Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

once when i was helping my friends with signups to our writing society we had a guy sign up called isambard dexter.

 

I was just coming here to say I had a customer with a name like this today. I said to my coworker that was a terrible thing to inflict on a child.


A good friend of mine from high school had the same first and last name. This was because of a quirk of the way Chinese names are written in English; they were actually pronounced differently because of tonal shenanigans, but spelled the same in English.

The way people loved pointing it out to him as if he didn't know already was pretty obnoxious, I'm surprised he was such a chill person.

 

I actually knew a kid in high school named William Dong, who exclusively used a specific diminutive form of William. (I'm actually not sure that the diminutive wasn't his given name, but I'm being careful here. :P)

 

Fun fact: Nickel is an actual surname, so that's possible.

And given that it's my actual surname, it's possible we're related.

 

One of my teachers apparently has a small daughter named Wallace. No clue if they were like "hey a baby girl, lets name her wallace" or if there are gender things going on,and i probably shouldnt speculate? But it sure is a name

 

That sounds like someone who watched Braveheart too many times on repeat.

At my work, I am on the list to get an automated email from HR every time someone joins or leaves the company. This sometimes gives me names like "Bramblette", which is today's WTF first name.

There is also a "Bandita Dixit" working for the company.

 

Going through a pile of obituaries today, I found out there's someone in the area whose first name is a type of fabric and last name is "Sheets."

 

Years ago someone named their kid Khristinn Kellie Leitch

Now she's running for the leadership of the canadian conservative party (and saying trump's "message" is "exciting"??? why)

and idk maybe the reason she goes by Kellie is Khristinn seems like it would never get spelled right

Edit: although with Kellie you'd still have to say "kelly with an I-E" but versus "kristin with a K-H and two Ns" its probably less annoying

 

K K anything is potentially trouble in the initials field. Not such a problem these days when, should she choose to marry, she wouldn't have to take the partner's name, but back in the day you just know she'd have married someone with a K surname.

 

I can't believe I forgot about this.
My aunt knows a baby named Midnite Skye.

 

I see no one has mentioned Temptress as a name yet....which, yes, is a name that was given to a girl, forget where I heard about her, but it wasn't in a good sense. of course, her name was an accident--her mom wanted to name her Tempest and....somehow ended up naming her Temptress. whoops
also, um.....Islecat.
Islecat.

 

Brampton Humphry Braxton, no joke

 

I kind of like Islecat, assuming it's pronounced "eye-el-cat", but I would not subject a kid to it. Maybe a character, though....

 

I remember reading about a temptress in freakonomics. Her mother wanted to name tempest after the actress on the cosby show and welp. Along with the brothers winner, who kept going to jail, and loser, who became a police officer and friends call him lou
...
I should really reread freakonomics...

 

YES THAT'S WHERE I READ ABOUT IT!! it was in freakonomics, that's where I got that from!

 

I was on a weekend shift a few weeks ago, and we went to a consult on the maternity ward. The circumstances are really not relevant, but a mother had just given birth to a baby boy.
Now keep in mind that we're in the Netherlands, the residents of this place I am currently are not known for their smarts, and they probably did not have a very good knowledge of English.
The baby's name: Rowdy.

Seriously. If there's one thing I hate about the intrusion of American names into Dutch culture it's shit like this. It's one thing if it's a decent American name in the first place, but Rowdy?!

 

That's actually a really common name here. You hear it all the time on TV. It's a dog's name, sure, but a really common one in the states.

 

I am unsure if this is a joke because I live in the US and i have literally never encountered that. Including on a dog. ಠ_ಠ

 

I've encountered it often enough it doesn't really strike me as all that unusual. A weird choice for a name in general imo, but not super weird. (I come from Oregon rednecks, as a datapoint.)