike it until I pondered using it when introducing myself at college, so I dropped it... especially thought it might be a liability with the wimmens... and went with John. One of the girls in my class had been calling me John all through high school, anyway... it just seemed like it was time.

It was a good decision too, because it would have probably followed me into my first summer job in college, and maybe even beyond.

When I'm around my siblings and people I grew up with, it still pops out fairly frequently, but I don't mind it.

No, I'm not going to reveal it. Heh heh.

I think Heel n Toe is a perfectly nice name. No need to be coy about revealing it :)

I appreciate the vote of confidence, William. :D