“What Were Her Parents Thinking?”: People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids

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“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” While that was a kind sentiment for Romeo to express about Juliet, I’m not quite sure he would have felt the same way if her name was Moronica or Sh’miracle...

One curious Reddit user recently asked others to share the dumbest names they have ever heard parents give their children, and people did not disappoint in the responses. Below, you’ll find a wide variety of names that prove that not everyone should become a parent, so enjoy scrolling through and counting your blessings if you have a common name!

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North, Saint, Chicago, Psalm.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids In my career working at Public Schools I've had two separate children named Tequila Mockingbird. Absolutely unrelated, across the state from each other, but it's weird that it happened twice.

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To learn more about how this conversation started in the first place, we reached out to Reddit user Corollo_Bro_91, who posed the question, "What is the dumbest name you've ever heard someone give their child?" Lucky for us, he was happy to have a chat with Bored Panda.

"I decided to ask the question after hearing about some of the silly names my mother was telling me about that she heard from clients at her job," he shared. "My mother took a claim from a client who named her son and daughter King and Queen Majesty." But that's not the only silly name the OP has heard before. "My girlfriend told me her boss just had a baby and is going to name it Iam Magic," he added.

"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids I knew triplets named Cinnamon, Rosemary, and Paprika. People called them "the Spice Girls."

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A motorcycle enthusiast named his son Harley, because that made him Harley, David’s son.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids Felonie. I’ve been downvoted a lot on Reddit for sharing this because people never believe it’s a real name someone would give a kid. But it is lol

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As far as where these names come from, Corollo_Bro_91 says, "I think parents name their kids silly things because they want them to have 'unique' names to be different, but in the end, they just come across as dumb."

We also asked the OP what he advises parents think about before naming their children. "I think parents need to consider how naming their child could affect their social or school life. I've known some people who were bullied horrendously at school for having strange names," he shared.

"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids I do contract-based IT work. Implementation when hospitals buy each other out, stuff like that. Last week I was working with an office manager named MORONICA.

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Any time I see a young girl named Nevaeh, I immediately assume she’s the unintended product of a very young single mom barely making ends meet.

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And when it comes to what Corollo_Bro_91 thought about the replies to his post, he told Bored Panda, "Some of the answers I got were extremely saddening. I really hope those kids can get through childhood without being made fun of."

My partner is a midwife, she once looked after a couple who were intending to call their daughter “Urethra” - they didn’t know what it meant and just “liked how it sounds”.

She had to politely, professionally, give them a quick anatomy lesson.

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Wife worked in a bank. Had a regular customer named Dextrose. Always wondered if he had siblings Sucrose and Fructose.

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So checking ID, I hear the girls friends calling her Olivia. It was not spelt Olivia. It was spelt Ahliviyah. Why do this to people. You make them waste so much of their lives having to spell their names for people when it could have been a spelling everyone knows!

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Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenkescianneshaimondrischlyndasaccarnaerenquellenendrasamecashaunettethalemeicoleshiwhalhinive'onchellecaundenesheaalausondrilynnejeanetrimyranaekuesaundrilynnezekeriakenvaunetradevonneyavondalatarneskcaevontaepreonkeinesceellaviavelzadawnefriendsettajessicannelesciajoyvaelloydietteyvettesparklenesceaundrieaquenttaekatilyaevea'shauwneoraliaevaekizzieshiyjuanewandalecciannereneitheliapreciousnesceverroneccaloveliatyronevekacarrionnehenriettaescecleonpatrarutheliacharsalynnmeokcamonaeloiesalynnecsiannemerciadellesciaustillaparissalondonveshadenequamonecaalexetiozetiaquaniaenglaundneshiafrancethosharomeshaunnehawaineakowethauandavernellchishankcarlinaaddoneillesciachristondrafawndrealaotrelleoctavionnemiariasarahtashabnequckagailenaxeteshiataharadaponsadeloriakoentescacraigneckadellanierstellavonnemyiatangoneshiadianacorvettinagodtawndrashirlenescekilokoneyasharrontannamyantoniaaquinettesequioadaurilessiaquatandamerceddiamaebellecescajamesauwnneltomecapolotyoajohnyaetheodoradilcyana. The birth certificate over two feet long. The girl's mom named her that just so she could get in the Guinness Book of World Records and get famous. I guess it worked because she has been interviewed on Oprah with her daughter and was semi well known for a while. Supposedly her daughter went and got her name legally changed as soon as she turned 18.

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#13

Slinky...the parents both loved slinky toys, could do all kinds of things with them, so that's what they named their little girl. It was her real name, my sister was her teacher. There should be a law against stupid parents like this.

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Jenna is not so bad, until your last name is Side.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids Recently saw the program from a relatives preschool graduation ceremony, all of the children’s names were listed. There was a child named Person.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids Galaxy Kitchen…..seriously it’s their daughter's name.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids Kerosene. And she would always add “like the gas”. Mom was young and goth.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids When my child was born, the people in the room next to us named their kid Pikachu.

You read that right.

Pikachu.

After the Pokemon.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids Sh’miracle.

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I used to work in banking, and I kid you not, I helped a woman named “Chinesegirl”

She was not, in fact, Chinese.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids I knew a pair of twin boys in elementary school named Freedom and Friendship.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids Reality Winner.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids There was a woman who used to cut my hair named Secretia….like secretion.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids My wife is a teacher and she has siblings in class named Royalty and Majesty.

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Tyranny. The mother thought she had made it up. Said it sounded pretty. I think she spelled it Tiranni.

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There is a dude in the Air Force named Dearly Beloved. S**t you not.

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ShyWahine 1 year ago (edited)

We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life…

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IrishGirl 1 year ago

Exactly what I was going to say! Even heard the organ and all!

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Rebekah 1 year ago

Electric word, life. It's means forever or a mighty long time.

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Lois Reese 1 year ago

*insert crunchy guitar riffs

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Shelli Aderman 1 year ago

We clearly ALL went there!

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Grudge-holding Treefrog 1 year ago

He should be a officiator for weddings

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𝖊𝖜𝖔𝛋 1 year ago

I Dearly Beloved have gathered all of you dearly beloved ones so that I Dearly Beloved may marry these two beloved ones in front of you all dearly beloved ones.

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Patrick McIntyre 1 year ago

Once upon a time in the Air Force there was a brigadier general named Richard G. Head, or General D**k Head. No wonder he preferred to be called RG.

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Lester the Space Duck 1 year ago

let's go crazy Let's get nuts Let's look for the purple banana Until they put us in the truck, let's go!

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Phil Green 1 year ago

When I was serving, I knew a guy called Harry Christmas.

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Serial Kitten 2 weeks ago

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

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Mike_The_Nike (He They) 1 year ago

i imagine at their funeral: “and we gather today for our dearly beloved (reads paper) umm… dearly beloved…”

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Tracy Wallick 1 year ago

That must've been fun in basic training XD

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Ken Beattie 1 year ago

Having Dearly Beloved as your first and middle names would be pretty bad, but having "S**t you not" as a surname makes it awful ;)

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Jude Corrigan 1 year ago

What happens when they get married or have a funeral service?

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Shelli Aderman 1 year ago

We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life!

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Shelli Aderman 1 year ago

prince.jpg

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Mrs. Dearly Regret 1 year ago

Oh well...

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#27

I taught ESL in China. We had a little girl whose American name was Hamburger, and a pair of Twins named Copy and Paste. To be clear, they had normal Chinese names, but these American names also appeared on their passports. Their American names were chosen because their parents like how they sounded.

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Dracula. The parents were young meth heads and thankfully the nurses said Drake sounds much better and it's a short version of Dracula after the boy was born.

Drake is alive and well, now 18 years old, parents quit the meth years ago, kinda still a messed up family.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids Lice. Pronounced “lih-say.”

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Latrina. Like...why?

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids A woman at my old bank was named Coral Reef. She seemed fine with it but what were her parents thinking.

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There was a tv show a couple years ago and the midwife was desperately trying to convince the about-to-be parents to not name their child Syphilis.

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KVIIITLYN. Kaitlyn

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids My mom used to work in a day care. One of the kids' was named Surprise Joyous Knight.
Yes, this is true, Mrs. Knight named her kid Surprise Joyous.

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#35

I went to gradeschool with siblings named America, Liberty, and Glory. As I'm sure anyone could guess—yes, I live in the Midwest.

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Spatula.

Edit to add: this was told to me by an ex-brother-in-law, who worked in a hospital. He overheard a woman chasing her child down the hallway, saying "Spatula! I have two words for you: Be have!"

It was pronounced "bee hāve", as if behave were two words.

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#37

I once met a woman who named her sons Doral and Viceroy. I asked her, "like the cigarettes?" She said, "yes, those were my daddy's favorite smokes."

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#38

My uncle went to school with a Rusty Mustard.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids Abcde…pronounced “ab-suh-dee.”

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#40

I was grading state tests in nyc and graded an 8th grader who’s name was Daddy Yankee.

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#41

Alucard. It’s “Dracula” backwards. No, I didn’t ask, but they were quick to tell me.

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"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids Pilot Inspektor.

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#43

I knew a Christian family once who named their first two kids Blessed and Saved, then the rest had normal names.

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#44

I work at a civil war site. One of the Confederate generals was named States Rights Gist. That was his actual name. States Rights.

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Scotthew.
I worked in labor and delivery. We had a pair of stoners who couldn't decide between Scott or Matthew, so they just merged the two.
Honestly, it's just one of many dumb ones I encountered.

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#46

I work in a elementary school. Tesla, Success, Prosperity and Gospel (not related).

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#47

Dafinest.

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#48

I was entering in the name of a newborn for a customer, when looking at the list of all the other children, I saw one child with a first name of Boy. I had to look twice, but sure enough, the child’s first name was Boy. 😖

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#49

Handsome Stranger. . . Seriously. The kids legal first name was Handsome Stranger. He was named after his father.

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#50

Coworker couldn't decide between Sarah and Cassandra so they named the baby Casarah.

Also worked with a girl named Kahlua.

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#51

Shy Ann; Tarantula.

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#52

I rode the bus in high school with boy/girl twins named Clark and Candy Barr. On the same bus were four sisters: Mary Ann, Mary Catherine, Mary Patricia, and Mary Louise.

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#53

Kaylee.

Spelled Kaiiylleeiygh.

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#54

"Moon unit" seems pretty out there.

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Dijonaise.

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#56

My brother played on a basketball team with a kid named Braxton Hicks. I wish I was joking 🫠

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#57

"What Were Her Parents Thinking?": People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names People Gave Their Kids I knew two kids named Wizdom and Knowledge.

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#58

Danceless.

Really!

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Vyolence.

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Friend of a friend named his kids Indica and Sativa.

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#61

Jessa Duggar named her first kid Spurgeon (sic).

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#62

My bff from high school (who is a huge hippie) named her girl tyger jellybean Jardine.

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Cashley.

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#64

Trivia for a girl. Nice girl. Terrible name.

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#65

Shakalakah… my mom taught her back in like the 1st grade…. Then I had an ex drill instructor who was one of my coaches and they named their first son Sergeant Major… I f*****g cried for that boy

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#66

I know of a pair of twins in the Marshall Islands named "Rocket Brain" and "Lindborg Brain" Also another kid named "Cinderella Silk".

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#67

Orange. It's not a translation or a nickname, but after the fruit itself. People keep thinking his name is George and he's just too young to pronounce it correctly but nope, his parents got their inspiration from the produce department.

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#68

A friend worked in medical records in a hospital and a couple named their daughter Velveeta Cheese Scott.

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#69

I used to work in daycares and I’ve seen so many. The 2 that stand out are Master and Beaujanerous.

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One of the worst that comes to mind in recent times.

Jizzelle

The person's name was, honest to god, Jizzelle.

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#71

I knew a guy in elementary school named Piano.

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Venison. (Possibly spelled differently since I neglected to ask the woman screaming "Get over here Venison!" in a Big Lots.)

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Starberry.

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#74

Riot…..should look good on the resume..

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#75

Anyone remember Picabo Street?

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Quetzalcoatl after the Mayan snake god. He said his friends called him Q. Twin boys in elementary school named Knox and Knoll. Overhead someone named their daughter Willow because the dad caught a salmon at Willow beach the day before her birth.

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Kar’tel

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#78

I grew up with a boy whose name was Tater Pitts.

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#79

Messiah. But spelled Ma'Syah.

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#80

I knew a girl who’s first name was Summer and her last name was Summer.

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Girl I was in HS with named Sparkle. Kid in my daughter's kindergarten class was named Legend.

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#82

I work as a pizza driver and I have a regular named LaSonya.

Lasagna.

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Kal-El.

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I met a kid named Nimrod once. I felt so bad for him.

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#85

Girl I know named her kid Troxel.

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#86

My dad told me once he interviewed a lady named Tinyneesha. Thought he was f*****g with me until I saw her working at food-4-less several months later.

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#87

My first year of teaching I had a student with the last name Mahal. First name? Taj. Correct. Taj Mahal.

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my sister works as an obstetrician in Switzerland.
Before moving abroad, she did an internship here in Italy, where we were both born.
A couple was undecided wether naming their son "Domenico" or "Antonio". In the end, they decided to call him "Domenicantonio".

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townslee, yep.

I heard someone scream “ TOWNSLEE GET OVER HERE!!! “ as I was sitting down eating at universal studios in Orlando florida in the summer of 2021.

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#90

Hold my beer! In Russia, they once tried to register the name "BOTCH rVF 260602" (A Human Biological Object of the Voronin-Frolov family, born on June 26, 2002)

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#91

Dweezil.

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#92

I was at an amusement park the other day and heard a mother calling for her daughter… J’precious… or maybe Japrecious… I don’t know the specifics, but that is what I heard.

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#93

Worst names of people I know or their kids’ names-Sparkle, Princess, Justus.

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#94

Cuthbert... I mean, who the f**k is called Cuthbert anymore?

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#95

Seven.

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female

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#97

Khaleesi.

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#98

Wayne Train. If you're out there Wayne, I think of you often.

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#99

I had twins in my first year of teaching and they were Alizé and Hennessy. Those poor kids!

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#100

Like actual animated characters:
-Goku
-Sephiroth

Good luck to those kids.

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#101

Gaylord.

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#102

Candida 🤦🏽‍♀️😬

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I know a girl who named her son "Cash".

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Theres this kid named "LA World" at my job.

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Chevelle and wouldn’t you believe it they got made fun of. Honorable mention Comfort.

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Apple

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Omega.

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Stetson. Guess we’ve just resorted to naming kids after clothes.

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J'Diamond.

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I was on a beach in Cyprus when I heard a mother call out to her kid in a think northern accent “Mozart, nooo” who’d call their kid Mozart 🙈

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Anakin.

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Aragon. She didn’t even spell it right.

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Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

My name is Crystal. I was named after a chandelier. (Parents couldn't think of a name for me when they were adopting me at birth, so they called my grandma, who looked up at her bedroom chandelier and suggested "Crystal".) I got teased relentlessly about my name by other kids in grade school and middle school. If kids teased ME for "Crystal", they're going to be BRUTAL to some of these other poor kids :/

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SkyDragonAerial (Aro/Ace, Cassgender) 1 year ago

Crystal is an amazing name. Not sure why you'd get bullied for that!

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Tee Rat 1 year ago (edited)

What weird kids make fun of Crystal? If your last name was meth I could understand.

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Huddo's sister 1 year ago

I'm sorry that happened! Crystal is/was a very common name in Australia, never heard of anyone teasing people for it.

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

I saw a video where a guy drew a Crazy/Hot graph. More towards the Crazy end were "redheads, girls named Krystal with a K." I knew a Kristle once and she didn't deviate from the graph

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VonBlade 1 year ago

I know a Crystal, and I'm definitely not in the age range for hippies or 90s new agers. Although she goes by Chris.

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John Baker 1 year ago

This one might be hard to believe, but, unfortunately for the poor girls in question (who are now adults), it's true. I went to high school back in the late '60s with a guy with the last name Sweet. He and his girlfriend were very straight-laced and conservative, the kind of teens that just don't exist anymore. They were forty when they were sixteen, if that makes sense. Anyway, after graduation, they got married, as we all knew they would, and over the course of the next several years, had three daughters. Their names? Really, Truly and Always.

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Bec 1 year ago

Aw, Sweet

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Unnamed Hooman 1 year ago (edited)

I know a guy named Mike Miketon. Greatest name ever. EDIT: I also knew a girl whose first name was Shy Angel.

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Duncan 1 year ago

I knew a Mike Hunt

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Lord of the laserprinter. 1 year ago

Giving kids stupid names is not allowed here, thankfully. Having said that there was a guy I knew called „Adolf Schidler“

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Ben Stubbs 1 year ago

True story, This was on Radio 1 (most popular radio station in the UK). Star Wars 1 (Phantom Menace) had just been released. The DJ was talking about the influence of pop culture and childrens names. He gave the examples of how "Jack" and "Rose" had become very popular since the release of Titanic, and how in 1977 following the release of Star Wars, "Luke" became popular. During the show, he received a fax ... "I wish I was called Luke. From Jabba the Smith" x

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liam newton-harding 1 year ago

Capt. Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fradatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (1884-1917). The first Tollemache is not pronounced the same way, as the second, and the third is not pronounced the same way as the fourth.

2points

The Doom Song 1 year ago

Those poor kids. I dunno but alot of them sound like stripper or porn names

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Visitor 1 year ago

The Mountain Family children: Misty, Smoky, Candy, and Rocky. They're middle-aged now, and they were at least the THIRD generation of Mountains to get "fun" names. Thankfully, all their children have more normalized names.

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M C K 1 year ago

My mom taught a kid named Canyon and she thought it was the worst name ever until I worked in the NICU and someone named their son Turbo.

1point

Marinasongs1432 1 year ago

Elizabeth Holme’s daughter- Invicta. Latin for victory, but what is with celebrities and these names?

1point

Julie Snelling 1 year ago

I've heard of people naming their kid verruca after the character in Charlie and the chocolate factory 🤣🤣🤣

1point

Terran 1 year ago

On a positive note: those who make it to adulthood are probably incapable of taking offense anymore.

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Kay 1 year ago

My niece's names are Shyre and Alize(pronounced 'Aleez').

1point

Madame Chaos 1 year ago

My mom told me of some kids she grew up with, all boys first name was Mister, all the girls names were Miss. So Mister John or Miss Jan.

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Moosy Girl 1 year ago

This seems to be common in some cultures, we’ve got a few of these at our schools.

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Tahani 1 year ago

I know somone named Nausikaä…. I could never… that second a… yikes

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Must Be Bored Again 1 year ago

Marsha Mellow. Candy Cane.

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

People will never believe they're not drag queens

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Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago

Back when I was a young nurse I had a patient whose first name was Christmas and no she wasn't born on December 25th and if she were still alive she probably be close to 100 by now

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Noname 1 year ago

In one episode of the TV sitcom "Three's Company" it was revealed that the character Chrissy Snow's first name was really "Christmas".

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Rayne Eilers 1 year ago

I once heard about a person named Shithead. Pronounced “shih-todd”

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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago

There was a King5 news anchor in Seattle named Gary Justice. His daughter's name was "Liberty Ann", which I thought was really clever. I had an acquaintance named Kim Hayes. His daughter's name was "Misty".

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Greg Sheldon 1 year ago

We had a girl at work named Heidi Mycock

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AndersM 1 year ago

I'm glad we a law in Denmark about what you can name your child.

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Carianne Sanders 1 year ago

Both of these happened back in the '90s.. a young woman I worked with went by the alias name Stormy. In time, I asked her what her real name was.. Wendy.. last name Knight.. Stormy Wendy Knight! At another job, working in a tattoo and body piercing shop, I was taking a phone appointment with a young Hispanic male and needed his name. Don't remember his last name but he told me Jesus Lucifer. I was like, riiight.. well, I'll need to see your ID when you come in. He said ok. I'll be damned when he came in and I checked his ID, I had to apologize for not believing him. No hard feelings, I helped him pick out his jewelry, and he got pierced!

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RachAgainstTheMachine 1 year ago

I live in North Carolina, USA. My six year old niece has a friend whom I thought was named "Carolyn". It's actually Carowinds, like the theme park. I've been calling her Carolyn for two years.

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Bridgett Haney 1 year ago

There a was a girl on the Netflix show, Perfect Match, named Karousel.

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sassawrasse 1 year ago

I had a student named Metallica.

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

Marginally better than naming a kid Megadeth

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jenjie.newt 1 year ago

Canyon Sunrise, he's a regular on the local arrests. Can't imagine why

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

Sounds like he should be delivering pizzas or cleaning pools in a certain kind of movie

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Felicia Verdade 1 year ago

I worked in a medical office and one patient was named Clear...I honestly really like it!

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Duncan 1 year ago

Ali Larter's character in Final Destination was named Clear.

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Jason K. Horton 1 year ago

A girl went to my school whose name was Kocaina.

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SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago

My cousin's given name is Buchanan, which is considered unusual by traditional Chinese standards back then. Now it looks pretty normal compared to the names I've seen here.

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Kathryn Finlay 1 year ago

Onederful van Glorious Martin

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Louise Clarke 1 year ago

I went to high school with ba girl whose first name was Autumn and her last name was Day. Also 3 sisters named Faith, Hope, and charity.

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Ankylosarus Wrecks 1 year ago

I worked with a girl named Tara Daktle. Not spelled like the dinosaur, but definitely pronounced like it. She had a great sense of humor.

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Elizabeth Bennett 1 year ago

Siblings Ys-Yah (Yō sī yuh) and Yuraiah (Yer ī yuh) were the most unique names I came across as a teacher. My mother once had twins Billy and W***y (both nicknames for William).

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Deborah Rubin 1 year ago

People, just change your name!

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Kristin 1 year ago

Theres a lady in my home town whos name was Kandi Bahr before she got married.

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VonBlade 1 year ago

Johan Gambolputty of Ulm.

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Chez2202 1 year ago

I had a friend when I was younger called Melanie. Her dad had to register her birth and didn’t know how to spell it so she’s actually called Meline.

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Xenon 1 year ago

Went to grade school with a Mussolini. We called him Moosy.

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Helena Ramirez 1 year ago

Oh boy! I am a teacher and have so many! Currently in a different classroom there is a little boy named Freedom. His sister is Magic. In the past I have has Ni'cole, (pronounced like Bill Nye and Cole) Pineapple, Serhenytie MyAngelBaby ( Serenity My Angel Baby), Captain (his parents lived on a boat and dressed him in only nautical themed clothes), and Conyak ( Cognac).

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Maisey Myles 1 year ago

Not a kid but a dog named Asobe -I managed a dog kennel; asked owner about the name. It was a gift from a nasty ex so she named the dog after him -S.O.B

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pochi my beloved 1 year ago

one of my old classmates was named ikea.

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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

https://stacker.com/family/baby-names-are-illegal-around-world this is fun... Bonghead and Smelly were made illegal in Australia. Stompie in Germany. Sarah in Morocco . III in California cause it's a symbol but unfortunately that's the only US name I saw on there (scrolled kind of fast) hence this list!

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JL 1 year ago

i met an Omega once. I always wondered if they were the youngest sibling and if they had an older sibling name Alpha.

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Sam Gober 1 year ago

I went to school with twins named Bud and Crystal - their last name was Light. I met sisters named Promise, Patience and Prudence. I once had to convince a pregnant co-worker not to name her son Harry because her last name was Pitts.

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Sinkvenice 1 year ago

I had a patient once who's mother had named her Chanel but spelled it wrong so it was actually Channel. I had another patient who was African and she married an English man, so her name was Baby Fiddler. I couldn't stop laughing for about ten minutes.

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thatbisexualtacocat 1 year ago

I know a child named Reston. He's super annoying, so people tell him to "Reston" peace.

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Dizzie D 1 year ago

Some of these are definitely made up

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Bec 1 year ago

All names are made up. But, yes, some are made up so the poster can feel superior

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Emily M 1 year ago

Theres a girl at my school named Miraclemia. It's supposed to be like Miracle Mia but it is Miraclemia in all her paperwork

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scteach87161921 1 year ago

Knew a family with 3 daughters: Autumn, Wynter and Summer. Not the most out there names by any means but odd when they're all together.

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scteach87161921 1 year ago

I'm a teacher so I've seen some doozies; Mi'Anjel, Messiah, Wyzdum, and Life JustinTime (first and middle) stand out.

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Linziaj 1 year ago

In my gangsters nursery, there's a "red" and "silver" !

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Sonja 1 year ago

At least in the USA the kids can change their names. I have a colleague who's parents gave him two quite nice names, but connected with a hyphen. That means he has to put both, very long names down on every legal document, which usually don't have enough room for the extremely long name. And until rather recently you couldn't just change your name in Germany. Now, in theory, you could, but it's still a hassle and you have to get a reasonable person when you go because the office can deny the request.

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Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

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SkyDragonAerial (Aro/Ace, Cassgender) 1 year ago

Crystal is an amazing name. Not sure why you'd get bullied for that!

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Tee Rat 1 year ago (edited)

What weird kids make fun of Crystal? If your last name was meth I could understand.

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Huddo's sister 1 year ago

I'm sorry that happened! Crystal is/was a very common name in Australia, never heard of anyone teasing people for it.

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

I saw a video where a guy drew a Crazy/Hot graph. More towards the Crazy end were "redheads, girls named Krystal with a K." I knew a Kristle once and she didn't deviate from the graph

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VonBlade 1 year ago

I know a Crystal, and I'm definitely not in the age range for hippies or 90s new agers. Although she goes by Chris.

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John Baker 1 year ago

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Bec 1 year ago

Aw, Sweet

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Unnamed Hooman 1 year ago (edited)

I know a guy named Mike Miketon. Greatest name ever. EDIT: I also knew a girl whose first name was Shy Angel.

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Duncan 1 year ago

I knew a Mike Hunt

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Lord of the laserprinter. 1 year ago

Giving kids stupid names is not allowed here, thankfully. Having said that there was a guy I knew called „Adolf Schidler“

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Ben Stubbs 1 year ago

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liam newton-harding 1 year ago

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

Those poor kids. I dunno but alot of them sound like stripper or porn names

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Visitor 1 year ago

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M C K 1 year ago

My mom taught a kid named Canyon and she thought it was the worst name ever until I worked in the NICU and someone named their son Turbo.

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Marinasongs1432 1 year ago

Elizabeth Holme’s daughter- Invicta. Latin for victory, but what is with celebrities and these names?

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Julie Snelling 1 year ago

I've heard of people naming their kid verruca after the character in Charlie and the chocolate factory 🤣🤣🤣

1point

Terran 1 year ago

On a positive note: those who make it to adulthood are probably incapable of taking offense anymore.

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Kay 1 year ago

My niece's names are Shyre and Alize(pronounced 'Aleez').

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Madame Chaos 1 year ago

My mom told me of some kids she grew up with, all boys first name was Mister, all the girls names were Miss. So Mister John or Miss Jan.

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Moosy Girl 1 year ago

This seems to be common in some cultures, we’ve got a few of these at our schools.

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Tahani 1 year ago

I know somone named Nausikaä…. I could never… that second a… yikes

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Must Be Bored Again 1 year ago

Marsha Mellow. Candy Cane.

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

People will never believe they're not drag queens

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Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago

Back when I was a young nurse I had a patient whose first name was Christmas and no she wasn't born on December 25th and if she were still alive she probably be close to 100 by now

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Noname 1 year ago

In one episode of the TV sitcom "Three's Company" it was revealed that the character Chrissy Snow's first name was really "Christmas".

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Rayne Eilers 1 year ago

I once heard about a person named Shithead. Pronounced “shih-todd”

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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago

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Greg Sheldon 1 year ago

We had a girl at work named Heidi Mycock

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AndersM 1 year ago

I'm glad we a law in Denmark about what you can name your child.

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Carianne Sanders 1 year ago

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RachAgainstTheMachine 1 year ago

I live in North Carolina, USA. My six year old niece has a friend whom I thought was named "Carolyn". It's actually Carowinds, like the theme park. I've been calling her Carolyn for two years.

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Bridgett Haney 1 year ago

There a was a girl on the Netflix show, Perfect Match, named Karousel.

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sassawrasse 1 year ago

I had a student named Metallica.

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

Marginally better than naming a kid Megadeth

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jenjie.newt 1 year ago

Canyon Sunrise, he's a regular on the local arrests. Can't imagine why

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

Sounds like he should be delivering pizzas or cleaning pools in a certain kind of movie

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Felicia Verdade 1 year ago

I worked in a medical office and one patient was named Clear...I honestly really like it!

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Duncan 1 year ago

Ali Larter's character in Final Destination was named Clear.

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Jason K. Horton 1 year ago

A girl went to my school whose name was Kocaina.

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SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago

My cousin's given name is Buchanan, which is considered unusual by traditional Chinese standards back then. Now it looks pretty normal compared to the names I've seen here.

0points

Kathryn Finlay 1 year ago

Onederful van Glorious Martin

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Louise Clarke 1 year ago

I went to high school with ba girl whose first name was Autumn and her last name was Day. Also 3 sisters named Faith, Hope, and charity.

0points

Ankylosarus Wrecks 1 year ago

I worked with a girl named Tara Daktle. Not spelled like the dinosaur, but definitely pronounced like it. She had a great sense of humor.

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Elizabeth Bennett 1 year ago

Siblings Ys-Yah (Yō sī yuh) and Yuraiah (Yer ī yuh) were the most unique names I came across as a teacher. My mother once had twins Billy and W***y (both nicknames for William).

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Deborah Rubin 1 year ago

People, just change your name!

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Kristin 1 year ago

Theres a lady in my home town whos name was Kandi Bahr before she got married.

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VonBlade 1 year ago

Johan Gambolputty of Ulm.

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Chez2202 1 year ago

I had a friend when I was younger called Melanie. Her dad had to register her birth and didn’t know how to spell it so she’s actually called Meline.

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Xenon 1 year ago

Went to grade school with a Mussolini. We called him Moosy.

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Helena Ramirez 1 year ago

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Kioh81 Premium 1 year ago

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Maisey Myles 1 year ago

Not a kid but a dog named Asobe -I managed a dog kennel; asked owner about the name. It was a gift from a nasty ex so she named the dog after him -S.O.B

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pochi my beloved 1 year ago

one of my old classmates was named ikea.

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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

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JL 1 year ago

i met an Omega once. I always wondered if they were the youngest sibling and if they had an older sibling name Alpha.

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Sam Gober 1 year ago

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Sinkvenice 1 year ago

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thatbisexualtacocat 1 year ago

I know a child named Reston. He's super annoying, so people tell him to "Reston" peace.

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Dizzie D 1 year ago

Some of these are definitely made up

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Bec 1 year ago

All names are made up. But, yes, some are made up so the poster can feel superior

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Emily M 1 year ago

Theres a girl at my school named Miraclemia. It's supposed to be like Miracle Mia but it is Miraclemia in all her paperwork

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scteach87161921 1 year ago

Knew a family with 3 daughters: Autumn, Wynter and Summer. Not the most out there names by any means but odd when they're all together.

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scteach87161921 1 year ago

I'm a teacher so I've seen some doozies; Mi'Anjel, Messiah, Wyzdum, and Life JustinTime (first and middle) stand out.

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Linziaj 1 year ago

In my gangsters nursery, there's a "red" and "silver" !

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Sonja 1 year ago

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

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