Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

I ran across an 80-something-year-old named Theestle in a voter database the other day.

 

The surname “Loveless.” There’s an entire manga about why this is a bad name.

Also, is “Lizbeth” an acceptable variation of “Elizabeth” or not?

 

I’ve seen Lizbeth/Lisbeth a few times! It’s an accepted variant, although I normally see it with an S.

 

In high school, I had a classmate named Liber. Odd name, but not inherently awful.

Now, this kid’s mom seemed KINDA NUTS, just generally, and she once proudly told me that she’d chosen a middle name for her son that began with T—“so he’s Liber T.! Like liberty, geddit??”

Yeah, she gave her kid a pun for a name. :/

 

To clarify, it’s more the intent that bugged me—his middle name is perfectly fine (his first name is rare enough that I won’t share it, but it’s a normal name, albeit not a super common one in the States), but the fact that she did it to intentionally create a pun...yikes.

 

…there's a Carry A. Nation joke to be made about poor Liber T., but damned if I can quite put my finger on it.

 

A kid with the first name "Winter", and another with the last name "Broskie."

 

Winter isn’t so bad tbh—not a common one, but not terribly unusual or likely to scar a kid.

Broskie is fairly unfortunate though.

 

Fair

 

I know lots of Winters and Wynters and Wyntirs and.... Yeah it just progresses from there.

Talked to an adjuster today who's last name is Smoot. I love it. Rolls off the tongue.

Smoot.

 

I got two more from work today- One was a kid named Ravyn. A boy, if that makes it any more silly (I know several girls named raven, but no boys).

The second one was another kid named Alexandr. Why they took the E out of the last syllable is a mystery.

 

As far as unfortunate surnames go, I had Latin class in high school with a girl whose last name was Coward, and there was a girl in my grade whose last name was--I shit you not--Smiley.

Fortunately both of them had normal first names.

 

Sorry. Deleted the post.

 

Message received, I’ll work on it.

 

iirc, "alexandr" without the "e" is very russian because that's a more direct translation of the cyrillic

eta: apparently it's czech but it's the same idea :v

 

Oh really? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it like that :o

 

I’ve seen Aleksandr before (pretty sure that’s the Russian variant?), but not Alexandr until now!

 

I would just be happy if people would quit assuming my name is a misspelling of Kerri/Carrie/Kerry etc. It is a different name and it doesn't sound like that.