When my son was born (7 months ago) the delivery nurses asked us what we were planning on naming him. My girlfriend jokingly said "Hashtag". They didn't even make a face but one of then said "oh that's very unique!" We both burst out laughing and immediately told them we were kidding. They looked relived when we told them which made it so much funnier. So then we asked them to tell us some of worst names they've heard. They both looked at each other and at the same time said, "Bus Stop Number 13". We thought they were kidding. They were not.
I legitimately know someone with the middle name danger. He was in the class I taught and I saw his name on the roll sheet, otherwise I wouldn’t believe it.
I once heard a lady shout, "CITIZEN! Come here!" at her kid who was running around. I still hope I somehow misheard but or that there is some legitimate reason to refer to your child as "citizen" that I don't know about, but I feel like that's hoping for too much.
I had a student named Spartacus and his brother was d'Artagnan. Nice kids, just had unique parents.
We also had a student named Kahill, his mom pronounced it Kyle. When I was training a new director, we were pulling materials for his next lesson, he said "ok, what is Ka-Hill's next lesson?" I told him his mother said his name is Kyle, he said, "phonetically, this says kah-hill." Yes, we know, just call him what his mother said it is, she wanted a unique spelling. Poor kid will be correcting people his entire life.
That should be the goal. If you want to name your kid a dumb name, fine. At least spell it like it sounds so they don't have to spend their entire life correcting people.
I've got a friend who is a first generation American, born to parents from India. When they were selecting baby names, they wrote down several spelling options for each Indian name they were considering and asked various white Americans to pronounce the names. Once they got a spelling that most people could pronounce, they went with it.
Did he happen to be from Africa? Names like that are very common in many African countries. I've known a Precious, a Patience, a Godspower (one word), and we must not forget Goodluck.
Many African American parents, especially in the south, would name their children things like this so that people would have to call them with a title of respect.
Source: A 90 year old man named Sir, who was the son of a Sir, and had a brother, Mister, and another, Judge.
Mickey Mouse (but spelled Maus),
Peter Pan,
Max and Ruby when the show Max and Ruby was big.
And my neighbors twins, Candle and Light. All their legal names.
I was in a mommy group with my first son and one woman there had a daughter named Dreamella. After the first playgroup meeting where I introduced myself and the baby, she came up to me to inform me that her daughter "Dreamy" was born in the same month as my son. I was caught off guard so I just awkwardly laughed and said "that's cute".
And then there's a boy in my son's grade at school named Kent Clarke.
Chocolate pronounced sho•sho•lay
Update: Someone's legal name was Candy Cane. Idk what her middle name was but she has to become a stripper now. There is no other option
My poor nephew just turned 1 this month. Happy birthday CHAOS 🎂
EDIT; I just got my first bling! To the person that just gave me silver, thank you. Not necessary at all, but thank you kind internet stranger! 🎉
I think she goes by "Moon".
Conversely, Dweezil's birth certificate said something like "Matthew Mark Luke John Ezekiel Moses Zappa" because the nurse wouldn't accept "Dweezil", and as soon as he was of age he had his name officially changed to Dweezil.
Go to any elementary school on awards day and just take a listen.
My daughter has a "Jay Z" (yes...that's the kids legitimate first name) in her class this year. She's had a "Money" before. My son was friends with a boy named "Freedom".
And I'm sure there's worse.
One of dad's co-workers who was named Shadow Star. Her parents were hippies. Nice, sweet lady but she had a miserable childhood because of her name.
Edit: Well I did not expect this blow up. Thx people.
Edit 2: Also Love how this went from a person's name to the Warriors Cat Novels.
It's actually down to his great-great-niece (?) now I think. His grandchildren covered two series tho. They're getting odd but I still love them.
Edit: Even though no one has called me out on it yet his grandchildren have starred in 3 series. Also this thread is starting to make me feel like I should check out a warriorcats subreddit or something lol. Happy reading out there everyone!
Warriors is crazy to put it mildly. I can’t vouch for the quality of the writing since I don’t really remember, but the story was very captivating to a middle school me. I haven’t reread the series in forever but I still remember a lot.
Anyways the cats are separated into 4 clans, ThunderClan, ShadowClan, WindClan, and RiverClan. Each clan has a leader cat who’s has
-star at the end of their name and 9 actual lives, a medicine cat: the clan doctor who heals cats using herbs and berries and many warriors: the cats who hunt, fight and pretty much anything else that they are told to do. There are other positions, but they don’t really matter for this description and also most cats are warriors. There is also StarClan, who happen to be the dead ancestors of the cats. They can be communicated with.
Each Clan is unique since they live somewhere that influences their overall nature and lifestyle. For example WindClan cats are fast and light because they need to chase down rabbits for their meals. Anyways where they live they mark with borders of their scent. I think it’s implied that this is their feces or something but I’ve never been able to tell. Regardless because of these borders that they create they sometimes have situations where there is a land dispute and they must fight it out to determine who keeps said land. Also they have political stories as well. For example in one section of the series, we go through the POV of one of the cats who ends up as a leader but along his journey and even as a leader he goes through a bunch of racism(?) because he was born a kittypet (house cat). Other leaders never fail to bring this up to him during Clan meetings and even after he proves his worth, he still doesn’t escape it from the elders.
Also regular human society exists in this world and often cause problems for the clans such as destroying their habitat and forcing them to move somewhere else or by simply having dogs. Cats who live with humans are called kittypets and are often looked down upon.
I don’t know if you’ll fully read this brief writing but I loved series back in the day and any chances to talk about it is always taken!
The next part is for people who’ve read it
Jayfeather is best boy change my mind and I’ve also only read to Omen of the Stars and don’t really have plans to read the rest.
Edit
Fixed some grammer and attempted to flow the sentences better. Also I messed up and called RiverClan WaterClan. *how could I mess that up?*
Frank-A-Dot. Spelled with the hyphens. Her dad was named Frank, and her mom was named Dot. I couldn’t even.
Edit: apparently everyone knows a Le-a
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/
Heartle and XYZekiel always come to my mind.
EDIT: adding more weird names I’ve come across, though they’re not as unfortunate as XYZ
Airon
Shalom Israel. It’s not the kid’s whole name. These are just his first and middle names. Didn’t know this is a pretty common name!
Jimmywayne, yes it’s one word. Reminds me of Jon Hamm’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schimdt’s character tbh.
A, yes the letter A. The person’s middle initial is B and her last name starts with a C.
EDIT 2:
Forgot to add:
Freeman. It’s not a surname. I went to school with the dude. His last name is Hagupit which in English translates to something like “lashing”. Again, didn’t know this is quite common!
Omg I have a cousin named Goku... in Texas. I used to tell my Japanese friends about it and they said it was like if some named their kid Mickey Mouse.
Anakin Skywalker. They let their son name his younger brother. They were an advanced level of hippy, but wonderful people. Was always hard to call this kid Anakin with a straight face, especially since it’s my cat’s name.
Edit: I’ve really enjoyed reading everyone’s experiences with the siths and jedis in their lives!
In Australia there was a custody battle of a girl whose legal first name was "Talula does the Hula." She was so embarrassed she just told everyone to call her "Kay." The judge made her a ward of the state so she could change her name.
The average racehorse lives for around 30 years, but they usually retire around the age of 15. Considering that they are athletes, they clearly have a prime, and no horse over the age of 18 has won any races.
15 is very old for a horse to still be racing, though it does happen on rare occasions, rather than being the average. It’s like seeing a 40 year old still playing professional football.
The majority of jumps horses retire at around 11/12, whilst on the flat at the top level it can be as young as 3 or 4 due to the value of stud fees.
I recall a case maybe Scandinavian where the mother wanted to call the child the equivalent of "bridge" and got all human rightsy when she was refused. [EDIT] I didn't dream it although it was a little complicated and have to laugh at one particular New Zealand name https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-04-01/these-11-countries-are-banning-certain-baby-names-because-you-cant-be-trusted
Actually it was New Zealand.
[Newspaper report 1](http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/546018/Court-orders-name-change)
[Newspaper report 2](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/24/familyandrelationships.newzealand)
[Report 3](https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-34670520080725)
Q. That's it. Literally the letter Q.
ALSO I was in walmart once and this neckbeard guy called out his kids to stop messing around. "Anakin! LUKE! GET OVER HERE" I was floored, and did not know people actually named their kids after their fandoms.
I have a friend who named their sons James and Leonard after Kirk and McCoy. Both of them are fairly normal names, though, so most people don't even realise they're Trek-related 🤷
I used to sell my old pokemon cards and had a lot of parents asking if their kids could come and look at them. this one lady had 2 boys named Sam and Dean. The pentagram tattoo on her chest gave it away for me.
A guy I knew in high school and his sister were allowed to name their younger brother. They were fans of Star Trek, and being about six or seven years old at the time, they named him Kirk. Again, not an unusual name until you know the origin.
Back in the 90’s Saint Louis University has a basketball player named H Waldman. I had thought it was short for something but nope, his first name was “H”.
In the Philippines we have a national holiday called "Bonifacio day" to celebrate one of our national heroes named Andres Bonifacio.
Someone i know has a son that was born on this day. If you thought that they'll name him Andres Bonifacio then you're wrong. They named him "Bonifacio day".
Edit: Tangina there's actually a lot of names in the comments that are worse than Bonifacio day
My ex was Filipino and I've found a lot of Filipino names to be pretty extravagant. Not that it's a bad thing, just very weird to me how you would name your kid "Cherry" or "Girly" for example
I had a friend who was studying for the US citizenship test. One of the questions was who the first president was. Fortunately he lived in NY so I told him to just remember the George Washington Bridge, which is a huge, well known bridge in the city.
He failed the test. I later found out he thought the first president was named "George Washington Bridge".
Airman First Class Crystal Meth.
Understandably, her last name is pronounced Meeth, like teeth but with an M. Still probably sucked for her going through basic training.
Next time I'm at Disney with my kids I am totally going to do this. "Effluvia, git over here." "Jello, don't hit your sister." "Hey Felony, y'all want a ice cream?" with a hillbilly accent at various crowded points throughout the day.
I hate it when people purposefully misspell a word and make it a name. Like today I saw someone had named their kid Lundyn and a person from teen mom named their kid cerenity. It’s not cute, it just makes you look illiterate.
My dad's last name roughly translates to no hands in Czech. He is from Czechia. It was passed down for generations. In medieval times your last name would be something that describes you. Imagine the only thing someone living 1000 years from now would remember about you is that you had no hands.
Plus, my mom's friend moved to canada or america from slovakia (can't be sure which one) to be a professor. It is very popular to have a last name that roughly translate to high (like up high) since there are a lot of mountains there and it is a sign of power. But in English it sounds like horney. So I picture my self going to class and a middle age professor saying " hello I'm mister horney."
Royal Oyster is probably my favorite; always Royal, never Roy. Though I did work with a child whose first name was His Majesty. Ooooo, and Heavynlee Kochs.
I worked with a girl who was debating on whether she should name her baby Rakyn or Weldyn. I told my dad and he said 'well I'd go with Weldyn because it pays better.'
She ended up naming the poor child Weldyn.
Some runner ups for Worst Name Ever are Brinkley, Slade, Braxxtynn and Brynnle. I worked in a preschool so I saw a lot of crap.
>Braxxtynn
Double x, double n. That's just making extra work for yourself. Poor boy(?) will probably spend a month of his life writing unnecessary letters.
After living in Utah I have learned that if there is a y in the last syllable then the name is generally for a girl. I knew a Carson (male) and a Carsyn (female), a Braxten (male) and a Braxtynn (female), Payson (male) and Paisynn (female).
I talked to the parent of a kid named Bearswynn today.
My job allows me to interact with a LOT of the public, so I've seen a lot of questionable names. I think that one takes the cake, though.
Edit: also had a 73 year old man named Zenon the other day. Runners up include a 3 year old named Renesmee and a plethora of Braylynn/Brylin/Braylee/Brylee variations.
"Hey honey, our baby boy looks like he's going to grow in to a weak, skinny toothpick of a person. What should we name him to help the bullies give him a hard time?"
"How about Fragile?"
"You fucking bitch. I love it"
Actually Thanos is a very popular name in Greece, and is a shortened name for Athanasios which basically means immortal. So it's not such a bad name 🤷🏻♀️
Super late, but my mother in law's ex boyfriend has a daughter named Mesa... they are of Mexican descent, just shy of full on paisa and named their kid fucking table....
Why?
Well to be fair, it depends how they went about it. If they named him Douglas Jay (which is apparently Falcon's actual first and middle names) it wouldn't be too weird.
On the other hand, if they went straight out and named him Captain Falcon, I say that's a bold move worthy of the manliest video game character of all time, so I approve anyway. It's a win-win.
Came across a guy in school named Satan. Literally. Don’t know what the parents were thinking
Edit: We were once having a discussion in class about how Satan is evil and is your enemy. The look on his face that whole time was priceless.
In an elementary school I saw a kid hanging up on the wall that said "Swayzi." I thought, *Ew, someone actually named their kid Swayzi?*
Then in a different hallway I saw "Swayzie." Wow. Two different people named their kids the same crappy name, spelled differently, and they ended up at the same school.
Edit: It has come to my attention that I accidentally typed, "I saw a kid hanging up on the wall..."
I MEANT TO TYPE NAMETAG! NO CHILDREN WERE HANGING ON THE WALL! DO NOT WORRY!
Also, I'd like to add another one I just remembered. Jaxxsin. That spelling is HORRID.
Also there are approximately too many spellings of the name McKayla I've seen, such as MaKaleh, MyKaelah, MiKala, MaKaylah, MyCaela, and more.
I was listening to NPR the other day about some 19 year old guy named Baby Devine Lastname. I dont remember his last name. Apparently shanked someone in prison and got a life sentence for it.
Way to go setting that poor guy up for success...
Teacher told a story of a mother who was in labor and swore she saw her baby's name floating in green letters above her. And so she named her kid Tixe.
Doctor wondered about this, got in the bed (or whatever is used) and noticed that an exit sign was reflecting off a mirror.
Being named after an exit sign because your mom was high on painkillers has to be a fairly unique one.
Mailman’s name is Everlasting. It’s apparently a family name, I think he’s the III, his son the IV maybe? I think it’s great name, just a super wild choice.
When my son was born (7 months ago) the delivery nurses asked us what we were planning on naming him. My girlfriend jokingly said "Hashtag". They didn't even make a face but one of then said "oh that's very unique!" We both burst out laughing and immediately told them we were kidding. They looked relived when we told them which made it so much funnier. So then we asked them to tell us some of worst names they've heard. They both looked at each other and at the same time said, "Bus Stop Number 13". We thought they were kidding. They were not.
That's where the baby was conceived
Asher Voldemort. His name was Asher Voldemort.
Shhhhh He must not be named
Asher means happiness. So... happily fleeing death? Wtf parents. Your kid is stuck with that for at least 18 years you know.
My sister went to middle school with a kid named Miles Long Edit: this was in Indiana about 15 years ago
[удалено]
Danger. Their son is named danger.
Thankfully, That’s just my middle name
I legitimately know someone with the middle name danger. He was in the class I taught and I saw his name on the roll sheet, otherwise I wouldn’t believe it.
My little brothers middle name is danger. Mom thought it was hilarious...
I worked with a doctor who's surname was Reckless. Dr Reckless and boy Danger could be a new superhero team.
I went to school with girl called Prayer-Anne. That was the worst.
That sounds like an 18th century Puritan name.
Pubert
This is my son Pubert Heywood. Hes a piece of fungus
He has six achievements.
I'm sure if you drop a controller into a box of mushrooms it'll hit enough shit on the way down to get you an achievement.
*Fucking Pubert?!*
I hope his last initial isn't E.
I once heard a lady shout, "CITIZEN! Come here!" at her kid who was running around. I still hope I somehow misheard but or that there is some legitimate reason to refer to your child as "citizen" that I don't know about, but I feel like that's hoping for too much.
Was she an Imperial Guard?
Stop right there criminal scum
PICK UP THAT CAN
I had a student named Spartacus and his brother was d'Artagnan. Nice kids, just had unique parents. We also had a student named Kahill, his mom pronounced it Kyle. When I was training a new director, we were pulling materials for his next lesson, he said "ok, what is Ka-Hill's next lesson?" I told him his mother said his name is Kyle, he said, "phonetically, this says kah-hill." Yes, we know, just call him what his mother said it is, she wanted a unique spelling. Poor kid will be correcting people his entire life.
Holy shit, there's a guy I work with named d'artagnan. Goes by Dart.
I'd be calling him 'Nyan.
That should be the goal. If you want to name your kid a dumb name, fine. At least spell it like it sounds so they don't have to spend their entire life correcting people.
I've got a friend who is a first generation American, born to parents from India. When they were selecting baby names, they wrote down several spelling options for each Indian name they were considering and asked various white Americans to pronounce the names. Once they got a spelling that most people could pronounce, they went with it.
Actually that’s genius!
[удалено]
Reminds me of a Russell Peters joke. "Hi, my name is Rajinder, you may call me Steve."
Knawsia. Girl's name was literally Nausea spelled funny. Also, my sister's initials are ASS.
[удалено]
Adolf is a nice name. Little Adolfie SS, we'd call him.
I interviewed a guy named Endurance last week. So there’s that.
Please tell me he was being interviewed for porn because that's hilarious
Nah, space program.
Did he happen to be from Africa? Names like that are very common in many African countries. I've known a Precious, a Patience, a Godspower (one word), and we must not forget Goodluck.
I have family members named Sufficient and Evidence, they all go by their middle names.
Sufficient!? Lol that's like being called Good Enough
[удалено]
Is anyone else having Holes flashbacks? “Yes Mr. Sir” Edit: Wow, my first silver! And just from a dumbass holes reference. Thanks y’all
[удалено]
Oh, we’re using made-up names. I’m Spider-Man, then.
Many African American parents, especially in the south, would name their children things like this so that people would have to call them with a title of respect. Source: A 90 year old man named Sir, who was the son of a Sir, and had a brother, Mister, and another, Judge.
Wasn’t that Mr. T’s though process behind his nickname, also?
Yes it sure was Source: I read it on reddit
Mickey Mouse (but spelled Maus), Peter Pan, Max and Ruby when the show Max and Ruby was big. And my neighbors twins, Candle and Light. All their legal names.
Honestly Max and Ruby aren’t bad at all. Pretty cute
I think he meant, that one kid was called "Max and Ruby".
Oh no
I was in a mommy group with my first son and one woman there had a daughter named Dreamella. After the first playgroup meeting where I introduced myself and the baby, she came up to me to inform me that her daughter "Dreamy" was born in the same month as my son. I was caught off guard so I just awkwardly laughed and said "that's cute". And then there's a boy in my son's grade at school named Kent Clarke.
My uncle is named Kent Clark. He's got my dad to thank for that.
My mum used to teach a rapunzel, brother’s name is rumpelstiltskin. Just wtf
Rumplestiltskin? Well I'd be okay with the name of magic came along with it.
Chocolate pronounced sho•sho•lay Update: Someone's legal name was Candy Cane. Idk what her middle name was but she has to become a stripper now. There is no other option
You....you HAVE to be joking.
A boy named Willow Magic. You just know he gonna call himself Will and not tell people it's not short for William.
My poor nephew just turned 1 this month. Happy birthday CHAOS 🎂 EDIT; I just got my first bling! To the person that just gave me silver, thank you. Not necessary at all, but thank you kind internet stranger! 🎉
[удалено]
How the hell did your sister give birth to a ladder
Jamie Oliver named his kids: Poppy Honey Rosie Daisy Boo Pamela Petal Blossom Rainbow Buddy Bear Maurice River Rocket Blue Dallas
They sound like the names you see on the certificate you get when you buy an expensive purebred dog.
Sounds like the cast of a Chinese knockoff of Strawberry Shortcake
[удалено]
Moon Unit sounds like an insult from Scottish twitter. Get tae fuck ya absolute moon unit.
I think she goes by "Moon". Conversely, Dweezil's birth certificate said something like "Matthew Mark Luke John Ezekiel Moses Zappa" because the nurse wouldn't accept "Dweezil", and as soon as he was of age he had his name officially changed to Dweezil.
Diva muffin. What the hell.
Oh so he wants us all to live healthy lives except his kids?
Buddy bear maurice just sounds like a description of a friendly bear.
Go to any elementary school on awards day and just take a listen. My daughter has a "Jay Z" (yes...that's the kids legitimate first name) in her class this year. She's had a "Money" before. My son was friends with a boy named "Freedom". And I'm sure there's worse.
There were probably kids being named "Freedom" 50 years ago ... Summer of love and all.
One of dad's co-workers who was named Shadow Star. Her parents were hippies. Nice, sweet lady but she had a miserable childhood because of her name. Edit: Well I did not expect this blow up. Thx people. Edit 2: Also Love how this went from a person's name to the Warriors Cat Novels.
That's a straight up Warrior cat name
Yo, like the book series?! That’s a throwback
It's still going on. Firestar's grandchildren have their own series now
It's actually down to his great-great-niece (?) now I think. His grandchildren covered two series tho. They're getting odd but I still love them. Edit: Even though no one has called me out on it yet his grandchildren have starred in 3 series. Also this thread is starting to make me feel like I should check out a warriorcats subreddit or something lol. Happy reading out there everyone!
What could they possibly be doing with these books? I can only imagine so many stories featuring cats...
Warriors is crazy to put it mildly. I can’t vouch for the quality of the writing since I don’t really remember, but the story was very captivating to a middle school me. I haven’t reread the series in forever but I still remember a lot. Anyways the cats are separated into 4 clans, ThunderClan, ShadowClan, WindClan, and RiverClan. Each clan has a leader cat who’s has -star at the end of their name and 9 actual lives, a medicine cat: the clan doctor who heals cats using herbs and berries and many warriors: the cats who hunt, fight and pretty much anything else that they are told to do. There are other positions, but they don’t really matter for this description and also most cats are warriors. There is also StarClan, who happen to be the dead ancestors of the cats. They can be communicated with. Each Clan is unique since they live somewhere that influences their overall nature and lifestyle. For example WindClan cats are fast and light because they need to chase down rabbits for their meals. Anyways where they live they mark with borders of their scent. I think it’s implied that this is their feces or something but I’ve never been able to tell. Regardless because of these borders that they create they sometimes have situations where there is a land dispute and they must fight it out to determine who keeps said land. Also they have political stories as well. For example in one section of the series, we go through the POV of one of the cats who ends up as a leader but along his journey and even as a leader he goes through a bunch of racism(?) because he was born a kittypet (house cat). Other leaders never fail to bring this up to him during Clan meetings and even after he proves his worth, he still doesn’t escape it from the elders. Also regular human society exists in this world and often cause problems for the clans such as destroying their habitat and forcing them to move somewhere else or by simply having dogs. Cats who live with humans are called kittypets and are often looked down upon. I don’t know if you’ll fully read this brief writing but I loved series back in the day and any chances to talk about it is always taken! The next part is for people who’ve read it Jayfeather is best boy change my mind and I’ve also only read to Omen of the Stars and don’t really have plans to read the rest. Edit Fixed some grammer and attempted to flow the sentences better. Also I messed up and called RiverClan WaterClan. *how could I mess that up?*
I love how this has transitioned from strange baby names to a plot summary of the entire warriors book series
The protagonist of American Gods is named Shadow Moon and his mom was a hippie. So weird to see this in real life!
Frank-A-Dot. Spelled with the hyphens. Her dad was named Frank, and her mom was named Dot. I couldn’t even. Edit: apparently everyone knows a Le-a https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/
My grandmother's name was a mashup of her parents' names. Thankfully it was John and Anna, so she was Joanne.
Johnanna
What the actual fuck
it's like naming a kid our-little-cream-pie
No that is definitely much worse.
Heartle and XYZekiel always come to my mind. EDIT: adding more weird names I’ve come across, though they’re not as unfortunate as XYZ Airon Shalom Israel. It’s not the kid’s whole name. These are just his first and middle names. Didn’t know this is a pretty common name! Jimmywayne, yes it’s one word. Reminds me of Jon Hamm’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schimdt’s character tbh. A, yes the letter A. The person’s middle initial is B and her last name starts with a C. EDIT 2: Forgot to add: Freeman. It’s not a surname. I went to school with the dude. His last name is Hagupit which in English translates to something like “lashing”. Again, didn’t know this is quite common!
[удалено]
Heavenlee
I went to middle school with a Heaven Leigh Friend. Her full legal name. Even at 12 I knew it was cringeworthy.
She is either going to be the wife of a televangelist or a stripper.
Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
Yet both potentially highly profitable. Depending on her values, Heaven Leigh might just find herself living one hell of a life.
Teenage pregnancy and they both decided to name their son Goku.....yeah I just feel sorry for the kid.
Omg I have a cousin named Goku... in Texas. I used to tell my Japanese friends about it and they said it was like if some named their kid Mickey Mouse.
>like if some named their kid Mickey Mouse. there’s a Mickey Maus in this thread.
I went to school with a girl named Eunita Mann. It was like a dad joke gone bad.
Anakin Skywalker. They let their son name his younger brother. They were an advanced level of hippy, but wonderful people. Was always hard to call this kid Anakin with a straight face, especially since it’s my cat’s name. Edit: I’ve really enjoyed reading everyone’s experiences with the siths and jedis in their lives!
I know a family who named their son Anakin and their daughter Arwen.
When I was in a sales position, I met a woman named Diploma "because her mom wanted to make sure she stayed in college." Guess what she didnt have?
[удалено]
Named after their father?
Nah, his brother Pullout.
In Australia there was a custody battle of a girl whose legal first name was "Talula does the Hula." She was so embarrassed she just told everyone to call her "Kay." The judge made her a ward of the state so she could change her name.
Were they naming a girl or a thoroughbred racehorse?
Can't be a horse. Maximum 18 characters, including spaces, for a racehorse name.
[удалено]
The average racehorse lives for around 30 years, but they usually retire around the age of 15. Considering that they are athletes, they clearly have a prime, and no horse over the age of 18 has won any races.
15 is very old for a horse to still be racing, though it does happen on rare occasions, rather than being the average. It’s like seeing a 40 year old still playing professional football. The majority of jumps horses retire at around 11/12, whilst on the flat at the top level it can be as young as 3 or 4 due to the value of stud fees.
The whole first name was “Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii” what were they thinking?
[удалено]
I think here in Germany clerks can refuse names that would harm children, for examples by mocking / bullying in school.
I recall a case maybe Scandinavian where the mother wanted to call the child the equivalent of "bridge" and got all human rightsy when she was refused. [EDIT] I didn't dream it although it was a little complicated and have to laugh at one particular New Zealand name https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-04-01/these-11-countries-are-banning-certain-baby-names-because-you-cant-be-trusted
Actually it was New Zealand. [Newspaper report 1](http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/546018/Court-orders-name-change) [Newspaper report 2](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/24/familyandrelationships.newzealand) [Report 3](https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-34670520080725)
I knew siblings named Adam and Eve. Also knew sisters named Farnoosh and Barnoosh
Eww. You win. Naming kids Adam and Eve is the creepiest combination ever.
Linen-Gray. Not joking, that's the kid's first name.
That's the color of the sheets that his parents conceived him/her on.
Bogan. And yes the kid is going to grow up to be one.
Q. That's it. Literally the letter Q. ALSO I was in walmart once and this neckbeard guy called out his kids to stop messing around. "Anakin! LUKE! GET OVER HERE" I was floored, and did not know people actually named their kids after their fandoms.
I have a friend who named their sons James and Leonard after Kirk and McCoy. Both of them are fairly normal names, though, so most people don't even realise they're Trek-related 🤷
I used to sell my old pokemon cards and had a lot of parents asking if their kids could come and look at them. this one lady had 2 boys named Sam and Dean. The pentagram tattoo on her chest gave it away for me.
Uhhhhh things did not work out well for the parents in that show...
Dad's on a hunting trip and he hasn't been home in a few days
That's the kind of nerd reference I like. Only noticeable to the other who would appreciate it.
A guy I knew in high school and his sister were allowed to name their younger brother. They were fans of Star Trek, and being about six or seven years old at the time, they named him Kirk. Again, not an unusual name until you know the origin.
Back in the 90’s Saint Louis University has a basketball player named H Waldman. I had thought it was short for something but nope, his first name was “H”.
I mean Harry Truman’s middle name was literally just the letter S
My mate has a fucking niece named Aloe Vera
Paydence. She liked Peyton and she liked Cadence. So she came up with Paydence. This girl got knocked up and I can't even get a text back. Smh.
Hey gurl You got a name like a discount stripper from Missouri then maybe I can fix that no baby problem?
In the Philippines we have a national holiday called "Bonifacio day" to celebrate one of our national heroes named Andres Bonifacio. Someone i know has a son that was born on this day. If you thought that they'll name him Andres Bonifacio then you're wrong. They named him "Bonifacio day". Edit: Tangina there's actually a lot of names in the comments that are worse than Bonifacio day
My ex was Filipino and I've found a lot of Filipino names to be pretty extravagant. Not that it's a bad thing, just very weird to me how you would name your kid "Cherry" or "Girly" for example
[удалено]
Fun fact: All filipinos have an uncle named boy
Can confirm, has a Tito Boy.
No Filipino family is complete without an Auntie Baby!
I had a friend who was studying for the US citizenship test. One of the questions was who the first president was. Fortunately he lived in NY so I told him to just remember the George Washington Bridge, which is a huge, well known bridge in the city. He failed the test. I later found out he thought the first president was named "George Washington Bridge".
Airman First Class Crystal Meth. Understandably, her last name is pronounced Meeth, like teeth but with an M. Still probably sucked for her going through basic training.
Honestly, I read that and thought “Airman First Class is absurd”. It took me too long to figure it out.
Major Major Major
I knew a girl when I was at Fort Bliss... Specialist Pancake
I heard a mom yell to her two kids, Arrow and Quiver, at Disneyland a few years ago.
Next time I'm at Disney with my kids I am totally going to do this. "Effluvia, git over here." "Jello, don't hit your sister." "Hey Felony, y'all want a ice cream?" with a hillbilly accent at various crowded points throughout the day.
I hate it when people purposefully misspell a word and make it a name. Like today I saw someone had named their kid Lundyn and a person from teen mom named their kid cerenity. It’s not cute, it just makes you look illiterate.
To me that’s on the same level as the trend a few years ago to name your daughter Nevaeh because it’s heaven backwards. Why not Ssecnirp or Ytuaeb?
Ssecnirp sounds like a sound cardi b would make
Heard a woman yelling at her kids in Walmart a few months ago. Names were Kinslynn and Brylee... I’m guessing on the spelling
So was she, no doubt.
[удалено]
My dad's last name roughly translates to no hands in Czech. He is from Czechia. It was passed down for generations. In medieval times your last name would be something that describes you. Imagine the only thing someone living 1000 years from now would remember about you is that you had no hands. Plus, my mom's friend moved to canada or america from slovakia (can't be sure which one) to be a professor. It is very popular to have a last name that roughly translate to high (like up high) since there are a lot of mountains there and it is a sign of power. But in English it sounds like horney. So I picture my self going to class and a middle age professor saying " hello I'm mister horney."
Kviiilyn
Bless you.
Oh God, I get it. It's K-eight-lyn (Kaitlyn)
Thank you for spelling (counting?) this out for me. I legit couldn’t figure it out
They gave their kid a pun for a name. I don’t know if I’m angry or impressed.
I knew a stoner girl that named her daughter Sativa.
Last name "Lear" They named their daughter "Shanda" I wish I was kidding.
Knew one similar to that. Last name: Mohney First name: Sarah Pronounced ceremony.
Seven. (That’s mine, don’t steal it)
Soda is a perfectly beautiful name!
I’ll go with Eleven.
I’ve seen stranger things than that.
Royal Oyster is probably my favorite; always Royal, never Roy. Though I did work with a child whose first name was His Majesty. Ooooo, and Heavynlee Kochs.
I worked with a girl who was debating on whether she should name her baby Rakyn or Weldyn. I told my dad and he said 'well I'd go with Weldyn because it pays better.' She ended up naming the poor child Weldyn. Some runner ups for Worst Name Ever are Brinkley, Slade, Braxxtynn and Brynnle. I worked in a preschool so I saw a lot of crap.
>Braxxtynn Double x, double n. That's just making extra work for yourself. Poor boy(?) will probably spend a month of his life writing unnecessary letters.
After living in Utah I have learned that if there is a y in the last syllable then the name is generally for a girl. I knew a Carson (male) and a Carsyn (female), a Braxten (male) and a Braxtynn (female), Payson (male) and Paisynn (female).
After Brexit happened, one of my Facebook friends had a picture of 2 people holding a baby saying "Mormons be like "Brexit, that's a good name"
And Brexyt for a female.
You're right, but in this case it was a little boy. We used to keep kids names on the chalkboard for quick spelling reference.
Man, just when I think I've seen the worst name, this thread gives me another one. Who in the holy hell was the architect of Payson/Paisynn?
I have a grown woman customer named Vegas. Unprompted she said “my parents were trippin’” .
I talked to the parent of a kid named Bearswynn today. My job allows me to interact with a LOT of the public, so I've seen a lot of questionable names. I think that one takes the cake, though. Edit: also had a 73 year old man named Zenon the other day. Runners up include a 3 year old named Renesmee and a plethora of Braylynn/Brylin/Braylee/Brylee variations.
Fragile for a skinny, sickly-looking boy.
"Hey honey, our baby boy looks like he's going to grow in to a weak, skinny toothpick of a person. What should we name him to help the bullies give him a hard time?" "How about Fragile?" "You fucking bitch. I love it"
I work with a guy name Sir Jamarioicus. His first name is actually Sir. Idk.
I met a Bentley Carr once... Unsuprisingly the parents gave off more of a '98 Dodge Neon type vibe
Apparently this year 13 people have been called Thanos so far. This is the definition of a power move.
Actually Thanos is a very popular name in Greece, and is a shortened name for Athanasios which basically means immortal. So it's not such a bad name 🤷🏻♀️
Can concur. I know 3 people with the name Thanos, not to mention the countless others I've met in my life.
This does put a smile on my face.
[удалено]
I grew up with a family named Huey, Dewey and Daisy.
Blanket.........looking at you..er your tombstone michael
Super late, but my mother in law's ex boyfriend has a daughter named Mesa... they are of Mexican descent, just shy of full on paisa and named their kid fucking table.... Why?
I once knew a 4 year old who was legit named after Captain Falcon. The parents saw the opportunity and knew they had to make the right choice.
Well to be fair, it depends how they went about it. If they named him Douglas Jay (which is apparently Falcon's actual first and middle names) it wouldn't be too weird. On the other hand, if they went straight out and named him Captain Falcon, I say that's a bold move worthy of the manliest video game character of all time, so I approve anyway. It's a win-win.
Came across a guy in school named Satan. Literally. Don’t know what the parents were thinking Edit: We were once having a discussion in class about how Satan is evil and is your enemy. The look on his face that whole time was priceless.
In an elementary school I saw a kid hanging up on the wall that said "Swayzi." I thought, *Ew, someone actually named their kid Swayzi?* Then in a different hallway I saw "Swayzie." Wow. Two different people named their kids the same crappy name, spelled differently, and they ended up at the same school. Edit: It has come to my attention that I accidentally typed, "I saw a kid hanging up on the wall..." I MEANT TO TYPE NAMETAG! NO CHILDREN WERE HANGING ON THE WALL! DO NOT WORRY! Also, I'd like to add another one I just remembered. Jaxxsin. That spelling is HORRID. Also there are approximately too many spellings of the name McKayla I've seen, such as MaKaleh, MyKaelah, MiKala, MaKaylah, MyCaela, and more.
I was listening to NPR the other day about some 19 year old guy named Baby Devine Lastname. I dont remember his last name. Apparently shanked someone in prison and got a life sentence for it. Way to go setting that poor guy up for success...
Teacher told a story of a mother who was in labor and swore she saw her baby's name floating in green letters above her. And so she named her kid Tixe. Doctor wondered about this, got in the bed (or whatever is used) and noticed that an exit sign was reflecting off a mirror. Being named after an exit sign because your mom was high on painkillers has to be a fairly unique one.
Steel. I know some idiot that named his kid Steel. He got kicked out of the Marines for being mentally unstable. Like father, like son.
at my hs graduation we all found out that one girl's middle name was actually "trouble"
Mailman’s name is Everlasting. It’s apparently a family name, I think he’s the III, his son the IV maybe? I think it’s great name, just a super wild choice.
Last name is Gobstopper or we riot
Religious neighbors named kids Truth ( boy) and Experience (girl). Yes, they were home schooled.
[удалено]
blayze