One of the benefits of having a kid is you get to name them. That way, you can honor your grandad, pay your respects to the artist who has inspired you, or... show the world you're a bit weird.

A month ago, Reddit user Hasden2007 asked other users on the platform, "What is the worst name you could give a child?" Turns out, there's no shortage of those.

So far, the post has received over 4.7K replies. From Strawberry Rain to Chastity, here are some of the most upvoted ones.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Jack Cass, I know it’s bad because it’s my name

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered My coworker named her baby "Strawberry Rain", which would be a great name if she had given birth to a bottle of shampoo

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I know a family with 4 kids: Prince, Princess, Precious, and Becca. The Becca at the end kills me lol

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KamiKhan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Becca will probably grow up to be a villain with a dark background story.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Princess. A girl in my high school was legally named princess but she went by her middle name. There was also a girl who’s name was Sunny Day and she was the emo kid

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Mystic Pigeon? She was a client at my office.

Apparently it’s a real surname and her parents were hippies so named her “Mystic”. Like who’s ever going to take her seriously??

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered How about not giving your child a name? There was a kid I went to high school with whose legal first name was "Unnamed Baby Boy". I don't know the story behind that though.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered My mum once worked at a school and there was a kid called "Thank God".

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King Joffrey
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is fairly typical of African names, I worked with a lady called Blessing, the name of former Nigerian president is Goodluck Jonathan, etc.

My O My
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for the information. A lot of names are only weird depending on context

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Marcellus the Third
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lots of Islamic, Hindu and African Christian names like that. Say, "Shakira" is a Quranic name meaning "Thankful [to God]".

Sam
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Woman: *gives birth* *starts crying* Nurse (quietly) : "what are you going to name them?" Woman: *doesn't hear her* "oh thank GOD!" Nurse: Ok then, if you say so

HooowlAtTheMoon
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

maybe they asked the woman what they want to name her kid and she said "Thank God it's out" and they were like "well alright then"

Daniel Marsh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not a name name, but it's not a terrible phrase at least?

Elak Swindell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is that a first and last name or just the first? Either way, that is really messed up.

Mewton’s Third Paw
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gross. I wouldn’t call the kid that even if that’s the official name. Nope.

Robin Childers
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sure they could have found a more main stream name with the same meaning.

Easily Excitable Panda
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not necessarily. A lot of Spanish-speaking cultures name sons "Jesus" and "Jose-Maria," and "Maria-Jose" for girls.

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Brenda Neidig
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am just wondering if she named her that because she was a girl and NOT a boy baby?!?

Brenda Neidig
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am just wondering if they named her this because she was a girl?!?

backatya
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the mom was saying that after birth and at the same time the nurse asked what was the name of her baby so she can put it on the birth certificate lol

Cain Hargreaves
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard of a woman named I Will Arise And Go To Jesus Christ Jones (she went by "Willa")

Fixin'Ta
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That sounds like a Pilgrim name, like "God-be-praised Smith" or something.

Id row
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We censor license plates, but not the naming of children? It should be illegal to go this stupid with a name.

Sarah
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A judge in Tennessee ruled that parents couldn't name their child Messiah ('cause "that name is a title earned only by one person--and that one person is Jesus Christ"). The ruling was reversed on appeal, since it was unconstitutional AF.

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TexasWoman
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor girl. Too bad the can’t thank so-called “god” for having that problem.

KimTx
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So many "god"-named kids! Why are they always a55holes???

Kakofonyx
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Godwin is a fairly common first name in Nigeria. Names of the week like Monday, Sunday, and Friday, are common too.

Lisa-Marie Dhondt
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of our soccer players is named Dieumerci which means exactly the above.

Easily Excitable Panda
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My favorite historical name: A child in early English) North American colonies called, "If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-for-Thee-Thou-Wouldst-Have-Been-Damned Barebones." Apparently called "Damned" for short, ikyn.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered theres a british chef, jamie oliver, who named his children the following:

poppy honey rosie

petal blossom rainbow

buddy bear maurice

daisy boo pamela

river rocket blue dallas someone call childline

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I worked in Nigeria for a while and had a co-worker called Thank God Limejuice. It wasn’t a windup. That was his actual name

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Alicia Butterfield
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some amazing names in Nigeria and they totally make them work and sound cool. Just think of the ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan..

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered When I worked at chick-fil-a way back in the day, I was taking this girl's order and it time time to ask for her name, she was being very hesitant. So I was just waiting for a reply until her mom says "Sorry she's shy!!" looks me in the eyes with a smile and tells me "Her name is Thankful!" ....poor child

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Vicky Z
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah right she is shy! How can't she see what they did to their poor child oh my God!

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North West

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Truth Monster
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm waiting for her to put out a perfume called "North" just to hear the commercial, "North by Northwest"

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Pridges Pancakes. He changed it to Richard Johnson.

But Olympic skier Anna Banana kept her name.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I actually went to school with a guy named Richard Rash. To make it worse his mother was a teacher there

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered A friend of a friend was named ‘Forsheeza Jolly Goodfellow’ before she had it changed. Can’t even imagine having to deal with that at school

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I want cake
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's something you'd suggest as a joke, but following through is just cruel.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I read a story once about triplets that were named Harry, Hermione, and Ron. Please dont do that

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Abcde (pronounce ab-city)

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Marianne
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was the poor girl who caused an incident at an airport, because the employees could not believe this was her actual name. They laughed at the name and the mother shamed them for laughing at her poor child, when in truth in was her fault for giving her child a ridiculous name like that.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Went to school with a girl named Candace Barbara Machine. Candy Bar Machine!

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Satan.

Well, unless of course you want them to be a lawyer when they grow up, in which case it might to a good marketing ploy.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Scooter. Hell no. I would not even name a dog that

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Some girl I knew named her daughter Tru Love, I still can’t get over that bizarre combination

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Chastity

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Corona/Covid

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N G
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Corona could have been slightly acceptable - it just means crown, but it's not a great name for a child. Whoever names their kid Covid though is an out and out idiot.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered There was a girl in high school with the last name Storms. She got knocked up at 14. She named the kid Sylva Winta. I always thought was really terrible.

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tiari
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sylva is perfectly okay. Only the combination with Winta makes it quite horrible IMO. Poor child.

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I've always disliked the name "Guy"

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Kristof De Smet
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Flanders, this is quite a common name, but is pronounced otherwise (like Gee)

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I know someone who named their kid Khaleesi, yikes.

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Vicky Z
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People need to stop naming their kids after tv show characters at least until the shows finishes🙄🙄🙄

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I read a post a few months back asking if Huckleberry was a good name for her son

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I have a friend named Johnson. That’s no big deal, but his last name is Smalls.

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I've seen a few little boys named Riot. That name seems pretty bad to me

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I want cake
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My brother met a girl called Scandal. As expected, she wasn't on the best terms with her parents.

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“Miracle”. I work in a PICU and kids named this never seem to have a good outcome

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i know a woman named "Sweet Kisses"

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I went to elementary school with a girl named Percyphanie, no bs. Kids used to clown her and call her PerSyphilis lol

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Raine Soo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can see that the name was a take on Persephone, the bride of Hades in Greek mythology.

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