“What Were The Parents Thinking:” 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They’ve Encountered

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 X Æ A-12

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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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"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.

NotEvenJohn , Anita Jankovic Report

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Tequila. Sibling was Margarita

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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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"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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"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

estoniansweetener , Janko Ferlič Report

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North West

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

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Friday 3 years ago

Nooooo!!!!

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SemelinaPitrone 3 years ago

YOU SPEAK FOR US ALL.

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Rhea 3 years ago

That name even got a whole scene dedicated to it in The IT-Crowd: https://youtu.be/fTaKDnSIb4c

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Chewie Baron 3 years ago

That was so funny!! Poor Jen!

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

That one is very unfortunate, don't think the parents thought this one through.

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denzoren 3 years ago

The IT Crowd had a whole joke based on a character with this name.

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Francesca Annoni 3 years ago

As a non native English speaker, I don't understand the joke..please someone can explain it to me?

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Brîndușa 3 years ago (edited)

Just read it as pedophile...Hope this helped (i am non native English too).

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Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

For any Americans: Brits pronounce pedophile with a long 'e' (so it sounds like 'peedophile').

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Domi Lee Bjelka 3 years ago

Reminds me The IT Crowd 😂 poor boy..

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Robert T 3 years ago

Does he have an Irish cousin? Pete O'File

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Aly 3 years ago

Ok but who has File as a last name and thinks “huh Peter is a good name”

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Aly 3 years ago

This was supposed to be its own comment, why is it a reply?

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I want cake 3 years ago (edited)

Reminds me of the parents who very nearly named their twin boys Bertus and Ernest, until a family member pointed out the short forms of those names.

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yes. 3 years ago

wait idgii bertie and ernie?

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DetongLhamo 3 years ago

IT Crowd

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Fishwasher 3 years ago

yes finally someone who knows

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Erin E 3 years ago

Like ... seriously? Not just The IT Crowd sketch?

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Id row 3 years ago

Dude is going to be taking his spouse's name if he gets married.

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TheReader19 3 years ago

Is the last name File?

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No you didn't 3 years ago

That's from the IT crowd.

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Anita Pickle 3 years ago

Hahahaha Jens boyfriend on the IT crowd

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H G 3 years ago

I worked with a girl with the last name Lester. Said she wanted to name her first kid Moe. I really, really wish I was joking

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MagicalUnicorn 3 years ago

ouch!

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Paradise 3 years ago

HORRIBLE. Lol

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Kelzbelz79 3 years ago

Now this made me 😂😂😂, my SO is called Peter and I sometimes call him Peter file 😂😂😂.

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Carol Parker 3 years ago

The worst.

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Clearly sunny 3 years ago

Worst.

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El Dee 3 years ago

Aaaaargh!!

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Natalia A 3 years ago

this cannot be true!!! Poor child.

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Jackie Nettleton 3 years ago

Why did nobody stop this, he will have to change his name when he’s 18 or he will never get anything

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My O My 3 years ago

What's wrong with Peter File? Someone help please

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AlmightyOne 3 years ago

Parents really didn't think that through, huh.

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Linda Cowley 3 years ago

Parents can be so naive

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BingeFest1 3 years ago

That's pretty bad

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Nick R O'Philiac 5 months ago

🤣

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Phillip Green 2 years ago

My next doors sons name is petter pan

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Cybele Spanjaard 3 years ago

Awkward.

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Microwaved Robot 3 years ago

This name was a skit joke on 'The IT Crowd' ...Funny!

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Fishwasher 3 years ago

no wait that was in a tv show called the IT crowd it isnt real unless you know one of the 4 people in the world with that name

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itsTrini 3 years ago

thats not so....Nahhh thats bad

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Iggy 3 years ago

Oh god!

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#15

"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 Baby

Just a Baby.

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

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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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"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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“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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Soup, apparently

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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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Marianne 3 years ago

Here in Germany, there a rules for giving your child a name. Most importantly, the name must not be ridiculous, because that causes emotional damages. So when you go to the registry office, they can forbid you to use certain names. Those people saved a lot of children from a very bad childhood!

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Cupcake168 3 years ago

Sometimes I think: why are there so many regulations in my country? And than I see this and see: because.

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Zaza 3 years ago

Netherlands too. Our registry officers can also veto any name they deem inappropriate, or when they are certain the child will be bullied over it. Also when the initials spell out inappropriate things like wc, soa (our abbreviation of std) and whatnot

16points

Sara 3 years ago

Same in Sweden, you cannot name your kids something that might cause them to be teased, or cause them discomfort. Also there is a time limit and if the parents havent decided by then, the government gives the child a name. Because everyone deserves a name

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Mike Kiefer 3 years ago

Thanks, was about to write the same. We went as far as to forbid "Robin" as a girls name for a while. Luckily, that was removed but it still confuses the hell out of most people. "Your boy, Robin..." "It's a her" "What?" "Yeah, it's a her, Robin can be either" I even had to make them change the "blue" chalk writing upon her birth into "pink" (I hate gender colours, but they used them so...go figure).

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

I think there are rules in most countries

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Karolína T. 3 years ago

Similar in Czech republic. You can use only the name from official name list or to prove that the name exists as standard in foreign language. Many parents use unusual names last time and there are children with very eccentric names, but its still human and our governement protect them from any parental brain seizure.

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

Also in Spain. But our very common names from virgins often sound weird to foreigners: there are a lot of woman called path, pillar, snow, thanks, dove, love,... bot also pain, lonelyness, chastity, conception, etc.

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El Dee 3 years ago

Yes, this is a good idea. You'd think parents wouldn't have to be refused from naming their own children but some people are either cruel or very very stupid..

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Luiza NP 3 years ago

Same thing in Brazil

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Y T 3 years ago

We have that in Sweden too.

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pebs 3 years ago

Also in Italy.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

They let "Fanta" slip by 'em, that I was told. (or maybe that's not so bad?) All I know is, do not name children after things that aren't okay by other kids. Or childhood is a nightmare!

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If I could I would live under water 3 years ago

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

My test for baby names was always to put titles in front of them, like Doctor, Judge, Ambassador, Senator, President. (Yeah, very ambitious about offspring.) If the name fits and doesn’t clash with such respected titles, it went on the list. If it sounded ridiculous, it was tossed out right away.

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Honu 3 years ago

Same here. I've always referred to this as the "Chief Justice" test. So many people give their kid names that are cutesy as a small child, but they're only children for a small part of their lives. Then they're a 40 year old district manager named Princess.

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danielw 3 years ago

if I'm ever in the position to name anybody, I'm going to recall second grade, and all the terrible jokes people made about other people's names. if I can come up with a nasty little joke about it, its not gonna fly. on the other hand, the reverse is true, if people ask me for ideas. This way, they won't ever ask a second time.

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Corina Elia 3 years ago

I did the opposite when I was chosing a name for my doughter... I tried to figure out what nicknames the other kids could come up with and the ones with the less de harmfull ones stayed ;)

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Penny Fan 3 years ago

I wanted to call my daughter Daisy, but her dad said it would sound silly when she was a High Court Judge...

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Keryl Cryer 3 years ago

Yes, the resume test. Imagine what a name will look like on the person’s resume 30 years from now. Would an employer take that person seriously?

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Satirical Duchess 3 years ago

me who's dead name and preferred name neither imo really match :')

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Eslamala 3 years ago (edited)

My country doesn't allow names that ridicule the person, BUT being a spanish speaking country, the amount of poorly spelled foreign names is astonishing. Sad thing is one of the worse things this country excells at is being snobbish, so if you have a name that's considered ridiculous or "low class", you're instantly discriminated against. Thankfully that's changing with newer generations, but it's still a thing. Also, there's a big difference between being original and creative, and not being able to understand your kid might be scarred for life if you choose a name that will get them bullied and ridiculed. On a side note: who TF names their kid SEX FRUIT? It's wrong on SO many levels!

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

We have this in Germany too. If you name your child Kevin or Chantalle, everyone will think they come from a trashy family and that they are stupid.

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Corina Elia 3 years ago

I agree... In Argentina we say "el Brayan" o "el yoni" when this happens

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Dahungryfella 3 years ago

In Belgium that is the case for people whose names end in"y" for women and "i" for men. Cindy, Mandy, Joeri... No idea why and luckily it is not that big of a thing. But it does exist. It seems like a weird thing to look down on.

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Truth Monster 3 years ago

I would name my kid Evil Genius. Its a good indicator that I probably shouldn't have kids.

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Anna Banana 3 years ago

I don't know, might work nicely with the last name "Monster" at least.

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J Baker 3 years ago

I can picture the teacher conversations now: "Look, he might be a Genius, but he's got two brain cells and they're both fighting for third place!"

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

No evil genius, but my husband wanted to name our son Damien after the kid of Satan in the movie The Omen. And if we get another one Constantine, after the guy in the movie Constantine. Both are a bit on the dark side. (I wouldn't say no to the name Lucifer, buts thats forbidden here)

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Jennifer .S 3 years ago

This is so stupid. Children are not your dolls, they're real living people who are going to be adults one day and live whole lives just like you. I believe don't name your kid something you wouldn't want to be called yourself.

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RatherLoopy 3 years ago (edited)

My submissions: Moon Unit Zappa and a kid I went to school with, Richard Head. He did NOT go by the nickname "D**k."

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troufaki13 3 years ago

Ιs this ridiculous thing happening anywhere else besides the US? Also, why would they deliberately give their children psychological issues? I get they want to stand out but c'mon... Normalize being normal!!

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

In Europe this isn't allowed by law.

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ThatOneCrazyFanGirl 3 years ago

What goes through these people's minds when they think of a baby name?? Like, you could name your child "Noelle" but you want something unique so you'd choose "jkmno" WHY??

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Tiny Dynamine 3 years ago

I lived in Portugal for 6 years. Almost every girl has Maria in her name somewhere. Many names are still so ultra-Catholic. Things like Maria de Deus (Mary of God), Maria da Luz (Mary from Heaven) Conceição (Conception, FFS), Maria José for girls and José Maria for boys. Portugal, let it go, please.

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James016 3 years ago

Similar in Spain

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Corina Elia 3 years ago

The top 2 I know are a woman named Blanca, last name Pintado (white painted), she happened to marry a man with the last name Amarillo, so she was Blanca Pintado de Amarillo (white, painted yellow). The other case is about a set of twins, one named Mara and the other Dona... Can you gess what country they're from? ;)

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Luiza NP 3 years ago

Hahahahahah Argentina

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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago

Pretty sure the question here isn't "What were the parents thinking" but instead, "Were the parents thinking?"

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Fish Boden 3 years ago

Some of these are pretty objectively dreadful. Peter File, Tequila and Sex Fruit for example. But some of these entries are a bit mean spirited and overly judgemental, are Mystic and Strawberry really that bad?

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Eslamala 3 years ago

What kind of person names their kid sex fruit, though? It disturbs me on so many levels... The rest I don't mind, though some just make me feel bad for the kids who get bullied because of their names.

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

This is the reason most countries put limits of what people can name their child. No child should have to suffer a name like "Sex Fruit".

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Tracy Baparam 3 years ago

I used to teach Sunday School. Had a boy there named Left-tenant. A lady at work was the eleventh child, her mother named her Ma-11. Not a joke. I saw her ID. Another guy was named Doctor, he was not a doctor. I live in South Africa, so it's a daily occurrence to meet someone with a name different from the norm.

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Liam's mom 3 years ago

My son's pediatrician told me when he did his year for the state, a new mother named her child Dilate. English words for names is a common place in South Africa. Names like, Beauty, Welcome, Beginning etc.

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Notorious DBT 3 years ago

In his book, Trevor Noah talks about knowing a guy named Hitler in South Africa. The parents and the kid didn't understand who Hitler was- they just liked the name. Hannibal Burress complains that people give him a hard time about his first name but he was named BEFORE The Silence of the Lambs.

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Bobby 3 years ago

I had a buddy in the navy who named his daughter Anna Mae. Only problem is his last name is Shen

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Hannah Walters 3 years ago

If your reading this I hope you have a great day and know. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” ‭‭John‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭NIV

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Jeff Christensen 3 years ago

Some of these names only sound bad because they are in a language you understand. Benjamin and Joseph have no real meaning in English, but would you name a child "Son of the right hand" or "he adds"? The Old Testament asserts that these were the meanings of Benjamin and Joseph in the language of the time, and the names were given based on the circumstances of their births.

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Shelly M 3 years ago

Siouxzhannah (Susanna)

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Rens 3 years ago

I thought about naming my second baby girl Libelle which is the Dutch word for dragonfly. But it's also the name of a Dutch magazine.

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Aaricia 3 years ago

Not only a magazine... So much more, including Lord if you spell it like libel.

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

Please laugh again at Germanys Baby name laws. I want to hear ALL about why it is good to have the freedom of naming innocent children whatever the parents pleases.

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Suzanne Griscom 3 years ago

I had a student (of immigrant parents) named Tes Tekkle. Say it aloud.

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

While shopping one day, I overheard a woman calling to her three children: Destiny, Karma, and Fate.

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Winx 3 years ago

I'm guessing first kid planned, second kid conceived while drunk, third kid an accident LOL

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athornedrose 3 years ago

i knew a girl named "Nazmoki" who was the daughter of an immigrant to the US. She was alone in the hospital when she had her baby, and still feeling the effects of the epidural. they asked her for a name while she was out of it and she read the "no smoking" sign with a thick accent.

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Sinkvenice 3 years ago

I had a patient once who was an African lady and she married an Irishman. Her name was Baby Fiddler. Thank goodness o saw the band before I saw the patient because it took me about ten minutes to stop laughing.

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Sinkvenice 3 years ago

*I saw the name

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Sinkvenice 3 years ago

I once met a Spanish lady named Candida.

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Angie S 3 years ago

Saw someone named, Shi-Thead...

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W. 5 3 years ago

Some people shouldn't be allowed to name pets, leave alone kids!

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Sugar Cargill 3 years ago

I have always had a lot of cats. I usually name favorite human names like Nicholas and Louie and Johanna. I would never name a cat something more odd than Bandit.

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b o o p 3 years ago

i know someone who was named Love Li. her brother's name was Happy Li. they were quite lovely people, to be honest (pun intended)

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Elak Swindell 3 years ago

I have a 14 page list I'm always adding to of stupid names kids are given, as well as a funny first and last name combinations. Like "Harry Beavers", "Harry Aenus", "River Moats", "Bear Trapp", "Brick Price", "Rusty Hamner", "One Winter", "Ona Bible", "Georgia Eagle", "Fern Forest", "Rowdy Negro" (white guy, real name), "Peter Gozinya", "Dusty Rhodes", "Little Saulsberry", "Pringle Peeples", etc. Parents can be so cruel, but at the same time, it's the kid's fault for not changing their name later in life.

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Richard Samul 3 years ago

Knew a guy who named his daughter Crystal Meredith. I later found out he was addicted to meth, and wanted to name his kid after his favorite thing in the world.

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Kusotare 3 years ago

I know a person whose name includes a number. I'm not going to name her, but imagine if your parents named you Ja5eson (and pronounced it "Ja-five-eh-son"). That's not her name, but it's about the same thing. She had a brother named Kyle, which was spelled normally, but I think should have been spelled "Xle".

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JkNuss 3 years ago

Went to church youth group with sisters named Carmen and Crystal Diggs Graves .... their moms name was Diggs ... parents thought it would be funny to give it to the girls as their middle name!!

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Alida van Veen 3 years ago

I worked with two sisters who were named Jeruzalem and Bethlehem... We called them Jerry and Beth though! And I know a kid whose name is Storm, and got diagnosed with ADHD...

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

Belén (bethlehem) is very common in Spain.

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Samantha Cole 3 years ago

We named our son Charles Xavier. My husband wanted Charles after his best friend and we couldn’t think of any other middle name that fit.

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Mark Howell 3 years ago

I have a friend who's parents surnaame was Puller and named him Richard (D*ck for short).

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Anand Subaya 3 years ago

Indian names A**l... pronounced un-al.. Fortunate Fernandes.. tough child birth... Afaq... pronounced a-faak Achyut... if u know what a "chuth " is Viral.. pronounced vee-

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tomruns12 3 years ago

I've know some people with strange names. Rainbow - Parents were hippies. Tuesday - parents allowed their 3 year old to name her. Barbie- not that strange of a name except it was a boy. Chlamydia - Spelled differently but pronounced the same.

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Dodo 3 years ago

Tuesday is an awesome name

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

One of my dads cousins just has a baby and they named the baby "Fields" Not even kidding, Fields. I think all of her kids names are from the bible or something? one is Psalm (i think thats how its spelled) One is Harvest, and the other one i dont remember.

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Not A Panda 3 years ago

I do hope that's not a girl though. She's going to get so bullied :(

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BonnyDK 3 years ago

Toy. Had a boy student named Toy.

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Michelle C 3 years ago

Working for a non-profit that works with children I saw my fair share: 1. SHMILY - So Help Me I Love You 2. Latrina 3. Moms name was Xerox and she named her son Canon 4. Shithead pronounced Sha-Theed 5. Twins - Mercedes & Lexus

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Not A Panda 3 years ago

Mercedes is a very normal girl's name.

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Robert Baldwin 3 years ago

Went to school with a "Rainbow Summersky"... parents may have been hippies (this was the 1980s). Also went to school with a girl named Ta-Tanasha, which sounds awesome in some ways, but she got called "Ta-Tas" a lot

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PatriciaB 3 years ago

I went to school with a Holly Berry, and worked with a Mike Hunt. Also worked with a company that had a call centre in the Philippines, a lot used different names instead because their real names were things like bubbles, Princess etc. My family still make fun of my cousin's son's name, when he said it was TJ we all asked what it stood for, nope his name is TeeJay.

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JP 3 years ago

Went to college with a guy named Q. Just Q. No other letters. No middle name. Just Q. Said his parents are/were hippies. He hated it.

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Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago (edited)

Somebody (possibly Kim K.) talked Kanye out of re-naming himself Christian Billionaire Genius. Here in the U.S., you can name your kid anything, and I'm honestly good with that. I definitely feel sorry for some kids, but at least you can change it or try to get a good nickname.

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Niffler_13 3 years ago

My grandmother was friends with a woman whose name was Lotta Hoggs.

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Cori 3 years ago (edited)

I loved the name Liam before it became annoyingly popular (thanks Mr. Hemsworth). I still named my oldest Liam even though it makes me look like I'm trying to be trendy. My favorite boy name was actually Ira, but my husband vetoed it. By the time I was pregnant with our second, my husband was over being married and officially didn't care what I named the kid, so I got my Ira after all.

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Mir Adwari 3 years ago

I like both Liam and Ira as well. Nice choices.

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Patti Vance 3 years ago

i worked in a division of family law/family support in which we got birth certificates for children of clients. two i remember were 'remember remember' and 'reason reason'. not twins, either.

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More Thinking Needed 3 years ago

George Costanza had it right: Seven.

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Daniel Atkins 3 years ago

The best i heard was while working in landscaping I hear a mother yell "Sierra Mist get in the car now." This was after the soda existed. I'm suprised Frank Zappa's Children did not make the list Ahmet, Dwizzle, Moon Unit. And Diva Muffin.

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Shelly M 3 years ago

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Cynthia Bonville 3 years ago

Kids named Karen, Katrina and Kim (KKK anyone, alliteration is fine but not with that letter three times). Crystal Dawn and her sister Sherry. Stormi and her daughter Raven (before the show). Thaddeus (yes he was as tiresome as his name). Peaches (classmate of mine).

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Dragon Whisperer 3 years ago

Met someone who named their children Shooter and Trigger (no BS)

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Steve 3 years ago

Worry if the next one they name is "Target"

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James016 3 years ago

My son's name was a last minute thing. We first chose Harry after my grandfather but hearing it all the time killed it for us. One evening my wife suggested the name we gave him as we both love it and we were not hearing it out and about. Soon as he was born all we heard was his name everywhere and it is now in the top 5 names in the UK

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kjorn 3 years ago

i knew a james... no wait.. it's Jaymz!

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kjorn 3 years ago

parents are f*****g morons and their kids would hate them for that!

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Sjeezz 3 years ago

Know a couple who named their twin boys "Neil" & "Young". I have really no idea where this could come from... ;-)

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Tiny Dynamine 3 years ago

I wanted to market a version of the I ❤ NY t-shirt as I love Neil Young, but there's no way I'd get the rights.

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Jo Firth 3 years ago

Can we just take a moment here to say how gorgeous all these kids are?

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Jerome Kavanaugh 2 years ago

Three girls, last one a surprise... Candy.... Sugar... and Nova. Last name Caine

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Yep. Yep. Yep. 3 years ago (edited)

I know a Strawberry Rain. She's only seven and prefers to go by the name Sarah. It was the daughter of a woman I worked with and she always wanted a girl to name Strawberry Rain. I also knew a woman who named her daughter Jersey Belle and while I'm normally like "that's a nice name" I couldn't even excuse myself before laughing. I felt so bad but all I could think was that's a good name for a cow. I've met a girl name Harley and I couldn't believe it, but her husband refused to budge on it. I know a Hazel Wren, which personally I love but a lot of people hated.

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J cooper 3 years ago

I went to school and work with a Davey Crockett Sr and Jr.

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TheartfulDutchGinger 3 years ago (edited)

I knew a family who had 3 sons who were named after archangels, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. And a daughter they named Magdalena after Maria Magdalena. Then they had another son. They named him Angel. I always thought that was a bit weird. I guess they ran out of archangel names. 🤔

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Hannah Anderson Carroll 3 years ago

Another fabulous example of parents taking the very existence of their child/children and making it all about them. Will it ever stop?

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Stephen Low sr. 3 years ago

I worked at an elementary school, where a kindergarten teacher pointed out the name on a child's desk. Pronounced sha- fah-say. Parents spelled it Shitface.

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Terka Červeňáková 3 years ago

Ok, let's be honest, Anna Banana Is an awesome name 🤩🤩🤩

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~Canapé Kitten~ 3 years ago

*nickname

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Lieutenant BaconWaffles 3 years ago

Before the internet, I've gone to school with kids names Bambi, Charity, Hope, Chastity, Faith, Forest, Domain, Patience, & none of them lived up to their names.

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Mickipickie 3 years ago

A friend had a child in her classroom during her student teaching experience named Vrolet because she was born in a Chevrolet

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Isabel Care 3 years ago

The times I have had people think it's a hoax call, when I report broken fences and escaped livestock, or a fire.....my name I. Care. Stupid parents. Could be far worse though...Iona Macintosh

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Aly 3 years ago

For some reason, every comment I make on this post while on my laptop turns into a reply. What the hell bored panda.

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Dory Tandoori 3 years ago

There's a girl in my class called Cotton white and a boy called Ramen 💀

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Triv 3 years ago

I once knew a guy named Richard Palmer. Me ex told me about a woman named Anita with the maiden name Baker. She married a man whose last name was Hooker.

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Meami 3 years ago

I once heard (although I have no proof it's true) of someone who named their daughter La-a. It was pronounced Ladasha.

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Jessica Nametz 3 years ago

How about Shasta Orange? I used to work for a company that collected medical and legal records for attorneys and that was legitimately the name on all of the legal documents... I still laugh every time I see the soda at the store...(－‸ლ) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Yo Momma 3 years ago

I knew a kid named Michael Michael. First and last name. Crazy.

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Stille20 3 years ago

I get that we all judge parents that don't think of the children as humans when they name them, but a whole post to mocking people's names also seems pretty harsh.

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Penny Fan 3 years ago

I knew of a child called Siobhan. Nothing unusual there? Well her parents had only ever seen it written down, never heard it. So the poor child had to explain to everyone that her name was See-o-ban

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mac 3 years ago

Most of these have got to be fake. I need to believe that most of these are fake! Please GOD let most of these be fake!

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Nicholas Yu 3 years ago

I named my daughter Olive...

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Aaricia 3 years ago

I just don't get the hate towards Richard and D**k. In the Netherlands they're such normal names. Can I help it you're immature about a name that has no meaning in other countries?

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Kelly Tinker 3 years ago

My brother legally gave his son the middle name "Trouble" so he can say Trouble is my middle name. Bit far for a joke, especially since my nephew is very shy and autistic so I don't think he'll ever embrace the joke, but at least it's only a middle name. (my nephew does like his middle name, I just don't think he'll have the confident swagger to go with the joke but I could be surprised. He's only 8 after all)

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Melissa Kawai 3 years ago

Yep, my son’s cousin’s middle name is Danger. They did it just so he could say Danger is my middle name. 🤦‍♀️

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ShareMusic 3 years ago

LaDon Key. A boy in my elementary school.

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QueenoftheSquids 3 years ago

i knew a boy named angel

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Adam Francis 3 years ago

Monster Godzilla. Yep, that's his name

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TheDragonPSA 3 years ago

A band I was in had a drummer named Mike Kok. Frank Zappa named his kids Dweezil and Moon Unit.

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Emy Loves 3 years ago

In high school we knew of a Chrystal Shanda Lear

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Jo Choto 3 years ago

Shout out to boxer George Foreman who had 12 kids, including 5 sons, named George II, George III, George IV, George V and George VI. No, I'm not kidding. George named ALL his sons George.

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Random Anon 3 years ago

Someone needs to inform these parents, this is not the way to make your child feel special.

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Magicalmarilyn 3 years ago

Got a neighbor whose name is Les Smart

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PjandBolt 3 years ago

My dad had a friend in college that got to name himself when he was 5. His last name is Blue, so naturally he named himself Sky. Sky Blue.

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Katchen 3 years ago

The US would be hard-pressed to have naming rules, since we have people from all over the world. Who are we to tell someone they can’t give their child their grandfather’s traditional Chinese or Nigerian name, just because it is “unusual” from an Anglocentric point of view? Of course this leads to people being able to name their kids “Braden Mountain Dew Magnum” or whatever, but there’s a price for everything.

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Nicole Bowman 3 years ago

My hometown has a plumber. He has 2 kids. Their names? Sinke and Draine.

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Flisey 3 years ago

A friend of my ex named his daughter Crusifixia and son Stoney. I think their thrid was a girl called Frank.

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Lea White 3 years ago

I've known of a Klamidia Kiiivlyn Le-ia Shall I continue?

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Jo Cooper 3 years ago

I once knew a lovely guy called Wayne Kerr. I also heard a mother calling out to her child in the supermarket once; Leviticus!

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Wuggerhumphden 3 years ago

I used to work with a guy called Joseph King. Known as Joe. He got an internal call once from somebody who spotted his name on the company directory and called him to say "Haha, your name is Joe-king" and put the phone down.

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Lunar Bicycle 3 years ago

1) Gasoline Coffee - explained that her parents were “illiterate hicks.” 2) A. Harry D**k - junior high shop teacher. Gotta hand it to him, when he wrote his name on the board and we all started chuckling, he said, “I know why you’re laughing. Doesn’t bother me.” The laughing stopped pretty quickly. 3) Mr. and Mrs. Sippy - she thought it was cute, he rolled his eyes. Grumpy old man. 4) Grandma Daugschitz. 5) And a woman named “Rene”. Seems normal enough. Then I called her re-nay, and she snapped, “It’s REEN! It’s pronounced REEN!” Yeah, your parents may have told you that, but they were wrong.

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Kusotare 3 years ago

In my local newspaper's legal notices, there's an announcement for terminating parental rights for a child named "Octaviea Deceased Watkins". WTF?

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Picture Queen 3 years ago

There is a family on YOu-Tube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PepfX4nM19zhdgEn3o5kg )who has 10 children who are named Leonardo, Cleopatra, Jerusalem, Romeo, D'Artagnan, Shakespeare, Nefrititi, King James, Aphrodite & Omega. Their middle names are equally fascinating.

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Yugan Talovich 3 years ago

How about Little Flatty? That's what Deng Xiaoping's name means.

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Stephanie Chapman 3 years ago

I worked in a hotel and met a woman named Dorcas Weatherhead, an elderly British man named D**k Holder, and a gentleman named D**k Painter. I worked at a law firm and saw the name Penny Million on a file. And I knew a woman whose father had a commune and he changed the family's last name to Israel. All of the kids were named after virtues, but given a regular middle name in case they didn't want to go by their first name. Her name was Lovely, but she had siblings named Strength, Power, and Clean. The worst kid's name I have come across is Athel. It just sounds like Asshole with a lisp.

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Doc Thissen 3 years ago

I went to high school with a guy whose last name was O'Boyle. His first name was Lance. Poor bastard.

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Sam Kennedy (WolvesRBeutiful) 3 years ago

I know someone who didn't know they were pregnant until they went into labor in the shower so they named the baby No Wonder. Also know someone who named their son Humming because their last name is Bird. Humming Bird. I'm not kidding.

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Paradise 3 years ago

I knew of a child named Glory! With the exclamation mark, legally.

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Tambot 3 years ago

My cousin's name was Treasure

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Fixin'Ta 3 years ago

Most of these are exactly why some countries have to approve your child's name before you can give it to them. Several years ago in New Zealand there was a child whose parents gave her the name Tallulah-Does-The-Hula-From-Hawaii. The court took the child from her parents at age 9 because she was humiliated by her own name and wanted to change it and they wouldn't do it. Some people should not be allowed to reproduce.

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Arenite 3 years ago

Iceland has a list of names you choose from.

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Marnie 3 years ago

I had a manager once whose name was Luke Lucas. Middle name? "Luke". Luke Luke Lucas. Great manager.

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Donny Cromwell 3 years ago

Kid in school had the name Richard Wacker. He even went by D**k.

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Irina Rachow 3 years ago

My high school friend Joel Shaver had a dad named D**k.

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Irina Rachow 3 years ago

A friend in high school was Joel Shaver, his dad's name was D**k.

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Annette V 3 years ago

Thomas Gunther Thompson aka "Tommy Gun Thompson"

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Kathleen van der Gryp 3 years ago

I met a guy called 'Mistake' awhile ago.

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Thomas Helms 3 years ago

I work for a college and I've seen some interesting ones: Skye Skraper and Abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz (pronounced "Noel" - yes, like they took the "Guess the Christmas song name" game and just used it verbatim)

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Alan Cowan 3 years ago

How about the South African minister Tokyo Sexwhale?

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Alan Cowan 3 years ago

Growing up I knew three brothers. Randy, Rickie and Rodney. Last name? Rafter. Also worked with a guy back in the 90's named David David...no fooling. Oh and there was a guy I know named Mike Hawken. He went by Michael.

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Sue Knerl 3 years ago

My nieces son's name is James Tiberius Kerr. They are not huge Trekkies either. Poor kid.

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Fairsher 3 years ago

I named my children names that would sound good when they became adults. As well my last name is one syllable so names had to have 2 or more syllables, names sounded nicer that way.

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Rachel Graham 3 years ago

I know a girl named Krystal Mether

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Hollysmom 3 years ago

My mom knew a young woman whose name was Candy Cane

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QueenMiri 3 years ago

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Jennifer Szabo 3 years ago

I mean, this is a form of child abuse. Poor kids.

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Les Izmore 3 years ago

Drew Peacock's parents realized what they had done when someone said the newborns name in front of them

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Thomas Es Thomas 3 years ago

One of my schoolmates was Benjamin Dover. He hated being called Ben.

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KimTx 3 years ago

Before you name a child, do two three: - say the full name really loud. Have someone else say the name really loud. If it doesn't flow, try again. - Think about the child's future. How will the name work as an adult. - Is the name so distinctive that if they were arrested and/or made the news, do you really want the people they grew up with to know your angel baby is a rapist? A drunk? Scammer?

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LITTLE ROBBIN 3 years ago

A baby was born last year here in the Philippines as Covid Bryant and Covid Rose.

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The Redhead 3 years ago

My real name is Belle (pronounced bell.) I was always tormented in school about my name; I predate Beauty and the Beast by about 10 years so I am 'the original' lol. While these poor kids truly have terrible names (hope they change them to what they want when they turn 18). Now that I'm grown I like my name, however at least I was given a classic name opposed to something truly dreadful.

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VulcansAreSexy 3 years ago

Here's the best name I've encountered in the wild: Jack Fire. You pretty much can't go wrong with the surname Fire

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Pacifico Fernandez 3 years ago

I lived in a latin American country where many people have foreign (gringo) names, but spelled randomly. I have seen the name Jessica like Llesika Yesica Yessika. The name Jeremy is pronounced Heremi . The name John is spelled Llon and so on. Always reminds me of Terry Pratchett's books - Magratt and her daughter Esmeralda Mind The Spelling. In my country (Slavic) there was an urban legend about a kid named Izdislav (Издислав) .... After the whitesnake's song "Is this Love".

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H Edwards 3 years ago

I know of a Boadicea (known to all as Elsie, for some reason) and a Tinkerbell - yes they are sisters. I also know a Candida, which is not an extremely uncommon name, but come on!

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Iron ass 3 years ago

First thing: i went to elementary school woth three brothers with the last name west, it was ryden, wild, and easton. Second thing: remember the time gwyneth paltrow named her kid Apple Martin? One of my friends somehow thinks moses is worse, and that shes not that crazy, so i sent her a link to corrupt her. httpss://theoutline.com/post/1394/the-unbearable-wrongness-of-gwyneth-palrow

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Pittsburgh rare 3 years ago (edited)

I knew a kid named Ben-Hur. Yes. Like Charlton Heston's character. To add insult to injury, the kid turned into a bully with ADHD who'd beat anyone in sight. I wonder how he'll be doing in high school.

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Y T 3 years ago

I'll never understand people who name their son D**k.

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H Edwards 3 years ago

It's just an old fashioned way to shorten Richard, from the days when we didn't use the word d**k to mean anything else. Don't think there are a ton of parents out there actually naming children D**k.

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Y T 3 years ago

In Sweden we had a famous politician named Gun Hellsvik. Does not mean that in Swedish.

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Roni Ingram 3 years ago

As a child I met 2 girls called Mercedes, Porsche, and their brother Bentley....

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Elle Malkamäki 3 years ago

I worked at an English immersion primary school in Finland, and I can’t remember the Finnish version of the name, but it directly translated to ‘shattered dreams’ in English. She was a surprise p, for parents that never wanted kids. Back home in Australia, I’ve known Barb (Barbara) Dwyer, Duane Pipe, and my personal favourite, Mike Hunt. Say it fast. MIKE HUNT 😂🤣😂

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Max L. 3 years ago

Im italian and the name that americans impressed me more with their names was Armani.

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Jim Patrick 3 years ago

Travis moonbeam, essence of love, Orion pearly ski, celestial star, all from one family their last name was nason-long. Another family in the area last name is D**k they had 10 boys and 1 girl Anita D**k. And I once work with a guy named Strech Brown.

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Mz Phit 3 years ago

Many years ago, when I lived in rural Arizona I knew of a boy named Whisper (who's mom - a hippy type very sweet woman- had also changed her name from Candace to "Can Dance"). I have wondered how that worked out for him...if he changed it when he got to school, or if there's a thirty something year old man named Whisper out in the world, living his life with the free spirit of his dancing mom

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Flufflefox 3 years ago

I have a unique name. The only one in the world. Thanks for the difficult language. I like my name even though it has to be explained every time. Most people think of it as a last name.

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Sandy D 3 years ago

There is (or was, she may have moved) whose real name was Marijuana Pepsi Jackson. She apparently kept her name and I think she went on to become a teacher.

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Marianne Contrino 3 years ago

Actually, she's originally from Beloit. I went to college with her. Didn't know her very well, but one of my roommates did. Pretty sure she has a PHD, in education, but I might be wrong about that. There was an article written about her a few years ago, that gained a lot of attention, focusing on how she became very successful, despite having a name like that. It's an interesting read, and she definitely deserves the praise.

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Anita Pickle 3 years ago

Chase C*x, Rosey Areola

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Mingi Football 3 years ago

Brother went to school with sisters named Anniversary and Graduation i

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SoozeeQ 3 years ago

About 30 years ago, my cousin had a son and didn't want to name him with a name that could be shortened, so she chose Nicholas. When his 3-year-old sister Alexandra met him, the first thing she said was "Hello, Knickers"! I've also heard of a case, where a woman didn't want to shorten her daughter's name, so chose "Amber". The 4-year-old brother called her "Hamburger"! Needless to say, in both cases, the mothers were horrified!

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Remi Flynne 3 years ago

How odd - Nicholas is commonly abbreviated to Nick or Nicky. Though I knew someone called Kim because her parents didn't want a name that can be abbreviated (no idea why - gives the child choices) but she just got called Kimbo. People will frequently lengthen if they can't shorten.

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Dori Rice-courtwright 3 years ago

My b/f had a tenant who named her baby after her favorite beverage Pepsi

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LDYNREDD 3 years ago

They forgot to mention La-A (pronounced La dash a)

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grey galah 3 years ago

There could be an argument for either adopting Iceland's law on naming children or licensing parenthood

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JkNuss 3 years ago

Free speech overrated

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Esther 3 years ago (edited)

A classmate of mine heard of a family where everyone was named after a naruto character: I remember some names, hinata, Naruto was the dog, either sasuke or ino, and hanubi, pretty sure? Was gonna be the name of the newborn

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Cherie King 3 years ago

Went to school with a John Doe

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Nick Poliseno 3 years ago

Oh really Cherie, how are you and where are you from ?

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jeanette scott 3 years ago

Chanda Leer. Imma Pigg. These are real.

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CatWoman312 3 years ago

I know someone who named their child Ophelia Wish. It sounds like a stripper or porn star name smh

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

Or Shakespeare...

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Winx 3 years ago

My cousin named her son Denver, and they live in Denver. Think about it before you put it on a birth certificate people.

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Sue M. H. R. 3 years ago

Oh where to begin? I once knew a D*ck Woodc*ck, could not believe that was his name. Shewanna Johnson, that one was bad. But I was always more confused about (mostly) male names that were included in their last name ... Steve Stephenson, Brad Bradley, etc. But for super weird, I date a Jon - short for Jonquil, the flower and I knew a Summer Rayne, which I thought was pretty. Apple (before Gwyneth Paltrow's kid) and Moon Ray are two others.

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Jason k 3 years ago

had a lady who was dating a cop once tell me he came home saying he heard the worst one ever.... When asked for the kids name that was involved in whatever it was... "JKMN" "I'm sorry, can you pronounce that for me?" "No L"

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Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

My mom told me once she had a patient named Chlamydia. Now that is just unbelievable.

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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

Anita Crotchfelt. WHY?

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Margaret Mayhugh 3 years ago

Chaos. Blaze. Queen Elizabeth (yes, two legal first names). Felt bad for Shithead (shuh-TEED) but his was legit, I understand that's not an uncommon name and it just isn't a name that translates well to English.

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H Edwards 3 years ago

It's like the Indian surname Dixit, which has a very unfortunate pronunciation for English speakers

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Suzanne Griscom 3 years ago

I have a cousin who named their kid Nevaeh, heaven backwards. Also had a student named Phuc Hu; his esl teacher nicknamed him Tony and Tony kept it once he learned more English. Also had a student in my school named Diarrhea because it was the prettiest word in English her parents heard in the refugee camp.

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Daphne Williams 3 years ago (edited)

Nevaeh is actually very common now among Mormon children. The Mormons are notorious for giving their kids "unique" names. https://www.utahbabynamer.com/

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Patrick James 3 years ago

Kratos

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John Hunter 3 years ago

I knew a family years ago that named their kid "Whiskey Coyote"

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Satirical Duchess 3 years ago

I am in a class with a kid who was called _____ Darling then when his mum remarried he became _____ Love. This is just such a bizarre coincidence I love it.

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James C 3 years ago

Went to elementary school with a girl named Ima last name pig. Horrible

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Asy EnderDragon 3 years ago

my uncle's name is john jacobs

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ScarlettofHydraIsland 3 years ago

I would name my kid Hydra. It’s probably a good thing I’m single and don’t plan to have kids any time soon XD

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Jenn C 3 years ago

Hugee Bear

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Innes Stefana 3 years ago

had a colleague named Sir King ... he was a call agent for a very big company..

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Marianne 3 years ago

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Cupcake168 3 years ago

Sometimes I think: why are there so many regulations in my country? And than I see this and see: because.

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Zaza 3 years ago

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Sara 3 years ago

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Mike Kiefer 3 years ago

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

I think there are rules in most countries

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Karolína T. 3 years ago

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

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El Dee 3 years ago

Yes, this is a good idea. You'd think parents wouldn't have to be refused from naming their own children but some people are either cruel or very very stupid..

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Luiza NP 3 years ago

Same thing in Brazil

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Y T 3 years ago

We have that in Sweden too.

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pebs 3 years ago

Also in Italy.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

They let "Fanta" slip by 'em, that I was told. (or maybe that's not so bad?) All I know is, do not name children after things that aren't okay by other kids. Or childhood is a nightmare!

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If I could I would live under water 3 years ago

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

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Honu 3 years ago

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danielw 3 years ago

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Corina Elia 3 years ago

I did the opposite when I was chosing a name for my doughter... I tried to figure out what nicknames the other kids could come up with and the ones with the less de harmfull ones stayed ;)

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Penny Fan 3 years ago

I wanted to call my daughter Daisy, but her dad said it would sound silly when she was a High Court Judge...

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Keryl Cryer 3 years ago

Yes, the resume test. Imagine what a name will look like on the person’s resume 30 years from now. Would an employer take that person seriously?

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Satirical Duchess 3 years ago

me who's dead name and preferred name neither imo really match :')

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Eslamala 3 years ago (edited)

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

We have this in Germany too. If you name your child Kevin or Chantalle, everyone will think they come from a trashy family and that they are stupid.

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Corina Elia 3 years ago

I agree... In Argentina we say "el Brayan" o "el yoni" when this happens

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Dahungryfella 3 years ago

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Truth Monster 3 years ago

I would name my kid Evil Genius. Its a good indicator that I probably shouldn't have kids.

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Anna Banana 3 years ago

I don't know, might work nicely with the last name "Monster" at least.

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J Baker 3 years ago

I can picture the teacher conversations now: "Look, he might be a Genius, but he's got two brain cells and they're both fighting for third place!"

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

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Jennifer .S 3 years ago

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RatherLoopy 3 years ago (edited)

My submissions: Moon Unit Zappa and a kid I went to school with, Richard Head. He did NOT go by the nickname "D**k."

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troufaki13 3 years ago

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

In Europe this isn't allowed by law.

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ThatOneCrazyFanGirl 3 years ago

What goes through these people's minds when they think of a baby name?? Like, you could name your child "Noelle" but you want something unique so you'd choose "jkmno" WHY??

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Tiny Dynamine 3 years ago

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James016 3 years ago

Similar in Spain

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Corina Elia 3 years ago

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Luiza NP 3 years ago

Hahahahahah Argentina

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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago

Pretty sure the question here isn't "What were the parents thinking" but instead, "Were the parents thinking?"

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Fish Boden 3 years ago

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Eslamala 3 years ago

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

This is the reason most countries put limits of what people can name their child. No child should have to suffer a name like "Sex Fruit".

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Tracy Baparam 3 years ago

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Liam's mom 3 years ago

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Notorious DBT 3 years ago

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Bobby 3 years ago

I had a buddy in the navy who named his daughter Anna Mae. Only problem is his last name is Shen

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Hannah Walters 3 years ago

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Jeff Christensen 3 years ago

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Shelly M 3 years ago

Siouxzhannah (Susanna)

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Rens 3 years ago

I thought about naming my second baby girl Libelle which is the Dutch word for dragonfly. But it's also the name of a Dutch magazine.

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Aaricia 3 years ago

Not only a magazine... So much more, including Lord if you spell it like libel.

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

Please laugh again at Germanys Baby name laws. I want to hear ALL about why it is good to have the freedom of naming innocent children whatever the parents pleases.

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Suzanne Griscom 3 years ago

I had a student (of immigrant parents) named Tes Tekkle. Say it aloud.

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

While shopping one day, I overheard a woman calling to her three children: Destiny, Karma, and Fate.

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Winx 3 years ago

I'm guessing first kid planned, second kid conceived while drunk, third kid an accident LOL

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athornedrose 3 years ago

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Sinkvenice 3 years ago

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Sinkvenice 3 years ago

*I saw the name

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Sinkvenice 3 years ago

I once met a Spanish lady named Candida.

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Angie S 3 years ago

Saw someone named, Shi-Thead...

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W. 5 3 years ago

Some people shouldn't be allowed to name pets, leave alone kids!

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Sugar Cargill 3 years ago

I have always had a lot of cats. I usually name favorite human names like Nicholas and Louie and Johanna. I would never name a cat something more odd than Bandit.

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b o o p 3 years ago

i know someone who was named Love Li. her brother's name was Happy Li. they were quite lovely people, to be honest (pun intended)

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Elak Swindell 3 years ago

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Richard Samul 3 years ago

Knew a guy who named his daughter Crystal Meredith. I later found out he was addicted to meth, and wanted to name his kid after his favorite thing in the world.

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Kusotare 3 years ago

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JkNuss 3 years ago

Went to church youth group with sisters named Carmen and Crystal Diggs Graves .... their moms name was Diggs ... parents thought it would be funny to give it to the girls as their middle name!!

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Alida van Veen 3 years ago

I worked with two sisters who were named Jeruzalem and Bethlehem... We called them Jerry and Beth though! And I know a kid whose name is Storm, and got diagnosed with ADHD...

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

Belén (bethlehem) is very common in Spain.

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Samantha Cole 3 years ago

We named our son Charles Xavier. My husband wanted Charles after his best friend and we couldn’t think of any other middle name that fit.

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Mark Howell 3 years ago

I have a friend who's parents surnaame was Puller and named him Richard (D*ck for short).

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Anand Subaya 3 years ago

Indian names A**l... pronounced un-al.. Fortunate Fernandes.. tough child birth... Afaq... pronounced a-faak Achyut... if u know what a "chuth " is Viral.. pronounced vee-

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सूफ़ीया ज़मीर 3 years ago

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tomruns12 3 years ago

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Dodo 3 years ago

Tuesday is an awesome name

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

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Not A Panda 3 years ago

I do hope that's not a girl though. She's going to get so bullied :(

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BonnyDK 3 years ago

Toy. Had a boy student named Toy.

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Michelle C 3 years ago

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Not A Panda 3 years ago

Mercedes is a very normal girl's name.

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Robert Baldwin 3 years ago

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PatriciaB 3 years ago

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JP 3 years ago

Went to college with a guy named Q. Just Q. No other letters. No middle name. Just Q. Said his parents are/were hippies. He hated it.

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Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago (edited)

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Niffler_13 3 years ago

My grandmother was friends with a woman whose name was Lotta Hoggs.

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Cori 3 years ago (edited)

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Mir Adwari 3 years ago

I like both Liam and Ira as well. Nice choices.

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Patti Vance 3 years ago

i worked in a division of family law/family support in which we got birth certificates for children of clients. two i remember were 'remember remember' and 'reason reason'. not twins, either.

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More Thinking Needed 3 years ago

George Costanza had it right: Seven.

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Daniel Atkins 3 years ago

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Shelly M 3 years ago

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Cynthia Bonville 3 years ago

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Dragon Whisperer 3 years ago

Met someone who named their children Shooter and Trigger (no BS)

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Steve 3 years ago

Worry if the next one they name is "Target"

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James016 3 years ago

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kjorn 3 years ago

i knew a james... no wait.. it's Jaymz!

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kjorn 3 years ago

parents are f*****g morons and their kids would hate them for that!

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Sjeezz 3 years ago

Know a couple who named their twin boys "Neil" & "Young". I have really no idea where this could come from... ;-)

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Tiny Dynamine 3 years ago

I wanted to market a version of the I ❤ NY t-shirt as I love Neil Young, but there's no way I'd get the rights.

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Jo Firth 3 years ago

Can we just take a moment here to say how gorgeous all these kids are?

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Jerome Kavanaugh 2 years ago

Three girls, last one a surprise... Candy.... Sugar... and Nova. Last name Caine

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Yep. Yep. Yep. 3 years ago (edited)

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J cooper 3 years ago

I went to school and work with a Davey Crockett Sr and Jr.

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TheartfulDutchGinger 3 years ago (edited)

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Hannah Anderson Carroll 3 years ago

Another fabulous example of parents taking the very existence of their child/children and making it all about them. Will it ever stop?

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Stephen Low sr. 3 years ago

I worked at an elementary school, where a kindergarten teacher pointed out the name on a child's desk. Pronounced sha- fah-say. Parents spelled it Shitface.

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Terka Červeňáková 3 years ago

Ok, let's be honest, Anna Banana Is an awesome name 🤩🤩🤩

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~Canapé Kitten~ 3 years ago

*nickname

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Lieutenant BaconWaffles 3 years ago

Before the internet, I've gone to school with kids names Bambi, Charity, Hope, Chastity, Faith, Forest, Domain, Patience, & none of them lived up to their names.

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Mickipickie 3 years ago

A friend had a child in her classroom during her student teaching experience named Vrolet because she was born in a Chevrolet

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Isabel Care 3 years ago

The times I have had people think it's a hoax call, when I report broken fences and escaped livestock, or a fire.....my name I. Care. Stupid parents. Could be far worse though...Iona Macintosh

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Aly 3 years ago

For some reason, every comment I make on this post while on my laptop turns into a reply. What the hell bored panda.

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Dory Tandoori 3 years ago

There's a girl in my class called Cotton white and a boy called Ramen 💀

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Triv 3 years ago

I once knew a guy named Richard Palmer. Me ex told me about a woman named Anita with the maiden name Baker. She married a man whose last name was Hooker.

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Meami 3 years ago

I once heard (although I have no proof it's true) of someone who named their daughter La-a. It was pronounced Ladasha.

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Jessica Nametz 3 years ago

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Yo Momma 3 years ago

I knew a kid named Michael Michael. First and last name. Crazy.

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Stille20 3 years ago

I get that we all judge parents that don't think of the children as humans when they name them, but a whole post to mocking people's names also seems pretty harsh.

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Penny Fan 3 years ago

I knew of a child called Siobhan. Nothing unusual there? Well her parents had only ever seen it written down, never heard it. So the poor child had to explain to everyone that her name was See-o-ban

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mac 3 years ago

Most of these have got to be fake. I need to believe that most of these are fake! Please GOD let most of these be fake!

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Nicholas Yu 3 years ago

I named my daughter Olive...

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Aaricia 3 years ago

I just don't get the hate towards Richard and D**k. In the Netherlands they're such normal names. Can I help it you're immature about a name that has no meaning in other countries?

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Kelly Tinker 3 years ago

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Melissa Kawai 3 years ago

Yep, my son’s cousin’s middle name is Danger. They did it just so he could say Danger is my middle name. 🤦‍♀️

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ShareMusic 3 years ago

LaDon Key. A boy in my elementary school.

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QueenoftheSquids 3 years ago

i knew a boy named angel

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Adam Francis 3 years ago

Monster Godzilla. Yep, that's his name

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TheDragonPSA 3 years ago

A band I was in had a drummer named Mike Kok. Frank Zappa named his kids Dweezil and Moon Unit.

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Emy Loves 3 years ago

In high school we knew of a Chrystal Shanda Lear

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Jo Choto 3 years ago

Shout out to boxer George Foreman who had 12 kids, including 5 sons, named George II, George III, George IV, George V and George VI. No, I'm not kidding. George named ALL his sons George.

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Random Anon 3 years ago

Someone needs to inform these parents, this is not the way to make your child feel special.

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Magicalmarilyn 3 years ago

Got a neighbor whose name is Les Smart

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PjandBolt 3 years ago

My dad had a friend in college that got to name himself when he was 5. His last name is Blue, so naturally he named himself Sky. Sky Blue.

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Katchen 3 years ago

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Nicole Bowman 3 years ago

My hometown has a plumber. He has 2 kids. Their names? Sinke and Draine.

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Flisey 3 years ago

A friend of my ex named his daughter Crusifixia and son Stoney. I think their thrid was a girl called Frank.

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Lea White 3 years ago

I've known of a Klamidia Kiiivlyn Le-ia Shall I continue?

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Jo Cooper 3 years ago

I once knew a lovely guy called Wayne Kerr. I also heard a mother calling out to her child in the supermarket once; Leviticus!

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Wuggerhumphden 3 years ago

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Lunar Bicycle 3 years ago

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Kusotare 3 years ago

In my local newspaper's legal notices, there's an announcement for terminating parental rights for a child named "Octaviea Deceased Watkins". WTF?

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Picture Queen 3 years ago

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Yugan Talovich 3 years ago

How about Little Flatty? That's what Deng Xiaoping's name means.

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Stephanie Chapman 3 years ago

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Doc Thissen 3 years ago

I went to high school with a guy whose last name was O'Boyle. His first name was Lance. Poor bastard.

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Sam Kennedy (WolvesRBeutiful) 3 years ago

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Paradise 3 years ago

I knew of a child named Glory! With the exclamation mark, legally.

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Tambot 3 years ago

My cousin's name was Treasure

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Fixin'Ta 3 years ago

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Arenite 3 years ago

Iceland has a list of names you choose from.

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Marnie 3 years ago

I had a manager once whose name was Luke Lucas. Middle name? "Luke". Luke Luke Lucas. Great manager.

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Donny Cromwell 3 years ago

Kid in school had the name Richard Wacker. He even went by D**k.

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Irina Rachow 3 years ago

My high school friend Joel Shaver had a dad named D**k.

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Irina Rachow 3 years ago

A friend in high school was Joel Shaver, his dad's name was D**k.

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Annette V 3 years ago

Thomas Gunther Thompson aka "Tommy Gun Thompson"

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Kathleen van der Gryp 3 years ago

I met a guy called 'Mistake' awhile ago.

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Thomas Helms 3 years ago

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Alan Cowan 3 years ago

How about the South African minister Tokyo Sexwhale?

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Alan Cowan 3 years ago

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Sue Knerl 3 years ago

My nieces son's name is James Tiberius Kerr. They are not huge Trekkies either. Poor kid.

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Fairsher 3 years ago

I named my children names that would sound good when they became adults. As well my last name is one syllable so names had to have 2 or more syllables, names sounded nicer that way.

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Rachel Graham 3 years ago

I know a girl named Krystal Mether

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Hollysmom 3 years ago

My mom knew a young woman whose name was Candy Cane

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QueenMiri 3 years ago

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Jennifer Szabo 3 years ago

I mean, this is a form of child abuse. Poor kids.

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Les Izmore 3 years ago

Drew Peacock's parents realized what they had done when someone said the newborns name in front of them

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Thomas Es Thomas 3 years ago

One of my schoolmates was Benjamin Dover. He hated being called Ben.

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KimTx 3 years ago

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LITTLE ROBBIN 3 years ago

A baby was born last year here in the Philippines as Covid Bryant and Covid Rose.

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The Redhead 3 years ago

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VulcansAreSexy 3 years ago

Here's the best name I've encountered in the wild: Jack Fire. You pretty much can't go wrong with the surname Fire

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Pacifico Fernandez 3 years ago

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H Edwards 3 years ago

I know of a Boadicea (known to all as Elsie, for some reason) and a Tinkerbell - yes they are sisters. I also know a Candida, which is not an extremely uncommon name, but come on!

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Iron ass 3 years ago

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Pittsburgh rare 3 years ago (edited)

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Y T 3 years ago

I'll never understand people who name their son D**k.

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H Edwards 3 years ago

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Y T 3 years ago

In Sweden we had a famous politician named Gun Hellsvik. Does not mean that in Swedish.

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Roni Ingram 3 years ago

As a child I met 2 girls called Mercedes, Porsche, and their brother Bentley....

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Elle Malkamäki 3 years ago

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Max L. 3 years ago

Im italian and the name that americans impressed me more with their names was Armani.

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Jim Patrick 3 years ago

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Mz Phit 3 years ago

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Flufflefox 3 years ago

I have a unique name. The only one in the world. Thanks for the difficult language. I like my name even though it has to be explained every time. Most people think of it as a last name.

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Sandy D 3 years ago

There is (or was, she may have moved) whose real name was Marijuana Pepsi Jackson. She apparently kept her name and I think she went on to become a teacher.

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Marianne Contrino 3 years ago

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Anita Pickle 3 years ago

Chase C*x, Rosey Areola

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Mingi Football 3 years ago

Brother went to school with sisters named Anniversary and Graduation i

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SoozeeQ 3 years ago

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Remi Flynne 3 years ago

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Dori Rice-courtwright 3 years ago

My b/f had a tenant who named her baby after her favorite beverage Pepsi

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LDYNREDD 3 years ago

They forgot to mention La-A (pronounced La dash a)

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grey galah 3 years ago

There could be an argument for either adopting Iceland's law on naming children or licensing parenthood

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JkNuss 3 years ago

Free speech overrated

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Esther 3 years ago (edited)

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Cherie King 3 years ago

Went to school with a John Doe

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Nick Poliseno 3 years ago

Oh really Cherie, how are you and where are you from ?

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jeanette scott 3 years ago

Chanda Leer. Imma Pigg. These are real.

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CatWoman312 3 years ago

I know someone who named their child Ophelia Wish. It sounds like a stripper or porn star name smh

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

Or Shakespeare...

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Winx 3 years ago

My cousin named her son Denver, and they live in Denver. Think about it before you put it on a birth certificate people.

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Sue M. H. R. 3 years ago

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Jason k 3 years ago

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Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

My mom told me once she had a patient named Chlamydia. Now that is just unbelievable.

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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

Anita Crotchfelt. WHY?

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Margaret Mayhugh 3 years ago

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H Edwards 3 years ago

It's like the Indian surname Dixit, which has a very unfortunate pronunciation for English speakers

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Suzanne Griscom 3 years ago

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Daphne Williams 3 years ago (edited)

Nevaeh is actually very common now among Mormon children. The Mormons are notorious for giving their kids "unique" names. https://www.utahbabynamer.com/

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Patrick James 3 years ago

Kratos

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John Hunter 3 years ago

I knew a family years ago that named their kid "Whiskey Coyote"

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Satirical Duchess 3 years ago

I am in a class with a kid who was called _____ Darling then when his mum remarried he became _____ Love. This is just such a bizarre coincidence I love it.

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James C 3 years ago

Went to elementary school with a girl named Ima last name pig. Horrible

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Asy EnderDragon 3 years ago

my uncle's name is john jacobs

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ScarlettofHydraIsland 3 years ago

I would name my kid Hydra. It’s probably a good thing I’m single and don’t plan to have kids any time soon XD

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Jenn C 3 years ago

Hugee Bear

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Innes Stefana 3 years ago

had a colleague named Sir King ... he was a call agent for a very big company..

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