“My Parents Don’t Like Me”: 35 People Share The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Names They’ve Heard
Parents should work hard at choosing a name for their child. It can impact the baby's life well into adulthood, too.
"There is a reason why baby name books are extremely popular," said David Figlio, who at the time was the Orrington Lunt Professor and Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.
"We're always trying to think about the first bit of a child's identity and so if we as a society pay a lot of attention to names it makes a lot of sense that people's names might influence how they think about themselves and the way in which people might think about them."
But things don't always go to plan. Researchers discovered that one in seven parents admit they made a "terrible mistake" with the name they chose for their child.
In an attempt to find out what they sound like, we discovered a thread on Reddit, started by a person who goes on the platform by the nickname PlsDontBanMe. They asked everyone "What name screams 'my parents don't like me?" and got over 4,000 answers.
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There was a girl in my high school named Chastity.
She didn't even know why it was ironic when she got pregnant at 16.
I was once neighbour to a regilious youthgroup in a hostel in Nicaragua. I remember Chastity, Prudence and Charity... they partied like there is no tomorrow and gossiped nonstop when the leaders of the group where not around
Like Catholic school kids or the preacher's or pastor's kids.
Load More Replies...Sonny & Cher's son's name was Chastity before he transitioned. Now his name is Chaz.
Around here.they keep naming kids Chasity. I think they're just too badly educated to spell chastity correctly.
I knew a girl who had that same name in high school. I also knew a girl who had the name Khaki, as in the color.
I knew a girl named Charity Cross her middle name was Carrie and her sister was Faith hope cross
Met a girl called Constance Paine. Really had to wonder what her parents were thinking.
When I worked at the DMV, an 18-year-old came in to have her name legally changed from Marijuana Cocaine. That poor child.
Where I live, the name must be approved by some kind of office to make sure it is a real name and not a bad word or something. Plus, we can't name people words. I mean come on, where does it end? "Synchronised swimming team training Jackson?"
A former ex tried to change her name (Sandra ******) to Cruella Deville (wondering why she's an ex?). The court wouldn't allow it so, she went with Arizona Deville... 8-(
Load More Replies...She has a brother named Perpetual Disappointment.
Load More Replies...I heard a story from Denmark where the parents wanter to call their daughter Gylle which in Denmark means manure (from pigs). They claimed it was a common name in the counrty they immigrated from, but imagine the poor girl living in Denmark. Luckily it was not allowed.
XæA-12
Their other kids are Exa dark sidrael and techno mechanicus. Surprisingly, the kids musk has with other women have pretty average names
That is straight up child abuse. I wouldn't be surprised if at 18 at 2 file to change their names. Those could have been cool nicknames, but nope....
Yes, I already see myself cackling over the news that on his 18th birthday a rebellious XaeA-Xii walks into his local court house at 8a.m. sharp and demand his name changed to one like Michael/John/Ron.... Just to treat himself and Out. Of. Spite. and it will be driving his parents mad....
Load More Replies...It's pronounced "You there! Yes, you with the strange name!"
Load More Replies...With the X as the first letter I always assumed it was pronounced "Shay" or something? But no, it's "ash". How do you get "Ash" from THAT?
Silly me, I would have spelled "Ash" A-s-h.
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Phelonie - that poor child.
Careful there. If you name the next one Alopecia, Will Smith gonna slap you upside the head.
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I know several.
Used to work in a jail and we had a regular inmate whose first and middle names, legally, were Baby Boy. Spring Green (first name, last name) also came in frequently.
My mom worked with a doctor…Doctor First…Doctor Safety First. But don’t worry, his parents didn’t just hate him - his sister was named Ladies.
a) how is that legal and b) why didn't they change that as soon as they were able?
Because sometimes people don't hate their names as much as you assume 🤷♀️ Just because you don't like it doesn't mean they won't. Don't get me wrong, I think some of these names are just silly, but my parents named me Xanthippe so who am I to judge. I also don't hate my name.
Load More Replies...Baby Boy and Baby Girl are the default names given to babies when parents fail or refuse to name them, I remember reading somewhere
Yeah, that's what they'll put on the hospital file if a child isn't named when it's born. I saw one once where nobody had ever changed the middle name so the kid ws down as Pheobe Girl [Jones]. Not Phoebe. Pheobe.
Load More Replies...Knew someone named Female (pronounced fee-mali). Her mom thought the hospital named her kid.
Spring is an alright man with their last name being green
I’ve said it here on BP for these name posts before, but I legitimately 100% know a Benjamin Dover. That he, too, is also a cis gay male has made for hilarity at his expense or utter incredulity that is his name.
A cousin of mine dated a guy named Cielo Stellato (italian here). Cielo means Sky and Stellato means Starry (Starry Sky because of different grammars)
I had a neighbor with a little girl named Commodity. i dont think she disliked her kid, she was just really dumb.
Heard a story about a woman who was pregnant during the time of JFK's assassination and funeral. She watched (or listened to, not sure which) the funeral, which, being a Catholic service, was held in a cathedral. Apparently the phrase "cathedral rotunda" caught her ear, and she ended up naming her daughter that.
Abcde-supposedly pronounced Absidy. Some might remember that this made the news a few years back.
The airline staff who thought it was an error on the ticket and the mother got offended that somone could make fun of her child’s ”name”
Abcde is going up in popularity, there are quite a few kids with that name.
I taught a little girl with this name in the early 2000's. I can only imagine how irritated she was when her name made the news with another kid!
I had a child in one of my classrooms with this name. I felt so bad for her. She had to constantly tell people how to pronounce it.
I once met a little girl named Tilapia. I swear I’m not making this up.
What were Paltrow and Martin thinking when they named their daughter Apple? Were they both high the night she was born?
i knew three guys from school and their parents were a******s. parents had klan stuff up in their living room on display and everything. they gave all of their kids names that started with A, and middle names that started with S, so their full initials would be A.S.S. they thought it would be hilarious, and proudly commented on this often. needless to say i felt bad for those kids. who gives all three of their kids those initials, let alone one of them?
if you have klan stuff up in your living room you should have the child protective services called on you, too. Racist bigots who support that kinda thing should not be allowed to raise children to be the same as them.
Load More Replies...I see two parents residing at Paradise Hills Nursing Home for that stunt because I see payback in their futures.
Well I mean my initals were accidentally ASL (don’t pronounce it like a word, sounds like a**hole)
Harry Potter named his son Albus Severus Potter, giving him the initials, ASP. Not sure JK thought that one through
I went for naming son after the father by way of initials A.R.S. Esquire Jerk wasn’t there for anyone but himself
Thurman Murman
Oh, so if I kill him, I can expect to find a simple dagger and 3 copper?
Load More Replies...That's from the movie "Bad Santa". Not actually a name someone in the real world is lumbered with (we hope)
It's definitely possible. Thurman Munson was a popular baseball baseball player
Load More Replies...It should be illegal to give kids stupid, odd, and what will be a life of name calling.
If their first name is the same as their last name.
William Williams, Michael Michaels, Daniel Daniels, Glen Glenn, John Johnson, etc.
My mom babysat kids when they were younger and their uncle was named Harvey Harvey Harvey.
There's a sci-fi author named Thomas T. Thomas. His middle name isn't Thomas; it's Thurston, which is arguably worse. (Apologies to any Thurstons out there.)
Thurston isn't a bad name. I would choose Caractacus if I changed my name. I love it <3
Load More Replies...There's a well known Australian craniofacial surgeon called Dr David David.
My brother was friends with a kid named Harold Harold Harold. No lie.
Velveeta
It's pasteurized prepared cheese producty, actually.
Load More Replies...That was the name of one of the Fox News anchors in the hilarious film,"Idiocracy".
Were the sibling's names Colby, Swiss, and Cheddar? Those old enough to remember the classic Velveeta commercials will understand
Please try a Ritz with Velveeta, it's not so Gouda... it tastes much sweeta!!
Anything ending in -aiden, using an "X" in place of "cks" (Jaxon vs Jackson), intentional misspelling of names, forcing the kid into a life of correcting the pronunciation of a name that is easy to pronounce when spelled normally, and really just anything stupid that they named a kid because it's "unique".
I interviewed a young lady with Mle written as the first name. I was thinking Mm-leh Nope. It's pronounced M L. E (Emily).
There's an older chat platform called IRC. Back in the day, there was a nine-character limit on the nickname you chose (they've since raised it to 12). When it was still only nine characters, a friend of mine lamented that he couldn't have the nickname PublicEnemy. I said, "Sure you can--PublicNME." He immediately changed his nickname, and kept using the new one for years. :-)
Load More Replies...I don't see the problem, you can just introduce yourself as "Jackson with an X", easy enough. And it looks cool, without being a very weird name. Everyone keeping the same old boring names, is boring as hell. If everyone did that, we'd still have the same boring names 20 centuries later, how dull is that.
Um. Yes we DO have some names from that far back, and they're lovely names. It might be a fun game to the parents, but they don't think about their child growing up, and having to spell out their name EVERY-SINGLE-TIME.
Load More Replies...My name is a popular 80s girls name typically ending in -ey, where mine ends in -ee. Not a huge tragedeigh, but annoying that it's always, ALWAYS spelled incorrectly. Even worse? My married last name is commonly spelled ending in -y, and we spell ours -ie. Gotta spell both names now 🫠
Yes---Ann is a good name but my friend's parents spelled her name :Ahhn". Just why?
My mom named me Melissa. Not only that name but left handed. I first day of school, teacher asks me what I was called I said Melissa. Teacher Tells my mom. Melisa is going to be right handed. My mom said “No she is not”. Big argument. I am still a lefty. I am 85. The name Melissa is now getting popular. I was about 47 when I met a little girl named Melisa.
I hate this so much. When I lived in a white conservative area near a military base, all the boys in my kids class had "en" names, the girls were all Reagan, Isabelle, or Nevaeh. 20 kids with the same names
C8lyn for Catelyn and Na-a instead of Natasha are ones I remember hearing of.
Deron (pronounced Darrin) Williams of the NBA. I detest people that spell a name wrong and then insist it is something else. I know how to pronounce words. Your dumb butt decided to ignore the rule of the language and sentenced your kid to a lifetime of correcting people all so you can be unique. Signed marque (pronounced Roger). See how dumb it is.
Elon Musk’s kids’ names are a joke.
Are they actually names. They remind me of a shop I sometimes frequent where it says 365 on the sign above the door.
I heard that they had to change a couple of names do people could actually pronounce it lol 😆
I am the third of four boys My mother really wanted a girl and when she was pregnant with me she pinned all her hopes on me being a girl. This is before sonograms were common. When I came out a boy she named me Curt. Not Curtis or Kurt, Curt. Which means rude.
You have to stretch at this one being a bad name. I've known a number of Curt's over the years and none of them have ever had an issue with the name.
It the REASON behind why he was named that and not the name itself why its bad. Smh.
Load More Replies...Well, yes, but also Curt is an alternate spelling of the name Kurt which began as a short form of Conrad.
When I was in high school I dated a guy named Joe Ed. Not Joseph Edward
Gunner. Not Gunnar like the Scandinavian name, or Günther like the Germanic version, but Gunner like the English word for a person who is shooting at someone.
I knew a Hunter with a little brother named Gunner and a baby sister named Bow. I am dead f*cking serious.
In the British Royal Artillery, "Gunner" was (is?) the equivalent of "Private" in the infantry (Bombardier = Corporal). In the old bombers with multiple crew members, the ones that manned the guns also had titles which included "Gunner", along with where the position was (Ball Turret Gunner, etc).
My sons name is Gunnar. I spelled it that way after the Gunnar the infamous Viking. Unfortunately, some people (including his great grandmother) call him GOO-NAR. Lol
Well, that is the “proper” pronunciation, no? Like the name!
Load More Replies...Little known sub clause of the 2nd Amendment: the right to saddle children with stupid names.
Reminds me of the Australian nickname Gunna, because he's gunna do this and he's gunna do that but he never gets around to doing anything.
I’m pretty sure the grade above my grade at my school has 2 Gunners because the board once said “Gunner C” and next to it “Riley” so that means they have to differentiate.
Nevaeh
It's a really sweet name I think I just don't like the fact that it's literally.heaven backwards.
What's wrong with name Heaven? Why does spelling it backwards make it a better first name? Heaven as a first name is quite pretty, although Valhalla would be even better.
That's just as bad as a kid I met named Alucard (Dracula spelled backwards)
First time I heard it I thought it was Nivea. Who names their kid after lotion?
I actually met a woman named Nivea once. I had the same thought.
Load More Replies...Newt Gingrich. Imagine having a baby, looking down into its precious face, and saying deadpan to the nurse, “Newt Gingrich. Put that on the birth certificate.”
Well, the original is using Newt but is named Newton. And using surnames for a second name is a perfectly normal tradition. That being said, the main problem here is not the name itself but being named after this sorry excuse of a human being.
Admit it, it's not the name you dislike (because his name is actually NEWTON), it's the man himself.
Going with Chinese dialect of Hokkien here..
Someone named their child "Siew Kia" which isn't a bad name or anything in the language/dialect.. but the family name was Yao (and in Chinese names, the family name comes first)
This made the poor sod "Yao Siew Kia" which meant "baby beast" (or small animal not in a good way and is used as a derogatory term and swear word in Hokkien)
Poor guy
I concur, because Hokkien is my mother tongue and the literal translation for Yao Siew Kia means "Demon child" aka naughty, nasty kid.
Thank you for explaining why that's a bad name for those of us that don't speak the language
Load More Replies...I may be wrong, but I was once told that "ben" means "idiot" or "fool" in (I think) Mandarin? and when you put it together as "bendan" it can mean "stupid spawn" or something? Because I knew a guy who was Chinese, I do not remember his chinese name, but his english name was Benjamin Daniel. It was him who told me about the translation of ben/bendan so I do wonder if his parents did that on purpose, or if he was messing with me. xD
笨蛋 - bèndàn, lit. stupid egg - is indeed an insult. Whether they were named Benjamin for that reason I don't know.
Load More Replies...You have to also think, as a parent, which culture you are living in when you name your child, I think. Had a boy named Aswad, (I forget the spelling, exactly). Other kids were merciless! (This was in the USA, they were American.) Sweetest person I ever met, though!
“First Name” Junior never felt right with me. Feels narcissistic to name your child the same as yourself. It’s like he’s never gonna carve his own identity he’s always gonna be known as an extension-sequel of you
I am the fifth generation with the same name. It caused confusion with creditors and such for years. But I wouldn't have it any other way. It was really funny when the Army tried to digitize all the BUPERS files while I was in. Suddenly I had stuff on my service record from the battle of Gettysburg.
My cousin is a “The third”. I think he HAS to keep up the streak. His name allows for many nicknames, though, so that’s good. My culture doesn’t do naming after the living (it’s taboo, some consider it akin to wishing the person death), so it’s strange to me, but also can be cool.
Load More Replies...We've got a name that's been used for 5 generations of our family. Both my uncle and brother use it as a middle name but my great grandad is both junior and senior because his son and father use the same name
I get that - and I find it may be great to have a tradition like that - yet as a middle name. I knew a Leo sr and a Leo jr. While Leo jr. did not hate his name and had his own personality and so ... in the end, he would rather have had a different name.
Load More Replies...Im the 9th in a direct line. My mom, her mother, her mother etc, we all have the first name. Its special, unique and it makes me feel connected with the women in my family when their names are so rarely passed down. Yes, there has been some pressure of "You have to have a daughter to pass the name down" which is kinda refreshing from the traditional "you have to have a son" convos you normally see but not enough for me to freak out. I see nothing naracissistic about the naming convention, we are all our own people.
I agree! I am a sixth generation Josephine. I have a portrait of the first Josephine in our line, in the 1800s, a photo on porcelain.
Load More Replies...And worse, *only* Junior as a first name. Gives the impression as if the bearer is still a child. Imagine being an old man with a load of grandkids - and still be called 'Junior'! Brrrrr
Years ago, I needed PT/OT for a broken elbow. The guy who was helping me introduced himself to me as David, but his business cards, and the hospital website, listed him as Firstname D. Lastname. Turned out that all the males in his family shared the identical first name and last name, only their middle names were different, so that's how they preferred to be addressed, to avoid confusion.
I live in an area where there is a cultural tendency to name a child after his dad and then the kid grows up known as "Junior." Not by his first name, just Junior. My granddaughter just became Mrs Junior and I had to ask what his real name was!
My grandparents gave my Dad the same name as his Dad and then realised it was a dumb idea, so before he was a few months old they started calling him something else, he only found out his real name when he was a teenager and was applying for his first passport. It did make it handy to cut off salespeople who called, "Hi, can I speak to [first name]" when he NEVER used that name.
I have three older bothers, I'm a girl. My dad didn't want any of the boys named after him because he didn't want a Junior. When I was born my mom convinced him to name me after him. I have the feminine version of my father's name.
I new a lovely girl who was named Anna-Maria XXXXX Junior by her horribly abusive narcissistic mother. Happy ending though she got excepted into her dream university 6 hours away and changed her name to Daisy XXXXX after her hero of a grandmother.
Renesmee. Coworker’s granddaughter was named that.
I genuinely saw this in a facebook local selling group. someone was selling something, like a childs bed or similar, and someone tagged their friend saying it would be good for Renesmees room. I mean, come on, surely we all laughed at the terrible name when we read it. SURELY people didn't think, oh, that;s a name I'll call a future child.
I’m reading twilight and I accidentally saw the spoiler. Stupid child name. Renee or esme and you name it Reneesme.
Mune
She was definitely the a*****e. Put it on a blanket and everything.
Load More Replies...What kid of stupid, pathetic, narcissistic moron would do something as stupid as . . . . Oh wait. I just remembered who.
Frank Zappa named his daughter "Moon Unit". She goes by the nickname "Moon".
I just got the joke from Dr. Evil omg "Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zalpa"
Load More Replies...It’s actually a really good movie, maybe the parent liked it? I do understand it has different interpretations in other languages
go back to yesterday on BP, there's a copied reddit post from AITA about it
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Any name that's written using their syllabic pronunciation. I know of a kid whose name is Kahydiynn. Like what the f**k?
My step-nephew Maesyn (Mason). Great kid. Mom's a f*cking moron.
Wait how am I supposed to pronounce that I actually can't figure it out? EDIT: Caiden
Used to know a kid in school named Richard Ryder (Rider?) Not sure how the last name was spelled
I need to stop applying dirty humor to myself, I solved this comment in under half a second.
Load More Replies...Sorry, not familiar with the ...oh... part. Why ...Oh... ?
Load More Replies...My parents know a guy named Mike Hawk. I don't think they have any clue that it's an unfortunate combination of first and last name and I'm certainly not going to explain it to them
Brand names
I knew a guy in college who was almost named Avis like the car company because his brother was allowed to pick the name. Thankfully, his parents chose Chris instead.
Avis would have been a cool name, forget the brand, there's nothing wrong with naming someone that?
Load More Replies...I feel like it really depends. Mercedes is the name of a car brand, but it was also a not-so-unusual girl's name in several countries first (IIRC it means Mercy).
Mercedes got a name after Karl Benz's partner's daughter. So I don't really count that as a brand name. It's still often in Spanish-speaking countries. Ikea on the other hand...
Load More Replies...Knew an inner city missionary who worked with boys named lemahnjelo and orahnjelo. Thought it was maybe tribal until he saw them spelled out: Lemonjello and Orangejello!
2 kinda famous Dutch men. One (racer) gave his twins Alfa and Romeo as second names. Other guy wasn't allowed to name his son Rolls Royce. So he named that kid Rolls and his next son was Royce 🙄
Three year old son of a friend was asked what he would like to name his soon-to-be-born sister. 'Dirty football'. Disappointingly, the parents went with Jemima.
I used to work for Hertz, one of our UK branches had a member of staff called Avis, she was given written confirmation that she could ignore company policy of using your name when answering the phone.
A boy named Sue.
Ooof Goth Demon, go digging around online for Johnny Cash, you might get the reference. 'And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him... Bill or George! Any-damn-thing but Sue! I still hate that name!'
"Well, he must've thought that it was quite a joke, and I got a lot of laughs from a lots of folk. Seems I had to fight my whole life through. Some gal would giggle and I'd turn red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell you, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue."
Oh wow, I didn't know that (or I forgot, I feel like my Dad would've told me many years ago). That makes the song even better now!
Load More Replies...Whatevs man any name can be gender neutral. Gender names are societal constructs. Vivian and Vivienne are female spellings of the name. In French it is Vivien as a male name. And my daughter is Vivien. Because I emphasize the EN not AN or her last name would rhyme with her first. And no. Rhyming names are way worse.
Put that fire in your belly and that spirit in your eye…
Load More Replies...I delivered a baby girl whose mom was Dawn Browning (nickname Big Red). My nurse, Dreama Dawn, thought the baby's name America Dawn was odd , however, we found out that was her grandmother's name too. Another girl was named Summer Poole Alger. The thought of something green and slimy comes to mind. Another was named after the song "Delta Dawn". Rural Virginia was also full of boys named Billy Joe and Billy Jack.
Satan, Beelzebub, Judas
I appreciate that you are not allowed to use names like this in germany. Poor children.
In NZ they’re pretty strict about names so they’d be rejected here too.
Load More Replies...Why not Judas? He's the hero in the bible. According to the myth, Jesus was sent to earth to die for our sins. Judas is the only disciple that helped make that happen. Judas is the good guy.
Has a friend as a child that was named Damien- immediately before all the Omen movies came out.
So? Damien is a common name. Just like Jason and Michael.
Load More Replies...Were they cats? I'm gonna name some cats after the seven princes of hell at some point
When the firstname/lastname combination does not work for a name. Prime example-- North West (Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's daughter). She's either named after a direction on a map or a defunct airline (as if Kimye would fly commercial).
Rob Morrow named his kid ”Tu” do the name is Tu Morrow. Tomorrow. Why not just go to the school and pay the bullies.
And his wife's last name is Ayer, which happens to mean "Yesterday" in Spanish. So her name is "To-yesterday-morrow."
Load More Replies...She could become a celebrity and bring out a designer perfume called "North". Then it can be advertised as "North by North West"
The only cool one would've been if Jessica Biel named her kid Batmo
Jessica is quoted saying, "If I had a dollar from everyone who suggested Batmo, my kid could pay for the therapy he'd need for being named Batmo."
Load More Replies...Treasure Hunt sounds like a bond girl from the 70s
Load More Replies...Mr. Tickle wanted to marry the girl of his dreams. However, Tess was reluctant to take on his surname.
Or when the first/last name combo work _too_ well: I knew a guy years ago whose name was Randy Raper. His parents must have hated him.
Mine. My first name has an "r" in it. Both of my patents needed speech therapy to say that letter. I COULDN'T SAY MY OWN F*****G NAME UNTIL F*****G HIGH SCHOOL!!! There's a reason I use my middle name. I genuinely think it was spite because I was an oopsie baby. Bullied relentlessly for years, including by my first ex and a famous comedian's nephew.
Afaik English is the only language with a hard r sound, instead of it being soft or rolled. My guess is they are either from a non English speaking country with an English name, or vice versa
Load More Replies...I had a teacher who had a speech impedament for the letter R and her name was Maria so she just went by Mia.
Fun fact the name for the speech impediment is Rhotacism
Load More Replies...lmao I had trouble enunciating constanants when I was younger so I was in speech therapy for five years and my name still has the two letters that are hardest to pronounce. I try to pronounce it slower and clearer and just f**k it up more
Give yourself a nickname! Hell, naming yourself sounds awesome.
Load More Replies...Just learned that a telegram pal of mine's real name is Lorenzo Carrara and he has a speech impediment (rhotacism) with the letter R
I think she's saying that she pronounced her name the way her parents did, so she was unknowingly saying it wrong until she reached high school and someone said, "isn't your name X" and she realized.
Load More Replies...I always recommend giving them a nice normal name as their middle name so instead being "Yardstick James Smith) they could be "Y. James Smith."
Any name that is an alternative spelling or fake-Gaelic name. Like “Jaxon” or “Graclyn.”
As long as it is not Jhackxsonn or Ghraeclynn , I don't have a big problem with that. Names and spelling evolve naturally. Image we would still spell our names like they did 500 or even 200 years ago...
In my school, there's 2 kids named Ayva and Jrake. Like wtf? I wanna make fun of those kids just for that. I don't tho because that's mean.
Load More Replies...the amount of times I've heard people say "I wanna name my kid *insert Irish/Gaelic name here*, its so unique/its my heritage because my great great great great great great great great aunts cat caught an irish mouse once" and THEY FECKING MISPRONOUNCE IT.. if you're going to use an Irish name because you feel a connection with it even if you aren't really all that Irish, fair enough,, Irish names are beautiful, but for the love of the gods, please learn how to pronounce it.
Like said elsewhere, names do change over time. Same for pronunciation, due to time, distance and language. That is why we don't say Moshe, but Moses. Or Jacov, but Jacob.... and many more old Hebrew, Greek, Roman and other names are changed to a more western or modern equivalent....
Load More Replies...That already happened, I read somewhere ... well at least with the 8 part...
Load More Replies...Last name was Hunt, and they still named him Michael. The poor kid.
This sounds more like a Simpson's joke than something that really happened.
I had a student named Michael Hunt, so it's for real.
Load More Replies...shorted its mike hunt… say it out loud you get… my c*nt
Load More Replies...Maybe from the old movie "Porkies". phone call at the popular diner, waitress answers and calls out several times. "anyone seen Mike Hunt"?
My aunt swears that at the hospital a woman named her child A*****e pronounced A-sho-lee
It's not unusual for a parent to name their child after themselves.
That's like the people who name their kids shithead but try to say it's pronounced "Shi thead." I'm pretty ambivalent about the "odd" name thing, but I can definitely say I don't like this one.
Worst one I ever heard was a nurse talking a new (Spanish-only speaking) mother out of naming her baby "Placenta". The woman had heard the word and thought it sounded like a beautiful name.
I've heard this so many times over my forty years on this planet. This one, and "Female," pronounced Fuh-MAL-ee. I'm quite sure neither of those ever happened.
Any name intentionally given by parents that's a character from entertainment. Your kid is not a pet, car, boat, or bong.
Very much depends on the name. That AITA a couple weeks ago about someone whose sister/SIL wanted to name their kid Luffy? Definitely not. People who named their kid Harry, Ron or Hermione after the Harry Potter books/movies? Not nearly as bad.
I think this depends on whether it's a "real" name or not. Or to put it another way, if the name would sound reasonable to someone with no knowledge of the fandom go ahead and use it. You can name your kid Luke but not C3PO; James but not Spock., Sam but not Frodo.
If it's a real name, go for it, nothing wrong with that. What does anyone know that your kid is called William because you like Star Trek.
Exactly, that is just cute. But naming your kid Spock is just weird. Leonard however is a cute name.
Load More Replies...Ha. My daughter was named after a character from my favorite book and everyone loves her name.
Same here, but it’s a real name. I would not have picked it if it was ”Adorabella” or ”Wingspan” or some dumb sh*t
Load More Replies...My dad tricked my mom into naming me after the dwarf king from lotr, jokes on him though I’m taller then him and only 14
My "dad" was clearly an a-hole when it came to this. He gave me a double whammy name from pop-culture. Highlander and The Terminator (my middle name is John, btw).
Friend of mine and his older brother were named after their dad's favourite poets. Older brother: Dylan, after Bob Dylan. Fine and dandy. Younger brother: Shelley, after Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ouch.
Load More Replies...A first name that rhymes with your last name.
I'll have you know I have a very great friend in Rome named Biggus Dickus.
He has a wife, you know. You know what she's called?
Load More Replies...My math teacher last year is kaylee dahley (like daily)
I doubt if that's so bad. Depends on the name, but could as well be nice
My ex father in law has a rhyming name- when I was first told I thought it was a joke
From the time I was a kid up until his death my grandpa always SWORE up and down that he used to know a man named Harry A. Hole. I still never figured out if he was f*****g with us or not.
There's a local Gynecologist named Harold Beavers. I'm not kidding either!
'Hole' is a common Norwegian surname. I have a neighbor called 'W. Anker'.
My mom would tell me about this girl she went to school with in Texas. The girl's parents must have really hated her. With a last name of "Horr" they named her "Ima. "Ima Horr"...a few years ago, I found my mom's old year book from 1963. Remembering the story of Ima, I decided to see if Ima was in the year book and OMFG! There she was, Ima Horr. Ima could have been Anne Frank's twin sister. That poor girl. Ssmh
There used to be a cowboy boot store on The King's Road in Chelsea, London called R. Soles
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubbs, and he almost deserved it.”
As someone once said, those were bold words coming from a man named Clive Staples.
There's a well known Broadway actor named Norbert Leo Butz. Not sure what his parents were thinking. He's fantastic though!
Master Scrubbs first appeared in C.S. Lewis's Voyage of the Dawn Treader. He got better.
Yes, he got better. Much, much, much, better.
Load More Replies...Barry McCockiner
Phil Lasheo and Connie Lingus. We thought those were hilarious back when I was in college.
Pubert
From the movie "Addams Family Values". The new baby's name.
Load More Replies...Nixon for a girl. I have taught two, and yikes...
I know a Seven. That isn't his nickname, that's his legal name. I also know a (cis) man named Claire whose parents named him that.
Clair (without the French feminine ending) used to be primarily a male name. Don't forget John Wayne's real first name was Marion.
When my daughter was born in Spain (my wife and I are Welsh), you have to name your child, there and then, my daughter has a Spanish first name, and a Welsh middle name (Seren = means Star), when my wife told the nurse the name she thought my wife had said Seven, but my wife was lucid enough to correct the nurse, so her name is Seren. Since then I have called my daughter Seven as a nickname, I mix it up, by calling her Seven, in English, Welsh and Spanish., she loves it as a nickname.
I used to know someone named seren. I love the name.
Load More Replies...I read on the knees about a family with I think 8 sons who dance and they named their 6th son 'six' because they couldn't think of any other name
Thats around the same time Stranger Things came out. I really hope they didn't name her after that.
Load More Replies...I used to know a gal who has 4 daughters; Ashley, Brittany, Seven and Nine. Like, really?
Kim for a male's name. Tripped me out when I was younger (14 or so) when our new neighbor's moved in and the guy's name was Kim. However, my wife has a niece named Michael soooooo.....
It's pronounced Oz wee pay.
Boomquifa
That one is messed up, you can’t even make a nickname that sounds better. They actually just sound worse.
I'm a lemons into lemonade kinda gal, so I'd have people calling me quiqui fo' sho'! 😆
Load More Replies...Any of that Home Depot brand s**t: Kingsley, Kingston, Brixton, Brickley, Broccoli.
Kingsley Amis the author was born long before Home Depot was created.
I have no problem with the first three names, but I have never heard of anyone naming their child Broccoli.
Broccolee was an, ahem, exotic dancer, in Thud by Terry Pratchett who changed her name from Candi because broccoli's better for you.
Load More Replies...Candy, Desire...etc.
Candy is common here, Desiree as well.... I get what you mean though...
I've encountered a kid called Hades Azazel
Gaylord
I've long wondered about that one. Wikipedia says that: Gaylord is a name of Norman French origin, from the Old French gaillard meaning "joyful" or "high-spirited". It might have still worked out well in the 19th century.
...and most of the 20th century actually. 'Gay' was only adopted, as a non-derogatory alternative to 'queer' from the 1980s. Odd how the usage of these has now turned almost full circle.
Load More Replies...I had an uncle Gaylord who used to sign his letters "Gay." Different times....
It's a very 'old fashioned' name, but 'gay' only became synonymous for something else around the 70's, and didn't really come in to common usage till the 80's.
Google: Gaylord box OR What is a Gaylord box? OR Where does the term "Gaylord Box" originate?
I used to work with someone named Kyler. I was waiting for another coworker when he walked passed with a friend, friend goes “dude I have to ask, why didn’t your parents choose Kyle or Tyler?” Couldn’t help but chuckle
Perhaps this was a compromise between the two. Kyler was still an ok name and far from the other terrible things on this list.
I have a child in my chess class whose name is Kyler (she's a Black child with a 'regular' indigenous first name but goes by Kyler. WHYYYY).
My cousin is named Kyler. He is so sweet and for a 6y/o he is strong af.
Giselle - I know someone with this name. Her parents call her Gis/Jizz.
All things considered, Giselle is actually a sweet name. Gisele Bundchen and my personal favourite, Gisele Shaw.
Giselle's a perfectly respectable name. Just because you can turn it into something rude sounding in English is more of a comment on the English language and the minds of some of its users. Why not shorten Giselle to "Gis"? Nothing wrong with that. There are so many rude words and rude-sounding words out there. You could do worse than to explore the works of the noted folk singer Rambling Syd Rumpo who absolutely wasn't a comic creation played on the radio by Kenneth Williams. https://www.johnbarber.com/rambling-sid-rumpo/
Not a native speaker- what is wrong with this one? It's a pretty common name here
the name itself is fine. shortening it to a slang term for semen, not so great.
Load More Replies...nothing wrong with the actual name, but calling her Jizz is ....grim.
Little Jerry
Just because Big Jerry is a has-been, don't make Little Jerry a never-was.
Can’t believe some people are living breathing human beings with the name D**k
My dad’s name is Richard, and he goes by Dïck. It was very common in the 40s and 50s.
I once knew someone whose first two names were "Richard Edward". He used to laugh any time he got called a "D*ck 'ead" - yep, that's my name, he'd say.
Well, I can't believe there is a sporting goods chain with the same name in huge letters...with BALLS in the logo.
Omg. I literally walked in front of one right now.
Load More Replies...It was a nickname for Richard. Part of the English rhyming--Richard-Rick-D**k.
Edit : We also don't Shorten Richard to D**k ? How is that a thing ? Richard may be shortened to Rich ( pronounced like Reach - without a t sound) or maybe Ritchie. But D**k makes no sense. D**k is a name in it own here. Without the association to a certain body part
Load More Replies...my husband is a Richie, but his sisters often call him Dikdik. like the tiny antelope species.
Richard, or a name that makes a joke with their last name like Harry D***s (I met one)
I've heard that on the first day of training for anyone in the UK worked on radio/TV call-in programmes, you are specifically told never to put anyone through if they give their name as "Mike Hunt" and a short list of other names. On the subject of Mike Hunt: http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/radioactive.htm
Radio Active is the source of the myth that Paul McCartney once said "Ringo isn't even the best drummer in The Beatles". As Mike Fenton-Stevens later said, McCartney wouldn't actually say that. Lennon might have said it, but not McCartney.
Load More Replies...My very dear friend's first name is middle eastern "Real" (pronounced re-ahl). His middle name is Richard. So he is the "Real D!ck"
I worked with someone father was named Richard Head and he went D**k as short for Richard and thought it was hilarious. Most everyone else was just embarrassed by the guy.
We had a Chief Constable surnamed Brain. He named his son Richard. And called him Dïck. He was a bastard though
Load More Replies...I went to school with a Richard who was known as D!ck - and he was one.
Ophelia. She died heartbroken and an orphan. I think it’s too intentional to pick this name of all the many names of Shakespeare’s leading ladies. (but Ophelia is very pretty name, still.)
The name existed before Shakespeare and the parents might not have ever read the play so why would they conect the name to the story. Like saying that if you name your child Rachel she will be unable to have children.
So true. My name is sometimes associated with the wife of Socrates who was said to be a "shrew," but in other societies it means "Golden" or "Yellow," which is why my parents chose the name. They wanted something similar to my brother's name and had a few things picked out. When I popped out, I was blonde, so they went with it.
Load More Replies...If we stopped using the names of fictional characters who did not fare well, we would have to start going by our driver's license numbers.
So did a lot of other people, fictional or not. Had an unfortunate fate or did really stupid things... whether in literature or in real life.( Eva/ Eve / Salome / Delilah / Juliet, etc...) A beautiful name is a beautiful name. I would only not choose it when it has a bad meaning or if it is too fantasy-like.
I dunno about it being pretty. It always sounds like "Oh, feel ya!" to my ear.
Maybe from the original Addams Family in '60s, Morticia's older sister.
KAREN
I have a number of friends named Karen and this has been a source of pain and embarrassment for them. BP has a habit of using this trope too often. I wish people would come up with something new.
Same thing happened to Kevin. A former colleague of mine only went by Vin and we never asked what it stood for, since we assumed it was Vincent? ... It was Kevin.
Load More Replies...Now this is a thing, but just 5 years ago it wasn't really, remember that.
Yeah, the negative stereotype associated with the name is a recent thing. Karen was decreasing in popularity for newborns, but it wouldn't have raised any notice until recently.
Load More Replies...The name of my EX wife but at the time she was the most beautiful woman I ever knew. Now it's a euphamisim for a b***h!
Bartholemew
The worst part is, he can never find a vanity license plate with his name at the theme park gift shop.
When I think of all the time I spent choosing names for my kids: names that were not too popular but not extremely rare (because often rare names are rare for a reason, namely they are ugly), easy to spell, sounding good with their last name, not make stupid/offensive initials, and some parents are just: Eff that.
Right. The endless ”can my get get bullies for this name” seem to just be a challange to some parents
Load More Replies...I go to school with a girl named Treasure. That's a fine name. But the girls last name. Is hunt. Her name is Treasure Hunt. And she always gets called to the office.
Birth announcement in local paper was Holly Caust, I actually posted on fb at the time I was so flabbergasted!
I present Nick Cannons kids: Golden Sagon, Rise Messiah, Powerful Queen, Moroccan, Monroe, Zion Mixolydian, Zillion Heir, Beautiful Zeppelin, Legendary Love, Onyx Ice, Zen, Halo Marie.
Other mad celebrity kids names include: Apple and Genesis - Gwyneth Paltrow; Malibu Barbie - Trisha Paytas; Audio Science - Shannyn Sossaman; Kulture Kiari and Wave Set - Cardi B; Strummer Newcombe - Julia Styles; Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander - Maximilian Cooper; Blue Ivy, Sir and Rumi - Beyonce; Pilot Inspektor - Jason Lee; Denim and Diezel - Toni Braxton; Marmaduke and Huckleberry - Bear Grylls; North, Saint, Chicago, Psalm, Stormi, Aire, True, Tatum, Mason Dash, Penelope Scotland, Reign Aston, and Dream - various Kardashians ( I'll admit that a few are actually alright names); Row Renggli and Grey Oliver - Morgan Stewart; Lyra Antarctica - Ed Sheeran; Shanda Lear - Bill Lear; Rocket, Rebel, Rogue and Racer - Robert Rodriguez; Raddix Chloe Wildflower - Cameron Diaz; Rosalind Arushka Arkadina Altalune Florence - Uma Thurman; Mint - Romee Strijd; Kal El - Clark Kent; Bronx Mowgli - Ashlee Simpson; Seargeoh and Sage Moonblood- Sylvester Stallone; Gravity Blue, Slim Easy and Rumble Honey - Lucky Blue Smith; Olympia Lightning, Thunder, Saint Leo - Usain Bolt; Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, Little Pixie, Heavenly Hiraana Tiger Lily - Bob Geldoff; Oonagh - Amber Heard; Buddy Dessert - Brie Bella; Sno FilmOn Dot Com - Chief Keef; Ode Mountain - Jena Malone; Nakano Oceana - Wilmer Valderrama; Ever Imre, Onyx Solace and Winter Mercy - Alanis Morissette; Summer Moon Honey - Scheana shay; Shakira, Chosen Sebastian, Sovereign-Dior Cambella, Camidas Swain, Cashmere Saint and Caesar Lorenzo - Cam Newton; Osian Lark Elliot - Milla Jovovich; Prince Michael Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson the second - Michael Jackson
Load More Replies...Trashy names = trashy parents. Period. I would go no contact to try and not inherit their stupidity. Edit: wrote dads instead of parents.
Once worked with a woman whose first name was Malaria. While working at the county jail, came across an arrest report with the offender's first name was Bastardo.
Of all names big and small, those that use a creative orthography suck the most. Trashedeigh is, although certainly somewhat true to those named so, just not a name you want to read on your passport. It's a tragedy to your parents to have you ... ok, I get that many, if not even the majority of, children were conceived by accident, including me, and I'm ok with that ... but ... that's a tad above, huh? Ok, THAT name, I haven't read in this list, but still - I've read it. There are people who are ... so...
Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (1884-1917). The first Tollemache is pronounced differently from the second, as is the third, from the fourth.
When I think of all the time I spent choosing names for my kids: names that were not too popular but not extremely rare (because often rare names are rare for a reason, namely they are ugly), easy to spell, sounding good with their last name, not make stupid/offensive initials, and some parents are just: Eff that.
Right. The endless ”can my get get bullies for this name” seem to just be a challange to some parents
Load More Replies...I go to school with a girl named Treasure. That's a fine name. But the girls last name. Is hunt. Her name is Treasure Hunt. And she always gets called to the office.
Birth announcement in local paper was Holly Caust, I actually posted on fb at the time I was so flabbergasted!
I present Nick Cannons kids: Golden Sagon, Rise Messiah, Powerful Queen, Moroccan, Monroe, Zion Mixolydian, Zillion Heir, Beautiful Zeppelin, Legendary Love, Onyx Ice, Zen, Halo Marie.
Other mad celebrity kids names include: Apple and Genesis - Gwyneth Paltrow; Malibu Barbie - Trisha Paytas; Audio Science - Shannyn Sossaman; Kulture Kiari and Wave Set - Cardi B; Strummer Newcombe - Julia Styles; Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander - Maximilian Cooper; Blue Ivy, Sir and Rumi - Beyonce; Pilot Inspektor - Jason Lee; Denim and Diezel - Toni Braxton; Marmaduke and Huckleberry - Bear Grylls; North, Saint, Chicago, Psalm, Stormi, Aire, True, Tatum, Mason Dash, Penelope Scotland, Reign Aston, and Dream - various Kardashians ( I'll admit that a few are actually alright names); Row Renggli and Grey Oliver - Morgan Stewart; Lyra Antarctica - Ed Sheeran; Shanda Lear - Bill Lear; Rocket, Rebel, Rogue and Racer - Robert Rodriguez; Raddix Chloe Wildflower - Cameron Diaz; Rosalind Arushka Arkadina Altalune Florence - Uma Thurman; Mint - Romee Strijd; Kal El - Clark Kent; Bronx Mowgli - Ashlee Simpson; Seargeoh and Sage Moonblood- Sylvester Stallone; Gravity Blue, Slim Easy and Rumble Honey - Lucky Blue Smith; Olympia Lightning, Thunder, Saint Leo - Usain Bolt; Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, Little Pixie, Heavenly Hiraana Tiger Lily - Bob Geldoff; Oonagh - Amber Heard; Buddy Dessert - Brie Bella; Sno FilmOn Dot Com - Chief Keef; Ode Mountain - Jena Malone; Nakano Oceana - Wilmer Valderrama; Ever Imre, Onyx Solace and Winter Mercy - Alanis Morissette; Summer Moon Honey - Scheana shay; Shakira, Chosen Sebastian, Sovereign-Dior Cambella, Camidas Swain, Cashmere Saint and Caesar Lorenzo - Cam Newton; Osian Lark Elliot - Milla Jovovich; Prince Michael Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson the second - Michael Jackson
Load More Replies...Trashy names = trashy parents. Period. I would go no contact to try and not inherit their stupidity. Edit: wrote dads instead of parents.
Once worked with a woman whose first name was Malaria. While working at the county jail, came across an arrest report with the offender's first name was Bastardo.
Of all names big and small, those that use a creative orthography suck the most. Trashedeigh is, although certainly somewhat true to those named so, just not a name you want to read on your passport. It's a tragedy to your parents to have you ... ok, I get that many, if not even the majority of, children were conceived by accident, including me, and I'm ok with that ... but ... that's a tad above, huh? Ok, THAT name, I haven't read in this list, but still - I've read it. There are people who are ... so...
Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (1884-1917). The first Tollemache is pronounced differently from the second, as is the third, from the fourth.
