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LadyButterfly she/her piefed.blahaj.zone LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
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LadyButterfly she/her piefed.blahaj.zone LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-10
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I've met a Khaleesi... poor child. Forever associated with the dumpster fire that was S8

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Qkall lemmy.ml Qkall@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-01
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Oh boy. Let's see I went to school with:

  • Stephen Hoar
  • Jeremy Stankee
  • Fuk Train
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Libb piefed.social Libb@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-04
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It took me a moment to realize I had no idea if I ever met someone with an awful/stupid name. Pretty sure I've met a few but oddly (?) I don't care much about names.

I can remember a French publisher whose publishing house (back in the early XX century) was named after himself: 'Louis Conard' which is almost funny as, in French, 'connard' means 'moron' or 'jerk' (but can also very easily be meaner, depending the intention) and I remember the very first time I purchased one of their books (a volume of Flaubert's correspondence, if I recall correctly) I wondered for a moment, had I been in his shoes, if I would have changed my legal name to add the missing 'n', but that's about it ;)

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TwoBeeSan lemmy.world TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-05
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Named epiphany

Family name foukeem

Goes by phanie

The name tag said phanie foukem

Fanie fuckem fanie fuckem fanie fuckem

I felt like I was having a fever dream.

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Valmond lemmy.world Valmond@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-23
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I didn't meet the man but I walked by a jeweller in paris named Long Phung, which in my native language translate to Long Balls.

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β„•π•–π•žπ•  slrpnk.net Nemo@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-01
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I once ran a credit card for a Richard P. Orefice.

Dick Pee Orifice, hahaha

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moshankey lemmy.world moshankey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-23
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I taught in urban areas for about 25 years. I’ve lost count of the numerous interesting names I’ve had to learn to pronounce and spell.

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idiomaddict lemmy.world idiomaddict@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-16
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Oh boy. Let's see I went to school with: Stephen Hoar Jeremy Stankee Fuk Train

I knew a woman whose last name was hoar and whose first name was analogous to Tifanibel- two cutesy first names spelled creatively and jammed together.

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wizardbeard lemmy.dbzer0.com wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-16
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I worked at a gym doing sign ups and check ins (before it was all fully automated), and quickly lost count. One that still sticks out to me though is Thomas T. Thomas. Pretty sure the middle name was also Thomas.

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Olhonestjim lemmy.world Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-28
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I knew a kid with the last name of Gussler who joined the Navy right out of high school.

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Almacca aussie.zone Almacca@aussie.zone
Joined: 2025-02-06
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I don't really remember terrible names, and I don't like to mock people for things they didn't get to choose for themselves. However, one of the best names I've ever come across was a kid called Max Godbolt.

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bigchungus piefed.blahaj.zone bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-08-30
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Bonk. Not a nickname, it was written exactly like that on the attendance list.

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bonsai lemmy.dbzer0.com bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-03-24
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Guy at work has last name of Raper 😳

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks programming.dev zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-19
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Matthew Tress. Mattress.

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LadyButterfly she/her piefed.blahaj.zone LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-10
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Matthew Tress. Mattress.

That's amazing πŸ‘

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toynbee lemmy.world toynbee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
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I worked at a gym doing sign ups and check ins (before it was all fully automated), and quickly lost count. One that still sticks out to me though is Thomas T. Thomas. Pretty sure the middle name was also Thomas.

One of my oldest friends had a dad named Thomas. He apparently wanted to name his child Thomas, but the mother disagreed, so he demanded that the middle name of that and any future children be Thomas.

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threelonmusketeers sh.itjust.works threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-10
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I knew a woman whose last name was hoar and whose first name was analogous to Tifanibel- two cutesy first names spelled creatively and jammed together.

Tifanibel

That's getting pretty close to a !tragedeigh@lemmy.blahaj.zone...

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Tippon lemmy.dbzer0.com Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-14
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One of my oldest friends had a dad named Thomas. He apparently wanted to name his child Thomas, but the mother disagreed, so he demanded that the middle name of that and any future children be Thomas.

These people annoy me!

I've been doing my family tree, and part of my family is from West Wales. There's a Thomas Thomas, named after his grandfather, and his father is Philip Thomas, who was named after his grandfather. They've also sprinkled a handful of boys named John Thomas through the later generations, with one being named after his own brother! 😫

To make things worse, there's another family who are around the same age as Thomas Thomas, and the two Thomas (Thomases?) married women with the same first name, and gave their daughters the same first name too! They even live in the same small town! πŸ˜³πŸ˜…

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skoell13 feddit.org skoell13@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-23
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Atticus Finch (from How to kill a mockingbird) for a girl.

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DaPorkchop_ [they/she/it] lemmy.ml DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-02
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I don't really remember terrible names, and I don't like to mock people for things they didn't get to choose for themselves. However, one of the best names I've ever come across was a kid called Max Godbolt.

This just made me do a quick search and now I have learned that the Godbolt compiler explorer isn't just some cool name, but actually the last name of the guy who made it (Matt Godbolt)

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Zoe piefed.blahaj.zone compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-24
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I've met a Khaleesi... poor child. Forever associated with the dumpster fire that was S8

At least Leesi kind of works as a nickname that isn’t as obviously GOT

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Smeagol666 crazypeople.online Smeagol666@crazypeople.online
Joined: 2025-08-08
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Richard Glick, or Dick Glick= dick lick.

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toynbee lemmy.world toynbee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
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These people annoy me! I've been doing my family tree, and part of my family is from West Wales. There's a Thomas Thomas, named after his grandfather, and his father is Philip Thomas, who was named after his grandfather. They've also sprinkled a handful of boys named John Thomas through the later generations, with one being named after his own brother! 😫 To make things worse, there's another fa...

Was the brother lost or were there just two people walking around the house with the same name, doomed to be confused every time someone summoned one of them?

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Tippon lemmy.dbzer0.com Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-14
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Was the brother lost or were there just two people walking around the house with the same name, doomed to be confused every time someone summoned one of them?

No, they weren't quite that bad πŸ˜‚

The older one passed away as a child, so they named the younger one after him, about a year later. I'm thinking that the name might be unlucky though, the younger one died in the first world war, not long after having two children. Neither of his kids were named John, and they both lived long, happy lives...

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shalafi lemmy.world shalafi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-22
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I worked at a gym doing sign ups and check ins (before it was all fully automated), and quickly lost count. One that still sticks out to me though is Thomas T. Thomas. Pretty sure the middle name was also Thomas.

Major Major Major.

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shalafi lemmy.world shalafi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-22
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I taught in urban areas for about 25 years. I’ve lost count of the numerous interesting names I’ve had to learn to pronounce and spell.

"A-A-ron!?"

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shalafi lemmy.world shalafi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-22
#28 · Quote Reply

My first and last names could not be more white bread. Middle name? Black as it gets. Had to change the email on my resume because I couldn't get a job.

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tamal3 lemmy.world tamal3@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Sorry, deleted because easily Googleable. It was a terrible name though. Also, though she was a nice kid, she seems to have become a shitty adult.... Huh, I wonder what she'd think of me 🧐

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NachBarcelona piefed.social NachBarcelona@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-12-16
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Atticus Finch (from How to kill a mockingbird) for a girl.

If there only was a cool girl character in that movie πŸ€”

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HubertManne piefed.social HubertManne@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-13
#31 · Quote Reply

You know a person can't be responsible for the name assigned by his parental units.

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