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30 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Parents Actually Gave Their Children, As Shared In This Thread
Seven, Sunday Molly, Tu Morrow. What do these random words all have in common? Well, they’re inscribed into some baby’s passport and will follow them for the rest of their lives. Unless they decide their parents were a little bonkers and it’s better to change that name for good.
Celebrities are notorious for giving their babies weird names, like Kylie Jenner’s daughter Stormi and Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s daughter Suri. And they’re not alone. It seems like the weird name trend is not going anywhere, but you wonder when parents cross their line with their ingenuity.
“What horrible, ridiculous names have you heard parents choose to call their children?” asked someone on Ask Reddit, and the thread amassed 12.7k responses. Below we selected some of the weirdest ones that will make you like if not love your simple, not special, quite boring name.
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#1
I know a girl named Random. While at an Easter egg hunt years ago (eggs were labeled for each kid), I took the eggs labeled Random thinking they were up for grabs. Random’s parents were unamused to say the least.
#2
Nevaeh. It's heaven backwards. Anyone that tells you their daughter is named Nevaeh will also tell you that it's heaven spelled backwards. Every time.
#3
My neighbor was the 12th kid. His parents named him Twelver. That’s gotta be the worst I’ve ever seen.
Bored Panda spoke with Lynn How, the author of “Positive Young Mind,” an experienced educator and life coach who specializes in supporting educators, parents, and children with improving and preventing of mental health issues. Lynn also runs this Facebook teacher coaching group that offers support in either leaving, changing their mindset, changing their schools or setting healthy work/life boundaries.
Having been an educator for 20 years in 6 schools and in various roles, Lynn has seen a huge amount of various children’s names. “I'm from the UK so our most popular names differ slightly from those across the pond! There are certainly fads when it comes to popular names. A decade ago, for example, I taught 5 Matthews at the same time! Not so many about now in primary school,” Lynn said.
#4
An ex had friends who named their kids Haight and Rayge (hate and rage). Good luck kids.
Aussie panda 2 years ago
Don’t know why you’d name your kid after such negative emotions. Name them something positive!
#5
I went to high school with a guy named John John John. Yes, his first name, middle name and last name were all “John”.
Update:
This was not in Texas, BC or Ohio, so there are at least several parents who inflicted the same name on their kids.
He was a nice enough guy and owned it. He did sometimes sign his name John3.
#6
I work at a college and often go through the new applications to process them, I've seen all kinds.
Most ridiculous name I've seen thus far though:
Starscream Anakin as his first and middle names. He has a normal last name. When I first saw it, I was certain that it was a kid f**king with our application system. Then I met him in person, and he showed me his ID.
His name is legally Starscream Anakin. I get the Anakin part, but of all the Transformers to name your kid after, why on Earth make it Starscream? He was just awful.
“Different cultures have their own most popular list but I would say that in the UK, some traditional names are still very popular, such as Joshua and Jacob.” Moreover, Lynn argues that “for girls, many names that were reserved for the older generation are coming back into fashion, such as Molly and Elsa.”The professional educator added that she has worked in a number of schools and the type of name is very dependent on the demographic of the students.
#7
Heard a lady yell at her kid. “Graceland Tennessee stop running around!”
#9
A family friend named his son "Sir" and it's pretty cringe. Honorable mention goes to the former coworker who named his daughter Khaleesi.
Edit : also knew a stripper whose real name was Curiosity. Her parents doomed her.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Would Bored Panda moderators please block the person (spamming) advertising her job in almost every one of these posts?
According to Lynn, names are coupled with identity so it is an important choice and very personal to individuals. “I remember being worried about people liking our chosen names for our children and not revealing them in case others we knew used them first! As a teacher, naming children is harder as there are so many students that you associate with certain names.”
#10
My favorite I saw while working as a banker was...
Subway Club Allah Is Supreme Middle Name (last name)
His parents named him this and he wanted a loan to open a weed store in a state where it is illegal.
To clarify his middle name is Middle Name, i forgot the last name, but it was just a normal last name
#11
My dad wanted to name my little brother My Kid, with his middle name as Rules.
So his full name would be my My Kid Rules [Our last name].
My mom stopped him though lol
“When naming my children, I considered whether it would look ok on a CV when they are older and whether it sounds ok screamed across a crowded playground,” Lynn recounted. “If you are undecided, use the scream test for your chosen name. For example, shout '*chosen name*, get back here now' at the top of your voice, and see how it sounds.”
#13
Wednesday Passion. That was a little girl i use to babysit.
#14
Well... let's just say that the state I live in doesn't have a significant english-speaking population, especially in the rural regions, despite the official language of the country ( India) being English and most of the urban population being educated. However; I have friends whose parents gave them names like "Benadryl", "Goodbye", "Very helpful" and the absolute worst "Dishwasher". This, however is because people from the rural regions ( especially in the North-East) come to the cities, and see words in ads and billboards that they find pretty and innocently name their children after a variety of brands. I don't always blame them, I had a family friend who came off as very posh and educated, spoke perfect English... but named his daughter Darth Vader. Some of them are just trolling. Do not underestimate people of the hills; they don't take your bullshit, educated or otherwise.
Ian Webling 2 years ago
Where I live, South Africa, it is common in the rural black population to be given a second name which is topical at the time of birth. That is why, in tiny places where nothing much happens, babies are often named Happy or Welcome. And some poor sods were named Hitler and Stalin.
#15
Real name, silly: Batman bin Suparman. He's a guy in Indonesia.
Real name, awful for other reasons: Null. Any kid with that name will have no end of trouble with databases.
JoyfulZebra 2 years ago (edited)
Since "bin" means "son of", his name literally means "Batman son of Superman"
Lynn also said that it's lovely for children to have interesting names but added that “sometimes calling them names that are associated with other things can be problematic.” She recounted: “I knew a Gabriel who was far from an angel, for example. I also knew a very unoriginal William Williams. Just consider whether your child will be happy with their name at 25.”
Having said that, the educator concluded that “nothing is set in stone and if children wish to legally change their names, then they can.”
#16
One of my co worker's last name is Rising.
Please welcome to the world his baby daughter Valkyrie Rising!
I'll admit, it's f**king cool. I don't recall the middle name but it was normal like Renee or something.
#17
My sister met some kids in an international airport named Yellow, Flash, and No Exit. My sister asked No Exit why his mom picked that name; he said when she couldn’t think of anything else she saw a no exit sign from her maternity bed and settled on that.
Went to school with a guy named Dude. He was named after his grandad.
There was a college football quarterback in Missouri whose first name was Kokaine; named after his Grandad.
I worked with a lady named Crystal Wineglass.
#18
Some friends of mine in high school knew a girl named Cash Money. Met her once and she said her name with some made up accent.
One recently I ran into was Kaideynse.
#19
Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii. Yes that really was her name - her parents lost custody of her (yes way!) so her name could be legally changed. In NZ we are not allowed to name children after royalty (e.g. no King, Count, Earl etc) but sure go ahead and name your kid Number 16 Bus Shelter.
#20
Did data entry at an amusement park. One pass holder was named “Asthma.” That was her first name. Asthma, as in the breathing condition.
ThePanInPanda 2 years ago
And of course, everyone who ever wants to flirt with her will say she takes their breath away...
#21
I had a good friend when growing up whose name was Gaylord. I have lost count of the fights I got into beating off bullies at school. I've lost count of the beatings I took defending him. They eventually moved to another country and we lost touch. However, the fights and beatings continued as I have a girl's name... (yes I'm a guy)... To this day (I'm 61)... I'm still putting a**holes in their place... Yup still dealing with adolescent adults.
#22
Candida. Which, if you're not up on your medical terminology, is the name of a fungus. Specifically yeast. As in a yeast infection.
Aussie panda 2 years ago
We have a Candida at my work! So it must be popular in another country.
#23
Had a little boy in my program named Rowdy. Eh... kind of rednecky but, whatever.
Then I found out his older brother is named Howdy! WTF?
Found out later that the older boys legal name is Howard. That's less ridiculous, at least.
Official_Blink 2 years ago
Sounds like something a main character from an aussie movie would say... " hOwDy RoWdY MaTe... WaNt SoMe ShRiMp On ThE BaRbie?"
#24
Graduated with a girl named Bodacious
Edit: As a side note: when I was in basic training I met a native American fella whose name was "Knows His Gun". Just thought that was a bada** name and I've never forgotten it.
#25
Okay Arthur Doak. We called him Okay. He was the youngest of 5 kids.
Fancy (named after the Reba song) and her sister Truly (named after Truly Scrumptious from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Secretlove. She was a kid my mom met when my mom worked at a pediatrician’s office. Secretlove’s mom laid out the whole story to my mom about the name.
#26
My mom's class had a 5 year old girl named Trinket. What kind of s**tty parent do you have to be to name your child after a "small item of little to no value"
Virgil Blue 2 years ago
It would have been a cute name for a cartoon mouse. For a human? Just no.
#27
Christgift, Christwill and Christgood all siblings. Bless their hearts.
#28
I once encountered a plump young woman whose name, according to her ID, was Rotunda.
#29
My sister works with a girl by the name, Tyranny. And according to my sister, it sounds like the name suits her lol.
#30
This will probably get lost in the comments but one time I saw a post that was making fun of the name Brynlee (for being a white name that a Karen would give their child) and... that’s my name.
What do you think ?
karla Meixnerová 2 years ago
I'm so glad I live in a country where there are certain rules when it comes to naming a child. Yes, some might say it's restrictive, but at least there is some "defense" against parental originality...
Cherries and Lace 2 years ago
Restrictions in defense of a child are on the books in most places. This should not be any different
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Not A Panda 2 years ago (edited)
Really glad I live in a country where this s**t just wouldn't fly. Registering civil officer has the power to refuse names he or she believes would impede the child's future, or would embarrass the child, or would set the child up for bullying.
Becky Daniels 2 years ago (edited)
My sister worked with a lady who wanted to name her twins “Bagina’ (pronounced Bah-Gina) and ‘Vagina’ (pronounced Vah-Gina). I feel bad for this kids.
Aroha 2 years ago
Vagina is also a last name. I know because I accidentally saw another patient's file... At the ob/gyn!!! 🙈😅
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Gianna 2 years ago
Most of these names, if I were given these names, then I would legally change it once I was able to. These parents have no idea that names are so important to give to their child. They come up with whatever their reason night be but don't think really throughly through at all. Shame on these parents that give names for stupid, f****d up, moronic reasons.
Mama Panda 2 years ago
I knew a girl in jr. high named Leslie Gaye Fagg. She was a really nice girl too. I also had a cousin named Ida Horre. She died in a car accident many years ago. I met a woman named Saren D Pidy at a CJ conference a while back. I had a hard time seeing her without a goofy smile on my face once I worked out her name. On a side note, I had a gynecologist named Dr Love. He was the spitting image of Gene Wilder.
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
Will autocorrect eventually learn the ridiculous spellings of these names? Will I write “Jennifer” on my phone one day and it’ll autocorrect to “Gynneyeferré?”
RoseTheMad 2 years ago
To be fair, Jennifer comes from Guinevere, which is cognate with the Welsh name Gwenhwyfar. So to be honest, Gynneyeferre isn't a long shot xD (for reference the Irish cognate is Fionnabhair xP also where "Fiona" comes from, meaning " white")
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No, that's ignorant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHqgHFcmAOc
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AndyR 2 years ago
Never understood why so many people think pet or boat names are appropriate for children.
Steve Raddish 2 years ago
I went to middle school with Shaft Prince (Prince was his last name). MIL was a teacher. She had a Chlamydia, and a Potpourri Sachet. With the last name Raddish, my parents started a rumor in the hospital when I was born they were going to name me Horace. Say is fast: Horace Raddish.
LW 2 years ago
There was a girl a few grades younger than me in school whose name was Shithead. Pronounced Shi-THEED. Poor girl. Also went to school with a guy named Peter Yanker. Everybody used to chuckle whenever his name was said over the PA. And I used to work with a lady named Sandy Beach. My mother is Icelandic so she and my grandparents all had to have their first names selected from a list approved by the country's naming commitee. It's to preserve the language and also to prevent a child from being named something ridiculous or embarrassing. And the naming system is patronymic, so the father's first name becomes the last name of the child plus "son" for a boy or "dóttir" for a girl. For example, if a guy named Jón had a daughter named Bryndís, her name would be Bryndís Jónsdóttir. My dad is American though, so I have the same last name as him.
Carrie Smith 2 years ago
I went to school with a Hunter. Which isn't an odd name, except his siblings names were Fisher, and something else outdoorsy. I also went to school with a guy named Stone. All his siblings had rock based names because his parents were geologists.
Celesta 2 years ago
My mother, who is a loving, highly intelligent woman, was VERY adamant she was naming me "Dorcas". Thankfully my sister is 15 years older than me and was able to reason with her.
GFSTaylor 2 years ago
What's wrong with Dorcas ? It's a bit old fashioned and not common now, but it's a legit name that's been in use for centuries.
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So the reason we think names like "michael" and "nathaniel" and so on are normal is that they are in another language, namely Hebrew. If they were translated, they'd not be names, and they'd be on this list of stuff we'd be making fun of. So for example, "John" from Hebrew Yohanan means "gift of god" - I bet if one of the parents on this list went and called their kid "Giftofgod", we'd be mocking it. But because we're used to "John", it doesn't bother us. So my suggestion would be come up with actual english names that aren't fun to mock. So I've seen "Storm"; to me that is ok. One of the examples above mocks someone called 12th or twelfth or something like that. Well, the latin names Tertius and Sextus and Octavian and so on, literally just mean 3rd, 6th and 8th. So.... I think we're laughing at SOME of these because they're not disguised by another language. Take the name "Chair". We'd laugh like crazy at that. But the name "Sihle" is very common amongst the Zulu. It's "chair."
John Dawson 2 years ago
It’s spelled “Raymond Luxury Yacht” but it’s pronounced “Throat Wobbler Mangrove”
Got Myself 4 Pandas 2 years ago
My children are Lucy, Ben (just Ben, not short for anything), Olivia (we call her ollie most of the time) and Noah. Do I just lack imagination? I'm sure I could fit some x's in their name somewhere, and extra e's here and there
EmCWolf 2 years ago
My mom was a teacher and she encountered a student named Chandelier. There was also a black girl who was legally named Snow White...go figure.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
There was apparently a girl called Shanda, surname Lear
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Lisa Shaw 2 years ago
Went to school with a guy whose last name was Tyme, named his sons Otto (pronounced out of) and Justin.
Louie Cooper 2 years ago
I knew a kid in high school named "Meth". One of my neighbours named their kid "Angus". Not overly weird, except for the fact that the mother worked as a butcher prior to becoming pregnant and named her son after her favourite type of meat...
Sabrina Bowen 2 years ago
I once k ew a girl named Shithéad. Pronounced Shi-Thēēd. But seriously??
Cherries and Lace 2 years ago
My mom knew a woman named Araya (Uh-ray-uh) she always thought it was lovely. One day saw her middle name., Sunshine. Araya Sunshine... at least it was her middle name so she could choose to share or not.
L. M. Zarow 2 years ago
I taught a great student named Precious Love ( last name). I also taught an America that year
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
The best I heard was while working a landscaping job was Sierra Mist. This was after the soft drink came out.
Edgar Rops 2 years ago
On the other hand, some names are too common: in my class I had five guys named Alexander (and one girl named Alexandra). It was a class of 30, so one person in five was an Alex.
Whodathunkit 2 years ago
I named my son Alexander 26 years ago...after the young Klingon on Star Trek. Didn't know any other babies with that name at the time.
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Rose the Cook 2 years ago
I had an Uncle Vivian who went by his middle name. Both Beverly and Vivian were male names at one time and the actor John Wayne, famous for so many old western films, was really named Marion.
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While misspellings and mismatched names may be odd, some of the names here merely represent different cultural ideas.
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
People sniggering about names like Happy, Friday and Smart have clearly forgotten Faith, June and Praise God Barebones
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R.C. Wilkinson 2 years ago
Went to middle school with a girl named with the last name of Dee. Her parents named her Este... Este Dee
Octavia Hansen 2 years ago
Well . . . the man who invented the Lear Jet, named his daughter Shanda . . .
Teresa Lewis 2 years ago
My neighbor had a baby they named Tuff. Their last name was Guy. Yes, this kid's name was Tuff Guy.
Jessy Wessy 2 years ago (edited)
I worked with a lady named Vendetta. At first I thought it must be Vondetta, but nope. Vendetta.
Dan St John 2 years ago
Back in the 60's I worked for a man whose parents just gave him the Initials L.M. as a child, thinking that when he grew up, he could pick his own name. He told a story about going into boot camp in WWII and writing LM on his application. The military at that time wasn't prepared for someone with just initials and sent back his paperwork for him to correct. Considering he only had initials he carefully wrote L (only) M (only) and sent it back. When they handed him his dog tags, you guessed it, he was Lonly Monly and his last name.
Zachary Johnson 2 years ago
My dad taught Frosty Winter Knight. I knew Adam and his sister Eve, no last name. My mom taught Keno, whose older brother was Skeeter. Family friend taught Cindy Rella. I grew up with and was friend of Mike Hunt.
Ray Harland 2 years ago
Stood in a queue at a shop behind a woman whose little girl ran off to look at some sweets, so the mom shouted her, "Disney, get your a** back here", I almost got slapped for laughing
Barbara Forshee 2 years ago
My Ex husband was a jailer and 2 of his inmates were named Orangello and Lemongello written like it was pronounced Orange jello and Lemon jello.
Jane Doe 2 years ago
My brother taught in a high school where they had a meeting to explain that the, yes, these three sisters in three different grades have the same name, spelled the same way, but it pronounced differently. So they had to practice.
Silre 2 years ago
Yeah, I went to school with twins named Rosemary and Rosemarie.
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Black Pearl 2 years ago (edited)
One of my dearest friends has told us he wants to name his future children some interesting names such as Mayonnaise, Chu Chu Train, Mike Oxlong, Hugh G Rection, and more. We've told him to leave naming the kids to his future wife because he's the kind of person to go through with that kind of thing.
Meredith 2 years ago
I had a friend who met a Q-A. Pronounced Qdasha. Another friend knew a person named Aquanet.
Aria Whitaker 2 years ago (edited)
Your friend lied to you. This is a popular, old, racist urban myth that has been debunked numerous times. It seems to make its round every few years, and the only thing that changes is the letters in front of the "dash" : https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/
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ma laika 2 years ago
Last June 10, Sincerely Pascual from from Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines, the baby’s aunt, shared the viral photo in FB to where she revealed that her nephew was named Hypertext Markup Language R. Pascual. She said her brother chose the name “HTML” as a tribute to his profession as a web developer. Pascual said that having unique names runs in their family. Her brother Mac’s real name is “Macaroni ’85” and their other sister is “Spaghetti ’88,” while hers is “Sincerely Yours ’98.”
Aislínge Kellogg de Gómez 2 months ago
I loved it! I had been thinking famous people’s names (such as Moxie Crimefighter Gillette or Blue Angel Evans or the worst one, Jermaine Jackson) but this…ye gods! We have a Shoprite here that got an order for a birthday cake for an eight-year-old named Adolf Hitler. They refused to put the name on the cake. Welcome to New Jersey!
Lieutenant BaconWaffles 9 months ago
Chris P Bacon, Forest Pyre, Paris French, Justin Case, Justin Thyme, Paige Turner.
Lieutenant BaconWaffles 9 months ago (edited)
Wi11y P3cker, D!ck Johnson, Robin House, Robyn Byrd, Stalin Carr.
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If my parents had five kids (they don't), they would've named their 5th child Lajordaquantavius after the 5 kids my mom hated when she taught at a public school.
Kevin Ocampo 2 years ago
I have a cousin that was named Threefourth. I’m not sure why they chose that name for him. I could remember him being teased a lot. I’m sorry to say it, but this has to be the worst name.
Brenda 2 years ago
There is a story in a military book. A couple had 2 boys and were hoping for a girl this time. But they hadn't picked any boy names. Husband is shipping off and says she should pick a boy name just in case. The next month he gets the news that his wife delivered a healthy boy named Justin Case.
Lia Joseph 2 years ago
My son has 2 friends in school. They're both twins, one is named Special Quest and his sister's name is Bonus Quest 🤷
Suzanne Griscom 2 years ago
I had a student with a normal name where his parents were from: Tes Tekkle.
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
My friend's daughter has a boyfriend named Blade. I feel like he had a ratstail haircut as a kid
Xavier Vorck 2 years ago (edited)
my father knew a guy named Thomas Thomas Thomas the III , Thomas wasn't a nice person
El Dee 2 years ago
Some parents have no care for the future of their own kids. How will they get through school, how will the name be received at a place of work and how will their overall dignity be affected? You can ruin a life with a funny name. I named my daughter an unusual but not unheard of traditional name. A couple of women who were well known had the name and I couldn't think of a way to make fun of the name either. I thought how she'd feel about it as an adult. The only problem she EVER had was that if she wanted something with her name on it then there was very little to buy (easier now with the internet of course) Seems some parents just want to pick the worst name possible..
Lily armitage 2 years ago
I went to school with a set of siblings named Joyce, Happiness and peace
Isle_of_stressed_pilots 2 years ago
My goddaughter's little sister is named "Triana" because she was supposed to be named "Tiana" but the parents messed up the spelling on the birth certificate. It fits tho since shes the third child lol
Mud spider 2 years ago
My mom once told me that when I was born, my dad wanted to name me reighfal (say it out loud)
Aidan Pite 2 years ago
I used to know a guy whose family had a naming tradition, like 'first name is grandfather, middle name is great grandfather' kind of thing. Except, his grandfather went by a nickname, so instead of just giving him the full name they named him after the nickname. The first time he showed me his real name I thought it was, like, the WORST fake ID in the history of fake IDs, until I realized it was his university ID and nobody would bother faking that. Guys, his name was W***y D**k. You can't make this s**t up.
Nikki Angulo 2 years ago
Seven wasn't in the list, but I taught a kid with that name. I always wondered why his parents named him that. I met a guy once whose name was Joe Josephson Jr.
Axolotl King 2 years ago
One of my dads cousins had a kid and named her "Fields". Apparently they said it's from the Bible? I've never read the Bible so idk but even then, why Fields???
Lara Verne 2 years ago
Well, in my country we have rules and you can't name your child just anything. But people find the way to name their kids something 'unique'. So there are children with foreign names, archaic names, or fantasy names. Pretty sure there are some Arwens and Aragorns :)
GirlFriday 2 years ago
My parents had thirteen children to name. Thank the FSM for their traditional Irish background for the strangest name out of all of us is Bowen (we voted, it came down to Bowen and Vaughn being the weirdest, but Bowen won) and he was named after a relative. The rest of us escaped relatively unscathed.
Lasagna Is Like Crack 2 years ago
Abcde. This was the name of a girl that Southwest Airlines gate crew were laughing at. It's pronounced ab-si-dee. Her mother set her up to be made fun of.
Amo Mazzuchelli 2 years ago
I have cousins faith hope and charity and their brother John. My nieces name is Atlas .... really I don't get it
Roxy Eastland 2 years ago
Why do I keep reading these lists?! I must be a glutton for punishment. How about a) we let people call their own children whatever they want and teach our own children not to be bullies and b) people educate themselves about other cultures and other times in history before they slag off what to others is a perfectly normal name with a long history. I got bored of commenting, tbh, on so many names that have existed for quite a while. And if you think this is a modern phenomenon, find the Horrible Histories episode on youtube about Victorian names. You'll be ready to let all of these go, after that.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Fair point, but I think the complaint is about unreasonable names like the ones given here. To me, using normal english words is fine.
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Inigo Montoya 2 years ago
I used to live near Detroit and have heard some pretty interesting names in the time I spent there. The oddest one was Lee-ah. The dash wasn't silent. Leedashah was how it was pronounced. I know there was a dash, not spelling because I overheard the mother explaining exactly that to the person collecting the kids info for registration.
Aria Whitaker 2 years ago (edited)
Lies, lies and damned lies, this one has been going around since at least 2004, funny how when they looked into name registrations NOT ONE could be found. Anywhere. FROM SNOPES: "In the ten years since we first published this article, we’ve heard from hundreds of people who have claimed that they knew a student, classmate, patient, neighbor, co-worker — or relative thereof — named “Le-a,” yet the existence of any person actually so named remains elusively undocumented." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/
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Scott Kelly 2 years ago
My girlfriend works in a hospital and was helping in Labor & Delivery one day. They asked a woman what she wanted her sons name to be. After looking around the room she says "Nosmo King".... She read the NO SMOKING sign and thought it was a good name.
Jamie Miller 2 years ago
Some names I’ve seen in education- Imunique (I’m Unique), la-ia (la-dash-ia), orangejello and lemonjello (twins- orange and lemon jello), Mary Jane Weed, Crystal Ball, Vazeline (after a jar of Vaseline)
Tara Moov 2 years ago
I also knew someone legally named Baby Girl (wonder if it's the same person). She was already in her 20s when I met her and went by the nickname "Bee Gee." Worse: I've met someone whose name is Lasagna but spelled with a "z." But still pronounced the same as the food. I've also met two people legally named Spike, and a former teacher of mine had taught someone named Female. That one was a sad story. Literacy wasn't the parents' strong suit, and when the hospital put a bracelet on the baby with its sex assigned at birth, the mom thought they had named her baby already and thought "fee-mal-eee" sounded pretty.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
There was a kid at my school whose name was Timothy Tam. That sounds sensible enough, but unfortunately in my country there's a very popular kind of chocolate biscuit called a Tim Tam. I also knew a girl whose name was Emma Lee, and she told me no her parents didn't do that on purpose.
Shawnie Motschenbacher 2 years ago
Forget about Dias, pronounced d lass. Was the 9th child and the mother told me "this is deltas damn child I'm gonna have"
Shawnie Motschenbacher 2 years ago
A-A, pronounce adasha. Numeroh, pronounced new-mer,oh- home run spelled backwards.
Supernatural 2 years ago
I went to school with a black kid and his nickname was 'Toke'....we used to hang out regularly and I nearly got the s**t kicked out of me for calling him Tokes because a gang of black youths thought I was being racist...his surname was Tchoche or close to that and was pronounced Tokee ....started using his first name after that...Paul
karla Meixnerová 2 years ago
I'm so glad I live in a country where there are certain rules when it comes to naming a child. Yes, some might say it's restrictive, but at least there is some "defense" against parental originality...
Cherries and Lace 2 years ago
Restrictions in defense of a child are on the books in most places. This should not be any different
Load More Replies... Not A Panda 2 years ago (edited)
Really glad I live in a country where this s**t just wouldn't fly. Registering civil officer has the power to refuse names he or she believes would impede the child's future, or would embarrass the child, or would set the child up for bullying.
Becky Daniels 2 years ago (edited)
My sister worked with a lady who wanted to name her twins “Bagina’ (pronounced Bah-Gina) and ‘Vagina’ (pronounced Vah-Gina). I feel bad for this kids.
Aroha 2 years ago
Vagina is also a last name. I know because I accidentally saw another patient's file... At the ob/gyn!!! 🙈😅
Load More Replies... Gianna 2 years ago
Most of these names, if I were given these names, then I would legally change it once I was able to. These parents have no idea that names are so important to give to their child. They come up with whatever their reason night be but don't think really throughly through at all. Shame on these parents that give names for stupid, f****d up, moronic reasons.
Mama Panda 2 years ago
I knew a girl in jr. high named Leslie Gaye Fagg. She was a really nice girl too. I also had a cousin named Ida Horre. She died in a car accident many years ago. I met a woman named Saren D Pidy at a CJ conference a while back. I had a hard time seeing her without a goofy smile on my face once I worked out her name. On a side note, I had a gynecologist named Dr Love. He was the spitting image of Gene Wilder.
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
Will autocorrect eventually learn the ridiculous spellings of these names? Will I write “Jennifer” on my phone one day and it’ll autocorrect to “Gynneyeferré?”
RoseTheMad 2 years ago
To be fair, Jennifer comes from Guinevere, which is cognate with the Welsh name Gwenhwyfar. So to be honest, Gynneyeferre isn't a long shot xD (for reference the Irish cognate is Fionnabhair xP also where "Fiona" comes from, meaning " white")
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
No, that's ignorant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHqgHFcmAOc
Load More Replies... AndyR 2 years ago
Never understood why so many people think pet or boat names are appropriate for children.
Steve Raddish 2 years ago
I went to middle school with Shaft Prince (Prince was his last name). MIL was a teacher. She had a Chlamydia, and a Potpourri Sachet. With the last name Raddish, my parents started a rumor in the hospital when I was born they were going to name me Horace. Say is fast: Horace Raddish.
LW 2 years ago
There was a girl a few grades younger than me in school whose name was Shithead. Pronounced Shi-THEED. Poor girl. Also went to school with a guy named Peter Yanker. Everybody used to chuckle whenever his name was said over the PA. And I used to work with a lady named Sandy Beach. My mother is Icelandic so she and my grandparents all had to have their first names selected from a list approved by the country's naming commitee. It's to preserve the language and also to prevent a child from being named something ridiculous or embarrassing. And the naming system is patronymic, so the father's first name becomes the last name of the child plus "son" for a boy or "dóttir" for a girl. For example, if a guy named Jón had a daughter named Bryndís, her name would be Bryndís Jónsdóttir. My dad is American though, so I have the same last name as him.
Carrie Smith 2 years ago
I went to school with a Hunter. Which isn't an odd name, except his siblings names were Fisher, and something else outdoorsy. I also went to school with a guy named Stone. All his siblings had rock based names because his parents were geologists.
Celesta 2 years ago
My mother, who is a loving, highly intelligent woman, was VERY adamant she was naming me "Dorcas". Thankfully my sister is 15 years older than me and was able to reason with her.
GFSTaylor 2 years ago
What's wrong with Dorcas ? It's a bit old fashioned and not common now, but it's a legit name that's been in use for centuries.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
So the reason we think names like "michael" and "nathaniel" and so on are normal is that they are in another language, namely Hebrew. If they were translated, they'd not be names, and they'd be on this list of stuff we'd be making fun of. So for example, "John" from Hebrew Yohanan means "gift of god" - I bet if one of the parents on this list went and called their kid "Giftofgod", we'd be mocking it. But because we're used to "John", it doesn't bother us. So my suggestion would be come up with actual english names that aren't fun to mock. So I've seen "Storm"; to me that is ok. One of the examples above mocks someone called 12th or twelfth or something like that. Well, the latin names Tertius and Sextus and Octavian and so on, literally just mean 3rd, 6th and 8th. So.... I think we're laughing at SOME of these because they're not disguised by another language. Take the name "Chair". We'd laugh like crazy at that. But the name "Sihle" is very common amongst the Zulu. It's "chair."
John Dawson 2 years ago
It’s spelled “Raymond Luxury Yacht” but it’s pronounced “Throat Wobbler Mangrove”
Got Myself 4 Pandas 2 years ago
My children are Lucy, Ben (just Ben, not short for anything), Olivia (we call her ollie most of the time) and Noah. Do I just lack imagination? I'm sure I could fit some x's in their name somewhere, and extra e's here and there
EmCWolf 2 years ago
My mom was a teacher and she encountered a student named Chandelier. There was also a black girl who was legally named Snow White...go figure.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
There was apparently a girl called Shanda, surname Lear
Load More Replies... Lisa Shaw 2 years ago
Went to school with a guy whose last name was Tyme, named his sons Otto (pronounced out of) and Justin.
Louie Cooper 2 years ago
I knew a kid in high school named "Meth". One of my neighbours named their kid "Angus". Not overly weird, except for the fact that the mother worked as a butcher prior to becoming pregnant and named her son after her favourite type of meat...
Sabrina Bowen 2 years ago
I once k ew a girl named Shithéad. Pronounced Shi-Thēēd. But seriously??
Cherries and Lace 2 years ago
My mom knew a woman named Araya (Uh-ray-uh) she always thought it was lovely. One day saw her middle name., Sunshine. Araya Sunshine... at least it was her middle name so she could choose to share or not.
L. M. Zarow 2 years ago
I taught a great student named Precious Love ( last name). I also taught an America that year
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
The best I heard was while working a landscaping job was Sierra Mist. This was after the soft drink came out.
Edgar Rops 2 years ago
On the other hand, some names are too common: in my class I had five guys named Alexander (and one girl named Alexandra). It was a class of 30, so one person in five was an Alex.
Whodathunkit 2 years ago
I named my son Alexander 26 years ago...after the young Klingon on Star Trek. Didn't know any other babies with that name at the time.
Load More Replies... Rose the Cook 2 years ago
I had an Uncle Vivian who went by his middle name. Both Beverly and Vivian were male names at one time and the actor John Wayne, famous for so many old western films, was really named Marion.
Load More Replies... Rose the Cook 2 years ago
While misspellings and mismatched names may be odd, some of the names here merely represent different cultural ideas.
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
People sniggering about names like Happy, Friday and Smart have clearly forgotten Faith, June and Praise God Barebones
Load More Replies... R.C. Wilkinson 2 years ago
Went to middle school with a girl named with the last name of Dee. Her parents named her Este... Este Dee
Octavia Hansen 2 years ago
Well . . . the man who invented the Lear Jet, named his daughter Shanda . . .
Teresa Lewis 2 years ago
My neighbor had a baby they named Tuff. Their last name was Guy. Yes, this kid's name was Tuff Guy.
Jessy Wessy 2 years ago (edited)
I worked with a lady named Vendetta. At first I thought it must be Vondetta, but nope. Vendetta.
Dan St John 2 years ago
Back in the 60's I worked for a man whose parents just gave him the Initials L.M. as a child, thinking that when he grew up, he could pick his own name. He told a story about going into boot camp in WWII and writing LM on his application. The military at that time wasn't prepared for someone with just initials and sent back his paperwork for him to correct. Considering he only had initials he carefully wrote L (only) M (only) and sent it back. When they handed him his dog tags, you guessed it, he was Lonly Monly and his last name.
Zachary Johnson 2 years ago
My dad taught Frosty Winter Knight. I knew Adam and his sister Eve, no last name. My mom taught Keno, whose older brother was Skeeter. Family friend taught Cindy Rella. I grew up with and was friend of Mike Hunt.
Ray Harland 2 years ago
Stood in a queue at a shop behind a woman whose little girl ran off to look at some sweets, so the mom shouted her, "Disney, get your a** back here", I almost got slapped for laughing
Barbara Forshee 2 years ago
My Ex husband was a jailer and 2 of his inmates were named Orangello and Lemongello written like it was pronounced Orange jello and Lemon jello.
Jane Doe 2 years ago
My brother taught in a high school where they had a meeting to explain that the, yes, these three sisters in three different grades have the same name, spelled the same way, but it pronounced differently. So they had to practice.
Silre 2 years ago
Yeah, I went to school with twins named Rosemary and Rosemarie.
Load More Replies... Black Pearl 2 years ago (edited)
One of my dearest friends has told us he wants to name his future children some interesting names such as Mayonnaise, Chu Chu Train, Mike Oxlong, Hugh G Rection, and more. We've told him to leave naming the kids to his future wife because he's the kind of person to go through with that kind of thing.
Meredith 2 years ago
I had a friend who met a Q-A. Pronounced Qdasha. Another friend knew a person named Aquanet.
Aria Whitaker 2 years ago (edited)
Your friend lied to you. This is a popular, old, racist urban myth that has been debunked numerous times. It seems to make its round every few years, and the only thing that changes is the letters in front of the "dash" : https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/
Load More Replies... ma laika 2 years ago
Last June 10, Sincerely Pascual from from Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines, the baby’s aunt, shared the viral photo in FB to where she revealed that her nephew was named Hypertext Markup Language R. Pascual. She said her brother chose the name “HTML” as a tribute to his profession as a web developer. Pascual said that having unique names runs in their family. Her brother Mac’s real name is “Macaroni ’85” and their other sister is “Spaghetti ’88,” while hers is “Sincerely Yours ’98.”
Aislínge Kellogg de Gómez 2 months ago
I loved it! I had been thinking famous people’s names (such as Moxie Crimefighter Gillette or Blue Angel Evans or the worst one, Jermaine Jackson) but this…ye gods! We have a Shoprite here that got an order for a birthday cake for an eight-year-old named Adolf Hitler. They refused to put the name on the cake. Welcome to New Jersey!
Lieutenant BaconWaffles 9 months ago
Chris P Bacon, Forest Pyre, Paris French, Justin Case, Justin Thyme, Paige Turner.
Lieutenant BaconWaffles 9 months ago (edited)
Wi11y P3cker, D!ck Johnson, Robin House, Robyn Byrd, Stalin Carr.
Load More Replies... Emma Grace Shaver 1 year ago
If my parents had five kids (they don't), they would've named their 5th child Lajordaquantavius after the 5 kids my mom hated when she taught at a public school.
Kevin Ocampo 2 years ago
I have a cousin that was named Threefourth. I’m not sure why they chose that name for him. I could remember him being teased a lot. I’m sorry to say it, but this has to be the worst name.
Brenda 2 years ago
There is a story in a military book. A couple had 2 boys and were hoping for a girl this time. But they hadn't picked any boy names. Husband is shipping off and says she should pick a boy name just in case. The next month he gets the news that his wife delivered a healthy boy named Justin Case.
Lia Joseph 2 years ago
My son has 2 friends in school. They're both twins, one is named Special Quest and his sister's name is Bonus Quest 🤷
Suzanne Griscom 2 years ago
I had a student with a normal name where his parents were from: Tes Tekkle.
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
My friend's daughter has a boyfriend named Blade. I feel like he had a ratstail haircut as a kid
Xavier Vorck 2 years ago (edited)
my father knew a guy named Thomas Thomas Thomas the III , Thomas wasn't a nice person
El Dee 2 years ago
Some parents have no care for the future of their own kids. How will they get through school, how will the name be received at a place of work and how will their overall dignity be affected? You can ruin a life with a funny name. I named my daughter an unusual but not unheard of traditional name. A couple of women who were well known had the name and I couldn't think of a way to make fun of the name either. I thought how she'd feel about it as an adult. The only problem she EVER had was that if she wanted something with her name on it then there was very little to buy (easier now with the internet of course) Seems some parents just want to pick the worst name possible..
Lily armitage 2 years ago
I went to school with a set of siblings named Joyce, Happiness and peace
Isle_of_stressed_pilots 2 years ago
My goddaughter's little sister is named "Triana" because she was supposed to be named "Tiana" but the parents messed up the spelling on the birth certificate. It fits tho since shes the third child lol
Mud spider 2 years ago
My mom once told me that when I was born, my dad wanted to name me reighfal (say it out loud)
Aidan Pite 2 years ago
I used to know a guy whose family had a naming tradition, like 'first name is grandfather, middle name is great grandfather' kind of thing. Except, his grandfather went by a nickname, so instead of just giving him the full name they named him after the nickname. The first time he showed me his real name I thought it was, like, the WORST fake ID in the history of fake IDs, until I realized it was his university ID and nobody would bother faking that. Guys, his name was W***y D**k. You can't make this s**t up.
Nikki Angulo 2 years ago
Seven wasn't in the list, but I taught a kid with that name. I always wondered why his parents named him that. I met a guy once whose name was Joe Josephson Jr.
Axolotl King 2 years ago
One of my dads cousins had a kid and named her "Fields". Apparently they said it's from the Bible? I've never read the Bible so idk but even then, why Fields???
Lara Verne 2 years ago
Well, in my country we have rules and you can't name your child just anything. But people find the way to name their kids something 'unique'. So there are children with foreign names, archaic names, or fantasy names. Pretty sure there are some Arwens and Aragorns :)
GirlFriday 2 years ago
My parents had thirteen children to name. Thank the FSM for their traditional Irish background for the strangest name out of all of us is Bowen (we voted, it came down to Bowen and Vaughn being the weirdest, but Bowen won) and he was named after a relative. The rest of us escaped relatively unscathed.
Lasagna Is Like Crack 2 years ago
Abcde. This was the name of a girl that Southwest Airlines gate crew were laughing at. It's pronounced ab-si-dee. Her mother set her up to be made fun of.
Amo Mazzuchelli 2 years ago
I have cousins faith hope and charity and their brother John. My nieces name is Atlas .... really I don't get it
Roxy Eastland 2 years ago
Why do I keep reading these lists?! I must be a glutton for punishment. How about a) we let people call their own children whatever they want and teach our own children not to be bullies and b) people educate themselves about other cultures and other times in history before they slag off what to others is a perfectly normal name with a long history. I got bored of commenting, tbh, on so many names that have existed for quite a while. And if you think this is a modern phenomenon, find the Horrible Histories episode on youtube about Victorian names. You'll be ready to let all of these go, after that.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Fair point, but I think the complaint is about unreasonable names like the ones given here. To me, using normal english words is fine.
Load More Replies... Inigo Montoya 2 years ago
I used to live near Detroit and have heard some pretty interesting names in the time I spent there. The oddest one was Lee-ah. The dash wasn't silent. Leedashah was how it was pronounced. I know there was a dash, not spelling because I overheard the mother explaining exactly that to the person collecting the kids info for registration.
Aria Whitaker 2 years ago (edited)
Lies, lies and damned lies, this one has been going around since at least 2004, funny how when they looked into name registrations NOT ONE could be found. Anywhere. FROM SNOPES: "In the ten years since we first published this article, we’ve heard from hundreds of people who have claimed that they knew a student, classmate, patient, neighbor, co-worker — or relative thereof — named “Le-a,” yet the existence of any person actually so named remains elusively undocumented." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/
Load More Replies... Scott Kelly 2 years ago
My girlfriend works in a hospital and was helping in Labor & Delivery one day. They asked a woman what she wanted her sons name to be. After looking around the room she says "Nosmo King".... She read the NO SMOKING sign and thought it was a good name.
Jamie Miller 2 years ago
Some names I’ve seen in education- Imunique (I’m Unique), la-ia (la-dash-ia), orangejello and lemonjello (twins- orange and lemon jello), Mary Jane Weed, Crystal Ball, Vazeline (after a jar of Vaseline)
Tara Moov 2 years ago
I also knew someone legally named Baby Girl (wonder if it's the same person). She was already in her 20s when I met her and went by the nickname "Bee Gee." Worse: I've met someone whose name is Lasagna but spelled with a "z." But still pronounced the same as the food. I've also met two people legally named Spike, and a former teacher of mine had taught someone named Female. That one was a sad story. Literacy wasn't the parents' strong suit, and when the hospital put a bracelet on the baby with its sex assigned at birth, the mom thought they had named her baby already and thought "fee-mal-eee" sounded pretty.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
There was a kid at my school whose name was Timothy Tam. That sounds sensible enough, but unfortunately in my country there's a very popular kind of chocolate biscuit called a Tim Tam. I also knew a girl whose name was Emma Lee, and she told me no her parents didn't do that on purpose.
Shawnie Motschenbacher 2 years ago
Forget about Dias, pronounced d lass. Was the 9th child and the mother told me "this is deltas damn child I'm gonna have"
Shawnie Motschenbacher 2 years ago
A-A, pronounce adasha. Numeroh, pronounced new-mer,oh- home run spelled backwards.
Supernatural 2 years ago
I went to school with a black kid and his nickname was 'Toke'....we used to hang out regularly and I nearly got the s**t kicked out of me for calling him Tokes because a gang of black youths thought I was being racist...his surname was Tchoche or close to that and was pronounced Tokee ....started using his first name after that...Paul
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