What's the oddest name you've found?

[smudwhisk]

I saw someone post the other day regarding a Surname "Gotobed".... best name ever!

There are quite a lot of them in Cambridgeshire, I have some as a sideline.  One of the sons changed his family name to his mother's maiden name after the first few children.  I don't think it was because of a bequest from a relative's Will, probably decided he preferred her surname which was Vipan.

[Geordie daughter]

I've been chasing after individuals named Archelaus through several generations of a friend's family tree (which is pretty unusual and sometimes rendered as Hercules), then came across this one which is a corker:
Adonibezeck Brookum - try saying that when you've had a few!!

[a chesters]

I have trouble when sober

[SwissGill]

I saw someone post the other day regarding a Surname "Gotobed".... best name ever!

I knew a Mrs Gotobed. There were quite a few in Cheshire.

How about Shufflebottom - a classmate of mine.

[bob1066]

As though Zappa was not odd enough already, Frank Zappa named one of his daughters Moon Unit. I have often wondered how she feels about it; maybe she just shrugs it off, it's just her name after all.

That may not count, as it's a concocted name almost certainly with the express intention of sounding strange. Names adopted by the person later in life also should not count, such as the guy in Australia some years ago who legally changed his name to Z. That was it - the full name. (Pronounced "zed".)

For genuine surnames, I once had a lecturer whose surname was Er. He was Burmese. For all I know, Er might be a very common name in Burma/Myanmar, and he may have thought names like Jones and Kelly and Williams were weird.

[John915]

Good afternoon, when OH was first working for the library service they had a lady called Mrs "Rain-in-her-Face Crow".  She was a full blood red indian, can't remember what nation.

John915.

[Colin Bateman]

My first posting.
I taught a Chris Quack whose father was a doctor in Switzerland. Col B

[Andrew Tarr]

.... She was a full blood red indian, can't remember what nation.

You must mean Native American (or perhaps Canadian) - the PC brigade are quite sensitive these days ... 

[loandy]

I had an uncle who,s nickname was Doode , never knew why he was called that, When visiting the Borders area of Scotland ,Roxbrough where my GGreat grandfather lived for many years before coming to Australia a lady helping me with my history told me that as his name was George he would have been known as Doode, Another mystery cleared up,