Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

I stumbled across the delightful surname "Eggenberger".

 

Brecklyn.

 

In an entertaining case of nominative determinism today I discovered while cataloging a book on the experience of Afro-Caribbean people in the United Kingdom penned by one David A. Bygott.

 

Oh wow.

 

Saw a Name today that'd translate to 'of chicken leg' (nobel Titel 'of')

 

I once knew a girl in high school who was quite literally named 'annie mei'

 

My mom had a coworker with the same name (different spelling, though). I had a hard time not chuckling every time she was mentioned.

 

Thankfully I didn't encounter this name in meatspace, but it came about because of the Sims 4 random generation: Will Dye

 

holy fuck

 

A baby girl named “Noveh.”

 

Genifer.

 

Irl. It was an older guy so it’s probably a spelling of “Earl” I’m not familiar with, not IRL, but still. This and the customer named Meme make me wonder.

 

I’ve seen “Meme” occasionally as a term for “grandma,” a la “Granny,” but I believe it’s pronounced like “mee-mee.” (I still kinda giggle when I see it though tbh)

That said, I’ve never seen it as a given name...

 

i have an online friend who goes by “meme” but i don’t think that’s their given name....?

 

Technically, the word for grandma is "mémé", pronounced similarly enough to "may-may" I've seen a few people joke about it.

 

I've seen variations of that too, but no, this is someone's given name. Assuming it's a variation of Mimi.

 

Ahh, yeah, that would make some sense. Still unfortunate, but it was probably way less unfortunate when she was born, unless she's a kid.

Relatedly, a name that's only unfortunate in English: There was a guy at a San Francisco Giants game who was being interviewed about something or other, and his name was Kimo--I'm guessing that's Japanese based on the spelling and pronunciation, and the guy looked Asian to me, and I'm sure it's a perfectly good name in Japanese or whatever other language it might be from, but...all I heard was "chemo." As in chemotherapy. Because that's how it was pronounced.

Like I said, that one's only really an issue in English, and I'm sure it's a perfectly valid name, but...jeez, poor guy. XD

 

Oh man, I don't think I've mentioned this one and I can't believe I haven't. YMMV on whether this one is unfortunate or badass--I think it's kinda both.

There used to be a parishoner (I say used to be because he's now deceased) at my parents' church whose surname was Shakespeare, right? Like, that was legit his surname. Okay, fair enough...except, I shit you not, his first name was William.

There was a man who was actually named William Shakespeare at my parents' church.

(Understandably, he went by Bill instead.)

 

is he actually deceased or is this just another in a long line of faked deaths to make sure that no one figures out that he is the immortal bard himself

 

this is an excellent question and i suspect the latter