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!

If you’re looking for the name of a visible thing instead, please try the symbols category.

Adam

puns with “likeness” & “in disguise of”

Aeneas

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

Ahasuerus

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

Al-Qaeda

puns with “the leaders”

Alcazar

is the Spanish-Arabic version of “castro”

Amun

means “hidden” & “secret”

Anunnaki

pun with **“aristocrats

Apophis

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

Armstrong

may be a pun

Ashkenaz

puns with “nobleman” or “hidden person”

Athena

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

Atlantis

puns with “unnoticed” & “hidden”

Ayatollah Khomeini

puns with “an emulated sign of God”

Baker

is similar “banker”

Bar Mitzvah

puns with Bar Masveh which means “masked agent”

Baum

puns with “among the people”, “with a veil”

Berg

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

Bernstein

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

Bloomberg

puns with “veiled heritage”

Blum

puns with velum & balam vor “veil”

Caesar

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

Carpenter

puns with “feigning to be someone else”

Castro

means “palace”

Chaos

is bad because it puns with “truth”

Chinese surnames for Jews

all pun with “veil” & “cover”

Claudius

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

Columbus

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

Copernicus

means “covered-up wealth”

Dagon

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

David

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

Delilah

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

Elohim

means “rulers”

Elon Musk

means “masked majesty”

Esther

means “hidden” & “veil”

Eve

puns with “life”, “show”, and “snake”

Field

may be a pun with “veiled”

Friedman

puns with “secret man”

Fuller

puns with “palace”

Galileo Galilei

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

Garden Eden

may be a pun with “hidden luxury”

Gold

puns with “imitation” & “covering”

Goliath

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

Great leap forward

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

Greenspan

puns with “hidden power” & “hidden finance”

Halakha

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

Halloween

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

Haman

puns with “the crowds” & “the masses”

Hathor

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

History

puns with histrionic meaning “theater”

Homer

puns with “veil”

Horus

means “face”, but also “leader”

Houdini

puns with “leader”

Hundred flowers campaign

puns with “defeat the people”

Isaac

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

Ishtar

means “privities”, and is therefore nude

Israel

may be a multi-pun meaning “veiled assistant” and “veiled ruler”

Jacob

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

Jagiellon

means “highest aristocrat”

Jesuits

pun with “spies”

Jew

means “leader” & “majesty”

Joseph

means “debt” & “forgery”

Kafka

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

Katzen

puns with “appointed ruler”

Katzenellenbogen

puns with “high governor in disguise”

Kennedy

means “covered leader”

Kimball

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

Koch

puns with “power”!!!

Kohen

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

Komnene

is a pun with “hidden” & “lurking”

Levi

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

Lieutenant colonel

puns with “undercover agent”

Lindemann

puns with the aristocratic title lendmann

Livingstone

is a variant of Levi

Loewenstein

is a variant of Levi

Malcolm

puns with “secret governor”

Man

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

Mao Zedong

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

Maria

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

Marx

puns with “capitalist” & “commerce”

Maske

is a name yet means “mask”

Matrilineage

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

Min

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

Mishnah

puns with “disguise”

Mitsraim

means Egypt, but is spelled like “the slaves”

Mitzvah

puns with “veil” & “mask”

Mordecai

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

Morgan

means “hidden leader”

Morris

means “from the top”

Naval Intelligence

puns with “fooling the people”

Nazir

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

Nephilim

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

Newton

translates as “Carthage” in Phoenician

Nixon

puns with “wealth”

Noah

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

Osama bin Laden

puns with “produced violence”

Osiris

puns with “power” & “wealth”

Pegida

puns with “deceit”

Philistines

puns with “investigation” & “detection”

Phoenician

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

Poseidon

puns with pseudon, which means “falsehood”

Punny names of Egyptian gods

all have meanings that correspond to the animal heads

Punny names of Phoenician gods

all have nasty hidden meanings

Purim

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

Ra the Egyptian god

puns with “aristocracy”

Rabbi

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

Rasputin

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

Rice

puns with “head” & “boss”

Rockefeller

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

Roosevelt

puns with “veiled leader” & “born leader”

Rose

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

Rosen

puns with Semitic rozen meaning “ruler”

Rosh Hashanah

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

Rothschild

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

Rubinstein

puns with “disguised lord”

Sachs

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

Sagan

means “installed deputy governor”

Samson

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

Satan

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

Savoy

puns with “veil” in Czech

Schaeffer

means “steward”

Schleier

is a name yet means “veil”

Seinfeld

puns with “veiled appearance”

Semitic

script is really used as a semiotic script

Sepharad

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

Seth the Egyptian god

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

Shakira

puns with “liar” & “fraud”

Shalom

puns with “secrecy”

Shapiro

means “nobility”

Simeon

puns with “playing” & “joking”

Son of Ra

can be read as “a deception for the nobility”

Springer

is a translation of “Phoenician”

Stein

puns with “disguised”

Strauss

puns with “guardian” & “custodian”

Tacitus

means “hidden” & “secret”

Taliban

means “students”, but also “mockers”

Talmud

puns with “deception”

Tanit

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

Taylor

may be a pun with teller meaning “banker”

Teacher

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

Thoth

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

Vashti

puns with “exposed” & “disgraced”

Walker

is a synonym for “fuller”

Wallenstein

puns with “veiled” & “disguised”

Weaver

may be a pun with shapiro meaning “noble”

Wizard

puns with “vizard”

Yahweh

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

Yom Kippur

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

Zucker

puns with “liar” & “fraud”