Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

there was a pizza hut waiter i knew named merlin

he was very good at giving people shit, i wish i'd had the money to tip him more

 

I have no idea but I want to believe

 

Honestly, neither of those names on their own are that bad, IMO--in fact, I actually rather like Perceval, and while Lancelot is a bit over-the-top it's still not atrocious (and he could always go by Lance for short). It's just...inexplicably hilarious to me that there's a family somewhere in Corsica that seems to have a decently longstanding trend of naming kids after Arthurian characters.

 

The city where the school my mother works is is mostly immigrants and mainland French people (its legal economy is tourism-based and there's a French foreign legion base), so I think they're probably from somewhere else, which would mean there's a family in more than one place which has that tradition.

 

beautiful

 

last year there was a girl in one of my classes named merlin! i thought that was a cool name honestly :u

 

Re: Japanese names, giving siblings similar sounding names is a thing. It's super fucking confusing.

And it's worse with twins. Oh my god there's a set of identical twins at work and their names are almost exactly the same, because telling them apart wasn't hard enough as it is.

 

Richard Johnson never gets old.

 

i mean, i named a rat Africa, which is understandable because his back had a marking that resembled the continent but uh

why name ur kid after a continent... did she have a sibling named antarctica /bad joke

 

high school math class, girl named India starts telling a story about her sister. Boy interrupts: "Is her name Pakistan?"

I have never had to suppress so much laughter so quickly in all my life.

(In the realm of hypothetical names, D's last name is England. When S was pregnant I suggested naming the baby London. I was informed would be walking home.)

 

Presley is kind of a cute name. Hard to get a good nickname out of, but I wouldn't hate naming my child that.

 

Richard Johnson-

do u mean

-builds suspense-

dik dik??

-insert picture of tiny deer because i have zero forum skills-

 

You rang? (More adorableness here.)

 

The Dutch form is 'Merlijn' which is not quite a common name, but certainly not unusual in any way for a boy. It might also be used as a girl's name according to the internet, but I haven't seen it.

 

Also, some people my mother knows, knew, or has heard of:
Abraham and Spartacus (They're brothers)
Jean-Babacar
Efflamm Ghjuvà (Respectively Breton and Corsican names)

 

Today I met someone called Edween.
Shh he's a non-English speaker let's not ruin his name for him.

 

I will give that a pass since its kinda cute in its slight off-ness

 

One of my classmates was named Odin Merlin. He was called both names at first but dropped Odin later on.

 

There was a sort of angry seeming guy in my high school strings class who was named Thor