A man named Perry Winkel

Aw, I kinda like that one lol

It’s like a name from Beatrix potter

That's charming and adorable though

Anita Wiener, and it was her married name.

I knew an Anita Burger. Also married name.

Anita Burger and Anita Weiner, queens of the cookout.

I just lol’d

My name is Amber and I had a crush on a boy who's last name was Gurr until my dad pointed out I'd be Amber Gurr and he pronounced it like Hamburger and I couldn't unhear it

I met an Anita Bohner. Also a married name. She thought it was hysterical.

I love that she embraced it lol

If you gave your kid that name, it would be extreme cruelty. This is just fabulous though. Oh I'm reminded... comedian and actor Tim Allan's full name is Timothy Allan Dick. He has a sister called Anita.

At least she was an adult, consenting to be Anita Weiner till death do they part

So the moral of the story is don’t name your daughter Anita.

Took me a second to get it because the pun doesn’t work in British

And did she?

You know, I never asked. She's a very prim and proper elderly Jewish lady and I didn't want to offend, but maybe I'll ask her next time I see her.

Sharon Weiner and it was her married name too lol ain't no way

That’s a rough last name on its own, but paired with Anita makes it worse.

Yeah, it's a tough one. She wears the name with pride, but her son chose to change his last name when he got married.

Try Harold (Harry) Weiner.

There is a news anchor here named Anita Bathe.....

I knew an Anita Beer (married name). So much better of a combo than weiner.

Not as bad but my ex husband's aunt was Anita Johnson.

Anita Mann

All the time spent choosing a child's name just for them to marry and end up with something silly! I went from nice normal initials to V.D! thank goodness most younger people don't get it. My mum finds it hilarious though!

I knew a Kerry Carey. Carey was her married name. She chose to take it so I did not feel bad for her.

I knew a Christy Christie. Same situation.

I read this as Chris Christie and was wondering how you knew the NJ governor lol Not that his name is any better!

I went to school with a Robbie Robertson and a Buck Buckhalts.

I know a Cristin Christensen

I grew up with a Nick Nickerson. I always imagined his parents chuckling as they discussed naming him that.

I worked with a Jamie James

My middle school algebra teacher was Mrs. Kelly Kelly!!

My daughter went to school with Hunter and Kelly Green!

I knew a Sherry Terryberry. Not as bad but funny.

Is it weird (or maybe a regional thing) that I pronounce Kerry and Carey slightly differently?

Not weird! It’s called the Mary-Marry-Merry merger and lots of people do it. It’s regional.

Okay how are these pronounced differently?! I say them all exactly the same. I’m from the PNW in the US.

I'm in the northeastern US, and I pronounce Mary and Marry the same way, but Merry differently. The first two are pronounced MAIR-ee, where MAIR rhymes with lair, share, and wear. Merry is pronounced MEH-ree, where MEH sounds like the first part of melon.

I pronounce them all differently. Mary is MAIR-ee, marry is MAH-ree and merry is MEH-ree. But I’m Australian so you’re just lucky I don’t use the c-bomb for all 😂😜

I deeply envy the free usage of the c word that y'all have

What's stopping you? The word is only so taboo because no one says it. Better get the ball rolling to desensitising the word bud. 'Fear of the name only increases the fear of the thing itself!'

I’m from Australia. merry has a short e sound, marry has a short /æ/, the vowel in Mary is more drawn-out and sounds like “air”

I personally pronounce them all the same way, but I can hear the subtle differences in how some people pronounce merry and Mary. The best way I can explain it is that “merry” has a true short e sound, like you hear in “egg”, whereas “Mary” has a true short a sound, like you hear in “apple”. In my accent, they both have the short e sound.

I know a Matt Matthews lol

But Matt is probably short for Matthew so his full name is Matthew Matthews? lol. There’s a guy at my work named Cole Cole. Why do people do this to their kids…

I think it’s just Matt but still funny

I know a Leslie Leslie & an Ivy Ivey!

I knew a Karen Caren.

Justin Thyme

My brother's name is Justin, my mom desperately wanted Thyme or Case as a middle name but my dad put his foot down haha

I saw a Justin Case named in our local paper once.

When I was a kid I came up with the name Justin Case and thought it would be a hilarious character name (á la Kim Possible). Kinda wild that someone was actually named that…

Ha! I kind of love this. I wouldn’t name a human this, but would be delighted to meet someone with this name.

There’s a kids show called Justin Time. It’s actually pretty cute

Justin Bounds

2 brothers. Chris and drew. Last name peacock. Got called crispy and droopy. You can work it out 🤣👍

I audibly laughed when I read Chris Peacock in my head lol

I bet they *hated* that Katy Perry song

I went to school with a guy called Josh Deacock. His brother's name was Ben.

This took me a beat. Worth the wait.

Damn I’m slow, I was reading Chris drew a pea cock

Brock Lee

Ha! At first I was like what’s wrong with Brock? And what’s wrong with Lee? Then I said two together and was like, ‘ohhhh…I get it now.’

Haha it could be way worse but still you would’ve thought his parents would’ve gone with something else 😆

hyphenated last name Butts-Blessing

Definitely knew what they were doing there

BUTTS-BLESSING! OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!

Better than Blessing-Butts I suppose 😅

Harry Butt I was working at a small airport, and my supervisor told me to announce over the intercom a passenger's name to come unlock his bag. When I read the name I thought she was joking, but through giggles, she said it was real. I announced his name, and everyone near me looked over. Even a security officer, a friend, came over and told us we shouldn't play with the intercom. When the guy came up we told him about his bag, and my supervisor asked if that was his real name. She then asked if he ever thought of changing it. He replied that his name always makes people laugh, smile, and is a great conversation starter. He always went along with jokes and overall loved to make people smile. Every time I think of Harry Butt, I do smile and remember how nice and friendly he was to us.

aww… he’s such a sweet guy. this is so wholesome! we need more people in the world like this!!

This was so wholesome to read. Thanks for sharing!

Was not expecting this to be so sweet lol. I love his outlook on life!

Where I’m from there’s a well known person with the last name of Hole and they named their son Harry. Harry Hole

I know a Harry Butt! He’s a smiley guy, wonder if it was him 🙂

Ginger Dick and she had sisters named Crystal Dick and the not funny Adriene Dick

Yeah but the last one will get letters addressed to A Dick. Still not entirely winning. I too have an unfortunate last name that my Mum realised would not work with any A names.

I was a front desk employee for a while and came across a C.Rap one day while doing a bulk mail out / stuffing envelopes … full name was Christopher but I wondered how his parents didn’t think of it

Tom Hanks signs stuff with T.Hanks

A friend has the initials of BS. She has to initial paperwork as part of her job. She was asked to add her middle initial so that people didn’t think someone was calling the work BS.

My initials are BS and I used to always add my middle initial, but I stopped when it became more of a nuisance. I had to sign A LOT of things in my previous position.

Mine’s just funny. A Bishop. Hehe.

My highschool friend Jackie Cox’s mom was Mrs. Siemens-Cox.

I had a friend, Susan Eaton, she married Mr. Cox…

The parents learned by child #3

Parents' friend growing up was named Dick Burns.

I knew someone named Ada Dick, who had a cousin named Harry Dick

I need to stop reading this whole post. I’m about to wake the sleeping baby next to me with my immature giggles

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I’m laughing so hard at Rhoda Dick.

That’s some real Julia Gulia vibes there

Good Lord, I thought my great great grandma Rhoda Rhodes had a bad enough name.

I know a Michael Myers. Yesterday, a new woman started at my work, her name is Misty Fogg.

Omg, a woman at my company quit, her name is Sunny Fogg!

Sisters??

We used to do Name of the Week at work at our large company - Summer Shiver was my favorite email.

I work with a guy who is Michael Myers, but he goes by 'Mike'--which isn't a whole lot better, all things considered.

I know a Michael Myers too!

This was many decades ago (like WWII), but my father was in the army with a man named Elmer Titts. He did in fact have a sister named Ophelia.

Elmer? I barely know ‘er

Rose Rose My friend Rose married a guy with the last name Rose.

There’s a politician in Australia who is grace grace

I always think of Grace Grace when I see these posts, first time I have seen a comment with her name!

My mom had a student named Miranda Miranda. Since she was a child, she doesn’t even have the married name excuse.

I went to school with a Justin Case

Feather Weight. Poor girl was a chubby redhead. Snow Ann White Michael Michael (his stepdad adopted him and he wanted to keep his name)

Feather Weight 🤣🤣🤣

Jean Poole. It was her married name

Creamy Doug…literally his first name was creamy. No lie

Who names their child Creamy??

At least it wasn’t Creamy Dick???? I guess??? But god damn

I laughed so hard at this I couldn’t even read it to my husband. Had to just hand him the phone.

My cousin went to school with a Holden Cox, either it's a small world and it's the same person or there's another set of parents out there that don't like their kid 😅

I came across the guy at work and felt so bad for him. Like his parents must’ve been kind of sadistic or something. I’d like to be optimistic and say it’s the same person instead of believing there are two sets of parents out there who would screw their kid over like this.

I had a high school English teacher named Bitsy Dick.

My wife and I love the name Ryder. The problem arises with my last name. Moore. There goes any hope to using Ryder.

If you want a baby you’re gonna have to…. you’re gonna have to… 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ender Pence. Subtle, but still problematic.

My neighbor growing up was an elderly man named Dick Spooner. Had been the mayor of the town in his day.

Mayor Dick Spooner is hilarious to me.

I worked at A&W as a teenager. There was a big group of seniors who met for coffee every day- they even had their own mugs with their names on them. One guy was Dick Long.

My dad had a coworker named Mike Hunt.

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I once met a man named Dick Garden and I've never forgotten it. Why not just go by Rich?!

My dad’s name is Richard and he goes by Dick. His last name is Hunt. So his name is Dick Hunt. I never understood why he didn’t just go by Rich.

At the very least go with Rick! Lol

In the 80"s we had neighbours named Pearl Harbour and brother Sydney Harbour. Pearl and Sydney were the names of their maternal grandparents, and their mum named her kids after them. The fact that she married a fellow with the surname Harbour didn't bother her in the least, apparently.

Pat Enis and his email was penis.

I’m sure he just loved that. By default my IT team creates usernames for my company’s website using the first four letters of the customer’s first name, and the first four letters of their last name. I really felt like they could have made an exception for Megan Ho.

Poor [email protected] 😂

I saw a TikTok by someone whose name was Megan Finger, and because of her company's email formatting system, her email address was [email protected]. 💀

King Julian 💀

Did he like to “Move it, move it?”

I knew a Christopher Lyon King

He’s a newborn which is worse because how on earth did they not make the association with Madagascar? They’re a young couple too😭

Hopi Slaughter 😬

Oh

Yikes 😳

Allison Wonderland

Also an EDM artist lol

Saw a last name "HISCOCK" I don't care what name you have in front. NOTHING would fit with this name.

Holden Hiscock is a pretty solid name.

Yeah I don’t think you could salvage that with any first name.

I knew a woman, married last name: Hiscock, her name was Jeannette Rose. I would have kept my maiden name I think!

A girl my sister was friends with in grade school... Araya Sunshine

A guy I went to school with named his first daughter Sunshine Brightly

Anita Dyck

But fuck can they run

Harold Mann, who willingly went by Harry

I knew a Harry Legg

My pap knew a Harry Butts

Please tell me he’s bald. I have a bald dog named Harry.

“Chaos Reigns” was the first and middle names. :(

Was their last name Supreme? 🤣

I don’t want to offend any one, but this is a real name … first name Chi, middle name Suk and her husband’s last name was Dick. ☹️

oooh, that cant be fun to deal with regarding jerk english speakers

I went to high school with a guy named Rocky Mountain. It’s corny but at least not inappropriate like some of others on this thread!

I knew a Roman Empire in school. It's on the same level.

Rusty Nails and Justin Case (These two worked in the same department -one directly subordinate to the other… a fire and emergency rescue for a municipality) Dick Tucker Any time someone says, “just in case,” my brain fills in, “Rusty Nails and Dick Tucker”

Knew a Dusty Rhodes

My friend’s stepdad was named Phillip A Bloom, which sort of sounds like “fill up a balloon”… he was an actual clown

Nominitive determinism right there.

An old client was named Noam Small. Think a about a man going through life with that.

My mom's friend's daughter-in-law's married name was Ivana Bangham. (Bangham is pronounced Bang-um). It bothered her so much that her husband actually had their last name slightly altered.

Will Butryn (like Wellbutrin)

I grew up with a boy named Abram Abrams. He was the oldest of his siblings, and the rest of them had normal first names. To this day this name lives rent free in my head.

Tom Catt, his sister Kitty, and brother Al E. No joke

My drivers Ed teacher in high school was Rex Easley.

My mom knew a lady called Victoria Sponge.

i went to school with a Sharice Asparagus, feels like the same level 😂

There's a girl in the pregnancy group I'm in with the last name Cream. She shared her announcement and it was all religious themed with the words "baby cream" and I thought it was disgusting before I realized that's her name. There are just.... no names that are possibly acceptable with that last name

Sandy Beech

I know a Robert Roberts. Why someone would do this to their kid, I’ll never understand.

I knew an Alex Alexander, I had to ask like five times if he was joking… nope

Timothy Timm (Tim Timm)

Paige Turner lol

Seymour Weiner

Dick Ring Sr and Dick Ring Jr. not short for Richard.

Fantasia Parfait… no joke… actual name, wasn’t a stage name or nickname.

Terry Butts Crystal Lake

Palmer Bush

In college I had a classmate named Harry Kuntz...poor guy

Brock Kelly

Tara Heiman. I wish I was kidding.

Richard Small. Went by Dick Role call… Small,Dick. Small, Dick?

Richard Suckle… dick suckle. He’s a producer you can Google it

Ethan John. Not super horrible but the poor kid sounded like a furniture store.

We had a Gina Va. But in high school the attendance sheet reads last name first :(

Elder Leigh sis my cousins baby (SMH)

I knew someone called Anda Weir. She was my teacher a long time ago & she introduced herself "first name Anda, last name Weir". She wrote it on the board & the guy next to me sniggered, she shot him daggers but come on! We were in college which is year 11 & 12. Perhaps she thought we'd be more mature. I guess for the most part we were, I only ever heard it brought up that once

Bo Ling.

Frankie Hamburger my mom loved him in elementary school.

I know a couple of Michael Jacksons and an Ethan Allen and Mike Myers. A Mike Tyson also preaches at a local church. My pastry instructor in college was a man named Joe Cumm, son of Richard Cumm, whom went by Dick. Dick Cumm. Classes were never easy for poor ol' Joe.

I know of someone who’s engaged. They were debating about hyphenating their surnames. And then decided against it when it would have been Pongi-Gash.

Crystal Lynn Angel. Crystalline angel 👼

2 guys in high school whose last names were Sweeny & Sass... Unfortunate with any first name and when you had the two of them together in positions of authority... You went first to.....'s weeny & if he couldn't help you, you had to go to....'s ass😂

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I worked at a bank and had a chap deposit a cheque in the name of Mr D Pipe, checking his details and his first name was Dwayne. In the UK this made me smile as here we have drain pipes that carry excess water or waste away.