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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered I have heard of many bad names, but Sex Fruit is probably the worst I have seen.

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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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Coleonema
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By me it's most likely people who speak Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana etc. Who name their children this. It's not that weird in South Africa.

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Candace Fitzpatrick
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bono (from U2) has a daughter named Memphis Eve Sunny Day Iris Hewson. She’s an actress and goes by Eve Hewson. I don’t blame her.

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

I had a little girl in nursery whose FULL NAME was Princess Angela Sarah Louise Margaret [LastName]. Her little brother was called Simon.

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Lily Mae Kitty
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to have a guy friend friend named Sunny Apple. His parents were hippies in VT.

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Gandalf the Pink
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sunny Day Real Estate is an awesome oldschool emo band for those who didn't know

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Ayaan Pareek
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My friend's friend's name is Princess so I am guessing it is somewhat common

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Curry on...
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My daughter-in-law's name is Princess. She was named after her uncle, Prince. Not the worst name to have.

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Wysteria_Rose
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a Princess who an old job of mine were interviewing to replace me (it was my last two weeks before a new job switch). I didn't think much of it until my then-supervisor said when she called her personal phone, someone claiming to be her "professional assistant" answered for her...her name just made the situation funnier.

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Cybele Spanjaard
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Princess is every little girl's dream name..Sunny D .. good for a future entertainer or a thug!!

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Suzanne Haigh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked with a girl called Princess but she insisted on her full name of Princess Anne, who she definitely was not.

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Anna roberts
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back when I was a cop, I locked up sisters named Mercedes and Porsche

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Judy Windham Saunders
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Went to school with a girl named April May Showers. On her, the name was perfect. She was a lovely human being!

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Meredith Lovegrove
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My niece is 9 & has been in class since preschool with a kid named Prince.

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PrincessTheSiameseKat
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why would people name their kid princess that is a popular name for cats, chihuahua's, and shitsu also I knew a kid named Luna and that name is like the most popular cat name between my brother's friends

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

I love the name Sunny Day! (I guess that would be a given being named Spring.)

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

I knew a lady who named her baby Belladonna Ruby Snow White (last name was White).

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If my name was sunny day i would become emo too

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Natalia
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Greek there are names such us Duchess, Grammar, Science, East...🤔🤔...Dawn, Chaste.

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Mii
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My name literally means princess in arabic. I'm glad I don't live in an arabic speaking country anymore.

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RaroaRaroa
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's illegal in NZ to register your child's name as Princess, Sir, King, anything like that. I know a woman whose husband went to register a birth, found out they couldn't call their kid Princess, so just dropped the I. She's now Prncess when she could have been Pryncess. Hubby did not perform well under pressure, poor guy.

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

Poor guy? Surely you mean poor child? Having to spend a life with a name that looks like a typo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But Olympic skier Anna Banana kept her name.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered Seen it all. Met a woman named Anal. Pronounced "Ah-nuhl". I had a friend named Cleopatra. And had a relative named Sextus but he just was called "Uncle Sex". Even heard of one called Merlin!

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

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

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

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"What Were The Parents Thinking:" 30 People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They've Encountered gaylord (yes its an actual name)

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

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

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

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