In high school I met a kid from a neighboring high school with the name Mike Hawk... No kidding.

Nice kid, but unfortunately he took a lot of crap. What the heck were the parents thinking when they plastered that name on him?

A gal I went to school with had the nickname BJ (you can guess why). Everybody called her Beej though. Kinda weird to see this gal 20 years later and I almost called her by her nickname.