“Kody, But Spells It Chode”: 35 Names That Are Practically Asking For Trouble
Interview With ExpertBefore naming our cat, my partner and I debated for weeks about what we should call him. We thought long and hard about what name perfectly suited his personality, made extensive lists, asked friends for their opinions and played around with different options to make sure we chose the perfect one. I can’t even imagine how stressful it is to name a child. But apparently, some parents have no problem choosing names that essentially beg bullies to target their kids.
Redditors have recently been discussing the absolute worst names that children can be given, so we’ve gathered the most egregious ones below. Enjoy scrolling through this list of names that nobody should ever use, and keep reading to find a conversation with naming expert and founder of Namerology.com, Laura Wattenberg!
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X Æ A-12.
That is a crime against humanity. It looks like a porn channel password.
Meconium.
She heard nurse say it at the birth and thought it pretty. The definition is "a baby's first stool, usually black and tarry in nature, to dispel mucus and other embryonic matter." 🤦♀️.
The woman deserves prison and her name changed by court order into Turdy Hardstool.
Latrina.
this is like that Character in Robin Hood men in tights called Latrine the when the Sherriff asks her about it she says she changed it to Latrine it used to be s**t house
To learn a bit more about names and how to choose a great baby name, we got in touch with naming expert, founder of Namerology.com, and author of The Baby Name Wizard, Laura Wattenberg. Laura was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and remind readers that, thankfully, most of the names on this list are simply hypotheticals. "Even most of the claims of, 'I met a kid named…' are urban legends!" she noted.
The expert also says it's important to be empathetic when discussing names. "When it comes to real names, it’s always worth remembering there’s a real child attached. Don’t be too quick to insult a name, even online," she noted. "The child WILL find it, and it will hurt."
Neveah!
Have some f*****g creativity!
“It’S hEaVeN bAcKwArDs.
BRB naming my child Natas.
Foreigner. Given to an impossibly white kid in very rural Oklahoma. He and his brother Journey had strange parents.
I knew a child named, I kid you not, Cl*toris. They pronounced it Klit-ress.
When it comes to bad baby names, Laura says there are two kinds: "names that are not what the parents intended, and names used as a weapon."
"Parents occasionally choose a name not realizing the way it will come across to others. They may not know a word or a cultural reference and are blindsided by people’s reactions," the expert noted. "It can even come down to a matter of spelling, like Analie vs. Anally."
A lady I know named her son Kody, but spells it CHODE.. which means something completely different, imo.😂.
Candida - I know girls with it and I know it is wrong of me but can only think of thrush.
It just means "shiny white", super common in Roman and Medieval ages. It's now rare but it used to be common -both in male and female form- in Italy, France, and the Spanish speaking world. It also came to indicate someone as naive after the famous Voltaire's "Candide", leading to a decline in France, while a play by G.B. Shaw gave the name a decade of resurgence in the early XX century anglo-saxon cultural sphere.
"The rarer case is names chosen maliciously," Laura says. "For instance, I’ve heard of instances of a husband insisting on a particular girl’s name, only for his wife to later discover it was the name of the woman he was having an affair with. Then there was the family that chose Nazi names deliberately to upset people. No child should be used as a weapon."
I was a camp counselor. One of the campers there was a girl named Beanz.
Princess.
Not the absolute worst, but I don’t think I could ever take this person seriously. Please don’t give children names that you give pets.
But the good news is that, even if you truly hate your name, you can always have it changed. "More adults are changing their names than ever before," Laura shared. "Your name is your identity in word form; the way you’re presented to the world. If you honestly believe yours doesn’t represent you well, changing it can be a reasonable choice."
Any name that is an expensive item. Rolex, Cartier, Mercedes, Diamond. Those are just str*pper names.
Mercedes is/used to be (?) a traditional Spanish name. One of the engineers/founder used his daughter Mercedes' name as his nickname in motor races, and eventually it was used not only for the driver but also for the car brand.
Void. Could never write or cash checks with that name.
Lawr’ryn and Lylyt Yvyh Yryhl (read as 'Lilith Eva Uriel').
DOLPHIN. A girl at my school was named Dolphin.
"Delfina" used to be a common girl name in Italy, and still is in France in the form "Delphine". It is quite peculiar in the fact that it has two coexisting branches with two distinct origins: one from the Roman family name "Delphinus", meaning "From Delphi" (the OG in Greece, not Indiana's cheap knockoff); and one from a corruption or "Adelphinus", from "Adelphos", meaning "Little Brother", a name that used to be common among early christian communities.
I was once drunk in a Taco Bell, waiting for my order at the pickup counter. The employee comes over to announce the next order, goes to read the name on the bag, double takes.
“…Adolph?”
This m**********r walks up, head in shame. The employee literally said “that’s not funny” as the guy was trying to seriously explain that was his real name.
I think about that man often.
I remember a girl going viral for naming her daughter C*ntley.
Naming a kid *anything* that sounds like a joke—like "Brick" or "Banana"—is just setting them up for a tough time. Imagine going through life introducing yourself as “Banana”... nah, that’s just cruel. Keep it cute, not crazy!
Opponent of my son’s hs football team- Aero Smith.
It's also very, very probable there's someone named Lincoln (Linkin) Park.
There is a road in rural Ontario named after a local farmer, Harry Dyck. The road sign for Harry Dyck Road kept getting stolen. So they epoxy'd the sign to the post, and it remains to this day. True story.
That sounds like the small town "F.u.c.k.i.n.g" which was renamed to Fugging a few years ago.
There is a local gynecologist named Harold Beavers. I'm not joking either. I guess Harry's profession was predetermined from birth.
That's like the Ernst Wanke road in outer Melbourne (apparently pronounced Wan-kee)
Should be twinned with Twatt in Shetland (been there!)
Load More Replies...Harry Dyck…sounds like a great name for one of my Sims4 characters 😂
Harry Baals (November 16, 1886 – May 9, 1954) was an American politician who was the Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1934 to 1947, and from 1951 until his death in 1954.
The first sign I ever saw with another sign stating the penalties for stealing the sign was in Gay Michigan. How many times was the sign stolen before the penalty sign went up?
I grew up 20 miles from Gay, I’ve also been to the Gay bar 😁
Load More Replies...Hamilton, Ontario. Great place to watch the submarine races in Lake Ontario.
this reminds me of a bridge in a town near me that is named "harry tow bridge"
I don't get why this is so special. There are tons of people who call themselves 'D**k' in all earnest, this name is not even spelled with an 'i'.
It's addition of Harry (hairy) that makes it funny.
Load More Replies...My great grandmother was named Crucifixa. Gotta love Italian Catholics back in the day.
The correct form is "Crocifissa" and is in line with a lot of southern Italian religious devotional names such as "Addolorata" ("Painful", similar to Spanish "Dolores"), "Catena" ("Chain, shacked"), "Assunta" ("Assumed to heaven"), "Consolata" ("Consoled from pain"), "Veneranda" ("Venerable"), "Pia" ("Religious") etc. It's also a common name assumed by Nuns when they get ordered.
New Hampshire had a representative named D**k Swett (representative from 1991-1995 then served as the American ambassador to Denmark from 1998-2001).
He goes by Richard now.
Names I have came across over the years teaching…
B***h (no joke here)
Princess
Chlamydia
Shacked.
Did maintenance at a teaching hospital for a while. Passing through the Maternity ward, I've seen Tarzan, Puma, Aquanet, and my personal favorite... Brunhilde.
For a boy, Sue.
And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him... Bill or George! Any damn thing but Sue! I still hate that name!
These days, Alexa.
I know a girl called Alexa who was born 3 months before the gadget was released. Needless to say, parents were less than thrille with the named being ruined.
What the fock BP? I was reading a comment of my post in an other topic and at the end was, to read more subscribe to PREMIUM. Are you guys out of your effing mind? The topic is 50 fascinating old time photos
Yup they're really pushing it. I suspect soon unless you pay you'll not be able to access BP
Load More Replies...Some countries disallow dodgy names when the birth is registered. However a few names here are fine and well used historically. I'm thinking Hortense, Dorcas, Candida.
Candida is a traditional name? Like for humans, not fungi?
Load More Replies...Back in the old days, there was a trend in my country for naming people after modern things... like Telephone, or Tractor, or Radio, or even Napkin! There was also a period of absurd communism-inspired names, such as Barricade, Brigadier, Pioneer, Laborer, etc. Poor kids back then.
Would that be somewhere like Ukraine in the Soviet era? On QI a few years ago Stephen Fry asked 'Why wouldn't you name your son Power Station?' The answer was that during that era in Ukraine it was a girl's name, while Combine Harvester was a name for a boy.
Load More Replies...What's so funny about Biggus Dikus? I have very good friend in Rome called Biggus Dikus.
I'm still mildy peeved that a friend of mine who's last name is Power didn't call her son Max.. . ;-)
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Local politician is named Thaddeus Claggett. I don't follow how he's doing in his politician position, but I'm sorry, that is the most supervillain name I've ever heard in real life!
This has to be in the Deep South... he's probably the local klan leader.
Load More Replies...I meant someone once as a receptionist and they said their name was Rachel. When I went to write it down, she got very angry that I didn't spell it correctly. How she did she spell her name? Mckenna.
Thee odd names I've known. A boy named Barbie. A girl named Chlamydia. and My favorite my sisters friend was named Tuesday. Tuesdays parents let their 3 year old daughter who had a normal name, name her.
I'm going to tell my cousin, Buchanan (yes, that's his given name), that his name seems pretty tame right now compared to some of these Tragedeighs -_-"
Good, I hate it when they put fake names from Cartoons or something in these kinds of lists...
I was in school with 'Heather Bell' and 'Beverly Hill'. My Mam taught a child names Rhea. Her parent chose it to prevent her name being shortened. She was a talkative child, and her uncle called her 'Die-a' as she most definitely had verbal diarrhea.
My maiden name was Rhea and I was forever correcting people on its punctuation. It was just like 'Ray'.
Load More Replies...There is a composer and piano player named D**k Hyman... very talented musician, very unfortunate name
I wish I could tell you my niece and nephew's names, but someone would recognize them. Peak stupidity. Think about what the kid's peers are gonna do to them, it's tough enough being an adolescent without a moronic name. It's not my business, after all. I just smile and say nothing. Not my kids. But they will require therapy.
I used to work in a government office. The work often involved processing forms from the public. My workmates and I had a running list called the 'Name of the Day' (NOTD). We would add any name we came across that was oddly spelled, incomphensible or just plain dumb. There was a rule against any name that was clearly ethnic but when I retired I there was over 200 on the list. I think the name with the most variations was Siobhan but the one that stuck out for me was 'Caughtnee'.
I am a cake decorator so I write names on birthday cakes all day. I've seen some bad ones over the years. Most recently, Kynnydy, Word, Nymeria (not the worst, but of all the GoT characters to name your kid after, you picked a dog?!?!), and the worst was Anemone. She even clarified "like the sea creature," in case she thought I accidentally misheard her and thought she said an actual human name like Emily or something.
I'm a teacher and I think my most memorable are Messiah (a lot for a kid to live up to) and Mi'Anjel. Had a girl whose middle name was Assasyn. Not my student but a coworker had a student named Wyzdum. A friend of mines uncle is a cop and he went on a call where the child present was named "Teflon (first) Velveeta (middle)"
Met a woman who got her name legally changed in her 40s to Luna Ravenwolf.
Worked in a place had a lot of retirees. The one that stuck with me "cute one satterwhite". Worked with a lady in my twenties who named her kid "kermit" claiming she named him before Kermit the frog ever existed. Then there was a kid a friend of mine worked with at a children's hospital named "semaj" yes James backwards. He thought it was a typo but the mother yelled and said his name is semaj.
Oddest names that I've ever known (and have personally met): Xylophone and Jo'Zhyah (pronounced Josiah). The most cringeworthy names was a group of three siblings that my mom used to babysit. They were LaChrista Lorenn (Chrissy), Celestial Rain (Tia), and Draconus Brunos (Drake). EDIT: Misspelled Chrissy's full name. Dang autocorrect!
I used to work with a lady whose prior job was to issue birth certificates at a local hospital. She said that every single day she would have to try and talk someone out of giving their baby a name like V@gina, Valium, A-hole, etc. She couldn't force them, but had to at least explain the downsides of these names.
Once saw someone's name Shitoris. Like S**t and Clitoris put together...
Soul, Oak and Elm, Antigone, ...what can I say? I live in a hippy part of the UK.
What the fock BP? I was reading a comment of my post in an other topic and at the end was, to read more subscribe to PREMIUM. Are you guys out of your effing mind? The topic is 50 fascinating old time photos
Yup they're really pushing it. I suspect soon unless you pay you'll not be able to access BP
Load More Replies...Some countries disallow dodgy names when the birth is registered. However a few names here are fine and well used historically. I'm thinking Hortense, Dorcas, Candida.
Candida is a traditional name? Like for humans, not fungi?
Load More Replies...Back in the old days, there was a trend in my country for naming people after modern things... like Telephone, or Tractor, or Radio, or even Napkin! There was also a period of absurd communism-inspired names, such as Barricade, Brigadier, Pioneer, Laborer, etc. Poor kids back then.
Would that be somewhere like Ukraine in the Soviet era? On QI a few years ago Stephen Fry asked 'Why wouldn't you name your son Power Station?' The answer was that during that era in Ukraine it was a girl's name, while Combine Harvester was a name for a boy.
Load More Replies...What's so funny about Biggus Dikus? I have very good friend in Rome called Biggus Dikus.
I'm still mildy peeved that a friend of mine who's last name is Power didn't call her son Max.. . ;-)
1001 ways for a mother to express that she wishes she did something else with her life.
Local politician is named Thaddeus Claggett. I don't follow how he's doing in his politician position, but I'm sorry, that is the most supervillain name I've ever heard in real life!
This has to be in the Deep South... he's probably the local klan leader.
Load More Replies...I meant someone once as a receptionist and they said their name was Rachel. When I went to write it down, she got very angry that I didn't spell it correctly. How she did she spell her name? Mckenna.
Thee odd names I've known. A boy named Barbie. A girl named Chlamydia. and My favorite my sisters friend was named Tuesday. Tuesdays parents let their 3 year old daughter who had a normal name, name her.
I'm going to tell my cousin, Buchanan (yes, that's his given name), that his name seems pretty tame right now compared to some of these Tragedeighs -_-"
Good, I hate it when they put fake names from Cartoons or something in these kinds of lists...
I was in school with 'Heather Bell' and 'Beverly Hill'. My Mam taught a child names Rhea. Her parent chose it to prevent her name being shortened. She was a talkative child, and her uncle called her 'Die-a' as she most definitely had verbal diarrhea.
My maiden name was Rhea and I was forever correcting people on its punctuation. It was just like 'Ray'.
Load More Replies...There is a composer and piano player named D**k Hyman... very talented musician, very unfortunate name
I wish I could tell you my niece and nephew's names, but someone would recognize them. Peak stupidity. Think about what the kid's peers are gonna do to them, it's tough enough being an adolescent without a moronic name. It's not my business, after all. I just smile and say nothing. Not my kids. But they will require therapy.
I used to work in a government office. The work often involved processing forms from the public. My workmates and I had a running list called the 'Name of the Day' (NOTD). We would add any name we came across that was oddly spelled, incomphensible or just plain dumb. There was a rule against any name that was clearly ethnic but when I retired I there was over 200 on the list. I think the name with the most variations was Siobhan but the one that stuck out for me was 'Caughtnee'.
I am a cake decorator so I write names on birthday cakes all day. I've seen some bad ones over the years. Most recently, Kynnydy, Word, Nymeria (not the worst, but of all the GoT characters to name your kid after, you picked a dog?!?!), and the worst was Anemone. She even clarified "like the sea creature," in case she thought I accidentally misheard her and thought she said an actual human name like Emily or something.
I'm a teacher and I think my most memorable are Messiah (a lot for a kid to live up to) and Mi'Anjel. Had a girl whose middle name was Assasyn. Not my student but a coworker had a student named Wyzdum. A friend of mines uncle is a cop and he went on a call where the child present was named "Teflon (first) Velveeta (middle)"
Met a woman who got her name legally changed in her 40s to Luna Ravenwolf.
Worked in a place had a lot of retirees. The one that stuck with me "cute one satterwhite". Worked with a lady in my twenties who named her kid "kermit" claiming she named him before Kermit the frog ever existed. Then there was a kid a friend of mine worked with at a children's hospital named "semaj" yes James backwards. He thought it was a typo but the mother yelled and said his name is semaj.
Oddest names that I've ever known (and have personally met): Xylophone and Jo'Zhyah (pronounced Josiah). The most cringeworthy names was a group of three siblings that my mom used to babysit. They were LaChrista Lorenn (Chrissy), Celestial Rain (Tia), and Draconus Brunos (Drake). EDIT: Misspelled Chrissy's full name. Dang autocorrect!
I used to work with a lady whose prior job was to issue birth certificates at a local hospital. She said that every single day she would have to try and talk someone out of giving their baby a name like V@gina, Valium, A-hole, etc. She couldn't force them, but had to at least explain the downsides of these names.
Once saw someone's name Shitoris. Like S**t and Clitoris put together...
Soul, Oak and Elm, Antigone, ...what can I say? I live in a hippy part of the UK.