Names

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This category lists punny names of people, particularly Bible names, theonyms and more modern spook names, which are often titles as well. It also includes names of professions, places and other abstract things. They’re all puns!

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Adam

puns with “likeness” & “in disguise of”

🏷  Adam Bible name Genesis Semitic pun name

Aeneas

is the same spelling as “bronze”, hinting at Phoenician bronze traders founding Rome

🏷  Greek Latin pun name

Ahasuerus

puns with “perceived ruler” (as opposed to real one)

🏷  Bible name Esther Persian pun name

Al-Qaeda

★☆

puns with “the leaders”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun recommended name

Alcazar

is the Spanish-Arabic version of “castro”

🏷  Semitic castro hidden ruler pun spook name name

Amun

means “hidden” & “secret”

🏷  Egyptian divine name hidden ruler pun name

Apophis

puns with “exploration” & “reckoning” — which is what aristocrats fear most

🏷  Egyptian mythical creature pun spook enemy name

Armstrong

translates into “godseed”, and puns with Israel

🏷  English Semitic pun spook name name

Ashkenaz

puns with “hidden lord” or “finance person”

🏷  Bible name Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Athena

is a multi-pun with “intelligence”, “gazing” and similar words

🏷  Greek divine name pun name

Atlantis

★☆

puns with “unnoticed” & “hidden”

🏷  Greek Semitic pun recommended name

Ayatollah Khomeini

puns with “an emulated sign of God”

🏷  Persian pun spook name name

Baker

is similar “banker”

🏷  English fake job pun spook name name

Bar Mitzvah

puns with Bar Masveh which means “masked agent”

🏷  Semitic festival pun name

Baum

puns with “with a veil”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Berg

puns with burqa meaning “concealed”, “masked”, “background”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Bernstein

puns perhaps with “disguised baron”, or “cloak of disguise”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Bloomberg

puns with “veiled heritage”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Blum

puns with velum & balam vor “veil”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Caesar

puns with ceasura for “cut”, cessero for “retire”, castro for “palace”

🏷  Latin castro hidden ruler pun spook name name

Carpenter

puns with “feigning to be someone else”

🏷  Semitic fake job hidden ruler pun spook name name

Castro

means “palace”

🏷  Semitic castro hidden ruler pun spook name name

Chaos

is bad because it puns with “truth”

🏷  Greek pun spook enemy name

Chinese surnames for Jews

all pun with “veil” & “cover”

🏷  Chinese pun name

Claudius

puns with “locked up” & “disappeared” in Semitic

🏷  Greek Latin Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Columbus

puns with kollubos for “exchange”, and collybista for “banker”

🏷  Greek Latin Semitic pun name

Copernicus

means “covered-up wealth”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Dagon

★☆

means “fish” & “cloaked”, and wears a fish cloak

🏷  Egyptian Semitic divine name hidden ruler pun recommended name

David

puns with “beloved”, “hurling”, and “concealed”

🏷  Bible name Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Delilah

puns with “weakening” by “tearing off” a veil

🏷  Bible name Samson Semitic pun spook enemy name

Elohim

means “rulers”

🏷  Bible name Genesis divine name hidden ruler pun name

Elon Musk

means “masked majesty”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Esther

★☆

means “hidden” & “veil”

🏷  Bible name Esther Persian Semitic hidden ruler pun recommended name

Eve

puns with “life”, “show”, and “snake”

🏷  Bible name Genesis Semitic pun name

Field

may be a pun with “veiled”

🏷  English hidden ruler pun spook name name

Friedman

puns with “secret man”

🏷  Semitic pun name

Fuller

puns with “palace”

🏷  Semitic castro fake job hidden ruler pun spook name name

Galileo Galilei

is Semitic for “revealing the revolving”, which is what he did

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Garden Eden

may be a pun with “hidden luxury”

🏷  Bible name Genesis Semitic pun name

Gold

puns with “imitation” & “covering”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Goliath

puns with with “revealing” — that’s why he’s the enemy!

🏷  Bible name pun spook enemy name

Great leap forward

puns with “great famine” — which was the result!

🏷  Chinese pun name

Greenspan

puns with “hidden power” & “hidden finance”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Halakha

puns with “smoothening” & “improving one’s appearance”

🏷  Semitic pun spook law name

Halloween

puns with “all-hollow event” & “veiled event”

🏷  English Semitic festival pun name

Haman

puns with “the crowds” & “the masses”

🏷  Bible name Esther Semitic pun spook enemy name

Hathor

puns with “heavenly cow”, but also with “butchering rebels”

🏷  Egyptian divine name pun name

History

puns with histrionic meaning “theater”

🏷  Latin pun name

Homer

puns with “veil”

🏷  Samson Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Horus

means “face”, but also “leader”

🏷  Egyptian divine name hidden ruler pun name

Houdini

puns with “leader”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler spook name name

Hundred flowers campaign

puns with “defeat the people”

🏷  Chinese pun name

Isaac

means “actor”, derived from “playing” & “mockery”

🏷  Bible name Semitic pun name

Ishtar

means “privities”, and is therefore nude

🏷  Semitic divine name pun name

Israel

is a multi-pun meaning “veiled assistant”, “veiled ruler”, “godseed”

🏷  Bible name Semitic pun name

Jacob

means “heel”, but also “supplanting”, “insidious”, “deceitful”, “crooked”

🏷  Bible name Semitic pun name

Jagiellon

means “highest aristocrat”

🏷  Semitic Turkish hidden ruler pun spook name name

Jesuits

pun with “spies”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Jew

means “leader” & “majesty”

🏷  Bible name Greek Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Joseph

means “debt” & “forgery”

🏷  Bible name Semitic pun name

Kafka

puns with “minting” coins, i.e. banking

🏷  Slavic pun name

Katzen

puns with “appointed ruler”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Katzenellenbogen

puns with “high governor in disguise”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Kennedy

★☆

means “covered leader”

🏷  Celtic hidden ruler recommended spook name name

Kimball

seems to be the Phoenician name Kim-Baal, which puns with “masked lord”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Koch

puns with “power”!!!

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Kohen

means “priest”, “ruler” & “enrichment”, and puns with “fake name”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Komnene

is a pun with “hidden” & “lurking”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Levi

means “moneylender”, and puns with “mocking” & “playing”

🏷  Bible name Greek Levi Semitic pun name

Lieutenant colonel

puns with “undercover agent”

🏷  Semitic pun name

Lindemann

puns with the aristocratic title lendmann

🏷  German Norwegian spook name name

Livingstone

is a variant of Levi

🏷  Levi Semitic spook name name

Loewenstein

is a variant of Levi

🏷  Levi Semitic spook name name

Malcolm

puns with “secret governor”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Man

is a translation of Adam whose name also means “disguise”

🏷  Adam Semitic pun spook name name

Mao Zedong

puns with “feigning the appearance of a worker”, his family are puns too

🏷  Chinese pun spook name name

Maria

is the female form “lady” as in “lord”, and puns with “imitation”

🏷  Bible name Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Marx

puns with “capitalist” & “commerce”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Maske

is a name yet means “mask”

🏷  German pun spook name name

Matrilineage

in Judaism is often touted, but really a spook pun with “hidden lineage”

🏷  Semitic pun spook law name

Min

is a dead guy with an erection, because he puns with “death” & “erected monument”

🏷  Egyptian divine name pun name

Mishnah

puns with “disguise”

🏷  Semitic numerology pun spook law name

Mitsraim

means Egypt, but is spelled like “the slaves”

🏷  Bible name Egyptian Semitic pun spook enemy name

Mitzvah

puns with “veil” & “mask”

🏷  Semitic pun name

Mordecai

may pun with “legal master” & “feigning innocence”

🏷  Bible name Esther Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Morgan

means “hidden leader”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Morris

means “from the top”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Naval Intelligence

puns with “fooling the people”

🏷  Semitic pun name

Nazir

is a multi-pun of an “estranged” “veiled” “overseer”

🏷  Samson Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Nephilim

pun with “distinguished ones” & “obscured ones”, i.e. aristocratic spooks

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler mythical creature pun name

Newton

translates as “Carthage” in Phoenician

🏷  Greek Semitic spook name name

Nixon

puns with “wealth”

🏷  Semitic phoenix pun spook name name

Noah

means “leader” & “eminency”, but also “abandoning” the population and “putting it down”

🏷  Bible name Noah Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Osama bin Laden

puns with “produced violence”

🏷  Semitic pun name

Osiris

puns with “power” & “wealth”

🏷  Egyptian divine name pun name

Pegida

puns with “deceit”

🏷  Semitic pun name

Philistines

puns with “investigation” & “detection”

🏷  Bible name Samson Semitic pun spook enemy name

Phoenician

★☆

may be derived from “turners of wealth”, and puns with “finance” & “fraud”

🏷  Greek Latin Sanskrit Semitic phoenix pun recommended name

Poseidon

puns with pseudon, which means “falsehood”

🏷  Greek divine name pun name

Punny names of Egyptian gods

all have meanings that correspond to the animal heads

🏷  Egyptian divine name list pun name

Punny names of Phoenician gods

all have nasty hidden meanings

🏷  Semitic divine name list pun name

Purim

is about masking & cloaking, and puns with “masking” & “cloaking”

🏷  Esther Semitic festival pun name

Ra the Egyptian god

puns with “aristocracy”

🏷  Egyptian divine name hidden ruler pun name

Rabbi

is the same word as “master”, “lord”, “nobleman”, “usurer”

🏷  Semitic fake job hidden ruler pun spook name name

Rasputin

puns with “hoax” — and the history woven around him was just such a hoax!

🏷  Semitic Slavic pun spook name name

Rice

puns with “head” & “boss”

🏷  Semitic Turkish hidden ruler spook name name

Rockefeller

may be a synonym-translation of “oil czar”, via “petro caesar”

🏷  Latin pun spook name name

Roosevelt

puns with “veiled leader” & “born leader”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Rose

puns with “head”, “boss”, “baron”, “prince”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Rosen

puns with Semitic rozen meaning “ruler”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Rosh Hashanah

means “start of the year”, but also “disguised leader”

🏷  Semitic festival pun name

Rothschild

puns with “bankster-governor” & “family of banksters”

🏷  English German Slavic pun spook name name

Rubinstein

puns with “disguised lord”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Sachs

puns with “nobility” & “character in a play”

🏷  Persian Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Sagan

means “installed deputy governor”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Samson

can be read as “masked power”, “veiled one”, “locks of disguise”

🏷  Bible name Samson Semitic hidden ruler pun name

Satan

★☆

means “enemy”, and is a multi-pun of all words written S-T-N

🏷  Bible name Semitic pun recommended name

Savoy

puns with “veil” in Czech

🏷  Slavic pun name

Schaeffer

means “steward”

🏷  German pun spook name name

Schleier

is a name yet means “veil”

🏷  German pun spook name name

Seinfeld

puns with “veiled appearance”

🏷  English German Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Semitic

script is really used as a semiotic script

🏷  English Greek pun name

Sepharad

means “separated”, “veiled”, “deceiver” and “moneychanger”

🏷  Bible name Persian Semitic pun name

Seth the Egyptian god

is evil, as he puns with “attacker”, “disorder”, “lead astray”

🏷  Egyptian divine name hidden ruler pun name

Shakira

puns with “liar” & “fraud”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Shalom

puns with “secrecy”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name

Shapiro

means “nobility”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Simeon

puns with “playing” & “joking”

🏷  Bible name Semitic pun name

Son of Ra

can be read as “secret custodian”

🏷  Egyptian hidden ruler pun name

Springer

is a translation of “Phoenician”

🏷  Semitic phoenix pun spook name name

Stein

puns with “disguised”

🏷  Semitic hidden ruler pun spook name name

Strauss

★☆

puns with “guardian” & “custodian”

🏷  Slavic hidden ruler pun recommended spook name name

Tacitus

means “hidden” & “secret”

🏷  Latin hidden ruler pun name

Taliban

means “students”, but also “mockers”

🏷  Levi Semitic pun name

Talmud

puns with “deception”

🏷  Semitic pun spook law name

Tanit

is a tiny figurine and also a carnivore, because she puns with all her symbols

🏷  Semitic divine name pun name

Taylor

may be a pun with teller meaning “banker”

🏷  English fake job hidden ruler pun spook name name

Teacher

is in Hebrew the same word as “lord” & “usurer”: rabbi

🏷  Semitic fake job hidden ruler pun spook name name

Thoth

puns with “downward”, “hidden”, “humiliation”, “instead of”

🏷  Egyptian divine name name

Vashti

puns with “exposed” & “disgraced”

🏷  Bible name Esther Persian Semitic pun name

Walker

is a synonym for “fuller”

🏷  Semitic castro fake job hidden ruler pun spook name name

Wallenstein

puns with “veiled” & “disguised”

🏷  Latin Semitic pun name

Wizard

puns with “vizard”

🏷  English pun name

Yahweh

means “I am”, but also puns with “hidden”, and other attributes of Yahweh

🏷  Bible name divine name hidden ruler pun name

Yom Kippur

means “day of atonement”, but also “covered people”

🏷  Semitic festival pun name

Zucker

puns with “liar” & “fraud”

🏷  Semitic pun spook name name