Not long ago, I knew someone with the surname ...well, to spare any blushes,we shall say her surname was 'Ucker'.
She gave birth to a lovely little girl ... and named her 'Faye'.
We all know of a real-life eyebrow-raising name or two but Potty, Fartwell and Knob - now out in paperback - is a phone directory full of them.
Former Bedford Modern pupil Author Russell Ash has carved out a niche for himself as a miscellarian (which he describes as 'a writer of this and that').
His notorious 'Bizarre Books' (a collection of publishing's worst follies) has been continuously in print since 1985.
Mr Ash said: "Odd it may be, but nothing like Potty, Fartwell and Knob had ever been done before and it worked - it has been reprinted seven times in the past year." Mr Ash scoured archives and registers up and down the land.
The chapter 'Thickies, Bastards and Bitches' contains such unfortunates as Friendless Baxter and Martha Manky.
In 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' you will meet Aberycusgentylis Balthropp (Baptised 'Iver'), Minniehaha Clements and Edward Mowgwong Quack.
The sections on rude names includes (Readers of a nervous disposition stop here).
Fanny Felcher, Dick Myass, Rosetta Cock, Dick Beater and the, er, unbeatable John Thomas Massage.
There are hundreds of others in this marvellously entertaining book. Local readers may find (wisely?) forgotten ancestors, such as Jane Tarty (Biggleswade, 1861).
I laughed like a drain from start to finish.
I am sure you will too - unless you have a funny name in which case get in touch with Mr Ash, because he is already planning a sequel.
(Oh, and Mrs Ucker finally saw the light and changed her baby daughter's name by deed poll and no, not to 'Sophie').
Potty, Fartwell and Knob: Headline Books, £6.99, pp336, ISBN 978-0-7553-1655-7