Wednesday, August 19, 2020 – Unusual Names

Mary Reed
Aug 20, 2020
2 min read

I walk over a different sidewalk and see a name imprinted in the concrete — K. D. Napper & Son Inc. Concrete, Dallas, Texas. Really? K. D. Napper? Wouldn’t you hate to grow up with a name like that? I have known or heard of people with unusual names e.g., Breck Wall, Honey Graham, Precious Jewel Miller, Suzy Crappershit. I am very grateful for my plain, 4-letter last name. Would not like being stuck with any of the previous monikers. However, if you do run across anyone with an unusual name, please give them some respect. They have probably been ridiculed for their name all their life and need some rest from those attacks. Try to imagine how you would feel with that name.

According to the June 6, 2014 article “60 Funny Names That Are So Unfortunate, It’s Just Laughable” in Blaze Press, funny names are neither easy, nor hard to come by. But, “What’s in a name?” argues Shakespeare…That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” That is what Shakespeare would tell us in his lyrical tale of the two infamous star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. If we would extrapolate this, we could say their names were standing in the way of their mutual love and passion. Truth is, not everyone in life is gifted with the right name. Some names are tragic, reminiscent of some old discord and some are can even get you in trouble. Others…well, other names are funny, so funny that they might even embarrass the wearer and be part of an article like this one, feature 60 funny names that are so unfortunate, it’s just laughable.

Some people with unfortunate, too hilarious to the point of embarrassing choose to change their names and go through all the legal fuss to do so. They’re the most determined. Some of them, though, never change their names and they just go with the flow. These people are gold. They’re not afraid of the public shaming; they do not care. They have a name, and that is enough for them. Below are some examples.