The phrase "amusing name" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a name that is funny or entertaining in some way.
Example: "The character in the story had an amusing name that made everyone laugh."
Alternatives: "funny name" or "entertaining name".
Lest you think that I'm just trying to get an easy laugh out of a mildly amusing name, let me assure you: you are quite right.
A vegetarian alternative would be agar-agar, which not only is kinder to the animals, but also has an amusing name.
It might be a far more amusing name if it wasn't for nearly every off-field scandal involving an NRL player ever.
The amusing name refers to its divided leaves, not its appetite, but I am also fond of the way it decorates your shoelaces with burrs that stick like hedgehogs in a football net.
The amusing name itself comes from how much a driver or rider says they like to talk and share on their rides.
This just landed in our inbox: a pitch for a new URL shortener with the slightly amusing name Bu.tt, which is of course described by its creator – John McKinnon – as a shortening service that "kicks it".
(They were also one of several Victorian-era architectural partnerships with amusing names: Boring & Tilton, Hill & Stout, Harde & Short).
Halfway through the book there is a long episode about a cricket match played between Britannula and a touring team from England, which gives Trollope an opportunity to indulge his penchant for amusing names (Lord Marylebone and Sir Kennington Oval) and to fantasise about the future development of the game.
Women's wrestling was always only one step ahead of the law, close to the boundary of pornography, and many of Mr. Leen's characters have amusing names: Buffalo Boy Zimm, Ed (Strangler) Lewis, Gladys (Kill 'em) Gillem, the Halitosis Kid and Slave Girl Moolah (née Lillian Ellison).
I had been expecting maybe an hour of her time, but somehow we ended up spending the entire day together: I was pressed to drink bottles of wine she had picked for their rude or amusing names (she didn't drink – saying she couldn't trust her addictive personality).
Doctors have a not-so-amusing name for this common plague of women in the throes of a new sexual relationship: They call it honeymoon cystitis.
