Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

Or Valkyrie.

@Acey --- It's a really old show, but Bewitched was a famous TV show about a witch named Samantha. Most people nowadays associate the name more with Sex in the City I guess, but it's a witchy name for people who grew up earlier.

 

Yup, this I knew! I was mostly pointing it out as one of the only actual names on the list. :P

 

That is so weird to me, since Keri is a pretty uncommon spelling I think?? I've only ever seen Carries and the occasional Kerry.

EDIT: To clarify, I don't doubt that it happens! It's just super strange that it does, imo.

 

See my daughter's middle name is Samantha, but it's for this lady here:



(do I win the stealth nerd contest or....?)

 

was helping mom with some work related technical trouble and came across this poor kid's name: Eiyan, pronounced the same a Ian

what the fuck???

four vowels and a consonant do not (usually) a name make

i half expect a "Aeiouywn, pronounced Ian" in the next decade, if something like that doesn't already exist
you can never tell with Welsh being a Thing

 

Aieouywn looks like someone trying to make Eowyn into an even more ~*unique*~ name to me

 

oh oh that reminds me
I knew a kid named "Owen" but it was spelled "Eoghan" I think
granted, the family was Irish, but the kid was born in America, and the other kids had normally spelled names. though I think there was one more with one that was kinda out there

 

My knowledge of Welsh pronunciation is mostly limited to what I remember of an infodump in one of the Dark Is Rising books that I read when I was like 12, but I'm pretty sure the cluster "ywn" at the end would be pronounced "ih-oon."

 

but did they want to buy a vowel?

 

all the vowels. ALL OF THEM!

#homestuck reference

 

I've never seen Eoghan, but Eoin (as in Eoin Colfer) is an Irish name pronounced that way and I don't think that's actually weird? Especially since Owen is an Anglicization of Eoin to begin with.

 

I may have mentioned this in this thread before, but I once started reading a book and the Obligatory Love Interest's name was Kayliegh. Not Kaylee, not even Kayleigh (which...I'm not fond of the "-eigh" thing in general because it doesn't parse as an "ee" sound to my brain, but at least it's used consistently enough in names that I would immediately go "oh, like Kaylee"), but Kayliegh.

I before E is not a universal rule, people.

EDIT: I should note that this character's brother had a completely normal and reasonably-spelled name. Chris or something, I forget.

 

... That isn't supposed to be pronounced kaylay?

 

Nope. Apparently "leigh" sounds like "lee" now.

But the "liegh" thing just looks WAY dumber, IMO.

 

Honestly, I just keep parsing it as "liege". Kay, my liege...

 

I keep parsing it as someone about to puke, honestly.

 

(I am slowly reading through the backlog of this thread, I'm crying actual tears and my sides hurt it's wonderful)

I went to middle school with a boy named Sharon. It wasn't A Boy Named Sue situation, it was produced "Sha-ron" and sounded masculine enough. But there was absolutely no hint of this in how it was written, thus the poor kid was stuck correcting everyone, constantly.

Him and Jesus generally had a bad time whenever we had a substitute.

 

Oh man. I went to junior high with a kid named Phuc.

Now... look, y'all, I knew it's not pronounced the way it looks, we all knew that, and unless he heard the sub was mean he would preemptively advise the sub on pronunciation to spare them the embarrassment... but if this kid got a heads-up that there was a mean sub in a class, he took full and unfair advantage of it and just let them start calling roll and then enjoyed the long, long, long and very awkward pause that meant the sub had encountered his name in the roll and had no idea what the hell to do about it.

 

Oh hey i forgot about one of my friends

Rauiri, pronounced Rory. His dad is Scottish.

 

my ex's name was Ruaridh, pronounced Rory. I love gaelic scottish spelling tbh