There’s names and there’s names. I like to think that I was pretty lucky, being born as a girl. Apart from the fact that gender changes are terribly expensive, my parents would have called me Jodok had I become a boy. And I would have hated them for eternity if they had done that to me.

Other people were not so lucky. And I’m not sure if their gender would have changed anything. Here’s a round-up of the really weird stuff.

Nicholas Barbon. Yeah, I know. Not that awkward. But his second name is Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned. But what can you expect, his father’s name was Praise-God Barebone. I’d say, the nuttery lies in the family.

Parents using their children to prove a point? Never a good idea. But condemning a child to being named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 [pronounced Albin] is cruelty in it’s purest form. The parents didn’t want to officially name Brf, in protest against the Swedish Naming laws.

Because the parents failed to register a name by the boy’s fifth birthday, a district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden, fined them 5,000 kronor. Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name in May 1996, claiming that it was “a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation.” The parents suggested the name be understood in the spirit of ‘pataphysics. The court rejected the name and upheld the fine.

Because his father, a sailor and emigrant, didn’t want to be reminded of anything English, Thursday October Christian was the one who always got beat up in school.

Neville Neville. At least, he only has to remember one name.

Jennifer 8. Lee can be lucky that she’s not in the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth.

Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache and his brother Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache. And I’m pretty sure that Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville was somehow related as well. Need I say more?

Well, if you don’t have enough yet, here’s a list of unusual personal names. And there’s Cracked’s 20 Most Bizarre Celebrity Baby Names. (Tu Morrow is all I’m gonna say.)