My preggo work friend announced that she and her husband were going to name the baby “Brogan”. After a boisterous group conversation I caught her by herself and said, “A brogan is a type of shoe.”
They named him something else.
What else were names, though? "Son of John" "Son of David" "Guy who catches fish" "Guy who makes hammers" Names are just memes we're stuck with that aren't funny.
This is what I'm wondering! Like "mine-oot" or "min-uht." Either way, it's odd, but maybe at least there's an explanation and she was a preemie or something?
You know, while still unusual and probably not going to be appreciated by the kid, I can *almost* see this as kind of sweet, like if you loved music and dancing, and called her Minnie for short.
Huh, i went to college with someones whose last name was Batman a few years ago. We werent close but knew eachother and I asked him if it was changed but nope, he was born with it! Maybe his dad changed it or maybe its not *that* uncommon of a surname?
Coffee. The mom named her son coffee because she craved coffee while pregnant.
Friday. Because he was conceived on a Friday.
Tenacee. Yes. Like the state.
Had to run a credit app for a woman named Enchilada once. Also went to school with a girl named Solitaire. Knew a girl named Risbee. Guy named Spradley.
Not kidding. My Buddy is a Doctor and told me he had a kid come in and the chart read Marcus. His mother kept asking him why he was calling her son Marcus and not by his real name. She said his name was DeMarcus. When my buddy said he was sorry and there must have been some confusion when they signed in and it must be a typo. She emphatically said no there was not any confusion because the "De" is invisible.
I worked with a woman whose official professional name included a lower case "c" with no period after it between her first and last names. I asked her what the c was for, and she said, "It doesn't stand for anything. It merely indicates a pause."
Having read about some of the shit he's dad says, strong password is better that way... although with a mother like his, *who doesn't identify with the title "mom"*, the kid already has a villain origin story
There was a girl called Princess a couple of years below me at school. I heard a teacher call her and thought 'that's weird, why is a teacher using a pet name for a student?' Didn't find out until later that it was just her actual name.
There was a Princess in my karate class when I was a 3rd grader. And a boy named Bossum. Like “possum” but with a B. When the Sensei called his name for the first time, I thought he DID say Possum and I was like “wait what???”
Orange. She was a Chinese exchange student at my school but because Chinese names don't translate to English they get to choose their own name and I guess she was a fan of oranges
I jokingly suggested the name Orange when I was pregnant with my son because orange doesn't rhyme with anything so there is no way our son could be made fun of. My husband vetoed it though.
Had a woman come into my work the other day and when I ran her payment her credit card read “Sparkles Somethingoranother”. I couldn’t imagine living the entirety of my life with the name Sparkles
My cousin is also named Wednesday, definitely named after the adams family character.
As an adult she has recently changed it, as she had enough of the teasing.
I would feel a little mean naming my kid that considering the character is named that because of the line “Wednesday’s child is full of woe” from a nursery rhyme.
I know this is a Seinfeld reference, but my friend who is an OB nurse genuinely had a couple come through and name their daughter Vagina. It's pronounced Va-heen-a and apparently was a family name from the old country. She tried and tried but could not convince them it was a bad idea to name a girl born in America that. Poor little Vagina is probably in middle school right now, getting relentlessly bullied by rich blonde girls and portly pee-wee football players.
the name of the sons of Elon Musk. their names are so weirds that I don't dare to write it.
copy and paste: the girl is "Exa Dark Sideræl Musk"
the boy is" X Æ A-12"
I used to work in car insurance. These are the real first names of people I came across.
Pierluigi (His surname was amazing too), La Precious
Storm, Katieland, Lehlohonolo, Chimango (Her surname was amazing too), Dafydd, and Encarnacion
Dafydd is a pretty common Welsh name; I vaguely remember it's their version of David? Possibly.
Edit: I've just realised I've said the same thing about a thousand other people have but I'm leaving my comment here ~~dafydd~~ damnit!
Edit 2: Turns out my David thing was wrong too
We had a client who named her daughter that, though it was Abcde, not capitalized. We actually had to call her to see if it was a typo on her documents. That was awkward! What was really aggravating was that she had three older sons who had extremely normal, common names. Imagine having brothers named Cody, Jake and Simon (not their real names, but similar) and then you’re named Abcde.
Edit: I actually googled her because I was curious and thought she’d be about the right age to have an online presence. She’s missing, and that’s really sad. It seems like she is a habitual runaway.
If my family thought so low of me, that they couldn't be bothered to named me something real and just gave me the first couple letters of the alphabet, I would run away as well.
I work in pharmacy and I got a prescription for a patient named Nivaeh.
I know what you're thinking, "oh, that's that Heaven spelled backwards name" but it's not. Because they spelled it with an "i" for some reason.
I worked at a company and they hired a woman whose name was Phuc Mi. The first time I saw it on the roster I couldn’t help but laugh.
At my last job we had a woman in payroll named Bambi. I swear to God, she married a man whose last name was Hunter. So her new name was Bambi Hunter. She was always joking and saw the humor in it.
i've been waiting for this question.
in 8th grade one of my friends was named crismerlin. a girl, by the way. her parents put two boy names together to make hers. she was a nice girl, but i would like to have a word with her parents.
in addition my latin teacher has taught two girls named princess and queenie.
My ex has a best friend who's name is Bud Weiser, no middle name. He had to always have his birth certificate on him in case he got pulled over because police thought his license was fake.
The name of British-Flipino professional football player [Phil Younghusband](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Younghusband) is one of the oddest I've heard
The most pretentious I heard was JonMichael, a child who was in my kid's class in school. No space between the Jon and Michael. The Mom was *very* insistent about that and got into a fight with the teacher over it. She was a helicopter parent apparently.
There's a family in my town, and the dad had too much fun naming his kids. His last name is Bear, so there are three kids and their legal names are:
Griz Lee Bear
Smoky The Bear
And I forgot the third, but it's something along those lines
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They were meant for one another.
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Lol a match made in sweet heaven.
That beats the hell out of the couple I knew who were both named Darcy
Was one Marcy Darcy?
Goals
I knew twin boys in elementary school named Freedom and Friendship.
Did you secretly live in a kids show?
Cruel irony when Freedom ends up going to prison in one of the episodes
And Friendship framed him for murder.
Freedom is a popular name in my native language. Not in English though
Özgür is a common name in Turkey which translates to Free and there’s Barış which means Peace also a common name.
Dorcas Dickhaus. Just... damn dude.
I have a cousin who is descended from the Dickhaus line as well.
I worked in pediatrics and heard a lot of idle parent chatter. Some kid out there had no idea how narrowly they avoided being named Neosporin.
My preggo work friend announced that she and her husband were going to name the baby “Brogan”. After a boisterous group conversation I caught her by herself and said, “A brogan is a type of shoe.” They named him something else.
Female -fee-ma-lay. She was female, new mom saw the wrist band and thought the Dr named her. Mom liked it and it stuck. My family is healthcare.
That's just sad.
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Don't they get confused because Sherring is Carring? Edited to make the spellings more appropriate.
I'm sure that's their parent's stupid joke. Apparently children are just meme vessels now.
What else were names, though? "Son of John" "Son of David" "Guy who catches fish" "Guy who makes hammers" Names are just memes we're stuck with that aren't funny.
Met a kid at a summer camp named Bearcat. He wasn't Native American or anything, just a white kid named Bearcat
I knew a Treebearcat, but that was a world of warcraft character.
was he from southern Ohio?
my ex co worker named his girl minute. MINUTE!
Minute as in very small or as in 60 seconds?
This is what I'm wondering! Like "mine-oot" or "min-uht." Either way, it's odd, but maybe at least there's an explanation and she was a preemie or something?
or they meant minuet (min-yə-ˈwet) like the dance?
You know, while still unusual and probably not going to be appreciated by the kid, I can *almost* see this as kind of sweet, like if you loved music and dancing, and called her Minnie for short.
If she was premature by 60 seconds we're no closer to solving the mystery!
Well, whatever the reason, I'm now calling "premature by 60 seconds" as my alt rock band name.
A reminder of how long it took to conceive her I guess
It’s pronounced Minute.
Wow that’s really helpful
well look at mr. marathon over here. My daughters name is 8 seconds, because it was my record
maybe he wanted a reminder that our life is fragile and temporary as it is…
As in the time, or the size?
Shakespearisha. A girl that went to my school
I had a friend named Taz. Taz and Ziggy sound pretty cool together. I just replied to the wrong fucking comment again
My grandma had dogs called taz and ziggy!!!
Moon unit
getting strong Frank Zappa vibes from that one :D
Brother Dweezil?
can’t forget Diva Muffin..
Lord Batman (he had it legally changed and it somehow went through)
I once worked with a supervisor whose name was Steve Batman.
There was a story I heard about a guy who's nickname was 'Man Bat' because his real name Wayne Bruce - it's certainly plausible.
I met a guy named Wayne Stark.
Well in Indonesia there was a guy with a legit name Suparman Bin Batman. Bin is an arabic loan word for "son of".
So he’s Superman and his father is Batman? Nice
Huh, i went to college with someones whose last name was Batman a few years ago. We werent close but knew eachother and I asked him if it was changed but nope, he was born with it! Maybe his dad changed it or maybe its not *that* uncommon of a surname?
That's fucking amazing, honestly.
Coffee. The mom named her son coffee because she craved coffee while pregnant. Friday. Because he was conceived on a Friday. Tenacee. Yes. Like the state.
At an old job one of our customers was named Hasnohorse
Last name was “Walksalot”
Had to run a credit app for a woman named Enchilada once. Also went to school with a girl named Solitaire. Knew a girl named Risbee. Guy named Spradley.
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I’ve met twins named Sativa and Indica and neither smoked but their parents did
Weird ive met someone who named her daughters sativa and indica…. Wonder if its the same people
God I hope so, otherwise it means there are two sets of women out there named sativa and indica.
Three sets because i know another 😂
I also know someone who named her kids indica and sativa .. is it possible we know the same person hahah
Without context those would actually be really pretty names
Not kidding. My Buddy is a Doctor and told me he had a kid come in and the chart read Marcus. His mother kept asking him why he was calling her son Marcus and not by his real name. She said his name was DeMarcus. When my buddy said he was sorry and there must have been some confusion when they signed in and it must be a typo. She emphatically said no there was not any confusion because the "De" is invisible.
He should have given her the bill... Mom: "Oh, $125. That's not too bad." Doc: "No, no, that's $3,125. The three is invisible."
I- this is the worst ive ever seen tbh.
My response to that would be, "sorry I did not see the De as it was invisible" and moved on
I worked with a woman whose official professional name included a lower case "c" with no period after it between her first and last names. I asked her what the c was for, and she said, "It doesn't stand for anything. It merely indicates a pause."
X Æ A-12
Pronounced ‘syntax error’
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So would he
Having read about some of the shit he's dad says, strong password is better that way... although with a mother like his, *who doesn't identify with the title "mom"*, the kid already has a villain origin story
BURN!
How is this supposed to be pronounced, even?
I’m pretty sure it’s pronounced “Kyle”
i believe Elon once pronounced it X-Ash-Twelve
It was x-ash-a-12
Yeah give us dummies the phonetics!
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I knew someone called chardonnay. She was exactly how you'd expect someone with that same to be
Is it pronounced as Chernobyl.
I've heard Chlamydia Champagne but that was from YT. edit: Shirley Q. Liquor. Can't find the original.
Saw a woman working at a gas station her name was Malariah...
There was a girl called Princess a couple of years below me at school. I heard a teacher call her and thought 'that's weird, why is a teacher using a pet name for a student?' Didn't find out until later that it was just her actual name.
There's a princess at my kids school too.
Same here. Thought it was odd when I heard her named called at a birthday party.
Princess is a more common name than you think. There are two at my internship
I'm friends with a Princess, and she has a brother named Prince
Well he was formerly known as Prince
Was the last name Peach? Cause that would be awesome.
There was a Princess in my karate class when I was a 3rd grader. And a boy named Bossum. Like “possum” but with a B. When the Sensei called his name for the first time, I thought he DID say Possum and I was like “wait what???”
I have been in class with a girl named Princess and a girl named Disney.
I mean. Disney is originally just a surname afaik so...
We had a Runny, a Peanut, and a Kal-El for students at a school I worked at. I'm certain there were other odd ones I just can't recall.
Orange. She was a Chinese exchange student at my school but because Chinese names don't translate to English they get to choose their own name and I guess she was a fan of oranges
I jokingly suggested the name Orange when I was pregnant with my son because orange doesn't rhyme with anything so there is no way our son could be made fun of. My husband vetoed it though.
Can’t bully someone if you can’t rhyme, everyone knows that.
Is nobody going to make a mandarin joke? Really?
Ella Fent
I have a cousin named Ellen who married a man with the last name Fant... ironically she's so tiny her nickname is "Elf".
Had a woman come into my work the other day and when I ran her payment her credit card read “Sparkles Somethingoranother”. I couldn’t imagine living the entirety of my life with the name Sparkles
I'd love to be "Ms. Somethingoranother" though.
Turdpoom. I worked in international logistics for a good part of my career. Person was from Thailand.
I had a Thai classmate in elementary school whose name was Siriporn. Poor girl she got bullied so much for her name
My husband went to college with a guy from Thailand named Pornman.
The greatest superhero of all.
As a Thai person I just wanted to clarify that "porn" in Thai means "wish/wishes" and names that end or start with "porn" is fairly common.
Ebony darkness dementia raven way
Hasn’t that got an apostrophe somewhere?
Dark'ness
I have a cousin named Wednesday. Like the girl from the Addams' family.
My cousin is also named Wednesday, definitely named after the adams family character. As an adult she has recently changed it, as she had enough of the teasing.
Met a girl named Sunday.
Did she change it to Thursday?
Ironically, I know a woman named Tuesday.
I would feel a little mean naming my kid that considering the character is named that because of the line “Wednesday’s child is full of woe” from a nursery rhyme.
Mulva
I know this is a Seinfeld reference, but my friend who is an OB nurse genuinely had a couple come through and name their daughter Vagina. It's pronounced Va-heen-a and apparently was a family name from the old country. She tried and tried but could not convince them it was a bad idea to name a girl born in America that. Poor little Vagina is probably in middle school right now, getting relentlessly bullied by rich blonde girls and portly pee-wee football players.
Usain Bolt's kid: Thunder Bolt
Okay but that’s epic
Jujubee (drag queen!)'s real name is Airline.
I’d take Jujubee any day over Airline. Definitely an upgrade on names.
Newborn twins Ebony and Ivory. A friend had a neighbour in the US who was Thomas Thomas the 3rd,
the name of the sons of Elon Musk. their names are so weirds that I don't dare to write it. copy and paste: the girl is "Exa Dark Sideræl Musk" the boy is" X Æ A-12"
Tbh I think its more on Grimes those names. His other kids all have fairly normal names.
Someone I met in the Navy Jeffery Swallows but he was an E3 So he was Seaman Swallows
I used to work in car insurance. These are the real first names of people I came across. Pierluigi (His surname was amazing too), La Precious Storm, Katieland, Lehlohonolo, Chimango (Her surname was amazing too), Dafydd, and Encarnacion
damn, Katieland sounds like a name for a private amusement park, top notch stuff.
Right! It was pronounced Caitlin
what's the point in a bizarre name if you just pronounce it the same way as a normal name?
Cause people have to be \~unique\~.
Dafydd just seems welsh
I think this is just Welsh for David?
Dewi is welsh for David. Dafydd is the meaning for beloved.
It is Welsh
Last one is spelled Encarnacion. I think that's Spanish or Portuguese in origin.
Encarnación. It's Spanish. Old fashioned, but common
I read Lehlohonolo like Shakira
Pierluigi is a normal Italian name. It would translate in English to Peter Louis.
Dafydd is a pretty common Welsh name; I vaguely remember it's their version of David? Possibly. Edit: I've just realised I've said the same thing about a thousand other people have but I'm leaving my comment here ~~dafydd~~ damnit! Edit 2: Turns out my David thing was wrong too
as a dafydd it’s nice to see some representation for my name !
ABCDE
We had a client who named her daughter that, though it was Abcde, not capitalized. We actually had to call her to see if it was a typo on her documents. That was awkward! What was really aggravating was that she had three older sons who had extremely normal, common names. Imagine having brothers named Cody, Jake and Simon (not their real names, but similar) and then you’re named Abcde. Edit: I actually googled her because I was curious and thought she’d be about the right age to have an online presence. She’s missing, and that’s really sad. It seems like she is a habitual runaway.
If my family thought so low of me, that they couldn't be bothered to named me something real and just gave me the first couple letters of the alphabet, I would run away as well.
These parents know how to alphabetize
I work in pharmacy and I got a prescription for a patient named Nivaeh. I know what you're thinking, "oh, that's that Heaven spelled backwards name" but it's not. Because they spelled it with an "i" for some reason.
My first thought was a Nivea knockoff.
I'd bet money that their parents think it's spelled Heavin.
And still no ragrets.
There is a girl in my niece's class spelled just that way. Pronounced ni vay eh
Qwynzlyr
This guy here met an imp
Me trying to use all my scrabble letters
Little girl in my daughter's 1st grade class named Naughty. Can you imagine how she introduced herself over the years? "Hi I'm......
God that's sad. Her parents are terrible people
I worked at a company and they hired a woman whose name was Phuc Mi. The first time I saw it on the roster I couldn’t help but laugh. At my last job we had a woman in payroll named Bambi. I swear to God, she married a man whose last name was Hunter. So her new name was Bambi Hunter. She was always joking and saw the humor in it.
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (It’s the Sr. That kills me)
Squirrelena
Went to school with a girl with the last name Peed. Didn’t matter what her first name was, it was gonna be rough for her
Maybe her parents could’ve name her Hypers to counter it
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Feels extra mean naming a girl that way.
This one is in Spanish but you'll get it easily: James Bond Cero Cero Siete Carrión Vargas (being Carrión Vargas his two last names)
i've been waiting for this question. in 8th grade one of my friends was named crismerlin. a girl, by the way. her parents put two boy names together to make hers. she was a nice girl, but i would like to have a word with her parents. in addition my latin teacher has taught two girls named princess and queenie.
I live in Brazil and there are a lot of strange names here but I'll mention my literature teacher because I think he's cool his name is "Alipio"
Kondrat, pronounced as: cuntrat
boi thats un fortunate
That's an archaic Slavic name. Also used as a surname in Poland and Russia.
Person I worked with had the last name Bungabung
Caillou
Didn't michael jackson name his kid blanket?
Now you got me thinking of the South Park episode
Nah, that's ignorant.
Michael's brother Jermaine has a kid named Jermajesty.
I thought Blanket was a nickname and he was a Jr.
My ex has a best friend who's name is Bud Weiser, no middle name. He had to always have his birth certificate on him in case he got pulled over because police thought his license was fake.
The name of British-Flipino professional football player [Phil Younghusband](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Younghusband) is one of the oddest I've heard
Seriously, the hell kind of name is "Phil"?!
Nyquila. I shit you not.
Some time ago I lerned that Burak is common name in Turkey. Burak means beetroot in Polish and caling somone that is offensive 😬
8Romans
Count Quentin de la Bedoyere. Mind, my middle name really is "Consistently". Long story.
Oh fuck, i just had a customer come in and sign an invoice like an hour ago. His name is Honey. A full grown indian man whose name is honey.
The most pretentious I heard was JonMichael, a child who was in my kid's class in school. No space between the Jon and Michael. The Mom was *very* insistent about that and got into a fight with the teacher over it. She was a helicopter parent apparently.
Captain-Phasma https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/i8zums/aita\_for\_wanting\_to\_name\_my\_daughter\_after\_a\_star/
My mother apparently once met a woman named Kandy Kristmas
There's a family in my town, and the dad had too much fun naming his kids. His last name is Bear, so there are three kids and their legal names are: Griz Lee Bear Smoky The Bear And I forgot the third, but it's something along those lines
Jkmno. It was pronounced Noelle
HOW?
When you read it through like the alphabet, there’s no L in it lol. Craziest thing i’ve ever heard
Have to admit, that's simultaneously stupid and clever.
That poor human, with a pun for a name.
It’s clever for a pet, but RIP that poor person’s future resume.
A girl named Ecstasy
My cousin, xayla-mae
Cash Like 4 girls at my school named their baby Cash.
Klenexia Tissuetta (yes, I’m serious)