30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid

Blame Hollywood A-listers or ingenuine parents willing to go far to make their kids stand out from the crowd, but unique baby names are getting more and more popular. Usually they are driven by a focus on individuality, with naming conventions thrown out of the window.

The result is Alchemy, Tansy, Kobe or Roch. Or Charmayanne and Antwohnette. What about Sincere and Precise? Yes, these are all baby names, for better or sometimes… worse.

So today we take a look at a couple of Reddit threads (this and this) where people share the most annoying baby names they have heard. Some sound somewhat strange, while others, they claim, they cannot stand at all. Let us know what’s your least favorite baby name in the comments!

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I was told when naming my daughter to say the following sentences out loud:
1) Please stand for the President of the United States, [insert name].
2) Gentlemen, dancing tonight on the main pole here at The Bunny Club, [insert name].

If #2 flows better. .pick another name.

tsinitia , Forja2 Mx Report

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

I'm voting for President Crystal.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Recently they made it legal in Poland to name your child whatever you want. So people are coming up with these appalling Polish-spelled versions of English names they know from the movies. The "Brajan" and "Dżesika" generation in coming. (That's Brian and Jessica. It's as if an American named their son "Stanni'suave", I guess.)

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Jubum 2 years ago

Fun Fact: In Poland, practically every female name ends with an "a"

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Baeby

PoopIsYum , Nicolas Connault Report

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Serial pacifist 2 years ago

Salt Baeby

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Jayne Kyra 2 years ago

I would like to submit Jamie Oliver´s kids´ names: Poppy Honey Rosie, Daisy Boo Pamela, Petal Blossom Rainbow, Buddy Bear Maurice, River Rocket.

38points

Chewie Baron 2 years ago

I was about to mention him! Also, see Bob Geldoff and Paula Yates, the Beckhams, pretty much any celebrity really. Especially Frank Zappa!

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Carla Beck 2 years ago

I knew a woman called Jeffifer. Like Jennifer and Jeff mixed together. Not only is it strange to read, it's so awkward to say out loud.

25points

Moosy Girl 2 years ago

Parents probably said „Jennifer, with 2 f’s” when they went to register it.

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Nightshade1972 2 years ago

I know another Jennifer (that's my name too) whose nickname is Jeff, because when she was born, her older sister was still a toddler and couldn't pronounce it clearly. My mother was Barbara Ann, and got stuck with the nickname (fortunately, just within the family) of Bobo, or Bo, for the same reason--my uncle was a toddler and couldn't clearly pronounce Barbara

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Spannidandoolar 2 years ago (edited)

I closed this tab and have had to search through my history to re-find this article just to say that Jeffifer is still making me laugh, probably my favourite on this whole page.

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HUH? 2 months ago

In the black community they have names like that. You combine the names of your best friends or the most important people in your life.

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Nightshade1972 2 years ago

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Robyn Rob 2 years ago

I work at a middle school. One student’s legal name was Little Carl. So when he was paged over the intercom the students snickered. Always felt badly for that kid. He hated his name. I’d like to think he’s going to change it some day

21points

Kristin Ingersoll 2 years ago

OMG!! I have a friend who calls her son Little Carl!!! I think it's just a nickname, but I never hear him called anything else.

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Ka Se 2 years ago

I am really happy that in my country not every name is allowed. Poor children, really.

13points

Becky Little 2 years ago

Once had a student named Creamy. That isn't the bad part though. Her last name was Passey.

11points

Aaricia 2 years ago

Poor thing, sounds like a name you would find on p0rnh*b.

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Patti Vance 2 years ago

worked in government job where parents had to list their kids on paperwork prior to interview. one family had pearl, ruby, sapphire, jade, diamond (all girls) and a son, onyx. dad said they were his family jewels.

11points

Shelley McKinney 2 years ago

Think of your kids as people having to live their entire lives with a unique name you choose. Consider the following with honesty when making your short list of names. 1. Imagine them introducing themselves to a prospective employer with this name that may sound cute when a child but not so cute when looking for a job. 2. Consider how often said child will have their name mispronounced, miss-spelled and ridiculed. Do you want to do that to your child? 3. How much do you want to be the butt of articles such as this and people talking behind your back about how silly your child's name is. Some unique names are ok, but all to many are just the but of a joke.

10points

Cristina Speluzzi 2 years ago

That's exactly what I thought when we named our daughter Maria Emilia. I wanted her to be proud of her name and be happy with it at 15 or at 80.

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Steven Bennett 2 years ago

I have an ex named Cherry Blossom; her cousin's name is Aurora Borealis. (Their parents were all flower children.) Neither Cherry Blossom nor Aurora Borealis seem outrageous, and when shortened to Cherry and Aurora they might be uncommon but not unheard of. This article makes those names seem downright boring.

10points

BakedKahuna 2 years ago

Wait until some of those people find out about letters like ä, ö, ü, ê, å, Ø and so on and decide to get fancy with it

10points

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago

Or they start spelling their children's names based on traditional IPA: Hi, these are my kids Brændən, ɪˈlɪzəbəθ, and Zækəri. We're expecting little þeodore in June. My hubby's a linguist.

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JB 2 years ago

You’re way too late with this one. My middle name has an æ diphthong. My parents are English going back several generations but I was born late 60’s. Don’t get me wrong, I like my name. But it didn’t make school life any easier.

2points

Isa Car 2 months ago

TRY to go "fancy" with it without knowing how those letters are actually pronounced. Making the name an even bigger testament to the parents' sheer ignorance and lack of class.

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Libby Tailor 2 years ago

Or á, é, í, ó, ö,ő,ú,ű. (common letters on the Hungarian alphabet)

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Mistiekim 2 years ago (edited)

My friend is a principal and she had a list of kid’s parents she had to call. She got to one that was basically Orange Jello. She said it she was corrected to it sounding like this : O’rangejello. The best last name I know of is Batman. Not sure why I’m being downvoted, but ok

10points

Kathleen Pearlman 2 years ago

I have an ancestor whose last name, honest to God, was Batman - Elizabeth Batman. My husband and I met through a Batman comic, so it seems that it was fate.

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Laura 2 months ago

I used to work with a guy whose first name was Batman. Yes, really. I worked in HR, so I saw his ID and ran his criminal checks etc.

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Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago

It's being downvoted because it's a debunked urban legend, usually with racist implications. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/funny-names/

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James Tartaglione 2 years ago

used to work at a sign shop and had to keep replacing a sign for a doctor who's name was Richard Weiner. could never understand why his sign kept getting stolen

8points

Dancing Armadillo 2 years ago

I knew a girl In high school.. her name was Tremble Hard.. poor girl.

6points

No One 2 years ago

My son goes to school with a boy named Pistachio.

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Jason Marin 2 years ago

What are his parents? Nuts?

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Pixie 2 years ago

Shoutout to all soon-to-be-parents: your kid deserves a Name, not a clever wordplay! 🤦‍♀️

6points

Ron van Rijckevorsel 2 years ago

reminds me of a belgian family, nine kids, 4 letters. Alex (11), Axel (10), Xela (8), Lexa (7), Xael (6), Xeal (5), Exla (3) en Leax (2), Xale(0). They are aiming for 12 kids

4points

Pamela Diehl 2 years ago

Am I the only one who finds this thread extremely offensive? As a public school teacher, I used to get aggravated at names/spellings, until I took the time to realize that for some students, a name may be the one thing that makes them feel special. Take some time to research names and cultures. I am so over these lists of "funny" names posted online.

4points

digitalin 2 years ago

Yeah it's not funny any more. It's just making fun of people who are different. So what if people are making up names and spellings? All names are made up at one point.

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marianne eliza 2 years ago

Before you name your child (or pet), open your front door, step outside, and yell the name at the top of your lungs 3 times as if calling the child home. Do the same at the backdoor. Do you sound ridiculous? Do the neighbors stare? Don't use that name.

4points

Anita Rapp 2 years ago

My mom used to yell out the door for my sister Elise. Neighbors thought she was calling Police, Police!

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Michelle Gosney 2 years ago

Met somebody called Whyvon. Spelled Yvonne. Her parents had never heard the name, so went with it.

4points

Pan Narrans 2 years ago

It's a common Dutch name, but the poor girl would recognise her name if she heard it pronounced the right way. Ie-von-ne

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Tigerpacingthecage 2 years ago

We have fairly strict rules so you can't name your child something like Lucifer for example (but apparently "bumblebee" is fine, lol). That aside, with my first child I picked a pretty common and simple name (Casper). Realized that having short, easy names are better for everything (from a parents/teachers/friends perspective at least) Them learning to say their name, naming their stuff, shouting their name at the playground, when their teachers tell their name etc etc. I went even more simple and short with my second and third. Therefore I just don't get super complicated names - do you really want all that extra work? Imagine them having to stand there for every school project or work interview spelling out their name 5 times?

4points

A Jones 2 years ago

I was named after a season I wasn't born in. Birthday announcements are always a surprise to people just learning about me. Although I admit I like my name too much to change it.

4points

Jessica 2 years ago

Lol. I do agree that Spring, Autumn, and Summer are good names. IDK that much about Winter...

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Rens 2 years ago

When I was a carer I once worked with three ladies named Faith, Hope and Charity; I also met Comfort, Blossom, Sapphire Rose, Lavender, Blessing, Beauty and Divine.

4points

Jessica 2 years ago

I am fine with Hope, Charity, and Lavender, but the rest are just too much. I'm fine with Sapphire; also fine with Rose, but the two combined are just so bad.

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embarrassed american 2 years ago

I've known people with some interesting names. Somalia, Semaj (James backwards), Easter (Her middle name and last name started with G so her initials were E.G.G.), Princess, Apple, Jaykub (just why with that spelling?!)... I could go on

3points

Will Cross 2 years ago

Ya know this kind of stuff is so trivial and really shows how shallow some folks can be. Much like language and words, names are unique and at times can sound odd or abnormal to us. Instead of being hateful to people and calling them stupid because you don't relate to something. Why not take a step back and realize that everything from language, words, names, accents, speech, and writing is going to be different and there's nothing wrong with that. No matter how strange something might be to you. It's not the names that are the problem, it's people's closed minds and narrow view of all the different ways of so many things we do as humans that is the real issue. But by all means keep thinking it's a word/name that is ignorant when it's really just you looking for a reason to be judgy and crappy towards another human. =(

3points

Anita Rapp 2 years ago

Get over yourself

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Laura MG 2 years ago

I went to school with a girl named Candy Shoppe 🙄

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Tami 2 years ago

I had a classmate named Dot Dasch. Also an Abe Lincoln.

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similarly 2 years ago

I remember a story I read years and years ago about a guy who, when he was born, his parents hadn't thought of a name yet, so they let his older sister (who I think was about 4) choose his name. And since their last name was "Claus", she chose the obvious. When he was drafted for, I think, The Korean War, he was at his first day of bootcamp and the drill instructor was reading off the names until he got to the Cs and then went deathly quiet. Looked around and barked "All right! Which one of you jokers signed up as "Santa Claus"?

3points

phil blanque 2 years ago

Key and Peele, substitute teacher: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=key+peele+substitute+teacher

3points

KimB 2 years ago

That will never cease to be funny : D

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SomeGuyinWY 2 years ago

I knew a guy in high school whose last name was O'Boyle. His first name? Lance. Poor bastard.

2points

Something 2 years ago

Some of these are kind of classist.

2points

digitalin 2 years ago

I don't know why you're getting down voted; you're right.

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Peta Hurley-Hill 2 years ago

I knew someone who named her child Angel (bad enough in itself) ,but when she was messaging ,telling people what the name was, she kept writing "Angle', because she didn't know how to spell it. Her sister had to take her aside and correct it ,before they put it on the birth certificate.

1point

Samara Morgan 1 year ago

It's scary how all these uneducated people reproduce so easily.

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BadCat 2 years ago

A few people thought my daughter's name, Candra, would be too hard for her to spell and pronounce. It's her last name that has given her the most grief. Surnames can be the worst. Gauthier, Byfuglien, etc.

1point

Alison Kennedy 2 years ago

I went to school briefly with identical twin girls: April and May.

1point

Allyson Stephenson 2 years ago

Ok... no Lie here. Work as a nurse and I didn't even TRY to say this little girls name. It was Abcde (Phonetically pronounced Ab-see-dee). She was sweet and I just shook my head at the parent and tried to keep my mouth shut. Another woman got mad I didn't pronounce her name correctly... La-a, you pronounce the - (as in say dash)

1point

TheDivineMsM 2 years ago

I know a girl that named her daughters rylie, raelyn and ryan--- like three different versions of the same name.

1point

Demongrrrrl 2 years ago

My mom worked with two women (not at the same time) both named Aquanetta. Aquanet is/was a brand of hairspray.

1point

Leara Bridges Brown 2 years ago

My brother and his ex named there daughter Arian Rose! Yes I know what the meaning of Arian is. Poor babygirl died when she was 5 mo old. I have her name tattooed on my leg and I wear it proudly! She would have been 14 this year!

1point

ka7ie is mad 2 years ago

if anyone wants a laugh, I work with two little boys named Axl and Pace

1point

NgatiDreadz 2 years ago

Little girls name at my mums kindergarten she taught at was Heiny-Lee would've been Heineken if it were a boy poor girl

1point

NgatiDreadz 2 years ago

Also had twin girls at this kindergarten named indica and sativa

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smithyjones 2 years ago

Wonder how many cult members have named their kids Donald.....

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Johnny 2 years ago

One of our neighbor kids was named Gay. Was never an issue until around 5th or 6th grade, but after that she changed her hame to "Gayl".

1point

Aubrie Allen 2 years ago

My mom grew up with some kids, all with the last name Derryberry. They were Mary, Lary, and Bary. This parents must have hated their kids.

1point

Kate Fei 2 years ago

I always found it weird people naming their kids after days/months/seasons. It is funny to me only some of them are being used though - I heard of Monday, Friday and Tuesday, I heard of April, May and June and Summer and Autumn... Not so much the others. Weird, this would never happen in my language.

1point

Seanette Blaylock 2 years ago

Don't forget Wednesday (Addams).

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Karolína T. 2 years ago

I am happy to live here where a list of approved names is available. Here you have it and choose one. So I am protected from parents brain exhalation like "Happy Hole" or "Porky Pig".

1point

T5n 2 years ago

My stepbrother went to school with someone named “L-a” (pronounced “Ladasha”)

1point

Elizabeth Molloy 2 years ago

"How do you spell it?" "Ell, dash, Ay" "Ell, Dee, Ay, Ess ..." "No no! It's a dash" "Err"

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Tt 2 years ago

Television, Diamonda (feminine version of Diamond in my language), Audi etc.

1point

Cecile Visscher 2 years ago

My daughter had a friend called Faily, ok we're Dutch but even the Dutch know that a fail is not a good thing..

1point

Chris M 2 years ago

Real names I have seen, siblings: Hand'some & So'fine. At least Hand'some can call himself Han.

1point

Red Ruffensor 2 years ago

X AE A-XII Musk. X for short.

1point

Mary G----no 2 years ago

Look up names of kids in Utah...

1point

Jamilah toenailkilla 2 years ago

There was a girl named Youpromiseme Baker in my school, a starquisha, a sparkle and a twinkle... a friend of a friend also named their baby Neji Sarutobi...

1point

Gigantor the Bog Monster 2 years ago

My sixth grade teacher, his name was Robin...Hood

1point

Lynn Cormier 2 years ago

Imagine of if Brad Pitt was the father of Gwyneth Paltrow's child. Apple Pitt.

1point

Lynn Cormier 2 years ago

Imagine if Brad Pitt was the father of Gwyneth Paltrow's child. Apple Pitt.

1point

ami 2 years ago

I knew a kid named silver

1point

Kate Fei 2 years ago

Sounds a bit better than Gold :D

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Gavin Johnson 2 years ago

Frank Zappa sorted this one out years ago with Dweezil and Moon Unit. Dweezil admittedly isn’t that bad and he’s a great guitarist but Moon Unit is far too hippy 😂

1point

Robin DJW 2 years ago

My kids' father wanted to name the son Tecumseh, and the daughter Sakagawea. We are not native Americans. All I could think about was the pain they would endure at school with these names. No disrespect to the greats who put these names in our history, but I flatly refused and we settled on traditional english names, e.g. Robert and Rachel.

1point

Torsten 2 years ago

A friend told me a story of her kid's first days of school. The kid insisted that a kid in his class was "Purshel Bear". Asking again a few weeks later - nah, he's still called "Purshel Bear". After a while my friend found out that the kid's name was in fact Pierre-Gilbert.

1point

Allydog57 2 years ago

Went to school with a kid named Luckie. He had an older sister named Princess and a younger brother with a totally generic name like Dave...

1point

digitalin 2 years ago

Honestly, I'm a little over the name shaming. One article might be fun, but sheesh, just let people name their kids. Names (even "made-up" names) are hugely cultural.

1point

Zedrapazia 2 years ago

I'm glad I live in Switzerland so the people with the "weirdest" names I know are Zeke, Jupiter and Atlas (all men). They seem to be pretty happy with their own names, but I bet they wouldn't be if they were called Jeoanthean or something like that.

1point

Pablo Ramos 2 years ago

People who name the girls after old dead white men: Madison, Taylor, Cameron, etc

1point

Jennifer Martinez 2 years ago

In the US (southern states especially) these names are sometimes family names on the mother's side. Maternal names are generally lost when the woman takes her husband's last name. It can be a tribute to the past. Or they can just be "cute."

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Ana Ferreira 2 years ago

Stuff like this is why my country has strict child naming rules, and I used to think they were far too strict, but then I started coming upon the things some people will actually name their children when they can get away with it.

1point

Malinda Washburn 2 months ago

Anyone who gives their twins names that rhyme. I always feel so sorry for them.

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Beth Gael 2 months ago

Tansy is a perfectly fine name and should not be on that list. It's as old a name as Heather, Daisy, Lily, Rose and other floral names.

0points

Gretchen Saue 2 months ago

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Laura Wattles 2 months ago

Saw this kid's name once on an Angel tree (where you can choose a child to buy things for): X_Zavier

0points

Sarah Léon 2 months ago

When my Evil Step-Mother was pregnant with my future little sister, she wanted to give her an Arabic name because she is from Morocco and it was fine, but my father was a real French guy with a real French family name. And when my ESM came with the name Bousaima (Bu-sah-ee-mah) we had a little gulp... it's a sweet name (means "kiss to mummy") but I told her it would be impossible for the girl to find a job with it. I asked what my father wanted and he said "I love the name Sarah". Yes, I know, that's *my* name Dad ! Finally they found an old Berber name that was original an simple to pronounce. Fortunately they were smart enough.

0points

Shylah Harley 1 year ago

A couple at my church camp had three kids: Sabre, Arrow, and Bow. Sabre is a girl. They were very sweet people and the kids seemed to like their names though… also one of my friends has a little brother named Ruger

0points

Monica Pryts 2 years ago

I'm a journalist and sometimes make the parents write the kids' names in my notebook because I'm afraid of getting it wrong. Doing birth announcements and obituaries is also interesting.😂

0points

Mindy Crispi 2 years ago

Ok, funny how someone named Liucija Adomiate felt compelled to write an article about bad baby names lol

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Samara Morgan 1 year ago

It's a Latvian name, isn't it? In this case I can laugh at all American common names, because they sound weird for me.

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Kathy Black 2 years ago

As a teacher, I couldn't begin to say all the "uncommon", aka strange, names I heard. However, one was especially difficult for me... and I avoided calling on her as much as possible. Her name was "My Destiny".

0points

Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago

Job names become names. FEMININE names, such as Taylor, Saylor, Mason, etc. Just why?

0points

Kimberly Kamphaus 2 years ago

Maisie Moo, Ryder Rae and Brooklyn Blu sound like a Dr Seuss book. Allow me: Maisie Moo, Ryder Rae, and Brooklyn Blu were walking down the avenue. Down the avenue in one left shoe. Just the one? But why not two? But who would get the extra shoe? Ryder Rae or Maisie Moo? What a tragedy to ensue! We've forgotten Brooklyn Blu!

0points

Sarah Bell 2 years ago

Also Sarah is a biblical name so I wonder if you pick the name knowing that it's in the Bible and you are religious to any degree if that has anything to do with the H or not

0points

Katie Schaefer 2 years ago

Knew a girl named Princess. She just gave birth to her first child, Heaven M'Angel.

0points

Feminist Percussionist 2 years ago

My mom was talking to a teacher whose friend was also a teacher, with a student…named Latrine. Apparently they lived in an area with a lot of Latoya, etc. but still! Poor girl, her parents didn’t know.

0points

Casanova 2 years ago

heard of a guy called Blandon once

0points

Elene Rodetis-Ashe 2 years ago

Met a Kebin (Kevin). Thought something was wrong with my hearing at first

0points

Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago

why do so many names now sound like surnames, not first names? especially American names.

0points

Danielle 2 years ago

My son has a classmate called Vanity..

0points

Scott Richards 2 years ago

I have friends that named their children, in order of birth, Brooke, Charlotte, Desmon, Edmund... Cannot wait to see what F word they come up with

0points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Someone to me: "And how do you spell your name?" ____ Me: "Ell. Eee. Oh."_____ Someone: "That's it?" ____ I felt like I seriously disappointed them by not going for Llaiyo (to be said Leo)

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Natasha 2 years ago

I knew a girl named Cookie…….she ended up changing it to Brooklyn

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Felice Coles 2 years ago

Teaching Spanish in high school is a good way for students to get future baby names: "I really love the word 'Cincuenta'! It's so pretty!" "You know what sounds exotic? 'Sacapuntas'! That's like an Indian Princess!" (I kid you not).

0points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago

I never liked my middle name, and there for a while I was considering changing it to 'F*****g'. Nobody you know in life ever has to know your middle name, but imagine if you became famous, or if someone was talking about you posthumously, and they said your first and last name with F*****g in between them. You'd sound like a rockstar

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Elizabeth 2 years ago

It’s articles like this that make me appreciate my parents' lack of creativity. Older sister’s names are just our parents' middle names, older brother's names were the two most popular choices for boys the year he was born (and also he shares a first name with our dad), and I’m named after one of my mom’s best friends (except mom used 'z' instead of 's' because, in her words, "z looked cooler").

0points

Poeha 2 years ago

There was a guy on reddit. He could pick the boy's names and his wife could pick the girl's names. 2 boys with normal names. Now she was pregnant of a girl. She wanted to name her Koala and sobbed when he didn't agree.

0points

BonnyDK 2 years ago

I once had a student named Toy. Cute little blond boy. He has to be mid 30's now....and I was getting a slew of foreign kids with weird initial names. I got where I would ask them quietly "Is this really how you say your name? How does your mom or dad say it?" Turned out not even close. I would let the class know the real pronunciations. It was the school Secretary when she registered them. Anything she had a hard time with she would give them Initials and tell them "Well here we will call you A.B." That is the actual name she gave Amoglavee. (African) and called a Tongan boy "Tata" (like the slang for boobs) whose real name was pronounced Tafu. And yes I live in Texas....sigh.. Don't even get me started on the Asian kid's names.. some kids had names with 27 letters but were very beautiful when you say them correctly. Or just Long, Dong, or Phat. I know we butchered them.

0points

Indra Servo 2 years ago

all those mispronounced word, how about different pronouncing altogether, like someone named Jaycee but insist to be called Bob

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Sean Sean 2 years ago

If I ever get married and have a daughter, I want to name her Nemesis. Love those classical Greek names!

0points

AliJanx 2 years ago

Qyaiia. Tequila. Dravon Doom.

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Tiny Dynamine 2 years ago

I defriended a guy I used to be in a band with when I found out his daughter was called Tiggy.

0points

JustAnother Soul 2 years ago

The name of a well known royal nanny, so not that unheard of and hardly a good reason to unfriend someone.

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Jayne Kyra 2 years ago

I would like to submit Jamie Oliver´s kids´ names: Poppy Honey Rosie, Daisy Boo Pamela, Petal Blossom Rainbow, Buddy Bear Maurice, River Rocket.

38points

Chewie Baron 2 years ago

I was about to mention him! Also, see Bob Geldoff and Paula Yates, the Beckhams, pretty much any celebrity really. Especially Frank Zappa!

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Carla Beck 2 years ago

I knew a woman called Jeffifer. Like Jennifer and Jeff mixed together. Not only is it strange to read, it's so awkward to say out loud.

25points

Moosy Girl 2 years ago

Parents probably said „Jennifer, with 2 f’s” when they went to register it.

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Nightshade1972 2 years ago

2points

Spannidandoolar 2 years ago (edited)

I closed this tab and have had to search through my history to re-find this article just to say that Jeffifer is still making me laugh, probably my favourite on this whole page.

1point

HUH? 2 months ago

In the black community they have names like that. You combine the names of your best friends or the most important people in your life.

0points

Nightshade1972 2 years ago

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0points

Robyn Rob 2 years ago

21points

Kristin Ingersoll 2 years ago

OMG!! I have a friend who calls her son Little Carl!!! I think it's just a nickname, but I never hear him called anything else.

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Ka Se 2 years ago

I am really happy that in my country not every name is allowed. Poor children, really.

13points

Becky Little 2 years ago

Once had a student named Creamy. That isn't the bad part though. Her last name was Passey.

11points

Aaricia 2 years ago

Poor thing, sounds like a name you would find on p0rnh*b.

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Patti Vance 2 years ago

11points

Shelley McKinney 2 years ago

10points

Cristina Speluzzi 2 years ago

That's exactly what I thought when we named our daughter Maria Emilia. I wanted her to be proud of her name and be happy with it at 15 or at 80.

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Steven Bennett 2 years ago

10points

BakedKahuna 2 years ago

Wait until some of those people find out about letters like ä, ö, ü, ê, å, Ø and so on and decide to get fancy with it

10points

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago

Or they start spelling their children's names based on traditional IPA: Hi, these are my kids Brændən, ɪˈlɪzəbəθ, and Zækəri. We're expecting little þeodore in June. My hubby's a linguist.

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JB 2 years ago

2points

Isa Car 2 months ago

TRY to go "fancy" with it without knowing how those letters are actually pronounced. Making the name an even bigger testament to the parents' sheer ignorance and lack of class.

0points

Libby Tailor 2 years ago

Or á, é, í, ó, ö,ő,ú,ű. (common letters on the Hungarian alphabet)

0points

Mistiekim 2 years ago (edited)

10points

Kathleen Pearlman 2 years ago

I have an ancestor whose last name, honest to God, was Batman - Elizabeth Batman. My husband and I met through a Batman comic, so it seems that it was fate.

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Laura 2 months ago

I used to work with a guy whose first name was Batman. Yes, really. I worked in HR, so I saw his ID and ran his criminal checks etc.

0points

Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago

It's being downvoted because it's a debunked urban legend, usually with racist implications. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/funny-names/

-3points

James Tartaglione 2 years ago

used to work at a sign shop and had to keep replacing a sign for a doctor who's name was Richard Weiner. could never understand why his sign kept getting stolen

8points

Dancing Armadillo 2 years ago

I knew a girl In high school.. her name was Tremble Hard.. poor girl.

6points

No One 2 years ago

My son goes to school with a boy named Pistachio.

6points

Jason Marin 2 years ago

What are his parents? Nuts?

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Pixie 2 years ago

Shoutout to all soon-to-be-parents: your kid deserves a Name, not a clever wordplay! 🤦‍♀️

6points

Ron van Rijckevorsel 2 years ago

reminds me of a belgian family, nine kids, 4 letters. Alex (11), Axel (10), Xela (8), Lexa (7), Xael (6), Xeal (5), Exla (3) en Leax (2), Xale(0). They are aiming for 12 kids

4points

Pamela Diehl 2 years ago

4points

digitalin 2 years ago

Yeah it's not funny any more. It's just making fun of people who are different. So what if people are making up names and spellings? All names are made up at one point.

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marianne eliza 2 years ago

4points

Anita Rapp 2 years ago

My mom used to yell out the door for my sister Elise. Neighbors thought she was calling Police, Police!

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Michelle Gosney 2 years ago

Met somebody called Whyvon. Spelled Yvonne. Her parents had never heard the name, so went with it.

4points

Pan Narrans 2 years ago

It's a common Dutch name, but the poor girl would recognise her name if she heard it pronounced the right way. Ie-von-ne

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Tigerpacingthecage 2 years ago

4points

A Jones 2 years ago

I was named after a season I wasn't born in. Birthday announcements are always a surprise to people just learning about me. Although I admit I like my name too much to change it.

4points

Jessica 2 years ago

Lol. I do agree that Spring, Autumn, and Summer are good names. IDK that much about Winter...

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Rens 2 years ago

When I was a carer I once worked with three ladies named Faith, Hope and Charity; I also met Comfort, Blossom, Sapphire Rose, Lavender, Blessing, Beauty and Divine.

4points

Jessica 2 years ago

I am fine with Hope, Charity, and Lavender, but the rest are just too much. I'm fine with Sapphire; also fine with Rose, but the two combined are just so bad.

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embarrassed american 2 years ago

3points

Will Cross 2 years ago

3points

Anita Rapp 2 years ago

Get over yourself

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Laura MG 2 years ago

I went to school with a girl named Candy Shoppe 🙄

3points

Tami 2 years ago

I had a classmate named Dot Dasch. Also an Abe Lincoln.

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similarly 2 years ago

3points

phil blanque 2 years ago

Key and Peele, substitute teacher: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=key+peele+substitute+teacher

3points

KimB 2 years ago

That will never cease to be funny : D

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SomeGuyinWY 2 years ago

I knew a guy in high school whose last name was O'Boyle. His first name? Lance. Poor bastard.

2points

Something 2 years ago

Some of these are kind of classist.

2points

digitalin 2 years ago

I don't know why you're getting down voted; you're right.

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Peta Hurley-Hill 2 years ago

1point

Samara Morgan 1 year ago

It's scary how all these uneducated people reproduce so easily.

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BadCat 2 years ago

1point

Alison Kennedy 2 years ago

I went to school briefly with identical twin girls: April and May.

1point

Allyson Stephenson 2 years ago

1point

TheDivineMsM 2 years ago

I know a girl that named her daughters rylie, raelyn and ryan--- like three different versions of the same name.

1point

Demongrrrrl 2 years ago

My mom worked with two women (not at the same time) both named Aquanetta. Aquanet is/was a brand of hairspray.

1point

Leara Bridges Brown 2 years ago

1point

ka7ie is mad 2 years ago

if anyone wants a laugh, I work with two little boys named Axl and Pace

1point

NgatiDreadz 2 years ago

Little girls name at my mums kindergarten she taught at was Heiny-Lee would've been Heineken if it were a boy poor girl

1point

NgatiDreadz 2 years ago

Also had twin girls at this kindergarten named indica and sativa

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smithyjones 2 years ago

Wonder how many cult members have named their kids Donald.....

1point

Johnny 2 years ago

One of our neighbor kids was named Gay. Was never an issue until around 5th or 6th grade, but after that she changed her hame to "Gayl".

1point

Aubrie Allen 2 years ago

My mom grew up with some kids, all with the last name Derryberry. They were Mary, Lary, and Bary. This parents must have hated their kids.

1point

Kate Fei 2 years ago

1point

Seanette Blaylock 2 years ago

Don't forget Wednesday (Addams).

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Karolína T. 2 years ago

I am happy to live here where a list of approved names is available. Here you have it and choose one. So I am protected from parents brain exhalation like "Happy Hole" or "Porky Pig".

1point

T5n 2 years ago

My stepbrother went to school with someone named “L-a” (pronounced “Ladasha”)

1point

Elizabeth Molloy 2 years ago

"How do you spell it?" "Ell, dash, Ay" "Ell, Dee, Ay, Ess ..." "No no! It's a dash" "Err"

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Tt 2 years ago

Television, Diamonda (feminine version of Diamond in my language), Audi etc.

1point

Cecile Visscher 2 years ago

My daughter had a friend called Faily, ok we're Dutch but even the Dutch know that a fail is not a good thing..

1point

Chris M 2 years ago

Real names I have seen, siblings: Hand'some & So'fine. At least Hand'some can call himself Han.

1point

Red Ruffensor 2 years ago

X AE A-XII Musk. X for short.

1point

Mary G----no 2 years ago

Look up names of kids in Utah...

1point

Jamilah toenailkilla 2 years ago

There was a girl named Youpromiseme Baker in my school, a starquisha, a sparkle and a twinkle... a friend of a friend also named their baby Neji Sarutobi...

1point

Gigantor the Bog Monster 2 years ago

My sixth grade teacher, his name was Robin...Hood

1point

Lynn Cormier 2 years ago

Imagine of if Brad Pitt was the father of Gwyneth Paltrow's child. Apple Pitt.

1point

Lynn Cormier 2 years ago

Imagine if Brad Pitt was the father of Gwyneth Paltrow's child. Apple Pitt.

1point

ami 2 years ago

I knew a kid named silver

1point

Kate Fei 2 years ago

Sounds a bit better than Gold :D

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Gavin Johnson 2 years ago

Frank Zappa sorted this one out years ago with Dweezil and Moon Unit. Dweezil admittedly isn’t that bad and he’s a great guitarist but Moon Unit is far too hippy 😂

1point

Robin DJW 2 years ago

1point

Torsten 2 years ago

1point

Allydog57 2 years ago

Went to school with a kid named Luckie. He had an older sister named Princess and a younger brother with a totally generic name like Dave...

1point

digitalin 2 years ago

Honestly, I'm a little over the name shaming. One article might be fun, but sheesh, just let people name their kids. Names (even "made-up" names) are hugely cultural.

1point

Zedrapazia 2 years ago

1point

Pablo Ramos 2 years ago

People who name the girls after old dead white men: Madison, Taylor, Cameron, etc

1point

Jennifer Martinez 2 years ago

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Ana Ferreira 2 years ago

1point

Malinda Washburn 2 months ago

Anyone who gives their twins names that rhyme. I always feel so sorry for them.

0points

Beth Gael 2 months ago

Tansy is a perfectly fine name and should not be on that list. It's as old a name as Heather, Daisy, Lily, Rose and other floral names.

0points

Gretchen Saue 2 months ago

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0points

Laura Wattles 2 months ago

Saw this kid's name once on an Angel tree (where you can choose a child to buy things for): X_Zavier

0points

Sarah Léon 2 months ago

0points

Shylah Harley 1 year ago

0points

Monica Pryts 2 years ago

I'm a journalist and sometimes make the parents write the kids' names in my notebook because I'm afraid of getting it wrong. Doing birth announcements and obituaries is also interesting.😂

0points

Mindy Crispi 2 years ago

Ok, funny how someone named Liucija Adomiate felt compelled to write an article about bad baby names lol

0points

Samara Morgan 1 year ago

It's a Latvian name, isn't it? In this case I can laugh at all American common names, because they sound weird for me.

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Kathy Black 2 years ago

0points

Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago

Job names become names. FEMININE names, such as Taylor, Saylor, Mason, etc. Just why?

0points

Kimberly Kamphaus 2 years ago

0points

Sarah Bell 2 years ago

Also Sarah is a biblical name so I wonder if you pick the name knowing that it's in the Bible and you are religious to any degree if that has anything to do with the H or not

0points

Katie Schaefer 2 years ago

Knew a girl named Princess. She just gave birth to her first child, Heaven M'Angel.

0points

Feminist Percussionist 2 years ago

0points

Casanova 2 years ago

heard of a guy called Blandon once

0points

Elene Rodetis-Ashe 2 years ago

Met a Kebin (Kevin). Thought something was wrong with my hearing at first

0points

Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago

why do so many names now sound like surnames, not first names? especially American names.

0points

Danielle 2 years ago

My son has a classmate called Vanity..

0points

Scott Richards 2 years ago

I have friends that named their children, in order of birth, Brooke, Charlotte, Desmon, Edmund... Cannot wait to see what F word they come up with

0points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Someone to me: "And how do you spell your name?" ____ Me: "Ell. Eee. Oh."_____ Someone: "That's it?" ____ I felt like I seriously disappointed them by not going for Llaiyo (to be said Leo)

0points

Natasha 2 years ago

I knew a girl named Cookie…….she ended up changing it to Brooklyn

0points

Felice Coles 2 years ago

0points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago

0points

Elizabeth 2 years ago

0points

Poeha 2 years ago

0points

BonnyDK 2 years ago

0points

Indra Servo 2 years ago

all those mispronounced word, how about different pronouncing altogether, like someone named Jaycee but insist to be called Bob

0points

Sean Sean 2 years ago

If I ever get married and have a daughter, I want to name her Nemesis. Love those classical Greek names!

0points

AliJanx 2 years ago

Qyaiia. Tequila. Dravon Doom.

0points

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Tiny Dynamine 2 years ago

I defriended a guy I used to be in a band with when I found out his daughter was called Tiggy.

0points

JustAnother Soul 2 years ago

The name of a well known royal nanny, so not that unheard of and hardly a good reason to unfriend someone.

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