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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 X Æ A-12

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

what kind of fools name their child a 30% off coupon code

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

Poor child. Clearly done for media interest without any thought for the child who has to live with this craziness. I pity any child who is named in such a vain and thoughtless way

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

Imagine when he's at nursery trying to write his name for the first time. While sitting next to Leo and Kim.

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

I thought this was a list of baby names, not a list of gift card codes

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

I saw somewhere that it's pronounced "Zyle". Z for the X-sound in xylophone, long I sound for the "a e-dans-l’a", and "L" is the 12th letter of the alphabet. Though I suppose "exile" would make as much sense.

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

IT would be assumed the kid will be changing his name at some point. Can't wait to see him in 20 years

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Don't Look
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let us consider the sheer brain power that caused this guy to screw some brain dead woman and let her admit online that she doesn’t know a damned thing about his interests - the sr-71 is not something to name a child after - but more importantly he berated her dumb self for getting the whole thing wrong in the first place.

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

And the pronunciation is?... Absolutely ridiculous, too many people trying to out do each other with unique names and giving no thought to the child who has to live with it.

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

He's just an idiot looking for attention. The kid will be more than rich so he/she won't care for long.

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

Told my boss after he bought his Tesla that his car didn't have a new car smell so much as it had an Elon Musk.

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

It wasn't....browse X and you know musk is a bigger thief than you think he's dumb

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

Class of 1966: Grover Icenogle, Egwan Spelmanus. Class of 1967: Melvin Mortvedt. True. Not jokey but true.

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

Class of 1966: Grover Icenogle, Egwan Spelmanus. Class of 1967: Melvin Mortvedt. Not bubbly-jokey, but true.

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

Not a name for a child --- not really a child, but a robot? Well, he/she will be able to know how to write it soon enough, after learning the ABCs - XYZs!

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

Oh c"mon, They wanted to be different and they succeeded. Elon Musk also ended up in court for the symbolism.

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

That kid can always rename himself Rich when he turns 18.

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

Please remind me how this pronounced, if it can be pronouced?

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

I can't remember which one but some country has to approve baby names and won't of they are weird or senseless.

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

X Æ A-12 dropping sick bars like: *Portal 2 OST I Saw A Deer Today*

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

My grandmother had a friend, back in the 1930's, who named her baby every name the family presented her with. The child's name was Mary Ann Mandy Crotha Martha Jane Allemedori Fredoni Anne. Yes, two Ann's.

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

That's still relatively common in some countries. In France i had several friends with 4 or 5 first names. Most common to have 3, i have 2. I ve heard that it's a nightmare for french people with several first names to live in Japan, they have to translate all the names and they must be written on all papers. They are not compound names like "Jean-Pierre" but separate names like "Jean, Pierre" but sometimes we have official mail or paperwork with all our first names without any - or , and that's confusing.

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

They are trend setters. Wonder if X Æ A-13 has been named already?

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

Omg yes, finally people talking about how stupid this name is 🙄

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

And no, it’s not pronounced “Kyle” or “Steve”. I’m not sure why people insist that it is, but Elon Musk himself said that it was pronounced Ex Ash A Twelve.

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

The kid will probly go by another nickname. Practically no one will be able to pronounce it on first try. Especially teachers or doctors. I just don’t see the kid putting up with that.

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

It's actually X AE A-Xii now. Because not having numbers is important to the laaaaw!

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

The law should have saved that poor child from being given a series of numbers and consonants as a "name".

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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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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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"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??

Awesomesause88 , Juan Encalada Report

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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.

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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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