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

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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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#1

“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.

OwlCoffee , Kelly Sikkema Report

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#2

“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.

Tea-radactyl , Caleb Woods Report

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#3

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

stmfetty44 , grimes Report

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#4

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

thewharfartscenter_ , Alexander Dummer Report

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#5

“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.

Numerous-Mix-9775 , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

Final score:

131points

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#6

“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.

quailfail666 , Ben Mack Report

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128points

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#7

“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.

Harleye , Brett Jordan Report

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#8

“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.

manykeets , Codevasf Report

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118points

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#9

“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?

mondayeyess , Charlein Gracia Report

Final score:

116points

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#10

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

Grief-Inc , Francesco Alberti Report

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#11

“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.

circusmonkeybrain , Polina Zimmerman Report

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112points

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#12

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

TurbulentStep4399 , Mike Mozart Report

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#13

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".

Becky1111111 Report

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#14

Elon Musk’s kids’ names are a joke.

303Pickles Report

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#15

“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.

theColonelsc2 , Anna Shvets Report

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#16

“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.

dixiedemocrat , cottonbro studio Report

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#17

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

Alice-Rabbithole , Ketut Subiyanto Report

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#18

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.”

Tough_Stomach815 Report

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#19

“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

bearyken , Monstera Production Report

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#20

“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

Unamericandav , Federico Giampieri Report

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#21

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

Stay_Over_There Report

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#22

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

debtopramenschultz , Skyler Ewing Report

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#23

“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?

DatsunTigger , Karolina Grabowska Report

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#24

“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

poweredbyford87 , Leeloo Thefirst Report

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67points

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#25

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

Irrespond , Jueun Song Report

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#26

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

mtthwas , Monstera Production Report

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#27

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

buttfook , Francesco Alberti Report

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#28

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).

crazycatlady331 Report

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#29

Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo

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#30

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.

lizziewrites Report

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#31

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

Like “Jaxon” or “Graclyn.”

DeeLite04 Report

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#32

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

Final score:

55points

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#33

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

vlad_inhaler Report

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52points

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#34

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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#35

A first name that rhymes with your last name.

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#36

From the time I was a kid up until his death my grandpa always SWORE up and down that he used to know a man named Harry A. Hole.

I still never figured out if he was f*****g with us or not.

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#37

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubbs, and he almost deserved it.”

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#38

Barry McCockiner

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#39

Pubert

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#40

Nixon for a girl. I have taught two, and yikes...

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#41

I know a Seven. That isn't his nickname, that's his legal name. I also know a (cis) man named Claire whose parents named him that.

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#42

It's pronounced Oz wee pay.

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#43

Boomquifa

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#44

Any of that Home Depot brand s**t: Kingsley, Kingston, Brixton, Brickley, Broccoli.

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20points

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#45

Candy, Desire...etc.

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#46

I've encountered a kid called Hades Azazel

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#47

Gaylord

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#48

I used to work with someone named Kyler. I was waiting for another coworker when he walked passed with a friend, friend goes “dude I have to ask, why didn’t your parents choose Kyle or Tyler?” Couldn’t help but chuckle

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#49

Giselle - I know someone with this name. Her parents call her Gis/Jizz.

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#50

Little Jerry

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#51

Can’t believe some people are living breathing human beings with the name D**k

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#52

Richard, or a name that makes a joke with their last name like Harry D***s (I met one)

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#53

Ophelia.

She died heartbroken and an orphan. I think it’s too intentional to pick this name of all the many names of Shakespeare’s leading ladies. (but Ophelia is very pretty name, still.)

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#54

KAREN

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#55

Bartholemew

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Trillian 1 year ago

When I think of all the time I spent choosing names for my kids: names that were not too popular but not extremely rare (because often rare names are rare for a reason, namely they are ugly), easy to spell, sounding good with their last name, not make stupid/offensive initials, and some parents are just: Eff that.

11points

Kim 1 year ago

Right. The endless ”can my get get bullies for this name” seem to just be a challange to some parents

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TOM HOLLAND 1 year ago

I go to school with a girl named Treasure. That's a fine name. But the girls last name. Is hunt. Her name is Treasure Hunt. And she always gets called to the office.

8points

Louplou 1 year ago

Birth announcement in local paper was Holly Caust, I actually posted on fb at the time I was so flabbergasted!

8points

Kim 1 year ago

There is a kid in the US named Adolf Hitler [Surname]

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Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago

NO WAY! that's awful!

1point

54 s 1 year ago

I am related (by marriage) to a girl who was originally named crystal knight. I honestly don't know if that was on purpose.

0points

Lydsylou 1 year ago

I present Nick Cannons kids: Golden Sagon, Rise Messiah, Powerful Queen, Moroccan, Monroe, Zion Mixolydian, Zillion Heir, Beautiful Zeppelin, Legendary Love, Onyx Ice, Zen, Halo Marie.

6points

Lydsylou 1 year ago

Other mad celebrity kids names include: Apple and Genesis - Gwyneth Paltrow; Malibu Barbie - Trisha Paytas; Audio Science - Shannyn Sossaman; Kulture Kiari and Wave Set - Cardi B; Strummer Newcombe - Julia Styles; Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander - Maximilian Cooper; Blue Ivy, Sir and Rumi - Beyonce; Pilot Inspektor - Jason Lee; Denim and Diezel - Toni Braxton; Marmaduke and Huckleberry - Bear Grylls; North, Saint, Chicago, Psalm, Stormi, Aire, True, Tatum, Mason Dash, Penelope Scotland, Reign Aston, and Dream - various Kardashians ( I'll admit that a few are actually alright names); Row Renggli and Grey Oliver - Morgan Stewart; Lyra Antarctica - Ed Sheeran; Shanda Lear - Bill Lear; Rocket, Rebel, Rogue and Racer - Robert Rodriguez; Raddix Chloe Wildflower - Cameron Diaz; Rosalind Arushka Arkadina Altalune Florence - Uma Thurman; Mint - Romee Strijd; Kal El - Clark Kent; Bronx Mowgli - Ashlee Simpson; Seargeoh and Sage Moonblood- Sylvester Stallone; Gravity Blue, Slim Easy and Rumble Honey - Lucky Blue Smith; Olympia Lightning, Thunder, Saint Leo - Usain Bolt; Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, Little Pixie, Heavenly Hiraana Tiger Lily - Bob Geldoff; Oonagh - Amber Heard; Buddy Dessert - Brie Bella; Sno FilmOn Dot Com - Chief Keef; Ode Mountain - Jena Malone; Nakano Oceana - Wilmer Valderrama; Ever Imre, Onyx Solace and Winter Mercy - Alanis Morissette; Summer Moon Honey - Scheana shay; Shakira, Chosen Sebastian, Sovereign-Dior Cambella, Camidas Swain, Cashmere Saint and Caesar Lorenzo - Cam Newton; Osian Lark Elliot - Milla Jovovich; Prince Michael Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson the second - Michael Jackson

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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago (edited)

Trashy names = trashy parents. Period. I would go no contact to try and not inherit their stupidity. Edit: wrote dads instead of parents.

4points

GFSTaylor 1 year ago

I did a brief work experience sorting customer files in a bank. One account (this is decades ago) was listed by two initials and a surname: V D C*x.

4points

Kim 1 year ago

I met a kid who was named Reginald but went by his nickname, ”Rage”.

4points

Nancy Doughty 1 year ago

Once worked with a woman whose first name was Malaria. While working at the county jail, came across an arrest report with the offender's first name was Bastardo.

3points

DC 1 year ago

Of all names big and small, those that use a creative orthography suck the most. Trashedeigh is, although certainly somewhat true to those named so, just not a name you want to read on your passport. It's a tragedy to your parents to have you ... ok, I get that many, if not even the majority of, children were conceived by accident, including me, and I'm ok with that ... but ... that's a tad above, huh? Ok, THAT name, I haven't read in this list, but still - I've read it. There are people who are ... so...

3points

liam newton-harding 1 year ago

Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (1884-1917). The first Tollemache is pronounced differently from the second, as is the third, from the fourth.

3points

Jeevesssssss 1 year ago

I have a relative called Hedges. As in a long bush. Wtf??

3points

Melissa Harris 1 year ago (edited)

Perhaps where they were conceived?

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Appalachian Panda 1 year ago

I know a guy with a grandson named Rage.

2points

DrBronxx 1 year ago

That's a not uncommon name in Japan, but in pronunciation only. Written down its Reiji.

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DrBronxx 1 year ago

My daughter has a name that is not necessarily common, but is well known, in my country. However, if you're from another country (for example, in the country where I currently live), it is difficult for people to pronounce if they read it, or spell it if they hear it. She is going to have trouble with it, but all of the people I know with names like that, they sometimes go through a period as a teenager when they don't like it, but they've *always* ended up liking that they have a name that is a bit different. I haven't tried to name her with some ridiculous name, but with a name that reminds her of her cultural heritage. She's going to grow up in my wife's country, and it's important to both my wife and I that she has as strong ties to my country as she can (until she grows up and decides on how strong she wants her ties to be).

2points

Mila Preradović 1 year ago

In my (Slavic, south-east Europaean, absolutely non-english related) country, locally famous pop-singer named her baby boy Bloom. :o

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CD Mills 1 year ago

I have a common name with an odd spelling and was named when no one really spelled things 'creatively'. This led me to think that my teachers were all stupid because they couldn't spell my name correctly. I was around ten when I realized that my name was different than the normal spelling when I had thought before that my spelling was the right/correct/only way to spell my name. I never got a single personalized item as a child, my brother Jeff on the other hand... This was when 'personalized items' were whatever was in the bike plates, keyrings, and mugs in very pre-internet times.

1point

Der Kommissar 1 year ago

As heard in Northern Calif. wine country; " Chardonnay, please don't do that "

1point

g90814 1 year ago (edited)

I have the perfect one for this thread but it would be her full name. Basically her parents gave her the 'ideal' stripper/pornstar name, both first and last. she'd be in her 30s now.

1point

Jeff (He/They) 1 year ago

I once saw a kid at the park named 'Anesthesia'. Not Anastasia, anesthesia..

1point

Auntriarch 1 year ago

One of the first babies born to a mother offered anaesthetic was in fact called that

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MaryHadaLittleLamb 1 year ago

I work with someone named Destiny. Only it's spelled Dystanie.

1point

Min 1 year ago

I had a coworker named Paris French. I always wondered if she had a middle name, but I figured she probably got enough c**p about it in her life and I didn't want to pile on. That was probably 20 years ago now and I still wonder.

1point

Yettichild 1 year ago

There were two brothers I went to high school with named Forest Pond and Sky Pond. I also had a Dr. Named Kimberly Iller so she was Dr. K. Iller

1point

Der Kommissar 1 year ago

Knew two brothers named Lake Trout and River Trout

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Isa's left eye 1 year ago (edited)

I've seen many in my time: 4 brothers named Ezekiel, Zach, Zim, and ZOMBIE, Meth, Paysleigh, Nixon, and Princess-Aimee are a few

1point

notlikeyou1971 1 year ago

My aunt taught a kid whose mother named after a No Smoking sign.

1point

The CareTaker 1 year ago

To be fair my middle name is JAET, and it's said as JET, yet no one has ever had trouble saying it, although they have problems saying my first name a lot

1point

athornedrose 1 year ago

knew a kid who's last name started with an 's', named paul michael. PMS for initials on a young boy is just as cruel as you think it is

1point

alloutbikes@yahoo.com 1 year ago

Went to school with "Precious Small ". She was neither.

0points

Jeannie 1 year ago

I feel behind. I named my kids Jason, Gabe, Brie. So unoriginal

0points

brittany 1 year ago

had a friend who worked for a doctors office. she got me a job there and then during the tour showed me the patient paper files. one patient was legally named "Golden Hymen" she was maybe 10 at the time according to her file. like, why?

0points

Lex Sandberg 1 year ago

In Sweden we have laws what we can and can't name our children. It can't be a brand name or a name that can induce obvious bullying or disgrace (like Hitler or poo). It goes before a commitee and gets reviewd before accepted. And you have to do it before the child turns 9 months old otherwise you get a fine for every month beyond that. It happend to my sister. She and her husband could never agree on a name in time on any of their 4 children. Just continued to call the child baby lol.

0points

ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago

My second cousin’s last name is Dodger. His twin daughters, now pushing 40, are named Brook Lyn & Holly Wood. He knew damn well what he was doing and their birth announcements were miniature baseball bats with their names & vitals etched in.

0points

Der Kommissar 1 year ago

Good thing he didn't name them Chavez or Ravine.

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Sara Wilson 1 year ago

People who name their kids after popular tv characters aka GOT

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Violet Smith 1 year ago

There's a guy at my work named "Beav."

0points

Carlos 1 year ago

In some Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean the name "Usnavi" is used, albeit not very commonly. The meaning of such a name? It's what the parent's would read on the huge boats coming to their shores "U.S Navy"

0points

Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago

Meet the twins. Cliotus and Clitoria. They have a sister named Fallopia. This name thing is really going off the rails. Bring back "Bob!"

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Der Kommissar 1 year ago (edited)

I once worked with a guy who loved Cadillacs. His wife got pregnant, so Eldorado if a boy, Seville if a girl,,,

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Papa 1 year ago

I have a couple: a coworker whose last name is May married a young lady named April, so her full name was April May. And before my time there was a family near where I live with a bunch of girls, and no boys. They said toward the end they ran out of names so they started numbering them; the last two were named Ada and Nina.

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ETo 1 year ago

Locally there is a child named Scarlet Amber Green!

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howdylee 1 year ago

I know of a young woman named LaPrecious. There's a Friends epidsode about Precious, but this girl was LaPrecious. SMH

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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago

A month ago I took a cab and the name in his Id was River Ridge Mendez (can remember 2nd surename) We live in Perú, not in an english speaking country.

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Lydsylou 1 year ago

My mum knew a cis guy named Tracey

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Kim 1 year ago

So? It’s a unisex name just like Barabara and Hillery

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SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago (edited)

I have a cousin with a surname for a given name. If a Chinese bloke introduces himself as Buchanan, he's my family.

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Trillian 1 year ago

When I think of all the time I spent choosing names for my kids: names that were not too popular but not extremely rare (because often rare names are rare for a reason, namely they are ugly), easy to spell, sounding good with their last name, not make stupid/offensive initials, and some parents are just: Eff that.

11points

Kim 1 year ago

Right. The endless ”can my get get bullies for this name” seem to just be a challange to some parents

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TOM HOLLAND 1 year ago

I go to school with a girl named Treasure. That's a fine name. But the girls last name. Is hunt. Her name is Treasure Hunt. And she always gets called to the office.

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Louplou 1 year ago

Birth announcement in local paper was Holly Caust, I actually posted on fb at the time I was so flabbergasted!

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Kim 1 year ago

There is a kid in the US named Adolf Hitler [Surname]

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Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago

NO WAY! that's awful!

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54 s 1 year ago

I am related (by marriage) to a girl who was originally named crystal knight. I honestly don't know if that was on purpose.

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Lydsylou 1 year ago

I present Nick Cannons kids: Golden Sagon, Rise Messiah, Powerful Queen, Moroccan, Monroe, Zion Mixolydian, Zillion Heir, Beautiful Zeppelin, Legendary Love, Onyx Ice, Zen, Halo Marie.

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Lydsylou 1 year ago

Other mad celebrity kids names include: Apple and Genesis - Gwyneth Paltrow; Malibu Barbie - Trisha Paytas; Audio Science - Shannyn Sossaman; Kulture Kiari and Wave Set - Cardi B; Strummer Newcombe - Julia Styles; Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander - Maximilian Cooper; Blue Ivy, Sir and Rumi - Beyonce; Pilot Inspektor - Jason Lee; Denim and Diezel - Toni Braxton; Marmaduke and Huckleberry - Bear Grylls; North, Saint, Chicago, Psalm, Stormi, Aire, True, Tatum, Mason Dash, Penelope Scotland, Reign Aston, and Dream - various Kardashians ( I'll admit that a few are actually alright names); Row Renggli and Grey Oliver - Morgan Stewart; Lyra Antarctica - Ed Sheeran; Shanda Lear - Bill Lear; Rocket, Rebel, Rogue and Racer - Robert Rodriguez; Raddix Chloe Wildflower - Cameron Diaz; Rosalind Arushka Arkadina Altalune Florence - Uma Thurman; Mint - Romee Strijd; Kal El - Clark Kent; Bronx Mowgli - Ashlee Simpson; Seargeoh and Sage Moonblood- Sylvester Stallone; Gravity Blue, Slim Easy and Rumble Honey - Lucky Blue Smith; Olympia Lightning, Thunder, Saint Leo - Usain Bolt; Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, Little Pixie, Heavenly Hiraana Tiger Lily - Bob Geldoff; Oonagh - Amber Heard; Buddy Dessert - Brie Bella; Sno FilmOn Dot Com - Chief Keef; Ode Mountain - Jena Malone; Nakano Oceana - Wilmer Valderrama; Ever Imre, Onyx Solace and Winter Mercy - Alanis Morissette; Summer Moon Honey - Scheana shay; Shakira, Chosen Sebastian, Sovereign-Dior Cambella, Camidas Swain, Cashmere Saint and Caesar Lorenzo - Cam Newton; Osian Lark Elliot - Milla Jovovich; Prince Michael Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson the second - Michael Jackson

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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago (edited)

Trashy names = trashy parents. Period. I would go no contact to try and not inherit their stupidity. Edit: wrote dads instead of parents.

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GFSTaylor 1 year ago

I did a brief work experience sorting customer files in a bank. One account (this is decades ago) was listed by two initials and a surname: V D C*x.

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Kim 1 year ago

I met a kid who was named Reginald but went by his nickname, ”Rage”.

4points

Nancy Doughty 1 year ago

Once worked with a woman whose first name was Malaria. While working at the county jail, came across an arrest report with the offender's first name was Bastardo.

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DC 1 year ago

Of all names big and small, those that use a creative orthography suck the most. Trashedeigh is, although certainly somewhat true to those named so, just not a name you want to read on your passport. It's a tragedy to your parents to have you ... ok, I get that many, if not even the majority of, children were conceived by accident, including me, and I'm ok with that ... but ... that's a tad above, huh? Ok, THAT name, I haven't read in this list, but still - I've read it. There are people who are ... so...

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liam newton-harding 1 year ago

Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (1884-1917). The first Tollemache is pronounced differently from the second, as is the third, from the fourth.

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Jeevesssssss 1 year ago

I have a relative called Hedges. As in a long bush. Wtf??

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Melissa Harris 1 year ago (edited)

Perhaps where they were conceived?

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Appalachian Panda 1 year ago

I know a guy with a grandson named Rage.

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DrBronxx 1 year ago

That's a not uncommon name in Japan, but in pronunciation only. Written down its Reiji.

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DrBronxx 1 year ago

My daughter has a name that is not necessarily common, but is well known, in my country. However, if you're from another country (for example, in the country where I currently live), it is difficult for people to pronounce if they read it, or spell it if they hear it. She is going to have trouble with it, but all of the people I know with names like that, they sometimes go through a period as a teenager when they don't like it, but they've *always* ended up liking that they have a name that is a bit different. I haven't tried to name her with some ridiculous name, but with a name that reminds her of her cultural heritage. She's going to grow up in my wife's country, and it's important to both my wife and I that she has as strong ties to my country as she can (until she grows up and decides on how strong she wants her ties to be).

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Mila Preradović 1 year ago

In my (Slavic, south-east Europaean, absolutely non-english related) country, locally famous pop-singer named her baby boy Bloom. :o

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CD Mills 1 year ago

I have a common name with an odd spelling and was named when no one really spelled things 'creatively'. This led me to think that my teachers were all stupid because they couldn't spell my name correctly. I was around ten when I realized that my name was different than the normal spelling when I had thought before that my spelling was the right/correct/only way to spell my name. I never got a single personalized item as a child, my brother Jeff on the other hand... This was when 'personalized items' were whatever was in the bike plates, keyrings, and mugs in very pre-internet times.

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Der Kommissar 1 year ago

As heard in Northern Calif. wine country; " Chardonnay, please don't do that "

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g90814 1 year ago (edited)

I have the perfect one for this thread but it would be her full name. Basically her parents gave her the 'ideal' stripper/pornstar name, both first and last. she'd be in her 30s now.

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Jeff (He/They) 1 year ago

I once saw a kid at the park named 'Anesthesia'. Not Anastasia, anesthesia..

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

One of the first babies born to a mother offered anaesthetic was in fact called that

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MaryHadaLittleLamb 1 year ago

I work with someone named Destiny. Only it's spelled Dystanie.

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Min 1 year ago

I had a coworker named Paris French. I always wondered if she had a middle name, but I figured she probably got enough c**p about it in her life and I didn't want to pile on. That was probably 20 years ago now and I still wonder.

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Yettichild 1 year ago

There were two brothers I went to high school with named Forest Pond and Sky Pond. I also had a Dr. Named Kimberly Iller so she was Dr. K. Iller

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Der Kommissar 1 year ago

Knew two brothers named Lake Trout and River Trout

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Isa's left eye 1 year ago (edited)

I've seen many in my time: 4 brothers named Ezekiel, Zach, Zim, and ZOMBIE, Meth, Paysleigh, Nixon, and Princess-Aimee are a few

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notlikeyou1971 1 year ago

My aunt taught a kid whose mother named after a No Smoking sign.

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The CareTaker 1 year ago

To be fair my middle name is JAET, and it's said as JET, yet no one has ever had trouble saying it, although they have problems saying my first name a lot

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athornedrose 1 year ago

knew a kid who's last name started with an 's', named paul michael. PMS for initials on a young boy is just as cruel as you think it is

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alloutbikes@yahoo.com 1 year ago

Went to school with "Precious Small ". She was neither.

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Jeannie 1 year ago

I feel behind. I named my kids Jason, Gabe, Brie. So unoriginal

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brittany 1 year ago

had a friend who worked for a doctors office. she got me a job there and then during the tour showed me the patient paper files. one patient was legally named "Golden Hymen" she was maybe 10 at the time according to her file. like, why?

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Lex Sandberg 1 year ago

In Sweden we have laws what we can and can't name our children. It can't be a brand name or a name that can induce obvious bullying or disgrace (like Hitler or poo). It goes before a commitee and gets reviewd before accepted. And you have to do it before the child turns 9 months old otherwise you get a fine for every month beyond that. It happend to my sister. She and her husband could never agree on a name in time on any of their 4 children. Just continued to call the child baby lol.

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ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago

My second cousin’s last name is Dodger. His twin daughters, now pushing 40, are named Brook Lyn & Holly Wood. He knew damn well what he was doing and their birth announcements were miniature baseball bats with their names & vitals etched in.

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Der Kommissar 1 year ago

Good thing he didn't name them Chavez or Ravine.

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Sara Wilson 1 year ago

People who name their kids after popular tv characters aka GOT

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Violet Smith 1 year ago

There's a guy at my work named "Beav."

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Carlos 1 year ago

In some Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean the name "Usnavi" is used, albeit not very commonly. The meaning of such a name? It's what the parent's would read on the huge boats coming to their shores "U.S Navy"

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Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago

Meet the twins. Cliotus and Clitoria. They have a sister named Fallopia. This name thing is really going off the rails. Bring back "Bob!"

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Der Kommissar 1 year ago (edited)

I once worked with a guy who loved Cadillacs. His wife got pregnant, so Eldorado if a boy, Seville if a girl,,,

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Papa 1 year ago

I have a couple: a coworker whose last name is May married a young lady named April, so her full name was April May. And before my time there was a family near where I live with a bunch of girls, and no boys. They said toward the end they ran out of names so they started numbering them; the last two were named Ada and Nina.

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ETo 1 year ago

Locally there is a child named Scarlet Amber Green!

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howdylee 1 year ago

I know of a young woman named LaPrecious. There's a Friends epidsode about Precious, but this girl was LaPrecious. SMH

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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago

A month ago I took a cab and the name in his Id was River Ridge Mendez (can remember 2nd surename) We live in Perú, not in an english speaking country.

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Lydsylou 1 year ago

My mum knew a cis guy named Tracey

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Kim 1 year ago

So? It’s a unisex name just like Barabara and Hillery

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SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago (edited)

I have a cousin with a surname for a given name. If a Chinese bloke introduces himself as Buchanan, he's my family.

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