These are some actual people whose names were so unusual I wrote them down....
Felix Shows
Marianne Spleet
Kori Deatherage
Anita Frisby
Catherine A Witcher
Demaryce Barnes
Sylvester Pleasant
Arnette McCord
Aisha Quick
Peacola Miller
Mignon Hawkins
Danial Sawallich
Nataki Biddles
Antoinette Quicksey
Sean McAleer
George E. Flook
Etoil Hornbuckle
Robert Goforth
Carla Decrease
Jennifer Klimek
Felicia English
Beverly Gooch
Pamela Thigpen
Ebony Overman
Alfred Nunnery
Sonja R. Shivers
Ebony N. Woodfork
Lori Bloodworth
Darlene Maximuk
Margaret Twork
Mary Ann Cheek
Katrice Clinkscales
Brandy Peace
Anna K. Hanna
Chester Sterba
Trophy G. Marang
Broneslaw Urban
Valencia Revels
Tamaei Battle
Andrew Winklepleck
Wijdan Farttoosi
Monica D. Skew
Homer Cheese Sr.
Joyce Piggee
Chitin Proctor
Matreak McCloud
Donna Threet
Shirley Jean City
Faye J Crook
Intisar Whaib
Amanda R. Justice
Edward Wrath
LaFonda Gist
Keep 'em comin'....what other unusual names are out there?
Oh, the crowning glory I left off there - it was too strange...her name was Treasure Belcher.
I don't know if it was her actual birth name, or an unfortunate married name....poor girl....
I have one. I know this woman professionally and I hesitate to put her name ... but it really is too good not to share. This is her married name. I point that out, because she married a man knowing this would be her name - theoretically forever. Her name, is Gay Midget.
When my mom was in nursing school, she met a doctor name Peter Whacker.
George Georgeopolis.
Juan Antonio Martiargular.
And this dude, who had to present himself in person with I.D. because no one believed him:
Rover Thedog
There's no way someone in this world is called Gay Midget.
I worked in a call centre once and used to spend nightshift checking names on the database.
There was a Doctor Coffin working in Nottingham.
It's true Bruno - I promise.
Dr Blood and Dr Butcher worked in the same practice - Dentists
Also, Dr Anita Pu (no joke - but I don't think she was a proctologist).
Strangley enough, my friends grandmother is named Gay.
Other weird names I've encountered:
Lief Greenleaf
Sarah Pasion
Carl Facey
When driving through...I want to say it was North Carolina, but I can't be 100%...I passed a funeral home called Bruce and Stiff.
I once knew a girl whose married name was Kelly Kelly. She later got divorced and destroyed this bit of symmetry, but it was her name for a few years.
A man whose parents named him Queenjesus. I was doing paper work for him and saw the forms, it was really his name, all one word.
I think my brother came across a girl whose name was "La-a" pronounced Ladasha.
Gay midget LOL That's awesome!
In the south, some people have strange last names like Hornburger.
I want to steal some of those names for stories now.
This is actually one of my little past times, looking through phone books for odd names. I never thought to write them down though.
The one that has always stood out for me was Hugo Hamburger via Cincinnati White Pages June 1990 edition.
I spoke with a Helen Shorts by phone once
@ nathaniel - this was a hobby of mine as well, before name generator software...and, I wrote down the unusual ones on file cards and kept them in a filebox...I've lived in several cities and the phone books are a wealth of character names - not all are "weird," some are just good (Felicia English is a good name I like, as well as Demaryce Barnes). Matter of fact, the phone books are better than name generator programs - the names are less contrived and more real-to-life...
I worked at the phone company decades ago, and would note down customer family names - figured out what their backgrounds were (asked some of them if they wouldn't mind telling me - everyone was very good about it). Lost the list in one move or another. But phone books are a great source.
We had a girl in Navy bootcamp whose last name was Guzzler. I let you think about it for a while. Needless to say, we were beaten often because of it for losing our military bearing.
Another guy was Peter Real. We write down everything last name first so it was Real, Peter.
Jose Fernando Diaz who doesn't speak a lick of Spanish.
If you read Freakonomics, the kids that were named Winner and Loser.
Okay, so since I love everybody on here, no really I do... lol... So, I'll share this everyone. My last name is Mooney. My mother's maiden name is Beamer. Had my parents been hippies, they told me they would've combined the two names to form, Moonbeam. Thank God my parents weren't hippies...
True story. My hippie aunt had her name legally changed to Moonstar.
My mom considered naming me Pearl because I was born on December 7th. But she had already picked the other name. In real life, she named me Jessica. And my sir name was James. Yeah, my own mother named me Jessi James. I couldn't wait to get married.
by gum. I knew an Arthur King, in the phone book he's King, Arthur.
I think I'm fucking retarded. I never thought about looking in a phonebook for names. Fuck me!
@Limbless: Now you know, and knowing is half the battle with G.I. Joe...
My high school math teacher was Mr. Dick. He named his only daughter Tracey. (one of 5 sons was Harold!!) I had a friend in high school by the name of Cyrus Kazee. Lives somewhere in Oregon, I think. And up here on the Creek, a woman wrecked her Volkswagen sometime in the 70s or 80s and changed her name to Life Has Meaning. Yes a hippie. Even made her daughter hyphenate her last name to incorporate the change: Hopi Rourke-Has-Meaning..
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I had a friend with an uncle by the name of Gilbert Gilbertson.
I've filed paperwork for a girl named Winter Ghostkeeper and a man named Jerry Garcia, among many other awesome ones which slip my mind at this moment.
My father wanted to name me Veranda Velveeta. My mother decided to name me after one of the girls on the TV show she was watching when she shot that one down.
Just call me Porch Cheese.
And you can call me Porch Monkey. We're taking it back!
Clerks 2
Easy now! You're likely to offend someone whose ethnicity is never referred to in terms like that by using terms like that.
Ahahahahaha! Sometimes I hate humans.
Sometimes....
You shouldn't say that, either. You might offend someone who's not human but who finds they receive smug smiles of approval from father/authority figures when they defend against statements that can be construed as anti-human.
I look forward to offending the weak minded. They never do it to my face, but love to do it here.
HEY. HEY! YOU...SUCK AND STUFF. AND ARE REMARKABLY INSENSITIVE.
PEOPLE ALWAYS DO IT TO MY FACE. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?
You're a girl and think that if you do get violent they can win. Me on the other hand am a bald, tattooed, 220 lbs guy, who drinks and doesn't give a shit. That and I hear I have a permanent scowl on my face. Just the facts ma'am, just the facts. If you start waving a knife or pistol around they will stop. Promise.
I am a woman - thank you very much. Also a lady.
But in real life I say the same things I would say online. I don't feel like I have ever said anything here I wouldn't say to someone's face. And so people treat me accordingly.
You challenged me in Thunderdome because you thought you could win, didn't you? Huh? Didn't you? (kidding)
@Avery: diaz has a point. You should work out. Maybe do some steroids.
It couldn't hurt I guess.
If it doesn't hurt it's not doing you any good.
Then fuck it.
Just get some neck tattoos and piercings on your face. You can say whatever then.
He has a good point. People fuck with you less if they think you are Maori.
"He has a good point."
Is 'good' the word you were looking for?
Seriously? Can we not have a single conversation in here without somebody want somebody else to change adjectives?
I'm so sorry. I don't know what is wrong with me.
Amanda Hugginkiss
Mike Hunt
Snoop Aloop
Henry Cooter
O'shea Jackson
Major Major
And any name that starts with Lawrence.
LOL "Major Major"....you know, Catch-22 is my favorite book of the 20th century...
...oh, and in my family I have a grandfather named Rex who named one of his sons Rex (not Rex II, not Rex Jr., simply Rex) and one of his daughters Rexine. She is the only Rexine I'm ever heard of (I kinda like the name Maxine for a girl).
I also have a trio of uncles whose mother named them Donald, Lonald, and Zonald...
