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8at your service, sir.]]
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10->''"I've been giving thought to the idea of naming my child. It's a great responsibility, you know, choosing a right name. If I call him 'Zeus'...but that would cause problems of high expectation. Maybe I call him 'Offal'. That would cause problems of ''low'' expectation. Maybe I call him 'FIRE!' That would cause panic whenever someone calls his name; I would like this."''
11-->-- '''Tannhäuser''', ''Series/BulletInTheFace''
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13You know those UnfortunateNames -- {{Embarrassing First Name}}s, {{Embarrassing Middle Name}}s, {{Gender Blender Name}}s, {{Tomboyish Name}}s, names nobody can [[TheUnpronounceable pronounce]] or [[MyNaymeIs spell]], or that expose the bearer to ridicule by being {{punny|Name}} -- if not at home, then as soon as they venture [[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike abroad]] -- and other things that drive people to seek refuge in deed polls or LastNameBasis, or make them press the BerserkButton? Let alone names that indicate exactly what the parents hope the child will become ("No, you may not skip your piano lesson, little Music/{{Wolfgang Amadeus|Mozart}}"), or give away their family background (class, parents' embarrassing choice of celebrity idols) in ways that expose them to all sorts of trouble when they venture into the wider world.
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15Suffice to say, somebody -- usually but not invariably the parents -- had to name them that way. They may have meant well. They may have done it out of family pride, or cluelessness, or not thinking about the unwanted BilingualBonus they're saddling the kid with. They may have named the kid after their favourite fictional character, politician or something even goofier. They may think having a bully magnet name will help the tyke build character. They may just hate kids. They may be rock stars, hippies or both, with child-naming habits to match. Or they might just have been hit with the fickle finger of fate when something happened after the child's birth [[JustForFun/OneMarioLimit to make the choice much less sensible in retrospect]]. (Being named Adolf in 1928 is one thing; being named Adolf ''[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler now]]'' is another.)
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17At any rate, the effect is usually to make third parties ask the question: "Who calls their child ''that''?", or in the more light-hearted cases, "I hope he inherited his parents' sense of humor." In extreme cases, may function as a FreudianExcuse, or lead to CallingTheOldManOut, or both. May induce a sense of being CursedWithAwesome or BlessedWithSuck -- let alone a whole bunch of problems if you've been saddled with a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast name to run away from really fast]] and it's not by your own choice. Even [[NamesToTrustImmediately a name to trust immediately]] can lead to schoolyard jokes. In extreme cases, this trope may also lead ''others'' to decide that ThereShouldBeALaw, which in a number of European countries there is, at least as far as the more obvious UnfortunateNames, names leading to ViewerGenderConfusion, or the use of surnames as first names. May also slightly [[http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31960846 stack the odds]] against the child's future success.
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19This might also extend to cases where the kid, however grown-up they get, is never allowed to [[OutgrowingTheChildishName shake off]] a family nickname that would only be cute on a toddler, though probably not to embarrassing nicknames acquired in other settings, such as school. Children with names fitting this trope may also take refuge [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname in nicknames]] or [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep titles]].
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21Obviously, one person's AwesomeMcCoolname is another's {{Unfortunate Name|s}}, and things can get touchy for those of us who have been blessed with names we took a while to come to terms with, or are still working on.
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23''Please note this is not just a matter of people/characters having UnfortunateNames -- this applies '''only when there is an InUniverse reaction to the fact.''''' Compare EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep, ADogNamedDog, ALizardNamedLiz and ADogNamedCat.
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28* WhoNamesTheirKidDude/{{Literature}}
29** WhoNamesTheirKidDude/{{Discworld}}
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37* An ad for Colorbond steel roofing features a man who is obsessed over the product to the point that he named his children after colors that the roofing comes in. His daughter isn't very happy.
38-->'''Deep Ocean''': How would you feel if you were named after a roof?
39* An Australian ad for Dare Iced Coffee has a man, Mr. Murray, name his newborn son "Callum". After drinking the coffee, he has several flashforwards of his son being called "calamari" and then opts for a different name.
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43* In ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'', Rentarou meets a GyaruGirl who says her name is Aashii, but that she isn’t a foreigner or anything and doesn’t understand what possessed her parents to name her that. She prefers to go by “Ahko”, which at least sounds almost like a real Japanese name.
44* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': When Hanataro Yamada introduces himself, Ichigo and Ganju mock him and say that's a dumb name. In the Japanese version, they point out that he's basically calling himself a combination of "John Doe" and "Jane Doe", making him completely generic. In the English version, they point out his name means "flower".
45* ''Manga/DoujinWork'':
46** Owing to a misunderstanding, Justice believes Najimi has had a child and named it "Love Typhoon". He expresses surprise that the registry would let the name through.
47** Justice's name itself. He claims it's his [[OnlyOneName only name.]]
48* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
49** When King Piccolo births and names Drum, Piano replies with “Another musical instrument…”
50** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' does this when the announcer at the World Martial Arts Tournament asks Android 18 if "Number Eighteen" is her real name. In the original, she says it doesn't matter, but in the English dub, she snarks that "My father was pretty dull." Though this was debunked entirely with [[WordOfGod Toriyama's]] reveal that "Android 18" really ''is'' just a title. Her real name is Lazuli.
51** In the original ''Dragon Ball'' series, the same announcer, as well as others, initially had problems pronouncing Goku's name when trying to read it (a Japanese person would probably guess "[[AlternateCharacterReading Mago Gosora]]" first when reading his name).
52** One of Gohan's classmates points out how ridiculous it is for someone to name their kid that (it's Japanese for rice or meal) when he first transfers in.
53* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'':
54** The [[DecoyProtagonist not quite]] main character's parents figured they should give their kid [[AwesomeMcCoolName an awesome name]] should he ever grow up to become famous or important, so they named him Mikado Ryugamine. In English, they named their kid ''Emperor of Dragon's Peak''. This made him the target of endless jokes and taunting through the majority of his childhood, and nearly everyone feels the need to comment on just how pretentious his name sounds when they meet him.
55** Izaya (effectively named after the biblical prophet Isaiah) expresses similar sentiments about his name.
56--->'''Izaya:''' My parents are completely ordinary people. Except for when it comes to the taste in children's names, that is.
57* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': We know exactly who would name a kid Pantyhose Taro -- PantyThief and all-around DirtyOldMan Happousai, that's who. And to make things worse, his village's laws say that only the godfather can choose a child's name, hence Pantyhose coming to Japan to try and have him change his name to Handsome Taro (never mind that everyone else finds it ''worse'' -- if he's happy and will take Happousai away, then they aren't going to be pointing that out).
58* An interesting variant of this is the basis of one of the main gags in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. Intensely depressed protagonist Nozomu's family name of Itoshiki is made up of two kanji that, when written too closely together and combined with the kanji for his first name, look an awful lot like the word "despair". The other members of his family are all shown to have similarly easily-mistaken names as well, such as his Doctor brother whose name can be written as "Death". Better yet, it's heavily implied that the family patriarch does this with the sole reason that it [[ItAmusedMe amuses]] him!
59* Lucy of ''Manga/ServantXService'''s full name is *deep breath* [[OverlyLongName Lucy Kimiko Akie Airi Shiori Rinne Yoshiho Chihoko Ayano Fumika Chitose Sanae Mikiko Ichika Yukino Reina Eri Ai Tamiko Chikage Emilia Julia Shizue Erina Chisa Yumeka Natsuki Ranran Rieko Setsuri Chikako Azumi Marina Hideko Chiaki Misaki Naomi Campbell Miku Yuka Masako Sachiko Nana Mutsumi Haruka Yuna Shimako Yukie Rin Sakura Kanna Wakana Hazuki Hanami Ruri Mihane Momoka Himari Nozomi Futaba Mayuyu Ayano]]. This is because her parents [[LastMinuteBabyNaming waited until the last minute on deciding her name]] and couldn't decide between their friends' suggestions, so they went with "all of the above." Lucy initially joins the civil service office with the intent of finding out which sloppy bureaucrat approved this, to make him or her pay.
60* In ''Manga/ShadowStar'', there is Shiina, whose name means "a husk" or "a seed that will never flower". For this reason, Shiina always writes her name in katakana, which, unlike the original Chinese characters, don't carry explicit meaning. The name is questioned by other characters throughout the series. It is later revealed that her mother gave her that name because she didn't want Shiina to grow up and leave her as her other daughter did.
61* In ''Literature/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'', the thirteenth child of the Ran clan is named Jyuusanhime, which just means "thirteenth princess." She's shown complaining about it in a flashback to her childhood friend Shiba Jin, who responds by giving her the AffectionateNickname Hotaru ("firefly").
62* Discussed in ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', Vassago "[=PoH=]" Cassals' mother loathed him and considered him a demon, but a name like "Satan" would have been rejected at the birth certificate phase. Instead, she used a name with a subtler demonic reference to name him after a prince of hell.
63* A throwaway joke in ''Manga/TenshiNankaJanai'' has Midori imagining that she has three children. The ones she goes for are Princess, Buddy, and Eggplant.
64* ''Manga/TenshichanToAkumakun'' is a manga about this. The main characters Tenshi, a CuteBruiser who hates her name so much she punches anyone who says it, and Akuma, a boy who wants to be normal despite his name, meet and become friends due to their embarrassing names.
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68* In ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch'', in regards to Toph's student, The Dark One, both Sokka and Toph can't believe anyone would name their kid his real name: [[spoiler: [[OverlyLongName Moo-Chee-Goo-Chee-La-Poo-Chee the Third]].]]. The answer to this is obvious since he's "The Third": his grandfather obviously decided that his suffering needed to be passed on to later generations.
69* When [[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} Franklin "Foggy" Nelson]] and [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Eugene "Flash" Thompson]]'s respective girlfriends introduced them at a restaurant, both of them thought of this trope (but didn't say anything), unaware that the other goes by a nickname rather than their real first name:
70--> '''Foggy Nelson''' ''Thinking'': What kind of name is "Flash?"\
71'''Flash Thompson''' ''Thinking'': Who names his son "Foggy?"
72* In ''ComicBook/TheDesertPeach'', the real name of Rosen Kavalier (the lover of the main character) is 'Melvin Gonville Ramsbottom'. His mother was a German prostitute, his father was an English customer. This leads to the following conversation when the big secret is revealed (slightly paraphrased)...
73-->'''Udo''': 'Melvin'?\
74'''Rosen''': It was my father's name! Got a problem with that?\
75'''Udo''': No no no... But... 'Gonville'\
76'''Rosen''' ''[rolling his eyes]'': He was a British hero. He killed Zulus. He was deaf.[[note]] A reference to Gonville Bromhead, one of the officers who led the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879. Bromhead was more famously played by Creator/MichaelCaine in the 1964 film ''Film/{{Zulu}}''.[[/note]]
77-->'''Udo''': 'Ramsbottom'. Does that mean what I think it...?\
78'''Rosen''': IT'S A PLACE NAME! THE BRITISH HAVE WEIRD PLACE NAMES!
79* ''ComicBook/ExMachina'': The sisters Journal and January have their names commented on fairly frequently.
80* One of the reasons ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' villain Captain Cold hates his parents is because they gave him the name Leonard Snart.
81* In ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'', Pizzazz makes fun of the fact that Clash's cousin's name is "Video". Like the others, though, "Video" is a {{Stage Name|s}} for a more normal name (Vivian); however, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname no one uses her real name]].
82* In ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', Johnny Kizinski names his youngest son [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Frodo]] after convincing his wife that it was the name of a relative of his from 'the old country' who died fighting the Russians. His wife is not happy when she learns the truth.
83* One of the protagonists of ''ComicBook/MisspentYouths'' is named "Coyote Jones."
84-->'''Coyote Jones:''' I had weird parents.
85* Played with in ''ComicBook/SerenityLeavesOnTheWind'' when Zoe says she's calling the baby "Hoban" after her husband, the baby's dad, other crew members react this way. She quickly reveals she's joking.
86* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]]' black father was called UsefulNotes/JeffersonDavis, like the Confederate president who owned slaves. In ''ComicBook/MilesMoralesSpiderMan2018'' #22 by Creator/SaladinAhmed, [[TookTheWifesName he changes his name to Jeff Morales]], wondering why his parents called him Jefferson Davis in the first place and pointing out how tainted it is.
87* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The Clark Kents of Earth-Prime and ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretIdentity'' were both named by parents with a weird sense of humour on ''worlds [[CelebrityParadox where Superman comics existed]]''. The Clark Kent of ''Secret Identity'' is shown to be pretty tired of all the jokes. It actually works to his advantage a couple of times: he meets one Lois Chaudhari when friends set them up as a prank and they hit it off and ultimately get married, and the secret government agency searching for a strange flying man dismisses published author Clark Kent because it would just be too ridiculous.
88* ''ComicBook/TheWildstorm'':
89** Kenesha rags on Cole Cash for being called Cole Cash.
90-->''Your father named you "Cole Cash". We're all trying to meet that bar for sheer wit.''
91** One of Project: Thunderbook's subjects settled down and had kids, one of them winds up named Percival Chang (mommy had a thing for King Arthur lore, see). John Lynch finds this more horrific than the man trying to crush his brain.
92-->''"Percival Chang". What the hell's wrong with you?''
93* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'': When ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} (Tim Drake) finally gets Batman's permission to show his teammates his face, but not his real name, he tells them to call him "Alvin Draper," a pseudonym he often uses. Superboy immediately calls him out on this.
94-->'''Superboy:''' Oh, like any kid with that name would ''go'' by [[EmbarrassingFirstName that]]. You'd say "Al" or "Vinnie." "Alvin" is a name for a ''[[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks chipmunk]].'' Or a ''dork.'' Besides, you look more like a ''Mark.'' Or a ''Tommy...''
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96:: Funnily enough, Bart has this reaction when he [[RightForTheWrongReasons correctly guesses]] that his name is "Timmy Drake."
97* ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'': Subverted in ''ComicBook/ZatannaEverydayMagic''. Zatanna wonders how she was unable to undo a spell after she forced the EvilSorceress Nimue to swear it off with her real name, then she realizes it's because she ''didn't'' use [[WithholdingTheirName her real name]] as nobody is born with a name like "Nimue Ravensong". Zatanna then manages to undo the spell by using the sorceress' birth name: the much plainer "Mary-Ann".
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101* Played with and discussed in Chapter 56 of ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant''. When Luna first hears the name of [[spoiler:Ozpin's past life]], Bloodedge, she laughs and has this reaction, saying that it sounds like he was CompensatingForSomething. Sena, however, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast reacts with fear]], stating that it sounds like someone got that name from killing so many that their blade was covered in blood. When Ragna first hears it, even he questions it, finding the name weird.
102-->'''Luna''' ''(thoughts)'' Bloodedge? That's your friend's name? Really? Sounds like someone trying to compensate for something.\
103'''Ragna:''' Though I'm definitely asking what kind of name is Bloodedge.
104* In ''Fanfic/DiariesOfAMadman'', Navarone is actually named [[spoiler:Anonymous]]. His [[TimeyWimeyBall older (past) self]] eventually starts using it in public -- [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore albeit with some embarrassment]] -- but for Nav, even ''mentioning'' that name is a big honking BerserkButton.
105* In ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'', [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Klavier and Apollo]] have this opinion of their names: Klavier jokes that he's glad that his parents named him in the living room and that they had a piano or he might have been Kaffeemaschine Gavin. Apollo feels that his name is really pretentious and with his name he should at least be taller and better-looking. When they learn each other's name, they both tell the jokes on their names [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore to get over with]].
106* Among others in the Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal, there is a little girl called Emma Roydes. She is selected for training as a scholarship pupil at the Guild of Assassins after displaying a noteworthy streak of fighting aggression. Only her very best friend is allowed to call her "Piles" and, as an adult, she opts to emigrate to another country where Morporkian is not the first language. It doesn't work. She is still "Piles."
107* ''Fanfic/TheDragonAndTheButterfly'': To the people of the Encanto, Berk names are this trope. Hiccup's name gets made fun of at least three times when he's still new to the Encanto, and the names of other Vikings (Gobber, Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, etc) are also made fun of. The fact that Astrid's name is something semi-normal surprises Mirabel.
108* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', because the Smurfs in that series reproduce physically, it's the parents that give their children [[SarcasmMode such wonderful names]] based on a profession or a personality, though there are some exceptions like Duncan [=McSmurf=].
109* ''Fanfic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': In the sequel ''The Mare From the Moon'', while listening to the story of Ponyville's founding (which involved the Apple family and the Rich family), Spliced Genome wonders to herself "Who in their right mind would give their foal the first name ''Stinking''?"
110* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13591746/1/Fate-Grand-Order-Kar-en-Tuk Fate Grand Order: Kar en Tuk]]'': When Nitocris introduces herself, Mordred thinks she is joking and says, "Who the hell has a name like that?"
111* ''Fanfic/FreshBlood'':
112** Roxy mocks Stormer's name Mary as "too soft". She also says that Pizzazz's name "Phyllis" is even worse sounding.
113** Jetta's bandmate Allie calls her name, Sheila, "wimpish", prompting Jetta to reveal her stage name.
114* ''[[Fanfic/FullCircleOddSquad Full Circle]]'': Olive and Otto praise two agents who stopped a villain named "Ping-Pong Paster", according to Otto. Olive corrects him by telling him that's not his name, and his actual name is "Fred Who Really Hates Ping-Pong". Otto's quick to ask what kind of villain name that is, only for his partner to tell him that the villain is a new addition to Odd Squad's RoguesGallery and should be cut some slack.
115* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/52283623/chapters/132258913 Glad Tidings]]'': Ulder Ravenguard forgot the name of his son's cleric friend, and is too proud to ask. In the ending where he discovers that her name is Shadowheart, his lemony monologue rants that 'Shadowheart' is the kind of name you give to a magical cat, not a person. Funnily enough, in another route, he thinks her name is Tara, which ''is'' the name of Gale's magical cat.
116* ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'': One of the original characters introduced in the Windy City arc is a zonkey (his father was a zebra; his mother was a donkey) who goes by "Zonk". When he and the rest of his friends have been arrested, a watchzebra filling out his paperwork asks for his name, and when told "Zonk", asks for "Real name, kid." Zonk recites his real name in Zebrabwayan, which translates as "Copyright 988, All Rights Reserved". The watchzebra is not amused, thinking he's making it up, but is more understanding after Zonk gives him a short version of how it happened (the long version, given earlier, is that his mother read a book of zebra baby names, but mistook a phrase on the copyright page for one of the actual names, thinking it sounded exotic and writing it on the birth certificate before her husband could stop her).
117* This comes up in ''Fanfic/InvisibleSun'' when Dexter asks his parents if he can go out of state to Townsville again. Dexter doesn't know Professor Utonium's name, but his parents think that "Professor" is his first name. They think it's an odd name, which causes Dexter and [=DeeDee=] to glance at one another because ''their'' names are unusual:
118-->"Have we met him, honey?" asked his mother, passing him a plate of chicken.\
119"N-no," he admitted, taking the smallest piece of chicken he could see. Nothing about the meal appealed to him. It wasn't that he was finicky, it was just that his mother had a knack for dehydrating chicken. "I met him while you were in Portland. The family name is Utonium."\
120"Oh?" asked his mother, intent on pouring herself some juice. "What's his first name?"\
121Dexter blinked, realizing he had no idea. Blithely he handed his mother the rolls to distract her as he said, "Professor."\
122"That's an odd name," commented his father. Mom hummed in agreement.\
123Dexter met [=DeeDee's=] eyes across the table and they shared a moment of understanding. Their parents were a pair to talk about odd names, considering their choices for their children.''
124* In ''Fanfic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan'', even [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyubey]] thinks that Ino Atom Nix has a bizarre name.
125* From ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'', ''Meaningful Name'', Ragyou seems to have this sentiment towards her name, but states "better to have had a name than to have had none at all." Considering how her mother was, this isn't unforeseen as to why she would think that and, to elaborate as to what her name means, it means "nothing to hide", "nude doll", or a kind of gauzy cloth or dawn (if you break the kanji down and read them separately). In the same story where her name was discussed, Ryuuko was upset at one of the alternate meanings of her name, until Ragyou explained that she was named "Ryuuko" after the meteor shower on the night she was born and, likewise, Nui lampshades this by pointing out that her name didn't sound like much of one; the reason why is because she was named by her then-two-year-old older sister.
126* In Book Three of ''Fanfic/TheLastSon'', when hearing the name of Erik ''Killmonger'', The Flash asks what kind of mother would name their kid that way. Storm has to explain that it's obviously not his birth name.
127* ''Fanfic/LimitlessPotential'': When she meets Vile, Roll is left wondering how a reploid who was supposed to be a peacekeeper was given a name like that.
128* In ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'', after Leviathan meets the police officer Coffee-and-Cream, she asks her if it's her real name. The officer reveals that her ''full'' name is [[Music/BeastieBoys I-Like-My-Sugar-With-Coffee-and-Cream]], states only that her parents were out of it when she was born, and "the less said about that, the better".
129* This comes up in ''Fanfic/MySisterLeni'' when a woman questions Leni's rare ([[GenderBlenderName for a girl]]) name and unusual spelling:
130-->''"Who on Earth would name their baby girl Leni?" Eileen thought to herself, "It's not even a nickname! Why couldn't it be something easier to spell, like Helen?"''
131* This happens a couple of times in Creator/{{Nirejseki}}'s works. In "Baobei", Nie Mingjue and Nie Huaisang simply call Mingjue's daughter "Baobei" (Chinese for "baby") so long that her given name ends up becoming Nie Bao. Everyone else is mildly exasperated by this behavior.
132** In ''Children of the Forge'', Jin Guangyao has a similar exasperated reaction when he thinks that Mingjue named his daughter after Baxia in “Children of the Forge”…not realizing that it’s ''actually'' Baxia, having taken on a human form while in the womb.
133* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':
134** Trixie, her siblings Mixie, Pixie, Nyxie, Lexy, Puck, and Robin, her mother Morgan, and her father Gorlois. Most ponies use proper nouns for names, so Twilight Sparkle gets confused by their names because they don't really mean anything. At one point, Pinkie Diane Pie asks her, "What's a Trixie? And what's a Morgan?" Trixie retorts, "What's a Diane?"
135** In Shining Armor's arc, they mention that ponies born and raised in places other than Equestria get names like Sarah, Max, Saria, etc. Shining Armor thinks it's weird.
136* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'' is a world that fears the sun. As a result of Corona's treachery, the sun and everything to do with it is taboo, to the point where ponies hide indoors at noon and gold is worthless since nopony wants Corona's metal. Given that, one has to wonder what the ''buck'' would drive a mother to name her filly Solar Flare.
137* ''Fanfic/RealmOfEntwinedScienceAndSorceryAcademyCity'': Index introduces herself with her full name, Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Ritsuka, Mash, and Dr. Roman ask what kind of name is that.
138* ''Fanfic/RemnantInferisDOOM'': The Doom Slayer's real name is "William Joseph 'B.J.' Blazkowicz III". Several characters ask what kind of stupid name is that. The Slayer usually replies, "''My'' name!"
139* Some ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' fics poke fun at the BigBad's name.
140** In [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/883286/chapters/1835480 this one]], Jack says, "Pitch Black. Now I don't much care about the Black part, that's common enough, but who names their kid Pitch?"
141** In [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/932056/chapters/1813708 this one]], Jack internally comments that 'Pitch' can be easily misheard as 'bitch'. Though in this fic, it's an alias.
142* ''Fanfic/ServantsOfRemnant'': Servants from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' wind up in the world of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. Whenever the Servants introduce themselves with their real names, someone says their names are weird.
143* ''Fanfic/SevenDaysInSunnyJune'': Comes up in a conversation between Sunset Shimmer and the rock star Screwball (her real name is Summer Violet).
144--> Screwball: "Hell, you can even call me by my real name if you want".\
145Sunset: “I thought your name ''was'' Screwball.”\
146Screwball: “Who names their kid Screwball? It’s actually a stage name, just like Screw Loose uses -– only Discord and Freebase use their real names."
147* ''Fanfic/ShipsAhoy'': Oprah's assistant is a four-year-old girl named Yucks Shmumbers, which is quite an ironic name for being someone who wants to edge their way into the juice industry. After Yucks is thanked for stopping Olga and praised for her bravery, she decides to name her new juice-in-a-box product "Yucks' Boxes". Oprah has to hide a painful wince as she mentally tells herself that no customer is going to want to buy the product with her first name on it and reminds herself that she should tell her business partner to use her last name instead.
148* Upon meeting in ''Fanfic/SpeedAndPurpose'', Porker Lewis asks Sonic whether that's really his name. Sonic replies by asking Porker Lewis whether "[[ADogNamedDog Porker]]" is really ''his'' name. In actuality, both are [[MeaningfulRename chosen names]].
149* ''[[Fanfic/AdoptedDisplaced The Technological Technicolor Technomare]]'': Late in the story, Tony and Pepper's son is named Howard Awesome Stark. It's noted that Pepper would never live down agreeing to let Rainbow Dash choose her baby brother's middle name.
150* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': The Hooligan Tribe's tradition of absurdist names gained enough attention for there to be an academic journal discussing it centuries in the future from when the story ended.
151* In ''Fanfic/{{Turtles}}'', Koume finds it quite odd that the [[Anime/GirlsUndPanzer Oarai Academy]] student council's parents named them Anzu, Momo and Yuzu- names meaning apricot, peach and citrus, respectively. This is in spite of the fact that Koume's own name means "little plum" in Japanese. Plus those names (and the practice of incorporating fruit related kanjis in female names) are on the more common side of feminine first names in Japan.
152* In ''Fanfic/AnUncommonWitness'', many people comment on Duck's unusual name. She says it was the idea of her eccentric grandfather and her mom went along to humor him. As she's very clumsy, many consider it a perfect name for her. [[spoiler:The truth being, they called her "Duck" in honor of a duck's determination and perseverance in order to overcome life difficulties.]]
153* In ''Fanfic/WarriorsKingdomsTheProphecyBegins'', Ross calls Graie's parents uninspired because his name translates to just "Gray".
154* When Rainbow Dash learns Gabriel’s name in ''Fanfic/WhatAStrangeLittleColt'', she finds it rather strange.
155-->The name felt so strange coming out of her mouth. What did it mean? ''What kinda mean-spirited parent would give their kid a name like that? It's practically asking to be bullied.''
156* "[[https://youtu.be/UqXL31wKiOo What Kind of Name is Hermione?]]," a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' FilkSong.
157-->''"What kind of parents name their kid'' Hermione, ''anyway?"''\
158''"Um, {{Muggles}}."''\
159''"[[FantasticRacism Ew!]]"''
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162[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
163* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBreadwinner,'' SweetPollyOliver Parvana uses "Aatish" as her male pseudonym. She likes its meaning, "fire," but it's not an actual name, so it gets a few comments.
164* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon:
165** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}},'' [[PrinceCharming Eric]] tries to guess [[PluckyGirl Ariel]]'s name since she's now TheSpeechless and can't just tell him. His first guess is "Mildred." When she makes a face, he just laughs and says "Okay, no!"
166** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', young Terk is not impressed when Tarzan's adoptive mother decides to name him that. Then she shrugs and says, "...okay, it's ''your'' baby."
167* In ''WesternAnimation/HoodwinkedTooHoodVersusEvil'', at one point, Wolf asks who names their kids "Hansel" and "Gretel". (They're diminutives of "Hans", which is equivalent to John, and "Greta", both normal names. The answer is simply, "Germans".)
168* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Hiccup points out how ridiculous his name is, but explains the reasons for awful names (scaring off gnomes and trolls) and says that there are other people with worse ones.
169* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'':
170--> '''Kent Mansley:''' Hogarth? What an embarrassing name. Might as well call him Zeppo or something. What kind of sick person would name a kid [[EurekaMoment Hoga-]]...
171* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'' has this exchange.
172--> '''Dick Grayson:''' My name is Richard Grayson, but the other orphans call me Dick.
173--> '''Bruce Wayne:''' Well, kids can be cruel.
174* In the 2012 adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'', the Once-ler's name actually is Once-ler, despite having two brothers named Brett and Chet. This is in contrast to the original, where Once-ler is hinted to be more of a title/nickname/species than anything; in the film, this just shows how he is TheUnfavourite.
175* Nutsy from ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'':
176-->'''Sheriff:''' Criminitly, now I know why yer momma calls ya "Nutsy".
177* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'', Dynomutt asks this about Velma after she hotwires a radio and accidentally taps into Dynomutt's memory circuits.
178* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': Junior, in a moment of sympathy to Tulip, lets her name the baby. He immediately regrets allowing her to name the baby Diamond Destiny.
179-->'''Junior''': Ok, I've changed my mind you can't name her.\
180'''Tulip''': Too late! Her name is Diamond Destiny!
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183[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
184* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Marty introduces himself to Buford Tannen as "[[ImMrFuturePopCultureReference Eastwood]], Creator/ClintEastwood.", to which Buford says, "[[ItWillNeverCatchOn What kinda stupid name is that]]?".
185* Inverted in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', where the main character insists that everyone call him "the Dude" instead of his legal name (Jeff Lebowski). The movie's LemonyNarrator finds this unusual.
186-->"The Dude". Now that's the kind of name nobody will self-apply where I come from.
187* Kat has this reaction in ''Film/{{Casper}}'' upon finding Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie’s bedroom (their names were on their beds).
188-->'''Kat:''' Man, they had cruel parents. [[DeadpanSnarker Wonder where]] [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Doc and Dopey]] [[DeadpanSnarker sleep.]]
189* In the documentary ''Film/{{Comedian}}'', a number of people react when aspiring comic Orny Adams gives his name, some not even believing that it's real.
190* ''Film/CreedII'': When Adonis tells Rocky that he and Bianca decided to name their daughter Amara, Rocky thinks that name is strange and asks why they didn't pick a normal name like Kate. Adonis goes, "You know she'll be black, right?"
191* In ''Film/DonCamillo'', Peppone, the Communist mayor of an Italian town right after World War II, tries to have his son baptized "Libero Antonio Lenin" for political reasons - aside for the obvious one, Libero (mean. ''Free'') is the quintessential ''Anarchist'' name, and "Antonio" is after Antonio Gramsci, founder of the Italian Communist Party. Don Camillo, the town priest, obviously refuses, and they even have a fistfight about it. In the end they find a compromise in that the kid is named Libero Antonio ''Camillo'' Lenin.
192** Interestingly, the name is flat-out ''illegal'' according to the laws at the time: foreign names were forbidden (this would be changed in 1966), and there's a legal limit of three names. Possibly explaining why Peppone named his son Libero Antonio Camillo Lenin, this way the "Lenin" wouldn't end on the birth certificate.
193* In ''Film/GetOnTheBus'', Flip refuses to believe one of his fellow passengers is really named "X" -- not that he doubts people give their kids dumb names (he claims to know a guy named Porcupine), but one damn letter? Get real. He's right; X is short for Xavier. This conversation gets X to wondering what kind of mom names her son "Flip", but that's not ''his'' real name either; his first name is Phillip, but he's an actor and "Flip" is his stage name.
194* ''Film/GoTellTheSpartans'': Private Abraham Lincoln, whose drug addiction is speculated to come from frustration over his name.
195* Discussed in ''Film/HatchetII'' by unfortunately named men Chad and Cletus.
196* Reversed in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', where Indy's father reacts with incredulity to the nickname: "We named the dog 'Indiana'..." It's actually Henry Jones Junior, after his father... which explains why he doesn't want to use it.
197* ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'': Ellie Andrews' fiance is a pilot named King Westley. His first name is in fact "King" as it's used in their wedding vows. Unfortunately, he's a DisposableFiance, and in keeping with that trope [[FlatCharacter we never learn that much about him]] to keep us from sympathizing too much with him when Ellie [[spoiler: [[RunAwayBride dumps him at the altar in front of everyone]]]]. So why his mother chose to name him "King" is never revealed.
198* ''Film/JamesBond'':
199** In ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'':
200--->'''Plenty:''' Hi, I'm Plenty!\
201'''Bond:''' But of course you are.\
202'''Plenty:''' Plenty O'Toole.\
203'''Bond:''' Named after your father perhaps?
204** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', Dr. Christmas Jones warns Bond immediately upon introducing herself not to make any jokes because she's heard them all already. Bond demurs that he doesn't know any doctor jokes (which doesn't stop him from going for the low-hanging fruit anyway at the end of the film).
205** In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', upon learning that his [[GirlOfTheWeek new coworker's]] name is [[PunnyName Vesper Lynd]], which sounds like "West Berlin."
206--->'''Bond:''' I do hope you gave your parents hell for that.
207* Subverted in ''Kid West'. When Faye asks the eponymous heroine how her parents could give her a name that wouldn't fit when she grows up, she reveals that "Kid" is just a nickname. Her actual name, is Harper.
208* In ''Film/TheLostBoys'', Michael has this reaction when introduced to a girl named Star.
209-->'''Michael:''' Oh, your folks too, huh?\
210'''Star:''' What do you mean?\
211'''Michael:''' Ex-hippies. I came this close to being called Moon Beam or Moon Child or something.
212* In ''Film/MeetTheParents'', "Greg" is short for "Gaylord," which would have been [[EmbarrassingFirstName quite bad enough]] even if his last name weren't Focker. The question of what kind of parents would saddle a kid with that name comes up at the end of the movie when his brother-in-law asks if his name really is "Gay Focker", and is answered in the sequel -- they're hippies. They even call him "Gay" for short. He has cousins called Randy and Horny.
213* In the Steve Martin film ''Film/{{Parenthood}}'', his younger brother has an illegitimate son named Cool. No one quite knows what to make of this fact when he brings the kid home.
214* In the flashback in ''Film/SawV'' preceding John's abduction of him, Hoffman gets randomly attacked by a dog to his surprise, but when he hears the dog's owner referring to it as "Peewee," he quickly switches to giving a short, displeased remark about it.
215-->''"Peewee. Shit."''
216* In ''Film/ShotgunStories'', the first three sons of an abusive alcoholic are named Son, Boy, and Kid. After he sobered up and found religion, he had several more sons with normal names.
217* ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' had a British main character named Turkish. It is explained in the opening narration.
218-->'''Turkish:''' My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My parents to be were on the same plane when it crashed. That's how they met. They named me after the name of the plane. Not many people are named after a plane crash.
219* ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': When Dr. Octopus reveals his name is Otto Octavius, Peter, MJ, and Ned burst into laughter and demand his ''real'' name. Otto is quite offended, since that ''was'' his real name. And TheStinger has [[spoiler: [[Film/Venom2018 Eddie Brock]] catching up on everything that happened within the MCU. The mention of Thanos' name receives some mocking from Venom, since Eddie previously thought Venom's "Lethal Protector" alias was stupid]].
220* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' when George Kirk, who is about to [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram his ship into Nero's]] and [[HeroicSacrifice die heroically]], and his wife, who just birthed their son, are trying to decide what to call him. She suggests naming him after George's father, but George says it's the worst name and suggests naming him after ''her'' father, Jim. James Kirk ends up with Tiberius as his middle name.
221* In ''Film/ThreeTheHardWay'': Mister Keys is stopped by a police officer who demands to see his driver's license, leading to this exchange:
222-->'''Cop:''' Mister Keys? Now what kind of first name is that? Mister?\
223'''Mister Keys:''' My mama wanted people to show me respect.
224* ''Film/TopGun'':
225-->'''Blackwood:''' I'm Charlotte Blackwood.\
226'''Maverick:''' I'm Maverick.\
227'''Blackwood:''' Did your mother not like you?\
228'''Maverick:''' No, it's my call sign.
229* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': When Stacy finally realizes how old Goody is, she smiles and asks her if she really thought people still named their daughters Goody.
230* ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'': This is the janitor's opinion of the unseen student he spins his tale of horror to:
231-->"What kind of stupid name is Guggenheim?!"
232* Discussed in ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' regarding the gang leader Ushitora. Apparently, he was born during Lunar New Year as the Year of the Cow (Ushi) became the Year of the Tiger (Tora) and his parents thought it would be a good idea to just name him after both. It's implied that this is a part of why he has a HairTriggerTemper.
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235[[folder:Jokes]]
236* This joke:
237-->'''Boy:''' My mother's name is Laughing and my father's name is Smiling.\
238'''Teacher:''' You must be kidding.\
239'''Boy:''' No, that's my sister's name. I'm Joking.
240* This joke:
241-->'''Lifehack:''' Give the second kid a normal name.\
242'''Parent:''' Are you still mad at me, Lifehack?
243* One day, a burglar breaks into a house. As he's looting everything in sight, he hears a voice say ''"Jesus is watching you."'' When the burglar looks to the source of the voice, he finds a parrot. "Did you say that?" The burglar asks. ''"Yep."'' The parrot answers ''"I'm just trying to warn you."'' The burglar relaxed "Warn me, huh? Who in the world are you?" ''"Moses."'' The parrot answers again. "Moses?" The burglar laughed "What kind of weirdo would name a bird Moses?" ''"The kind of weirdo that would name a rottweiler, Jesus."'' The parrot squawked out loud.
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246[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
247* In ''Series/The10thKingdom'', Tony has to guess the name of the blind woodsman before he chops Wolf's head off. When the name turns out to be "Juliet", Tony says "No wonder he grew up to be a sadist."
248* ''Series/ThirtyRock'':
249** Cerie thinks up some baby names after she gets engaged:
250--->'''Cerie''': If it's a girl, "Bookcase"... or "Sandstorm"... or maybe "Hat", but that's more of a boy's name.\
251'''Liz''': Yeah, I was gonna say.
252** There is one Kenneth Ellen Parcell.
253* Ronmarc and Zalga in ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' episode "[[Recap/TheAquabatsSuperShowS1E11NightOfTheCactus Night of the Cactus!]]":
254-->'''MC Bat Commander''': "Their names are Ronmarc and Zalga? Where are they from? ''Mars?''"
255-->'''Crash''': "Who names their kid ''[[AccidentalMisnaming Denmark]]'' anyway??"
256* ''Series/BlackMirror'':
257** ''Recap/BlackMirrorSanJunipero'': "I'm Yorkie." "What, like the dog?"
258** ''Recap/BlackMirrorHatedInTheNation'': "Blue? As in, B-L-U-E?" "My dad liked the sound of it."
259* Six from ''Series/{{Blossom}}''. According to her, that's how many beers her father said it took.
260* ''Series/{{Bones}}'':
261** Angela's birth name was "Pookie Noodlin", but she changed it as soon as she turned 18. She kept the middle name "Pearly Gates", however. Her father is Billy Gibbons of Music/ZZTop, so this makes sense. He also very nearly managed to name her son "Staccato Mamba", to top it off.
262** Seeley Booth largely prefers to go by LastNameBasis even with his wife and hates it when Cam calls him Seeley, usually in retaliation for him calling her Camille.
263* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'':
264** Cory Matthews actually asks this question when a substitute teacher reads to the class from ''Beowulf'': "Who names their baby ''Hrothgar''?!"
265** One of the main cast, who started out a hippie-ish {{Cloudcuckoolander}} before she developed into something more normal: Topanga Stop-the-war Lawrence.
266--->'''Topanga:''' My middle name is totally weird.\
267'''Shawn:''' Your first name is "Topanga"!
268** Cory himself is in fact named "Cornelius", as revealed by Mr. Feeny.
269--->'''Cory:''' '''''[=SSSSSSSsssssh=]!''''' Not even Topanga knows that!
270** And then [[Series/GirlMeetsWorld there's Farkle]].
271** August is friends with a boy named Dewey. Normal enough, but he insists it's pronounced "Doy". This could be because he's a pretty weird kid, but his parents might actually have named him with a word that's synonymous with "duh".
272* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
273** Contrary to some fan opinion, it is not a diminutive form of "Elizabeth." That's her name. This is [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] when [[HypocriticalHumor Spike]] asks who calls their kid Buffy (in response to Buffy insulting his name, to be fair...and "Spike" is not his real name). Buffy then gets rather offended at this insult to her mother, so she's probably not bothered by the name.
274** Something of a RunningGag through the series.
275--->'''Guardian:''' I'm sorry. What's your name?\
276'''Buffy:''' Buffy.\
277'''Guardian:''' No, really.\
278'''Buffy:''' ''(shrugs)''
279** Also her middle name is Anne. Although that wouldn't be unfortunate by itself, her surname is Summers, so it becomes the name of a lingerie retailer.
280** In one episode, a spell gives everyone IdentityAmnesia. While trying to figure out who they are, they conclude that [[TheMentor Giles]] and [[BreakoutVillain Spike]] are a father and son, since they're both British. Spike laughs when Giles' ID reveals his first name to be "Rupert," but is horrified when he examines the (actually stolen) jacket he's wearing and finds out that it belongs to "[[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch Randy]]."
281--->'''Spike:''' Why not just call me "Horny Giles" or "Desperate-For-A-Shag Giles?!" I knew there was a reason I hated you!\
282'''Giles:''' Randy's a--family name, undoubtedly.
283* ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': In "[[Recap/CastleS5E22Still Still]]", Castle needed a five-letter code word to shut off the mine Beckett stepped on to save her. They discovered that the escaped prisoner who had set the explosive was trying to find his ex-girlfriend, who had given birth to a son, and figured that the son's name was the code word. The son's name turned out to be "William", leaving "Billy" or "Willy" as possible code-words. Esposito commented at that point, "No mother's gonna name their kid Willy unless she wants them beat up at the playground!" [[spoiler: The correct passcode was Billy.]]
284* In one episode of ''Series/Charmed1998'', Leo tells the sisters that they have to defeat Tuatha, a good-witch-gone-bad. Phoebe comments "With a name like that, what choice did she have?"
285* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': One episode has Woody embarrassed about his middle name of Tiberius. Even his ditzy girlfriend Kelly is momentarily appalled by it. Then it turns out Woody holds the same opinion about her middle name. Much later on, it turns out Woody's apparent first name of Woodrow isn't his actual name. It's ''Huckleberry''.
286-->'''Kelly:''' "Tiberius"?\
287'''Woody:''' ''Susan!''
288* ''Series/{{Community}}''. Britta. It is a perfectly normal Swedish name, but Britta has Swedish ancestry, not Swedish ''parents''.
289-->'''Annie:''' Of course you think that, Britta. It's obvious from your name that your parents smoked pot.
290* In ''Series/DesigningWomen'' Mary Jo has--or had--an Uncle Dude in the "Big Haas & Little Falsie" episode (Season 3, Episode 5). He died & left her a nice hefty inheritance. She considers a breast augmentation & wears a prosthetic bra for a "preview" before her plastic surgery, which she reconsiders by that time.
291* A girl on ''Series/ADifferentWorld'' was teased about being named Cougar, until she revealed that it was the car her father would have been able to buy if she hadn't been born.
292* On ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' all dinosaurs are named by the Chief Elder, who has a lot of babies to go through so whatever he says after "I name this child..." gets written down as the child's name. This has resulted in children named "<Atchoo>," "<Burp> Excuse Me," and "Aaugh Aaugh I'm Dying You Idiot." Although once a new Chief Elder is elected the parents of the last of those go to get a new name, which is now Baby.
293* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', scientist Osgood is obviously on a LastNameBasis, but why? We eventually find out--her first name is Petronella.
294** Mostly averted in the classic series with Peri, who goes by the short version but has no problem telling people her ridiculous name when the situation calls for it (the producer found it in a book and thought it [[WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames sounded American]]).
295--->'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E5PlanetOfFire Peri]]:''' I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout just as loud as you can!
296* The Dong family from ''Series/ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo'' have some odd names.
297** Geu-ra-mi's full name is Dong Geu-ra-mi, which means "Circle" in Korean.
298** The late Dong family patriarch named his sons Dong-il, Dong-yi, and Dong-sam. In Korean, il, yi, and sam mean one, two, and three. Since the three share a generation name, it means their father simply named them First, Second, and Third.
299* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': Waldo Faldo has a sister named Quesadilla, so named after her mother went into labor (and eventually gave birth to the baby) at a Taco Bell restaurant. When asked about the unusual name, Waldo notes that one of the names considered for his baby sister was Burrito Grande!!!
300* In ''{{Series/Firefly}}'', it doesn't quite make it to the screen, but Wash essentially asks this about himself in the novelization for TheMovie, wondering who would call themselves "Hoban".
301* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
302** When Ross learns Chandler's middle name:
303--->'''Ross:''' ''Chandler Muriel Bing.'' Boy, your parents never even gave you a chance, did they?
304** Ross and Rachel have an ongoing debate about what to name their daughter. "Rain" was one of the options, to Ross' consternation ("And my skirt is made of wheat."). Sequoia was another.
305** [[TheDitz Joey]] remarks of a stripper named Crystal Chandelier: "You name your daughter that, what do you expect her to grow up to be?"
306** During an episode where Chandler is forced to not make jokes, Ross happens to be dating a woman by the name of Elizabeth ''Hornswoggle''. By the end of the episode when Chandler finally gives up he yells at Ross if he's dating someone from ''Series/FraggleRock''.
307** Phoebe's half-brother Frank Jr. insists that he wants his own son to be called "Frank Jr. Jr." much to his wife Alice's frustration.
308--->'''Chandler:''' Wouldn't that be Frank the Third?\
309'''Alice:''' Don't get me started.
310** Phoebe borrows a birthing tape from her friends Candy and Cookie to help Rachel prepare for her own delivery. Apparently the couple's daughter is [[OneSteveLimit also called]] "Cookie". Even Phoebe, always the [[CloudCuckooLander quirkiest]] member of the cast, thinks the family's names are weird.
311* In the ''Series/GameShakers'' episode "Trip Steals a Jet", Trip introduces his two rich friends, Landru and Pompay, Babe and Kenzie question what kind of parents would give their kids those names. Trip answers that their parents are rich and rich people give their kids stupid names.
312* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'':
313** Jackson and Sookie debated the name "Colgate" (like the toothpaste) for their daughter (it apparently runs in Jackson's family). They eventually settled on using all the other names they'd considered, since they weren't planning on having more and didn't want to waste them, resulting in a child named Martha Janice Lori Ethan Rupert Glenda Carson Daisy Danny Belleville. The priest gets winded during the christening.
314** Luke's sister Liz named her daughter Doula, after the woman who assisted with her pregnancy. Doula is the woman's ''position'' (a doula provides more emotional support, rather than strictly medical support), not the woman's ''name''.
315* ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'': In one episode where the family goes back to TheWildWest, a group of cowboys react this way when Wayne tries to introduce himself. [[VerbalBackpedaling He hastily claims]] that his name's really Creator/JohnWayne, which they like much better.
316* A ''Series/HorribleHistories'' sketch on Victorian names included "Toilet" and "Baboon." The teacher says "Toilet...and Baboon? Your parents must be evil." To which the students point at another one and say "[[WhosOnFirst No, that's Evil over there]]."
317* On ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'', Rogelio and Darci Factor's daughter is [[LastMinuteBabyNaming eventually]] named [[OverlyLongName Baby Michaelina de la Vega Factor]]. Yes, her first name is "Baby."
318* In the soap opera ''Series/LasJuanas'', there is Doña de Salguero, most usually called "Doña Doña". To wit, the English equivalent would be naming a girl "Mistress" or "Ma'am".
319* Lampshaded in the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode "[[Recap/LeverageS02E04TheFairyGodparentsJob The Fairy Godparents Job]]", where the team laments their target's choice of "Widmark" for his son's name.
320* Jimmy Bond of ''Series/TheLoneGunmen'', being a well-meaning if not overly bright guy, doesn't seem to get why anyone thinks there's anything out of the ordinary about [[Franchise/JamesBond his name]].
321* Angus ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}''.
322* In ''Series/TheMagicians'' the royal herald announces the Princess of Loria -- or as they realize after seeing him, ''Prince Ess'' of Loria.
323-->'''Elliot:''' Oh my god, fuck your parents dude.
324* In ''Series/MadAboutYou'', as Creator/BruceWillis, who is in the hospital and is evading the press, helps Paul get to the maternity ward, he decides to ask for help with the yet to be solved christening of his newborn:
325-->'''Paul''': What are your daughters' names?\
326'''Bruce''': Rumer, Scout and Talulah Belle.\
327'''Paul''': Yeah, I'll think of something.
328* In ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', the Bundy family ended up adopting (read: got ditched with) Peggy's nephew, Seven. Al quite nearly says the trope by name, and the kid replies "Because I'm Seven!" Bonus points for nobody being able to tell whether that meant he was "child number seven" and the parents just ran out of ideas, or if his name changed after every birthday.
329* On ''Series/{{MASH}}'', B.J. Hunnicutt's given name is apparently B.J. The fact that B.J. has spent the episode leading up to this exchange {{Troll}}ing Hawkeye's attempts to discover what "B.J." stands for implies that this might be a lie; certainly Hawkeye doesn't believe it. However, this comes after Hawkeye writes to numerous people from B.J.'s civilian life, including his family, trying to find out his name, and they ''all'' say it doesn't stand for anything, and his only name is B.J.
330-->'''Hawkeye''': What kind of parents would name their kid B.J.?\
331'''B.J.''': My mother...Bea Hunnicutt, and my father...Jay Hunnicutt.
332* ''Series/TheMiddle'': Frankie regrets naming her youngest son Brick, thinking that an unusual name would make him cool (which Brick is anything but).
333* On ''Series/ModernFamily'', all of Mitch and Cam's friends have stereotypical "gay" names. One of them, Longinus, remarks that his mother forced him to become gay with it.
334* On ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', Agent Callen's first name actually got lost by the foster system, [[spoiler:which is implied to be partly due to being born in Romania]]. All he knows is [[OneLetterName his first initial]], and he occasionally gets minor grief over his legal first name being "G". Though, in Season 7 (specifically, the episode ''Matryoshka''), Callen finally learns the name he was born with before his fostering/adoption: [[spoiler:'''Grisha''' Alexandrovich Nikolaev]]. Though G. Callen runs off the tongue ''much'' easier.
335* In ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'', there was Gottlieb family, whose parents were hippies. Their three grown-up children were:
336** Cosmic Gottlieb, who renamed himself Mark.
337** Freedom Gottlieb, who renamed himself Stephen.
338** Serendipity Gottlieb, who was a bit of a free spirit like her parents and so kept her name but usually shortened it to Ren as it was a bit long. (Mark, probably after a bit of sibling revenge, preferred to shorten it to Dippy.)
339* ''Series/RookieBlue'': Dov Epstein. Not a typo. As with the Gottliebs above, his parents were hippies. They were not pleased when he became a cop. Unlike most of those here, he's not in the least bit embarrassed by it.
340* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' has Jughead and Jellybean Jones. One wonders what their parents were on.
341-->'''Sheriff:''' You been bullied a lot, Mister Jones?\
342'''Jughead:''' Well, yeah. My name is ''Jughead''.
343* In ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'''s UnCanceled season, David shows up and tells Darlene that he wants to [[FootDraggingDivorcee officially divorce]] since he has a new girlfriend now. Darlene, trying not to deal with that information for a moment, instead fixates on the fact that said girlfriend's name is "Blue."
344* Short-lived program ''Series/TheRousters'' featured a family of bounty hunters descended from legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. The lead character's name is Wyatt Earp III, a fact that is a running gag throughout the series, with most authorities treating it as a bad joke until he produces his legal identification. The rest of his family have more common and less significant names.
345* In ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'', Wagner buff extraordinaire Claude Erskine-Brown names his son "Tristan" and his daughter "[[Literature/TristanAndIseult Isolde]]," to likely eye-rolling by his wife Phyllida.
346* Overlapping strongly with Unfortunate Names, ''Series/SchittsCreek'' features characters from the town's founding family named Roland Schitt, Jocelyn Schitt and Mutt Schitt, and when Roland and Jocelyn have another son, they proudly name him Roland Moira Schitt. Additionally, the show features many supporting characters with names like Albany, Jitney and a cult recruiter named Citrus.
347* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', the following exchange takes place when J.D. meets the Janitor's girlfriend:
348-->'''J.D:''' Who's called ''Lady''?\
349'''Janitor:''' ''She'' is! She has a brother named "Him".
350* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': Kramer's first name remains unknown until the 6th season, more than halfway through the series run. George first learns Kramer's first name, Cosmo, when he meets Kramer's mother, and when he reveals this to Jerry and Elaine, they start laughing uncontrollably. After this incident, Kramer decides he's been running from his name for too long and it's time to embrace it.
351 --> '''Kramer:''' "All my life I've been running away from that name. That's why I wouldn't tell anybody. But I've been thinking about it. All this time I'm trying not to be me. I'm afraid to face who I was. But I'm Cosmo, Jerry, I'm Cosmo Kramer, and that's who I'm going to be. From now on, I'm Cosmo!"
352* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': The Holmes siblings are named Sherlock, Mycroft, and Eurus while the rest of the population have names like John, James, and Mary.
353 --> '''Eurus:''' "Silly name, isn’t it? Greek. Means the East Wind. My parents loved silly names, like Eurus... or Mycroft... or Sherlock."
354* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Rodney is ashamed of his first name and goes by his middle. The other characters respect this and continue to use the name after they know it's not his first. Except for his sister who seems to take a kind of joy out of calling him 'Meredith'.
355* Early in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Past and Present", one of the locals asks Teal'c the following question:
356--> '''Orner:''' Who would give you a name like "Teal'c"?\
357'''Teal'c:''' It was given by my father. It means "strength".
358* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E15TheFrenchMistake The French Mistake]]" Sam and Dean are transported into a universe where their lives are a tv show called ''Supernatural'' and they remark that the names are weird, with actors named [[Creator/JensenAckles Jensen]] and [[Creator/MishaCollins Misha]].
359* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': Sarah and John spent a lot of time moving around, so on one occasion they had to switch from a rural pig farm to a hippie commune which could easily be characterised as the place where the kids are named after tree species.
360* ''Series/{{Thanks}}'': The Tungsleys can't think of a name for their 12th child, so they open the Bible, point at a random page, and end up naming their child "Oxen".
361* ''Series/ThisIsGoingToHurt'': Maternity doctor [[DeadpanSnarker Adam]], upon discovering that a patient has named her baby 'Mist', [[AsideComment remarks to the camera]] "What's wrong with calling a baby 'Steve'?"
362* ''Series/{{The Umbrella Academy|2019}}'' has the titular Academy, who usually go by nicknames: Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Five, Ben, and Vanya. Why are their nicknames mostly normal names? Well, their adoptive father named them Number One, Number Two, Number Three, Number Four, Number Five, Number Six, and Number Seven. The names were chosen by their "Mother", Five was lost in time while young, and kept using that as his name.
363* In ''Series/{{Utopia}}'', various characters express disbelief at Wilson Wilson's name.
364* ''Series/{{Weeds}}'': Nancy regards her new neighbor's young son's name, "Rad", with some skepticism.
365* According to the intro of the 12 May 2021 episode of ''Series/TheWeeklyWithCharliePickering'', Charlie's oldest son is named "Nintendo Robocop". Luke queries this at first, but then admits that is an awesome name.
366* ''Series/TheWestWing'': Toby's baby son is named "Huckleberry" ("Huck" for short) after his maternal great-grandfather. The first time he's alone with his newborn son Toby takes a moment to apologise to the boy for the name.
367-->'''Toby:''' I think it should be clear from the get-go that it was ''Mom'' who named you "Huckleberry". I guess she was feeling like life doesn't present enough challenges to overcome on its own.
368* In ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Alex says this to ''Hershel''.
369* Fox Mulder of ''Series/TheXFiles'' deals by staying on a LastNameBasis as much as he can.
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372[[folder:Music]]
373* An example of CallingTheOldManOut on the back of this trope is the old Music/JohnnyCash song "A Boy Named Sue". In this case, the bad name was intentional — as Dad explained, he gave his son a name that would make his childhood a living hell precisely so the boy would be forced to grow up mean and tough, to compensate for growing up without a father figure. Sue appreciates the logic behind this decision and forgives his father, but makes it clear that he wouldn't dream of doing something like that to his own son. WordOfGod from songwriter Creator/ShelSilverstein is that he got the inspiration for the song after hearing a (male) judge named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_K._Hicks Sue K. Hicks]] speak at a judicial conference in Gatlinburg (a town which is also mentioned in the song). Hicks was named after his mother, who died in childbirth. To top that, Silverstein even wrote a sequel, "The Father Of A Boy Named Sue."
374* The subject of Music/SammyKershaw's 1996 hit "Vidalia" is a woman who gets her name as a {{portmanteau}} of her parents' names, Violet and Dale. This then sets up a wordplay about Vidalia onions, which just like the girl herself, always make the narrator cry.
375* The protagonist of the Music/MelanieMartinez ConceptAlbum ''Music/{{Cry Baby|Album}}'' is named...um, [[CharacterTitle Cry Baby]]. In the music video for the song "Cry Baby", it's shown that her brother wrote it on her birth certificate after hearing her mother refer to her as such.
376* [[https://youtu.be/j4yURoIWkV0 "Horrible Names For Your Children"]] is a song that lists off ridiculous names people attempted to name their kids (some of which ''succeeded'') in real life. Some of them even appear on this page.
377* Music/CWMcCall: The protagonist in the song "Classified" reacts with incredulity that a dog -- a ''German Shepherd'' at that, who'd reacted to his arrival in the animal's yard [[AngryGuardDog by running out and grabbing onto his leg]] -- is named Frank.
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380[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
381* In Literature/TheBible, David asks for assistance from Abigail’s husband "Nabal" or "crook, villain". He is denied. Upon informing David of this she alludes to the fact that his name is Nabal implying that he lives up to it rather well.
382-->'''Abigail''': Please, my lord, pay no attention to that wretched fellow Nabal. For he is just what his name says: His name means 'boor' and he is a boor.
383* There is also a case of this between Jacob and Esau. Upset at the loss of his birthright (or rather his own hasty decision prompted by extreme hunger) and the loss of a blessing that was intended for him due to his brother's and mother's treachery, Esau alludes to the fact that Jacob (''[[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign Ya‘akov]]'', from ''‘akev'', ‘heel’, because he was born holding Esau’s heel) is aptly named.
384-->'''Esau''': Was he, then, named Jacob that he might supplant me these two times? First he took away my birthright and now he has taken away my blessing!
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387[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
388* ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'':
389** Bunny named her twin babies Wendell John and Wendell Jon. Before she settled on those names, she referred to them by the colors of their hospital bracelets.
390--->'''Wanda:''' You have two boys named Purple and Green?\
391'''Bunny:''' I prefer Puce and Teal.
392** When middle child Hammie was first born, he did not have a name, due to Darryl and Wanda mistakenly believing that [[ItMakesSenseInContext they were having a girl]]. When they finally decided on "Hamish" ("Ham" for short), it took their other family members some time to get used to it. Wanda's sister, Rhonda, proclaimed "That's not a name, it's an entree!" upon hearing it, and when Wanda told her mother, she burst out laughing, before asking, "No, seriously, what did you name him?"
393* ''ComicStrip/JumpStart'' includes a kid named Doctor Appleby, who comes to school dressed in surgical scrubs. Guess what his parents want him to be when he grows up.
394* Creator/MattGroening's ''ComicStrip/LifeInHell'' has a "What not to name your kid" installment, including suggestions such as "Oral" and "Onan".
395* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
396** A recurring background extra from the 1960s onwards is a boy named 5, short for 555, surname 95472 (accent on the 4). His father had strange ideas about where society was headed and decided to "give in" to the abundance of numbers in people's lives. His younger sisters are twins named 3 and 4.
397** Rerun got his name from his older sister Lucy complaining that getting another little brother (after Linus) was like watching a {{rerun}} on TV.
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400[[folder:Podcasts]]
401* Shannon has this reaction in the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''The Wreck'' when they find a cubby belonging to Ellie ''Spoon''.
402* ''Podcast/MomCantCook'': Luke and Andy agree that you can't just date someone called "[[Film/StepsisterFromPlanetWeird Cosmo Cola]]", because while you don't know ''where'' they got that name from, you know it can't be from a good place.
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405[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
406* On the June 9, 2005 ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'', building up to the ''ECW One Night Stand'' [=PPV=] that Sunday, Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield may have been the first person on national television to question the idea of someone being named ''Wrestling/BallsMahoney.''
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409[[folder:Radio]]
410* ''Series/DeadRingers'': After Jacob Rees-Mogg actually decided to call his son "Sixtus" (among [[OverlyLongName other things]]), this show spoofed in, with the future father being asked if he thinks his son might one day be resentful for the name. Just as he dismisses this, he's phoned up by someone doing a Marcus Aurelius impression at him. Namely, Sixtus himself -- "owner of a ridiculous name, and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next!"
411* Slartibartfast from ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' considered his name a hidden shame, which is why he wouldn't tell it to Arthur right away. His lugubrious demeanor was a clue to it.
412* Garrison Keillor's ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'' has Senator K. Torvaldson. Even calls out this trope in another character's reaction: "Who names their kid 'Senator', anyway?" (Apparently, his parents just liked the way it sounded.)
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415[[folder:Roleplay]]
416* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
417** Jemimah Chen is the first person to admit that her name is odd, [[SelfDeprecation and also the first to laugh at it]]. According to her, her father picked her first name out of the dictionary.
418** When Irene finds out that there's a girl in her school called Destiny, she feels pity towards her for having parents who would give her that name. Said parents called her that because she came along when things were looking up in both of their lives, leading them to believe that fate was on their side.
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421[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
422* Creator/RowanAtkinson makes excellent sport of this trope in his [[https://youtu.be/FiWJWLCoH2M School Master sketch]]. Such pupils in his class include Nancyboy-Potter, Undermanager, Zob, and Orifice.
423* Kyle Kinane has a routine about how he had to watch his friend's kids at a family aquatic center in East Landing Michigan. They are named Malcolm and Archer. He says if he named his kids they would only go by nicknames "Miller Time" and "The Boss."
424* Louis CK has a routine from his One Night Stand special about how you can name your kid anything and there should be laws. Examples he gives of what he would name his kids: If he has a son they would be "Ladies and Gentlemen." When he introduces them he can say "This is my son Ladies and Gentlemen." If the kid misbehaves he can say "Ladies and Gentlemen, please! One with no vowels PNCDLTN or forty f's." He mentions some parents name them a word like Sunshine or Battery.
425* Rita Brent, in one routine, claims this trope made calling the roll every day the hardest part of her job as a substitute teacher. Among the names she claimed she heard were "Herpesia" and "Chlamydiana". It was so bad that when one student had the normal (and, in her opinion, elderly) name of Shirley, she wasn't sure how to treat her, because she felt like she had to show her respect and took to calling her Miss Shirley.
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428[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
429* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Lost Colony:'' The narrator is a woman named Debbi Dallas. Apparently, her dad was a marine with an appreciation for... 'classic' films.
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432[[folder:Theatre]]
433* In ''Theatre/AlmostMaine'', East apparently got his first name from a mess-up on his birth certificate.
434* In ''Theatre/InTheHeights'', main character Usnavi was named after the first thing his parents saw when they came to America: a boat that said ''US Navy.''
435* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', Mr Lethe is shocked to learn that Jasper's mother had an affair with someone named "Todd".
436-->'''Mr Lethe:''' Who fucks a Todd?
437* In ''Theatre/MotherCourageAndHerChildren'' by Creator/BertoltBrecht, Mother Courage names her youngest son Schweizerkas -- "Swiss cheese" (His first name's Feyos but nobody uses it.) Well, nobody said she was the best mother.
438* In ''Theatre/ThePillowman'' by Creator/MartinMcDonagh, Katurian's full name is revealed to be [[spoiler:Katurian Katurian Katurian]].
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441[[folder:Video Games]]
442* In the video game of the anime series ''Anime/AfroSamurai'', Ninja Ninja [[HypocriticalHumor wonders]] "What kind of father names their kid 'Afro Samurai' anyway?"
443* In ''Atlantis Adventure: Coral's Quest'', when Coral encounters "The Guardian" after reaching the final 10 levels of the game, she makes fun of his name and asks this question almost word for word. "The Guardian" then remarks his real name is Bernie.
444* ''VideoGame/BestOfThree'': Often discussed.
445** Grant's high school lab partner was Seph Antibe. Helen can question that name, to which he explains that it's short for "Persephone".
446** The winery owner, Rick Dark, has two twin daughters named Pinot and Noir (his wife thought it was cute). Helen and Grant agree that those are "evil names to give children".
447** Helen's twin brothers are named Lucas Castor and John Pollux. She comments that ''at least'' they got away with "normal-ish full names", and most people call them Lukey and Johnny.
448* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'':
449** ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'':
450*** Cut dialog from StarterVillain Captain Flynt reveals that not only is he the brother of Baron Flynt of the first game, but [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Baron and Captain are their actual first names]].
451---->'''Captain Flynt:''' Our parents were douchebags.
452*** In the expansion ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'', we learn Mr. Torgue's first name is [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep "Mister Torgue"]].
453---->'''Lilith''': Wait, your first name is "Mister Torgue"? [{{Beat}}] What's your ''last'' name, then?\
454'''Mr. Torgue''': FLEXINGTON!
455*** In the Wattle Gobbler DLC, Torgue's grandmother states that his middle name is "High-Five", which was taken from his grandfather. This means that Torgue's legal name is "Mister Torgue High-Five Flexington".
456** ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'': Colonel Zarpedon, the primary villain of the game. The ridiculousness of her name is something of a running gag, with the characters finding it hard to believe that there actually is someone named Zarpedon and Jack finding it difficult not to laugh as he says it. The fact that her full name is Tungsteena Zarpedon just makes it even worse.
457** ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'':
458*** Moze's full name is Moserah Hayussinian Yan-Lun al-Amir Andreyevna. She dryly notes that there's a reason she just goes by "Moze."
459*** At first, Zane Flynt seems to be an exception to his family's bizarre naming sense (see his brothers [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Baron and Captain]]). But he mentions a ''lot'' of examples of MetaphorIsMyMiddleName, including "Ferocity," "Deathwish," "Charisma," and "Charm."
460---->'''Zane:''' I've got a lot of middle names.
461* This can be done [[InvokedTrope deliberately]] by the player in any game that allows you to [[HelloInsertNameHere name the main character]]. There are even some games like this where the player character will be told they have a weird name. Of course, if that's the case you'll be told that no matter what name you give your character. Doing this when naming your current character's legitimate children in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' can result in the name becoming a ''traditional'' for members of your dynasty. When a child is born, a name is randomly suggested based on the gender, culture, and religion of the child. Player parents can write in another name, non-player parents pick what is suggested. Writing in a name yourself can add that name to the list of possible names for children of your dynasty...
462* Many characters allude to the appropriateness of War's name in ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'', but he's certainly not any sort of AnthropomorphicPersonification. Apparently, War, Fury, Strife and Death are ''given names''.
463* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': Mocked in the ''Mark of the Assassin'' DLC; the party is ambushed after speaking to a contact named Edge. [[PirateGirl Isabela]] remarks, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Well, that's what you get for talking to a man named Edge,"]] whereas Anders just says "Edge? That's his NAME?"
464* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has Nah ("Nn" in Japanese, which sounds just as strange). She's very well aware of what a bizarre name her mother Nowi saddled her with, and when she meets the younger version of her mother and Nowi comments on it her daughter's reaction can be summed up as "And whose fault is that?!"
465* ''VideoGame/GeneralChaos'' explains [[AllThereInTheManual in the comic book prologue]] that the root cause of Chaos and Havoc's endless warfare with each other was that, yes, their parents did give them those names, which would make any two children "not likely to grow up to be tree huggers or flower sellers."
466* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'':
467** The game's in-universe internet has an online baby name generator website where half the names generated are random objects and terms. The other half are {{Ghetto Name}}s.
468** It's possible to encounter and help out a preppy white guy named [[UsefulNotes/FidelCastro Castro]] (yes, that's his first name) in a random event. When the protagonist you're playing as inevitably asks, he explains that his parents were [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASPs]] who gave all their children pretentious, socially awkward names for their own amusement. He still feels that he got off lucky though: they named his sister ''Muffy''.
469* In ''VideoGame/InnocentUntilCaught 2: Proven Guilty'' at some point the policewoman protagonist asks the criminal protagonist Jack T. Ladd what were his parents thinking when they named him Jack Theodore. He believes they were fully aware of the joke.
470* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'':
471** Dys remarks how odd it is to be named "Dysthymia", another term for persistent depressive disorder, because it reminds him of his mother's neglect and eventual suicide.
472** {{Inverted|Trope}} in a conversation with Anemone during lookout duty. As Sol grows bored spotting every random thing past the walls, Anemone suggests naming one of the rocks "Steve". Cue Sol's bewilderment, even if [[HelloInsertNameHere the player gave them]] a [[AerithAndBob "common" name]] instead, since all the other colonists have esoteric {{Hippie Name}}s.
473---> '''Sol's narration''': ''Steve?'' Where did she get that weird name from, a holovid?
474* In ''VideoGame/NationStates'', one of the issues revolves around a man who was named an incomprehensible string of characters changing his name to John and campaigning for a law to restrict names. Arguing in favor of this change is a man named Insert Name Here, while the other side is argued by a woman with a rather hippie-ish name who named her baby daughter [expletive deleted].
475* In ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail 2'' (and its remake 5), one of random {{Non Player Character}}s you can talk to is named "Jubilation Higgenbottom", he prefers to go by Julie and makes an offhanded remark how he gets hassled for his cumbersome name.
476* An unnamed person in ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'''s Pyrite Colosseum in ''Pokemon XD'' mentions Miror B and explicitly states that "the name sounds laughably silly".
477* The ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}'' series features The Postal Dude.... snippets seen around in ''VideoGame/Postal2'' reveal that his legal name is actually The Postal Dude, Jr. (or at least "The Dude, Jr."), as it's what's on his driver's license when he goes to pay a parking ticket and his father's grave says "T. Dude, Sr". "T. Dude, Sr." was a horrible father and deliberately named his son after himself which brings up the question if The Dude's grandfather was just as horrible.
478* ''VideoGame/Prototype2'' has Heller encounter Elwood Pine, one of Mercer's Evolved. After defeating him, his dialogue goes as follows:
479-->'''Heller:''' Shit. Who names their kid fucking Elwood? Some fucking parents...
480* Towards the end of ''VideoGame/StarStealingPrince'', Astra mentions to Snowe that she thinks his parents were awful for giving him that name. He agrees, saying that any time anyone complained about the snow he'd have to remind himself that they're not referring to him.
481* As an EasterEgg, ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline's'' [[LevelEditor Foundry editor]] has various funny captions on the premade NPC costumes, apparently because the dev writing the game asset descriptions got bored. The caption for "Cardassian Commander Male 03" has this line:
482--> "His mother named him [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Kira]], after her favorite historical figure. The merciless teasing inspired his military career."
483* In Episode 1 of ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'', after Rhys and Vaughn get their lives saved by the former's Loader Bot at the cost of the 'Bot either self-destructing or fleeing with heavy damage, Rhys solemnly declares that he will name his firstborn... [[DeadGuyJunior Loader Bot]]. Vaughn gives him a look and he adds, "Or, you know, probably not."
484* A starship version in ''VideoGame/XRebirth''. Yoolis calls out [[PlayerCharacter Ren Otani]] on giving the ''Pride of Albion'' an inferior name, the ''Albion Skunk'', though Otani claims that some ''other'' joker renamed it that.
485* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' is named Ichiban Kasuga. Within the first chapter alone the weirdness of naming a kid "Ichiban" ("number one/the best" in Japanese) is remarked on by several characters.
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488[[folder:Visual Novels]]
489* In the visual novel ''VisualNovel/LamentoBeyondTheVoid,'' Bardo suffered so horribly from this he went right ahead and changed it to something less-bad. Not only was it a painful name, but it was also a ''girl's'' name. Literally. His mama called 'im Cheryl. And she's still the only person that does, going by the end of his route.
490* Battler in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' spends a fair amount of the VisualNovel's introductions mocking his family's naming habits, particularly when it came to his own ("My parents are the first on my 'to kill' list").
491[[/folder]]
492
493[[folder:Webcomics]]
494* In ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'', Mr. Beckwith wonders, "Who calls their child Mildred? Cursed to live a life of one sock pulled up higher than the other."
495* ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' shows us that names like this are the reason we need the [[https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/stupid-baby-name-police/ stupid baby name police]].
496* ''[[http://www.cansofbeans.com/ Cans of Beans]]'' has the double-barreled name [[http://www.cansofbeans.com/comics/7 Dude Brosmith]], which gets an incredulous ''"Really?"'' from Carl. The final chapter reveals that [[spoiler:it's short for [[EmbarrassingFirstName Dudley]], but Brosmith is the real family name]].
497* Pyroduck from ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''. [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1071.php He was named by phoenixes]], a rather eccentric race of oracles who are notorious for answering everything with vague riddles. When he explains his backstory, Alexsi comments that she "always wondered why someone would call their kid Pyroduck".
498* ''Webcomic/DeanNalaVinny'': Invoked in cat Nala's response to a cat who subjects her to TerriblePickupLines.
499-->'''Cat''': Is your name Google? Because you are everything I've been searching for.\
500'''Nala''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint No. My name is Nala]]. Who would name their kid 'Google'?
501* ''Webcomic/FreakAngels'':
502** KK gets [[BerserkButton gets completely bent out of shape]] if anyone calls her by her real name, Kolfinnia Kokokoho Titching.
503** Arkady's hippie parents decided that she was a child of Arcadia, and decided to name her such, but they were too stoned out of their gourds to write anything correctly on the birth certificate.
504* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
505** Zeetha's father was named Chump. Since she's from a reclusive warrior culture deep in an unknown jungle, BilingualBonus probably wasn't considered during the naming process. [[WordOfGod The Foglios]] revealed, or at least heavily implied, that a certain WildMassGuessing on the subject of his identity [[http://community.livejournal.com/haus_of_klaus/25974.html hit quite close to the mark]]: [[spoiler:Chump is actually Klaus Wulfenbach, and "Chump" is an alias that came from some SelfDeprecation on his part]].
506---> '''Gil:''' "Chump"?\
507'''Zeetha:''' A great warrior. And yes, I know what it means in your language.
508** There's also the case of Moloch von Zinzer:
509--->'''Moloch:''' You didn't say we were going ''inside'' the cathedral. This place creeps me out.\
510'''Worker:''' With a name like "Moloch"? I'm not surprised.\
511'''Moloch:''' 'S wrong with my ''name''? My mother picked it out of the whatchamacallit -- the ''[[Literature/TheBible Bible]]''.\
512'''Worker:''' ''Ah.'' Um -- did she ''read'' it?\
513'''Moloch:''' Nah. I had eight brothers. Nobody had time for stuff like that on the farm.\
514'''Worker:''' Oh, yeah. That's pretty common.
515* While it's standard in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' for the goblins to have a MeaningfulName picked by the fortune teller, everyone is still sympathetic to Dies-Horribly, and Hava has to explain to everyone that it turned out the fortune teller wasn't actually trying to name him when he said "Piss-Off-I-Have-A-Headache". Complains-Of-Names got his name because he does, and he has reason to.
516* Mentioned by Anpu in ''Webcomic/{{Godslave}}'' as Alma tries to pick up a name for her new "puppy". After going through dozens of awful names, he finally says:
517-->I pity your future children.
518* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1150-up-the-chain/ Maxima points out how unlikely Deus's given name is]]:
519--> '''Maxima''': I mean, who names their newborn baby Deus Superion?
520* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
521** Discussed by Jake English and Dirk Strider regarding the ''last'' names of the demonic Lord English and the alien [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Betty Crocker]], due to the last names in question being matters of personal selection.
522--->'''GT:''' So im named after a demon? What kind of demon is named English anyway?\
523'''TT:''' What kind of alien is named Crocker?
524** When [[HelloInsertNameHere naming the main character]], the "game" (all ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' are written InTheStyleOf an AdventureGame) replies "TRY AGAIN, SMARTASS" when "Zoosmell Pooplord" is given as the name of the main character.
525** Later, Jade and Rose name their girl "Yiffany Longstocking Harley Lalonde".
526* ''Webcomic/InkProofCannon'' gives us "My name is Sunday Jones and yes, I've heard all those jokes before."
527* Inverted in [[https://www.litterboxcomics.com/whats-in-a-name/ one strip]] from ''Webcomic/LitterboxComics''. Fran is going through her son's class to make Valentine's Day cards, and notices two kids named [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hermione]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Kylo]]. Rather than get weirded out, [[{{Geek}} Fran makes a point to schedule playdates with those kids.]]
528* In ''Webcomic/TheMansionOfE'', Cully and Chunner the Gnolls comment on their compatriot Crud's [[http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20120603.html unfortunate name]].
529* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick,'' when [[spoiler:Hilgya]] returns with a baby in tow:
530-->'''[[TokenEvilTeammate Belkar]]:''' So we're just gonna glide right past the fact that she named her kid "[[KudzuPlot Kudzu]]?" We are? Okay.
531* In ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'', Millie asks Ozymandias if he ever gets grief for his name. He replies that he puts things in perspective to mockers by showing them a photo of legendary football player Dick Butkus.
532* Kestrel of ''Webcomic/QueenOfWands'' ("Parents were hippies, huh?"). When her close friend offers to name her daughter after her, Kestrel suggests providing the ''middle'' name.
533* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': The very female Doctor Edward Bunnigus is a DesignerBaby grown in a UterineReplicator because her parents [[GeniusBreedingAct were considered too stupid to be allowed to reproduce naturally]]. She was designed with the "exotic dancer" package, and on her medical wristband this was shortened to "ED." Her parents assumed this was supposed to be her name, but decided it wasn't pretty enough, so went with "Edward." She normally just goes by Bunny.
534* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}.'' There's nothing particularly weird about Amber naming her daughter Donna...until Robin guesses, apparently correctly, that she got the name from a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtle]] ('''Don[n]a'''tello). From his expression, Mike (the father) hadn't realized this.
535* ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'': In "The Isle of Dr. Steve", there's the following exchange:
536-->'''Oasis''': My name is Oasis.\
537'''Torg''': Weird parents, huh?\
538'''Oasis''': My parents are dead.\
539'''Torg''': Did they name you before or after they died?\
540''[[[BeatPanel beat]], during which Torg realizes what he just said]''\
541'''Torg''': I'm Torg!\
542'''Oasis''': And ''you'' got stable parents.
543* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', geeky parents Mike and Tamara name their son ComicBook/{{Shazam}} [[Creator/WilWheaton Wil-Wheaton]] Dowden-Patel (the hyphens are the source of his power). The two do have a fight at one point, though, because Mike thought his middle name was going to be "[[Creator/JossWhedon Joss-Whedon]]" instead. He also mentions that their choice for a girl was "[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] [[Series/{{Firefly}} Serenity]]."
544* French BlackComedy webcomic ''[[http://ultimex.over-blog.com/ Ultimex]]'' has a strip where a friend of Ultimex (the hero) called his daughter "Bang". Steve (Ultimex's best friend and second main character of the webcomic) asks Ultimex to persuade this man to give another name to his daughter. [[spoiler:We eventually learn that Ultimex finally convinced him to call her "Gang Bang" instead. This seems to be an English pun but isn't part of the joke, as both words are different in French.]]
545* In ''Webcomic/UndeadFriend'' Orrick sometimes gets comments about having an unusual name.
546-->'''Wylie''': What sort of name is Orrick?
547-->'''Orrick''': Er...''my'' name?
548* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'':
549** Weaponized in [[http://xkcd.com/327/ "Exploits of a Mom"]], in which a woman includes some SQL injection in her son's name, causing the school to call her out for that name because it caused their student records to be deleted.
550---> Did you really name your son [=Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--=] ?
551** Also invoked in [[http://xkcd.com/1011/ this]] comic, with a side-order of ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]''-bashing.
552--->I've been trying for a couple years now but I haven't been able to come up with a name dumber than 'Renesmee.'
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555[[folder:Web Animation]]
556* One of the kids from WebAnimation/StarshineCarly in the episode, [[https://youtu.be/H0XqKuZfBOw?t=124 Welcome to pre k #1]] has someone named…Xiao Long
557-->'''Mr. Giraffe:''' Xiao?\
558'''Xiao Long:''' Long.\
559'''Mr. Giraffe:''' Why do they call you Xiao Long?\
560'''Xiao Long:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Actually, I don’t really care]].
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562
563[[folder:Web Original]]
564* An episode of Creator/AchievementHunter's ''[[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Let's Play Minecraft]]'' had the team arguing over the name "Pubert" and if it was an actual name. Gavin was insistent it was someone from ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', while everyone else was certain that this was another case of Gav being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. Turns out "Pubert" is the baby from ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', leading to everyone else's complete [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight disbelief]].
565-->'''[[SirSwearsALot Michael]]:''' "Fucking '''''PUBERT?!?!'''''"
566* The entire second half of ''[[WebAnimation/AwesomeSeries Awesome Racer.]]'' At least Rex ''is'' a rather common name...
567-->'''Speed:''' Spritle? Your name is Spritle? What kind of name is Spritle? That's not even a word!\
568'''Spritle:''' You think my name is bad? Your name is the rate of motion expressed via distance traveled per units of time!\
569'''Rex:''' Ha ha ha! You all have stupid names!\
570'''Speed:''' Shut up, Rex. Your name is Latin for king. That's the most egotistical thing I've ever heard.\
571'''Spritle:''' Why are our parents so bad at naming us?\
572'''Pops:''' I don't wanna hear it, you kids. My wife's name is Mom! Mom! Do you have any idea how awkward that is for me?
573* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
574** Dr. Gero notes how stupid Android 17 and 18's human names are in their schematics (Lapis and Lazuli respectively):
575--->'''Notes''': Who the devil names their children after crystals? It's like they '''wanted''' them to grow up to be strippers.
576** Cell and Piccolo lightly touch on the trope when first meeting.
577--->'''Piccolo''': ...but I don't know your name.\
578'''Cell''': Oh truth is, I don't really have one. But all things considered, I think I'll go with... ''Cell''.\
579'''Piccolo''': That's kind of boring.\
580'''Cell''': Coming from the guy named after a woodwind instrument.
581* ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'' has at least two [[RunningGag Running Gags]] based on this:
582** Every time Amir mentions a friend of his the friend has a bizarre name ("Den," "Tracyn," "Widely," "Chard"), leading [[StraightMan Jake]] to exclaim at one point, "[[WhoWritesThisCrap Who names your friends?!]]" In "Barbershop Quartet" he finally gets to ask one of Amir's friends this in person, [[VoodooShark which raises more questions than answers]]:
583--->'''Jake:''' Sorry, who named you "Larence?"
584--->'''Larence:''' A fisherman found me when I was nineteen years old. He named me "Larence," and he raised me.
585--->'''Jake:''' You know, by nineteen you really should have been pretty much raised.
586--->'''Larence:''' Yeah, but...
587--->'''Jake:''' ...And named.
588--->'''Larence:''' [[NonAnswer That's fair. That's more than fair!]]
589** Creator/BenSchwartz makes many guest appearances throughout the series, [[NewJobsAsThePlotDemands showing up in different jobs]] but always countering any suspicion on the part of the main characters that they've met him before by seemingly inventing a name on the spot ("Carrot Slat," "Sulu Candles," "Cherry Dude"). In the finale it turns out that [[spoiler:[[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals every single one of his characters is in fact a separate person]], and those are their real names]].
590* The series host in ''Webvideo/MovieRehab'' is called Sag. He also has a friend called [[DeadpanSnarker Barnabas Thade]].
591* Monkey D. Luffy from ''WebVideo/NonePiece''. "My parents hated me!" And then Zolo...
592-->'''Luffy:''' Wait, your name is Zorro Zolo?\
593'''Zolo:''' YEAH! MY PARENTS HATED ME!
594* ''[[https://youtu.be/luI0jRMUjFo Power Rangers Legacy Wars: Street Fighter Showdown]]'': In this short film tying in to ''VideoGame/PowerRangersLegacyWars'', Chun-Li laughs and makes fun of Rita Repulsa's name. Tommy Oliver retorts, "What kind of name is M. Bison?" and she shuts up.
595* Creator/SamAndMickey:
596** After the birth of Franchise/{{Barbie}}'s "little sister" Skipper, Ken suggested naming her after his favorite ''Series/GilligansIsland'' character; it stuck ''because'' Barbie thought that it sounded so stupid. Skipper's boss, the manager of [=McBurgers=], also thinks Skipper's name sounds dumb, and instead calls her, "Scooter".
597** "Delivery" has Skipper and Chelsea ask [[Franchise/{{Bratz}} Yasmin]] if she named [[spoiler:her baby girls Chili and Pepper]] after [[spoiler:Chile and Peppa Pig]], or after [[spoiler:the condiments]]. After Yasmin answers the latter, Barbie gives her additional mockery:
598--->'''Barbie''': That is the single dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life, and I live with Ken.
599* When ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcgmWb1As1JMz5mfUUvv26A Tsiah IV]]'' did a summary of [[https://youtu.be/oyxj26_URw0 the story of Perseus]], he made fun of the character Dictys, pronouncing it "Dicktease" and asking, "Who thought this was a good idea?"
600* ''Webcomic/WelcomeToHell'' is about a boy who ends up in hell as a demon after [[MurderSuicide killing his parents and himself]]. His name is "Sock". This doesn't go unnoticed:
601-->''Do you know why you're here, Mr. Sowachowski?\
602Because I killed my parents? Killed myself?\
603Yeah, well, I'd kill my parents too if they named me "Sock".''
604* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries,'' [[DemonicPossession Yami Bakura]] is apparently named "Florence."
605-->"Who names a boy Florence?! Idiots, that's who!"
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608[[folder:Western Animation]]
609* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballGumballWatterson the titular character]] has the weirdest name out of the entire cast. It's eventually revealed that his birth name is actually Zach, but the events of the episode "The Name" has him legally change it to Gumball. Similarly, his mother Nicole actually has the first name of ''Doctor'', the result of her parents having stringent expectations for her when she grew up.
610* ''WesternAnimation/BabyBlues'':
611** In a ShoutOut to "A Boy Named Sue," there was a one-shot side character named Sioux, pronounced "Sue." Apparently, his parents were hippies. Later, after his parents pick him up from prison (long story), an officer mutters to himself "A boy named Sue... what were his parents thinking?"
612** And in another episode, there was a mother who named her son Haggot and dressed him like Literature/LittleLordFauntleroy. And considering what rhymes with Haggot, the line below says it all:
613---> "'Haggot the Maggot' is the best he can hope for!"
614* There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'' where the gang is suspect of being aliens by a somewhat paranoid government agent. When he's interrogating Shaggy, he tells him that his disguise is ''nearly'' perfect, if only he'd "chosen" a normal, human name. Shaggy breaks down and admits his real name is Norville, which doesn't go far in convincing the agent he's human.
615* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E17TheEquestranauts The Equestranauts]]", Bob questions why the pony who pulls the chariot is also named "Chariot" before realizing he's analyzing a children's show about [[MyLittlePhony magic talking ponies]].
616->'''Bob''': Like "Hey, who's pulling the chariot?" "It's 'Chariot'." Oh my God, [[LampshadeHanging why am I analyzing this show?]]
617* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'': A variant. All trainees on the Isle of V.I.L.E. are given codenames; until that happens, they go by their first names only. But when the instructors find a baby and raise her on the Isle, instead of giving her a real name, they just give her a code name early: Black Sheep. She goes by this for all of her life, though [[DotingParent Coach Brunt]] calls her "Lambikens" or "Lambsie." It's only when Black Sheep finally escapes the Isle that she realizes that she needs a real name. She [[LineOfSightName reads the tag on her new hat, which was made at Carmen's in San Diego]], and decides to go by Carmen Sandiego.
618* In the later seasons of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', we're given the origins of his rival Mandark and learn his current name is a self-given one to fit his scientific motif. His real name is Susan. How'd he get straddled with such an embarrassing name? Why, having hippie parents of course.
619* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' often has the triplets [[Characters/DuckTales2017HueyDuck Huey Duck]], [[Characters/DuckTales2017DeweyDuck Dewey Duck]], and [[Characters/DuckTales2017LouieDuck Louie Duck]] express issues with their full names Hubert, Dewford, and Llewelyn, particularly the latter two, and do not like people using them. Their opinions on the names that their mother ''wanted'' to give them (Jet, Turbo, and Rebel) aren't as clear except for Dewey, who is rather annoyed that Donald replaced that name with 'Dewford Deuteronomy Dingus Duck'.
620* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS2E16KnightyKnight Knighty Knight]]", Timmy travels to the Middle Ages. He laughs and mocks a knight who introduces himself as "Sir Finkleberg".
621* In one ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode, one of Meg's friends refers to her as Megan, when she asks why she called her that, the other girl says she figured Meg was short for Megan, but Meg says it's actually short for something else. A cutaway gag shows that after giving birth to her, Lois asks Peter to give the nurse Meg's birth certificate. Before doing so, Peter quickly alters the certificate, changing her name from Megan to [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Megatron.]]
622* Mac's creative young friend from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' is named ''Goo'' (Short for Goo Goo Ga Ga). Her parents reportedly let her pick her own name, but should probably have waited until she was actually capable of talking first.
623* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', Fry reacts with surprise when he hears Leela's surname for the first time when she's mentioned on the news (Turanga). For some reason, mutants in the future put their last name first. Bender reacts the same way when hearing Fry's first name (Philip).
624* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
625** {{Discussed|Trope}}: Upon realizing that "Dipper Pines" is [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname just a nickname]] he got [[DistinguishingMark from his birthmark]], [[CoolBigSis Wendy]] lightheartedly says that she "just thought your parents hated you." Though for the record, he's similarly ambivalent about his real name, [[spoiler:Mason]].
626** For that matter, [[AlphaBitch Pacifica]] meeting Mabel Pines.
627---> '''Pacifica:''' That sounds like a ''fat'' old lady's name.
628---> '''Mabel:''' [[InsultBackfire I'll take that as a compliment!]]
629* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Harley Quinn|2019}},'' Doctor Psycho's son Herman [[CallingTheOldManOut calls him out]] for locking him in the basement for days, killing anyone who tried to befriend him, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and this]].
630-->"FUCK, YOU NAMED ME 'HERMAN!'"
631* A Christmas special made by DIC called ''WesternAnimation/AHollywoodHoundsChristmas'' (it appears on Shout Factory's DIC Christmas Blast DVD) in which the main character is actually named "Dude". A running gag in the special is how people are able to (accidentally) guess his name. At one point, he even goes "is there anybody who ''doesn't'' know my name?..."
632* Bessie Higgenbottom from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'' is stuck with the middle name [[spoiler:Kajolica]], because her mother is the only one in the entire universe who doesn't think it's colossally stupid. Which might explain why her mother is also the only one who is never struck by [[TheScottishTrope the curse that comes with mentioning the name]].
633* In ''WesternAnimation/MovilleMysteries'', the characters find out that the school PE Teacher, Coach Conkout, is ''really'' [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep named Coach]]. His father was obsessed with his son being a successful coach.
634* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Make New Friends But Keep Discord]]", when Fluttershy introduces her friend Tree Hugger, Discord laughs and asks what kind of name is that, which a bit strange considering most ponies' names are proper nouns in this show.
635* ''WesternAnimation/PiratesPassage'' features a dog named Grendel owned by the villains, the Moehner (pronounced "Meaner") family. One of the protagonists, Captain Charles Johnson is rather surprised that they decided to name their dog after one of the most famous monsters in all literature.
636* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' called "Stanked to the Future", there's a kid named Dicky who hates his parents, and Howard assumes that he hates them for naming him Dicky.
637* Used previously in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf''. Upon learning who his new werewolf is, Dracula complains, "What kind of a name is Shah-ghee?" He is never clued in on the fact that it's a nickname. Though [[EmbarrassingFirstName his real name is Norville]], so...
638* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': Sheriff Bronson Stone. His first name is "[[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Sheriff]]." His mother believed in planning ahead.
639* Farmer John from ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity''. It's established in the pilot that Farmer is actually his first name rather than just his job, to which General Specific asks who would name their kid Farmer. A later episode retcons this by establishing that his name is actually "Far Mer John" (the reason being that his mother wanted him to go "far" and his father wanted to name him after his aunt Mer), which is arguably worse.
640* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', during a dinner with the Black family Randy asks Mr. Black about his son Token's name. He then reveals that his name is actually supposed to be "[[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]]" in honor of his favorite author and that Randy and Stan misheard it all this time
641* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E4SpyBuddiesBoatSmartsGoodOlWhatshisname Good Ol' Whatshisname]]" centers around Squidward trying to find out the name of one of the Krusty Krab's patrons. Each time he asks the man appears to ask "What's it to ya?" but after all the hilarity it is ultimately revealed that the man's name is really "Whatzit Tooya." He'd been telling Squidward what his name was the entire time. This gets lampshaded when Squidward asks what kind of name that is.
642* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks,'' Mariner has this reaction upon learning that Boimler's first name is "Bradward," though he reacts as though he doesn't see anything abnormal about it.
643** {{Inverted|Trope}} when an [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Exocomp exocomp]] says that she decided to {{avert|edTrope}} RobotNames and instead came up with "Peanut Hamper."
644--->'''Tendi:''' ''Peanut Hamper?'' [[GenkiGirl I LOVE IT]]!
645* When WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}} is out of costume, she works as a stripper that goes by "Erotica Jones". Or you would think so. Turns out, that "Erotica" is her actual birth name.
646* In the ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' episode "[[Recap/TangledTheSeriesS2E01BeyondTheCoronaWalls Beyond the Corona Walls]]", it is revealed that the feared Baron's prized "stallion" is actually his daughter, Stalyan, who plans to marry Eugene. This is lampshaded by Rapunzel when she goes to rescue Eugene.
647--> '''Rapunzel:''' What kind of name is "Stalyan" anyway? [[LampshadeHanging Who names their kid that?]] What's her sister's name, "Bronco"?
648* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' introduces us to Blaineley in ''World Tour'', a conniving gossipy talk show host who tries to usurp command of the Aftermath segments from Geoff and Bridgette, shipping the latter to Siberia. Geoff sings what amounts to an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, capping off with the revelation that her real name is ''Mildred'', to which she reacts in horror.
649* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', a clone of Starscream is addressing the Autobots but forgets Bulkhead's name. Upon being informed of it, the clone expresses sympathy. A couple episodes later, we find out that his name, as well as Bumblebee's, actually ''were'' given with malicious intent. [[{{Jerkass}} Sentinel Prime]], then [[DrillSergeantNasty Sentinel Minor]], was tasked with naming the recruits he was training, and he had a special kind of loathing for those two.
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