Funny names

These are all names that people have actually given their children.


Funny first (and first and middle) names:
  • Apple
  • Champagne
  • Mahogany
  • X
  • Tamarind
  • Maverick
  • Zico
  • Asia
  • Honey
  • India
  • Cellar Door
  • Schyler Kubrick
  • Bluebell Madonna (Geri Halliwell's daughter)
  • Cinnamon (her sister is called Candy which is short for Candida, the name of an unpleasant yeast infection)
  • Osama (born in England, post-9/11)
  • George (a girl, not abbreviated, named after her mother)
  • Scarlet (who was named after the colour of the water in her mother's birthing pool)
Funny full names:
  • Rear Snelling
  • Jennifer Burger
  • John PawPaw
  • Joe King
  • Barbara Schmuck
  • Benny Bentwheel
  • Stanley Snitley
  • Mark Hiscock
  • Dick Swett (American policitian)
  • Mike Hunt
  • Chris Peacock
  • Wayne King
  • Richard Titball
  • Pervical Walter Clutterbuck
  • Henry Stanley Raper (Clutterbuck's colleague)
  • Drew Peacock (recently featured in 'The Sun' - his parents didn't realise how the name sounded)
  • Dr Peter D'eath
  • Paul Mycock
  • Fanny Large
  • Mary Christmas
  • Phillip Menutts
  • Chastity Case
  • Dick Goodboy
  • Robin Banks
  • Harriet Booty
  • Edward Bull (Eddie Bull)
  • Simone Fucks (German)
  • Lee Bum Suk (South Korean politician)
  • Edward Woodward
  • Chris Cross
  • Tor Popple
  • Protius Duxbury
  • Warwick Benjer
  • Miles Whatmuff
  • Terrence William Athead (his signature is T W Athead)
  • Blessing Platinum
  • Gordon Bennett
  • Jamie Slaymaker
  • Virginia Dicks
  • Hazel Hazel
  • Rose Pink
  • Jago Blue Pema
  • Elizabeth Patricia Fuller-Hiscock
  • Allen Keys
  • Crystal Fountain
  • Boz Wallace
  • Peter Bonerz (American TV director)
  • Gay Flashman (Managing Editor at ITN)
  • Euan Kerr (former editor of the Beano)
  • Chandie Yawn (married to Joey from 'Blossom')
  • Gay Search (BBC gardener)
  • Neville Neville (father to the footballing brothers)
  • Thomas Wyndham St. John Fotheringham-Worsnip
  • Mrs Snell Rainbow Van Gogh
  • Sir Ramjam Delilah Funkyboogaloo-Smythe
  • Yorkshire Bank PLC Are Fascist Bastards (formerly Michael Howard; changed his name after a dispute with said bank)
  • Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffvoralternwarengewissenhaft­ schaferswessenschafewarenwohlgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeit- beschutzenvonangreifendurchihrraubgierigfeindewelchevoraltern- zwolftausendjahresvorandieerscheinenwanderersteerdem- enschderraumschiffgebrauchlichtalsseinursprungvonkraftgestart- seinlangefahrthinzwischensternartigraumaufdersuchenach- diesternwelchegehabtbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensich- undwohinderneurassevonverstandigmenschlichkeitkonnte- fortplanzenundsicherfreuenanlebenslanglichfreudeund- ruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifenvonandererintelligentgeschopfs- vonhinzwischensternartigraum, Senior (Guiness World Record holder for longest name)
Funny twins names:
  • Sharon and Notsharon
  • Benedict and Benjamin
Thanks to Kevin McDonnell for giving us the idea, plus a few of the above gems, and Kathryn, Dean Cook, Shelyork, Dave Long, Bobbie Courtois, Julieann Bicker, Kay K, Anna Sophia, Joe Coleman, Emily Maloney, Philip Bailey, Allan Induni, Daria Stewart, Caris Bebbington and our anonymous contributors.

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