Caryn Johnson, named after a fart. She's not a Jew. She's not even "Jew ish"
She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. ... So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from."