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Bored Panda reached out to Pamela Redmond, the baby name expert and creator of Nameberry who’s known as the world’s leading expert on baby names. When asked about new trends for children’s names, Redmond said that they are seeing a strong trend toward gender-neutral names for boys.

“For decades girls were getting unisex names but parents shied away from them for boys, but now we're seeing that heading in the other direction. Some gender-neutral names rising in popularity for boys: Cameron, River, Angel, Rowan, Sawyer, and Amari.”

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Pennis. Pronounced like Dennis but with a P. Why would anyone do this to their child?

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Jathan. This child has been damned to constantly sound like he has a lisp.

"Hi, I am Jathan" "ohh nice to meet you Jason" "...no, its actually Jathan, my parents hated me"
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Not a teacher, but I work at my county's welfare office. There's a family and these are all the kids' first names from oldest to youngest:

* Princess
* Prince
* Crowned Prince
* Prince Mowgli
* Princess Modica-Nordica

I wish I was kidding.

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Moreover, nature names just keep getting stronger, Redmond said. “There are flower names like Flora and Azalea but also tree names such as Oakley and Maple, water names like Ocean and Wave (Cardi B and Offset's baby boy), sky names such as Luna and Jupiter, animal names like Birdie and Wolf,” she explained.

Interestingly, mythological names are also huge. “Mythological names popular on Nameberry are Aurora, Freya, Penelope, Daphne, and Maeve for girls; Atlas, Finn, Magnus, Aurelius, and Orion for boys,” Redmond told Bored Panda.

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names There is a woman named Lasagna that comes into the store I used to work in. She was born and her mother saw her and thought. LASAGNA.

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50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names I know this girl named Feline, most people just call her Kat.

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'Kimyonce'

Her parent is apparently a fan of Beyonce & the Kardashians. I feel so sorry for that kid.

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According to the world’s leading expert on baby names, there are literally thousands of names given to fewer than five babies a year that doesn't even appear on the Social Security's extended list. “Some of these are names most people are familiar with. You could call these undiscovered names instead of unpopular names. For boys, these include Oberon, Gulliver, Bard, Florent, and Drummer. For girls, Delphi, Ianthe, Bluebell, Desdemona, and Zephyrine.”

Sh*thead (pronounced shi-theed), Da Boss, and Sexy Beth. Sexy Beth was just referred to as Beth, because who wants to call a 12 year old sexy, and her mom was not happy about it. She came into the school numerous times ranting about how her daughter's name is Sexy Beth, not Beth, and we better get it right

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Moronica. She works at Walmart.

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#10

My nephew is named Fox. At first I was kinda horrified but now I see how the name fits him perfectly. Whenever he sees pictures of foxes he says "There I am." He is 4 and it is freaking adorable.

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Redmond believes that the “name for a child is hugely important not because it determines your child's entire future, but it contains the code for your family identity, your values, and priorities, whether you're conscious of it or not.”

Moreover, “your child's name says a lot about how close you are or want to be to your family, how much your religion or cultural origin means to you, how you view gender identity, whether you'd rather fit in or stand out, how you feel about your own name.”

#11

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Had a girl in class whose name was "Peonme."

The boys had many variations of her name.

(Staff members thought her parents meant to name her "Peony," after the flower, but got it wrong.)

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#12

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Anyone remember KVIIIlyn? I do.

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#13

I've always hated the Hayden/Haiden/Jayden/Jaiden/Jaylin/Jaelin/Braeden/Brayden names, but I lost my mind at Drayden.

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When asked to share advice for parents who can’t decide on the name for their baby, Redmond said it’s a good idea to hire their name consultants. “If you've already devoted hours to finding a name and can't come up with a choice you love, you can consult with an expert for a few hundred dollars and get choices that fit your style that you may not have thought of.”

There is also the free name generator called Baby Name DNA which is also pretty magic at analyzing your individual name style and matching you with names that fit. So check it out!

#14

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Not a teacher, but theres a girl at my school named Lollipop...

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50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Worked at a Juvenile Treatment facility, had a kid sent to us middle name was "Ice Cold". Turned out to be a really good kid just terrible drug/gang infested f**k heads for parents.

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#16

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names I was subbing in a class once and had a kid named Insurance.

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#17

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Poultry....no I'm not making that up.

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#18

Part of my job is auditing attendance and child rosters for daycares. Came across a "Moonlight Slaughter". Metal AF

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#19

Lovely Butts. Not even lying. (Butts is the last name)

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#20

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names My wife is a teacher and had to stop Neo from peeling glue off his hand. He aint the one.

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#21

I arrested someone last week, legally named F*ck.

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#22

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names When I taught in South Korea we had to give our students English names. A couple of the names I gave my kids were Tupac, and Rambo. It was all fun and games on my behalf until I met a student named squirrel. (She named herself)

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#23

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names I used to work with refugees who had recently moved to the US. There was one family with a baby named "Ice Cream".

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#24

In high school we had an Asian kid whose last name is Shen. His first name was Eric. The lolz didn't occur to me until I actually had a class with him and the teacher was doing roll call, and I thought she loudly said erection in class.

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#25

Craig.

Craigs aren't born, they pop into existence at 40 years old in dad jeans.

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#26

Interning in the counseling department at a high school. It's early Monday morning and I'm chugging coffee to perk up. They finish up mornings announcements and read off a list of students needing to go to the office for various reasons. The last name read was "Indiana Jones".

I immediately check the school student roster and there he is, Jones, Indiana. The kid was actually fairly well adjusted and well liked.

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#27

Nasteo...pronounced Nasty Ho. 😟

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#28

Met a guy whose 100% legal, unchanged name was "Lord Stormwalker".

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#29

Had a kid named Penelope, pronounced by her mother as Peen-a-loap.

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#30

I was at the grocery store not too long ago, one older lady asked me what was my baby's name, then said her grandson was the same age. I asked her what was his name, she reluctantly said Dolphin but we call him Finn. Poor woman...

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#31

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names My grandmother was a teacher in the "deep countryside" in Argentina back in the 50s. There is a hmm... tradition inherited from Spain I think, where you name your child with the name of the saint of the day he was born. Each day is the day of a saint, and they would sell these calendars with the name of a saint each day. So if your baby was born on the day of St. Rodrigo, you call him Rodrigo, for example.

The problem was that some of these calendars also had the national argentinian holydays marked. So July 9, May 25, etc, were marked as "Fiesta Cívica" (something like "Civic Celebration") instead of with the name of the saints. Basically she told me that she had children who were born one of these days, called literally "Civic Celebration".

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#32

I knew some people in school named TrustInTheLord (she went by Trust) and her brother JesusIsMySaviour (he went by Saviour). The names they went by are honestly great, but those full names just made EVERYTHING inconvenient.

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#33

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Peachtreanna.

In Georgia.

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#34

Kind of cheating because I taught in China for a while, but I had one student that had picked Goblin as her English name.

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50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Had a kid named Griffin, spelled Gyrophone.... also had a Mister, a Chi'Arion, and a Eusavio. Then there was my year in the inner city where there was one white girl in the entire school and she was in my class. Her name was Ivory...

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#36

Andromeda Aurora. The dad was wearing a Star Trek tshirt and mom was wearing Dr Who.

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Ariel Strong 2 years ago

Ok but that's actually a beautiful name

84points

Chumbo 2 years ago

I agree, it is a beautiful name... For a space-faring craft of some sort

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Rabbit-Of-ill-Portent️ she/her 2 years ago

I fail to see the problem with this name

26points

Nilsen 2 years ago

Both Andromeda and Aurora are beautiful names, but both at once is quite a mouthfull

24points

Mary Jane Lollipol 2 years ago

Still Andromeda and Aurora are valid names, coming from Greek and Roman mythology. Andromeda was a princess saved by Perseus (in Greek mythology), while Aurora was the Goddess of Dawn (in Roman mythology).

21points

Suzanne Tilson 2 years ago

She is destined to defend the galaxy, obviously

19points

Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago

I think it's beautiful.

11points

Miss Cris 2 years ago

Aurora is a common name in Spain.

3points

Auntriarch 2 years ago

And it's far more euphonious than Dawn

-1point

Indy 2 years ago

At least it's not Quark

2points

A Random Gojo Lover 2 years ago

This is the only good name on the list so far. Met a girl named Andromeda in high school, went by Ann for short

1point

Auntriarch 2 years ago

Very wise, Ann Dromedary would have been the very least

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Jag Yu 2 years ago

even with context from the tv shows, those are real life names, not made up to suit a parents fancy

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Jeffrey Diehl Premium 2 years ago (edited)

Andromeda is a name from Greek mythology. Aurora is from Roman mythology, and IIRC, the name of the Princess in Sleeping Beauty. Both perfectly good names.

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Kisses4Katie 2 years ago

I have a longtime neighborhood in Sims 2 and all my families have naming themes that have to do with space.. there is one family with sisters Andromeda, Aurora, and Artemis.

0points

Reyn-Guo 2 years ago

At least they didn't go with Seven Of Nine...

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JinjoBread 2 years ago

I bet the parents are insufferable.

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Jag Yu 2 years ago

its nothing really out there, but i would believe this kid grew up in the harry potter universe

0points

Erizzle 2 years ago

*Doctor Who

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Foxywhale 2 years ago

Doctor who*

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#37

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names I work at a call center, here are some winners of children I have seen (all teenagers or younger):

- De'creshondria

- Maxx Gay

- Marijuana

- P*rn

- Dingle,

- Wanna (middle name Smoke, dead serious)

- Dej-'unique

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#38

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names I do teaching for undergraduate physics. I've already seen the class list for next year and, starting in September there will be a girl called Framboise in the first year class. Framboise means *raspberry* in French and, by the way, this is a French speaking city so it's not like her name is going to go unnoticed. Can't wait to meet her.

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#39

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Obligatory not a teacher, but....a friend of mine from high school is naming her new daughter Espn. We were told it's because she likes sports. Well, so do I, but you don't see me naming my kid Fox Sports Midwest, do ya?

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#40

Sexy... I kid you not. Someone thought it a good idea to name their baby girl "Sexy".

Can you imagine trying to call out her name at Kindergarden...

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#41

I went to school with a "Chandelier"

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#42

I'm a TEFL teacher in China. The kids here have some fascinating names. Some are obviously just mistakes (Like Biran or Windy). Some are quite clever.

One girl about 15 said she wanted to be called KFC. When I asked her why she smiled and said "Because everybody likes KFC!"

Another very shy girl about 19 called herself shadow...which I thought was a lovely name.

Then there were the parents who had an extra child by accident and called her...extra. Seriously. There are also parents who name their child after an inanimate object like "telephone" or "train". "Tiger" is a popular name for boys too.

There's also a boy named monkey; "apple" is quite common, and many others like this. For some reason there's a fair few older girls 20+ named Queenie; these days the name seems to have fallen out of fashion. These are the names the parents or kids themselves have chosen, we teachers aren't trying to make fun of them.

Edit: Forgot to mention I work with a Chinese girl whose name is Tim.

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#43

Not a teacher but during med school, rotated with a pediatrician in Berkeley, Ca and came across a kid named Starshyt. When asked why that name parents said "you ever see a shooting star and behind it kinda looks like s**t...?"

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#44

My neighbors name is Tiger.

A girl at the preschool I work at is named Legend Derry.

A girl I worked with named her child Lexi Jewel. Not weird but sounds like a premade p*rn star name.

I'm sure there are others but I can't think of any right now.

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#45

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names Not a teacher, but in hs my son had a friend named Chris Growcock. He wears it proudly. As a bonus, his parents sent him to an all-boy high school and all day everyone asked him if he was "living up to his name.

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#46

I knew a 10 year old girl named Felanie. I don't think the mom thought that one through.

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#47

There is 1 person in the US named Gay Bowser.

So, that.

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#48

1st kid - January 2nd kid- February 3rd kid- March Etc. This list goes all the way to August

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#49

Pitts. I assumed it was a nickname but no! Apparently his Dad was a huge fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins he named his son Pittsburgh but Pitts for short.

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#50

Worked at McDonald's for my first real job and had a stereotypically Southern guy complete with mustache and mullet turn to his young daughter and say "Whiskey, hon, whadda ya want?"

My brain nearly short-circuited.

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#51

Fahmi. Harmless enough, huh?

In his native Somalia, it's supposedly to be pronounced Fuch-mi , something his Mother was always quite passionate about enforcing upon her 5 year old son. Made for some quite interesting inter- school sports team events, with large crowds of 5 year olds all screaming in unison "Come on, Fahmi!" in a field full of totally oblivious, outraged parents, students, and teachers, from neighbouring schools.

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#52

*Latreenah*

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#53

A little girl called Wraith.

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#54

My daughter went to primary school with a boy named Azmataq.
Asthma attack.

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#55

I was once a school photographer and a parent named her twin daughters Storm and Tempest.

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#56

Ugh. I live in Utah. The terrible weird names are everywhere.

Worst so far? Sparkles. No, I'm not kidding.

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#57

I'm a teacher, but I didn't come across these names teaching. I was working as a steward in my students union (basically, you know at night clubs, when you're dancing on a chair and some scrawny guy in a polo shirt comes up to you and says in the deepest voice he can muster, "Can you get down from there mate?"- me right there) while at uni.

Anyway, I'm playing with the student search on the tills out the front, and I work out how to use the wildcard function. Like if you search "s?ith" all the people named smith come up. I did what any self respecting infantile MF would do and did all the swear words.

There was a Ding Dong. A Mrs Poo. I'll let it sink in that she married into that name.

Miss Fukunda Mbabwe.

And my two favourites, whom I will never forget:

Miss Bumtita Thongsari.

And, I don't know if you'll read this the way I did: Mr Wancalerm Siruphand.

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#58

Geronimo, Rickchild, Sirrobert, Mahnoor (poor thing), Shithead (pronounced Shy-Theed), Sukdeep, Precious Joy, Twinkle, Chery Hla-Tay (pronouced Cherry Latte).

Some of these weren't my own students.

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#59

Posted this before, but whatever it's my favorite. I'm a nurse and there was a case with two women who were related, I think cousins, and both pregnant with girls and they had their due dates around the same time. One had her baby first and named it Da'Finest. The other women was so angry that her cousin had her baby first and 'stole her baby name' she tried to get back at her by naming her own baby Da'Prettiest.

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#60

I once had a coworker named Baby, I thought that was pretty bad. And yes, it was her real name. I never called her by her name because it's so damn awkward to call a random person "baby". I'm surprised she didn't go by a nickname, she seemed embarrassed/annoyed whenever someone asked if it was her real name. I can't help but wonder if her parents didn't speak English and named her "Baby" by mistake.

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#61

Nuhtorious and Difr'nt Money.

100% legal names for those kids.

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#62

It's not a weird name, but I had one named Isis. This was last year and people were just starting to talk more about Daesh and still calling it ISIS most frequently. The girl was already having trouble fitting in so I had to divert their attention several times when the news would be a topic of discussion... The last thing she needed was kids calling her a terrorist.

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#63

I had a girl in my girl named Constance Payne which sounds like constant pain.

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#64

I work in South Korea where many kids are required to take on English names in their English class. Some memorable ones:

Sha La La, Starcraft, Tinkerbell, Aragorn, Two Bottles, Pig

There are also weird names that come up that I don't think are names in any language. This first that jumps to mind is "Poldy"

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#65

I know a boy named Legolas.

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#66

First name: Dafinest Last name: Blackman

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#67

Muhaimen

Pronounced My-hymen

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#68

Pubert.

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#69

My dad always used to tell me about how he wanted to name me Testicules (test-ti-cue-lees).

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#70

Obamaniqua. Graduated HS the same year Obama took office, and a girl I graduated with thought this was a good idea.

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#71

I went to college with a girl named Trillion and her brother Seven. They were named BEFORE the Seinfeld episode. Trillion was absolutely gorgeous.

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#72

Was looking through my mom's high school yearbook from the late 60's, and came across a gent named Ringling Bell. That poor guy!

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#73

I knew a girl named Star once. Her brother was Sunne and her sister was Skye

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#74

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names I had a boy named "Mister" and there is a kid named "Sir" at my school. Those are pretty unusual.

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#75

When we were on holiday in Senegal we met a local names Crevette. For the people who don't speak French his name was Prawn.

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#76

Angel, last name Fish

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#77

I took care of a trio of sisters. First one was Kaisha, the second Aisha and the third Isha. I hope their parents didn't have any more daughters...

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#78

Went to school with a kid named Wonderful Terrific Monds, he played minor league baseball for a while if I recall correctly.

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#79

Shadynasty (shah - die - na - stee)

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#80

Went to school with a kid called Floyd Floyd and another called Michael Jackson. Someone I went to school with named her daughter Indiana Jones. I am a teacher. I have taught a boy called Swann. Got my class list for September. I have someone called Jupiter.

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#81

50 Hilariously Unfortunate Names This kid was born before 2001 was named Jihad.

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#82

Not a teacher, but I had a guy in my school called 'Awais Mann'. I'm in the UK btw and this is basically pronounced 'waste man', which is a common diss around here.

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#83

I volunteered at a preschool for a high school project. It wasn't in the best area, and most of the kids' parents weren't in the picture, or only had visitation rights with their kids. Sad sometimes, but the kids were fun and cute.

Anyway, one little boy's first name was Aero and his last name was Smith. Aero Smith.

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#84

I know people who named their sons Hunter, Forest and Kelley.

No, their last name was not Green.

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#85

I am a newborn photographer at three different hospitals. Worst names: Android Scientist (Mom vetoed Rockstar Ninja) Yur'Majesty Solomon

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#86

First name: Wrangler. Last name: Maxfield. Constantly told him how badass that name was. Had a Bric, last name Walls.

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#87

I am not a teacher, but had a girl in my elementary school whose entire family was named after the weather (Stormy, Misty, and Snowy).

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#88

It's not the weirdest name ever, and it is unfortunately becoming more common, but I was working in a school and there was a girl called "Princess".

And, unsurprisingly, she was a total dick.

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#89

My mother is a hairdresser and she cut a young boys hair this year. His name was Trout, like the fish...

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#90

I had an Aanjhrue in one of my classes.

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#91

A-aron

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#92

A brother and sister of hippie lineage. I can get on board with the name *Sage*, but not so much *Cinnamon*.

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#93

Not a teacher but met someone with the name "KMNOP."

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#94

I know a girl who's name is Kenisa because her parents are Ken and Denise

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#95

"Fatasse"

He was from Burkina Faso (French Speaking) so he did not know how hilarious his name was.

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#96

I once heard the name Mario Hahner(Or Hana, not sure) being called out at a ikea. In German that sounds almost identical to Marihuana. I laughed, than i felt sorry for that kid.

LezzGoGetEm Report

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#97

First name: Thunder
Middle name: And Lightning

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#98

Keith.

Fucking KEITH? For a child. He was 8 when I met him about 5 years ago.

I always believed Keith's were born aged 35 on wards.

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#99

I'm not a teacher but I grew up in Oakland:

* Phouc Yu

* Carmren

* Anfernee

* Clocko

* (Every Mongolian Ever)

All of these are spelled correctly

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Rachknits 2 years ago

Hence why some countries, like Denmark, have naming laws. That's never made more sense after reading this

26points

Greta Kolding 2 years ago

I agree. If you want to burden someone with a stupid name do it to a cat. The cat won't mind and it doesn't come when you call anyway.

11points

Marie Dahme 2 years ago

I worked in an urgent care long ago and a patient’s name was L-a. So It’s not pronounced as “La”. It’s pronounced as Ladasha. I kid you not.

15points

Jason Marin 2 years ago

I don't know about other countries but here in America, it should be illegal to give kids stupid and embarassing names.

10points

I'mNotARoboat 2 years ago

Yes, there are lots of countries that have lists you legally cannot make your child. There are also some countries where parents have to get the names approved.

8points

Hypoxia Smurf 2 years ago

Moon-Unit Zappa should rank high. Then there was Terry Hurd, which doesn't seem bad unless you know that schoolmates called him Hairy Turd.

9points

RK Barbo 2 years ago

How could you forget Dweezil Zappa?

10points

edgar 2 years ago (edited)

Each kid should be able to assign themselves the one they want.

6points

BonnyDK 2 years ago

Cute little blond headed blue eyed boy named Toy.

6points

Return of Saturn 2 years ago

Wh- really???

1point

Mimouna 2 years ago (edited)

Do you guys have laws in your country to prevent that (not in the US apparently)? In ours the registry office can't prevent you from giving your kids weird names if they rule the name will be detrimental to the kid. Happened with Nutella, Prince-William, Lucifer, Astérix and the very famous CR7 and Griezmann-Mbappé

5points

Random Panda 2 years ago

It's the same in my country.

1point

Peta Hurley-Hill 2 years ago

I am Australian and we do have names that get turned down, like you can't call your kid Satan for example BUT I actually do know of a poor little boy named Lucifer! They actually let it through,so cruel.

1point

Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago

we do in Slovakia. no offensive or embarassing, no female names for boys and vice versa. if foreign must be proven to follow naming tradition in the country by the embassy

0points

Bec 2 years ago

You can't tell Americans what to do, land of the free!

0points

Marie 2 years ago

In France, I met a young girl named Shoréline (pronunced shoreyleen). The parents told me it meant "rivage" in English. Shoreline. At least, it's almost the correct translation.

5points

Scotira 2 years ago

I think that's actually a nice name. Has a bit of "Orélie" in there. 😊

2points

Rob Chapman 2 years ago

I went to school with a family of brothers (the oldest was in my class), their names were Tiger, Roundhead and Snoopy.

5points

Juliet Ware 2 years ago

This list proves some people don't deserve to have kids :-)

4points

Glasia van Duivels 2 years ago

In Germany there is a real Max Mustermann. That name is used as a place holder and that man has to always defend that his id is not fake

4points

Trillian 2 years ago

Goes to show that even when you have naming laws dumb parents will find a way.

5points

RK Barbo 2 years ago

So I had a friend from NOLA who knew twin girls named Orangejello and Lemonjello. I always thought he was pulling my leg til one time I was watching a show about Twinfest, and they were on it!!

4points

Rabbit-Of-ill-Portent️ she/her 2 years ago

I went to school with a girl named Ariolah...

4points

El Dee 2 years ago

Why would you do something like this to your kids. I agonised over naming mine, trying to see if there was a way the name could be made fun of etc..

3points

Teresa Spanics 2 years ago

Sadly, some people think the name is funny, etc. until their child gets bullied and find out the hard way that they should not have given them that name.

1point

NgatiDreadz 2 years ago

Twin girls I know their names are sativa and indica before you ask they are different types of marijuana

3points

Aisling Raye 2 years ago

I went to college with Summer Cruz, Justin Case, and Precious Stone. So there's that lol.

3points

Jim Patrick 2 years ago

1 family Travis Moonbeam, Essence Love, O'Ryan Pearlysky, Cerlesty Star, also know a family in town who's last name is D**k- they have 9 boys and the only girl is named Anita....Anita D**k.

3points

Felicia Verdade 2 years ago

Please tell me you're lying.

0points

Emma 2 years ago

I worked in a daycare facility a few years back and one of the girls was named Pacific.

2points

Sinkvenice 2 years ago

Once had a patient whose mum clearly wanted to name her Chanel but misspelled it so it was actually Channel. Also received bloods from a Baby Fiddler; I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe.

2points

Bored Panda 2 years ago

I used to deliver for FedEx and has a customer named "English King". I asked her about it one time and it turns out her birth name was English Ivy; her parents' last name was Ivy and they thought "English Ivy" was cute. Then she married someone named King. So "English King", like "George"? "Henry"? :)

2points

Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago (edited)

then you have ppl with funny surnames that just happen to interact with each other. such as a lady Powerful living opposite to a man with a surname King. Jacket lived next to a Nail. Fox in the same building as Rabbit ( all legit surnames just translated). a man with a surname Soup living with a lady named Cabbage- so basically they had on their door "cabbage soup" and my favourite: three families living next to each other: Rooster, Hen, Raven and the street nicknamed after them the Feathers' street

0points

Effseven Six 2 years ago

The weirdest and prettiest name we had in our school was Rainey Day.

2points

Pollywog 2 years ago

Golden Asbury D**k

2points

Ariel Strong 2 years ago

I work with a kid named Kanye after Kanye West. The kid is white... And my Uncle's middle name is D'equila because his dad was drunk AF when he was born and tried saying tequila

2points

Lene 2 years ago

I love that in America and Australia it seems normal to name a child Jensen as the first name. In Scandinavia it is a surname meaning "the son of Jens". Also, I once came across a woman on fb whose last name was Taber. In Danish, "taber" means loser. I was very surprised that it was a surname. Lol! Sorry to those who has Taber as a surname.... but yeah, I think it's good info if you should ever visit Denmark, just in case you wonder why ppl are smiling strangely when you tell them your last name. :)

1point

Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago

Working at a small med clinic, there was a whole family with five kids who would come in. Their names were: Rowan, Sage, Hazel, and I can't remember the other two but they were herbs. Very polite kids and sweet family. I actually really liked the themed names!

1point

Pete from Cali. USA 2 years ago

These were funny at first and then quickly became depressing thinking about how these kids have to live with those names. I seriously hope they're all fake but I know some are real. Those parents are all self centered f**kers. Creative named should only be used for pets, toys, and avatars, not for living human beings. If those f**kers liked the creative names so much, they should just change their own legal names instead of condemning innocent children. I'm sure 99% of those parents would not really want the names they gave their kids.

1point

Shayda 2 years ago

My ex wanted to name our girl Anemone. I am one of those people who cannot say that word for the life of them. It got shot down quickly. And no, he wasn't saying it in a joking way. That and several other reasons are why he's an ex lol

1point

Biofish23 2 years ago

Recently met an adult named Rooster. It was in a professional context and I'm pretty sure it is his legal name.

1point

Christy 2 years ago

Went to school with girl named Stormy Weathers

1point

Suzanne Griscom 2 years ago

I had a high school student named Tes Tekkle. Say it fast.

1point

Kiwii Stone 2 years ago

As a kid, I really liked the name "Evie" so I planned to call my first girl "Evi Lee" (pronounced eh-vee lee). Someone pointed out years later that it sounds like "heavily" and I'm now glad I didn't have kids!

1point

Bored Retsuko 2 years ago

Could also be mispronounced "Evil Lee" 😬

1point

Sam Petersen 9 months ago

Was watching house hunters, parent Keith and Ariceli named their daughter Kei-Ari. Is their next child Th-celi?

0points

Marco Richter 1 year ago

It's another failed attempt at absolute freedom under any circumstance. If everyone is free to do what they want no matter what, no one is free anymore, because we all would stand in each others way.

0points

. 2 years ago (edited)

I once met a child named Love'ah. EDIT: I also knew a girl named Aelaina.

0points

AgentM 2 years ago

My mom had a kid in her class called Justin, which is fine.....but his last name was Case......Justin Case. I kid you not.

0points

Fiona 2 years ago

Feline is actually a german name and the german word for feline is Katze. That's why Feline is a common, not bad name in Germany

0points

Jackie Lulu 2 years ago

Once I had a client named King David Godbold.

0points

Mark Berry 2 years ago

This kind of post has been showing up a lot lately. So I'll mention again the woman in the grocery store talking to her daughter in the shopping cart. "Sit down, Tyranny!". I swear.

0points

GB 2 years ago

When I was a kid, there was a camera/photo supply store owned by a guy named Adolph Gasser. I'm pretty sure he was born before WW2.

0points

Carol Ramsey 2 years ago

I once knew a girl called Ophelia Balls. Bet she couldn't wait to get married and lose that surname!

0points

Daffodil 2 years ago

My dads cousin had a baby a couple years ago and named her "Fields." Wish I was kidding. Apparently it's "from the Bible."

0points

Rosetta Tse 2 years ago

How about this name: A-a, pronounced adasha... Because - represents 'dash'.

0points

Felicia Verdade 2 years ago

I worked in healthcare and had a patient named Otter

0points

._. 2 years ago

My cousin has not great initials. (I will change the names for her privacy, but keep the initials.) Brianna Merideth Smith. There is no good way to arrange it. First and last=BS. First, middle and last=BMS(bowel movements). First and middle=BM (BMS singular). Middle and last=MS (rare disease).

0points

Helena R 2 years ago

BMS can also stand for Biomedical Scientist

0points

Kim Lorton 2 years ago

Nope. Too awful for the kids to deal with.

0points

Muffin 2 years ago

I just finished work experience. There was a girl called Eli, a boy named waqquar, a boy called hooman and a girl called brownie

0points

Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago

There are many reasons some people should not reproduce. You just finished reading several.

0points

Angie 2 years ago

Khaleesi.

0points

Deborah B 2 years ago

Naming laws could be stricter...my poor cousin still got stuck with Jubal Lee.

0points

Alex Meseck 2 years ago

Kid i went to high school with from Laos, Zexy W**g

0points

I'mNotARoboat 2 years ago

If one of my friends tried to pull this s**t (and if it was before the kid was legally named), I would ceaselessly try to make them choose something else until they relent.

0points

Julie Harden 2 years ago

I had a 5 year old girl in summer camp named "Aquanetta". Her 12 year old sister was named "Evelyn". Go figure. This was back in the 90s.

0points

Hex Gurls 2 years ago

i knew a kid named snow-violet, that was ofc on the hippie side of town

0points

Anna Dybich 2 years ago

Calm down people. I've just find out, there is a legal way in USA to change the misfortune name, and it's pretty easy. More info in Google...

0points

glowworm2 2 years ago

I had a college friend who told me that he was almost named Avis ( yes, after the car rental place) because his parents had given his brother the opportunity to name him. Thankfully, that didn’t end up his name. It’s Chris.

0points

Circa 2 years ago

I once knew a woman named Peter. That's just stupid and cruel of her parents. She will have suffered so much teasing about it growing up. And probably still embarrassed whenever she has to tell people her name as an adult.

0points

I'mNotARoboat 2 years ago

At least it's a real name.

0points

PandaPops 2 years ago

I nursed a guy called Phillip McCracken.... he would not allow you to call him Phil... lol

0points

Peacemaker21 2 years ago

Two friends I had: Eileen Dover and Phil down

0points

MildredGarza 2 years ago

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Rachknits 2 years ago

Hence why some countries, like Denmark, have naming laws. That's never made more sense after reading this

26points

Greta Kolding 2 years ago

I agree. If you want to burden someone with a stupid name do it to a cat. The cat won't mind and it doesn't come when you call anyway.

11points

Marie Dahme 2 years ago

I worked in an urgent care long ago and a patient’s name was L-a. So It’s not pronounced as “La”. It’s pronounced as Ladasha. I kid you not.

15points

Jason Marin 2 years ago

I don't know about other countries but here in America, it should be illegal to give kids stupid and embarassing names.

10points

I'mNotARoboat 2 years ago

Yes, there are lots of countries that have lists you legally cannot make your child. There are also some countries where parents have to get the names approved.

8points

Hypoxia Smurf 2 years ago

Moon-Unit Zappa should rank high. Then there was Terry Hurd, which doesn't seem bad unless you know that schoolmates called him Hairy Turd.

9points

RK Barbo 2 years ago

How could you forget Dweezil Zappa?

10points

edgar 2 years ago (edited)

Each kid should be able to assign themselves the one they want.

6points

BonnyDK 2 years ago

Cute little blond headed blue eyed boy named Toy.

6points

Return of Saturn 2 years ago

Wh- really???

1point

Mimouna 2 years ago (edited)

5points

Random Panda 2 years ago

It's the same in my country.

1point

Peta Hurley-Hill 2 years ago

1point

Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago

we do in Slovakia. no offensive or embarassing, no female names for boys and vice versa. if foreign must be proven to follow naming tradition in the country by the embassy

0points

Bec 2 years ago

You can't tell Americans what to do, land of the free!

0points

Marie 2 years ago

In France, I met a young girl named Shoréline (pronunced shoreyleen). The parents told me it meant "rivage" in English. Shoreline. At least, it's almost the correct translation.

5points

Scotira 2 years ago

I think that's actually a nice name. Has a bit of "Orélie" in there. 😊

2points

Rob Chapman 2 years ago

I went to school with a family of brothers (the oldest was in my class), their names were Tiger, Roundhead and Snoopy.

5points

Juliet Ware 2 years ago

This list proves some people don't deserve to have kids :-)

4points

Glasia van Duivels 2 years ago

In Germany there is a real Max Mustermann. That name is used as a place holder and that man has to always defend that his id is not fake

4points

Trillian 2 years ago

Goes to show that even when you have naming laws dumb parents will find a way.

5points

RK Barbo 2 years ago

So I had a friend from NOLA who knew twin girls named Orangejello and Lemonjello. I always thought he was pulling my leg til one time I was watching a show about Twinfest, and they were on it!!

4points

Rabbit-Of-ill-Portent️ she/her 2 years ago

I went to school with a girl named Ariolah...

4points

El Dee 2 years ago

Why would you do something like this to your kids. I agonised over naming mine, trying to see if there was a way the name could be made fun of etc..

3points

Teresa Spanics 2 years ago

Sadly, some people think the name is funny, etc. until their child gets bullied and find out the hard way that they should not have given them that name.

1point

NgatiDreadz 2 years ago

Twin girls I know their names are sativa and indica before you ask they are different types of marijuana

3points

Aisling Raye 2 years ago

I went to college with Summer Cruz, Justin Case, and Precious Stone. So there's that lol.

3points

Jim Patrick 2 years ago

1 family Travis Moonbeam, Essence Love, O'Ryan Pearlysky, Cerlesty Star, also know a family in town who's last name is D**k- they have 9 boys and the only girl is named Anita....Anita D**k.

3points

Felicia Verdade 2 years ago

Please tell me you're lying.

0points

Emma 2 years ago

I worked in a daycare facility a few years back and one of the girls was named Pacific.

2points

Sinkvenice 2 years ago

Once had a patient whose mum clearly wanted to name her Chanel but misspelled it so it was actually Channel. Also received bloods from a Baby Fiddler; I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe.

2points

Bored Panda 2 years ago

2points

Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago (edited)

0points

Effseven Six 2 years ago

The weirdest and prettiest name we had in our school was Rainey Day.

2points

Pollywog 2 years ago

Golden Asbury D**k

2points

Ariel Strong 2 years ago

I work with a kid named Kanye after Kanye West. The kid is white... And my Uncle's middle name is D'equila because his dad was drunk AF when he was born and tried saying tequila

2points

Lene 2 years ago

1point

Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago

1point

Pete from Cali. USA 2 years ago

1point

Shayda 2 years ago

1point

Biofish23 2 years ago

Recently met an adult named Rooster. It was in a professional context and I'm pretty sure it is his legal name.

1point

Christy 2 years ago

Went to school with girl named Stormy Weathers

1point

Suzanne Griscom 2 years ago

I had a high school student named Tes Tekkle. Say it fast.

1point

Kiwii Stone 2 years ago

1point

Bored Retsuko 2 years ago

Could also be mispronounced "Evil Lee" 😬

1point

Sam Petersen 9 months ago

Was watching house hunters, parent Keith and Ariceli named their daughter Kei-Ari. Is their next child Th-celi?

0points

Marco Richter 1 year ago

It's another failed attempt at absolute freedom under any circumstance. If everyone is free to do what they want no matter what, no one is free anymore, because we all would stand in each others way.

0points

. 2 years ago (edited)

I once met a child named Love'ah. EDIT: I also knew a girl named Aelaina.

0points

AgentM 2 years ago

My mom had a kid in her class called Justin, which is fine.....but his last name was Case......Justin Case. I kid you not.

0points

Fiona 2 years ago

Feline is actually a german name and the german word for feline is Katze. That's why Feline is a common, not bad name in Germany

0points

Jackie Lulu 2 years ago

Once I had a client named King David Godbold.

0points

Mark Berry 2 years ago

This kind of post has been showing up a lot lately. So I'll mention again the woman in the grocery store talking to her daughter in the shopping cart. "Sit down, Tyranny!". I swear.

0points

GB 2 years ago

When I was a kid, there was a camera/photo supply store owned by a guy named Adolph Gasser. I'm pretty sure he was born before WW2.

0points

Carol Ramsey 2 years ago

I once knew a girl called Ophelia Balls. Bet she couldn't wait to get married and lose that surname!

0points

Daffodil 2 years ago

My dads cousin had a baby a couple years ago and named her "Fields." Wish I was kidding. Apparently it's "from the Bible."

0points

Rosetta Tse 2 years ago

How about this name: A-a, pronounced adasha... Because - represents 'dash'.

0points

Felicia Verdade 2 years ago

I worked in healthcare and had a patient named Otter

0points

._. 2 years ago

0points

Helena R 2 years ago

BMS can also stand for Biomedical Scientist

0points

Kim Lorton 2 years ago

Nope. Too awful for the kids to deal with.

0points

Muffin 2 years ago

I just finished work experience. There was a girl called Eli, a boy named waqquar, a boy called hooman and a girl called brownie

0points

Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago

There are many reasons some people should not reproduce. You just finished reading several.

0points

Angie 2 years ago

Khaleesi.

0points

Deborah B 2 years ago

Naming laws could be stricter...my poor cousin still got stuck with Jubal Lee.

0points

Alex Meseck 2 years ago

Kid i went to high school with from Laos, Zexy W**g

0points

I'mNotARoboat 2 years ago

If one of my friends tried to pull this s**t (and if it was before the kid was legally named), I would ceaselessly try to make them choose something else until they relent.

0points

Julie Harden 2 years ago

I had a 5 year old girl in summer camp named "Aquanetta". Her 12 year old sister was named "Evelyn". Go figure. This was back in the 90s.

0points

Hex Gurls 2 years ago

i knew a kid named snow-violet, that was ofc on the hippie side of town

0points

Anna Dybich 2 years ago

Calm down people. I've just find out, there is a legal way in USA to change the misfortune name, and it's pretty easy. More info in Google...

0points

glowworm2 2 years ago

0points

Circa 2 years ago

0points

I'mNotARoboat 2 years ago

At least it's a real name.

0points