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Blame Hollywood A-listers or ingenuine parents willing to go far to make their kids stand out from the crowd, but unique baby names are getting more and more popular. Usually they are driven by a focus on individuality, with naming conventions thrown out of the window.

The result is Alchemy, Tansy, Kobe or Roch. Or Charmayanne and Antwohnette. What about Sincere and Precise? Yes, these are all baby names, for better or sometimes… worse.

So today we take a look at a couple of Reddit threads (this and this) where people share the most annoying baby names they have heard. Some sound somewhat strange, while others, they claim, they cannot stand at all. Let us know what’s your least favorite baby name in the comments!

#1

30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I was told when naming my daughter to say the following sentences out loud:
1) Please stand for the President of the United States, [insert name].
2) Gentlemen, dancing tonight on the main pole here at The Bunny Club, [insert name].

If #2 flows better. .pick another name.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Any normal name that is misspelled to make it 'unique'

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#3

30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I met a girl and her name was C’mon. She got pissed when I didn’t pronounce Simone right.

BruceVFL , Lucia Macedo Report

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Before my nephew was born, my sister sent me a text asking if I liked the name "Rylar". I sent her a list of questions to ask herself, and if she answered yes to any of them then Rylar would be a fantastic name for her child. The questions were:

1) Is he destined to be a lion tamer and/or magician?
2) Will he not have a last name, like Seal or Prince?
3) Is he going to have an ominous title like "The Terrible" after his name?
4) Is he a character in an RPG?

She named him Lucas.

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Edurne
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually like the name rylar, it's very uncommon and doesn't sound offensive or ridiculous at all

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I saw a girl on the news named Kim Wimberly.

Kimberly Wimberly.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid My cousin has 5 children (all in State Custody) their names are: Akevion, Jazaraye, Dametreon, Chelcee, and Kerionnya

Elizreonna Kay is on the way.

PS: We're white.

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#7

30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid One of the girls in my daughter kindergarten class is named Quinsy. It’s a disease. There are two Dyxins with the same “unique” spelling and a Chacha, which is what I used to call my vagina growing up.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I worked at a summer camp and this family had 5 kids and 1 on the way but the 3 at my camp were named Integrity, Honesty and Rage. Ironically Rage was the sweet one. But we would always joke about what they would name the next kid. I liked the name Punctual.

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#9

30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid There was a girl in my class in Montreal named 'Asthma'. I s**t you not. I was 6 years old and that is my earliest memory of being baffled by humans.

Like, why not call your kid f*****g lymphoma? Hell, why not call your kid meningococcal meningitis?

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Ryvar (pronounced River). I'll never understand unique names that come at the expense of atrocious spelling.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I understand there are a lot of different ways to spell Kaitlin, but the spellings that are like Ckaetlyin or KVIIIlyn or some c**p.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They can't come up with an original name so they screw up the spelling to make it 'special'.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I was assisting a photographer during my son's picture day at his elementary school a couple years ago and there was a girl named Areola. All I could think was "why do the parents of this adorable little girl HATE HER??"

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I was volunteering at a middle school and a kid comes running up to me and says "My name is King" I thought ok but his middle name was Lucifer. I was speaking with King Lucifer.

Also my wife is a teacher and had students named Mi'Queen and Mi"king. What a time to be alive

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid There is no such thing as a baby name; the name you give your baby is also going to be their adult professional name. Some parents forget to name their child accordingly.

But to answer your question, I dislike most names that involve some kind of universal virtue. Joy and Hope are acceptable, but Love is pushing it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imparting names with significance regarding the character and traits you hope you child will grow into as they get older is a tradition in many cultures that goes back thousands of years. Truth, Wisdom, Temperance, Courage, Noble, Justice, Charity, Constance, Patience, Verity... This is not some stupid new passing fad.

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Christopher Creighton
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am American Indian and traditionally we do have a child name and, upon doing something adulty of note, we get an adult name.

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María Hermida
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a very good idea! You "earn" your adult name with your actions. I like it!

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Hadley
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love is a real name though. Its the Swedish form of Louis. Pronounced Loo-veh

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Jef Bateman
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe names can earn respect. I remember when people started to name their boys "Tyler," I would think, "That's a good name for a baby, but who is going to take an adult named 'Tyler' seriously?" Now it is a perfectly respectable name because those people grew up.

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Tim
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tyler is acceptable because it has always been a surname. President John Tyler is a real dude.

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Nimues Child
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Deliverance, but it was just after the 1692 Salem Witch Hysteria, so I give them a pass.

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Huddo's sister
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then again, there are some names l can only see as middle aged people, like my Nan's sister Bertha.

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LillyWu
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I met this guy at the laundromat at a building I was living and the other neighbors would address him as "mister" turns out his first name was Mister and I s**t you not; his last name was "Love" yes... Mister Love, no middle name ... I couldn't even...

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MalayDragon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hope is acceptable i agree but, consider the last name also... I know a girl who's name is Hope Rainbow...

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Bored Batgirl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worked with a set of siblings named Precious, Promise and Patience.

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Shay
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew a couple of girls names Chastity, in elementary school. One of them had a mullet. Also knew a Charity.

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Sonja
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, there is a name Ljuba or Lyubov (and other modifications) pretty common in eastern europe...meaning Love

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QJBean
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a daughter called Faith, when she was born people commented saying they didn't realise we were so religious. I didn't even cross my mind it would strongly associated with religion to be honest (although it sounds obvious now) we just thought it was a beautiful name and still do

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Lady Goldberry
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the name Faith...was seeing a guy from work a few years ago who had a daughter named Faith. I never got to meet her, but always wanted to. Something magical about the name, not sure why.

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Olga Pen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Interesting, in Slavic countries Love (Lyubov) is a relatively common and accepted name. So are Hope and Faith. Other virtues are much less common though.

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Lady Goldberry
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Carter parents were a quiet and respectable Lancre family who got into a bit of a mix-up when it came to naming their children. First, they had four daughters, who were christened Hope, Chastity, Prudence, and Charity, because naming girls after virtues is an ancient and unremarkable tradition. Then their first son was born and out of some misplaced idea about how this naming business was done he was called Anger Carter, followed later by Jealousy Carter, B********y Carter and Covetousness Carter. Life being what it is, Hope turned out to be a depressive, Chastity was enjoying life as a lady of negotiable affection in Ankh-Morpork, Prudence had thirteen children, and Charity expected to get a dollar’s change out of seventy-five pence–whereas the boys had grown into amiable, well-tempered men, and B********y Carter was, for example, very kind to animals. Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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Lady Goldberry
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh ffs...censoring gits! You can't censor Pratchett! 'The Truth Shall Make Ye Frep!'

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Reirei
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked with a Joy once. She was anything but joyful!

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Chris Little
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Speaking to a 3 year old. What's your name darling? Answer; Yes. Brother's name was Zoomy.

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Angel Ward
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My name is Angel and I cringe everytime someone asks “are you really an angel?”. No, f you.

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Catherine Graffham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have an ancestor called Love. To make it worse, his surname was Hart. To make it extra extra bad, he named his daughter Sweet…. I cringe every time I look at my family tree…

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Deb Johnston
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My ex MIL had a friend that named their daughter Tex Ann, and she actually thought I would seriously consider that name for my first born daughter.

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Janet Hyde
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Loveday is a Cornish name which was once quite common and is still in use today. It is my daughter’s middle name.

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setsuriseikou
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the name Temperance, learned it from Bones TV series. Though Tempie (Tempy?) sounded a little weird...

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manalonedies
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Ai" (love in Japanese) along with combination, such as "Aiko" are quite popular here.

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julie son
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have no problem with Love, but Chastity is weird! No way at some point that's not gonna become ironic.

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Courtney Christelle
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My sister's middle name is LuVe, it's a mix of Lucille and Vera, our grandmothers.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only reason you feel Joy and Hope are acceptable is because they are familiar. Logically, they are no more or less suitable than Integrity, Prudence or Charity.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jennifer Love Hewitt's real name is Love. I remember because she was on a Barbie workout video that I use to love as a kid. Lol!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve always like faith and grace but love is a little strange but i bet if it was a girl she could pull it off, it’s not as bad as some of these other names

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love (sometimes Lowe), is actually an old Swedish name that stretches as far as around 1000 and is not pronounced like the word love. I don't know how to explain the pronunciation though. As someone who doesn't know this name and just sees it as an English word, then yes, it's weird. For me it's not weird at all. On fact, a few thousand is called that in Sweden and I kind of like the name Love 😊

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what Latin is for, or other Romance languages. People use Letitia, or Clara (Claire), or Esperanza, or Sophia, instead of Joy, or Light, or Hope, or Wisdom.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Faith, Hope and Charity are the three theological virtues. Perhaps this is what inspired other names in this vein? Grace sounds nice. Verity, Temperance, Prudence etc. sounds very Puritan.

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Al Marzian
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew a lovely gal named Faith. She was from Providence RI

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Pamela Keown
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

because of the growth factor - always thought Cindys and Debbies had a bad deal - a grown adult woman should not have to carry that around -- but now Areola!!? I don't think we will have a President Areola.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Baby Names are the nicknames you give kids which only turn up at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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JP Purves
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States, Precious Smith.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My name is Charity (though it was ALMOST Faith). I hated it when I was a kid but as an adult I like it now and it perfectly fits my personality! Grandma and cousin named Hope. My sister’s middle name is actually two: Hope Joy. My parents had three boys in a row so when she finally came along they had hoped for a girl and had so much joy they finally had one😂

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When i was growing up we had neighbors with 5 daughters. The oldest two were twins named Prudence and Faith. Daughter #3 was Chastity. the last two were twins named Debbie and Dayle. I guess they got tired of the virtues, idk. Debbie and Dayle were my babysitters as they were about 10 years older than me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From what I've seen, Precious and Princess are usually anything but.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the 1950s I was a little boy in a small town in Illinois. Our cleaning lady's daughter was named Joy. I thought that was the most beautiful name I had ever heard. Okay, I hadn't heard many, but it stuck with me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I met a woman named Muffin; she told me that I could call her Muffy. Yeah, we can't be friends.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I know someone who is about to name their baby Londyn. Why would you name them a word everybody knows, but not spell it that way? She'll spend her whole life correcting people.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Product/brand names like Porsche, Chanel etc.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid The same first letter for all of the sisters and brothers. It's cute when it's two siblings, but if it's three it just seems like a gimmick.

Imagine being the youngest kid, knowing your parents didn't look at you and feel inspired to pick the best name, but were more like "gee, what starts with K that we haven't used up?"

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Guys, I was at Disneyland and would hear the most ridiculous children names. These were my favorite:

England and Scotland

Arrow and Quiver

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did England and Scotland hate each other? Have a history of always fighting each other?

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid My friend's sister has three children - one girl and two boys. They are called Maisie Moo, Ryder Rae and Brooklyn Blu.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Girl at the gas station was explaining her daughters name to the clerk. She named her daughter "Anesthesia". Spelled exactly like the doctory drug, but pronounced Anastasia like the movie..

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once read a document named for a woman named anaemia. At first I thought the mistake happened at our office. No! All IDs were in the name of Anaemia.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Nevaeh.

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#22

30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Chardonnay.

The parents named her for their favorite wine.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid A girl applied at my work the other day with the name Precious.... My inner Phoebe thought, "ok I can't call you that."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe Precious is quite a common name in the Philippines. I think it is a lovely name.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I s**t you not I know a co-worker that named her daughter Elizabreth. Its just.....sigh.....I don't know man, yes it is a name but ....but....but...but why? Just why?!!!!!!

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I know a couple who named their daughter Khaleesi Danyris (that's how they spell it), but only the wife watches GOT. Guy has no idea.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Basically anything ending in 'ayden'. Things like Zayden and Rayden.

And not sure if it's real, but Traylor sound hilarious.

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid I saw on Facebook one of the girls that went to my High School named her daughter Danyell. That's how she thought it was spelled apparently. I also live in a province where they don't fail kids anymore and you can get to grade 10 without being literate.

Edit: I guess the education system in Canada just sucks overall.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And people are wondering why Dan at the back is going Aaaahhhhhh!!

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Recently they made it legal in Poland to name your child whatever you want. So people are coming up with these appalling Polish-spelled versions of English names they know from the movies. The "Brajan" and "Dżesika" generation in coming. (That's Brian and Jessica. It's as if an American named their son "Stanni'suave", I guess.)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun Fact: In Poland, practically every female name ends with an "a"

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30 People Share What Baby Name Immediately Makes Them Think The Parents Are Stupid Baeby

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