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Blackadder
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Great NamesWatched Have I Got News For You and fell about laughing at the report of Michael Ball on a radio programme, thanking a listener for sending him a nice email. He said, "I'd like to thank this listener. What a great name ... Helvetica Bold!"
It reminds me of that great Indian name, Pindunder Jheep!!
And the Jogle Roy ... who turned out to be Joe Gilroy!!!
Anyody else got any goodies like this??? 
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kathyv
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My grandmother had a friend named Mary Louise, when my siblings and I were children we thought her name was Mary The Wheeze. Apparently 'The Wheeze' sounds like 'Louise' so no one corrected us. My brother was 26 years old before he realized what the name actually was!
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Blackadder
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Perhaps not a GREAT Name ... but one you'll find hard to remember is ...
Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined, who is a British teenager from Glastonbury, Somerset. Poor b****rd ... unless he changed it that himself ... in which case ... sad b****rd!!! 
Then there's ....
Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel. A British political candidate self-renamed after a Monty Python character. Born John Desmond Lewis. Another nutjob not under safe lock and key!!!
Recently in the news, New Zealand kids in particular seem to get a rough trot from their parents ... though perhaps Midnight Chardonnay is not too bad!
But the modern age isn't the worst time for strange names ... witness ... Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon. Although "phrase names" were not unheard of with Puritans this is remembered as an unusually long example. He was son to Praise-God Barebone. The story that Praise-God's brothers were named Christ-came-into-the-world-to-save Barebone and If-Christ-had-not-died-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone (supposedly shortened to Damned Barebone) is disputed.
Who'd be glad to be called John or Mary now, eh?
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