Unfortunate Last Names

Greetings. Dr Reinhardt A. Fuck indeed is a real
person. He is a respected geologist from Brazil.
I did a literature search on his name in the
international database GeoRef and there are 91
bibliographic citations for him.

Steve Craigg
Hydrogeologist
Atlanta, GA

Dr. Fuck no doubt comes from German stock. His
last name is probably pronounced "Fook.

BTW--I really like your site. I've always wondered how you get the time to devote to it.

You would think he would legally change his name.

Maybe he doesn't want to change it. Having a name like that might actually help him pick up women. Or it might not. Could work either way... depending on the woman, really.

I had an art teacher named Mrs. Anger, and a friend whose last name was Gross.

I had a dentist named Dr. Maybe. But the all time winner is the girl who sat behind me for a semester of Freshman algebra in high school: Nancy Kockabich. Yes, it's pronounced how you're thinking.

My mother is a college professor, and at UCSD early in her career, she somehow got a Justin Time (Thyme?) and a Justin Case in the same class! They actually partnered up for projects, I think.

Also in San Diego, I distinctly remember a Dick Ryder running for a position in local government sometime in the early 90s. I am absolutely not making this up. Why wouldn't you go by "Richard?"

More recently, I found out that the first name of the manager of a friend's apartment building is Nimrod. He's of middle-eastern or eastern-european descent, and it's a biblical name, but even so -- you can't help but do a double take when someone shakes your hand and says "Hi, I'm Nimrod."

The real estate agent in our town is Dick Payne... Again, why would you not make it Richard? Especially when you're going to display it on large signs all over town...

Here in Portugal there's a Brasilian football plauer known as Argel, but is real name is Arg̩lico Fucks.
There's also an italian (I think) named Marco Bode (stands in portuguese for male goat...)

Let's see... there's a Dick Seaman, the GP racer from the 1930's; there's Amigone Funeral home; and don't forget Dick Trickle, the NASCAR driver

These are all good aptronyms being posted. I know several usgs people whose names are aprtonyms:
Robert Gauger (stream hydrologist)
Richard Hereford (geomorphologist, specializes in the effects of cattle overgrazing on arroyo formation in arid landscapes)
Erik Beever (ecologist)
Kyle Juracek (geologist)
John Sutter (geologist; remember Sutter's Mill?)
there's Sally Ride (the astronaut)
the list could go on and on. i'm sure there's an
aptronym website out there.

Here in San Diego there's a car dealership called Lusti Motors. I always figured that must be a happily married couple who owns it: Mr. and Mrs. Lusti.

sorry to post again, but I just remembered... once my dad had an interview with a guy named Sultan McDoom. We all got a laugh out of that one, and the idea that he might get a job with Sultan McDoom as his boss.

My Aunt in Iowa has a dermatologist named Harry Hyde...really...true person.

There is a funeral home near Buffalo, NY - "Amigone Funeral Home"...

Edith Mycock..she was a year behind me in high school. A relative of her lives a few doors down from me. Her maiden name is Mycock.

I lived in Porto Alegre ( Rio Grande do Sul) for a while and there are lots of Fucks there (fnarr fnarr snigger). By the way, I went to school with a girl called Nichola Gotobed, who apparently did put out , but wether this is true or not I don

In Keneduskeg, Maine there's an orchard called Treworgy Orchards. Apparently named after the family that owns it.

Is the town of Fucking, Australia a real place?

Yes and no, it's in Austria.

I played football against a guy in high school with an unfortunate last name. His first name was Jeremy, and his last names was pronounced shi-they-ad. But sadly, it was spelled shithead. And the name shithead didnt look very good on the back of a football jersey.

There was a woman, daughter of a former Texas governor, James Hogg, whose name was Ima. That's right, she was Ima Hogg.

And don't forget the thousands of places (city, streets, etc..) named Fu King

A man that goes to my church has the name Ivan Odor.

In high school there was an Asian boy bearing the unfortunate name of Pissit Tapanya...

Mr. Lear of Lear jet named his daughter, Krista Shanda Lear.
Knew a girl in highschool- her grandmother's name--Christy Malisty Spitznoggle. Her other gm's name --Florence Hotblast Brown--The Florence Hotblast cookstove was delivered on her birthday.

I used to live in a house with a girl named Melinda Cockhead.

Went to school with Titsianna Boobalini.

Worked with an exchange photomat dude named Dum Phuick.

Ah... the laughs go on and on...

I know someone with the last name Cockburn

Some people with the surname Hornblow live near me and some unfortunate Chinese person has a name that looks like You Shit! Yu something. Alas I've long forgotten the Shit part of the name...

My friend graduated just this month and in his class there was a woman named Anita Dick. She married into the name.

When my mother graduated last year from grad school one of the presenting professors was Anita Panake. It is pronounced PAN-a-kay, but it was misheard as Pancake.

There's a famous Czech poet called

I used to work with a guy whose name is Richard Weiner. He does not like to be called Dick!

I worked with a guy named Matt Morrow. He has a brother named Tom.

I used to work for Hertz Rent-A-Car and we rented to a man whose last name was "Pussey". He pronounced it Poo-say. It took everything we could do to control our laughter when he arrived at the counter.

I knew a guy named Harry Wolf.

Oh, and we can't forget the racecar driver named Dick Trickle.

Here are a few names I have run across:

l) Harry Ball
2) Dick Handworker
3) Dickie Quick
4) Bob Glasscock

Honest - none of these were made up. Parents should be ashamed!

I knew a girl named Megan Passwater. Also, my mother's friend was named Richard Dick Dickinson.

:roll: I have a client at the bookstore I work at her name is Honey Poole. She is a teacher in one of the local school systems.

Here are a few good ones. My grandpa's coworker was named Harry Boddom pronounced bottom. My friend's stepmom named Fanny married into the Weiper family (Fanny Weiper). A girl I went to highschool with was named Ada. Ada Cok. She pronounced it "coke" but everyone knew how you REALLY say it.

There was a Japaneese foreign exchange student in one of my college classes named Kimiko Takeashita. I'm sure it wasn't actually pronounced take-a-shit-a. But I had to do a double take when I saw that name on paper. She was a very cute girl by the way.

I work in a tradeshow office and one of my exhibitor's last names is Ahrenhoeresterbaeumer. My boss laughs at me all the time because I refuse to type it more than once. I always copy and paste.
also, my bf used to work w/ a guy named Harry Woodcock. no joke.

At my hometown, one of the local radio stations decided to haved "Weird Name Wednsday." A nurse who worked in maternity called in and spoke about twin girls whose mother had named them Syphilis and Gonorrhea(pronounced Si-phylis and Ganaria). There was another little girl named Pajama, pronounced Pa-ja-may. I feel especially sorry for the twins, though.

A VERY OLD WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAMILY IS NAMED OUTHOUSE. WHEN I WAS YOUNG THE PHONE BOOK HAD A LISTING OUTHOUSE, A PURDY

In Pennsylvania, the past president of the state financial aid agency, PHEAA, was named Richard Willey. He went by Dick, so he was known as Dick Willey...talk about a double phallic name. Kinda like Peter O'toole.

a friend of mine is a nurse at a local hospital and had a patient who didn't speak english and named her new-born baby Shithead pronounce (sha-theed)

I work with a guy named Jack Hard. And his fathers name is Dick Hard. My grandparents introduced me to a guy named Richard Cum, he pronouced his last name cuum

I worked at a place where one of our frequent clients was Proctor Coffin. My niece's name is Mia Mann. We don't know why, and my sister STILL doesn't understand why this is bad. My grandfather's name was Zenas (and used to get mail addressed to everything from Zena to Zenith to Jesus), I had a great grandfather named Magnus and the woman living down the street from me growing up was named Casio. Better than all this was a girl I went to school with called P.J. or Jane. I asked her why she was called P.J. sometimes and Jane other times, and she said her actual name was Probably Jane, due to a clerical error at the hospital where she was born.

Under bizarre spellings, I went to school with a girl named Kjellander (pronounced Shellanda) and another girl named Kaijsa (pronouced Kai-sah).

Went to school with Merry & Melody Tune. At my company (at another branch) there's a Dick Likeness. And also a Mai Ho.

My ex-boyfriend's name is Stoney Walls. His two younger brothers are Adobe and Brick. I fell especially sorry for Brick because he really is big an not too bright.

Had a science teacher in high school. His name was Dick Pew! Students used to come into class singing the Skynard classic The Smell: "Ewww..that smell. Dick, where'd ya get that smell?"