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Unfortunate Last Names

Ms. Fatto was an English teacher in my high school. Since she was actually fat, we called her Ms. Fattass.

by Anonymousreply 143October 6, 2022 12:15 AM

I once worked with a guy with the last name "Outhouse".

by Anonymousreply 1January 1, 2021 4:47 PM

I worked with a woman named Elizabeth Klitt.

by Anonymousreply 2January 1, 2021 5:02 PM

I know of someone with the last name Butz

by Anonymousreply 3January 1, 2021 5:05 PM

Also OP wouldn’t have “Ms. Fattso” have been more organic?

by Anonymousreply 4January 1, 2021 5:07 PM

I feel sorry for OP’s teacher, choosing a profession that required her to be surrounded by assholes.

by Anonymousreply 5January 1, 2021 5:09 PM

Actress Alison Doody.

by Anonymousreply 6January 1, 2021 5:09 PM

Actress Heather Menzies.

by Anonymousreply 7January 1, 2021 5:10 PM

There's a weatherman on the local TV station in my region with the last name of Wankum, but he pronounces it "Wahn-kum". I can only imagine the jokes he endured growing up.

I also knew an Asian co-worker with the last name of "Dong". He was a real dick, too.

by Anonymousreply 8January 1, 2021 5:11 PM

My Mom's friends name was Meta Hooker

by Anonymousreply 9January 1, 2021 5:12 PM

Heine...pronounced "Hi-Knee." And one was nicknamed Dick.

by Anonymousreply 10January 1, 2021 5:15 PM

My uncle's wife's unmarried name was Kuntz. More than one?

by Anonymousreply 11January 1, 2021 5:15 PM

^^^ Also, I went to college with a Kae Mart. And used to deal with a bureaucrat named Mary Wanner.

by Anonymousreply 12January 1, 2021 5:16 PM

[Quote]Also OP wouldn’t have “Ms. Fattso” have been more organic?

Ms. Fattass was considered funnier to us teenagers at the time. I think Ms. Fattso would've been said by younger children.

by Anonymousreply 13January 1, 2021 5:17 PM

Hayward-Thomas.

Should have been something with an accent and a family crest, like Ibáñez.

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by Anonymousreply 14January 1, 2021 5:20 PM

We had a horrible substitute teacher who was tall and pear shaped. Her name was Ms. Gimas. We called her Ms. Grimace.

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by Anonymousreply 15January 1, 2021 5:24 PM

Actress Imogen Poots.

I went to school with a boy whose last name was Peed.

by Anonymousreply 16January 1, 2021 5:25 PM

Bottoms

by Anonymousreply 17January 1, 2021 5:26 PM

Trump

by Anonymousreply 18January 1, 2021 5:27 PM

R3 was he from Springfield MO?

by Anonymousreply 19January 1, 2021 5:28 PM

Angela Brown-Rice

by Anonymousreply 20January 1, 2021 5:32 PM

Dick Riegel

by Anonymousreply 21January 1, 2021 5:33 PM

UK Dataloungers - is it true that 'Trump' means 'fart' in British slang?

by Anonymousreply 22January 1, 2021 5:34 PM

Fanny Schmeller

by Anonymousreply 23January 1, 2021 5:34 PM

My doctor is "Akhunt." My mother's gyno was Dr. Fier (pro: fear)

by Anonymousreply 24January 1, 2021 5:36 PM

I worked on the 1980 Census. One name I never forgot was Autumn Pickles.

by Anonymousreply 25January 1, 2021 5:37 PM

Lipschitz

by Anonymousreply 26January 1, 2021 5:40 PM

Father Hands was arrested at our local Catholic church after he was charged for molesting teenaged boys. You can't make this shit up. The church moved him to another rectum, er rectory, where he was eventually discovered downloading child porn on their computer.

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by Anonymousreply 27January 1, 2021 5:40 PM

Lynn Hoare

by Anonymousreply 28January 1, 2021 5:41 PM

The doctor who delivered me was named Pospissil. My mother's friend's name was Pickle Puffpoff. I wanted them to be married so she would become Pickle Puffpoff Pospissil. Never happened.

by Anonymousreply 29January 1, 2021 5:42 PM

Butkus.

by Anonymousreply 30January 1, 2021 5:42 PM

Markle

by Anonymousreply 31January 1, 2021 5:48 PM

I had a teacher named Kumkee. He was a deeply closeted elder gay, so if you are reading this, Mr. Kumkee, Hi!

by Anonymousreply 32January 1, 2021 5:50 PM

Gaga.

by Anonymousreply 33January 1, 2021 5:51 PM

Lipschitz

by Anonymousreply 34January 1, 2021 5:52 PM

I know a woman in Germany whose last name translates as "will fuck" in German.

by Anonymousreply 35January 1, 2021 6:04 PM

When I was a medic in the service, there was:

- a Dr. Goldwasser on staff, he was a urologist.

-a pediatrician named Dr. Denton.

-and an intern, one Lieutenant Marvel, we were keenly anticipating his promotion to Captain.

r35 Boomsen? Thanks, Liza.

by Anonymousreply 36January 1, 2021 6:16 PM

R22, yes, a big wet fart. And so it proved.

by Anonymousreply 37January 1, 2021 6:52 PM

There was a guy where I used to work whose last name was Semen. Yes, you read that right. Though it should be pronounced Semyon, I would still have changed it.

by Anonymousreply 38January 1, 2021 6:59 PM

In grade school there was a kid whose last name was Fagg.

by Anonymousreply 39January 1, 2021 6:59 PM

Lipshitter

by Anonymousreply 40January 1, 2021 7:25 PM

R39 that kid in grade school was you!

by Anonymousreply 41January 1, 2021 7:25 PM

Had a friend in college named Jerko and I taught at a school where the three Slutsky daughters attended.

by Anonymousreply 42January 1, 2021 7:29 PM

Mr. Dickoff was my high school principle

by Anonymousreply 43January 1, 2021 7:30 PM

[quote] Mr. Dickoff was my high school principle

Oh, dear!

by Anonymousreply 44January 1, 2021 8:16 PM

Old neighbor growing up was Richard - Dick - Seaman.

by Anonymousreply 45January 1, 2021 8:30 PM

While working retail during Uni days I took the credit card of a very scattered customer and saw her family name was Looney.

by Anonymousreply 46January 1, 2021 8:32 PM

Pussywether

by Anonymousreply 47January 1, 2021 8:32 PM

Southern California gynecologist - last name DiCunto.

by Anonymousreply 48January 1, 2021 8:32 PM

A teacher at my middle school was named Mrs. Hardick. Pronounced hard-dick. You can imagine what fun a room full of 13/14 year-olds had with a name like that.

That poor woman, I often wondered why she didn't just use her maiden name.

by Anonymousreply 49January 1, 2021 8:33 PM

Dentist - Dr. Licking

by Anonymousreply 50January 1, 2021 8:47 PM

Mrs. Gentile taught accelerated math.

My school was 10% Jewish, but accelerated math was at least 50% Jewish.

by Anonymousreply 51January 1, 2021 8:49 PM

"Cocksucker."

by Anonymousreply 52January 1, 2021 8:51 PM

There was family in my hometown named Tiddy, and we went to school with several of the kids. They were teased mercilessly, but not by us.

When I told brother that Richard Tiddy had changed his name to Teddy, he was flabbergasted.

"Teddy Tiddy?"

by Anonymousreply 53January 1, 2021 9:04 PM

I had a teacher in 5th grade in Florida named Mr. Dingle. I later heard he changed this.

I swear to God this is true. My bf knew someone growing up in Maine named, wait for it, Ophelia Thyng. Might be my new drag name.

by Anonymousreply 54January 1, 2021 9:06 PM

I knew Meta Hooker. She played the piano at my church. NIce Lady

by Anonymousreply 55January 1, 2021 9:11 PM

I knew a Dr. Hog. And yes she was a fatty. She tried to pretend that it was pronounced "Hoag", but nobody believed her.

by Anonymousreply 56January 1, 2021 9:14 PM

Wang, as in 'Wang accused of sexual assault.'

by Anonymousreply 57January 1, 2021 9:17 PM

Growcock

Lipschitz

Kuntz

by Anonymousreply 58January 1, 2021 10:42 PM

Assy

by Anonymousreply 59January 1, 2021 10:42 PM

I had a teacher whose maiden name was Robin Hood.

I went to school with a girl whose last name was Fuchs (she pronounced it Fyoosh)

by Anonymousreply 60January 1, 2021 10:47 PM

Captain William Bernard Butt

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by Anonymousreply 61January 1, 2021 10:48 PM

Edith Kuntz.

Seriously.

by Anonymousreply 62January 1, 2021 10:48 PM

My job involves looking at insurance records so I see lots of names and a few wacky names. I always wonder why some of these people don’t legally change their embarrassing names. At least for their children’s sake. Bullying is tough to live with for something easily fixed.

by Anonymousreply 63January 1, 2021 10:50 PM

R63, it's not easy to legally change your name. You had to get it changed on all your id's, documents, etc

by Anonymousreply 64January 1, 2021 10:52 PM

Gottfried Egg

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by Anonymousreply 65January 1, 2021 10:52 PM

Pamela Balls-Organista

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by Anonymousreply 66January 1, 2021 10:55 PM

Reverend Hardball

Scott Tittiman

by Anonymousreply 67January 1, 2021 10:56 PM

John Horniman

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by Anonymousreply 68January 1, 2021 10:58 PM

Schcock

by Anonymousreply 69January 1, 2021 11:03 PM

I wish my first name was Assy

by Anonymousreply 70January 1, 2021 11:07 PM

i dated a guy with the last name Klutts

by Anonymousreply 71January 1, 2021 11:33 PM

Anything with "cock" in your last name seems unfortunate, but Robert S. Badcock managed to establish a successful furniture store chain with his last name front and center.

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by Anonymousreply 72January 2, 2021 1:29 AM

My neighbor’s last name is Chu, which isn’t so unfortunate if you don’t use his first name Dick.

by Anonymousreply 73January 6, 2021 5:27 AM

Ima Hogg should have had her father killed, since her name was his idea.

by Anonymousreply 74January 6, 2021 5:44 AM

I had a coworker with the last name ‘Cockburn’

by Anonymousreply 75January 6, 2021 5:58 AM

Professor Robert Beaglehole

Former Secretary of State Earl Butz

by Anonymousreply 76January 6, 2021 8:52 AM

My mother had a friend named Joan Snook.

by Anonymousreply 77January 6, 2021 9:15 AM

Came across Butt, Fagg, Heine, Weiner and good ol’ Coach Pigg during my school years.

by Anonymousreply 78January 6, 2021 9:31 AM

"Guttman".

by Anonymousreply 79January 6, 2021 9:34 AM

I had a job interview with Dr. Ruth Toot. (I couldn't help but wonder if her husband's name might be Rudy...Ruth and Rudy Toot!)

by Anonymousreply 80January 6, 2021 9:35 AM

Yeah, R17. But I wouldn't mind having Timothy Bottoms (circa "The Last Picture Show") bottom for me.

by Anonymousreply 81January 6, 2021 9:37 AM

Sorry, former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz

He was an early victim of Cancel Culture. Lost his job because of his infamous last words...."All the n_____s want is loose shoes, tight pussies, and a warm place to shit."

by Anonymousreply 82January 6, 2021 10:22 AM

I laughed at r82. I think I'm going straight to hell.

by Anonymousreply 83January 6, 2021 3:58 PM

My English teacher Mr Dick dated my math teacher Miss Hand. No. Really.

by Anonymousreply 84January 6, 2021 4:03 PM

I knew a guy with the last name Gay. He was a high ranking military officer, so you know he had balls of steel.

by Anonymousreply 85January 6, 2021 4:10 PM

Googoo is a surname found among members of the Mi'kmaw Indian community in Nova Scotia.

Outhouse is also fairly common in N.S. It's likely of German origin.

by Anonymousreply 86January 6, 2021 4:40 PM

Harry Dyke was the principal at a friend's high school

by Anonymousreply 87January 6, 2021 4:51 PM

Middle school principle named Mr. Buckholtz. Called my mom into talk to him after trying to suspend me on bullshit, she called him Mr. Butthole during the entire interaction.

by Anonymousreply 88January 6, 2021 4:55 PM

[quote]I went to school with a boy whose last name was Peed

When I was growing up there was a family in my neighborhood whose last name was Pee (no D).

by Anonymousreply 89January 6, 2021 4:58 PM

[quote]I worked on the 1980 Census. One name I never forgot was Autumn Pickles.

A college friend of mine had a sister-in-law who worked for the Census and met an old man named Mathematics Enthusiasm Jones.

by Anonymousreply 90January 6, 2021 4:59 PM

Back in the '80s, [italic]People[/italic] ran an article about folks with funny names and subsequently published a letter to the editor about the article from a lady named Waeda Goe.

by Anonymousreply 91January 6, 2021 5:02 PM

Wacks. (later they changed the spelling to Wachs but we were not fooled)

by Anonymousreply 92January 6, 2021 5:05 PM

Ima Hogg was a beloved philanthropist and arts patron in her beloved Houston.

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by Anonymousreply 93January 7, 2021 12:05 PM

Worked with a woman whose last name was Cabbagestalk.

by Anonymousreply 94January 7, 2021 12:09 PM

R36 At Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, the head of Urology was Dr. Waterhouse.

by Anonymousreply 95January 7, 2021 12:12 PM

So very unfortunate.

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by Anonymousreply 96January 7, 2021 12:17 PM

Ben Dover.

by Anonymousreply 97January 7, 2021 12:21 PM

I used to see a chiropractor named Dr. Dye.

I knew of a chap at work named Richard Horr. No way could he shorten his first name.

I know a Fuchs as well.

by Anonymousreply 98January 7, 2021 12:24 PM

Sometimes a bad married name isn't worth the true love.

Holly Tolley

Truly Boring

Minnie Dick

And Shirley, I am serious.

by Anonymousreply 99January 7, 2021 12:26 PM

A gastroenterologist in my neighborhood. Dr. Pou

by Anonymousreply 100January 7, 2021 12:35 PM

Eror

by Anonymousreply 101January 8, 2021 4:00 AM

In my hometown, there was a guy whose last name was Fagg. If that weren't sad enough, his wife's first name was Gaye.

by Anonymousreply 102January 8, 2021 5:12 AM

My brother had a friend in college who's name was KORNBLATT.

by Anonymousreply 103January 8, 2021 5:34 AM

whose NOT who's

by Anonymousreply 104January 8, 2021 5:36 AM

Our high school coach was Coach Seaman......... Mmmmm hmmmm & he was spot on 1980's gay porn material...... Face was OK- body was SMOKIN!!!

by Anonymousreply 105January 8, 2021 5:47 AM

Gummer. Last name of a famous actresses daughter.

by Anonymousreply 106January 8, 2021 9:52 PM

R74, wasn't her sisters name, Ura ?

by Anonymousreply 107January 8, 2021 9:55 PM

The Inwood section of Manhattan has two streets which merge ... Cumming Street and Seaman Avenue

by Anonymousreply 108January 8, 2021 9:57 PM

I knew a smart, charming, cute girl in HS - her name was Melinda Hilter. But at first glance... anyway in college she tried to change her name but her family wouldn't hear of it.

by Anonymousreply 109January 8, 2021 10:04 PM

Quinn Cummings

by Anonymousreply 110January 8, 2021 10:05 PM

In my brother's high school there was an English teacher named Miss Fooks.

HOW could you live with that??????

by Anonymousreply 111January 8, 2021 10:22 PM

a dermatologist Dr. Whitehead

by Anonymousreply 112January 10, 2021 11:59 AM

I went to high school with a guy named Harry Bottom. Talk about cruel parents.

by Anonymousreply 113January 10, 2021 12:01 PM

There was a poor women here named Minerva Sitchcoomb. Never forgot that name. What about Newt? Even his mother must have hated him.

by Anonymousreply 114January 10, 2021 12:18 PM

There's a plumbing company where I live called Fagnelli. No problem in its native Italian pronunciation, but here in America...

by Anonymousreply 115January 10, 2021 12:25 PM

A friend had two academic colleagues with the last names of Glasscock and Hollopeter.

Anyone care to meet at the intersection of High and Gay Streets in West Chester, PA?

by Anonymousreply 116January 10, 2021 12:32 PM

R115, when comedian Mike Birbiglia was asked why he doesn't pronounce his name correctly he said, "My parents are Olive Garden Italians."

by Anonymousreply 117January 10, 2021 12:54 PM

I know (of) a queen with a variation of "bottom" in his last name

by Anonymousreply 118January 14, 2021 10:57 PM

I had a chiar teacher named Mr. Recht, a law teacher named Mr. Hibler, and, of course, the unfortunate Chinese girls whose last name was Ho. We also had a eccentric French teacher named Ms. Chesless

by Anonymousreply 119January 14, 2021 11:06 PM

Begay is a common Navajo name.

by Anonymousreply 120February 20, 2021 1:01 AM

Then there's this guy.

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by Anonymousreply 121February 20, 2021 1:02 AM

Former minor league hockey player Mike Pudlick owns this thread.

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by Anonymousreply 122February 20, 2021 1:05 AM

Growing up, we lived across the street from a family of dicks (Dick).

by Anonymousreply 123February 20, 2021 1:37 AM

Richard Swett was once elected to Congress because a great many voters thought his name was a gag.

by Anonymousreply 124February 20, 2021 1:39 AM

In Jr high there was a guy Robert Cummer. He was bullied like me (I was a chubby goth back then) so we got along. One day in study hall he randomly brought up the subject of jerking off and wanted to know if I had any new techniques.

I was so scared I didn't know what to do. I went to his house and watched him jerk off. Even though he had a fat cock his ejaculation didn't live up the voluminous amount of his namesake.

Even then, I'm kicking myself that I didn't go for it! 😒

by Anonymousreply 125February 20, 2021 1:55 AM

I know a British lady whose last name is Ennal

by Anonymousreply 126February 20, 2021 2:02 AM

At my former workplace there was a Jola Sweat.

by Anonymousreply 127February 20, 2021 2:11 AM

My Dad worked with a lady named Minerva Texas Snodgrass.

by Anonymousreply 128February 20, 2021 2:12 AM

My friend Peter's mom knew a lady in New York City named Mrs. Shastacola.

by Anonymousreply 129February 20, 2021 2:13 AM

Ima Hogg

by Anonymousreply 130February 20, 2021 2:13 AM

I knew a guy called Dean Spank in high school (it might have been Spankie, I don't remember).

by Anonymousreply 131February 20, 2021 2:15 AM

I went to middle school with a girl named Leah Beaver. She was tormented. "I'll play with your beaver". Boys will be boys.

by Anonymousreply 132February 20, 2021 8:29 PM

[quote] Former Secretary of State Earl Butz

He was actually the Secretary of Agriculture (resigned during the Ford administration due to a racist remark).

by Anonymousreply 133February 21, 2021 1:32 AM

Boebert

by Anonymousreply 134February 21, 2021 1:37 AM

Rebecca Huge was just paged at LAX. The woman that came up to the ticket counter was freakishly tiny

by Anonymousreply 135October 5, 2022 4:37 PM

I recently had a customer named Du-Du Wang. I couldn't call her Du-Du with out laughing, so I just called her Du......

by Anonymousreply 136October 5, 2022 5:27 PM

Dr. Shit Fun Chew of Singapore was an early viral sensation.

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by Anonymousreply 137October 5, 2022 5:31 PM

Fingerhut. It makes my skin crawl.

by Anonymousreply 138October 5, 2022 6:01 PM

Rich or Richard, but never Dick!

by Anonymousreply 139October 5, 2022 6:07 PM

My parents worked together at a high school in Missouri in the late 1960s and said a teacher with the last name Dick absolutely insisted on naming his first son Harold, even though he knew the kid would be called "Harry Dick." People tried to talk him out of it for months but he refused, because his brother or uncle or something was a relatively famous man named Harold Dick and he wanted the same name for his son.

I think the famous relative was this guy, but don't quote me on that.

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by Anonymousreply 140October 5, 2022 6:18 PM

I. Emma DICKMAN

by Anonymousreply 141October 6, 2022 12:13 AM

My middle-school flute instructor, a fat white middle-aged concert-band Frau who'd married an Asian man, and so her married name is Koq.

by Anonymousreply 142October 6, 2022 12:13 AM

British footballer Mason Mount.

Suppose that's fortunate or unfortunate, depending on how you look at it.

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by Anonymousreply 143October 6, 2022 12:15 AM
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