Knew a kid in elementary school who had the last name Gaylord, teased mercilessly. He would tell the teacher on the first day of class to just call him by his first name but they never did

I remember someone was on Forensic Files pretty often, they either had the last name "Dickgardender" or their name was "Dick Gardener".

My surname is Mucous

I worked with someone at an international company whose surname meant “shit” (verb) in my native language.

I wonder how names like that came to be in countries where the dominant language and the language of the name its in are the same

Who just names themself shit?

I know a man with the last name "Raper"

There is a plumbing company in northern Virginia that is family owned. It was founded by Richard and is called Wacker Plumbing. Yes indeed his name is Dick Wacker.

Null. There are articles online about people with this surname and the problems they face in everyday life.

For those who don't know, null means "nothing" or "missing data" in computer systems and databases. Properly coded systems handle it correctly but there are so many badly coded and/or legacy systems that simply crash or behave incorrectly when that surname is entered.

In this case the colleague was not from my country and not aware of the meaning his surname had here, but now that you mention it…

There have been cases of forced surname registration for cultures and populations that historically did not have them or who did not want to identify themselves, so these people chose silly names, either not realizing or not caring that they would become permanent.

I once ran a credit card for a Richard P. Oreface

Not just one but two. Weiner and Munch. Their offices were right next to each other and it didn't matter who was on either side. It was still comedy gold.

Did they ever consummate?

is Null capitalized in some?

Wtf were his parents thinking, that sounds like a pornographic stge nsme

One can only hope.

Alternately he could have been Rich Wacker and Luigi'd some billionaires and it would have made for a great news cycle.

I worked with someone back in the '90s who claimed he once worked for a Richard Butt, who would go by the nickname Dick. As mentioned, this was the '90s so it was well before the more famous dickbutt.

Other than the standard Wang and Dong (and one with the alternative spelling Dung) I knew a Dickson who worked with a Cox. And one salesman with a normal last name "Ashman" and a first name starting with R whose company gave him the email address "rashman" rather than "ashmanr".

In most languages, the case of datatypes is irrelevant; Null, null, nUlL, and NULL all represent the same value.

Carr, Wayne... in England. Parents must have been right bunch of assholes.
IIRC he kept using his middle name, it's only through another colleague we found out

I guy I went to school with last name of Dick. Always said he would name his son Harry and daughter Anita. I really hope he didn't

1. Trust Unworried. Full name.
2. My dear friend Thomas Dyck married his highschool sweetheart, Annie(Anita) Savage. They were going to hyphenate the surnames for the lulz. Yes, Anita Savage-dyck.
3. Someone with a first-name sounding like 'offence' is messaging me on LinkedIn. It's for a weird "we'll maybe pay you for open-source work if we like it" bait/switch.

Had a classmate who had the surname Fucke. He took his wife’s name when he got married, as he was sick of the dumb jokes about his name.

to segue, Asian company names can be great when they romanise them, "Pondscum Realty" in Cambodia. I have no idea what it was supposed to be in the original Khmer (Green Lakes or something like that perhaps ? ) but it always made me smile when i went past, this was a decade ago and I assume they used some shitty literal google translation.

Great Dong

Zahomo

I believe their first name was Clayton

—Ya fuck ONE dog...then—

Butt.

He was a customer and I was instructed to greet customers by last, not first, name.

I barely held in the laughter when **** Butt popped up on the screen.

Hiscock...pronounces hizzuck

Adcock.

His first name was Daniel, and his email (typical company first initial last name @ company) was indeed unfortunate.

I had asome soolmates with the last name Fuchs. Same kinda deal.

Had a teacher called Mr. Dick.

Professor Cox, will you please join Mr. Dick tonight at the Brown Hall?

Cockfield

Hogg.

Wankhade

"Van De Neuker" which translates as "from the fucker". In ye olden days "De Neuker" was the man who went around with his male pig to impregnate the female pigs of other people.

The US ambassador to the UK during Trump's first term was Woody Johnson. In this case, though, he chose to go by it, so I'm assuming that he doesn't consider it unfortunate.

Bonar. Good middle school times.

Had a guy I worked with named Butts, I was like, oh, its probably got some other pronunciation, so I said "Mr. Boots?"

He got VERY angry and shouted "ITS PRONOUNCED BUTTS" loud enough that other people in the office turned to look at us.

In the Navy, there was this woman with the last name Guzzler and she was a nuclear electronics technician, which meant that before hitting the rank of E-4 that she was a Seaman. She was Seaman Guzzler. The military is pretty misogynistic, and so even her superiors took joy in taking jabs at her as is the name Guzzler wasn't bad enough by itself for a woman in the military.

I still feel bad for her to this day.

NASCAR racing legend, Dick Trickle.

They said UNfortuante

Titsworth

A classic.

He was a badass, though. Legend has it that he had a hole drilled in the face shield of his helmet so he could still light up a smoke while driving.

I used to work with a guy called Frank Yu.

Our company emails were first initial, last name...

That story makes no sense. He always used half face helmets. Even when he had a full face, he smoked through the window of the helmet. Sounds like a story a tobacco sponsor would promote.

Trickle killed himself after suffering years of chest pain definitively not due to his smoking.

Barry Sheene had a hole in his Motorcycle helmet for smoking.

He died of eosophageal cancer. Cool.

That's why I referred to the story as a "legend" (and it is a story that had been passed around for decades), not a fact that I can provide documentary proof of for a humorous internet comment.