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Parents should work hard at choosing a name for their child. It can impact the baby's life well into adulthood, too.

"There is a reason why baby name books are extremely popular," said David Figlio, who at the time was the Orrington Lunt Professor and Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.

"We're always trying to think about the first bit of a child's identity and so if we as a society pay a lot of attention to names it makes a lot of sense that people's names might influence how they think about themselves and the way in which people might think about them."

But things don't always go to plan. Researchers discovered that one in seven parents admit they made a "terrible mistake" with the name they chose for their child.

In an attempt to find out what they sound like, we discovered a thread on Reddit, started by a person who goes on the platform by the nickname PlsDontBanMe. They asked everyone "What name screams 'my parents don't like me?" and got over 4,000 answers.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard There was a girl in my high school named Chastity.

She didn't even know why it was ironic when she got pregnant at 16.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was once neighbour to a regilious youthgroup in a hostel in Nicaragua. I remember Chastity, Prudence and Charity... they partied like there is no tomorrow and gossiped nonstop when the leaders of the group where not around

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Met a girl called Constance Paine. Really had to wonder what her parents were thinking.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like her mom was trying to tell her something.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard XæA-12

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Their other kids are Exa dark sidrael and techno mechanicus. Surprisingly, the kids musk has with other women have pretty average names

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Phelonie - that poor child.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard I know several.

Used to work in a jail and we had a regular inmate whose first and middle names, legally, were Baby Boy. Spring Green (first name, last name) also came in frequently.

My mom worked with a doctor…Doctor First…Doctor Safety First. But don’t worry, his parents didn’t just hate him - his sister was named Ladies.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

a) how is that legal and b) why didn't they change that as soon as they were able?

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard I had a neighbor with a little girl named Commodity. i dont think she disliked her kid, she was just really dumb.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Abcde-supposedly pronounced Absidy. Some might remember that this made the news a few years back.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The airline staff who thought it was an error on the ticket and the mother got offended that somone could make fun of her child’s ”name”

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard I once met a little girl named Tilapia. I swear I’m not making this up.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard i knew three guys from school and their parents were a******s. parents had klan stuff up in their living room on display and everything. they gave all of their kids names that started with A, and middle names that started with S, so their full initials would be A.S.S. they thought it would be hilarious, and proudly commented on this often. needless to say i felt bad for those kids. who gives all three of their kids those initials, let alone one of them?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you are mentally a child yourself you should not raise kids

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Thurman Murman

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard If their first name is the same as their last name.

William Williams, Michael Michaels, Daniel Daniels, Glen Glenn, John Johnson, etc.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Velveeta

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Anything ending in -aiden, using an "X" in place of "cks" (Jaxon vs Jackson), intentional misspelling of names, forcing the kid into a life of correcting the pronunciation of a name that is easy to pronounce when spelled normally, and really just anything stupid that they named a kid because it's "unique".

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I interviewed a young lady with Mle written as the first name. I was thinking Mm-leh Nope. It's pronounced M L. E (Emily).

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Elon Musk’s kids’ names are a joke.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard I am the third of four boys My mother really wanted a girl and when she was pregnant with me she pinned all her hopes on me being a girl. This is before sonograms were common. When I came out a boy she named me Curt. Not Curtis or Kurt, Curt. Which means rude.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You have to stretch at this one being a bad name. I've known a number of Curt's over the years and none of them have ever had an issue with the name.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Gunner. Not Gunnar like the Scandinavian name, or Günther like the Germanic version, but Gunner like the English word for a person who is shooting at someone.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL somone saw the expendables and missunderstood the name

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Nevaeh

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And they always tell you it heaven spelled backwards

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Newt Gingrich.
Imagine having a baby, looking down into its precious face, and saying deadpan to the nurse, “Newt Gingrich. Put that on the birth certificate.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, the original is using Newt but is named Newton. And using surnames for a second name is a perfectly normal tradition. That being said, the main problem here is not the name itself but being named after this sorry excuse of a human being.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Going with Chinese dialect of Hokkien here..

Someone named their child "Siew Kia" which isn't a bad name or anything in the language/dialect.. but the family name was Yao (and in Chinese names, the family name comes first)

This made the poor sod "Yao Siew Kia" which meant "baby beast" (or small animal not in a good way and is used as a derogatory term and swear word in Hokkien)

Poor guy

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I concur, because Hokkien is my mother tongue and the literal translation for Yao Siew Kia means "Demon child" aka naughty, nasty kid.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard “First Name” Junior never felt right with me. Feels narcissistic to name your child the same as yourself. It’s like he’s never gonna carve his own identity he’s always gonna be known as an extension-sequel of you

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am the fifth generation with the same name. It caused confusion with creditors and such for years. But I wouldn't have it any other way. It was really funny when the Army tried to digitize all the BUPERS files while I was in. Suddenly I had stuff on my service record from the battle of Gettysburg.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Renesmee. Coworker’s granddaughter was named that.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Mune

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Any name that's written using their syllabic pronunciation. I know of a kid whose name is Kahydiynn. Like what the f**k?

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Used to know a kid in school named Richard Ryder (Rider?) Not sure how the last name was spelled

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Brand names

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew a guy in college who was almost named Avis like the car company because his brother was allowed to pick the name. Thankfully, his parents chose Chris instead.

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard A boy named Sue.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ooof Goth Demon, go digging around online for Johnny Cash, you might get the reference. 'And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him... Bill or George! Any-damn-thing but Sue! I still hate that name!'

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“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard Satan, Beelzebub, Judas

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I appreciate that you are not allowed to use names like this in germany. Poor children.

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When the firstname/lastname combination does not work for a name.

Prime example-- North West (Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's daughter). She's either named after a direction on a map or a defunct airline (as if Kimye would fly commercial).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rob Morrow named his kid ”Tu” do the name is Tu Morrow. Tomorrow. Why not just go to the school and pay the bullies.

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Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo

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Mine. My first name has an "r" in it. Both of my patents needed speech therapy to say that letter. I COULDN'T SAY MY OWN F*****G NAME UNTIL F*****G HIGH SCHOOL!!! There's a reason I use my middle name. I genuinely think it was spite because I was an oopsie baby. Bullied relentlessly for years, including by my first ex and a famous comedian's nephew.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a lot to unpack here. I suspect there's far more to this story

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Any name that is an alternative spelling or fake-Gaelic name.

Like “Jaxon” or “Graclyn.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As long as it is not Jhackxsonn or Ghraeclynn , I don't have a big problem with that. Names and spelling evolve naturally. Image we would still spell our names like they did 500 or even 200 years ago...

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Last name was Hunt, and they still named him Michael. The poor kid.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sounds more like a Simpson's joke than something that really happened.

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My aunt swears that at the hospital a woman named her child A*****e pronounced A-sho-lee

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Any name intentionally given by parents that's a character from entertainment. Your kid is not a pet, car, boat, or bong.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very much depends on the name. That AITA a couple weeks ago about someone whose sister/SIL wanted to name their kid Luffy? Definitely not. People who named their kid Harry, Ron or Hermione after the Harry Potter books/movies? Not nearly as bad.

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A first name that rhymes with your last name.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll have you know I have a very great friend in Rome named Biggus Dickus.

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