Interesting Last Names

There are last names that are amusing, when you look at the person's occupation: Cardinal Sin of the Philipines. There is a Doctor Docter (a physician) here in Boise, and the superintendent of public schools in Los Angeles was also named Doctor; because he had an Ed.D., he was addressed as Dr. Doctor.

There are names that make you wonder if someone's parents were having just a little too much fun. A friend reports that when he first moved to San Francisco, there was a Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the phone book. (No word on what his specialty was.)

There are names that just make us laugh, because they sound funny--and we wonder, would a certain fellow have risen to chancellor of Germany if his father had kept his birth name of Schickelgruber? Somehow, "Heil Schickelgruber" makes me want to laugh.

There are names that just make you scratch your head, and ask, "How in the heck did one of your ancestors get that name?" For example, Priscilla Feral is "President, Friends of Animals." If you don't see the humor: "feral" refers to domesticated animals that have returned to the wild.

Yesterday, as I wandering the halls at my employer, I saw a nameplate that indicated this guy's last name was "Human." Whoa! How did that happen? It sounds like the name that you might get if you lived on a planet where the distribution of sentient beings was like the saloon scene in the first Star Wars movie.

UPDATE: A reader shared the following:

When I first found out about zabasearch, I started typing names in. My personal favorite result:

There was an "Elvis Presley" listed as living at the corporate headquarters of Genentech here in the bay area. (maybe a clone?)

On a more disturbing note, there was an "Adolpho Hitler" somewhere in Maine; his birthday was listed as 1912. I figure it's either a white supremacist that changed his name at some point, or a very stubborn man. (Could be a fake name for getting 12 records for a penny from BMI, I suppose; one never knows where the data comes from.)

UPDATE 2: Another reader reports:

Lakewood NJ Police dept has (or had, its been 8 years) a Sgt. Justice on the force. The big question then was if he were promoted to Capt, would he get a cape too.

UPDATE 3: Everyone has an example of this! Another reader:

The last time that I saw Sarah Dockter, she was talking about working on her Ph.D., but the one that takes the cake in my book was a grad student at MIT who was also a teaching assistant there in the 1980s. His name was "Simian Grader." Oh, old pal Jennifer Hoff married her
long-time pal Michael Beatin. The wedding nuptial in the Los Altos Town Crier read "Beatin-Hoff." I just found it, and now it has a comma.

Say the two names quickly, and go like on the H.