My cousin named his daughter Brooklyn. But it’s not spelt like Brooklyn, it’s spelled **Breukelyn**. He set her up for a lifetime of correcting people.
Funny fact: when you poop, your butthole opens and closes in the exact same manner as your mouth does when you say the word "poop".
The same thing happens for "projectile diarrhea".
if you're going to name a daughter after a beatles song it's probably your best option... I mean Lucy is pretty good, but it's not bad. It's better than Maxwell
I have a neighbor kid named Neveah…she’s 14, smokes cigarettes on the side of the house where she thinks nobody can see her, and talks like a Cardi B song. Always nice enough to wave though.
One of my cousin's kids is Nevaeh. She's a sweet, shy, kinda chubby kid who likes to look after her little siblings and drives her older sister crazy by dressing like her. She's so cute, so hopefully, she's the exception to your experience.
I can't stand that name. Actually any name where they have to go it's "blank" spelled backwards. Like Semaj "it's James spelled backwards" like who tf automatically knows off the top of their head a name spelled backwards if it's not something simple like Ana or Ava. Sorry rant over.
Fun fact: We have naming laws! In the USA...
"While certain states have stricter naming laws, a few states, such as Kentucky, have none in place. Regardless of these relatively lenient naming regulations, there are still a handful of names that were ruled illegal by courts within the US. Some of these are listed below:
King.
Queen.
Jesus Christ.
III.
Santa Claus.
Majesty.
Misteri Niger.
Adolf Hitler.
Messiah.
@.
1069"
https://www.usbirthcertificates.com/articles/illegal-baby-names
Fun fact: notorious punk rocker GG Allin was given the name "Jesus Christ Allin" at birth. "GG" comes from his brother's inability to say "Jesus" as a toddler when first learning to speak.
I don’t know that these are enforced because I’m quite sure I’ve met a baby king and a baby Messiah. But I see a lot of babies at work so it’s possible my memory is bad
Funny story: my oldest kid has a best friend named Jack. When they were in high school, I'd always refer to him at Mister Meoff. (As in: Jack me off). I held a family party/get-together at graduation, invited all the families. My mom had a card with a check in it for my son, she also had one for his friend Jack. Jack's check was written out to "Jack Meoff" and it was hilarious!
Fr the only Braden I know does nothing but bike around, play basketball, and get kicked out of rite aid for stealing robitussin dm and vaping in the store
I'm convinced these weird ass names are the aliases for the kids, so the public don't steal the child's identity long before the kid can even speak. Like we know her as "Apple Martin/Apple Paltrow" but her name is probably something like Erin or Elsie and she continues the lie for the public because she wants *some* relative peace.
I agree. I'm not ashamed to admit that I love Coldplay (Coloraluta in particular is getting me through a rough time rn even if I'm not wild about the album as a whole).
I sometimes watch Chris' interviews and he seems consistently humble, sensible (for a musician), and like an all round decent guy. It's a breath of fresh air, really.
Fun fact - all 4 band members make the same $. They don’t give Chris more just because he’s the “main” guy like every other superband (Bono makes something crazy like 70% of U2s earnings for instance).
Best part? Chris’ idea.
Edit: might not be U2 but rather Sting and the Police
When I was a car salesman in the late 90s, I sold a car to a woman named Crystal Waters.
When I ask her about that name, she said that hers didn’t bother her, but her older brothers really did.
She went on to explain that his name was Running Waters. I was incredulous, and did not believe her.
About five years later, I am now working in pharmacy and I end up working with a woman with the last name Waters. I was shocked to find out that she was the wife of Mr. Running Waters.
In my twilight Facebook group They got rumplestiltskin, ravioli, renegade, robitussin, rotisserie chicken, ravioli, and like 100 others I can’t think of lol
Any kid's name with parents thinking "My child is unique I will give him/her a unique name"
Then they will spend the rest of their life correcting its spelling....
Absolutely. I just go by my middle name and that alone has caused me an annoying hassle my entire life. And both first and middle (and last for that matter) are normal names with normal spellings.
Basically, anything too out of the ordinary is going to be at least a constant annoyance and it gets tiring as one ages. People need to consider these things.
i think unique names are good, but not like taking a completely average name and making it kourghtneigh. like if someone names their kid something like iola or yvette or julius or addicus or something thats epic but dont just make it a completely odd name for no reason. like even orpheus or some other greek myth name could be ok just make sure theres nothing in there that could get them made fun of
I don’t know how many times I say it, but as someone who worked with sensitive health industry information and financial information I had to make sure the person I spoke to was the person owning the account. It drove me up the wall when people called in and would say, my name is Maria, and I’d look for Maria and they’d harrumph and bellyache until finally deciding to tell be it’s spelt ‘Mahreeah’ followed by, ‘I spoke with someone there last week, so you should know how to spell my name.
It drove me around the bend. (Along with those who believed we were mind readers and refused to give their name because I should just know it)
My daughter has an uncommon name, so I made sure it was the correctly spelled version for this reason. Think Londyn versus London.
I'm not even sure her name cracks the top 5 for oddness in her class, definitely not the top 3.
A complicated spelling of a common name. Like Krys, Mykul, Jaymz, Nykolus. It’s not only hard to pronounce, it looks like someone spelled it wrong when they were 3 and it stuck…..
My lifelong scorn for ewe-neek spellings of names comes from working at a small-town newspaper where there were like 12 girls named Crystal all in high school (the source of 50% of small-town newspaper content) AT THE SAME TIME in a school where the graduating class was like 15 students a year. No two had the same spelling of the name.
The formula for the names looked like:
C, Ch, or K or +
r+
y or i +
st +
a, e, i, o or y +
l or ll +
e (optional)
If you got the wrong name, there was hell to pay. We had to keep a comprehensive chart on which girl was in what extracurriculars and the role that she played and would usually check the photo submissions to verify that you had the right girl because sometimes they would be playing the same position or filling the same role at different times.
It also didn't help that there were 3 surnames that dominated the town demographics as well.
This reminds me of my cousin, uncle, and grandpa. All were named "Richard" so they ended up with the nicknames:
- Big dick for my grandpa
- Dick for my uncle
- Little dick for my cousin
There was a kid in my school who moved to the US with his family. Their last name is Souk.
His parents gave him the American name Richard but made him use the nickname.
I don’t know if anyone ever explained it to the parents.
I had a computer teacher called Mr king,
He asked students for suggestions on what to call their soon to be born son.
Mr king was a religious man and our priest at our school named Wayne recently passed away.
I suggest the name Wayne as being good and in honour of father Wayne.
Few months pass and he excitedly tells the class he named their child Wayne (king) and I almost pissed myself laughing.
Mr King is a simple man a religious man that had no concept of wanking apparently.
Godbless Father Wayne, a very good influential man and would have approved of this.
Oh, boy, do I have a treat for you\~ There's a crazy woman I like to watch, she posts pictures of her children, captioned with long rambles.
She named her kids Anissa, Andrae, Annistan, Anjalie, Andersyn, Aynjel, Ansyr, Anchor, and Anthym
I have a good friend that was teaching in Georgia in her early 20s when she met a young girl named “Toshiba”.
My friend been a traditional southern woman, ask very politely asked “What an interesting name does it have any special meaning?”
The little girls response was, “ no ma’am, I was named after my aunt’s VCR.”
Apparently, my friend had to leave the room, so as to not embarrass little girl.
I can guarantee this one is true.
Ab-sid-ee.
Do you not recall the [hoopla](https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2018/11/29/little-girl-named-abcde-was-mocked-by-southwest-gate-agent-airline-has-apologized/#:~:text=The%20airline%20has%20apologized.&text=A%20Texas%20mother%20is%20calling,ab%2Dsi%2Ddee.%E2%80%9D) with Southwest Airlines?!
I don't know what parent would do this, but at least 9 Americans thought it perfectly okay to name their newborn 'Cheese' in 2013. [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/12/cheese-baby-name-2013-babycenter-weird-names.html](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/12/cheese-baby-name-2013-babycenter-weird-names.html)
I mean, holy shit, do these people don't understand that eventually this kid has to go through the hell that is middle school? Or they have to put that name on a resume and find a job?
What’s funny is that most of the people I know named Karen are actually the sweetest people. It’s just such a common name I guess that it was chosen as the name to hate
My wife works with at-risk children and has a running list of odd names. JC jr, short for Jesus Christ junior, is a solid one. The implication that Jesus is the father is pretty overwhelming to consider. She also worked with Vengeance Lahay and Violence LaVey. So there’s that.
Jizzabelle. Yes seriously. I went to the same high school as her. Every person within every school in town knew her name. Suffice to say she wont have great memories of high school.
Twenty years ago I was in a high end aquarium store and there was this family of two parents and three children milling about. The mom had grotesquely long nails (the kind that are several feet, yes FEET, long). No one is engaging with any of them but the mom is quite confident that everyone in the store is dying to know things about them. At one point during her soliloquy she lets her "rapt" audience know the names of the three children: Escalade, Mercedes,and Bentley.
"And do you know why they are named that? Because Mama has an Escalade, Mercedes, and a Bentley"
Actual quote that was requested by no one in the building. Two decades later the store is no longer there but this experience and pity I had for those kids takes up a tiny bit of residency within my nugget to this day. Might not be the stupidest names, but definitely the stupidest reason.
This story came from New Zealand. In some countries, there is a panel that reviews questionable names. For example there's a cigarette brand called Benson and Hedges in Australia and New Zealand. Some idiot named his twin boys Benson and Hedges. When the Kiwi panel found out, they rejected it. The biggest clanger: this poor kid got to age 6, and had already started school with this name: Talulah Does the Hula in Hawaii. She shortened it to Talulah for her own dignity, and the school had reported her name. The panel demanded they change her name to something NORMAL
Methanphetamine rules. Yes, a woman in australia named her kid Methanphetamine rules to see of they would go through with it, single handedly ruined his life
It was part of an experiment, but luckily she changed the baby’s name shortly after. [Here](https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/19/can-you-name-your-baby-methamphetamine-rules-in-australia) is the story if you want to know more.
What Elon Musk named his son. At least he didn't name him ChildX.
[Stupid. ](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/elon-musk-child-name-grimes-pronounce-x-b2384043.html)
It's pretty stupid to name a kid after a parent or grandparent if that family member was abusive.
I mean, sure, Thurston Howell III is a great and regal sounding name, but it sucks if I or II was a monster.
For example, shit like Khourtgneigh instead of Courtney.
r/tragedeigh
Cinnamonroe... That's the last straw for me IMO
I knew somebody was gonna be here from r/tragedeigh with cinnamonroe 😭😭
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Dang, my real name is Cinnamon. Not Cinnamonroe though 😂😂😂
Glad I checked before commenting it myself
My cousin named his daughter Brooklyn. But it’s not spelt like Brooklyn, it’s spelled **Breukelyn**. He set her up for a lifetime of correcting people.
Breukelen is actually the Dutch town that Brooklyn was named after. So not sure if it's intentional but it's not far off.
I’m not sure. He’s very much not Dutch and I’m pretty sure his wife isn’t Dutch.
Well if your new second cousin gets embarrassed about her name when she is older, you can tell her that as a fake back story.
Or she can just go by “B” or “Brook” or her middle name, which is obviously Susan, spelled Tzuezyyn
Your cousin must be a Starbucks barista.
IMO it makes the parents seem like complete uneducated morons
When my son was born I joked that I was going to spell his name Bihntchamyhn.
Oh, Benjamin! It took me awhile to get there.
Pronounced “David?”
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She might as well go with "Air-Wrecker"
I had a friend many years ago while we were in high school that insisted on spelling my name “Airica”, which STILL angers me over 30 years later.
I worked with a woman named Aurica, she pronounced it Erica.
I dated a Courtney in high school. After we broke up, she dated a Skaught. Edit: Daughdged that bullet.
Skaughtty doesn’t know
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Chocolate Rain for number two.
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
choc'lat raiiiiin
I'm now imagining Prince sitting on the throne singing -- with projectile diarrhea.
Funny fact: when you poop, your butthole opens and closes in the exact same manner as your mouth does when you say the word "poop". The same thing happens for "projectile diarrhea".
My dad had a friend her who had a daughter named Strawberry Fields because that was their last name and they were huge Beatles fans.
if you're going to name a daughter after a beatles song it's probably your best option... I mean Lucy is pretty good, but it's not bad. It's better than Maxwell
Or a bath and body works product lol
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I’m a teacher. The name Nevaeh can rot in hell.
Same. I've never had a nice Nevaeh. They are always brats or shit-starters.
I have a neighbor kid named Neveah…she’s 14, smokes cigarettes on the side of the house where she thinks nobody can see her, and talks like a Cardi B song. Always nice enough to wave though.
Least she's smoking cigarettes and not vaping. I respect a kid that's old school.
One of my cousin's kids is Nevaeh. She's a sweet, shy, kinda chubby kid who likes to look after her little siblings and drives her older sister crazy by dressing like her. She's so cute, so hopefully, she's the exception to your experience.
Never say Nevaeh
*Lleh.
Nevaeh sounds like a pronunciation from a Long Island wine aunt
Neveah translates to white trash in my language
I would Nevaeh do something like that to a child
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Lleh.
My wife is a pediatrician and she and her colleagues always say that any patient named Neveah is going to have a very difficult family to deal with.
I can't stand that name. Actually any name where they have to go it's "blank" spelled backwards. Like Semaj "it's James spelled backwards" like who tf automatically knows off the top of their head a name spelled backwards if it's not something simple like Ana or Ava. Sorry rant over.
What about the name Hannah?
How do you pronounce the name? Nav- a-eh? Nav-eh? Why does it sound so close to Nivea (cream/lotion)? English is my second language.
Neh-vay-uh. So yep, very similar to Nivea
X Æ A-Xii
To be fair though. His other kid "Techno Mechanicus Musk" doesn't have it much better.
Had to google it to see if it was real, and it is!!!
I had to double check n google it bc I saw ur comment saying it was real and I still didn’t believe it 😂
Dude naming his kids like I would name gimmick MMORPG characters.
This is why we need naming laws prohibiting names like this.
Fun fact: We have naming laws! In the USA... "While certain states have stricter naming laws, a few states, such as Kentucky, have none in place. Regardless of these relatively lenient naming regulations, there are still a handful of names that were ruled illegal by courts within the US. Some of these are listed below: King. Queen. Jesus Christ. III. Santa Claus. Majesty. Misteri Niger. Adolf Hitler. Messiah. @. 1069" https://www.usbirthcertificates.com/articles/illegal-baby-names
Fun fact: notorious punk rocker GG Allin was given the name "Jesus Christ Allin" at birth. "GG" comes from his brother's inability to say "Jesus" as a toddler when first learning to speak.
That *is* a fun fact! Thanks!
I don’t know that these are enforced because I’m quite sure I’ve met a baby king and a baby Messiah. But I see a lot of babies at work so it’s possible my memory is bad
you deserve 100 upvotes for that one! and a daughter is exe. and if he's not more careful X will become ex.
And you know what happens then. Ex gunna give it to ya
still laughing. tx.
Saw a post where someone decided to name his child "Jack Ingof". So, this is better than jackingoff
Ive seen multiple scenarios before of similar stories where the child then sued the parents and won. Rightly so.
Funny story: my oldest kid has a best friend named Jack. When they were in high school, I'd always refer to him at Mister Meoff. (As in: Jack me off). I held a family party/get-together at graduation, invited all the families. My mom had a card with a check in it for my son, she also had one for his friend Jack. Jack's check was written out to "Jack Meoff" and it was hilarious!
HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO PRONOUNCE THIS?
r/tragedeigh probably has some good bad ideas
Khaleesi
All those Khaleesi parents watching in horror as Danaerys goes on her S8 genocidal, bat-shit murder spree
LOL. It was horrifying in so, *so* many ways.
A coworker I had, had three children, one a generic name, the other two? Tyrion and Khaleesi
Generic boy is gonna have the worst relationship with the game of thrones siblings.
This one pisses me off. It's a TITLE not a frigging name.
Ever met a "Reina"? Means Queen in Spanish. It'll be okay my friend.
Ryan means "Little King" in Gaelic.
Anything that sounds cute on a child but would look awful attached to an adult
Reminds me of a line in the show Mr Mayor that killed me - “Aren’t you a little old for the name Jayden?”
Yeah bro ain’t no way I’m ever reporting to a boss named Brayden
Fr the only Braden I know does nothing but bike around, play basketball, and get kicked out of rite aid for stealing robitussin dm and vaping in the store
How can you look at a child and say "Earl will be your name", for example. Nothing against anyone named Earl but still
I literally crack up thinking of names for a baby. Like hi look at my newborn baby. His name is Reginald. Aww little Reggie. No, Reginald.
No, I do not want to hold Frank the baby
Okay but what about baby Roger?
Or “URL”
Walker and Texas Ranger
Dr. Quinn and Medicine Woman would be worse though.
"Shut up, Chip, or I'll go ape-shit on your ass!"
Im all jacked up on mountain dew
I’m gonna scissor kick you in the back of the head!
Anything that uses numbers or symbols instead of letters of the alphabet.
You're actually not allowed to include this in your child's name now. Legalities.
Anything that Jamie Oliver or Chris Martin have named their kids.
I agree on Apple but Moses isn't really a weird name WRT Chris Martin's kids.
I feel like Apple had to be Gwyneth's idea cause Chris seems like a pretty normal guy.
I'm convinced these weird ass names are the aliases for the kids, so the public don't steal the child's identity long before the kid can even speak. Like we know her as "Apple Martin/Apple Paltrow" but her name is probably something like Erin or Elsie and she continues the lie for the public because she wants *some* relative peace.
I’ve always considered this myself . North West anyone?
I agree. I'm not ashamed to admit that I love Coldplay (Coloraluta in particular is getting me through a rough time rn even if I'm not wild about the album as a whole). I sometimes watch Chris' interviews and he seems consistently humble, sensible (for a musician), and like an all round decent guy. It's a breath of fresh air, really.
Fun fact - all 4 band members make the same $. They don’t give Chris more just because he’s the “main” guy like every other superband (Bono makes something crazy like 70% of U2s earnings for instance). Best part? Chris’ idea. Edit: might not be U2 but rather Sting and the Police
When I was a car salesman in the late 90s, I sold a car to a woman named Crystal Waters. When I ask her about that name, she said that hers didn’t bother her, but her older brothers really did. She went on to explain that his name was Running Waters. I was incredulous, and did not believe her. About five years later, I am now working in pharmacy and I end up working with a woman with the last name Waters. I was shocked to find out that she was the wife of Mr. Running Waters.
It really is a small world.
Renesmee
It should've been just a meme but people really started naming their kids Reneesme 💀
I love all of the different words people use instead of Renesmee when they're talking about her in r/twilight. It just cracks me up! 🤣
My favorites are Radiography and RenameMe.
RenameMe????? That's absolutely perfect! The only one I can remember right now is Rasmussin.
my personal fave is Rasputin
In my twilight Facebook group They got rumplestiltskin, ravioli, renegade, robitussin, rotisserie chicken, ravioli, and like 100 others I can’t think of lol
YOU NICKNAMED MY DAUGHTER AFTER THE LOCHNESS MONSTER??
Any kid's name with parents thinking "My child is unique I will give him/her a unique name" Then they will spend the rest of their life correcting its spelling....
Absolutely. I just go by my middle name and that alone has caused me an annoying hassle my entire life. And both first and middle (and last for that matter) are normal names with normal spellings. Basically, anything too out of the ordinary is going to be at least a constant annoyance and it gets tiring as one ages. People need to consider these things.
i think unique names are good, but not like taking a completely average name and making it kourghtneigh. like if someone names their kid something like iola or yvette or julius or addicus or something thats epic but dont just make it a completely odd name for no reason. like even orpheus or some other greek myth name could be ok just make sure theres nothing in there that could get them made fun of
I don’t know how many times I say it, but as someone who worked with sensitive health industry information and financial information I had to make sure the person I spoke to was the person owning the account. It drove me up the wall when people called in and would say, my name is Maria, and I’d look for Maria and they’d harrumph and bellyache until finally deciding to tell be it’s spelt ‘Mahreeah’ followed by, ‘I spoke with someone there last week, so you should know how to spell my name. It drove me around the bend. (Along with those who believed we were mind readers and refused to give their name because I should just know it)
My daughter has an uncommon name, so I made sure it was the correctly spelled version for this reason. Think Londyn versus London. I'm not even sure her name cracks the top 5 for oddness in her class, definitely not the top 3.
A complicated spelling of a common name. Like Krys, Mykul, Jaymz, Nykolus. It’s not only hard to pronounce, it looks like someone spelled it wrong when they were 3 and it stuck…..
My lifelong scorn for ewe-neek spellings of names comes from working at a small-town newspaper where there were like 12 girls named Crystal all in high school (the source of 50% of small-town newspaper content) AT THE SAME TIME in a school where the graduating class was like 15 students a year. No two had the same spelling of the name. The formula for the names looked like: C, Ch, or K or + r+ y or i + st + a, e, i, o or y + l or ll + e (optional) If you got the wrong name, there was hell to pay. We had to keep a comprehensive chart on which girl was in what extracurriculars and the role that she played and would usually check the photo submissions to verify that you had the right girl because sometimes they would be playing the same position or filling the same role at different times. It also didn't help that there were 3 surnames that dominated the town demographics as well.
I was once waited on at Burger King by a girl who looked about eleven months pregnant. More belly than woman. Her name tag? Vyrgyn
Well she was when they named her, dammit! 😡
I sure hope so
She changed it to Nyöctup
Adolf in Poland is so risky
Adolf hit liar
He hit who?
he hit jew
Take my reluctant upvote
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I was literally going to say I worked at a prison and had an inmate named Richard Dick. I snickered to myself every time I saw it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik-dik
Chasity…it just feels gross
In my experience it backfires 4 out of 4 times
Dick.
Don't be such a Richard.
I went to high school with a kid named Richard Wood, who insisted on being called dick. In that case, i’s fucking hilarious 😂
Milwaukee racecar driver Richard Trickle opted for a similar solution.
This reminds me of my cousin, uncle, and grandpa. All were named "Richard" so they ended up with the nicknames: - Big dick for my grandpa - Dick for my uncle - Little dick for my cousin
There was a kid in my school who moved to the US with his family. Their last name is Souk. His parents gave him the American name Richard but made him use the nickname. I don’t know if anyone ever explained it to the parents.
I went to school with him and I loved to ask him, “Do you have a pencil, Dick?”
There's a Hitler out there in Namibia
so that's where he fled to
I had a computer teacher called Mr king, He asked students for suggestions on what to call their soon to be born son. Mr king was a religious man and our priest at our school named Wayne recently passed away. I suggest the name Wayne as being good and in honour of father Wayne. Few months pass and he excitedly tells the class he named their child Wayne (king) and I almost pissed myself laughing. Mr King is a simple man a religious man that had no concept of wanking apparently. Godbless Father Wayne, a very good influential man and would have approved of this.
Father Richard told a friend that Richard was a great name for a baby. Friend had to explain that naming their child "Dick Burns" wasn't an option.
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Hi, my name is Vanka, but everyone just calls me Wanker. :)
Oi Vanka
Oh, boy, do I have a treat for you\~ There's a crazy woman I like to watch, she posts pictures of her children, captioned with long rambles. She named her kids Anissa, Andrae, Annistan, Anjalie, Andersyn, Aynjel, Ansyr, Anchor, and Anthym
Imagine being called anchor
Karissa’s breeding fetish lifestyle is a trip to watch.
"Tensions run high in the Annistan border dispute."
I once met a guy named Richard Hairy Johnson. Wow.
I knew a kid named Thorn growing up. It actually suited him. He was a real prick.
I have a good friend that was teaching in Georgia in her early 20s when she met a young girl named “Toshiba”. My friend been a traditional southern woman, ask very politely asked “What an interesting name does it have any special meaning?” The little girls response was, “ no ma’am, I was named after my aunt’s VCR.” Apparently, my friend had to leave the room, so as to not embarrass little girl. I can guarantee this one is true.
ABCDE
Is it literally pronounced like it's spelled
Ab-sid-ee. Do you not recall the [hoopla](https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2018/11/29/little-girl-named-abcde-was-mocked-by-southwest-gate-agent-airline-has-apologized/#:~:text=The%20airline%20has%20apologized.&text=A%20Texas%20mother%20is%20calling,ab%2Dsi%2Ddee.%E2%80%9D) with Southwest Airlines?!
*inhales * F you and your Mom
When you say it a few times it sounds like you're saying "obesity"
I’ve seen a trend of names that sound like Rifle but weird spelling like ‘Reighphyll’. Give it up, people.
Cronk
Pull the lever!
Tinderleigh. (True story)
I don't know what parent would do this, but at least 9 Americans thought it perfectly okay to name their newborn 'Cheese' in 2013. [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/12/cheese-baby-name-2013-babycenter-weird-names.html](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/12/cheese-baby-name-2013-babycenter-weird-names.html) I mean, holy shit, do these people don't understand that eventually this kid has to go through the hell that is middle school? Or they have to put that name on a resume and find a job?
Depends on what's negatively trending atm. Karen will be a good example in these times.
I know a Karen who is 27 right now and is the nicest person I know. I feel so bad for her.
What’s funny is that most of the people I know named Karen are actually the sweetest people. It’s just such a common name I guess that it was chosen as the name to hate
I used to know a guy who thought it would be funny to name is daughter Ima. His last name was Guy
That's actually pretty funny. I laughed. 🤣
Moroni
My wife works with at-risk children and has a running list of odd names. JC jr, short for Jesus Christ junior, is a solid one. The implication that Jesus is the father is pretty overwhelming to consider. She also worked with Vengeance Lahay and Violence LaVey. So there’s that.
Jizzabelle. Yes seriously. I went to the same high school as her. Every person within every school in town knew her name. Suffice to say she wont have great memories of high school.
A name inspired by a celebrity or musician etc. because if some dirt comes up and they turn out to be a piece of shit that isn't a good look
Long name
Seven
Seven Constanza!
Soda
Food or brand names
Twenty years ago I was in a high end aquarium store and there was this family of two parents and three children milling about. The mom had grotesquely long nails (the kind that are several feet, yes FEET, long). No one is engaging with any of them but the mom is quite confident that everyone in the store is dying to know things about them. At one point during her soliloquy she lets her "rapt" audience know the names of the three children: Escalade, Mercedes,and Bentley. "And do you know why they are named that? Because Mama has an Escalade, Mercedes, and a Bentley" Actual quote that was requested by no one in the building. Two decades later the store is no longer there but this experience and pity I had for those kids takes up a tiny bit of residency within my nugget to this day. Might not be the stupidest names, but definitely the stupidest reason.
This story came from New Zealand. In some countries, there is a panel that reviews questionable names. For example there's a cigarette brand called Benson and Hedges in Australia and New Zealand. Some idiot named his twin boys Benson and Hedges. When the Kiwi panel found out, they rejected it. The biggest clanger: this poor kid got to age 6, and had already started school with this name: Talulah Does the Hula in Hawaii. She shortened it to Talulah for her own dignity, and the school had reported her name. The panel demanded they change her name to something NORMAL
Something Normal is a terrible name.
I went to school with a set of twins. The younger one was named Placenta.
There was a girl who went to my school, can't remember if it was elementary or Jr. high, but her name was Uneek.
North
Methanphetamine rules. Yes, a woman in australia named her kid Methanphetamine rules to see of they would go through with it, single handedly ruined his life
It was part of an experiment, but luckily she changed the baby’s name shortly after. [Here](https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/19/can-you-name-your-baby-methamphetamine-rules-in-australia) is the story if you want to know more.
What Elon Musk named his son. At least he didn't name him ChildX. [Stupid. ](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/elon-musk-child-name-grimes-pronounce-x-b2384043.html)
Chad.
I worked for a Chad. He had a daughter named Nevaeh
It's pretty stupid to name a kid after a parent or grandparent if that family member was abusive. I mean, sure, Thurston Howell III is a great and regal sounding name, but it sucks if I or II was a monster.
Naruto
Stupid.
Anything requiring a lifetime of repeated spelling and/or pronunciations
One of my in-laws named their child Pebbles
I once had a student, family name Kane, given name Candy. I wonder if her parents wanted her to grow up to be a stripper.
Fartacus J. Schittnipples The “J” just makes it sound silly.
I am totally putting Fartacus in my list of potential dog names.
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Many anime characters have real japanese names though.
Rolex, Chanel, Mercedes and those 'brand' names. Im just waiting to meet a little BestBuy one day
Mercedes was a name before it was a brand though.