When you're as immature as we are, the short list of high comedy includes such classics as people falling down, farting and, of course, suggestive names like "Ben Dover" or "Seymour Butts." So we are unamused by a study that says funny surnames like Cockshott, Balls and Shufflebottom are on the decline in the U.K., dropping by up to 75 percent in the last century as people either refuse to pass them on to their children or emigrate entirely (presumably in shame).
The study found that the number of people with the name Cock withered from 785 last year from 3,211 in 1881, those called Balls fell to 1,299 from 2,904. Also significantly decreased were slightly less dirty but still very silly names such as Smellie, Gotobed, Shufflebottom and Cockshott.
Luckily, the surname "Wang" is still experiencing significant growth. (Could. Not. Resist.)
The only thing more awkward than those names are these signs.
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Friday 27 March
By Bethany
Once when our school was having a fall rally they decided to introduce everyone in the band, but didnt have their names already listed. so they passed around a paper and everyone wrote their name to be read by the band president (who didnt know half of the 30 kids in the band). once the paper was done being passed he went up to the stand and read off the names including a new kid named Ben Dover. completely oblivious to what hed said untill he sat down. The entire auditorium was dying of laughter. even the principal of our very strict catholic school
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Sunday 29 March
By Jake
Really? This actually got posted?? Wow.
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Sunday 29 March
By P
I wish the last name "GREEN" would vanish into thin air, hate that last name so much...rolmfao
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Sunday 29 March
By JOHNNIE
Years ago, at one of the BellSouth offices I worked in we had a lady named Barbara Cocks and another named LuAnne Queer. Barbara didn't care, but LuAnne said her husband was just like "The Boy Named Sue". He wanted his boys to grow up tough. And wouldn't you know it; a lovely girl named Tequila married a guy with the last name of Collins.
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Sunday 29 March
By Hogwaller
Wow, I am so glad I read this. I wanted to inflict permanent damage to my brain to my brain my to
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Sunday 29 March
By R O C K Y
I knew a guy whose last name was Lipshitz......we use to call ouy..." If your Lipshitz, my ass talks." Strange, but the guy grew up to become a famous lawyer....one can never tell what's in a name.
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Monday 30 March
By Margo
I too went to school with a girl named Anita Dick. She lived right down the street where I grew up in Iowa. Where are you from?
Sunday 29 March
By Richar
No lie. We had a girl in our school named
Anita Dick
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Sunday 29 March
By Lassie
There was a newspaper reporter with the last name of "Breasted". I don't think he'll ever go on to be on TV "Reporting from the crime scene, this is Michael Breasted"...nah, it just won't work. And there is a family north of us, father is a police officer, their last name is "Outhouse". I think it's properly pronounced "Oh-0TOO-see", - but come on! the name is "Outhouse"! No getting around it. ... As for England, let's not forget the Piggs and the Hoggs, real surnames!
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Sunday 29 March
By just
I had an boss who's name was Dick Blow...
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Sunday 29 March
By Alex
My son's music teacher was Mr. Weiner, and another teacher at the same school was Miss Bunn.
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Monday 30 March
By Diney
years ago I read in the births marriages and deaths ........to Mr and Mrs Balls, a daughter Ophelia! Now how cruel is that!
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Monday 30 March
By Bobby D
You mentioned "Wang" I've noticed that a lot of oriental names refer to the dick (Wang, Dong, etc.). I guess people constantly think about what they don't have! ;-)
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Monday 30 March
By Snoop
Hey' Y'all my name is Shadapio Pakyo. Heh'heh'heh'doggies doggies
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Monday 30 March
By jwic3
I am ex military I have seen lots of crazy names! Military vehicles are assigned driver and their names appear on that vehicle as such, I still work for the military as a civilian and a vehicle had this name on it and I thought someone was playing a joke, not so this I found out this female married another soldier and took his name PUSEY it was french but you can imagine anyone who has any interaction with them how do you say such a thing it was not pronounced as it looked it was puh-zhey......
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Wednesday 01 April
By ari
one of my friends' friend from middle school was a boy named Courtney Gibbs Head. no joke.
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Monday 30 March
By BPanther82
I know a girl with the last name of "Surething"
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Monday 30 March
By dannyb
In Texas we had a politician named Jim Hogg..He had 2 daughters named Ima and Ura....
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Monday 30 March
By geezlouise
I had a real estate class in college with about 400 students in an amphitheatre style auditorium years ago and my instructor stood on stage to introduce himself to the class..."My name is Harold Dickey, but everyone calls me Harry Dickey." I burst into the loudest laughter that literally echoed in the massive hall, I thought it was a joke but everyone looked at me like I should go back to kindergarten...man I couldn't help it!
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