“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

Anonymouspapayaz , Marisa Howenstine Report

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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

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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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"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

tzylco , 戸山神奈 Report

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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!

87points

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

8points

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).

8points

Vicky Z 3 years ago

I think there are rules in most countries

6points

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.

5points

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..

4points

Luiza NP 3 years ago

Same thing in Brazil

2points

Y T 3 years ago

We have that in Sweden too.

2points

pebs 3 years ago

Also in Italy.

2points

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!

2points

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.

35points

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 ;)

2points

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!

23points

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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Marianne 3 years ago

87points

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

16points

Sara 3 years ago

8points

Mike Kiefer 3 years ago

8points

Vicky Z 3 years ago

I think there are rules in most countries

6points

Karolína T. 3 years ago

5points

Miss Cris 3 years ago

4points

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..

4points

Luiza NP 3 years ago

Same thing in Brazil

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Y T 3 years ago

We have that in Sweden too.

2points

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!

2points

If I could I would live under water 3 years ago

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

35points

Honu 3 years ago

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danielw 3 years ago

5points

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?

0points

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)

23points

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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