I think Willoughby James is actually quite a good name, he could always shorten it to Will.

I think you can’t go wrong with a name as things always become trendy or / old fashioned in cycles. However I think choosing a trendy name at the time based on a celebrity is a bit sketchy but its a free world and people can do what they like.

I did know a guy called Carlos Flowerday, which I thought was quite impressive.

While working in USA, many names were just made up from what appeared to have been a bad Scrabble hand, sequona, lacoia. I also taught Princess, but the twins were worse.
I taught twins Brandi and Candi (surely destined to be a stripping act)
Also taught identical twins Christopher and Christian, both shortened to Chris, so atleast you didn’t have to remember which was which!!??

My Brother in Law is a Chelsea fan, he called his daughter Chelsey.

My daughter’s middle name is Kona, something to do with bikes apparently and a good reason why wives shouldn’t give Dad free rein.

My daughter goes to school with someone called Bluebell Woods

Had a teacher at school named Mike Hunt, we had a song about him.

Once met a James Bond, but must have been a coincidence, he was born in the 1930s.

Then there’s General Jock Stirrup – though the oddest military one has to be one of Cromwell’s generals who was called Praisegod Barebones.

Years ago we had a woman at head office called Buckie Banjo.

He’s not a General

That’ll be Air Chief Marshal Sir Graham Eric “Jock” Stirrup GCB, AFC, FRAeS, FCMI, if you don’t mind?

😀

My daughter goes to school with someone called Bluebell Woods

No relation to me but I know of a Cherry Wood and her even less fortunate sister Holly !

Genuinely laughing out loud at Kit…………..Versace McKlatchey

That is fabulous!!!!

This lot ought to keep you lot amused for a while. All genuine, apparently:
From Remarkable Names of Real People by John Train (1977):
A. A. A. D’Artagnan Umslopagaas Dynamite Macaulay (London Times)
Ave Maria Klinkenberg, Yonkers, New York
Bambina Broccoli, New York City
Mrs Belcher Wack Wack [Miss Belcher married Mr Wack and then married his brother]
Bugless, Energetic, Euphrates, and Goliath Smith (Indexes of Births for England and Wales)
DeFred Goo Folts, Director of Placement, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet, Commissaire de Police, Paris, France. [Faux-Pas Bidet received heavy press coverage in the 1930s when he investigated the abduction of General Kutylpov, a White Russian leader in Paris]
F. G. Vereneseneckockkrockoff, San Francisco, California.
Gaston J. Feeblebunny
(Miss) Horsey de Horsey, Intimate friend of Lord Cardigan, who on a notable occasion banged on her door shouting, “My dearest, she’s dead!”, referring to her late Ladyship, “Let’s get married at once!”
Humperdink Fangboner, Lumber Dealer, and Fanny Fangboner, Nurse, Sandusky, Ohio.
John Senior, Jr., New York City.
Justin Tune, Chorister, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey.
Mark Clark Van Ark, Toledo, Ohio.
Mary Louse Pantzaroff, Huron Country, Ohio.
Mary Malouf Teabaggy, Boston, Massachusetts.
Mene Mene Tekel Upharson Pnd, Hartford, Connecticut
Newton Hooton, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Orange Marmalade Lemon, Wichita, Kansas.
Positive Wasserman Johnson, Evanston, Illinois. [The Wasserman test looks for antibodies to syphilis]
Dave Hardy comments on this entry:

My late father in law, Prof. William Avery, said that when he taught in Louisiana just after WWII the doctors in the public health service would, when a rural and often illiterate mother wondered what to name her newborn, suggest that she name him after the famous doctor Positive Wasserman.
Preserved Fish, Jr., New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Primrose Goo, Hawaii.
Mrs. Screech, Singing Teacher, Victoria, British Columbia.
Silence Bellows, Editor (Christian Science Monitor).
Strangeways Pigg Strangeways, Cricket Star, London, England.
Sugarporn Poopattana, New York City.
Supply Clapp Thwing, Harvard College (Class of 1837).
Tetley Ironsides Tetley Jones, Chariman, Tetley Tea Company, London, England.
Thusnelda Neusbickle, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Trailing Arbutus Vines, Cumberland Mountains, Tennessee.
Verbal Funderburk, Lakeland, Florida.
Mr. Vice, Malefactor, New Orleans, Louisiana. Arrested 890 times and convicted 421, probably a record (International Herald Tribune).
Zezozose Zadfack, California.
Zoda Viola Klontz Gazola,.
Dr. Zoltan Ovary, Gynecologist, New York Hospital, New York City.
Abderazzaq S. Abdeulhafafeeth, Fitchburg, Massechusetts (Fitchburg Sentinel).
Anil G. Shitole, Rochester, New York.
Dr. Bull, Pennsylvania State Secretary of Agriculture [Subject of celebrated headline: “Bull to speak on artificial insemination”]
Cardiac Arrest da Silva, Municipal Tax Collector, Brazil (Financial Times).
Cashmere Tango Obedience, Agriculturist, Santa Cruz, California.
Cheatham & Steele, Bankers, Wallowa County, Oregon.
Comfort & Safety Bottom, Sisters, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
Constant Agony, Chazy Lake, New York.
Crystal Toot, President, Kansas State PTA.
C. Sharp Minor, Silent Movie Organist, Rochester, New York.
Cupid Rash, England (Western Morning News).
Ecstacy Goon (Wisconsin Historical Society).
E. Pluribus Eubanks, Longshoreman, San Francisco, California.
Eucalyptus Yoho, Ashland Oil Dealer, Portsmouth, Ohio.
Evan Keel, Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Dr. E. Z. Filler, Dentist, Roslyn Heights, New York.
Fairy Clutter, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Women’s Club.
Fang W. Wang, Mutual Fund Executive, New York City.
Female Jones (University of Maryland Hospital. Such names are bestowed by hospitals in the absence of a parental decision. Compare: Legitimate Jones and Male Infant Kilgore, both of Detroit, Michigan).
(Miss) Fishy Step, Pennsylvania.
Felonious Fish, Omaha, Nebraska.
Rev. Fountain Wetmore Rainwater, Circuit-riding preacher, Kentucky (Liked to sprint to church, read one verse from the Bible, and sprint home).
Ginger Screws Casanova, Eureka, California (Eureka Times-Standard).
Gretel von Garlic, New York City.
Hedda Hare, Spring Valley, New York.
Heidi Yum-Yum Gluck, Artist, Brooklyn, New York [Mr. Gluck, infatuated by Gilbert and Sullivan, also named his son Nanka, after Nanki-Poo, another character from The Mikado].
Henry Ford Carr, Central City, Kentucky.
Herman Sherman Berman, Commisioner of Deeds, New York City.
Hilarius Fuchs, Continental Grain Company, New York City.
Hogjaw Twaddle, Morris Harvey College (University of Charleston), West Virginia.
Honor Roll, Nurse-anesthetist, Birmingham, Alabama.
Horace and Boris Moros, Brothers.
If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebones, London, England [Set up first the fire insurance office in Britain. Changed his name to Nicholas Barbon].
Imaculada Concepciòn (Immaculate Conception) Finkelstein, New York Stock Exchange Investor.
Ingeborg von Zitzewitz, New York, New York.
Iva Odor, Schoolteacher, Spencer, Iowa.
Ivan Karamanov (Maclean’s magazine) [Changed his name to John Dinkof Doikof].
J. Fido Spot, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Prof. J. C. Beaglehole, [World authority on Captain Cook].
John Hodge Opera House Centennial Gargling Oil Samuel J. Tilden Ten Brook, Olcott, New York [Born in 1876, the centennial year, and named in honour of John Hodge, who owned the Hodge Opera House, manufactured gargling oil, and supported the Presidential candidacy of Samual J. Tilden. His friends called him “Buck”].
Pepsi Cola Atom-Bomb Washington, Upper Marlboro, Md [Youngest of twenty-two children].
Mr. Joynt, Marijuana Analyst, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Crime Lab, Alberta, Canada.
Kuhl Brieze, Palm Harbor, Florida.
Lesibia Lobo, Golfer.
Lobelia Rugtwit Hildebiddle, Psychology Student, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.
Loch Ness Hontas, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lo Fat, Retired Merchant Seaman, New York City.
Lovey Nookey Good, Texas State Health Department, Austin, Texas.
Magdalena Babblejack (Macleans Magazine).
Major Quaintance, U.S. Army, (The New Yorker).
Marmalade P. Vestibule, Door-to-door Firewood Salesman, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(Miss) Mignon Hamburger, University of Wisconsin.
Ming-Toy Epstein, New York City.
Needa Climax, Methodist Church Officer, Centerville, Louisiana.
Never Fail, Builder, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Noble Puffer, Superintendent of Schools, Cook County, Illinois.
Novice Fawcett, President, Ohio State University.
Noway Near White, Shoe Salesman, Columbus, Ohio.
Odious Champagne, Paper Mill Employee, Winslow, Maine.
Oldmouse Waltz, Federal Writers Project, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Offty Goofty Bowman, Shakespearean Actor, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee Standard).
Pafia Pifia Pefia Pofia Pufia da Costa, Brazil (Financial Times).
Rosey and Dewey Butt, Sister and Brother, Peru, Indiana.
Rosey Vice, Multiple Larcenist, Great Glemham, Suffolk, England.
Dr. Safety First, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Sara Struggles Nicely, Clearwater, Florida (Cleveland Plain Dealer).
Serious Misconduct, Welwyn, England.
Solomon Gemorah, Brooklyn, New York.
Tarantula Turner, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Taura Loura Goldfarb, New York City.
T. Fud Pucker Tucker, Bountiful, Utah.
Urban Shocker, Pitcher, New York Yankees, New York City.
Urinal McZeal, Washington County, Florida.
Kitty Peed, Cape Coral, Florida.
Vaseline Love, Jackson, Tennessee.
Professor Verbal Snook, Chairman, Mathematics Dept., Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Vile Albert, St Johnsbury, Vermont.
Void Null, Schoolteacher, San Diego, California.
Wambly Bald, Reporter, New York Post, New York City.
Zilpher Spittle [English parish record, Maclean’s Magazine].
Zowie Bowie (London Times Literary Suppliment) [Son of rick singer].
From Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (1990):

[…] Many British appellations are of truly heroic proportions, like that of the World War I admiral named Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Ernle-Drax. The best ones go in for a kind of gloriously silly redundancy towards the end, as with Sir Humphrey Dodington Benedict Sherston Sherston-Baker and the truly unbeatable Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraduati Tollemache-Tollemache-de Orellana-Plantagenet-Tollemache-Tollemache, a British army major who died in World War I. […] Somewhere in Britain to this day there is a family rejoicing in the name MacGillesheatheanaich.

Off at a slight tangent but what about those that have normal(ish) names but have to pronounce them differently such as “Ralph(raif)Fiennes”

I just don’t get it ,its Ralph for **** sake.

I know a few people who were taught by Mike Hunt’s.

I also saw this and thought of you lot….

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1809679.ece

Only a little late to this…

I’ve been on a plane piloted by Captain Herb Honquest.

My firearms instructor at a Las Vegas gun range was called ‘Rick Justice’ and he was a security guard as his other job.