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29 very funny and completely genuine names that border on the unbelievable

Poke Staff. Updated March 28th, 2025

Most of us have seen the viral clip of The Chase host Bradley Walsh in tears of laughter at a question referencing former Alpine skier Fanny Chmelar (pronounced Shmeller), and we can’t blame him.

If one name could do that to him, we’d love to see him try to read through a few of the posts from the Actual Names account, which describes itself like this –

Purveyor of the finest in luxury silly names from genealogical and other sources.

Like it says on the tin, they’re actual names, but you could be forgiven for thinking they were collected from phone calls Bart Simpson has made to Moe’s Tavern.

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No thanks. I’ve lost my appetite.

Give them a follow to keep track of even more incredibly odd names.

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