Embarrassing Names Contest

Thanks for posting, I loved it. My favorites were the unfortunate Nus brothers.

My friend used to work with an Anita Rehm. When she would answer her phone, it seemed she was saying "I need a ream."

If your first name is Frodo, you (or more precisely your parents) should be embarrassed whether or not your last name is Gaymans.

I laughed at Diana's story.

I laughed at Anita Rehm, too.

Some of those names are just plain mean. If your last name is "Fiel," why would you name your son Pedro?! Or Fokje Schaap ("breed your sheep")? Constant de Klos ("constantly getting the short end of the stick")?

I kind of like Aart Beving, though (= aardbeving = earthquake). And Beau ter Ham (= boterham = sandwich). And Peter Selie (= parsley). And Justin Kees.

"Anita Rehm" sounds like someone Bart Simpson would have Moe the bartender page, like Amanda Hugginkiss ("I want Amanda Hugginkiss!"; "Anita Rehm! Stop laughing, you guys -- Anita Rehm!").

The most famous US example of a name like this is the Texas millionaire Hogg who named his daughter Yma.

I quite like Sue Chef, Peter de Pater and Hommo Hamster.

Ream is a US term I am guessing....

I had a number of Thai clients at one stage with names which ended in 'porn'. After the initial surprise at seeing it (I had never encountered that part of a name before) I was still very surprised to have a client called Superporn. As i assume it's not a Thai name would this potentially be a name the parents gave their child in NZ..thinking the feature or attribute (super) worked well? I dont know. Oops probably identified the poor kid now,

Otherwise, we had a number of clients called John Thomas - I don't know if that name translates either but it was slang for penis.

I'm not sure if this counts but in Bangkok there is a shop with the English name The Surrealist Wedding Planner.

I have always assumed the Thai is something like The Wedding of Your Dreams and someone got out a dictionary...

Returning to the Dutch, we all thought it was quite embarrassing when you had Prime Ministers called Wim Kok and Ruud Lubbers.

And on the subject of embarrassing names for leaders, the new president of Gabon is Ali Bongo. (Explanation for non-British people, that was the stage name of a performer who did a ridiculous comedy-magic act in outrageous fancy dress.)

A New Zealand judge allowed a 9-year old girl called Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii to be temporarily taken into state care so that she could change the name given to her by her parents. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/24/familyandrelationships.newzealand They could do with some judges like that in Hollywood.

snopes, the urban legend debunkers, cover a number of embarrassing names, a lot of which are in the apocryphal category. Funny Names

Nosmo King was real, but it was a deliberately adopted stage name.

The most famous US example of a name like this is the Texas millionaire Hogg who named his daughter Yma.

It was spelled "Ima." Daddy was a governor of Texas. The supposed sibling "Ura" did not exist.