Great last names

[Flying Grype]

And the latest one had someone with a last name of Klingsporn. Me being a bit of a trekkie, I got some bad imagery from that one.

I assume this is what Worf wears in front of his kilt.

[KellyHabersham]

Just thought of another one to add, this from my mom's experience as a teacher's aide when we'd moved to Phoenix -

I forget what the teacher's actual last name was, just that it began with an "S" and was German in origin.....was one of those names that you'd have to see written a few times before you'd remember the spelling. Anyhow, apparently the students had to fill out some kind of paper (and write their teacher's name), and as my mom was going over these papers, she came across one where the student had spelled the teacher's name as "Mrs. Shitdick".

[draftermatt]

Worked with a guy named Richard Johnson, we all called him Dick behind his back (he was a dick too)

Local sports writer around here is Peter Schmuck.

[Severen13]

I used to send out mail to a woman who had the last name of "Cockream". And no, I'm not joking.

Another time I had to help a woman with the last name of "Turnipseed".

[Victoria J]

Reviving this to add Popo to the list.

VictoriaJ

[Exaspera]

Haven't run across this thread, yet!

When I was little, the family dentist was Dr. Yanko.

[morgana]

The winter I went to Hawaii, the ex and I spent most of the week palling around with a newlywed couple, last name Clapsaddle.

[LillFilly]

I have a name associated with a popular movie. So a lot of times someone will read my nametag and say it multiple times, or ask if I'm related to the character from the movie, or say a popular line from the movie, or ask me to say a popular line from the movie. Unfortunately, all the good ones contain 4-letter words. Sorry I can't give any hints as to the movie!

[BeeMused]

A girl in my primary school class had the name Anna Nass, Ananas means pineapple in German.

[Moggie]

I used to go to school with a girl named Sunshine Hawaii. Oddly enough, she wasn't a very cheerful person.

My maiden name when I was born was Knight. My father wanted to name me Stormy or Wednesday but my mother threatened his life. If they had named me Wednesday though I never would have married my first husband. His last name was Adams.

[Sheldonrs]

President of my College, Seymor Hyman.

[mharbourgirl]

That's the name of one of the employees at my store. At least it's not Jason Voorhees.

You laugh. I went to high school with Jason Voorhees.

I used to work at a gas station with Rick Krugerrand... full name FREDERick Krugerrand. He had a great sense of humor, lucky for him.

[Itsjustpizza]

In the home of "you've got 30 minutes", we have a carryout customer whose last name is Cock but he pronounces it -coke-. Former manager would giggle everytime he called it out for pick up!

[Shalom]

I love Sri Lankan lastnames. And some South-Indian ones which can be similar. They are just really really really long. If I'm writing on a file and I run out of space just from the name I guess the person is from Sri Lanka or South India, and everytime I've checked I've been right. Not so good when you have to leave phone messages for people - though other than length it's normally pretty easy to work out pronunciation.

I don't particularly remember patients' names, but every so often I come across a doctor's name that's a dilly.

There was one pediatrician in the Bronx whose prescriptions I saw frequently, who was universally referred to as Dr Uma, which was in fact her first name, because nobody could pronounce nor spell "Ananthapadmanabha"...

In the other direction, I came across a doc with a rather shorter name. I had a funny situation with this one; I'd just scribbled down a phone script from a Doctor Williams, and I wrote "W'ms" on the paper, because that's how you abbreviate William and I was in a hurry. My tech, who was typing, had not heard of this abbreviation before and I had to elaborate. Then the aforementioned doctor called in, and I handed her a paper with "Oo" written in the Doctor field. She asked "So what does that stand for then?" I had to tell her that it was his whole name, it doesn't stand for anything. She didn't believe me, and I told her I wasn't kidding, he was already in our computer and everything. (His first name was Zaw, by the way. If I had to guess I'd say he was probably from Burma, except they spell it "U" there...)

Oh, and once I came across a Doctor The. No kidding. I had to wonder if he was related to Doctor Who...

(Edit: There's an ER doctor in Suffern, NY whose name is Rasch. I told him once that with that name he ought to have been a dermatologist.)

[infinitemonkies]

I had some guests in the hotel one time whose names were Mr & Mrs Drunk.
They were actually a nice, sober, elderly german couple.


My highschool had a shop teacher named Mr. Wood, and a gym teacher named Mr. Ball.

(if that's not a cue for Sheldon, I dunno what is)