Wikipedia has a whole list of aptronyms! Bernie Madoff, who "made off" with investors' money, made me laugh.

@ Lee in Boston, you may have worked with Dik Blewitt, but I dated him. Even my then senile grandmother said "what kind of name is that? Is he a porn star?"

new a guy named Dick Upright

There was a teacher in my high school Mr. Raper.

My dentist was Dr. Payne.

One of my sisters had a Merry Christmas in her high school class. Cute, though probably not "unfortunate."

There was a Bill Crook's Food Town in Nashville, Tn.

I had a math teacher in college Dr. Swindell. Usually pronounced "Swindle."

The German name "Fokker" means "breeder," exactly what our word "fuck" literally means. In German or Dutch, the owner of a stallion that is stood at stud or a mare that is bred is the "fokker." (Doesn't mean that (s)he does it personally.!!)
In German the same word that is legitimately used is also an insult or a slang term.
Probably "fuck" came through the Germanic language Frisian or Friesian, the Germanic language closest to English. There is, or was, a Dutch aircraft engineer named Anthony Fokker. Many models of his aircraft were used by the Germans in WWII. There are many Fokker planes in production and use now.

I once worked in a lockshop and a customer who used to come in every year, dressed in some tribal gown, black as the ace of spades signed his cheque book Chief Banjo.
For some reason he used to buy a hundred Yale cylinders at a time, I guess for export.

I went to school with the son of Dr. Speedy R. Nutz from Chula Vista, Ca. He was Dan Nutz. His roommate at the time was a guy by the name of Dave Cox. They thought it rather amusing at BYU to place the sign on their door that read "Cox and Nutz".

My last name is Plague... can't get much worse than that

There is a woman on the Japanese volleyball team named Yoshi Takeashita. It's not pronounced like we all want to pronounce it though. =/

My name is Drew Helbig... it's really not that unfortunate but I do get the occasional... Har Har you Drew Helbig not that I mind it really. 😛

haha, i like the knocka name stated in the comments, here is a funny joke i saw about bad last names
http://ponderingstuff.com/2010/02/05/bad-last-names/

One of my mother's childhood friends was a girl named Candy Cane.

That is is real name, he is a professor in my university(UnB), geology teacher indeed, he is a "fucking" good teacher and researcher, P.h.D since 1975. Take a look at his curriculum: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4787180T7

I got you all beat ... no pun intened =)

Sorry, Hugh - we are going to have to see a birth certificate and driver's license before you can claim a prize there. 😊

I was looking up Miley Cyrus' family tree to see if she's 100% pure white trash or not, and I think she had an ancestor named Hooe... HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE THAT? Hoo-ie? Hoo? Hoe? Or are all of those wrong? And is it German? Because Haas is German, and it's fairly similar because it's another 4-letter last name beginning with H and has a double vowel in the middle, and sounds silly (but not as silly as Hooe).

There's so many people called Butz and Cox... and who could forget Smellie? I actually know an Oliver Smillie. Poor man...

And is Farton a real last name? It sounds convincing to me :lol: I know Glasscock is real!

"100% pure white trash"

Salt of the earth. The elite would have to wipe their own butts if there weren't any white trash. Probably couldn't tell the difference between their upper and lower orifices.

There was a Glasscock's Grocery in Farmington, Tennessee many years ago.

I once met a person whose name was richard butram he knew how it sounded and went by dick to be funny. Can't believe parents would actually do that to their child. Now you have people naming their kid after fruit and the material jeans are made out of. Ridiculous.

Richard "Dick" Armey

You mean people are naming their kids "Myrtle" and "Jean"? ('Cause, y'know, that's what those names are--"Myrtle" is a blueberry and "Jean" is the stuff that jeans are made out of--not denim as many suppose.)

I know a girl called Kisma Butt. And another one called Rida (like Ride a) Butt. No kidding! Though I wish they were sisters! What a pair of Butts they would make!!

I make up alot of last names so if you want to hear some, hear are 5 of my faves that I made up.

Kerjadae

Brevvis

Effittor

Rendez

Reznicek

I hope you like them! If not, oh well. I tried. 😊

There is a woman at church whose first name is Bovina. I'm not sure how it's spelled, but that is how it is pronounced.
For those who don't know what the generic term for what we usually call "cows" and "bulls" is: bovine

Bovina, NY 13740 The town name is derived from the traditional bovine dairy economy.

Bovina, Mississippi The 1988 film Mississippi Burning was filmed the area.

Bovina is a city in Parmer County, Texas 79009

Bovina, Colorado

Elena Bovina. Rus. Info

@pittle I believe you about Naughty SeaMonkey because he is my mum's cousin. His name used to be stephen but he changed it by deed poll to Naughty. Odd right! He was a member of parliament in Wellington also for a while.

Russian male last names end in either -ov/-off (e.g. Pavlov) or -in (Putin, Yeltsin etc.). To form a female last name from the stock male surname, you have to add –a to the male surname (e.g. Mr. Putin & Ms. Putina; Mr. Pavlov, Mrs. Pavlova)

One of my mates knew a fellow with the last name “Vagin”. So when he got married his wife became Mrs. Vagina. Its pronounced “VAH-ggeena” though. But its still funny to picture the faces of immigration officers when they got to travel to English speaking countries. “Welcome to the UK, Mrs. Vagina!”

I knew a guy named Peter Stroukoff. I shit you not.

My last name is Head. And my Uncle's name is Richard. No joke.

I have a coworker who's name is Cody Hathcock. I always ask him what else he hath.

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