List of unusual personal names - Definition and Overview

Real people

• Japanese parents tried to name their son Akuma (悪魔), which means "demon" in Japanese. The name was rejected by court.
• Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced "Albin") was a name given to a child by the parents of a Swedish family in May 1996. The name was rejected by a Swedish court.
• Thursday October Christian (October 14, 1790–1831) was the son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the mutiny on the Bounty)
• Cotton Mather, a socially and politically influential Puritan minister and author. Son of influential minister Increase Mather.
• Depressed Cupboard Cheesecake, child of a Kent, England couple¹.
• Fear-God Barebone, Jesus-Christ-Came-Into-The-World-To-Save Barebone, and If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone (who later changed his name to Nicholas Barbon), brothers and sons of late-17th-century member of Parliament Isaac Praise-God Barebone.
• Jennifer 8. Lee adopted her unusual middle name in her teens, because Chinese custom sees the number 8 as a symbol of prosperity.
• Optimus Prime, a U.S. Army Ohio National Guard firefighter.
• Frank Zappa's children Moon Unit and Dweezil.
• David Bowie originally called his first-born son Zowie. The child, legally called Zowie Duncan Haywood Jones, later changed it to Joey and now goes by Duncan. "Zowie" was meant as a play on the Greek name Zoe, meaning life.
• Sylvester Stallone has a son named Sage Moonblood.
• Paula Yates had daughters named Fifi Trixiebelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, Pixie, and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily.
• Director Kevin Smith named his daughter Harley Quinn, after the Batman character Harley Quinn
• Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin named their daughter Apple.
• Pilot Inspektor, son of actor Jason Lee.
• They, formerly Andrew Wilson, of Branson, Missouri [1] (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/archive/2004/09/23/namechange.DTL).
• Swirly Wanx Sinatra
• Grenade Bee of Death
• RooRaaah Mew Crumbs
• Adamhnan Judaydon Caoilte Lugh Keaney
• Michael Jackson called his son, legally "Prince Michael Jackson III," Blanket
• A Danish boy was named Christophpher.

Fictional people

• 7 (This was George's idea to name a child in a Seinfeld episode. Later, Erykah Badu named her son Seven.)
• 5 (Peanuts) and Rerun (Peanuts)
• Major Major Major Major, a character in Joseph Heller's book Catch 22
• Six (Blossom)
• D-503, protagonist of Yevgeny Zamyatin's pioneering dystopian novel We (1920)
• Ralph 124C 41+ (i.e. "one to foresee for one"), protagonist of Hugo Gernsback's 1911 "scientifiction" novel
• THX 1138, from the motion picture of the same name
• the entire cast of the 1967 television series The Prisoner, who were referred to only by number
• Man Friday, from Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe
• various people on Monty Python's Flying Circus, such as Raymond Luxury-Yacht (pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove") or the composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern Schplendenschlitt Crasscrenbon Freedigger Dingledangledongle Burstein von Knackerthrasher Applebanger Horowitz Ticolensic Granderknotty Spelltinkle Grandlich Grumblemeyer Spelterwasser Kurstlichhimble Eisenbahnwagen Guten Abend Bitte Ein Nürnberger Bratwürstl Gespurt Mit Zwei Macheluber Hundsfut Gumberaber Shonedanker Kalbsfleisch Mittelraucher von Hautkopft of Ulm
• Various racist urban legends tell of ignorant African-American parents giving children unusual names like "Eczema" or "Vagina". [2] (http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm)
• In Terry Pratchett's and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, a central person is called Anathema.

See also

• Unisex name
• List of personal names that contain numbers

External links

• G. Barry Klein (http://www.irmi.com/Expert/Articles/2001/Klein07.aspx)—"He named his son Hath Christ Not Died for Thee Thou Wouldst Be Damned Barebone. The son later changed his name to Nicholas Barbon."
• What's in a Name? (http://www.bmezine.com/news/pubring/20031017.html)—Profile of body modification enthusiasts who have changed their names

Notes

1. Pile, Stephen (1988). The Return of Heroic Failures. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-012172-2.