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Adolf

man standing on the balcony with the city view Well that one guy kinda ruined Adolf

donnyganger , Amir Hosseini Report

Final score:

291points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago

Which guy? Did something happen?

150points

X Ae A-XII

Elon wearing black shirt X Ae A-Xii

CurlSagan , Daniel Oberhaus Report

Final score:

260points

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General Ratto 1 year ago

Leave it to celebs to name their children weirdly. Shannyn Sossamon named her boy Audio science.

94points

Lartholomew

dog lying next to a toddlers Knew two twins, Barry and Larry, which was a bit too cliché already. However, after figuring out their full names were Bartholomew and f*****g *Lartholomew*, it was pretty clear the second one was a surprise and they really didn't have a name ready.

Honourable mention for a Dutch couple I knew, Richard and Willianne, who chose to go by D**k & W***y de C**k.

UnoriginalUse , Andrew Seaman Report

Final score:

232points

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General Ratto 1 year ago

Bartholomew is a bad name already, but LARTHOLEMEW!?!?!?!? watch these parents then wonder why their children are getting bullied.

130points

Kevin

man wearing white t-shirt and sunglasses I gotta say Kevin.

Sorry to all Kevins, but as a German married to an Aussie, this name is tough. To my husband it's a completely normal boys' name, and when we discussed names for our firstborn, I had to explain to him that "Kevin" is completely off the charts because in Germany it's used as an insult.

I think I've heard of scientific studies that have proven that teachers expect less from a boy who's called Kevin, compared to other boys' names. Prejudice is strong about that one. There's a couple of others, but Kevin's like the "godfather of unusable names" in Germany.

You-Done , Brooke Cagle Report

Final score:

189points

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Grudge-holding Treefrog 1 year ago

AHAHAHA. My dad’s name is Kevin. HAHAHA

75points

Michael Hunt

man wearing black suit and red tie I worked with a guy named Michael Hunt. He INSISTED we call him Michael. Entertained me to no end.

Officer_Panther , Ali Morshedlou Report

Final score:

188points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago

We told a new starter to ring up another department and ask for Mike Hunt. She fell for it.

61points

Most-Candidate9277 , Christian Erfurt Report

Jackson

man wearing blue hoodie Teacher here. Jacksons are a******s almost 90% of the time. Don’t get me started on Aiden, Ayden, Aden, Caiden and Brayden etc…

Final score:

186points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago

Okayden.

489points

IntrovertGeek1999 , Cheon Fong Liew Report

Hardik

boy wearing orange t-shirt Here in India, kids are named Hardik. Now imagine he goes to an English speaking country and how his name will be pronounced

Final score:

184points

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Frances M 1 year ago

You can’t name a person just on what their name will sound like in a foreign country. You name someone for what their name sounds like in your own country.

169points

Lamie

man wearing brown pants Met a guy on a dating app named Lamie. Like Jamie but with an L.

declarationsoflove , rayul Report

Final score:

180points

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Mad Dragon 1 year ago

My great-grandmother's name was Laime! She was the only person I had ever heard of with that name...until now.

62points

#10

Trebor

man wearing green t-shirt Trebor. Not a typo. Apparently this kids dad n grandad where named Robert. So they decided to just name him Robert backwards 🤔

Tekkaa47 , Jeffrey Keenan Report

Final score:

176points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago

His full name is Trebor Extra Strong Mints.

118points

#11

Billiam

boy wearing school uniform I went to school with somebody named Billiam

compostabowl , Tinou Bao Report

Final score:

165points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago

My real name is Bathaniel, so what?

130points

#12

Bushrod And Balzer

boy wearing yellow t-shirt Two of the worst real names I've seen - Bushrod and Balzer

ppardee , Ed Garcia Report

Final score:

155points

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Chez2202 1 year ago

Those aren’t real names. They are random collections of letters. I think their parents may have been in possession of a dyslexic ouija board.

81points

#13

Hampy

man wearing black shirt sitting on the roof Going through a family tree project, I found out my great great uncle was named Hampy.

So.... Hampy.

The_Pooter Report

Final score:

150points

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Pheebs 1 year ago

Haven’t found any particularly odd names in my fam tree. I kind of wish I would, as my dad ‘s family is impossible to trace thanks to more than 5 generations the same 12 names repeated over and over by every member of the family who had kids. I think at one point there had to be like 12 Williams, 6 Betty, at least 8 Edwards, and so on living at the same time. Bet those family reunions were great.

40points

#14

Elmo And Hardass

person dressed in elmos' costume I have two and I've encountered both in the wild.

Elmo - the guy's full name was "Elmo J. Faggins". His parents are ...I don't even want to think about it. This name was just - mean and cruel. I felt sorry for the guy. I could only imagine how much grief he got in school. Not sure if he is still alive or not. This was many years ago.

Hardass - a kid who was a victim of a mother who used drugs while pregnant with him. Thankfully the boy was removed from her care (if you want to call it care) and adopted by a wonderful couple who live near me. They had his name changed, new ssn and everything to prevent his mom from causing any more harm. That woman is a piece of work.

_Volly , Alessandro Valli Report

Final score:

148points

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Jake B 1 year ago

Well, Elmo was a regular name until that red kid was such a big star. Kinda ruined it.

119points

Ninjabanana420 , Florencia Potter Report

#15

Ahmahndah

man wearing yellow hat Any normal name spelled in a "unique" way to help it stand out. Ahmahndah instead of Amanda comes to mind. Unless there's some places with a different culture where this is considered a normal spelling, but if both of your parents are Anglo in heritage, and they chose this as your name, I'm sorry, it doesn't make you seem "unique" and I feel like it will have ramifications when applying for jobs.

Final score:

144points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago (edited)

Eunikwe is what I shall name my first born. Furst-Bonn will be how I name my second child.

96points

#16

Harry Weiner

man with the beard My mom knew a kid named Harry Weiner.

Sleepy_Chipmunk , Abby Savage Report

Final score:

143points

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NakNakNak 1 year ago

Oh god do these parents ever say these names out loud first????

87points

#17

Jaxon Or Jaxson

man walking down the street wearing black shirt The name Jackson is fine but I hate when people spell it Jaxon or Jaxson. It makes me cringe so hard for some reason

bhawks1251 , Mahmood Al-Doori Report

Final score:

136points

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Grudge-holding Treefrog 1 year ago

There was a kid in my elementary school named Jaxon. He went by Jax.

57points

#18

Caillou

person standing next to a fountain wearing yellow jacket Caillou. I hate that kid

BadAsianDriver , Tommaso Tinelli Report

Final score:

121points

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General Ratto 1 year ago

I'm just a kid who's four,

50points

DaisyLou1993 , Sergey Gabdurakhmanov Report

Nimrod

man playing with squirrel on the bench My late husband's great uncle's name was Nimrod. Literally on the mf's birth certificate any everything. So. Nimrod.

Final score:

119points

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Shealeigh Bodde 1 year ago

Nimrod was the name of a philosopher I’m pretty sure, and then Bugs Bunny used it sarcastically in Looney Tunes and so it became an insult

102points

#20

Laberboi (Lover Boy)

person holding baby's feet My friend was a nurse, she said some parent named her kid Laberboi (Lover boy)

Gre8g , Omar Lopez Report

Final score:

114points

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jay <3 1 year ago

HES JUST A LABERBOI HE SAID CYA LATER BOI

110points

#21

Prince

man dresses as prince Prince, I dont know why, but they all think that they're actors or something

Wise_Pomelo3313 , Paweł Furman Report

Final score:

113points

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Jake B 1 year ago

Even the dogs with this name think they are actors- sheesh.

32points

#22

Guy

three man walking down the street ‘Guy’ just feels kinda lazy

stud01 , Martin Fisch Report

Final score:

107points

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General Ratto 1 year ago

100% destined to be a background character

85points

#23

Blade And Chevy

man wearing green jacket Literally know a kid named Blade. Also, another couple named their son Chevy. Should have just named him Budweiser and gotten it over with if you ask me.

JezeeChrizee27 , Alex Perri Report

Final score:

97points

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Monika 1 year ago

Chevy was a name before the car.

77points

Vanden And Brecken

boys wearing green t-shirts One of my cousin's named his kids Vanden and Brecken. I've always hated those names.

itsajillsandwich , Vitolda Klein Report

Final score:

93points

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Jake B 1 year ago

Maybe because they are always Brecken into a Venden buildings.

81points

NotSoSmartBoi69 , Jonathan Cosens Photography Report

#25

Arminas

man wearing wooden bracelet There is a lithuanian name Arminas whey you say it it sounds like arm in a** yeh not a good name

Final score:

87points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago

Be a good name for a porn star?

68points

#26

Ashley And Kaiser

man wearing blue shirt I grew up with a guy named Ashley. Whenever he’d get called out of class by the front office over the intercom, they’d give him female pronouns.

Also, I know someone who named their son Kaiser. I have a lot of questions about that choice, but I’ve never asked them because I probably don’t want to know the answers.

AltSpRkBunny , nate Report

Final score:

86points

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Potato 1 year ago

Names really shouldn't be gendered anyway. Just my unpopular opinion...

16points

#27

Hogarth

man carrying a backpack Hogarth. It just feels gross to say.

yursaman , Hermann Report

Final score:

80points

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Grudge-holding Treefrog 1 year ago (edited)

Like that guy from the Labyrinth? /j

35points

D**k

a statue of a person sitting with legs crossed D**k, I don't get how someone names their son d**k!

gh0rard1m71 , Spencer Means Report

Final score:

71points

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Bluetoyou 1 year ago

It's slang for Richard.

94points

#29

Gary

man standing on the shore Apparently Gary is so bad that it’s a dying name, and no one has named their kid Gary in a few years.

Tangboy50000 , Lukas_Rychvalsky Report

Final score:

58points

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Serenity Now! 1 year ago

Well; I thought this name would be revived since Spongebob has a cat named Gary.

45points

Unsure Whether To Laugh Or Not?

After going through this list, you are bound to feel whether you should laugh at these parents or feel bad for their kids. When we said this list has the worst names for boys; we meant it. Which was the worst name for you? Don’t forget to let us know in the comments! Also, share this with someone who (sadly) might have a name from this list!

FAQs

Now that we have dealt with the worst boy’s names let’s look at some interesting questions about names.

Which Boy Name Means Narcissistic?

According to ABC News, Messiah, King, Major, and Prince are some of the most popular narcissistic names parents give their children.

What is the Most Overused Boy’s Name?

A Nameberry report suggests some of the most commonly used boys’ names include Christopher, Daniel, John, Mark, Kevin, Michael, Richard, Robert, and Thomas.

What is a Rare Gender-Neutral Name?

Aris, Bowie, Cove, Devine, Kit, and Lou are a few rare and gender-neutral names.

What Names Have Gone Extinct?

Earma, Irl, Murl, Ople, Bland, Bunice, and Darthula are a few names that have gone extinct.

What is the Oldest Name in Existence?

According to Yuval Noah Harari’s book “Sapiens,” Kushim is the first person in history whose name we know. It was found on a Sumerian clay tablet 3,100 years ago.

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Lakota Wolf 1 year ago (edited)

I was named after a chandelier. 100% true. I'm adopted and when my parents went to attend my birth, they didn't have a name ready. So they called my grandma to tell her and my sister that I was a girl, and to ask for suggestions (my sister, who was 6, was staying with my grandma). My grandma looked up at her bedroom ceiling at her crystal chandelier, and said, "Why not name her Crystal?" And lo and behold, an entire lifetime of hearing the phrase "Is that crystal clear, Crystal?" began. I loathed my name for most of my life (the kids called me "Crystal pistol" and my mom's nickname for me was "Cryssie"), but once I was old enough to actually legally change my name, I didn't care any more XD I do wish more people called me Crys, though. EDIT: My sister has a weird name too. My parents called her "Melanie". She's their biological child.

20points

sturmwesen 1 year ago

uhm Melanie is a perfectly normal name in Germany? Less so since 2000 but we had some in our school.

22points

Tinderella 1 year ago

Melanie is a cool name. Popular in the 80s

8points

Hey! 1 year ago

Crystal was really popular in the 1970's. I'm sure yours was chosen uniquely though.

6points

MouseyMouse 1 year ago

My youngest has always wanted to change her name to Crystal ever since she was a toddler and had one as a preschool teacher. And idk why you think Melanie is a weird name. Both of those are very common 80s American names.

4points

Noproblem 1 year ago

I worked with a girl named Crystal Snow. She married a guy surnamed White, and became Crystal Snow White.

3points

Crystal Ruiz 1 year ago (edited)

My name is Crystal and it's a pretty normal name in the US. In mexico, where I live its not super common. Here is where I got the Crystal means glass comments, but I moved here at 15 so it was just dumb. And I hate when people call me Crys, and I don't know why but i just hate how it sounds. Also, Melanie is a pretty normal name. In the states and in mexico.

3points

Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago

One of my more memorable cats as a kid was named Crystal. Very sweet girl, gorgeous Himalayan. Melanie seems like a perfectly ordinary name to me, really.

3points

Renegade 1 year ago

My college roommate's last name was Lear. Her grandparents wanted them to name her Crystal Shanda.

2points

Melaniedawn Pressler 1 year ago

My parents couldn't just stick with Melanie and named me Melaniedawn. Smh!

2points

Wondering Alice 1 year ago

My sister got to choose my name too. My mum wanted to call me Michelle, but when my dad went to do the paper work, he couldn't think how to spell it. My sister was hassling him about an Alice in wonderland doll she wanted - she was saying Alicein doll, so my dad thought Alison would do.

2points

Sage Bene 1 year ago

We called my cousin crystal pistol bc it's the name of a strip club in Amarillo TX lmao

0points

Stupid and Worthless 1 year ago

Went to school with a ton of "Crystal"s and "Melanie"s.... They were all hateful bullies but that was on them and not the fault of the names.

0points

Lori T Wisconsin 1 year ago

I like the name Crystal. 🥰. Be proud of who you are and tell haters to *iss off 😉

0points

Ben Stubbs 1 year ago

True story..... when Star Wars Episode 1 came out, the DJ on our national radio (Radio 1) commented how popular culture influenced parents choice of names, as in after Titanic was released, Jack and Rose became very popular, similarly in 1977, Luke became a popular choice. Later on in the broadcast, he received a fax (yes that long ago) saying "I wish I was called Luke. From Jabba the Smith"

20points

Monika 1 year ago

There's a girl at my school named "Paighttonn" and honestly i feel so bad for her

18points

Potato 1 year ago

I'm beginning to wonder if these spellings are used to disrupt google searches. Hard to cyber stalk someone when you can't spell their name?

12points

Angeline Shalyn 1 year ago

I know a woman who named her daughter "mayghynn" lmao, like Megan except the spelling is obnoxious

4points

Dexter Moncrieff 1 year ago

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Robert T 1 year ago

One of my neighbour's dad is called Cornelius and one of my distant relatives was called Septimus. They're interesting names rather than bad though.

11points

Yeah, okay. 1 year ago

Was Septimus born on the 7th of the month or was he the seventh child? Or did they just like the name?

2points

Bluetoyou 1 year ago

I've posted this before but it is worth repeating. I had a student named Toy. Cute little blond headed kindergarten boy. He should be grown now. Poor thing.

10points

Lori T Wisconsin 1 year ago

Working many years ago as a nurse, a woman named her twin girls Chlorine and Florine. Nope, she wasn't a chemist, don't think she knew about the periodic table of the elements, either.

5points

Justaboredpotato 1 year ago

I've meet people named Innocent, Precious, Polite and more. I think those names kinda suit the list

8points

Potato 1 year ago

Ah, the old Puritan pilgrim names. The Barebones were a fun lot. My favorite of theirs is If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned.

6points

Yeah, okay. 1 year ago

Names that you end up wanting to be the opposite of. It's like naming your girl Chastity. Unless you are expecting her to be a nun, that's just cruel.

4points

Alex Martin 1 year ago

Chastity, Charity, Temperance as well, name your kids after the virtues.

3points

alloutbikes@yahoo.com 1 year ago

Precious Small and she was hateful large.

0points

TheDivineMsM 1 year ago

I had someone in my family tree names James David James. James D. James. James James. Jim James. And his wife was Lucretia.

6points

OnAFreakingRollercoaster 1 year ago

Lacking inspiration were we?

6points

Paulo Freitas 1 year ago

Because of parents like these lol, Portugal hás a law that you can only name a child from a list of authorized names ( around 1000 ) of course that in Portugal ( and most Latin speaking countries ) you don't just have 1st name, you have 2 first names, followed of your mother's maiden name, and then your father last name.

6points

Maple Porkly 1 year ago

I tried to explain this to my friend once. He didn't get why and just laughed how we are all called Antonio or Manuel or Carlos. He's a British guy named William.

2points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago

I went to school with a Tony Orlando. My sister knew a Mason Dixon. (As in mason-dixon line, the dividing line between the "north" and the "south" during the US civil war. Yes. We lived in the south. )

5points

Tim 1 year ago

The Mason Dixon line is actually the result of a war that Pennsylvania and Maryland fought over the border of the two colonies. By war, I mean about 12 guys in a field kinda shooting muskets at each other. It became the traditional border between North and South. However, Maryland, despite remaining a slave state, stayed with the Union during the Civil War.

1point

Veronica Rabbit 1 year ago

I used to live across the street from a family with two little kids: a girl named Flower and a boy named Keebly (named after the Keebler cracker elf). No, I did not make that up.

4points

AnAntiqueGeek 1 year ago

But the Keebler spokes-elf was named "Ernie"!

2points

GirlFriday 1 year ago

I have 12 brothers and some of their names are weird. We took a vote one Thanksgiving and decided that Bowan is the weirdest name in the family barely beating out Archer.

4points

TalkLess 1 year ago

Is your name Friday? 😊

1point

ToasterBoy 1 year ago

When I was in elementary school, a new boy joined our class. He was the only child in our class who was adopted, and he was very comfortable telling us all about what that meant and he was generally a very friendly and intelligent kid. His name was - I kid you not - Foster Holmes. It took me years to figure out why my parents thought I was kidding about his name when I told them about the new kid.

3points

Kantami Blossom 1 year ago

When I first started highschool there was a boy in my class called Shug, everybody even the teacher called him Shug and I only found out about 4 years later that his name was actually Hugh but for some reason in Scotland people name Hugh are called Shug or Shuggie😂

3points

Scott Rackley 1 year ago

Buddy of mine in high school, Chris Cross.

3points

Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago

There's a singer by the name of Christopher Cross. Wonder what his tolerance is for being called Chris? ;)

2points

PandaPops 1 year ago

I knew a brother and sister names Bernard and Bernadette

3points

Ruth Hempsey 1 year ago

My Dad's only brother was Bernard, it's a common name in Britain, from Irish. My middle name is Bernadette. My first name is the same as my Mam's only sister. My parents both denied I was called after their siblings. It was just coincidence. Right. 🙄

4points

Jack Holt 1 year ago

What about Prof Whett Faartz? He usually appears in threads like this

3points

Stephanie Ventura-Montalvo 1 year ago

For the love of God, don't name your girls Sanita. In Latvia, it means 'healthy little girl', but it means 'toilet' in Portuguese. There are a lot more Portuguese speakers in the US and Canada than people anticipate. I won't forget the first time someone introduced themselves to me, as Sanita. I wasn't sober at the time, so my first instinct was to say something along the lines of "no, your parents did not name you that!' (this was in NJ, lots of Portuguese immigrants). She wasn't pleased, at all, but after explaining to her what her name meant in my house, she then realized why some people looked at her weird, avoided her, or would laugh whenever she was around. So please, for the love of all that is holy, research the name you want to give your kids, so you don't end up naming them 'toilet'.

3points

Borealbabe 1 year ago

My sister is a childrens mental health professional. She swears up and down, do not ever name your daughter Hannah. Hannah's are bananas

3points

Sheba's Mum 1 year ago

My mum worked with a guy named Gordon Bennett.

3points

Der Kommissar 1 year ago

I would pronounce it Hardick, not hard d**k, you dirty minded people. Tomorrow's lesson; Phuket

2points

BeepBeepBoopBoop 1 year ago

I'd like it to be today's lesson just because I'm curious. I had a friend named Phu, pronounced Fu. Would it be like Fu-ket? Or is it literally fück it?

0points

Demongrrrrl 1 year ago

I once knew twin boys named Sean ("Shawn") and Seane ("Shane").

2points

Francesa Miller 1 year ago

I delivered newspapers to someone named Sterling D**k. His card was labeled with "first name, last name" so there was no mistake.

2points

Andy Frobig 1 year ago

That would be an expensive gift at a bachelorette party

0points

CHOCCY MILK 1 year ago

I have a classmate named Nate, and he gets bullied because of A F*****G COMIC BOOK.

2points

AliJanx 1 year ago

Draven Doom. He wouldn't tell me his middle name.

2points

Dodo 1 year ago

Nimrod is the name of a great hunter. And Kaiser is just Cesar but German.

1point

Linda Tisue 1 year ago

John Tissue. I tell people my mother was a mean woman. As a biology teacher, it is pretty cool to have that as a last name. I give the kids the challenge to come up with "joke about my name I haven't heard."

1point

Sunny Day 1 year ago

My grandma was named "Betty Louise" after her aunt Betty, and always went by Louise to avoid confusion. But all her legal documents were signed "Betty Louise". Then when she retired she went to sign up for Social Security and found out her birth certificate actually said "B. Louise". Her first name wasn't Betty. So we teased her about not being legally married to grandpa.

1point

alloutbikes@yahoo.com 1 year ago

Dad went to get a copy of his birth certificate from the county he was born in while visiting. He was never registered with his name just baby boy and his last name.

0points

Maple Porkly 1 year ago (edited)

I met a teen girl around 2005 named Reignbeau. It's pronounced rainbow. Never met her mom but her dad was a bicycling, hackie-sack playing, camp outside all the time type of guy. I think he was the black sheep of the family because his cousin (my friend) and his side of the family were very reserved, "stick up their butt" type of people. They could not be more different.

1point

Jo Cooper 1 year ago

Neveah, heaven spelled backwards. I also used to know a lovely guy who was called Wayne Kerr.

1point

Ramona Jackson 1 year ago

FFS, just call her "Heaven."

0points

Cat Chat 1 year ago

My Grandfather's maiden name is Pugh, pronounced Pew. In the US it's like a nickname for pee-ewe, so her family was teased quite a bit. Her oldest brother became a long running senator in our state, however, so it later became more dignified because of that.

1point

Dodo 1 year ago

Wow I never would have considered that a 'bad' surname.

0points

Becky Scherer 1 year ago

Had a great-great uncle who's name was Goodenough. Youngest kid in a large family. Lol

1point

Bravo6Two 1 year ago

Mom had a friend who named his son Luke Sky Walker.

1point

Cat Chat 1 year ago

You say that as I am literally watching Return of the Jedi. 🤣

0points

Kelley Gilbert Zumwalt 1 year ago

Oh the stories I could tell about names from working at a call center. The one that tops them all though is Sh!*head. That is pronounced with the th blended and the ea making a long E sound. It came up in the system, they were a real patient and that was the real name. Poor guy.

1point

oktopus 1 year ago

Was "blessed" by my parents with a name which technically, in that spelling, is a boy's name, but in 99.98% of cased it is usually a girl's name, just spelt slightly differently. Caused no end of annoyance over the years, particularly with officialdom (for every day use I go by a less ambiguous name). Should have got the damn thing changed officially when I was 18, but too late for that now.

1point

Dexter Moncrieff 1 year ago

this is very rood i cant condone this language

1point

Potato 1 year ago

What language does "rood" derive from?

1point

Kim Armand Nielsen 1 year ago

Karen sees tobe increasingly unwanted inthe US. It is however still a legit name in Scandiavia with origin possible back before the Viking age

0points

WJK1531 1 year ago

My mother in law oby’s name was Dr Martin Martin, I kid you not as she still had his card in her son’s baby book. What did she call my husband? Martin of course. Fortunately he has a different last name.

0points

Heather Weather 1 year ago

Heather has disappeared from baby name ranks! I have an endangered name, it’s not even in the top 1100 new baby names. I guess us Heathers will have to wait it out until we are a retro name…. Who would have thought Heathers would be less popular than Louise and Ethel and Agnes. Times change, seasons change, names change!

0points

Parriah 1 year ago (edited)

There’s that “sweet home sextuplets” show a few years back. 9 kids total boys are SAYLOR, BRIDGE, WALES, TAG, LAYKE and girls I think were RIVERS, BLU, RAWLINGS and RAYNE. That will be a lifetime burden for them.

0points

Rose 1 year ago

Ancestors of mine, mother's side about 4 greats back. Had 7 children and all named Ambrose or Ambrosia. No idea why, never happened in any other branch

0points

Robin Rush 1 year ago

Friend’s grandmother worked in records, filing birth certificates back in the day. A couple named their boys, orangejello pronounced orangelo and lemenjello pronounced lemongelo. WTF???

0points

Ann Mohrmann 1 year ago

My Dad went to school with Merry Christmas. And the brothers Bean. First names? Green and Pressed.

0points

Doreen Buccigrossi 1 year ago

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0points

nuberiffic 1 year ago

I was working at a high school when a new student enrolled. His name was Swastika.

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Zero My Hero 1 year ago

I went to elementary school with a guy named Hurricane Archer, and his brother was Forrest Archer. I’ve tried Googling them given that they’re such unique names, but I’ve come up empty-handed. Makes me wonder if they changed their names as soon as they were legally allowed to.

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Marvin HoG 1 year ago

I was told about a decade or so ago that when they googled my name they got nothing but a bunch of p*rn. That's when I discovered that the most famous person with my name was a p*rn star.

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Ramona Jackson 1 year ago

I once had a neighbor whose first name was Junior. I didn't believe it until he showed me his driver's license. OTOH, I attended elementary, middle & high school with Krystal Glass and Merry Christmas. True story.

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Camilla Koutsos 1 year ago

I knew a guy called Wayne Kerr when I was a kid. I never made fun of him.

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Aya Pandy 1 year ago

Worst names of people I've met, Femalè from a couple who thought the hospital named her but they system wouldn't accept female as a name, Antichrist older siblings are Jesus/Mary/Satan, Braxton Hicks aka the term for pre labor contractions yes the parents knew, Sarriazieah but pronounced Sarah no answer on why they picked that spelling, Syphilis they just thought the word was pretty, and my personal favorite. Anakin-Joffrery because it's bad especially a double hyphened named

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Patricia Schumaker 1 year ago

I dated a guy in college named Richard Stains. After we broke up I referred to him as D**k Stains.

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Bill Thurman 1 year ago

I worked with a guy named Nitro. Like the explosive. Cool dude but it just seemed too different

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Nykky 1 year ago

My name's from a book my mother was reading. Hotel Alana I guess? The most unique name I've ever seen, though, was Lavantia. Saw it on a gravestone. It makes me wonder what she was like. Never heard it before that, and it'll probably never become a big name, but it certainly is unique and pretty to me

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Ronnie Cutshall 1 year ago

Try having middle name Solaris hawk

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Kathleen Verret 1 year ago

A nurse told me that a woman, who was quite young, she named her new born twins, and it is spelled as pronounced....orangello and lemongello. That is correct...orange jello and lemon jello!

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Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago

Actually any name that triggers BP's censors is problematic.

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No Name 1 year ago

Found out at my college graduation that there was a guy in my year named Joseph Joseph Joseph III.

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

In the book "Catch-22," there was an army major named Major Major Major. When the got drafted, he was supposed to be a private, but the army just couldn't help themselves, so they promoted him to just above captain and he became Major Major Major Major.

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C scanlan 1 year ago

I wanted 3 sons named Thomas, Richard and Harold

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Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

I met a woman who named her kid “Leviathan.” Like did she mean to name him after a mythical sea monster? So many questions…

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BeepBeepBoopBoop 1 year ago

isn't that a book in the Bible? I'm probably wrong but please don't hate on me I'm not Christian 😅

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Demongrrrrl 1 year ago

My mom worked with two different women named Aquanetta (not at the same job). Aquanet is (or was) a brand of hairspray.

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Lavender Oak 1 year ago

My mom wanted to name me Tabitha Inez.. my dad filled out the paperwork with Rachel Ann. My initials are RAP but otherwise it's the most dull name ever. And I married an Indian man with 2 last names and a complicated first name 😂 so together I have the most boring name, and he has a very interesting and unique one.

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Yuki 1 year ago

My older sister's name was almost "Buck James," with BJ being her initials. Glad my parents changed it XD I also have a cousin who named their kid Blaydon. And another who named theirs Blaython. One on my mother's side and the other on my father's... I guess horrible names run in my family.

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Dexter Moncrieff 1 year ago

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PandaPops 1 year ago

Also know a kid called Temperance. Sounds like a name from Harry Potter

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memyselfandI 1 year ago

My grandma’s first and middle name and last initial combined at some point to form the nickname Bobdelindebob. Like Bob-de-Lynn-de-Bob. It’s a good thing she told me about it before I ever heard it used because I would have been very confused.

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Jennifer Herron 1 year ago

I knew a family where the father was James Sr., and they had four sons named James Jr., Jim, Jimmy, and Jimmy Jr!

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PandaPops 1 year ago

In my family we have Uncle John(60yrs), Little John (40yrs)and Baby John (6yrs)

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Jay Son 1 year ago

I'm surprised we didn't get Denise and Denephew :D

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Denise Nilsson 1 year ago (edited)

That joke is so old, it's got great grandkids! (And no, my brother's name is NOT Denephew.)

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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

Had an ancestor whose middle name was "South", apparently supposed to be a family name. Naming after directions wasn't an invention of the West family.

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Scarlett 1 year ago

Someone on Tumblr has a distant grandfather known as Kermit Dickman

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Tinderella 1 year ago

I know a girl named Cynnamon

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Kady LaHaie 1 year ago

I have a kid named Aedan but in my defense we had never heard it before.

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Kady LaHaie 1 year ago

My friend went to school with a Mileaway in the 80s

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Wondering Alice 1 year ago

At school with a girl called Teresa Green (to be fair, she took her stepfathers name, so was not a plan) I had a tutor with the last name Christmas - his dad was a priest (Father Christmas) my dad claims the vicar of his childhood church was called Neal Down.

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Vladimíra Matejová 1 year ago

What is so weird about teresa green?

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David Phillips 1 year ago

Google Dominican Republic Drivers Licences.

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Peter Phenton 1 year ago

How about a couple I knew naming their son Ion Charge

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Dad 1 year ago

Koen, a Flemish/Dutch name absolutely normal in any way, means brave but it is pronounced C**n and that is kinda problematic in the southern parts of the US .

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Tanii 1 year ago

I knew a kid called 'Anutham' and literally all 'Aarav's and this kid 'Parth' like. bro. why?

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Hey! 1 year ago

Quebec name their babies opposite of what the rest of Canada, and possibly the world does. First every male was named Joseph/female Marie, then your middle name, then your actual name, then your surname. So my name was MMNG. The last letter changed when I got married. Then we changed province and my name became NM instead of MN because the middle name is supposed to follow your name not come before. Trying to explain this to schools for my kids, etc. is not easy. Our daughter didn't have a middle name but our two sons do and they are old names because they belong to their grandfathers and they were forever called by (teachers only not their friends) one of their middle names instead of their actual name.

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

I know someone who named their sons Rocket and Note. Those poor kids

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James016 1 year ago

A small number of people called their sons “Baby” in the UK.

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Lakota Wolf 1 year ago (edited)

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sturmwesen 1 year ago

uhm Melanie is a perfectly normal name in Germany? Less so since 2000 but we had some in our school.

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Tinderella 1 year ago

Melanie is a cool name. Popular in the 80s

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Hey! 1 year ago

Crystal was really popular in the 1970's. I'm sure yours was chosen uniquely though.

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MouseyMouse 1 year ago

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Noproblem 1 year ago

I worked with a girl named Crystal Snow. She married a guy surnamed White, and became Crystal Snow White.

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Crystal Ruiz 1 year ago (edited)

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Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago

One of my more memorable cats as a kid was named Crystal. Very sweet girl, gorgeous Himalayan. Melanie seems like a perfectly ordinary name to me, really.

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Renegade 1 year ago

My college roommate's last name was Lear. Her grandparents wanted them to name her Crystal Shanda.

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Melaniedawn Pressler 1 year ago

My parents couldn't just stick with Melanie and named me Melaniedawn. Smh!

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Wondering Alice 1 year ago

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Sage Bene 1 year ago

We called my cousin crystal pistol bc it's the name of a strip club in Amarillo TX lmao

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Stupid and Worthless 1 year ago

Went to school with a ton of "Crystal"s and "Melanie"s.... They were all hateful bullies but that was on them and not the fault of the names.

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Lori T Wisconsin 1 year ago

I like the name Crystal. 🥰. Be proud of who you are and tell haters to *iss off 😉

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Ben Stubbs 1 year ago

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Monika 1 year ago

There's a girl at my school named "Paighttonn" and honestly i feel so bad for her

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Potato 1 year ago

I'm beginning to wonder if these spellings are used to disrupt google searches. Hard to cyber stalk someone when you can't spell their name?

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Angeline Shalyn 1 year ago

I know a woman who named her daughter "mayghynn" lmao, like Megan except the spelling is obnoxious

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Dexter Moncrieff 1 year ago

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Robert T 1 year ago

One of my neighbour's dad is called Cornelius and one of my distant relatives was called Septimus. They're interesting names rather than bad though.

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Yeah, okay. 1 year ago

Was Septimus born on the 7th of the month or was he the seventh child? Or did they just like the name?

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Bluetoyou 1 year ago

I've posted this before but it is worth repeating. I had a student named Toy. Cute little blond headed kindergarten boy. He should be grown now. Poor thing.

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Lori T Wisconsin 1 year ago

Working many years ago as a nurse, a woman named her twin girls Chlorine and Florine. Nope, she wasn't a chemist, don't think she knew about the periodic table of the elements, either.

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Justaboredpotato 1 year ago

I've meet people named Innocent, Precious, Polite and more. I think those names kinda suit the list

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Potato 1 year ago

Ah, the old Puritan pilgrim names. The Barebones were a fun lot. My favorite of theirs is If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned.

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Yeah, okay. 1 year ago

Names that you end up wanting to be the opposite of. It's like naming your girl Chastity. Unless you are expecting her to be a nun, that's just cruel.

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Alex Martin 1 year ago

Chastity, Charity, Temperance as well, name your kids after the virtues.

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alloutbikes@yahoo.com 1 year ago

Precious Small and she was hateful large.

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TheDivineMsM 1 year ago

I had someone in my family tree names James David James. James D. James. James James. Jim James. And his wife was Lucretia.

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OnAFreakingRollercoaster 1 year ago

Lacking inspiration were we?

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Paulo Freitas 1 year ago

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Maple Porkly 1 year ago

I tried to explain this to my friend once. He didn't get why and just laughed how we are all called Antonio or Manuel or Carlos. He's a British guy named William.

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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago

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Tim 1 year ago

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Veronica Rabbit 1 year ago

I used to live across the street from a family with two little kids: a girl named Flower and a boy named Keebly (named after the Keebler cracker elf). No, I did not make that up.

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AnAntiqueGeek 1 year ago

But the Keebler spokes-elf was named "Ernie"!

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GirlFriday 1 year ago

I have 12 brothers and some of their names are weird. We took a vote one Thanksgiving and decided that Bowan is the weirdest name in the family barely beating out Archer.

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TalkLess 1 year ago

Is your name Friday? 😊

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ToasterBoy 1 year ago

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Kantami Blossom 1 year ago

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Scott Rackley 1 year ago

Buddy of mine in high school, Chris Cross.

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Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago

There's a singer by the name of Christopher Cross. Wonder what his tolerance is for being called Chris? ;)

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PandaPops 1 year ago

I knew a brother and sister names Bernard and Bernadette

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Ruth Hempsey 1 year ago

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Jack Holt 1 year ago

What about Prof Whett Faartz? He usually appears in threads like this

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Stephanie Ventura-Montalvo 1 year ago

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Borealbabe 1 year ago

My sister is a childrens mental health professional. She swears up and down, do not ever name your daughter Hannah. Hannah's are bananas

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Sheba's Mum 1 year ago

My mum worked with a guy named Gordon Bennett.

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Der Kommissar 1 year ago

I would pronounce it Hardick, not hard d**k, you dirty minded people. Tomorrow's lesson; Phuket

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BeepBeepBoopBoop 1 year ago

I'd like it to be today's lesson just because I'm curious. I had a friend named Phu, pronounced Fu. Would it be like Fu-ket? Or is it literally fück it?

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Demongrrrrl 1 year ago

I once knew twin boys named Sean ("Shawn") and Seane ("Shane").

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Francesa Miller 1 year ago

I delivered newspapers to someone named Sterling D**k. His card was labeled with "first name, last name" so there was no mistake.

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

That would be an expensive gift at a bachelorette party

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CHOCCY MILK 1 year ago

I have a classmate named Nate, and he gets bullied because of A F*****G COMIC BOOK.

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AliJanx 1 year ago

Draven Doom. He wouldn't tell me his middle name.

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Dodo 1 year ago

Nimrod is the name of a great hunter. And Kaiser is just Cesar but German.

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Linda Tisue 1 year ago

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Sunny Day 1 year ago

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alloutbikes@yahoo.com 1 year ago

Dad went to get a copy of his birth certificate from the county he was born in while visiting. He was never registered with his name just baby boy and his last name.

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Maple Porkly 1 year ago (edited)

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Jo Cooper 1 year ago

Neveah, heaven spelled backwards. I also used to know a lovely guy who was called Wayne Kerr.

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Ramona Jackson 1 year ago

FFS, just call her "Heaven."

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Cat Chat 1 year ago

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Dodo 1 year ago

Wow I never would have considered that a 'bad' surname.

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Becky Scherer 1 year ago

Had a great-great uncle who's name was Goodenough. Youngest kid in a large family. Lol

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Bravo6Two 1 year ago

Mom had a friend who named his son Luke Sky Walker.

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Cat Chat 1 year ago

You say that as I am literally watching Return of the Jedi. 🤣

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Kelley Gilbert Zumwalt 1 year ago

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oktopus 1 year ago

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Dexter Moncrieff 1 year ago

this is very rood i cant condone this language

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Potato 1 year ago

What language does "rood" derive from?

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Kim Armand Nielsen 1 year ago

Karen sees tobe increasingly unwanted inthe US. It is however still a legit name in Scandiavia with origin possible back before the Viking age

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WJK1531 1 year ago

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Heather Weather 1 year ago

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Parriah 1 year ago (edited)

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Rose 1 year ago

Ancestors of mine, mother's side about 4 greats back. Had 7 children and all named Ambrose or Ambrosia. No idea why, never happened in any other branch

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Robin Rush 1 year ago

Friend’s grandmother worked in records, filing birth certificates back in the day. A couple named their boys, orangejello pronounced orangelo and lemenjello pronounced lemongelo. WTF???

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Ann Mohrmann 1 year ago

My Dad went to school with Merry Christmas. And the brothers Bean. First names? Green and Pressed.

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Doreen Buccigrossi 1 year ago

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nuberiffic 1 year ago

I was working at a high school when a new student enrolled. His name was Swastika.

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Zero My Hero 1 year ago

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Marvin HoG 1 year ago

I was told about a decade or so ago that when they googled my name they got nothing but a bunch of p*rn. That's when I discovered that the most famous person with my name was a p*rn star.

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Ramona Jackson 1 year ago

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Camilla Koutsos 1 year ago

I knew a guy called Wayne Kerr when I was a kid. I never made fun of him.

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Aya Pandy 1 year ago

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Patricia Schumaker 1 year ago

I dated a guy in college named Richard Stains. After we broke up I referred to him as D**k Stains.

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Bill Thurman 1 year ago

I worked with a guy named Nitro. Like the explosive. Cool dude but it just seemed too different

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Nykky 1 year ago

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Ronnie Cutshall 1 year ago

Try having middle name Solaris hawk

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Kathleen Verret 1 year ago

A nurse told me that a woman, who was quite young, she named her new born twins, and it is spelled as pronounced....orangello and lemongello. That is correct...orange jello and lemon jello!

0points

Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago

Actually any name that triggers BP's censors is problematic.

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No Name 1 year ago

Found out at my college graduation that there was a guy in my year named Joseph Joseph Joseph III.

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Andy Frobig 1 year ago

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C scanlan 1 year ago

I wanted 3 sons named Thomas, Richard and Harold

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Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

I met a woman who named her kid “Leviathan.” Like did she mean to name him after a mythical sea monster? So many questions…

0points

BeepBeepBoopBoop 1 year ago

isn't that a book in the Bible? I'm probably wrong but please don't hate on me I'm not Christian 😅

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Demongrrrrl 1 year ago

My mom worked with two different women named Aquanetta (not at the same job). Aquanet is (or was) a brand of hairspray.

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Lavender Oak 1 year ago

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Yuki 1 year ago

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Dexter Moncrieff 1 year ago

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PandaPops 1 year ago

Also know a kid called Temperance. Sounds like a name from Harry Potter

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memyselfandI 1 year ago

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Jennifer Herron 1 year ago

I knew a family where the father was James Sr., and they had four sons named James Jr., Jim, Jimmy, and Jimmy Jr!

0points

PandaPops 1 year ago

In my family we have Uncle John(60yrs), Little John (40yrs)and Baby John (6yrs)

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Jay Son 1 year ago

I'm surprised we didn't get Denise and Denephew :D

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Denise Nilsson 1 year ago (edited)

That joke is so old, it's got great grandkids! (And no, my brother's name is NOT Denephew.)

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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

Had an ancestor whose middle name was "South", apparently supposed to be a family name. Naming after directions wasn't an invention of the West family.

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Scarlett 1 year ago

Someone on Tumblr has a distant grandfather known as Kermit Dickman

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Tinderella 1 year ago

I know a girl named Cynnamon

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Kady LaHaie 1 year ago

I have a kid named Aedan but in my defense we had never heard it before.

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Kady LaHaie 1 year ago

My friend went to school with a Mileaway in the 80s

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Wondering Alice 1 year ago

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Vladimíra Matejová 1 year ago

What is so weird about teresa green?

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