Unfortunate names (in science and elsewhere)

Just the other day, my friend was talking about how Chinese names were a big pain when it came to scientific publications. If you want to look up a publication by someone with a common name, youre likely to get hit by a huge number of results (Zhang W retrieves 8180 results). Some enterprising and less-than-honest people have apparently also tried bulking up their CVs by citing others' publications as theirs (Hey, that Zhang W is really me). Worse, sometimes you can get repeats, like this, which really screws you up (once you look past the Li Y, Li H, Li L and Li X):

Detection of HPV types and neutralizing antibodies in Gansu province, China.
Wu X, Zhang C, Feng S, Liu C, Li Y, Yang Y, Gao J, Li H, Meng S, Li L, Zhang Y, Hu X, Wu X, Lin L, Li X, Wang Y.
J Med Virol. 2009 Feb 23;81(4):693-702

We'll see if solutions like UAIN actually get implemented some day.

But anyways, I happened to mention this to pushupdad, and he responded saying it wasn't as bad as being stuck with a name like Thanjavoor Sivaramakrishnan. Or Govindarajan Ananthanarayanan. Turns out though that South Indians aren't the only ones stuck with lousy names. There is a little passage in Freakonomics where they talk about kids being named Shithead (pron. Shuh-teed) and Orangeade by incredibly short-sighted, I would go so far as to say vengeful, parents. Now, pushupdad being who he is, went on to search for, and forward to me his list of top unfortunate names from the UK:

Stan Still,
Helen Back,
Terry Bull,
Tim Burr, ,
Barry Cade,
Mary Christmas,
Chris Cross,
Ray Gunn,
Jo King (and his brother Lee King),
Justin Case,

And my favorite duo: Will Power (and the other half of the superhero team, Max Power)

Speaking of all this stuff, I came across another delightful little tidbit (h/t pushupdad):

Q: What do you call a Jamaican Proctologist?
A:Pokey-mon

Update: As reader Ampa points out, Brad Pitt's sister Cess. Very funny. But not as funny as this guy (WHO I KNOW) who's name is Hung Rong...