10 Strangest Names EVAR!


For more Bizarro, check out Dan Piraro's website and blog.

This Bizarro comic inspired me to look for bad (but real) names on the Web - and boy was I floored with the result that Google returned for the search terms "bad names" (6 million results!) and "worst names" (499,000 results). It seems that some parents are either cruel or mad when they name their kids.

Here are a few that are particularly strange:

Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K. Yes, that's right: a baby named after the illicit drug ketamine. Oh, and that's pronounced "Your Highness," by the way.

Urhiness Kendall was born on Saturday, February 15, 2003, weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces. The baby shared birthdays with another guy with a weird name: Galileo Glilei, who went on to become a famous mathematician and astronomer. (Source - previously on Neatorama here)

GoldenPalaceDotCom Silverman. In 2005, the Internet casino GoldenPalace.com paid $15,000 to name a baby after itself and got more than it paid for in media attention. Sure most people condemned this sort of outrageous publicity stunt - some even calling it a form of child abuse - but the good news was that GoldenPalaceDotCom Silverman was born healthy at 7 pounds, 10 ounces on May 19, 2005.

Actually, baby Silverman wasn't the only human in the world named after the casino: In the same year, a 33-year-old mother of five named Terri Ilagan auctioned off the right to her name on eBay, which the casino won for a mere $15,199. The re-branded Mrs. GoldenPalace.com said: "To my kids and to my husband, I will always be Terri. My husband is real supportive. He thinks it's funny. As long as they get to call me Mom, they don't care. They are already starting to tease me and call me Goldie." (Source)

These two will join a GoldenPalace's branding of a Glaswegian woman's cleavage and their purchase of a decade-old "Virgin Mary" grilled cheese in the annals of the company's publicity stunts (Source)

Joker Arroyo. Don't laugh: Mr. Arroyo is a Senator in the Philippines (What? Don't believe me? Check it out here).

His name "Joker" is derived from his father's fondness for playing cards. His brother is named "Jack." No words if there are any other siblings named Queen or King.

Update 5/29/08: Joker has a daughter whose name is also Joker Arroyo! Thanks Gabor Debreczeni!

Unusual names are pretty common in the Philippines: Bing, Bong, Ping, Ting, Led Zeppelin, Mick Jagger, Nirvana, Jejomar (yes, a combination of Jesus, Joseph and Mary) and Hitler Manila, whose sons are named Himmler and Hess. And no, Hitler Manila is a peaceful guy who doesn't share his namesake's Nazi ideology. (Source)

Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (Pronounced "albin"). In 1991, Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding wanted to protest the naming law of Sweden, which states that the court can diapprove of names that "for some obvious reason are not suitable as a first name." They were fined 5,000 kronor (about $680 at the time).

The parents claimed that the 43-character name as "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation." The court didn't buy it and upheld the fine. Then the parents tried to resubmit the name as "A" (yes, one letter - also pronounced "albin"). The court didn't buy that either, saying that one letter names are prohibited.

The baby finally went with "Albin Hallin" though in his passport his name was given as "Icke namngivet gossebarn" meaning "unnamed little boy." (Source)

KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. Well, technically, this is not his parents' fault but what Christopher Garnett did was pretty strange so we'll include him on this list.

In 2005, Christopher, a youth outreach worker for the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) agreed to change his name legally to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com to protest animal abuse by the food chain KFC. (Yes, and he's got a driver's license to prove it).

He did promise his mom that he'd change his name back when PETA's campaign against KFC was over in 2006. Throughout all this time, his parents continued to call him Chris (how unsupportive!)

(Source)

Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon (1640 - 1698). Nicholas' shall we say "unique" name apparently ran in the family: his father was Praise-God Barbon. No, I'm not kidding - Nicholas was a real guy. He was an English economist, physician and financial speculator. He took part in the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666 and even founded the city's first fire insurance company. By all accounts, he went by Nicholas throughout his life. (Source)

God Shammgod. God plays professional basketball, currently for the Portland Chinooks of the International Basketball League. He played in the NBA for one season (with the Washington Wizards in 1997).

He even invented a streetball move, called The Shammgod, useful for creating space between you and your defender. And yes, God is on MySpace. (Photo: Hoops Addict)

Batman Bin Suparman. This young Javanese man is blessed with being named after not just one, but two superheroes: Batman and Superman. And he's got an identity card to prove it ...

Dick Assman. Yes, you read that right. Dick is a gas station owner in Saskatchewan, Canada, whose name made him a minor celebrity when David Letterman found him in 1995. Dick pronounced his German lastname as "uzman," but we all know better... (Source)


Photo: Frame enlargement of the short film, "Saskatchewan Part 2 (That's My Wonderful Town) by Brian Stockton (from Wikipedia)

@. And finally, let's go full circle to "@," pronounced "ai ta" or "love him" by an unidentified Chinese couple:

The unidentified couple and the attempted naming were cited Thursday by a Chinese government official as an example of bizarre names creeping into the Chinese language.

"The father said 'the whole world uses it to write emails and translated into Chinese it means'love him'," Li Yuming, the vice director of the State Language Commission, said at a news conference.

No words on whether the name was rejected by the Chinese government (Source - Previously on Neatorama here).

More Unusual Names: Want more? Check out Wikipedia, which has a HUGE list of unusual names ...


Actually, for Batman bin Suparman's name - the Arabic reads "Batman bin Suferman" - there's probably a little photoshop going on in that one...
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Suparman is a common Javanese name - almost all moslems there have "arabicized" names, though they seldom use it. I'd say someone actually mis-translated his name into Arabic rather than the other way around ...
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Get ready for the people who swear they have a friend who knows someone who named their kid (pick one): Placenta, Female, Oranjello and Lemonjello (twins), Ampersand, and the like. THey usually pop up around posts like these.
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I was just having a conversation about weird names with my Boyfriend and his family.

My boyfriend knew someone in highschool with the name "tittyporn Gangasac." Probably not spelled exactly like that but he said if you looked at it that's totally what it said....subs and teachers were quite confused.
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It was the man who founded the London fire brigade service who revelled in the Puritan monicker of

The-Lord-is-My-Sheperd Barebones.

Top stuff.

his brother was Praise God Barebones.
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Here, in Spain, we have a Kevincosner de Jesús. Yeah, he was named after Kevin Costner, but his parent´s didn´t know the right spelling of Kevin´s name. And it´s only the name There is not a surname in "Kevincosner de Jesús."

And in Venezuela there is a town where everybody name his children with strange names. In fact, the government made a law to stop this way of naming, cause the names are as strange as Genghis Kan, Nick Carter Backstreet boys, Makgiber, Yedoska (Y2K in Spanish) Adolfohitler (It´s only the name.) bla bla bla.
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It's illegal in Quebec to give your kid a name that is too bizarre, the naming nazis will refuse a registration if they feel that the name is too weird. My friends' tried to name their kid Spatula but were denied, although they continued to call him Spatch.
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Do people who give their children bizarre names out of protest or for money think about the burden they put on the child? I have much more concern for my children than to subject them to the difficulties that a life with a strange name would cause them.
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You find some gems if you're into genealogy. One of my favourites was probably unintentional. Still, I wonder if, in the 1800s, poor little Harry Langstaff got teased a lot. He'd get teased today for sure!
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i went to college with a guy who legally changed his name to Trout Fishing in America. He went by trout. Me, I never found Richard Brautigan all that readable, let alone insipring . . .
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John Tierney of TierneyLab blog had a contest to determine the worst bad name ever, and the winner is: Iona Nipl!

The judges chose it because, in addition to being an embarrassing pun, it also set up an inevitable reply from people imagining they were being wittily original. I called up Miss Knipl and asked her how many times she had heard someone meet her and reply, “I own two.”

“I got sick of hearing it, but what can you do?” Miss Knipl said. “My mother never thought about that when she was naming me. It was her mother’s name. I came home from school a couple times crying and my mother said, ‘Oh, why did I do that?’ but it had never occurred to her how people would hear the name.”

Miss Knipl shed the pun when she got married and began using her husband’s last name. But then, after they were divorced, she went right back to her old name. It might have simpler to keep her husband’s name, she told me, but by this time she had come to appreciate the advantages of Iona Knipl.

“In school it bothered me, but now I think it’s neat,” she said. “It’s different.”
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We named our kid Eris Helena Strange. My wife was ok with Strange, but put the Helena on there in honor of her grandmother. I also know of a couple in New York who gave their child the middle name "trouble".
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My wife had a parent try to enroll her kid in school and her kid's name was Shithead. It was pronounced Sha-Theed.

She was in 3rd grade and apparently this isn't all that rare outside the U.S.
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Yay, funny names! I got a few of those...

Yorgei (combine that with the apparently "common" Shithead, and you got yourself one awesome name! Man, you'd be impervious to internets insults!)
Odd Wang (seriously! Norwegian name...)
Anass Rhammar (some taxi driver)
Chew Kok (also a taxi driver)
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I'll not forget this one until the day I die:
Bloomer Waddle Lemon

I was working at a sporting goods store in 1976; my job was to fill out deer hunting licenses and collect money for same. This required a driver's license, so for 8 hours a day people shoved their license at me along with $8 and I wrote out licenses without having time to even look up at the line of custies. But when the license read "Bloomer Waddle Lemon" came across my counter, I did take a sneakpeak at the guy. He was HUGE so I did not so much as crack a smile.
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I work for a govt dept and see hundreds or thousands of names a day. My current favorites:

Philomena Finger
Rainbow Sunshine
Patty Cake
Pat Tittums
John Toogood
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In my college town there was supposedly a woman employed at the local Wal*Mart named Marijuana Pepsicola Jackson. The story went that she was named after her parents two favorite things. Her nametag at Wal*Mart read "Mary Jane." I never independently verified this story, but it's too good not to repeat.
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I was just back home (Stevens Point, WI) a few weeks ago and the records section of the paper indicated that a Denni Jo Brown had changed her name to "Poindexter Fat Majesty McBean"
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Makes me feel better for naming my daughter Shuantxhis (pronounced shu-wan-si). My next daughter will be named Katana Amidala (yes after that Amidala!) or if its a boy will be Mace Angelus (my wife's pregnant as we speak!)
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William "Pete" Peterson III.

There are several problems with this real but seemingly normal name.
1) there were no William Petersons, either Sr. or Jr.
2) Pete is in quotations marks on the birth certificate.
3) Peterson is not the last name of either parent.
4) William is a girl.

I can personally vouch for the authenticity of this name. The mother had several children who had to be taken from her custody, as she was schizophrenic and kept having kids. Her other children had names like Inches and Emer Gency (it came to her as if in a vision when she was on her way into the emergency room).
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A famous norwegian kitch painter is named Odd Nerdroom hehe thats pretty funny!
we also have names like (a grils name i norway) Randi Sør Aas which pronounced in english becomes...

strangley the britts find my name quite funny, cant see why...
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Well... Sometimes I see family names like "gay" in the US, this would never happen in Europe haha.

Or some Europe family names can be shocking in English spoken countries as well :)
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I happened to stumble on a white supremecy message board the other day and evidently a baby born named Aryan Justice POOOR baby what a life that will be! A few yrs ago there was a female on the most wanted list where i live named Lasagna hmmm wonder what mom and dad where thinking about?
People please yell the names you are considering for your child before you name them!
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Well, my friend has this classmate whose name is pronounced "Chewing gum"! It's probably something like Chew Ying Gam? It's chinese, so "Chew" is the surname and "Ying Gam" is her own name.
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Dick Trickle, the famous racecar driver
my 7th grade science teacher, Dick Munch
some guy that my family used to go to church with, Dick Ball
random guy i saw on the news, Hymen Shocker
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Batman superman is my favourte.
If only he lived in one of these places, it;d be even more brilliant:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/rudest-place/
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my family is in the hall of fame for unusual names it started with my grandpa and grandma they named all there children strange names and there kids named there kids weird names and there kids named there kids wierd names and hopefully my kids will do the same here are the names my uncle : mars light ogden,he had no kids. my aunt: nebula vortex ogden : her kids: Oxen Portal Common, Pilot craft common, earthling eath common. my dad : Morrowind {before the game!) Blake ogden, his kids : um me noais winter ogden, my brother , Gray
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About Batman Bin Suparman.

Well, Batman name maybe oddly for Javanese but Suparman is enough well known name in Indonesia and dont relate with the hero, Superman.
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I went to high school with a lovely Chinese girl named Dodo Chen...
You'd think Dodo is bad enough, but she pronounced it "Doodoo" and would actually correct people if they said it wrong!
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In Iowa in the early 1970's there was a girl who played basketball for a small high school. Her name was Fonda Dicks. For several years, when the girls high school basketball tournament was in Des Moines, the wags at the Des Moines Register managed to include her picture in the tourney coverage.
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I used to have a pretty big collection when I worked for a local department store that has since become Macy's. Some of the best include:

Scab Dover
Luke Skywalker
Velvet Ribbon
Rockets Redglare
Caramel apple
Bobby Badboy
Andrew Bigmeat (one of my all time favorites)

There's a guy in Minneapolis named Stu Pid. His phone number was in the book until a radio station discovered him. Now he's unlisted.
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Here is one... well it isn't her name anymore but it was "Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii" until a judge forced them to change it!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2452593/Talula-Does-The-Hula-From-Hawaii-not-a-girls-name-New-Zealand-court-rules.html
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My son is a policeman and the mother of La-a came in and wanted the police to make the school stop screwing up her name. Of course, everyone should be able to figure out her her name is "Ladasha". Thanks mom.
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I used to work for a financial firm and there was a guy who came in one day and wanted to change his name to A. Fluffy Bunny. He had all of the proper documents and everything so we did it for him!
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Well I live in Lufkin texas and our school parol officers last name was Mr. Bean, And a week after I met him My dad got pulled over by an officer named Mr. Bacon. We made a joke thinking if they were partners they would be called Officer Beans and Bacon. I thought that was hilarious.
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