This troper had a classmate in high school named Chase ... Cox. Yeah. If your last name is Cox, a verb or an adjective is a bad idea for a name.

This troper has a friend named "Richard Delgado" Delgado means "skinny" in spanish and Richard, well, you know: Skinny Dick.

Earnest-Phillip Marius-Hugh. Most people call him Phil. I also know some guy whose name means 'punishment' when translated to his mother tongue. My economics teacher's name is Darwin-Stallin. Most people call him 'D', though.

This troper works in a call center and sees such names all of the time. Jose Arreola, Sharon Cox, Krystal Shanda Leer, the list goes on.

My own name is a mild zig-zagging of this trope. "Evan Drake" was almost my name, and I often wish it were. However, my grandmother said she would call me "Duck." (Drake = Male Duck) So, my mom named me "Jarred Evan." So now, my full initials spell "JET," which I think is actually kindwhat badass. Then, I get to high school and people keep asking what the E stands for. I tell them "Evan," and they give me these very awkward looks. Turns out Evan is the name of the closeted gay guy at a school in a very homophobic community. Somehow, they thought that made me gay. . . Being CampStraight did not help my case.

Mix of UnfortunateNames and PunnyName. This Troper has an Organic Chemistry instructor with a given name of Jack Hess.

On this same troper's way home, he saw a news van with the plate number {{UKE}} 356.

This troper's teacher once told her about a story how there was a person with the surname 'Pecpec.' In ''his'' native dialect, it means 'fulled', but in the official language, it means... vagina. I'm not kidding. He later apparently changed his name to something more respectable.

This Troper is very proud of his name, Science Limefighter.

Is your parent a celebrity?

"Why can't I fight all these limes?"

Cross between EmbarrassingMiddleName and UnfortunateNames. My middle name is Siobhan, which was used - and rather defiled - by it who must not be named. I was also (ironically) denied as to knowing how it's pronounced.

This troper is still not sure if their friend was serious when she said she met a 'Vaganna [=LaPienes'=]

This troper has known TWO girls named after alcohol. One girl named Champagne (nicknamed "Chamy", pronounced "Shamy"), and another girl named Tequila. Not kidding either. Real names. What WERE their parents thinking?

This troper has known of several Mr. Heads whose parents either hated them or lacked the foresight to avoid making their first name Richard.

This troper's father worked with a Harold Hedd, who ''did'' name his son Richard.

See you and raise: this troper works with a Richard ''Smoker''.

And this troper goes to school with a Richard ''Palmer''.

Scout camp with a Richard ''Smakka''.

Used to know a Richard ''Seaman''. He of course got tagged with "Dick" in firefighter training.

This troper knows of someone in our company called Richard Cockshot. Poor, poor man...

This troper is acquainted with a man named Richard Leeke.

This troper believes that his friend, name of Harold Richard Head, beats all. The man has gotten backstage on the basis of his name.

Wow. Care to drop the band name?

This troper once met someone who was actually known as Dick Bug. Ewww.

This troper's father used to work with a man named Dick Woodcock. (You'd think he would at least go by Richard...) According to my mother, my dad and his friends once had a mock golf tournament, in which a comment was made regarding poor Mr. Woodcock, saying, "There will be a two-point penalty for mockery of this man's name."

I once attended a seminar delivered by a Mr. Timber Dick. I had to duck under the table and dig my nails into my skin to keep from bursting out laughing.

In secondary school one of my teachers claimed to have met a Lee King who worked on a canal lock.

This troper's father knew a Richard Harden. He was at least savvy enough to request to be called Rich, and nothing else.

This troper once had a textbook written by a guy named Norman Conquest. Unfortunately, it was a chemistry book rather than a medieval history one.

He was this troper's chemistry teacher - He played up to his name as his signature was "1066" and he had named his dog "Hastings" - sadly, Mr. Conquest (a brilliant teacher at Perth Academy) passed away recently.

This troper:

has a kid sister whose first name is Kristal. My mother wanted to give her the middle name Claire. She's lucky I refused to let that stand.

also has three family members who share namesake with Tropical Storms/Hurricanes.

knew a woman her mother worked with was named Venus Valentine, and was frequently mistaken for someone who worked in the Adult Film industry.

knew a girl in high school who named her sons ''StarskyAndHutch''.

is acquainted with someone called Crystal Waters, and has to live through jokes about whether her middle name is 'Clear' or 'Blue'.

had a friend in college named Michael Hunt. Woe betide anyone who called him "Mike".

works in a call center and encounters customers with names like this on a regular basis:

Sayonara.

We have had a customer whose real name is Clark Kent.

Bobby Drake, Gene Grey, Logan Grey.

James Gordon, Barbara Gordon (more than one customer with this name!) and Bruce Wayne.

One whose name is Katie Power.

Additional customers Chester Lester, Lordly Rattray, Jamie Justice, Terry Tardy Ter'''Retard'''y, multiple variations on Charlie Brown, Mark Meadows, Frederick Rogers, Robert Tribble, Tom J. Sawyer, Judy Benuti, Jennifer Sparks, VeronicaMars, Peter Clare, Stanley Lee, Sue Reed, Misty Knight, Anthony Daniels, Mr. Knobbe, Bo Luke, Anita Hammer, Sam Schlam, Hari Pottaragu, Crystal Springs, Kelly Green, Zachary Smith, Bruce Allen, Barry White, Jim Morrison, Raymond J. Johnson, Justin Payne, Margaret Houlihan, William Murray, Gladys Badger, Cynthia Johnson-Tingles and Kwang Chung ...just to name a few.

Coworkers named Rene [=McCree=], {{SamuelLJackson}}, Robert E. Lee, Robin Byrd and Crystal Waters

Speaking of weather-related names, this troper once knew a girl in junior high named Misty Snow. Nothing too unusual about that, until I found out that her younger sister's name was Windy. Not Wendy, but Windy. Again, some might think that's just a clever pun that at least sounds like a real name. And then her newborn youngest sister was named Stormie...

Could be worse, this troper knew friends named Misty Lane and Carol Ling. Not so bad, except it only incites the stupid to make the obvious jokes.

Also weather-related, this troper knows two sisters who ride his bus named Stormi Skie and Summer Skie.

This troper used to have a regular customer (well into his 90s, ten years ago) whose name was Ronald [=MacDonald=]. (I suggested that he could probably get a lot of money doing commercials for Burger King or Wendy's).

That was also the name of a MallSanta turned child molester in the Seattle area.

Jack in the Box did several such ads during TheNineties, featuring ordinary people named "Ronald [=McDonald=]", "Jared", and "Wendy".

In school, this troper actually has a kid in one of his classes named "Jack Dawe". (For those not in the know, a jackdaw is a type of bird.)

This troper once met a girl at university called Rosanna Macleod, who had the misfortune to live in Watsonia. If you were to look at the Melbourne rail map, you would soon discover that Rosanna, Macleod and Watsonia are consecutive stations.

Melbourne based Troper and I lol'd.

This troper used to hang out with a Minh Tu Long, seriously.

This troper works with a man who goes by the name Harry Peters.

I once worked with a gal name of ''Anne Null''. It works on two levels. She used to say, "My name means nothing" (the clean level)". I also wrote a joke in one of my comics about a girl named "Connie Linges" (pronounced "lin-ZHAY")--and if anyone knows someone who actually goes by that name, do drop me a line. I did see the name "Fagala" in a local phone book, though. Oh, and who could forget former Claremont Graduate College head ''Robert Klitgaard''?

This troper once knew a girl whose real name was Molly Polly Jolly. Her parents had let her older sisters name her.

This troper knows of gynaecologists named Dr. Koontz, Hyman Pleasure, and Seymour Weiner (that one should have been a urologist).

This troper knew a woman with the last name of Gardner. When she got married, she decided to hyphenate her last name. The man she married had the last name Hoose. Gardner-Hoose. hose." Oh boy...

Not as bad as most, but my name is Anna and I absolutely HATE bananas.

This troper went to school with a Randy Fagg; she has a professor named Mr. Bohmfalk.

Another school example; at this troper's high school, one may occasionally hear Penny Nicoles being called down to the office.

This troper has friends acquainted with a family known as the Suckups. ("Imagine if the Suckups were in the Army! 'Major Suckup reporting for duty!'") They have a daughter named Pansy. Yes, Pansy Suckup, although that doesn't beat the Randy Fagg example above.

One of my grand-cousins was called Ringrose. He was a man. Poor lad.

This troper still speculates about the kind of parents who would name their child Rapee. Probably French ones.

This troper's cousin name is Richard William. Or Dick Willy, as we prefer to call him.

I can't forget a classmate in high school, who often spoke about an Italian man whom she knew. He had eight sons (yes, all males) named, in order of birth from the oldest: Primo ("First"), Secondo ("Second"), Terzo ("Third"), Quarto ("Fourth"), Quinto ("Fifth"), Sesto ("Sixth"), Settimo ("Seventh") and Ottavo ("Eight"). Either the man didn't care the slightest about his offspring, or he desperately wanted a daughter.

Well, if it was good enough for the Romans...

This Troper met a woman called Lucy Pher.

This troper knew a boy in high school called Mike Hawk. Say it aloud a couple times if you don't get it. He used to joke about it, though.

Did he become a famous 'man of action'? Because there's a Bear Grylls-style adventurer called Mike Hawk who has appeared on TV a few times.

This troper went to school with a guy called James Moriarty.

This troper had an English teacher named Miss Cox (Cocks), who married a man named Mr. Freizen (Freezin'). Unfortunately, she did not hypenate her name to make Freezin'-Cocks.

This troper knows someone named Harrison Wang (Hairy Wang)

This troper takes your Harrison Wang and raises you a Harry Wang. His first name was Harry, his last was Wang. He never knew what was so funny, being that he was from China and we were laughing too hard to explain coherently.

This troper had a Harrison Sacks in his high school. (Take a wild guess)

I used to work with a guy named Harold Becker.

This troper knew a Harold Fister. I suspect his parents were clinically insane.

This troper went to school with a Latoya Jackson and a Quincy Jones. That's right. My high school was musical!

This troper attended middle school with a John Doe. Hilarity ensued when any substitute teacher asked his name. She knew of a Blue Smith who married a Mr. Brown, thus becoming Blue Brown. Her sister worked with a Misty Forest.

This troper's school French teacher told him of a German acquaintance with the surname Fucker. Since the equivalent German word is very similar and most Germans understand English anyway, he probably gets as many jokes at home as he would in an English-speaking country.

This troper knows a girl with last name Adcox (pronounced the way you would expect). Amazingly, nothing seems to have come of it.

This troper has a relative whose mother named him Peter Gabriel (insert last name here) on ''accident''. At the height of Peter Gabriel's solo career. Years later, he met another boy his age who was name Peter Gabriel as well (weird). She also has a more distant relative whose name is Grace Kelly. And she had a friend in high school whose older brother was named Paul Newman.

This troper's Spanish teacher named one of her sons Gabriel Asher (last name). He goes by Gabe. Poor kid.

This troper went to school with a Gabriel Asher who went by Gabe. He says his parents expected him to go by Gabriel.

My friend only had to say that once to figure it out. We laughed for like 10 minutes straight (no pun intended)

This troper's uncle is a senior pilot who once interviewed graduates for a training scheme. One of them was a woman called (first name) Goodbody. Everyone had a joke about it when she went into the interview, including her - until she discovered she hadn't got the position. She then tried to bring an appeal against the panel for sexual harassment, but it was rejected.

This troper's sister once encountered a Polly Esther Fabric. You can't tell me that one wasn't ''deliberate.'' Her parents ought to be drawn and quartered.

While, for fairly obvious reasons, she never ''met'' the guy, this troper once found a ''Quibell Pridmore'' on her school's war memorial.

Was he a refugee from the world of ''DeathNote'' or something? Because that's exactly the kind of strange name the characters in there have.

Having looked him up on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, I can say that he probably went by 'Harry'.

BilingualBonus: this Polish troper noticed that it may be pronounced "Kibel", which means "shitter" (as in "toilet") in Polish.

A high school friend of mine had a counselor named Robyn Bird.

This troper had a male classmate whose real full name was Babbling Brook. However, we didn't find that out until the end of senior year, when the yearbooks came out. For the whole time we knew him, he went by Rocky.

Melina and its variants, although not all that common, are fairly normal names which will raise no eyebrows. Unless, of course, one knows many doctors and nurses...

This troper worked in a call center once and saw the following names:

Bum Park (very, very common). Apparently it's a decent name in Korean, but for English speakers...

Richard Mancock

A man with the granddaughter whose name is Pinto

Ivana Bush - "Ivy Bush"

Pinto is very common in Portugal, actually.

During this troper's ninth grade, the third place winner in the talent show was someone named Silver Lining.

@/KrazehPenguin's father knew someone who named their kids Snow and Pine... because their last name was Cone.

This troper once saw supermarket cashier with a name tag that read Fanny. Granted, she wasn't English/American, but still, that's not a very good name.

This troper once read a roster of the people in his (Army) division and discovered that one poor soul had been named, "Baby Girl Parker." (I hope God struck her parents down.)

It's common practice for a birth certificate to read "Baby Boy" or "Baby Girl" if the parents leave the hospital before deciding on a name for the child. Let us pray that was the case here.

In elementary school, one of this troper's classmates was named Amulet Strange. At least her name couldn't be intepreted as anything offensive.

Wouldn't she fit better under AwesomeMcCoolname?

A friend of this troper's had a headteacher at school whose last name was Shore-Twilly. Try saying that incredibly quickly.

She has also seen a book written by a certain Colin Manlove.

This troper went to a school with a kid named Mai Dong.

This trope went to high school with a girl named Bobby Jo Moorehead. She usually went by B.J.

A friend of mine by the name of Richard Baker, who's suffered several jokes about both his first name being "Dick" and the fact that he could never, ever get a butler (and there's enough money in his family to consider it) for fear of becoming "Master Baker", which might be just a little too close for comfort.

At my middle school, there was a "Chris Bader". He was familiar with the use of the word "Master" as a formal address for young boys, and actively encouraged its use when addressing him.

This troper read about a Dr. Moorcock in a book somewhere.

This troper's grandmother is friends with a woman named Mary Christmas, and this troper knows a girl named Scarlett Lush. In fact, this troper himself used to have a surname that was pronounced "shatty" before he changed it.

In this Troper's sister's Australian history textbook, there was an individual named John Thomas Bigge.

There was a professor at this troper's school whose surname was Wang. What's worse is that most e-mail addresses at this school consist of the first initial of a person's name, the middle initial, and then the first six letters of the person's last name. His e-mail ended up being mywang@ the school's domain. Poor guy.

In this Tropers country, Sweden, it is not unusual with last names based on percieved personal strenths. Examples include "Snygg" (handsome) "Stark" (strong) and "Stolt" (Proud). Not only is that pretty funny, but a usual given name is "Inge" which can be translated as "not at all". Oh dear...

This Troper's ex-co-worker named his son Logan Xavier *last name*.

Likewise, this Troper knows someone who called his son Logan Phoenix *last name*. Poor kid.

This Troper has known a Benjamin Dover and a Phillip [=McKracken=]. Both preferred not to shorten their names. There's also a local woman who's married name is Dwyer. Her first name? Barb.

A story told to this troper by a friend: the friend's father had a visit by one of his clients once. (The troper does not recall his business, but thinks it had something to do with insurance.) The client was a woman with the name Iona Glasscock. The father apparently had to leave the room so he wouldn't laugh at her to her face.

This troper knew some people who named their daughter Quess Sakota. I wish I was joking. To this day, I can't decide if they hated the poor kid or were just off their rockers. (Are either of those legitimate names in ANY language?) My grandmother takes the cake, though: She was named Elsie Gladys at a time when Elsie the Borden Milk Cow was a very popular advertisising icon... and she couldn't go by her middle name because people would call her "happy bottom." (Gladys= "glad ass"= "happy bottom".) Unfortunately some kids at school got ahold of her full name, and she went most of her school career being called "Happy Bottom Cow." Despite this, she grew into a remarkably loving and well-adjusted person. Oh, and I also once had a science teacher named Allen Rench.

I suspect Quess Sakota was a mangling of "Quetzalcoatl." Although that makes it worse.

Well, if the girl's parents were...um...anime fans, they could be naming her after Quess Paraya from Char's Counterattack. That's the only time I've ever heard the name Quess, though.

This troper's mother went to school with a kid named James Bond (this was pre-Dr. No).

This troper went to school with an Ashley Ketchum. A MALE Ashley Ketchum. As if being a boy named Ashley wasn't bad enough, "Ash" wasn't much better to go by...

Ashley is actually a male name.

This troper works with an individual named Richard Inman.

I recall seeing in a magazine a picture of a girl working in [=McDonald's=] called "Inge". You will notice that the [=McDonald's=] "M" is before the name, giving a name badge reading "Minge".

There was a teacher at my college named Richard Dick. I never heard that he murdered his parents, but who would have blamed him if he had?

Also, there was an attorney in town who had on his nameplate Richard "Dick" Fickle.

NASCAR Driver Richard "Dick" Trickle.

There's a gun enthusiast out there who's name is Dick Love.

This troper's father is named Jan, after '''his''' father. Thus every so often, said father will receive bulk mail from companies that clearly are going off his name alone, addressed to a "Ms. Janet [Last Name]". Telemarketers and medical clinics (Jan [Last Name] is a CRNA) often make the same mistake. And because it's pronounced in the same manner as "Janet" rather than as "Yan" (ruling out a Germanic origin), no one in the family knows how he or his father got the name in the first place.

This troper also heard of a student four years ahead of him at his high school with an unfortunate '''translation''' of a name. In Cambodia, Phuck Hyun probably doesn't mean anything special. But in an English-speaking country like the US, it sounds like an obvious expletive. The jokes apparently were so pervasive at this troper's high school that the principal declared on the PA system that Mr. Hyun would henceforth be known as "Paul".

Is your last name Itor?

This troper's sister once had a teacher named Sandra Crabbes. She preferred to be known as Sandy.

This troper's niece is named Caress. Yes, she probably does have a career in adult entertainment ahead of her...

This troper's friends, the Bates family. The two teenage sons have perfectly ordinary first names, but do make perpetual jokes about being "Master Bates".

Similarly, one of teachers at this troper's junior high school had a last name of Bateman. Needless to say, "mister" was changed to "master" quite a bit. At least when referencing him; I don't know of anyone who called him that directly.

On the Jick and Mr. Skullhead radio show at KingdomOfLoathing, Skully once mentioned a friend of his working with a Chinese guy named Ching Chong.

This troper's high school is home to girls named Pita and [=LaSonia=] (say it out loud). Pita's African, but [=LaSonia=]'s presumably American... *facepalm*

Google shows up plenty of [=LaSonias=]... you may have to explain the joke.

This troper had to say it out loud to himself a few times. Sounds like "lasagne", especially if you say it with an American accent.

This troper also has girl classmates, one surnamed Pita, and another named Hershey Jopia (pronounce surname as "hopia," as in the mung bean snack). Cue him greeting either with "You brought a snack..."

Not sure if it goes here, but this Troper knows two albinos with the last name Whiteley. Yes.

This troper encountered a textbook in high school English by someone with the surname Boagey. Cue much giggling from the class of 14-year-olds; the troper then quipped DeadpanSnarker-style that he must have got ''picked on'' at school upon which the teacher, hitherto trying to stay above the adolescent mirth, nearly laughed herself unconscious.

In this troper's old school, there was a teacher whose surname was Panti. She's obviously gotten used to the jokes.

This troper knows an Aiysha (pronounced Asia) Minor and a David Bowie.

The realtor selling my neighbour's house was named 'Gaye' at a time when such names were not uncommon. It was when she got married that it became an issue. There is a big sign in front of my neighbour's house that says their home is for sale by Gaye Males.

It may interest you to know that a picture of this sign has recently appeared on failblog.org

This troper's mother knew a guy in the Navy whose name was James T. Kirk. He was named before the TV show, but he became a captain right around the time the show came out, and was endlessly teased for it.

This Troper HAS the unfortunate name, and is also unfortunately friends with another unfortunately named person. We're Nathan Coffin and Jacob Grave. We also recently met a girl named Victoria Tombs, and is quickly becoming part of the group. Oh, the laughter... well, we were ridiculed in elementary school. Now we're complimented on how awesome our names are. My uncle is named Barry Davis Coffin. Barry D. Coffin. Buried Coffin. I feel so sorry for him.

This troper's father went to college with a Paul Ness. On the first day, the professor called role by saying the student's first initial and last name. It was rather uneventful until he got to "P Ness." Earlier, the same dad went to school with a William Oney III. The third guy in a line of Bill-oneys.

I'd be fine with a name of P. Ness.

This troper's father had a teacher by the name of Peter Loving.

This troper is a name short of the grand slam: Peter Wood. Fortunately, no Richards anywhere on that side of the family, though Mom considered Holly Angel for a girl's name, but thought better of it.

This troper's Drivers Ed teacher was named Mr. Boner. He was formerly the mayor of the small town this troper you used to live in. His term in that office ended with scandal. The newspapers had some very interesting headlines that year.

This troper's father used to work for the AA, and as the 'Fourth Emergency Service' they got the odd hoax call. One morning he got a very strange call from a man with a thick Irish accent. It took a while to establish that he wasn't pulling his leg: his car had broken down, and he was stranded in the village of Pity Me.

This troper's father went to school with Dick Vanstone given the unfortunate nickname of "Penis Lorryrock".

This troper has an ancestor by the name of Fanny Rose Hiscock. Beat that!

There's a guy at this troper's school named Osama. Yes, like THAT Osama.

This troper knows a guy surnamed Bay whose Chinese name starts with Shen. If you do not get it, call him Master. I shall wait.

If you still haven't gotten this, Chinese naming convention is surname first, given name second. We shall wait a little more.

My sister has the name of Katrina, she was apparently the first person a Hurricane Katrina victim asked the name of.

This troper knew a girl in grade five named Heaven Leigh Williams. And at her high school there was an unfortunate boy whose last name was Shite.

Narrowly averted by her little sister; their mother wanted to name her Joey Frances Kildare M_____, until she noticed the first three initials.

This troper went to school with a kid whose last name was Brokenleg. He never broke a leg himself, but considering the number of beatdowns he handed out per week (probably to people who made jokes about his name), it would be a miracle if he never broke anyone else's.

I cannot help but laugh at a girl in my Writer's Craft class. While it may not have been unfortunate 17 years ago when she was given it, Zutara sure has some interesting implications now.

This troper's father went to a Catholic school. There was a Brother English who taught French and a Brother French who taught English. Seriously.

The Weather Channel has everybody's favorite anchor... Nancy Wiener. Sorry, mrs. Wiener, but it's just THAT funny.

The Weather Channel also has a meteorologist named Jennifer Lopez. Not to be confused with, y'know, Jennifer Lopez.

This Troper has found people named:

Gypsy Blue

Zu Zu

"Zuzu?!" *snigger* ...not helping, am I?

This troper went to highschool with a girl named Jackie Daniels and a boy named Speed Jones. As this troper remembers, she asked the girl whether or not her parents realized what her name sounded similar to.

This editor's grandmother (while not as weird as some of these entries) is named "Aloha". And, in a startling coincidence that's as close as you can expect to come to "oe", she married a man with the last name "Oud". That's right. His grandmother is named "Aloha Oud".

At this troper's job, they have a poster with pictures of lost or kidnapped children along with their names and identifying features. He felt horrible after laughing at a girl who's last name was "Findlater". It's something he'd have expected from a comedy movie.

Far be it for this troper to deny any woman the right to do with her married name as she wishes. However, Houston Comets legend and Prarie View A&M head coach Cynthia Cooper might have wanted to consider the unfortunate implications of being constantly called Cynthia Cooper-Dyke in women’s basketball.

This troper's mechanic has the unfortunate name of Mr. Swindler.

One of my classmates in high school guitar class had the full name ''Sean Lennon''.

This Troper remembers an autobiography by a woman named Cupcake Brown....

This Troper knew a couple whose last name was Potter. They were expecting their first child, a son, and decided not to give him an Unfortunate Name but keep it in the families first name convention of names starting with J's. Of course, his father was James Potter, so it didn't help. This Troper has also known a Michael Moore and Michael Meyers and the head of his high school was Peschi. The school newspaper milked the last one for all it was worth.

Cox Communications, normally known as just Cox, is a popular cable provider in this troper's area. Unsurprisingly, when they were in a pride parade, the crowd went wild.

A friend of mine who had been drinking quite heavily once became amused by the phrase, "Cox on Demand" on the television.

This Troper is a rather huge {{Shakespeare}} nerd, who has attended Shakespeare classes, and actually participated in a competition of sorts, must always attach a "(No Really)" when she introduces herself as Juliet.

This troper went to high school with a girl named Krystal Stoner, while her cousin had a friend whose first name was Silvery Blue. When she worked retail, she had an elderly man write out a check whose name was...Charles Manson.

This Troper spent many many hours in a classroom in the Love Building on his college campus, named after alumnus J. Erskine Love, whose family obviously donated quite a lot of money to the school. His wife's name? Gay.

This editor went to middle school with a boy named Miles Long, and only realized the implications when she looked back.

Similarly, I knew a plumber named Miles Lane [last name]. His father did it on purpose, he said.

This troper went to school with Charlie Brown... poor guy. He even had a dog named Snoopy.

There was a teacher at one of this troper's high schools called Dick Mann. There is also a professor at her college named Gay Love (presumably named before the word took on its current meaning, but still...). And while working at a call center, she came across a woman with the unfortunate married name of Minor-Hooker -- though at least that's probably better than Major-Hooker.

This troper had an unfortunate encounter with a young woman who turned out to be named Jenny Taylor. Why didn't she call herself Jennifer?

This Troper knew not only one but two girls named Princess Joy. We called one Princess and the other one Joy.

This Troper works with a Victoria Doria. At an old job, he worked with an American of Middle Eastern descent named Jihad.

This Troper's mother's first name is Treasure. Her maiden name was House. When she got married she was all too happy to take her husband's last name.

My hometown had a dentist named "Dr. Payne".

Would have been funnier if he was a cop working at the DEA.

My grandmother knew a couple with the last name 'Rabbit'. Of course, they named their two sons Peter and Jack. Also, my mother knew a girl by the name of 'Ophelia Titsworth'.

This troper went to middle school with a girl named Stormy Gray, once met a boy named Patrick [=VonPatrick=] (why would parents do this???) and in college knew a guy with the unfortunate last name of Raper. At least his first name wasn't something like "Richard".

My mother once knew a Candy Cane. That count?

I don't see how that could be unfortuna-- wait a second...

Architectural example: This troper's college campus has a [=McCarthy=] Hall. Apparently no relation to ''that'' McCarthy, though, but somewhat amusing.

This troper's mother used to help out at an elementary school down the road, including helping register new students in the school's database. She ran into trouble registering a new student, because the school's computers refused to accept her name... apparently, ''Shithead'' is blocked by the school's computers. At least it isn't pronounced the way it looks (it's pronounced Shuh-theed), but still, fourth grade onwards, if not earlier, is going to be absolute hell for her.

This troper got a fairly raw deal with his given name to start with, his surname is a homonym for "sharp" (coincidentally, one of his flatmates has the surname "Steel" and he does has a reputation as something of a KnifeNut), his initials are SS (which comes with other baggage). Luckily he has a middle name and normally renders it as SJS (indeed his username comes from the result of superimposing all three letters, flipping an S, on each other). In addition to this, said name is one syllable off the name of the protagonist of Shark.

This Troper's aunt worked at a nursery and kept a record of the worst names, the runner up was Gavin Gob while the winner was Rocko Plonker. Also at this Troper's school there was a teacher named Mrs. Cox and an Indian guy named Wakaz (pronounced "Whack-Ass") all pretty bad...

This troper knows two doctors named Dr. Fear and Dr. Payne.

This troper's parents once had a student named Cash Register, her English Teacher once had a student named Nosmo King (No Smoking), and she knows a person who named their child Sylvan Pancake-Adventure [=McFarland=]. As if that last one wasn't bad enough for the uses of Pancake and Adventure, the kid's initials are SPAM. Yeah...

I attend a Yu-Gi-Oh! club/class and I'm positive that one of the kids there is a Ben Snape.Snape,Snape,Severus Snape...

This troper had a chemistry teacher known as Dr Grim. She was actually not the least bit scary.

This troper recently discovered that her father was associated through business with a man called Randy Shag, leading her to wonder who named the poor guy! Nowhere near as bad to Randy Fagg, but still rather unfortunate.

This troper's vet is named Doctor Katz. Yes, he treats cats. This could almost count as a PropheticName. His son, also named Katz, actually treats horses instead.

She also works with a guy who has the last name Fattman... and unfortunately he happens to be a rather large fellow.

Surely this troper isn't the only person to know Penny Lane.

This spanish troper's last name is Caravaca. Translated, it would be, well, Cowface.

This troper was told of a Chanda Lear. This was some time ago, though, and she's had time to marry by now.

This troper used to work with an Ian Anderson - it's a relatively obscure one if you're not familiar with Jethro Tull, but he has in fact been asked if he plays the flute. There's also Bear Bang, and a girl he went to high school with named Pornpen (it's apparently a relatively common name in Thailand, where she was from originally, but it's not too surprising that she preferred to go by Annie, and in fact hardly anyone even knew her real name until the yearbook came out).

This tropers friend went to school with someone named Patience Isa Blessing. Yes, pronounced "is a". No idea what the parents were thinking.

My mum's name is Maureen Antoinette (Symes/Diodati). She goes by Sam[[strike:antha]] Maureen (Symes/Diodati).

Someone in my family almost named their son Arthur Steven Selznick. But then noticed what his initials would be.

My initials are EMS. Like Emergency Medical Services. It's actually kinda funny, considering most people think I'm emo (I'm not by the way) and if you got hurt you'd go to the EMS. But no one ever pointed out my initials, except my mom. It's cool.

This is the name of a place rather than a person, but... In this troper's area there's a trailer park called Windy Acres. Keep in mind how easily trailer homes are knocked around by tornadoes and just think about it for a minute. She also had a classmate in the first grade named John Kennedy.

This troper's brother's best friend is named Randy Mann. She also knows a guy with the initials PORN.

Randy Mann is the name of a ''PushingDaisies'' character as well.

And this troper thought his friend's initials (DAMN) made for an unfortunate name!

This troper's mother used to be a receptionist, and once regaled me with a tale of a family she met whose last name was Bastard (emphasis on the second syllable, though).

This troper learned physics from a Michael Jordan and is related to a Martha Stewart.

This troper once saw a newspaper real estate article. The name of the agent? Harry Kok.

This troper remembers visiting her mother at the hospital, and doing a double take when someone asked for "Dr Wayne Kerr" over the speakers.

This troper remembers when he was at his friends place when he discovered that there was someone named John Thomas.

This troper has come across to a young girl named Yersinia. Yersinia as in ''Yersinia pestis.''

This troper's mother worked in Australia going over payrolls. Due to the amount of Greek ex-pats at the time she saw some unusual names, but the one that has lingers was a Mr Pispenis.

This troper's girlfriend is named Emma Lee. "And your last name, please?"

This troper's local news team has an anchor named Sunny Layne. Yes, that's her birth name. She apparently was named after a song by Nat King Cole. It doesn't help that she's a redhead, either.

She wouldn't happen to live in Central City, would she?

A girl in my graduating class had the last name of Fakalata. I didn't know her, but I can only imagine school life must've been rough.

This Troper's doctor at a very young age was named Richard Dicker. After her nine-year-old brother heard of that, there was no end to the Dick Dicker jokes...

Wow, Dick Dicker is ALSO a ''PushingDaisies'' character. What's going on here?

A guy at this troper's school is named Andrew Randwick. The Randy Andy jokes never end.

While visiting a cemetery, this troper came across a headstone for a man named "Richard Bump". Hopefully, no one called him Dick, but I wouldn't be surprised.

This troper's mother, who is a teacher, had a student whose first name was Mister.

There is apparently, according to this troper's roommate, a girl in Arizona named Farren Heit.

When this troper was in Jr. High, there was a substitute teacher he encountered on several occasions named Wanda Dick. Each time this troper had her for a class, she was pregnant.

This troper named her cat Mash before she had ever gotten it or put "the cat" on it. And, to make it worse, my mom once joked about and added "with gravy.".

This troper used to know a girl called Annabel; her last name was Lee. Her grandfather, who lives in Illinois, shares a name -- George Ryan -- with one of that state's imprisoned ex-governors. Her college has a Thomas More and a premed whose last name is Pepper, and, in the physics department, a Dr. Hu.

This troper has a friend named Tom Green.

Spanish bonus: This Troper's cousin once knew a redhead named "Susana Orias" or something like that. Everyone called her "carrot" (Susana Orias - Su Sanahorias - Su Zanahoria, which is spanish for "your carrot")

"Angelica" can't be that bad a name, right? Yeah. Try starting kindergarten when {{Rugrats}} is at its height of popularity. When you've never had cable.

This troper had a French teacher in grade school with the last name "Le Bastard." Of course, everyone always pronounced as in French, obviously. There was also a teacher with the name Calvin Hobbes.

There was this kid in Junior High that used to make fun of me regularly (he apparently thought it would make him cooler). One day he was looking through his history book and was happy to find his name ([=McCarthy=]). Evidentially he didn't read what the name is famous for.

This troper has named her dog um, some conversial book title I never read that I won't named because I don't want to get in the crossfire. It was a good idea at the time. (I would named it something different, but I wasn't allowed.)

This troper's mother had an English textbook written by Dennis Gotobed. She also once knew a person named Odd-Even.

This troper's father had a student named Cheryl Mycock, or "C Mycock."

This troper had teachers named Mr Allcock and Miss Gunter when she was in secondary school. She also had a lecturer at college named Roger Moore.

I once heard of a Mr. Deathrage, disappointingly pronounced "dethridge." Could he win a fight with Greg Killmaster?

This troper once met people who wanted their newborn son to be named Vercingetorix. The town hall registration office unfortunately deemed that name acceptable.

Back in college, this troper knew of a girl named "Véronique Toulemonde". Meaning Véro "shags everyone".

This troper works in retail, and lets say some names you see on credit cards and [=IDs=] make you wonder how badly one must've gotten beaten up at school. His favorite is a person who's last name is "Coward". Might as well be "Pickonme".

Coward is a fairly common last name in this troper's hometown, though the usual pronunciation (more like Cowart) probably prevents a lot of beatings.

This troper has a classmate with an portmanteau name (the beginning of his mother's, and his two brothers' names), one which is basically a demonym (she had blue eyes, and her father named her "Prussiana"; go figure), and used to have a classmate with the same name as an TV actress/host. He has freshmen with some really weird names, but one is a special case: she's named Bruma (Portuguese for ''haze''), which wouldn't be bad... if someone named "Brisa" (''breeze'') wasn't approved in the same year.

Oxford University had several years ago a medical student named (Firstname) De Ath - unfortunately he left without becoming 'Dr Death' and apparently preferred to go by simply 'Ath', pronounced 'Att' as a surname (understandably). ** There is definitely a journalist at the Times called Roger Boyes.

However a sailor acquaintance says it is definitely not true that the bosun of HMS Trafalgar (see UltimateDefenceOfTheRealm) is named Higgs, because you can't get a Higgs Bosun from a fission reactor.

There is a girl at this troper's school named Angel Slaughter.

A friend of this troper once encountered a man named BJ Puttbrese. I think he wins. Or loses, as the case may be.

This troper ran into some fun ones while student-teaching. Lyric and Memorie (no relation) are pretty-sounding, if odd. But you had to wonder about parents who'd name their little girl "Special". Or worse, "Titeeana" (and yes, her nickname was "Titty".)

A while back, when Chris Brown was all over the news for beating the snot out of Rihanna, A new student joined one of my classes. Three guesses to what his name was, And your three clues are that the females squealed when they heard it, the boys cracked up, and even the teacher couldn't help but smile...My school was weird.

ANOTHER ONE FROM ME, My last name sounds a lot like Frodo, to most people. Oddly enough, I love that, since I consider myself a Lord Of The Rings nerd.

I had a good friend with the name of Harrison Potter. Harrison ''James'' Potter. No points for guessing what he dressed up as for Halloween...

This troper has two sisters named Lily Evan and Brielle Mackeean. It would seem I have gotten off easy with the name Meg, but I happen to bear a spooky resemblance to a certain other Meg and go to a school where quoting Family Guy is still considered funny.

One of my friends was "Adolf" and another one had the last name "Castro". A subversion since no one commented anything about the names (maybe too obvious to mention), as far as I know, in my country "Adolf" seems to be a very rare name and unrelated to that Adolf...

Naming children after Adolf Warner is not a good idea.

A client for the company one of this troper's friends worked for had one of these. Since it was an official document last name came first resulting in it coming up: '''Oh, Hungman.'''

One of this troper's teachers in high school once told us about a student he had back in the early '80s: Scarlet Dick. Poor, poor girl.

This troper once found a name in her junior high's schedule book while writing a pass for a student. The poor child was named ''Sin'Chastity''. And yes, the apostrophe is necessary. *shudder*

Eric Shen. That is all.

This Troper had a vice-principle named Christmas Lee. Lee was his last name. Say it quickly or in a chinese accent.

This Troper plans on doing the horribly mean thing, and naming his own kids on this principle. First male kid? Omega Erickson. No middle name. First female? Serenity. (Although, to be fair, I liked the name long before I watched the movie.)

I like it too and don't see why it belongs on this page.

This Troper's mother works at a school. One of the kids names who's paperwork she had to do was, I kid you not, "Twuu Love". I had to pick myself up of the floor after seeing that.

This troper's friend's mother is a teacher who once taught twins called Neil and Bob. Their surname? "Down".

This Troper's high school has a sizable Asian population, so "Wang" is quite a common last name. Not too bad with the standard names, but there is one whose first name is Ivana...

This Troper's high school had a class unfortunately titled "Comparative Religions and Philosophies." Students had a tendency to loudly announce that they were off to "CRAP class." This Troper was not in the class and so didn't find out how the teacher reacted....

My dad misspelled my name on my birth certificate. >_<

My Nutrition teacher's name is Pam Dick. This wouldn't seem so bad, except her school e-mail has to consist of only her first initial and then her last name. Think about that for a second.

I like looking through the phone book for names at times, and I found some real gems: Russell Dalek, Edwin Macadangdang, and Virginia Spector-Wippel. Really hoping that the last two get married so Virginia will possibly be named Virginia Spector-Wippel-Macadangdang.

This troper went to middle school with a Gregory William Dye, often shortened to Greg Will Dye.

This troper has a cousin named Allister [=McAllister=].

This troper works with someone named Bill Murray.

I was on the Quiz Bowl team in high school, and there was a team at the spring competition two of the three years I was in it that had a Jamie Wang and an Asad Butt. Their names were listed together, and they sat together. Wang, and Butt. There would have been more bad jokes if they weren't both awesome at what they did.

A very respected African-American minister for decades in this troper's city was Rev. Toy Ball.

While serving as assistant supervisor at a local office of the Cancer Federation, this troper encountered some...interesting names on our call list, among them Byron Burpulis, John Crotchula, Si Mai Wang and Phuc D. Ho.

This troper's friend goes to a rather preppy high school in an expensive suburban neighborhood, and one of her classmates is named Shelbi Ponce.

This troper's mother had a coworker whose daughter was a teacher. She had a Shitonme (pronounced Shi-tona-may) in one of her classes. He also has a fellow student at his college by the name of Richard Dean Martin. He's either Ricky Martin or Dean Martin. It's a case of pick your poison.

It seems like this troper's brother's friend's family have been pretty unlucky with their initials. Her brother's friend is named Will Carter. Doesn't sound that bad, does it? Try to spell out his initials. Poor kid. Oh, and what about his mother - Juliet Carter, J.C - Jesus Christ, she must have been teased. His sister is Olive Fiona Carter - not bad at all, unless you're familiar with fanfiction, where OFC are often synonymous with Mary Sue.

During this troper's Army service, he was shocked one day to see a soldier whose name badge proclaimed her to be Holmes-Watson.

This Troper's name may not be as bad as some others, but it rhymes with: ale, snail, sail, shale, whale/wail, gale, bail/bale, nail, mail/male, veil, rail, tale/tail, hail/hale, jail, fail, pail/pale, quail, and all other 'ale' sounding words.

This Troper's sister went to high school with a boy named Blaze Lightning Burns. This Troper's family is probably lucky that this was not also a MeaningfulName.

This troper, watching the Australian election coverage, noticed a minor party candidate called Olga Quilty.

One of my nephews is called Guy, after a gorilla who had recently died at London Zoo. I can only assume that his father reckoned that by the time he reached school age, the gorilla would be long forgotten; fortunately he was right.

In junior high I knew a boy named Kirby. He got a few giggles thanks him sharing a name with a certain pink puffball. I also happen to share my first and middle name with a plant and a flower, respectively. I wouldn't be surprised if I end up marrying someone who shares their last name with a type of tree.

This troper knows a huge badass. Like, literally huge. He's six foot six, 260 pounds, plays rugby, and is proficient with both a broadsword and Northern Xiaolin Kung Fu. His name? Jack Bonner. I went into hysterics when I found out, and apparently I'm not the only one.

Can This Troper make an assumption that the previous troper lives in Ireland (based on the name and Rugby playing)? Because "Bonner" is a slightly common surname from Irish descent families. This Troper knows several people (completely unrelated) with the last name here in the States, and it's always weird when people ask whether there's any immediate relation. you didn't catch it:, this troper happens to be one such person :(]]

This Troper has a teacher named Mr. Dyck. Yeah. He's told us that we can call him whatever as long as Mr. is in front of it, as he doesn't want us yelling "DICK!" down the hallways.

Only down here because it really is real life: this Troper's parents REALLY ARE named "Dick and Jane." When the family got a dog, the Troper and her brother were so sick of all the jokes that they threatened to run away their parents named the dog "Spot".

This Troper's grandfather's name was "Revilo Oliver [Troper]". Why "Revilo", you ask? ....What's "Oliver" spelled backwards?

I've seen someone with the last name "Peanushead". And yes, It's pronounced Penis head.

I have a college teacher with the initals "KKK". If that was not enough, her name is "Kelley Kline", which is one letter away from the name of a porn star, so the websites kelleykline.com and kellykline.com get mixed up.

You don't mean KKK as in Klan KKK, don't you?

Ku Klux Klan, yes.

I go to school with a guy named Sloan Bowen. That's pronounced Slow-An Bow-An. Poor kid.

My uncle was once scanning employee [=IDs=] at a security gate and had to refrain from laughing when he was passed one that bore the name "Holden Hiscock".

I met a Boy Scout at my place of work a couple of weeks ago. The poor lad's name, as stated on his name tag, was Randy Titler.

One of my sister's high shhool teachers was named mrs. Mouha. Her DetractorNickname was mrs. Mouhaha.

I once saw a obituary for a woman named Mari Juana *surname*. What the hell were her parents smoking?

This troper had a biology text book in primary school, 'Living Things' by A. Slaughter. On the spine, of course, it omitted the initial to make 'Slaughter Living Things'.

This troper has a mild case; his first name is Carl. When's the last time you saw a Carl in movies or TV that wasn't either the gay best friend or some variety of skeezy pedo / sex offender? And don't get me started on Karl, either... It's like the exact opposite of a name to trust immediately.

A friend of mine has told me that his father wanted to name him so that his first and middle names, when abbreviated into their most common forms, and combined were the same as his last name. Out of respect for his privacy, I won't say his name, but it would work like "Tom Smith Tomsmith."

This troper has a friend whose mother's name is Robin. Her maiden name? Hood. Oh, the jokes she got in school...

This troper once worked at a video store, and entered a customer application from Ray D. Burns. I sincerely hope the D. was by his choice; it stood for Diation.

Allegedly, this troper's father knew a certain "Dick Hurtse"

I remember looking through a phone book and finding one DonaldDuck. I couldn't help but think of all the crank calls the poor guy surely received.

This Troper has a family friend named Alex Abbot. This is a perfectly reasonable name. His brother, however, is named Peter. To make matters worse, Peter's wife has the given name Snowy. Snowy and Peter Abbot. Try saying that out loud.

This Troper once rode in a taxi driven by a man whose name, according to a name tag in the cab, was Good Luck Nazi.

This troper, in addition to her Dick Woodcock comment in the large Dick Something section above, has a kid in her choir class by the name of Hung. We found out recently that his middle name is Low, thus making him Hung Low. Here's the kicker: he happens to be gay, so he considers it "advertising" (though I guess it would be advertising regardless of sexual orientation), and claims that his parents are well aware of how it translates into English.

And another one from me: I happen to be learning the Na'vi language (say what you will about Avatar, but I love it), and there's this one Na'vi name generator on the Learn Na'vi forums. It's amazing, with over a trillion possible syllable combinations to help you choose a Na'vi name for yourself...and I mainly use it to find funny ones. So far, I have found Titsi (Titsy), Rutpxir (Root Beer), and Skxawng (as stated in the movie, Na'vi for "moron").

One of my cousins is named Brietta, which got shortened to Bree as she got older, so by the time she hit high school everyone was calling her Cheese-face. I also went to high school with a literal Mary Sue, a girl named Renee Strokes, and know a friend of a friend named Richard Sticker.

This troper goes to a chatroom which recently went under a name change. The admin decided with Kool Kids Klub...until I mentioned what the initials were. He then changed it to Kool Friends Club...and gave the Kool Kids Klub name to the secondary chatroom that everyone hates.

This troper knows of several:

A teacher school named Richard Brodsack (He likes to joke about naming his future son "Harry")

A boyfriend of a friend with the last name "Glascock".

A friend of her little sister whose father's last name is "Wienerhold" and her mother's last name is "Rugg" - They combined the two and said friend of sister's last name is "Renner"

A Victor Butts

"Rock" is a family name (it comes from French-Canadian)

Her cousin knows three ''seperate'' people with the names Lake, River and Pond. Now, River wouldn't be ''so'' bad (I've heard it before), and neither would Lake, probably. But ''Pond''? That's just terrible. Plus, they sound funny together.

This troper's mother once had a kid in her class whose last name was Shithead. It was pronounced "Shi-theed".

This troper heard about a guy named "Jihad".

This troper learned chem from a Mr. Fink with a Benjamin Dover, had an 8th grade science from a man named Robert Atkins (school email is first inital last name so he became ratkins). Her older cousin plans to name her future child Vladimir if its a boy and Aerith if a girl (which while a pretty name, think of what happens to the poor girl...), knows a girl with the last name Weir (give her the weird jokes and she'll either beat you o laugh, depending on what side or her bipolarness we're on), a boy with the last name Koo (he has heard the Cuckoo jokes thousands of times), was invited to join all-city band by a Marcus Pimpleton, knows a kid whose first and last initals are DK and whose middle name is Eugene, two boys with the last name Dumas (yes they've heard the dumbass puns), the older of whose initials spell CAD. She has learned english from a teacher called Bullock with a Chris Brown in her class, and probably others.

Phuc Dat Bich

One of my best friends goes by his middle name which happens to be Saddam. Yeah high school from 2001 onwards was a pain in the ass for him.

My friend has an uncle named Adolf. He might be the only Austrian Adolf below 60. Seriously, were his parents asleep from 1939-1940??

A teacher of this troper's once had a student called Adolf Fureur. Yeah...

I have this cousin named Jplyzxykr who doesn't know how to pronounce his own name. Still, ''he'' got off easy. His twin's name is Gordon.

What's so bad about being called Gordon?

She's a girl.

This troper´s name is German and if an anglophone tries to pronounce it, it sounds like `nightmare´.

An ex-pupil's name at my school was John Raper. When some old pupils about 100 years ago got the chance to buy plaques on the back of chairs in the assembly hall, he apparently bought 7.

In middle school, our band teacher was also named Richard. His last name was "Long" Our drama teacher went to school with him and can vouch for the fact that it wasn't particularly uncommon to have an attendance taking teacher call out "Long, Dick" before they relized what they were saying. We also once had a substitute with the last name "Wykoff". It should be pronounced why-cough, not week-off OR whack-off.

This troper's sister knows a second-grader by the name of Tres Crapps. We both agreed that, while it is funny, you have to feel sorry for him once he gets to middle school.

This troper had a friend in high school who went by her last name, Vitti. While not that unfortunate normally, when said too fast it sounds a lot like "VD". Course when I asked where she got the name "VD" from, she responded "my father," making the whole thing far more disturbing.

One of my high school classmates was named Osama. This was before Osama bin Laden became a household name. I also had a biology teacher named William Gibson. There was also a pair of twins with the surname Dickhoff, and another brother and sister named Jack and Rose.

There's a girl at my school whose father is named James Bond.

There is a Richard Long and a Randy Harden in my music history class. The instructor and an immature student had a lot of fun with Richard's name on the first day.

Since you're free to name your protaganist whatever the hell you like in {{Persona 4}}, this troper went out of her way to name him Fanny Pack, and intends to do the same to the protaganist of {{Persona 3}} when she gets her hands on a copy.

This Troper has a good friend whose first and middle names are Jacob Edward. All jokes that can be made already have been made.

A boy in this troper's music class is named Reed Medley. No one else seems to have caught on, except for the music teacher.

My mom currently works with someone named Lovely. It's arguably not ''that'' bad, but it can be weird when you address her by name, since people who don't know her would just think you're calling her by a term of endearment (i.e. "Good morning, Lovely").

I'm a guy, and my last name is Benedict. As in, related to the actual English "House of Benedict". I've heard too many dick jokes to count. It's weird that nobody decided to joke around even more when they found out my middle name translates to "John".

Anderling was born through a C-section. The doctor on duty at the time was Dr. Slager. "Slager" means "butcher" in Dutch. Guess where I live?

This troper's brother went to high school with a girl named Corona Beers

This troper goes by the Russian girls name "Manja" - which could be fine but... the troper is German. Her classmates thought it funny to spell her name "Mann-ja" (Man - yes). that is, they did it rather briefly, before they went directly to "Frau-nein" (Woman - no.). Additionally I ALWAYS have to make sure my name is spelled wit an "j" instead of an "i". I still wonder if my sister (responsible for the name) really hated her newborn sister so much.

This troper's sister used to have the Unfortunate initials of 'KKK'.

My mother and father thought it'd by adorable to name me and my twin Alexandra and Alexander and our last name of Thew is always mispronounced as Two. We were quickly named the Alex's Two throughout our school years.

A friend of mine from DeviantART has a doctor whose last name is Dedkeity.

This troper met a girl on one trip who went by Grace. When I was handed the list of people while the adults were dealing with other things, I learned that her name was Saving, and her middle name was Grace. Her twin brother, who went by Eugene, was simply named Eugene Cyril. I am not entirely sure what her parents were on when they were born.

I know a black kid with a condition that forces him to be overweight. His parents named him "Albert". See FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids.

This troper saw a name on a class list that caused nearly everyone to start laughing. The poor kid's name? ''Mahboob''. The jokes were endless, but thank goodness they weren't there.

I have a co-worker whose maiden name was Quan Tran. Her married name? Quan Chan.