Kids Names: Why do they do it?

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As some of you may know (and less of you care), I currently work in a school. Given that I collect and collate all the marks for Science test in the school, I come across some very unsual names...

Amongst others in the school, we have:
Thongshide
Levi (three of them)
Chelsea (after the football club)
Skye (amusingly, Skye Bourne. She has two elder sisters named Tuesday and Wednesday - but they are no longer at the school)
Lisa Simpson
Terimarie (translation - we couldn't pick just ONE name)

Other names I've encountered in my history:
Pommes Celerie (French exchange student)
Annette Curtain (my dad taught her)

And today, whilst putting the next year's intake onto the system, I encoutnered an all-time classic name. Harley Quinn.


So, what comedy names have you all come across? Could be apposite names for the job they do (like Matt Coates for an interior decorator - and the like).

But more importantly, why do the parents do it? Lisa Simpson is forgiveable - as when she was born, The Simpsons weren't on these shores yet - but Harley Quinn is such a contrived, set-up name (unless they were just staggeringly ignorant and named the kid after their favourite motorbike, without thinking)...
 
Austin Healey - Rugby player
Zowie Bowie - Son of David
Rolan Bolan - Son of Marc
Hugh Pugh - Bloke I served in the library whilst trying not to giggle
Robert Roberts - My physics teacher. Stayed in Robert Street too.
 
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*snip*And today, whilst putting the next year's intake onto the system, I encoutnered an all-time classic name. Harley Quinn.


So, what comedy names have you all come across? Could be apposite names for the job they do (like Matt Coates for an interior decorator - and the like).

But more importantly, why do the parents do it? Lisa Simpson is forgiveable - as when she was born, The Simpsons weren't on these shores yet - but Harley Quinn is such a contrived, set-up name (unless they were just staggeringly ignorant and named the kid after their favourite motorbike, without thinking)...
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Either that or her mother does nothing but read cheap romance novels...
I had a friend in High School named William Williams,
I know an orthopedic surgeon who is Dr. Bohn (pronounced Bone)
I know of a gynecologist that is Dr. Yeast. (eew !!!)
That pretty much covers it for the moment.
 
My mother used to be a nurse who helped deliver babies, and filled out their birth certificates and such, so she's seen quite a few interesting names in her time. One black woman in particular couldn't decide what to name her baby, so she named him "Nosmo King" after being inspired by a sign on the wall in the hospital. It's almost hard to believe, but she swears it's true.
 
Lordy, that's bad...

The Annette Curtain my dad taught came about by accident - her mother remarried a bloke with the surname Curtain. Simple as...

daan - Don't forget Moonunit and Dweezil Zappa...

Gil - Harley is male... :eek:

angelboy52 - Nice contribution. Only another 308 to go before that avatar?
 
The father of an old friend of mine had a financial planner named Whane Dwop. I had a friend named Tommy Gun and a girl down the street, from where I used to live, had a name of Candy Gum. She said if her parents had another girl, they would have named her Bubble. Yes, they were idiots...all of them...
 
One of my teachers from high school was Phil Luckey. I once knew a guy named Tree, poor bastard.
 
can't forget apple paltrow and that one celeb who named his kid pilot inspektor.

my dad's name is R. micheal ----- but we all think it stands for ruby. he won't tell me what the R stands for.
 
Hahahaha, Whane Dwop. That's got to be the best out of all of them. That's just cruel.

My father is a photographer and he was photographing a large group or something a few years ago. Maybe school photos? Anyway, one of the checks he received was from a Phuc Yu. Or something very similar.
 
Anybody hear about the current Michael Jackson story? Apparently, the first name of the mother of the supposedly molested boy is "Janet", and she just recently married a man who's last name is "Jackson". I think you can figure out the rest.

I've never really personally known anybody with weird names, though my dentist's name is Dr. Singer.
 
There's a Charles Brown at Fusz Nissan, they page him over the intercom as Charlie Brown, kinda funny.
There was a Levi at my school.
There was also a Lipschitz(sp?) at my school.
There was/is a guy in the Star Mazda series names Guy Cosmo(ironic, he races rotary cars and his last name is the same as the first rotary engine production car and only 3 rotor car).
That's all I got for now.
 
Sage
I've never really personally known anybody with weird names, though my dentist's name is Dr. Singer.
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Wierd, my dad worked on this guy's Protege, something Singer. He was a DJ of all things and did the music and stuff at my brother's Bar Mitzvah reception.
 
Too bad I live in Germany. Otherwise I could give you some nice examples.
Though translating some of them may be funny, too.

So far I've met around five people whose surnames was the German equivalent of '****er'. The first people I met, with odd names, where I couldn't think of funny jokes.

And here was a family whose surname was the German word for 'Panties'. They had a daughter, whose name was 'Rosa' which means 'pink' in English. Pink Panties, OMG... :lol:
 
Tim Roger Rogers, he was in my homeoroom through middle-school. My friend's name is Lars-Erik Larson.

If you switch the first letters of my first and last name you get Crian Bobb, or if Bob was my first name, Bob Cobb (The Maestro!).

Some names I've thought up if I had a kid:

William Robert Cobb (Billy Bob Cobb)
James Robert Cobb (Jim Bob Cobb)
 
More than a few years ago, I had a platoon seargent named Richard Head.

From all accounts, he'd make Gil look small. Nobody once joked about his name.

AO
 
our tour guide in england was talking about St. Stephen's tower, and she said the bell was named for someone's relative benjamin instead of their brother Richard. Big Ben, Big you get the picture.
 
there was a guy when i was in middle school with the last name ****... it was pronounced fook. We had a nice laugh the first day of gym class when the coach called us by last name :)

the last name Butt is very common in Pakistani culture as well. It's always nice when you have a doctor named Dr. Butt 👍 (would be scary though if he was a proctologist).
 
emad
there was a guy when i was in middle school with the last name ****...
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Oh man, that's terrible! Can you imagine him typing it on a computer and it gets censored?

Oh, my Pre-Calc teacher's name was Ms. Dyck... Before the first day of school, I was trying to figure out if it was supposed to be pronounced "dyke" or "di©k". Turns out it was the latter. I called her Ms. D, as did most of her students.
 
I read in a newspaper article once of people in Central America with names like MacGyver, Rambo, Rocky, Sting, Adolf Hitler (Hitler being the second first name) and other ones I could do without remembering. There was an interesting note on the Adolf Hitler guy, he refused to change his name even when he turned 18 and went to obtain his ID... I dunno.
 
I heard the name Adolf Hitler is illegal in some countries.

My dad has an interesting name, William Holden (although he was named before the actor became famous).

Also, on the morning show I listen to, the host recalled a boy who had a hard time in school due to his first name of Eggenbert. He later had listeners mail in some odd names for about a week, and there were some very bad names. One I can remember was Maxwell House. But since this was a fairly long time ago, I can't remember all the good names, so if I can think of anymore, I'll post them.

And this thread can't go on without mention of the famous stock car racer Dick Trickle (His name was on that morning show too now that I think of it).

*edit* And anyone who watches the Canadian TV series Trailer Park Boys probably knows that the actor who plays either Cory or Trevor is named Michael Jackson.
 
Some people choose the oddest 'westernized' names out here in Hong Kong. I think there must be a book somewhere called 'Names to Make You Chuckle'. Amongst others, I've known a; Valiant, Hilton, Winky, Doing (!), Vegas, Huckle, Boomson, Candy, Diamond, Apple, Jekyll, Maximillion, Tigger, Alfred (for a four year old!), Clinton, Fanco and Rain are some of the ones that spring to mind!

The most irritating name has to be the name of the fellow behind the cosmetics brand - Max Factor.
 
A guy who played for the wisconsin badgers basketball team had the name Duane Duane. I probably spelled it wrong though. It was funny when the announcers talked about him *Duane Duane hits the jump shot* it was halarious.
 
I went to college with a 26 year old named Harry Johnson II. His Dad was Harry Johnson Sr, or the first, or whatever. Harry Johnson II was married to a girl who's first name was Anita. Anita Harry Johnson. I wish I were joking, but I'm not. We could never be around him, or we'd die laughing. We'd be at Subway, and he'd sign a credit card reciept, and the girls behind the counter would look at it all shocked, and we'd bust out laughing. He'd be making some very important business calls on the phone, and say his name, and we'd start crying almost. I would never just call him Harry, I always had to say his full name just to see him laugh, and tell me to STFU.

I've known a lot of other stupid names, but that easily takes the cake.
 
We have a TV presenter here called Scot Scott. No jokes. And at high school there was a girl named Topanga. I cant remember her surname, probably for the same reason one cant see a torch beam during the daytime.
 
After my evil stepmother left the family she had twins and named them harley(girl)and davidson(boy) she also has another daughter named alexus
 

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