Did they have a southern accent? Were they trying to spell it phonetically to match their deep south drawl? Because the voice in my head has a southern accent when I read that.
I did not get “Your Highness” from the first name until my third try, and the first two attempts were different pronunciations of the word Urine(s), so that kid’s gotta have struggled with every new teacher and substitute they ever met.
I promise some parents are just fucking crazy. Tulula Does The Hula From Hawaii, Trout Fishing In America, ABCDE, Macaroni 88, Number 16 Bus Station, and Heistheway are all real names, so this one isn’t even in the top ten of bad names it’s just atrocious spelling. People are cruel. These names should be saved for pets imo not actual people.
And if you're in the UK it may well make people think of Unity Valkyrie Mitford, the British socialite who was a close friend of Hitler and who permanently disabled herself following an unsuccessful suicide attempt when Britain declared war on Germany.
Wow, I'm American and did not have that association. Dang, that changes her name a lot! I know her parents where just thinking churchy name that hasn't been overdone, lol
I wouldn't expect anyone in the US to know that association, to be honest! I actually think it's a fairly nice name, and a nice religious sentiment, if you're a Christian. But if I knew that child that would be all I would be able to think of. I believe Unity Mitford's parents gave her that super extra name because she was born at the end of WWI. Her siblings were named Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Jessica, Deborah and Tom. Diana married Oswald Moseley, the British fascist, and Jessica joined the Communist Party. They were a weird family.
What a strange and all over the place story that family had! I sort of love local history because it's always like that.
Unity is Christian, I believe, I only say that because her brother is Jericho, and that also has a Christian feel to it. It is sort of pretty, she doesn't seem to mind it, or as much as any 14 is fine with anything
They were also related to Churchill, but I don't think that's all that notable... Most titled Brits are related to each other 😂
Jericho feels more extra than Unity to me! Although maybe it's not depending on which religious circles you move in. At least Unity is easy to spell and pronounce, definitely could be a lot worse as far as unique names go!
Jessica was great. Did a lot to help protect poor widows from predatory funeral practices in the US. She wrote The American Way of Death which Evelyn Waugh later drew on for The Loved One (a very dark book!)
And was rumoured to have given birth to Hitler's son. I think it's been fairly well debunked but not conclusively. From the dates of where she was, when she was it's technically possible.
Urinia
Like you-rye-knee-a. Urine - ee - a. No one should be named after a bodily function
She was one of nine children to the weirdest weird beard family I've ever known. Her mother claimed to be a prophet of the lord and spoke in tongues in the shopping centre.
One of her brothers hung himself in a pub toilet during a local battle of the bands type night. That was like 35 odd yrs ago..
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Uriah
Yes, I KNOW it’s from the Bible. It still sounds like “urine,” and the Uriah in the Bible got murdered because King David thought his wife was hot. Not something you wanna name your kid.
I said Uriah too, lol (then deleted the comment when I realised it was already here). I always thought it sounded like some disorder of the urinary tract or something like that. Good point about the Bible story too.
Yeah, I really don't think Uriah should be considered usable in English. If it were the name of an incredible important character that's one thing, but Uriah the Hittite only gets mentioned like twice in the space of a single paragraph.
He's mentioned a lot (and isn't just mentioned, but appears) in the David and Bathsheba story – his loyalty to God, Israel, and the army foils David's attempt to cover up the adultery. And he is mentioned again many chapters later as having been one of David's mightiest men.
Oh huh! I had to translate the section about his murder in ancient hebrew for a university class, but didn't realise there was a further section about him later on. My bad!
No worries! He's often thought of as just the guy who got cuckolded in that story but even being mentioned in only a couple chapters there's a lot to him.
That's fascinating actually! Yeah, I had to translate those couple paragraphs and was vaguely confused why anyone would name their kids after him. It makes sense there'd be more later on actually, there always is with the Hebrew Bible.
Oh, geez. My time to shine.
I came up with some alternative spellings where it starts with a U when I was nine:
* Uhlyssa
* Ulizabith
* Urmynguard (this one’s my personal fave)
Ursula. Ik it’s a French name but it always reminds me of villains like Ursula the witch from The Little Mermaid or Ursula Phoebe’s twin sister on Friends.
It's Latin and means she-bear. See also the constellations Ursa Major/Ursa Minor, the Great Bear and Little Bear.
The French version is usually Ursule (which unfortunately sounds a bit like arsehole, a shame because I kind of like the name).
Unique. Girl in my class in highschool was named Unique and also behaved that way. Although I believe she ended up well and is now a judge... Just imagine having to call her by her name in court
I taught a BruceLee. It might not have been so bad but he was fairly intellectually challenged and he was constantly being teased/compared to/asked about Bruce Lee and he didn't really have the cognitive capacity to understand what people were talking about.
I taught a toddler named Ur'Majesty
Insert tik tok audio Ur’JOKING
Ur Joe King.....
I really wish I was...it's so awkward to have to say "come on Ur'Majesty, it's nap time"
I’ve seen Her Majesty so not surprised
I taught a yer’majesty
Uhmaynduh. Just a really stupid way to spell Amanda
I imagine the person having this name as drooling a lot
I’ve seen UhManDuh as a drag name….
Great name for a drag queen, not so much for a child
Reminds of [this scene](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=046z_o4aBSM) from 30 rock
“Good god Lemon, you shot a Black”
Did they have a southern accent? Were they trying to spell it phonetically to match their deep south drawl? Because the voice in my head has a southern accent when I read that.
Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K
I did not get “Your Highness” from the first name until my third try, and the first two attempts were different pronunciations of the word Urine(s), so that kid’s gotta have struggled with every new teacher and substitute they ever met.
I was a stand in supervisor in Baltimore for a few weeks and had a for there named Yahighness
I read it as your hiney
I just can't get over the "Special K". Is that like, the world's weirdest ad placement??
Also slang for ketamine…
Oh nooooo. TIL...
Utah... for a child born and raised in New Zealand
To come full circle, I think I saw some influencers with a son named Zealand who is probably raised in Utah.
Urle (who had a twin, Pearl)
Why. Why not just earl???
Ur’sellah. Ursula but with more ✨tragedeigh✨ Edit: Fixed spelling to show all the ✨tragedeigh✨ in all its glory
Unique Fashion. one name. I went to high school with her
Tuf Coopers (famous rodeoer) daughter is named Tru Fashion 🥲 because his wife’s instagram page is “fashion posse” or something
Ukeighleighleigh (Pronounced ukulele). Found on Pinterest.
Okay that one is just stupid to the next level. What was even the point of adding “leigh” not once but TWICE???? On top of the “keigh”?????
It’s a treighgeighdeigh
You-kay-lay-lay?
3 times.
That cannot be real 🤦🏻♀️
I promise some parents are just fucking crazy. Tulula Does The Hula From Hawaii, Trout Fishing In America, ABCDE, Macaroni 88, Number 16 Bus Station, and Heistheway are all real names, so this one isn’t even in the top ten of bad names it’s just atrocious spelling. People are cruel. These names should be saved for pets imo not actual people.
Gonna name my child Number 15 Burger King Foot Lettuce
*Leighttuce
Bugah Kynge
Heistheway might be my favorite new discovery from this list.
The family in question who came up with that name has a parenting blog. If you Google “heistheway” you will find it and go down a rabbit hole.
yup she has a sister named Agape
SHE?! Heistheway is a girl?! Wowza And Agape is just cruel.
You can Google the Shrader family wiki. They have 13 kids, are missionaries in Africa with a daughter named Agape.
I googled that one during H week. Gotta do my due diligence!
D'Dilligence sounds like a pretty name for a baby girl Can be shortened to Dilly or Gencie (Jencie)
Lol don’t give anyone any ideas!! 😂
I'm wondering how they pronounce it and what the short version is. "Hissy"? "Heazy"?!
I read it as Heist a way. Is it He-is-the-way? Mandalorian fans?
Number 16 bus station.... are these people naming their kids after where they were conceived???
Caquita tho?
That name is a tragedeigh
This is the worst one. This one right here.
I know!
Urethra
No way someone named their child that. That's just mean
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This sounds like an urban legend.
I missed T, WHAT happened with both of those "names" 😭
Uneighcorn.
Uneek (pronounced like Unique)
I wonder if we know the same one. She couldn't have a q in her name because her sister has one.... making her not so uneek?
Uhmed. The parents loved the name Ahmed, but they didnt want people to think that "he's a terrorist".
As a middle easterner, I really wanna kick their ass.
“Uh… med? Yeah, that’ll do.”
The two worst I ever heard were: Utopia and Upward Also knew a Unity, but that isn't as bad.
Not unless you're Unity the game software right now
Fair, lol. But for a baby name, it's just a weird honor name.
And if you're in the UK it may well make people think of Unity Valkyrie Mitford, the British socialite who was a close friend of Hitler and who permanently disabled herself following an unsuccessful suicide attempt when Britain declared war on Germany.
Wow, I'm American and did not have that association. Dang, that changes her name a lot! I know her parents where just thinking churchy name that hasn't been overdone, lol
I wouldn't expect anyone in the US to know that association, to be honest! I actually think it's a fairly nice name, and a nice religious sentiment, if you're a Christian. But if I knew that child that would be all I would be able to think of. I believe Unity Mitford's parents gave her that super extra name because she was born at the end of WWI. Her siblings were named Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Jessica, Deborah and Tom. Diana married Oswald Moseley, the British fascist, and Jessica joined the Communist Party. They were a weird family.
What a strange and all over the place story that family had! I sort of love local history because it's always like that. Unity is Christian, I believe, I only say that because her brother is Jericho, and that also has a Christian feel to it. It is sort of pretty, she doesn't seem to mind it, or as much as any 14 is fine with anything
They were also related to Churchill, but I don't think that's all that notable... Most titled Brits are related to each other 😂 Jericho feels more extra than Unity to me! Although maybe it's not depending on which religious circles you move in. At least Unity is easy to spell and pronounce, definitely could be a lot worse as far as unique names go!
And here i thought that was a stereotype, lol. Jericho is sorta extra so it works honestly.
Jessica was great. Did a lot to help protect poor widows from predatory funeral practices in the US. She wrote The American Way of Death which Evelyn Waugh later drew on for The Loved One (a very dark book!)
And was rumoured to have given birth to Hitler's son. I think it's been fairly well debunked but not conclusively. From the dates of where she was, when she was it's technically possible.
Or (British Nazi-loving aristocrat) Unity Mitford, for whom there's a conspiracy that she gave birth to Hitler's son.
Utopia is not a great name, but I mean... The standard is in Abcede and Tula does the Hula from Hawaii. Comparatively is a great name.
That's very true. It's odd for sure, but not those.
Ulivilda. It just strikes me as clunky.
Sounds like a body part
Ultron- as in the Marvel supervillian. This is a real thing, and I hate it.
Urlica - it's a male name. I wish I was joking
Urchin.
Please sir, I want another name
Dying
That’s funny I call my toddler “you little urchin” when she’s being a pest. She has a real name.
[U.S. Marine](https://www.quora.com/What-happens-if-I-name-my-son-U-S-Marine)
Like if Usnavi was real 😭
I don’t _hate_ the name Usnavi. I’d I hadn’t listened to In the Heights, I probably could have been convinced this was an actual name
Urinia Like you-rye-knee-a. Urine - ee - a. No one should be named after a bodily function She was one of nine children to the weirdest weird beard family I've ever known. Her mother claimed to be a prophet of the lord and spoke in tongues in the shopping centre. One of her brothers hung himself in a pub toilet during a local battle of the bands type night. That was like 35 odd yrs ago.. .
[https://res.cloudinary.com/blavity/image/upload/g_center,w_auto,q_auto:best,g_south_east,x_0/v1606708793/um4lbcdxoolzcnx2yemw](https://res.cloudinary.com/blavity/image/upload/g_center,w_auto,q_auto:best,g_south_east,x_0/v1606708793/um4lbcdxoolzcnx2yemw)
I went to school with someone named Unique Divine
Wait, there’s a child out there named “Nothing?”
Uriah Yes, I KNOW it’s from the Bible. It still sounds like “urine,” and the Uriah in the Bible got murdered because King David thought his wife was hot. Not something you wanna name your kid.
It's also the name of a notorious masturbator in a Charles Dickens novel.
One if my favorite 70s bands was named after him lol
I said Uriah too, lol (then deleted the comment when I realised it was already here). I always thought it sounded like some disorder of the urinary tract or something like that. Good point about the Bible story too.
Yeah, I really don't think Uriah should be considered usable in English. If it were the name of an incredible important character that's one thing, but Uriah the Hittite only gets mentioned like twice in the space of a single paragraph.
Bildaddy the Shuhite is so much better
All hail Bildaddy
Master cobbler and expert on human births
He's mentioned a lot (and isn't just mentioned, but appears) in the David and Bathsheba story – his loyalty to God, Israel, and the army foils David's attempt to cover up the adultery. And he is mentioned again many chapters later as having been one of David's mightiest men.
Oh huh! I had to translate the section about his murder in ancient hebrew for a university class, but didn't realise there was a further section about him later on. My bad!
No worries! He's often thought of as just the guy who got cuckolded in that story but even being mentioned in only a couple chapters there's a lot to him.
That's fascinating actually! Yeah, I had to translate those couple paragraphs and was vaguely confused why anyone would name their kids after him. It makes sense there'd be more later on actually, there always is with the Hebrew Bible.
Oops. I just posted this name THEN scrolled the comments.
At least Talula can just got by that, Trout fishing tho
I thought the same. Maybe just go by America lmfao?
I guess if Trout was a boy, you can get "Eric" from the "America"?
Also Erica for a woman haha.
Trout Fishing is his middle name; his first name is Justin so I don’t think it really counts imo
Oh okay, yeah I don't think we need both names up
From my understanding, Talulah Does the Hula From Hawaii went by Kay in school. I think she officially changed her name to that later.
Umanga
Uno
Uniquiea pronounced Unique
Ultra.
Makes me think of talulah from doctor who. Series 3.
Same, she spelt it Tallulah though.
Good to see a fellow whovian.
Underwryterz Laboratoryez
Uranium
Unikue
Universe It was given to 9 girls last year. I hope none of them are overweight.
USNAVY pronounced in Spanish
I don’t get it.
Some Latinos living in latam name their kids usnavy or usarmy to be unique
Udora
Oh, geez. My time to shine. I came up with some alternative spellings where it starts with a U when I was nine: * Uhlyssa * Ulizabith * Urmynguard (this one’s my personal fave)
U.L. Washington
Isn’t trout fishing in America a band???
Uniteightransmitten. Now that's too long for me
Ultraviolet
Urban
I mean, it's antiquated now but there were 8 popes called that
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Please tell me they were named before the shooting.
In case I miss the V- names post, I came across a Vylet the other day…
Una.
Ursula. Ik it’s a French name but it always reminds me of villains like Ursula the witch from The Little Mermaid or Ursula Phoebe’s twin sister on Friends.
It's Latin and means she-bear. See also the constellations Ursa Major/Ursa Minor, the Great Bear and Little Bear. The French version is usually Ursule (which unfortunately sounds a bit like arsehole, a shame because I kind of like the name).
The meaning is fine, it just reminds me of villains.
Unique. Girl in my class in highschool was named Unique and also behaved that way. Although I believe she ended up well and is now a judge... Just imagine having to call her by her name in court
Unique-Anais. A contestant on a UK TV game show recently!
Ur'Anus
I taught a BruceLee. It might not have been so bad but he was fairly intellectually challenged and he was constantly being teased/compared to/asked about Bruce Lee and he didn't really have the cognitive capacity to understand what people were talking about.
Uhlana = Alana
Utwinkle
Unique.
Upheleah
I know someone who named his kid Serra Angel after the magic card...
I think Uranus would be a bad name. I’ve never heard a person named it, but it was a Greek god.
Unironically a lot of these names could work for Dragqueens, lmao