Cool and/or funny names

Camokat

Another thread was going OT with funny names so I thought I’d start a thread!

I am delighted that the parents of the AFL player whose surname is Sidebottom - admittedly a tricky surname, especially in the schoolyard - named him Steele. The combo is quite awesome IMO 💪. Steele Sidebottom.

Another name I love for it’s sheer aptness is a US female basketballer called Aerial Powers. 🏀.

Would love to hear your funny and awesome names! Nothing too unkind please. Of living people, anyway. If they’re dead, well…🤷

squeekums

Camokat

on the AFL theme, Jordon Butts, a crows player~,~ David Honybun - past carlton/richmond, Wylie Buzza, ex geelong and port, Irving Mosquito, bombers,

AnnHiggins

i always find it amusing when people in relatively high profile jobs have a surname that is oddly suited to their job/role - eg there was a former head of Sydney Water whose surname was Drinkwater. there was a head of NSW Gaming and Racing whose surname was Gamble. (there was also a Minister for racing Richard (Dick) Head - less said about that the better.) ive always found the actress Miriam Margolyes has a linguistically satisfying name. and the former ABC china correspondent had a catchy name - Bill Birtles

Annsy

There’s an actor on Disney called Sterling Knight, which I always loved.

Camokat

Bill Birtles is such a great name. I imagine him being pleasant and humorous.

AnnHiggins

the footballer (NRL) called Cherry Evans always amuses me..it just seem such an unlikely name for an NRL player? Cooper Cronk has a bit of alliteration happening. love love LOVE the UK ballerina Darcey Bussell.

Camokat

I love the name Darcey, or D’Arcy, for guys or girls. Makes me think of Ruth Park and her husband D’Arcy Niland.

Oooh, found another funny name but it breaks my own rule about not being unkind to living people…I saw him on an Air B’nB ad. His name was Marcus Farkas 🤭😂

tomson

My grandmother had a friend called Nora Onion

We knew a Rose Bush whose maiden name was Rose Thorne

Friends with Sams for their surname called their son Thai (Tiresome)

Moo

I used to know a Miss Coffin who got married and became a Mrs D’eath (not sure of the ' placement).

Marmalade

Up round these parts “Vile and Vile Solicitors ” make me lol.

Camokat

Marmalade

We have Solis (ie soulless) Lawyers in Melbourne 😁

Humphreybear

I knew a Sally Mander. Needless to say she didn’t keep her maiden name when she got married.

Camokat

IRVING MOSQUITO!!! We can end the thread now, that name is perfection.

Off to Google….

Longdarkteatime

I saw a colon and rectal surgeon year ago by the name of Buttigieg - lovely chap!

catbus

I saw on a billboard an ad for a continence/childhood bed-wetting nurse with the surname Leake.

Camokat

Some excellent examples of nominative determinism in this thread! Although I do hope Irving doesn’t sting.

Marmalade

My old doctor was Dr Skelton

hillsmumbec

I met a lady called Theresa Green once.

Camokat

hillsmumbec

Gawd, I finally got that one, three hours after reading it 😂

AnnHiggins

a GP we used to go to when my kids were little was Dr Saw (my arm is sore Dr Saw), a well known Sydney law firm with a reputation for being hard asses is “Atanaskovic and Hartnell” which is a running joke in legal circles, changed to “Antagonistic and Heartless” - and a well respected former judge of the Victorian Supreme Court is Lex Lasry- Lex of course being latin for “the law”.