Punny Name
Sometimes, a name isn't exactly meaningful or hiding something, but there's still something about it that is weird. And then you read it really fast, and go, "Oh!" and have your chuckle over the pun.
Pun names are just that: Names that make puns. They don't have to be Meaningful Names, but often are. An overlap would be a baseball player named Homer (of which there have been several actual Major League Baseball players with that moniker, although a few were pitchers).
The pun name is a staple of the prank caller, who will disguise it just right so the other guy doesn't get the pun until he blurts it out.
A subtrope is Sir Verb-a-Lot. An...read more