How important is a name? In my opinion - very!
I'm talking about parents - when naming their
children - should consider - not only the fact
that the child will have to live with that
name for quite some time (until they choose to
change it by deed poll), but also they need to
consider the effect the given name is going to have in
combination with the surname. Some funny examples
that have occurred in the past have been:

Ima Hogg.

Zoe Bowie.

Jack Frost.

Barkus Crapp.

Dick Dodge.

Randy Bottom.

Hung Low

Ima Belcher.

Aleaki Fawcett.

Anyway, you get the idea.

Your experiences and thoughts please?
(The funnier the better).

These have I known (or known of):

'Dwayne Pipe'

'Mayhem'

'Ned Kelly'

Oh yeah, and "Pauline Cat" (that was a married name, and so, self-inflicted).

Not quite on topic, but a thought bubble I once had. There was an English soccer player called Graham Tidy and an Italian called Lionel Messi.

I couldn't wait for the time during play when the commentator observed, "Messi's just been cleaned up by Tidy", but it never happened. Damn. That would have been a goodun.

Then there are the well known people in the media etc whose names aptly describe what they do, perhaps?

Cardinal Sin,
Justin Stock, (Former?) Victorian Shareholders Association spokesman
Peter Brain, economist.

I remember way back in days of Bank Tellers calling out customer names, they used to call out the Inital plus the Surname.

A certain Miss Ruth Sole appreciated the quick thinking of a certain teller in breaking from that convention.