Oddest Last Names You've Come Across (1 Viewer)

Chris Tinglin · Dec 12, 2001

Prompted by Rain's gentle jesting (post#7) , I thought it might be interesting to see what other oddball last names are out there. please, no fake names like, "jim nasium". let's keep it real ;-)
for me, as a newspaperboy, many ice ages ago, i've rarely laughed so hard as when i first when to collect on a mrs. aikenhead. i know, i know. i'm easily amused, but hell, i was 13yrs old

Rain · Dec 12, 2001

Glad to see you have a sense of humour.

Here in BC we have an orthopaedic specialist who sub-specializes in problems with the hands. His name is Dr. Gropper.
I once met a gay couple whose names were Rod and Lance. (If you don't get it right away, it'll come to you.)
One of my closest friends is named Ocean. People who meet us together usually think we are pulling their legs about our names.

Jared_B · Dec 12, 2001

Richard (Dick) McCrackin

No joke, real name.

MickeS · Dec 12, 2001

A woman where I worked before had the last name of Fuchuman. Sort of funny, IMO.
I also know of someone with the name Diamond Body (real name). Not sure how Body is pronounced (could be "boady" I guess), but the name struck me as the perfect name for a Playboy centerfold or something.

/Mike

Jack Briggs · Dec 12, 2001

Back in the late '70s, my then wife and I were shopping for a new dentist. So, we looked in the phone book and found a person whose name was irresistable: Jerry Derryberry. We knew we had found our dentist!

Brad_W · Dec 12, 2001

I was interning for my speech degree at a real "low socioeconomic group" school district and did speech therapy with a family of kids with the names:
I am being serious, this is for real, there were their REAL names!
Lucky Fellow (incidently, he was killed by lightening while swimming in a lake - also a true story: How frickin' bizzare!!!)
Texas Twostep
Cherry (pronounced like "chair" with an "ee" at the end, although not as unusual as her brothers names.)

Brett_B · Dec 12, 2001

You guys will probably think I am lying, but the funniest name I came across was "Furrie Fannie" (person stated the first name is pronounced 'fury').

Mark Schermerhorn · Dec 12, 2001

My last name isn't really odd per say, but it's irritating. I can barely enunciate it myself. I've had 3 people in my entire life pronouce it correctly on the first try. Usually I have to say it 3 - 4 times before someone understands how it's pronounced.

Brian Perry · Dec 12, 2001

There was a recent player for the Detroit Lions named Harry Colon.

Tom Rhea · Dec 12, 2001

When I was in high school, there was a girl in my class named Autumn Snow, which is kinda nice.

A couple of days ago I had to type a letter to a guy named Dick Hardin.

Before the kid got old enough to change it, David Bowie had a son named Zowie Bowie.

Henry Gale · Dec 12, 2001

Outhouse
A family I knew in Indiana.

Jay H · Dec 12, 2001

My neighbors are the Posthumus's, nice folks but did a double take on the name when they moved in..

Jay

NickSo · Dec 12, 2001

oh god those are hilarous (no offense to the people with those last names).. especially Fuchuman...

PatrickM · Dec 12, 2001

I worked with a nice Vietnamese guy years ago whose name was Phuoc Yu. Plus I remember an Oprah years ago where this woman named her kids Lemonjello and Limejello because she loved those flavours so much.

Patrick

Janna S · Dec 12, 2001

We have some great names in Alaska. My favorites are Hamilton Hamilton;

George George (he's originally from Outside);

Boris Bear;

Eddie Westcoast - sounds like some guy in a Camaro but he's full blooded Yupik (Eskimo to you Outsiders);

Nikoli Nikiti;

Tommy Snowball.

There are lots of very interesting Russian names as well - Marfa Rukovishnikoff is one that comes to mind. These are real people (I know them or their relatives).

LDfan · Dec 12, 2001

One of the practicing OB/Gyn's that my wife goes to is name Dr. Harry Beaver, No Joke!

Jeff

Jamie E · Dec 12, 2001

Mark Schermerhorn, allow me to attempt: SHERM-UHR-horn?

My favorite real last name was one I saw in a company directory long ago: Kandiguranis. I never found out how it was pronounced, but I couldn't help imagining it as CAN-DIG-YER-ANUS. :b

Armando Zamora · Dec 12, 2001

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Jeff beat me to it.

Dr. Harry Beaver...Gynecologist.

Cracks me up everytime I see his name.

Armando Zamora · Dec 12, 2001

Here's another interesting name.

College hoops fans may remember Scientific Mapp from Florida A&M? His brother, Majestic Mapp, is a guard for the Virginia Cavalier's basketball team.

DennisHP · Dec 12, 2001

A couple guys from work: Dick Palmer and Dave Dickoff

A gal from HS: Ginger Rail

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