All the funny names, A-Z! Find your favorites!
A
Adewalé Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt
Alert, Qiqiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut
Aloysius “Alois” Alzheimer
Ever Gabo Anderson
Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley “Dido” Armstrong
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
Iggy Azalea
B
Churchill Babington
Sosie Bacon
Dusty Baker
Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker
Ed Balls
Outram Bangs
Tallulah Bankhead
Biola Bankole
Sara Beth Bareilles
Felix Baumgartner
Sheamus Beaglehole
Stafford Beer
Lloyd Millard Bentsen
Christian Frederick Albert John Henry David “Bruno” Betzel
Abhay Bhushan
Akbar Gbaja Biamila
Herbert J. Biberman
Ludwig Binswanger
Clarence Birdseye II
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó
Rik Aalbert Blijleven
Moon Bloodgood
Mr. Bojangles
Christ Bongo
Dr. Cornelis Bontekoe
Ruth Hanly Booe, Mother of the Bourbon Ball
Gutzon Borglum
Ernest Borgnine
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Raj-I Alujah “Livingstone” Bramble
Lloyd Vernet “Beau” Bridges III
Wilford Brimley
Elbert Dysart Botts
Peabo Bryson
Gesine Bullock-Prado
Fritzi Burger
Oyster Burns
Ambrose Burnside
Dick Butkus
Kind Butler III
Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield
C
William John Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck
Bennett Cerf (see also Theodor Seuss Geisel)
Vint Cerf
Salmon P. Chase
Jonathan Cheechoo
Chicken, Alaska
Kermit Cintron
Richard Wagstaff “Dick” Clark
Christina and Wilbert Cock
Oberia Coffin
Paulo Constanzo
Fearne Cotton
Lesane Parish Crooks
Benedict Cumberbatch
Thomas Crapper
Pleasant Riggs Crump
Xavier Cugat and Charo
Vonteego Marfeek Cummings
Kaley Cuoco
Coco Crisp
D
Erasmus Darwin
Ram Dass
Dizzy Dean, Daffy Dean, and the Gashouse Gang
Margarethe Blossom Dearie
Debi Derryberry
Larry Derryberry
Dick Dickey
The Brothers Dickey
Pickles Dillhoefer
Phyllis Diller
Eric Djemba-Djemba
Lord Timothy Dexter
Nonito Donaire
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Crescent Dragonwagon
Cornelius Drebbel
Olympia Dukakis
Lena Dunham, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke
E
Megalyn Echikunwoke
Chiwetel “Chewie” Ejiofor
Idrissa Akuna “Idris” Elba
F
Philo T. Farnsworth
Satchel Ronan O’Sullivan Farrow
Orval E. Faubus
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez
Rollie Fingers
Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn
Fionnula Flanagan
Rodman Flender
Dominic ffytche
Frankenstein, Missouri
Critter Fuqua
Ashrita Furman
G
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Green Gartside
Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve – The Great Gildersleeve!
Dizzy Gillespie
An Evening With Crispin Hellion Glover
Aloysius Gonzaga
Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin
Gilbert Gottfried
Grinch and Grinch-Related Funny Names (see also Theodor Seuss Geisel)
Bear Grylls
Johannes Gutenberg
Gary Gygax
H
Binyamin Shlomo Hamburger
Dashiell Hammett
Learned Hand
Willie Harcourt-Cooze
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Milton Hershey
Michael Hickenbottom, Son of Dick
Guus Hiddink
Don Ho
Huell Howser
Dummy Hoy
Gaynor Hopkins
Outerbridge Horsey
Whip Hubley
Englebert Humperdinck
I
Iggy Pop
Punch Imlach
Kornelis “Kees” A. Schouhamer Immink
J
Xzavie Jackson
Jasper Jasperse
Carly Rae Jepsen
Mungo Jerry
Jia Jiang
Goodluck Jonathan
Bumpus Jones and Bobo Holloman
Stevland Hardaway Judkins, aka Stevie Wonder
K
The Big Kahanamoku
Simple Kapadia
Garrison Keillor
Dimple, Rinkle, and Twinkle Khanna
Harmon Killebrew
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Waldemar Klasing and Rev. Vertrue Sharp
Diego Klattenhoff
Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo
Clyde Kluttz
Jenji Kohan
C. Everett “Chick” Koop
Julius Kruttschnitt Sr.
Orland Kurtenbach of Flin Flon, Manitoba
Swoosie Kurtz
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (Caroline Charonplop Kyary Pamyu Pamyu)
L
Francis Jonard Labiak
Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe aka Jelly Roll Morton
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Archibald Alexander Leach
Cloris Leachman
Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter
Sampson Lewkovicz
Judith Q. Longyear
Jubjang Lookmakarmwan
Sicnarf Loopstok
Myrna Loy – a Name of Joy
M
Arthur MacArthur, Jr.
Magnus ver Magnusson
Yngwie Malmsteen, Guitar God
Majestic Mapp & Scientific Mapp
Firpo Marberry
Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand
Othniel Marsh & Edward Drinker Cope
Chi McBride
Cornelius McGillicuddy, Sr.
Kerry McCluggage
Scoot McNairy
Ethel Merman
Olivia Bouyssou Merilahti
Franz Anton Mesmer
Sir Maurice Micklewhite
Windell Middlebrooks
Thaumoctopus Mimicus
Marvin Minsky
Muffet McGraw & Kimberly Duane Mulkey
Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish
Return J. Meigs Jr.
Thelonious Sphere Monk
Lillian Virginia Mountweazel
Van Lingle Mungo
Elon Musk
Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo
N
Shabazz Napier
Carrie A. Nation
Taffy Nivert
Danbert Nobacon
O
Okilly Dokilly (Nedal band)
Dewey “Spooner” Oldham Jr.
Graham “Bunny” Onions
Dolores O’Riordan
Mel Ott
Governor C.L “Butch” Otter
Eugenius Outerbridge
Orval Overall
P
Lee Grinner Pace
Mary Cheves West Perky
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Busy Phillips
Hipolito Pichardo
Pikotaro (PPAP)
Cappie Pondexter
Faith Popcorn
Boog Powell
Sir Manley Power, the Manliest, Most Powerful Name in the World
Chano Pozo
Q
Moira Quirk
R
Sir Stamford Raffles
Thurl Ravenscroft (see also Grinch, Theodor Seuss Geisel)
Leon Redbone (Dickran Gobalian)
Orville Redenbacher
Eppa “Jephtha” Rixey
Pepper Roach
Mo Rocca
Hardy Rodenstock aka Meinhard Görke
Anika Noni Rose
Lucretia “Crete” Rudolph
Virgil Runnels, Jr.
Amos Rusie
Nipsey Russell
Rosalind Russell
S
Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.
Ossee Schreckengost
Kliph Scurlock
Ellsworth Schnebly, and the naming of Sedona, AZ
Detlef Schrempf
Tristram Shandy
Tristram Shapeero
Gylfi Sigurdsson
Stirling Silliphant
John Haley “Zoot” Sims
Fulwar Skipwith
Urban Shocker
Sir Cloudesley Shovell
Izzy Skenazy
Lenny Skutnik
George F. Smoot III – Smoot Operator
Kip Sopp
Dr. Cuthbert Hubert Egbert Soup
Brett and Rennie Sparks
Tristram E. Speaker
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone
Konstatinos “Dino” Stamatopoulos
Lennon and Maisy Stella
Sufjan Stevens
Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton
Huston Street
Picabo Street
John Ridley Stroop
George Stroumboulopoulos
Bert Sugar
Chesley P. Sullenberger
Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount)
Vermin Supreme
Una Stubbs
Cornelius Swartout – Wafflemania!
Gabor Szabo
T
Piippa Tandefelt
Toots Thielemans
Archibald Hall Throckmorton
Ledell “Cannonball” Titcomb
Waldo Tobler
Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
Elmore Rual “Rip” Torn
Guppy Troup
Truth or Consequences, NM
Ron Tugnutt
Bitsie Tulloch
Whitmell P. Tunstall
Shania Twain
U
Binky Urban
V
Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vangelis (Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou)
Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst, Jr.
Pappy Van Winkle
William Van Winkle “Chicken” Wolf
Ricky van Wolfswinkel
W
Rube Waddell
Fred Wah, plus a Canada-themed poem
Warrior
Bill Wambsganss
Bushrod Washington
Wallace Wattles
Apitchatpong “Joe” Weerasethakul
Judson C. Welliver
Norbert Wiener
Willard Wigan
Rebel Wilson
Wolfgang Wolf
Y
Denton True Young
Owain Yeoman
Z
Zarley Zalapski
Hermann Zapf and the Dingbats
Frank Zappa (albums)
Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa
Abraham Zapruder
Renée Zellweger and Her Mom
Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
Hall of Famer
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The Blog of Funny Names 
Are you aware that a key figure of the political opposition in the UK, the Labour party, is called Ed Balls? It might not even be as funny if it were more apt.
I feel like I must have come across that name before, but it definitely slipped my mind. Thanks for the heads-up. It’s much harder to have a really funny simple name (the longer ones give a lot more room for silliness), so we always really cherish funny short names like Vint Cerf.
I used to live in England and I was always amused at how even the more respectable papers couldn’t resist playing up the name in their headlines when Balls was in the news. “Balls back at heart of Labour as Johnson quits” is one I remember seeing in the Guardian.
David, did you ever about Mr. Hogg. He supposedly named his daughters Ima and Urra. I heard this many years ago and it was said to be true. I’m enjoying your funny names.
According to Wikipedia (who’s always right), Ms. Ima Hogg was “one of the most respected women in Texas in the 20th century”. That’ll certainly qualify anyone for this blog! Thanks for the tip!
I remember hearing about the Hogg family. Actually, come to think of it, I may have heard that when I was 8 and living up in Canada, so it might be my oldest funny names memory. What a momentous event. Thanks for jogging my memory!
Great website, thanks for “liking” my most recent rant. I plan to explore your list. Forgive me if you already wrote about this, but one of my favorite things to listen to when I was a teenager (totally dating myself) was the Tube Bar recordings. There have been many references in pop culture to this joy of joys. Here’s the Wikipedia link if you aren’t up on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Bar_prank_calls
Check this out: DICK ASSMAN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Assman
Or this other: Ben Dover http://www.bendover.com/
Yesterday weak-hitting, but ever-popular (because of his name) Coco Crisp tripled and homered in the same game, thereby doubling his total bases for this season and boosting his batting average all the way up to .167. So, what’s the official ruling on names like Coco Crisp and Dusty Rhodes and the like, where the surname is altered for these aesthetic reasons?
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I seem to remember that on a recent trip to the United States, UK Prime Minister David Cameron was met and greeted by Assistant Chief of Protocol, one “Randy Bumgardner”. The British press had a field day.
I just found your site today, and would like to add a gem from my primary school days:
Dealy Kanickle. I think it was actually spelt Knickle, but pronounced with a hard K. It just trips off the tongue!
Before I feel too guilty about nominating him, I’ll confess right now that I had an ancestor named Gugy. There, I feel better now (and hope Dealy never reads your blog).
W.
Glad to find Dr ffytche featured here for lacking a capital. I am keeping myself amused while studying Cognitive Psychology by spotting the silliest names. Zenon Pylyshyn is another psychologist who seems to lack something – in this case a vowel http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/faculty/pylyshyn.html
Wow, Zenon Pylyshyn is the best name. Apparently it took me 3 years to reply to this comment, but that name is worth it! Perhaps we can profile Dr. Pylyshyn soon!
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