Funny Names, Comical Names
Names with funny meanings. Names that cause sniggers and gasps.
 
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• UNISEX:

  1. CAM: Nickname for Scottish unisex Cameron, meaning "crooked nose."

  2. CAMERON: "Crooked nose." Scottish surname transferred to unisex forename use, originally from the name of an ancestor having an ungraceful proboscis.

  3. CAMRON: English variant of Scottish unisex Cameron, meaning "crooked nose."

  4. CORTNEY: Variant of English unisex Courtney, meaning "short nose."

  5. COURTNEY: "Short nose." English surname, of French origin, transferred to unisex forename use. Derived from the baronial name, itself from any of a number of place names called Courtenay which got their name from the nickname court nez, meaning "short nose." 

  6. KENNEDY: Surname transferred to unisex forename use in honor of the assassinated American president John F. Kennedy. The name is an English form of the Irish/Gaelic forename Cinnéidigh, meaning "ugly head."

  7. KORTNEY: Variant of English unisex Courtney, meaning "short nose."
  8. KOURTNEY: Variant of English unisex Courtney, meaning "short nose."

• MALE:

  1. BABIECA: "A simpleton; stupid." This was the name of the white Andalusian steed belonging to El Cid. According to legend, Babieca was frail and wild and when El Cid chose her, his godfather exclaimed "Babieca!" and so this became his name. Babieca, however, was not stupid; he became a great and famous warhorse and El Cid loved him so much he requested that Babieca be buried with him in the monastery of San Pedro de Cardena; unfortunately, his wish was not granted. Instead he was buried before the gate of the monastery and two elms were planted to mark the site.

  2. BALLARD: "Bald-headed." Old English and Scottish derogatory nickname for a bald-headed person, turned surname, turned forename, derived from Middle English balled, meaning "rounded like a ball."

  3. BAMBER: German nickname for a short, fat person. Also an English surname meaning "tree trunk."

  4. BASSETT: "Little short/low one." English name derived from Old French word basset, the diminutive of basse, meaning "low; short," used as a nickname for a short person.

  5. CADE: English surname transferred to forename use, itself originally a nickname for something "round and lumpy."

  6. CAL: Nickname for English Calvin, meaning "little bald one."

  7. CALBHACH: Irish/Gaelic name meaning "bald."

  8. CALVAGH: Variant of Irish/Gaelic Calbhach, meaning "bald."

  9. CALVIN: "Little bald one." English name derived from the French surname Chauvin, itself from a diminutive of Norman calve, meaning "bald."

  10. CALVINO: Italian form of Calvin, meaning "little bald one."

  11. CAMP: English nickname for Campbell "crooked mouth" or Campion "champion."

  12. CAMPBELL: "Crooked mouth." Scottish surname transferred to forename use, from Gaelic cam "bent, crooked" and beul "mouth."

  13. CINNEIDIGH (Cinnéidigh): "Ugly head." Irish/Gaelic name composed of the elements ceann "head" and éidigh "ugly." This is the name from which Kennedy was derived.

  14. CRAWFORD: "Crow-foot." English byname (for someone with splayed feet) transferred to surname and finally forename use, composed of the Old English elements crawe "crow" and fot "foot." 

  15. CULHWCH: "Pig run" (from cul "narrow thing" and hwch "sow, pig"). Welsh myth name of a cousin of King Arthur and hero of the story Culhwch and Olwen. While still pregnant with Culhwch, Goleuddydd went mad after being frightened by a herd of swine. Culhwch is found in the pigs' run by the swineherd and taken to his father. Years later, his stepmother wants him to marry her daughter; angered by his refusal, she curses him so that he can never marry anyone but the beautiful Olwen, daughter of Ysbaddaden, a fierce giant who will die if his daughter ever marries. 

  16. GWEMBESHE: African Zulu name meaning "bow-legged."

  17. HEPHAESTUS: Latin form of Greek Hephaistos, of unknown origin, but having the fixed epithet "both feet crooked." 

  18. HEPHAISTOS: Greek myth name of the lame god of artisans, craftsmen, metallurgy and fire. Equivalent of Roman Vulcan. It was from this god's forge that Prometheus stole fire to give to man. His name is said to be pre-Hellenic and of unknown origin, but the fixed epithet for his name used by Homer, Hesiod and other classical authors is "both feet crooked." 

  19. HOYT: English nickname for a tall, skinny person, turned surname turned forename, from Middle English hoit, meaning "long stick."

  20. KADE: Variant of English Cade, "round and lumpy."

  21. KAM: Nickname for English unisex Kameron, meaning "crooked nose."

  22. KAMERON: English masculine form of unisex Cameron, meaning "crooked nose."

  23. KNUTR (Knútr): Old Norse name meaning "knot." This was originally a nickname for a short, squat man.

  24. KORACH: Original Hebrew form of biblical Korah, meaning "bald."

  25. KORAH: Biblical name of a Levite who led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron, meaning "bald."

  26. MIKIO: Japanese name meaning "tree trunk man."

  27. NAPOLEON: French form of Italian Napoleone, a very rare name borne by a short emperor (5'6"), usually translated as "lion of Naples" but only because of its association with Italian Napoli "Naples" and leone "lion." Etymologists now believe the name to be of Germanic origin, from elvish Nibelungen "sons of the mist," the name of a race of dwarfs; thus, a more accurate translation for our short emperor's name would be "elf, dwarf, Nibelung."

  28. PORCIUS: Roman family name, meaning "pig."

• FEMALE:

  1. CALVINA: Feminine form of of Italian Calvino, meaning "little bald one."

  2. CAMRYN: English feminine variant of Scottish unisex Cameron, meaning "crooked nose."

  3. CORIANDER: "Resembling a bedbug." English spice name (also commonly called Cilantro) derived from Latin coriandrum, itself from Greek corys "bedbug," with the added element -ander "resembling," which refers to the smell of the spice which is similar to the odor of bedbugs.

  4. KAMRYN: English feminine form of unisex Cameron, meaning "crooked nose."

  5. PORSCHE: Variant of Portia, meaning "pig."
  6. PORTIA: Shakespeare character name derived from Roman Porcius, meaning "pig." A moon of Uranus was named after the Shakespeare character.

  7. SEQUOIA: "Pig's foot." From the Native American Cherokee name of the giant redwood trees that grow in California. The tree was named after the half-blooded scholar George Gist, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. The name Sequoia was given to him after a hunting accident which disfigured his foot.