Amusing names

[Sundayjumper]

You could not make this up. We've had amusing names before, one-offs, but this is a family set. Three members of the same family called:

Amazing
Praise
Grateful

Which in itself is pretty good in a "I bet they hate their parents" way, but the surname is Johnson. So we've got:

Amazing Johnson !

Praise Johnson !

and then a

Grateful Johnson

[Mito Man]

They need a Magic Johnson.

[Matty]

I knew someone called Dick Johnson, which is the greatest name ever. Sounds like a private investigator.

[Swervin_Mervin]

"Amazing Johnson"

[nuttinnew]

If female - and it seems to be females that get the quirky-on-acid names - there's a chance marriage could make things worse.

The first three names that spring to mind that I've seen in person are;

Miss C. Gull
Dr. De'Ath
Mr R. Spain

[duncs500]

Grateful Johnson

[RobYob]

I knew someone called Dick Johnson, which is the greatest name ever. Sounds like a private investigator.

DJ is a legend!


Infamously stuck it properly hard into an unfriendly bush a while ago.

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[dinny_g]

I worked with an Ashley Starbuck once...

[Jimmy Choo]

Rick O'Shey
Randy Royalty
Tony Hancock

[Pete_]

A girl in my primary school class was called Lily Savage when Lily Savage was at her peak.

[240PP]

When I used to contract at BT there was a good pool of names kicking around the company.

Ken Kong
Bob Sleigh
Santosh Shitole
Beenar Wankar

My personal favourite was Brian Balls. A good, punchy name.

There was also a Bob Sherunkle on the directory but I’m not convinced that wasn’t someone having a laugh.

[RobYob]

If we're leaping into the cross cultural quagmire then I'll submit.

Duyu Pu, I've meetings with him a couple of times a week.

[240PP]

Think you need to see a doctor.

[RobYob]

Think you need to see a doctor.

Certainly hard to shift in my experience.

[Ascender]

You could not make this up. We've had amusing names before, one-offs, but this is a family set. Three members of the same family called:

Amazing
Praise
Grateful

Which in itself is pretty good in a "I bet they hate their parents" way, but the surname is Johnson. So we've got:

Amazing Johnson !

Praise Johnson !

and then a

Grateful Johnson

Are they of African descent? One of the great things about working in oil & gas was the work I did in Africa and all the wonderfully-named people I met there - I'm guessing there's a colonial angle where they'd just pick the most amazing sounding words from our language?

[GG.]

Similar in Hong Kong - except they choose the most in vogue names from c.1923. The number of 20 year old Vincents, Ethels, Enids, etc. is hilarious.

[Ascender]

Its fascinating and like people say, brilliant and occasionally funny because of the context. We had an Endurance, Magnificence and Courageous working with us.

We also had a Richard Fiddler who preferred to be called Dick. Top bloke.

[nuttinnew]

^ As long as he doesn't name his daughter Adele.

[Barry]

My niece has a friend at school that decided they want to be called "Pretzel" from now on. Niece got quite upset when I lol'd. I try to be supportive, but her friend is a moron.

[Explosive Newt]

There was also a Bob Sherunkle on the directory but I’m not convinced that wasn’t someone having a laugh.

I met a man of this name (there can only be one, surely) - said he had changed it in the 1980s as he thought it was a fun way to get people to remember him?

Like a less successful Saul Goodman, I suppose?