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The funniest real names you've heard!

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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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Zeal · 22/09/2021 22:48

@ddl1

I've met people in Accounts called Ms Cashman and Ms Ledger ;a primary school teacher called Mrs Littlechild; and a gardener called Mrs Green. There were early/mid 20th century neurology textbooks by authors called Brain and Head, and there is a book on animal behaviour by Fox and Tiger (yes, really). There is a law firm in Warwickshire called Wright Hassall; read it aloud and it just about sums up any situation where one might need to consult a lawyer!
A family I know used Wright Hassall and one family member living in Bristol rented a second property out near Cardiff and the agent was Crook & Blight. You could not make it up.
GoGoPowerScooter · 22/09/2021 22:49

DS and I at the hospital waiting to be called for his appointment. Receptionist calling out names
Receptionist calls out "Penelope Chicken?"
DS and I still cackle about that Blush

TonkinLenkicks · 22/09/2021 22:51

Met someone called Aaron Corne today.

Acorn Grin

GoGoPowerScooter · 22/09/2021 22:51

DP has an American colleague called Randy Baron

ThePlumVan · 22/09/2021 22:54

Dr HunnyBun - sadly not my dr.

There’s a Hurcules in my son’s class Grin

JessCat75 · 22/09/2021 22:55

We used to have a neighbour called Mr Cock

TableFlowerss · 22/09/2021 22:57

@dancinfeet

Shirley Worley (married name), which sounds kind of fun, but she was a fairly elderly very strict ex headmistress, not someone you could have a chuckle with about her name.
Jesus I’m early 40’s and would be giggling like a school girl if someone presented themselves to me as ‘Shirley Worley’ - it’s making me chuckle now, I’d be in stitches if I was in a work environment where you’re not allowed to laugh.
GuyFawkesDay · 22/09/2021 22:57

Dentist (retired now) was A Cow
Jenna Taylor. Not married either.

christmascrazylady · 22/09/2021 22:57

Old neighbour was Dianne Parr.
Di Parr 💩

Hugoslavia · 22/09/2021 22:58

Paul Mycock. I still have his business card as it makes me laugh!

Hugoslavia · 22/09/2021 22:59

Love Shirley Worley.

dottypencilcase · 22/09/2021 22:59

Dr D'eath (she was lovely) and an Indian teacher called Mr Dixit (pronounced Dick-shit). An Indian boy in my class called Binnit and a girl in the year above called Shital.

christmascrazylady · 22/09/2021 23:00

Jenna Taylor poor girl

Hugoslavia · 22/09/2021 23:01

Oh yes, and my Dad's friend is actually called Randy Gibbons. I kid you not. I'd forgotten about him until this thread.

m0therofdragons · 22/09/2021 23:01

Mr Burns-Cox is a urology consultant/surgeon in Somerset.

Kipperandarthur · 22/09/2021 23:01

Polly married a Mr Parrot.
Gaynor Hardon. How could her parents not have realised this one?

gofg · 22/09/2021 23:02

I live next door to Mr. Bean. He prefers people to use his first name rather than call him Mr.

poolblue · 22/09/2021 23:02

@ChampagneWorries

Jalen-Jase

P..E teacher called Mr Ball.

Poppy Rose White (child’s full name)

What's wrong with Poppy Rose White?
m0therofdragons · 22/09/2021 23:03

Oh and Dr De’ath, Dr Killah and Dr Scull all on the same corridor with names on the doors.

KrakowDawn · 22/09/2021 23:03

I used to work with Mrs Christmas and Mr Heaven- both were lovely!

I was at school with girls named Priti, Beauty, Lavli, and Joy.

My best friend didn't take her DH's surname, because it's essentially her first name! (Like Taylor Taylor)

I don't get Briony Pickles though, why is that one amusing?

Sundaymorningfiveninteen · 22/09/2021 23:03

The Reverend Daunton-Fear.
( of a church in Barming Kent , I kid you not ).

Genna Taylor was a girls in the same year as my daughter. I didn’t believe it until I saw her name on the sports day run down .

Fetchthevet · 22/09/2021 23:04

Mustafa Kunt

MeanWeedratStew · 22/09/2021 23:04

Decades ago, my granny found a wedding notice in the paper, informing the reader that a lady with the surname Drinkwater had married a man with the surname Wee.

She cut it out to show us. Sounds like a match made in heaven, don't you think?

ItsReallyOnlyMe · 22/09/2021 23:04

Nicholas Hawes (apparently his parents didn't realise until after he was born - calls himself Nick now)

FangsForTheMemory · 22/09/2021 23:05

Briony Prickles?

I used to know an Adrian Mole