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The funniest real names you've heard!

739 replies

CityCommuter · 22/09/2021 21:31

A Vodafone door to door salesman was doing the rounds on our road earlier with the latest offers that aren't available online apparently... anyway he left his business card and when I saw his name I had to LOL as it was Robin Crowe! His family must love bird names Grin

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BlueberrySugar · 22/09/2021 21:52

Also someone with the last name Onion.

She gets very cross and say it's O'nion. Even her husband has said it's ONION. Why take the name if you're that bothered.

Spikeyplants · 22/09/2021 21:52

Oh yes, a Dr called Anil! Apparently pronounced 'A-Neal'

Malena as a 1st name makes me chuckle and revolt- its a dreadful, gastric problem causing putrid smelling, black, tarry, bloody stools!!!!

notyourmummy · 22/09/2021 21:52

@MartyHart

Dr Gentle, he was a lovely old GP when I was a kid. He really lived up to his name.
He wasn't called Stanley was he? North Yorkshire? If so,I know his daughter, also Dr Gentle, she's a (now retired) paediatrician!!
StinkingCold · 22/09/2021 21:53

I knew 'Theresa Green' :)

Not really funny, but I once knew a girl called 'Lovely' and I just thought that was the best and loveliest name ever :)

moonlight1705 · 22/09/2021 21:54

Went to school with a Chris Cross and a Briony Pickles.

Best one though is Annette who married Mr Curtains.

HereIfYouNeedMe · 22/09/2021 21:55

A guy who came in to the cafe I worked in years ago called Koffee Thyme

NamechangeApril21 · 22/09/2021 21:57

My cousin-in-law (is that a thing?) is called Matt White. Always makes me giggle.

DrRamsesEmerson · 22/09/2021 21:57

I knew an Edmund Blackadder (but his parents couldn't have known when he was born, that was bad luck).

Rainbowshit · 22/09/2021 21:58

I once interviewed someone called Wankere. Poor bloke!

Mytooferts · 22/09/2021 21:58

With many of these I'm left thinking "only in the UK". That's all I'm saying.

Horrible thread.

Thehop · 22/09/2021 22:01

There was a baby on the ward when I had my son called Harry Bowes.

HereIfYouNeedMe · 22/09/2021 22:02

Can someone spell out Teresa Green for me, I don't get it Blush

YolandiFuckinVisser · 22/09/2021 22:02

I used to work with Helen Heaven.

Also worked with Martin Inge, his work email address was minge@....

MistyGreenAndBlue · 22/09/2021 22:02

My dad had a friend called Nick Back. This genuis then named his sons Luke and Zack

DH once met a Mrs Wardrobe in a furniture shop.

I once worked with a Jenny Taylor.

CityCommuter · 22/09/2021 22:03

@HereIfYouNeedMe it sounds like
Trees are Green!

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MistyGreenAndBlue · 22/09/2021 22:03

@HereIfYouNeedMe

Can someone spell out Teresa Green for me, I don't get it Blush
Trees are green
OliveHenry · 22/09/2021 22:03

When bored at work we used to look for comic names in the directory. Best one was Willy Dangles Grin Never had to deal with him thankfully - not sure I could have kept a straight face!

EmergencyPoncho · 22/09/2021 22:03

@HereIfYouNeedMe

Can someone spell out Teresa Green for me, I don't get it Blush
Trees are green 😉
ThatsAllFolks · 22/09/2021 22:04

XX Wankling
Teresa Green
Heidi Piddel (PiddELL not Piddle)

Bitofachinwag · 22/09/2021 22:04

Isn't this a bit mean,,,,?

katseyes7 · 22/09/2021 22:05

A professor of metallurgy called Mr lrons.

DumplingsAndStew · 22/09/2021 22:06

I had a relationship with a David Davidson when I was younger.

He had sadly been adopted as a young child and, because of his age, his adoptive parents (The Davidsons) retained his birth name (David).

CheekyChewinski · 22/09/2021 22:06

I knew a Jack Harder at school Grin

CounsellorTroi · 22/09/2021 22:08

DH used to work with someone called A Nutter. His name was on his office door.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 22/09/2021 22:08

My dad once taught a girl called Alfo Margaret. He asked her mum where the first name came from, and apparently the girl,was conceived in a graveyard, and when she knew she’d fallen pregnant, she went back to look at the gravestone where it had happened, to look at the names. She decided she would use the names on the stone - which said:

Here Lies John Smith,

Also Margaret, his wife.

But the S in also was an archaic font, which looked like a long, lower-case f - so she read it as the name being Alfo Margaret.