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My last name used to be "Cleaver" - years of being called "Jennifer Cleavage" at school moved me to change it at 18.
Lale: High school is a terrible time to have an embarrassing name. The name of a boy in my English class in 11th grade was actually "John Doe."
Seth: There was a kid in my school called "Ralph" poor guy is all i can say.
Not sure why Frank Furillo's middle name of "Xavier" on Hill Street Blues is supposed to fit this item. There are a lot of people whose first and middle names are "Francis Xavier" in honor of the saint by that name. (Unless "Xaxier", which is what the page actually said, was his real middle name and not just a typo on this site. "Xaxier" would be a pretty bad middle name since its pronunciation is unclear.)
rb: I put that in because there was an episode where someone says Frank's full name to his apparent embarassment. Goldblume or someone is like "Xavier?" and Frank's like, "You didn't hear that!"
Shiralee: Floke. Run with it. I think my granddad mistook a rank/title for a name as it means "Guardian of the People" in older germanic tongues. My full name translates literally to "The Brutally Efficient and Victorious Guardian of the People of the Iron Mountain." Yes, we're actually really really tall dwarves.
Taper W: My father's middle name is "B" — it was supposed to stand for something, but his mother forgot what it was. As an extra oddity, laxness in the rural hospital he was born in led to his birth certificate reading simply "Baby Boy" plus his last name — so I occasionally joke that the B must stand for either "Baby" or "Boy".
Air Of Mystery: One of my great-great cousins had the embarrassing first name of Ringrose. He was a man.
My mother's middle name is Betty...which supposedly resulted in her being called "Karen Betty Boop" quite frequently. I do have a female friend whose middle name is Clark. And about 1000 other Real Life Examples of this.
Darktalon: I had a friend try to put me off going out with a girl from her class by implying that she had an Embarrassing Middle Name (in fact, she didn't have any middle name at all) - why the former thought this had any chance of working I still don't know, but it was probably (as noted above) because this was High School.
Sikon: Isn't "Leslie" Captain Hero's first name, not middle? I was under the impression that "Captain" is just a rank, and his full name is Leslie Hero.
Andrew: As a superhero - particularly if he's the one from Drawn Together, my guess is that its even odds between him being named Captain and awarded the rank of Captain
Zero: How has the Sheriff of Nottingham not been mentioned yet? Mervin!
Patroklos once had a merely awkward and frequently-mispronounced middle name ("Colin? Colin? Ca... lin? Co... lin? Colin...?"), but then disaster struck, and its name was Twilight: suddenly Cullen was so much more than mere "awkward".
