Natalie Weiner told name is too offensive, and other funny names

When your surname is too dirty: Twitter users named Weiner, Dickman, and Butts complain about having their ‘inappropriate’ names rejected by websites

• Twitter user Natalie Weiner tweeted that she couldn’t sign up for an account on a website because she received an error message about ‘offensive language’
• Other people with last names that have profane meanings chimed in to relate 

These days many websites have algorithms that can detect inappropriate language from ending up on the site — but what if that ‘inappropriate’ is part of your legal, given name? 

That’s an annoying reality that Twitter user Natalie Weiner knows only too well. The sports reporter for SB Nation was trying to sign up for an account on MaxPreps when she was automatically rejected, receiving an error message that told her that her name was ‘offensive’.

After tweeting about the mishap, she inspired dozens of other fortunately-named social media users to chime in with similar complaints.

The beginning of an Austin Powers joke… Twitter user Natalie Weiner received an error message saying that her name was considered ‘offensive language’

Not nice: Others who have faced similar problems chimed in, including Ben Schmuck

Contains profanity? Kyle Medick gets this ‘a lot’ because of his last name

Feel you: Several people with last name containing ‘dick’ have had issues

Ditto: Jen Dick was unable to RSVP to a webinar because of her name

The struggle is real: Quite a few people with the last name Cummings have been told their names are inappropriate

Wow: Arun Dikshit, in particular, faces double the problems

Luckily, Ms. Weiner had a sense of humor about the whole thing, writing, ‘This is without a doubt the best thing that’s ever happened to me.’ 

She shared a screengrab of the account creation page, with her information all typed in — and an error message that said: ‘Offensive language discovered in the last name field.’

She even tweeted at MaxPreps for support, writing, ‘Help my name is too offensive for your site.’

‘Teenagers can get creative,’ MaxPreps answered. ‘For now, please use W. We are going to unblock your last name but it may take a few days.’

While she got a solution, Ms. Weiner also got something much better: Responses from other Twitter users who griped about their own surnames being the butt of jokes and the target of profanity detectors.

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Falling behind: James Butts has noticeably left his last name off Twitter

Can relate: Ms. Dykes jokingly posted a GIF showing her solidarity

Chill: Philip Sporn’s last name isn’t ‘dirty,’ but if you take away the ‘S,’ it can set off some profanity sensors

Rude: The worst thing about this one is that ‘gay’ isn’t actually profanity

Lots of them: James Ho tweeted that he wanted to join the club, too

On a related note: Someone shared a grab of another woman name Megan Finger, whose school automatically assigned her the email address ‘fingerme’

‘Happens to me all the time,’ wrote a man named Ben Schmuck. (Schmuck is a Yiddish word often used to mean ‘jerk’ — though is more literally a term for male anatomy.)

‘I get this a lot surprisingly,’ said a man named Kyle Medick.

Jen Dick wrote: ‘I had the same damn thing happen to me today when I tried to RSVP for a webinar.’

‘As a person named James Butts, I know these problems,’ wrote another man, who last name is conspicuously absent from his Twitter title. 

‘When I got my computer I had to set my last name as “Spron” because Sporn contains offensive language,’ wrote a man named Philip Sporn. 

Many others spoke up, too, pointing to last names like Dickman, Dykes, Cummings, and even Dikshit.

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