Fun fact: The name Dooku is pronounced the same way as the portuguese words "do cu", which means "from the butthole" or "of butthole"

Here they changed his name to Dookan precisely to avoid people from snickering.

From that same movie we also had Master Sifo-Dyas, which sounds like "se fodia", which in portuguese means "kept getting fucked", or maybe more literally "kept fucking himself".

That one they changed to Zaifo-Vias, but I watched it subtitled and I knew what I heard, the Master Kept-Getting-Fucked trained the Count of Butthole, that's what you said Lucas.

Miles Kilo, son of Liter(Litre) Quart.

That is awesome. XD
And, yeah, Lucas was never very good at coming up with names -- a lot of the throw-away characters and alien races from the original films wound up with names that are rather embarrassing in hindsight: Klaatu, Barada, Mon Calamari, and plenty more.

P.S.: "Dooku" doesn't sound much more dignified in English -- it's very close to "dookie", a slang term for feces. ;D

Stupid names are part of the fun. Hiro Protagonist from Snow Crash is a favourite of mine.

When it comes to names reality is definitely stranger than fiction....

The dumbest stupid name i ever heard was Olyphant!

Then there is Seinfeld.... wtf?

Oh and i really hate Lloyd .... one L is not good enough for those snobs! lol

Well, katniss is actually a plant, also known as arrowhead, which fits with the character (likely why the author chose the name). As well, it fits with the naming convention in the family, since her sister was also named after a plant (Primrose).

These were taken just as a reference to the phrase from the film "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Thats actually a good porn star name :D

I stopped trying to tell everything apart shortly before I gave up on playing altogether because I had no sense of progress whatsoever. That game is way too big.

It's a very different thing when the story is silly, and everything is meant tu be humorus. Paradoxically, I think the names meant to be funny are never quite as funny as something like Cypher Raige or Cormoran Strike, ridiculous names you're supposed to take seriously.

Maybe that's why Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire is so popular. Most of the places and people sound like actual places and people, with the exception of the exotic ones which sound unusual and exotic, as they should.

One of R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt novels has a villain called Roddy McGristle. Yes, really.

I am shocked that nobody has brought up Steven Seagal, but then we do seem to have taken a sci-fi / fantasy slant to all this. Here's a list of some of his characters, just about all of them as generic as you can get (My favourite is "Mason Storm"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal#Films

"Cock Puncher"

Beautiful.