List from Encyclopedia of Fictional People:

Beetle Bailey (comic strip)
Boob McNutt (comic strip)
Zonker Harris (Doonesbury - comic strip)
Coalhouse Walker, Jr. (Ragtime)
Frank N. Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Lonesome Rhodes (A Face In The Crowd)
Buckaroo Banzai (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! - film)
Opie Taylor (Andy Griffith Show)
Beaver Cleaver (Leave It To Beaver)
Binx Bolling (The Moviegoer - book)

Can you think of anymore? Let me add Waldo Geraldo Faldo (Family Matters)

Six (Blossom). Not that Blossom is normal, but Six?

Stabone "Boner" on Growing Pains
Skippy-Family Ties

Cosmo Kramer - Seinfeild
Gaylord Focker - Meet The Parents/Meet the Fockers

Topanga Lawrence
Dwayne Wayne
Wednesday Addams
Pugsley Addams
Ralph Malph

Hermes Katsopolis (Jesse on Full House)

Christmas Snow - Three's Company
Topanga Lawrence - Boy Meets World
Myrtle Urkel - Family Matters
Whitley Gilbert - A Different World

marion hill (ll cool j)- in the house
screech (dustin diamond)- saved the bell

Are you sure, that some of the names brought up here aren't just nick-names, so that the characters really have "normal" names? For example, wasn't Screech's real name "Samuel"? I have to agree with you on Six (whose real name was the equally weird "Sixty") and Topanga though, because these were so obviously the real names of these characters.

Whitey Whitney (Leave it to Beaver), whose real first name was Hubert.

Harold Harold (Samantha's driving instructor on Bewitched)

Muffy Tepperman (Jami Gertz) on Square Pegs

Boots St. Claire (Jami Gertz) on The Facts of Life

Actually, I love both names, but they are a bit unusual. :lol:

Beaver may have been a nickname - I recall a promo for the show when it was in reruns and the teacher asks, "Is that your given name," and he says, "Yes, ma'am, my brother gave it to me."

Then again, it could also be real - perhaps the parents couldn't think of a name, so Wally suggested it and, in desperation, they went along.

(Referencing a post on another topic, no, someone else can start a poll :-)

Beaver may have been a nickname - I recall a promo for the show when it was in reruns and the teacher asks, "Is that your given name," and he says, "Yes, ma'am, my brother gave it to me."

Then again, it could also be real - perhaps the parents couldn't think of a name, so Wally suggested it and, in desperation, they went along.

(Referencing a post on another topic, no, someone else can start a poll :-)

I think what happened in this case is that Beaver was in fact a nickname. His parents named him Theodore Cleaver. When Wally was a baby, he had trouble saying Theodore. Whenever he tried, it always came out as Beaver instead. That explains Beaver's remark about Wally giving him his nickname.

Later on, in the same episode, Wally types a message for Beaver's teacher and signs it 'Beaver's Mother' only to have Beaver correct him by saying, "She calls me Theodore". So that explains everything. His real name is Theodore. His nickname is Beaver. Got it?

Thanks, that makes sense now.

25-year-old memories aren't that good to work with anyway :-) Glad you cleared that up.