Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by Acey, Oct 5, 2016.

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  1. Squid

    Squid *contents may vary*

    My uncle has that problem when he visits England.

    "Hi I'm Randy"
     
    Squid, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:32 PM
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  2. tickingnectarine

    tickingnectarine :^)

    "Toepelt" is still the worst last name I've ever heard, and it will probably remain as such.
     
    tickingnectarine, Jan 20, 2017 at 2:13 PM
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  3. Sethrial MacCoill

    Sethrial MacCoill Attempts were made

    this is the first thing that came to mind when reading that name

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    toepelt
     
    Sethrial MacCoill, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:15 PM
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  4. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    I'm glad I'm not the only one.
     
    LadyNighteyes, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:48 PM
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  5. Greywing

    Greywing Resident dead bird

    Family friends have a little girl named Ultra Violet, and they call her Ultra (by her preference). Their second choice name was Barbara....so that her name would be Barb Dwyer. Say it out loud. Then groan a little.
     
    Greywing, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:45 PM
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  6. Emma

    Emma Your resident resident

    Some people should not be allowed to name kids
     
    Emma, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:53 PM
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  7. smyxolotl

    smyxolotl a person.

    OMG that's my middle name! Except I spell it Dorkas on account of being swedish and stuff. It's an old family name and also the name of a saint, I think?
     
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    smyxolotl, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:31 PM
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  8. turtleDove

    turtleDove Well-Known Member

    I nearly got named Anita. After my great-grandmother, if I remember right. I ended up with a somewhat better (if still distinctly Little Old Lady) name instead, and got named after one of my great-grandmother's friends.

    (I'm honestly thankful I didn't get named Anita. It's a lovely name for an adult, it's...nnnnot something to give a kid as a first name. Grade school was hellish enough for me, but the other kids at least didn't really have much ammo to gain from my name; there's only so much fuel to get from a name that rhymes with 'Banana'.)
     
    turtleDove, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:20 PM
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  9. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    I've known a couple people who were first-gen kids of chinese immigrant parents, and the names their parents gave them weren't bad exactly, and some of them were pretty mainstream, but in the other cases, it was pretty fascinating seeing what archaic english names these parents decided they liked best. I'm... blanking on a couple of people, which bugs me (but we just worked in the same school lab, so we were never facebook friends or new each other that well). But I know I knew a Hubert and a Eunice. In college, people didn't give them shit for it, but I hope they did okay when they were kids :P

    And on another chinese name note, one of my coworkers has the exact same name as his new wife, first and last names both. i feel llllike I shouldn't share their full names here, but he says they're common given and family names in china, so it's not too-too weird for that to happen, but it's still a pretty rare occurrence.
     
    spockandawe, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:31 PM
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  10. tickingnectarine

    tickingnectarine :^)

    Fuck
     
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    tickingnectarine, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:04 PM
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  11. Squid

    Squid *contents may vary*

    One of my professors in college had the same name as his wife. They were both in the same field too so it was Dr. Leslie Lastnameredacted Psy.D and his wife Dr. Leslie Lastnameredacted Psy.D.
     
    Squid, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:49 PM
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  12. Wiwaxia

    Wiwaxia problematic taxon

    I hope they coauthored at least one paper.
     
    Wiwaxia, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:41 AM
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  13. garden

    garden lucid dreamer

    I met a married couple once whose names were Don and Donna (I don't think they had the same last name prior to marriage, though.) Not quite as egregious as the previous example, but...
     
    garden, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:49 AM
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  14. prismaticvoid

    prismaticvoid Too Too Abstract

    I have two married friends named Dean and Dan.
     
    prismaticvoid, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:51 AM
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  15. Marimo

    Marimo Member

    My aunt's surname is Loo and when we were with her picking baby names she thought that Porter might be a nice name. She ended up naming the kid Lucy Loo (which I guess is alright but I'm anti alliterative names)

    My Mum asked her aunties to give me a Chinese middle name. One of them was convinced that my first name was Amy and thought that therefore Aimei would make a good middle name. My parents went with the cantonese reading of the characters and my name isn't Amy anyway so I quite glad about that.

    Other contributions to terrible names: Female (said phonetically because parents had limited English when given the forms), and La-a (said Ladasha) and whatever Jamie Oliver's kids are called
     
    Marimo, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:08 AM
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  16. Acey

    Acey hand extended, waiting for a shake

    that's the worst name i've seen here yet
     
    Acey, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:45 AM
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  17. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    Note that the Le-a thing is an urban legend.
     
    palindromordnilap, Jan 25, 2017 at 2:26 AM
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  18. Marimo

    Marimo Member

    My bad. Good to know
     
    Marimo, Jan 25, 2017 at 2:35 AM
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  19. Squid

    Squid *contents may vary*

    They coauthed one of our fucking textbooks.
     
    Squid, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:44 AM
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  20. soulsuckingisaacnewton

    soulsuckingisaacnewton strange fuzzy creature

    When I was a kid, I had a swimming teacher named Jezebel! Jez for short.
     
    soulsuckingisaacnewton, Jan 29, 2017 at 1:52 AM
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