Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

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

  1. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    I seem to recall that's not that uncommon a name in some parts of Scandinavia.
     
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  2. Everett

    Everett local rats so small, so tiny

    Yeah,true. It was just weird because this was Ontario :p

    (Altho given the finnish population in northern ontario.. but this was not northern ontario)
     
  3. ZeroEsper

    ZeroEsper Well-Known Member

    Is this a reference to something? Cause now I'm thinking of Petshop of horrors.
     
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  4. Mercury

    Mercury Well-Known Member

    Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic, I'm pretty sure.
     
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  5. valenstyne

    valenstyne Went out for cigarettes, never came back

    Yup, Sandman reference—but I 100% support making people think of Petshop of Horrors, I adore that series. :D
     
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  6. bornofthesea670

    bornofthesea670 Well-Known Member

    I had an Odysseus in my class
    almost forgot about him

    also an Amidasai

    he swore his name was in the bible, and i believe him since his family was really religious, but for the life of me i can't _remember_ and Amidasai

    maybe its in a spanish translation of the bible? any bible nerds/scholars idk what the nice term is- here know?

    edit: Ami SA dai, sorry
     
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  7. Acey

    Acey hand extended, waiting for a shake

    Googling it, Amisadai seems to be a Hebrew name that's only really common among Hispanic groups, so I'm guessing it's that?
     
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  8. smyxolotl

    smyxolotl a person.

    I read about a baby named Decibelle in the paper and laughed about it for days, and then a couple of months later I met her at a playgroup thing. It was a bit like meeting a celebrity. Unfortunately I was too polite to agressively question her parent about that naming choice ;_;
     
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  9. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    was she a loud child?
     
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  10. smyxolotl

    smyxolotl a person.

    No! She was really calm and well-behaved, which made the whole thing extra hilarious to me.
     
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  11. Nertbugs

    Nertbugs Information Leafblower

    A friend was working on registration for a big event. She printed passes with people's names on them. One guy had a surname that was spelled innocuously, but when said out loud was pronounced 'Cuntywinkle'. She managed to maintain her Professional Face, and didn't even smile when reading it back to him. I would not have been able to manage that.
     
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  12. Lerxst

    Lerxst salty parabola

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    I guaranfuckingtee you Mommy has a "let me speak to your manager" haircut and/or on at least one occasion made snotty comments about "those weird black people names"
     
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  13. Nochi

    Nochi small waterfall of pure void

    and you are not allowed to give her a nickname. it is the whole 57-syllable monstrosity or nothing.
     
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  14. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    And I thought my deadname was overly long.
     
  15. missoyashirou

    missoyashirou Someone please give me a tiny dog to play with

    And when she hits high school, her parents will not get why she's so mad at them all the time.
     
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  16. Everett

    Everett local rats so small, so tiny

    Look in the announcement

    Her sibling(?) is named Khayleigh-Hunter

    Oh wait i'm sorry Khayleigh-Huntyr


    Like, someone please unglue all the Hs and the Ks. Please stop these parents

    Kaylee Hunter is a weird name but no you had to do something that looks like kuh-haylayighuh hunn tire

    Editx2: OK BUT I JUST NOTICED the childs initials are KKKS

    Edit: i just noticed that i apparently have zero reading comprehension,let the record state that i'm a dummy
     
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  17. Lerxst

    Lerxst salty parabola

    And these people naming their kids Bryttyny and MacKynseigh and Khayleigh-Huntyr and Aidyn-Braydyn-Caydyn-Greydyn-Jadyn-Hayden either don't realize or don't care that they're dooming their kids to a minimum of 18 years of spelling their whole entire monstrosity of a name out every time they tell it to someone who needs to write it down.
     
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  18. turtleDove

    turtleDove Well-Known Member

    ...not everyone needs to spell out their name? :O (Sorry, I know in the abstract that not everyone needs to, and mine isn't even a weird spelling - either first or last name - but I apparently have a soft enough voice that some of the syllables slur together if I'm not being loud and over-enunciating. So I'm used to having to spell out my first and last every time I interact with someone who needs to look it up. tbf, most of that is talking with the pharmacist these days.)
     
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  19. missoyashirou

    missoyashirou Someone please give me a tiny dog to play with

    That's my only guess as to why names like that are prevalent: "I got stuck getting named after my Polish Grandma from the old country so fuck you kid, your name is pronounceable but it's Ashley spelled with three Hs and a silent T. Choke on that you little brat, you'll spend an additional 15 minutes on the phone any time you need to correct something."
     
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  20. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    And not being able to fit her name on paperwork, ever.
     
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