Bad Baby Names.

sabby2

I was lurking over on September '14 because I wanted to see the HDBD posts (I can't wait until my belly looks cute instead of just pudgy.)  Anyway, they had a post about bad baby names and I thought it would be fun to start a discussion here.

So, what are the worst real life baby names that you've heard or seen? 

I've seen a Delacaissey (boy, pronounced Delicacy),  Maysyn (boy).   Have at it October '14 bumpies.

ETA:   Please keep it to names that you've actually heard or seen. Let's not perpetuate the urban legends.

MrMrsandBaby

IRL I've been pretty impressed with names.  Nothing bad really.  Some (ok, a lot) are NMS but nothing that made me cringe.  One person I know almost named her baby Shadow...thank god she was a girl.

JJsMum

One of my friends in school had a family of bad names.  Raine (b), Destinie (g), and the twins Winter (b), and Summer (g).  Not so bad on their own (well, poor Destinie changed her name at 18), but their last name was Storme.  OMG they got teased so badly!

Kendrav4

Mysterious dream. (The way it's spelled is so horrible I can't remember it) not even kidding, a girl I know from high school named her baby that.

pushgal84

My sister does grading for a middle school teacher and came across the name La'-ah (pronounced Ladasha). Just awful

Emerald27

I met a guy named Royal once...thought that was kind of weird. And our farrier (guy who puts horseshoes on horses) named his baby Colt. Not so bad, I guess, but within the context I'm afraid he'll hate his name when he grows up.

The worst I've ever seen was a waitress at a local restaurant whose name tag read "Asalyah" and introduced herself as "Azalea"...so either a horrendous spelling error and her parents were going for the flower, or they were aiming for a totally youneek name.

sabby2

I'm just gonna throw it out there.  Sorry if any one is offended.  I hate the name Naveah.  Who decided that heaven backwards is a name?

MrsSinner402

I went to school with a girl named Ima Miracle. Her brother's name? Brian.

Maggie6424

Oh lord. I work for a non-profit mental health agency.. The child and family names I see make me want to punch some parents in the face. I just have to wonder WTF they were thinking when they decided to name their child after the leading lady on Star Wars. Not just the name. The title as well.

Heartwood0519

sabby2 said:

I'm just gonna throw it out there.  Sorry if any one is offended.  I hate the name Naveah.  Who decided that heaven backwards is a name?

You said it before I could!

mrshudson618

While unusual names are not my style, the only ones I really have a problem with are the totally normal, common names spelled in crazy ways. Just setting your kid up for a lifetime of correcting people. Every name does not need to have a "Y" in it!!

angeltennis3

Most of our friends have named their kids at least tolerable names. I just don't understand all of the people needing to name their kids these out of the box names. What happened to the good old Davids, Brians, Johns, Sarahs, Elizabeths, etc of the world? I get you don't want your kid to have a name that EVERY other kid has...but does that really mean you have to come up with a brand new name or change the spelling to something completely obscure?

I know six little boys named Jaxson. Spelled exactly that way, too. It's like mom's are trying so hard to be creative with names now, and how they are spelled, they end up becoming common.

We already know that if we have a boy, his name will be Austin Michael (Michael after DH's dad & grandfather), and if it is a girl, her name will be Olivia Kay (Kay is my grandma's, my mom's, and my middle name).

slsl509

I'm a name snob so I dislike a lot of names for no good reason. I was in Carters and a mom was talking to her daughter Mirena. As in your Mirena didn't work and thus you have a kid?  IDK.

heathera1979

In my job I hear some interesting names.  I agree with PPs about Nevaeh.  I don't know why but that name goes all over me.  Some of the worst I've heard are: Da'money (girl), Zaddock  (boy), Noxstalye (girl), Myrackle (miracle, girl), Lyfe (boy), we had to talk one woman out of naming her daughter chlamydia: she didn't know what it was, but it was so pretty. My sis went to school with a girl named T9C!

Wino411

Lil'Curtis and his little sister Lil'Daphne... I lie to you not, those are their legit legal names. Of course their parents are Curtis and Daphne.

aguimaraes

Well, since I am Brazilian will not talk about awful portuguese names. But I worked in a place where one of my co-workers had three kids (all girl) named: Milk (yes, milk!), Madeinusa (she saw "made in usa" written in a back of an old TV  and joined all the words together) and the third kid as Minervina (like de godess Minerva, but here in Brazil this is also the name of a dish washer!)

Brazilian mommies seem to love to use english/american names, but not all registers (and the mommy herself) know how their spell properly so kids end up with named like Vasdisnei (Walt Disney), Mique Jaquison (Michael Jackson). Both names of local famous soccer players...

flyinmommy

True story...Jenocyde

pushgal84

dorothyzbornak97 said:

Not trying to start anything, but there are lots of urban legends about bad names that seem to get repeated all the time. And they don't have the nicest undertones. A coupla examples:

https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

That said, a girl I went to high school with named her child Liberty Marjesca (the middle name a combination of her and her husband's names). 

I agree that if I were referring to an urban legend and infering anything about race, that would be inappropriate and downright awful of me. However, I assure you this was an actual student name and the ethnicity was not even discussed by my sister or me. My sister has been grading assignments for various teachers at a middle school for nearly a decade and often shares ridiculous names and non-sensical statements made by the students. My favorite time of the school year? Persuasive essays, that shit is hilarious. On a personal note, I think urban legends, chain mail, etc are annoying and utterly pointless and would never aid in perpetuating them.

mrshudson618

Not too bad by themselves, but as a sibling group:
Patrice
Patrika
Patrick Jr
Patre

A woman came to the library where I used to work and signed up her 4 kids for library cards. They are all named after their dad Patrick. Might as well pull a George foreman and just give them all the same name.

Emerald27

flyinmommy said:

True story...Jenocyde

Nope. I did not read this. ::hurries out of thread::

DiannaVB

One of my younger brothers friends named their kid Cloud Fish.

SusieBW

Jenocyde?  Lil'Curtis?  Someone should tell these parents that when rappers are trying to get famous, they make up stage names - those are not their given names!

DH's family has some kids named Jaylah (girl, and I have no idea if I'm spelling that right) and Jaylen (boy), and I think those are the worst I know of in real life.  Some of the ones in this thread are atrocious! 

pushgal84

A friend was seriously considering naming her daughter Liberty, last name Gibbons. I told her it sounded like "flibberty-jibbit", she was mad. Her daughter was named Serenity with 2 mn's, rayne and quest 8-|

PC0909

My husband's coworker named her twins Cash Money(boy) and Stolen Money(girl) .

kmt104

Bostyn, Lundin, Vailyn, Mackensey

pushgal84

PC0909 said:

My husband's coworker named her twins Cash Money(boy) and Stolen Money(girl) .

Is Money the MN? Cash isn't a bad name, but that poor girl. Stolen? Really?!

BTW Cash Money is my chihuahua's name, lol! I got him in Vegas, hence the name. He only goes by Cash though.

CynthiaVRey

I knew a girl named Monserat everyone called her Monster rat

SusieBW

pushgal84 said:

A friend was seriously considering naming her daughter Liberty, last name Gibbons. I told her it sounded like "flibberty-jibbit", she was mad. Her daughter was named Serenity with 2 mn's, rayne and quest 8-|

I have a friend whose daughter's first name is Serenity-Rayne!  I forget her middle name, but I think it's sort of normal, like Marie or something.  Their second daughter is Temperance-Rose.

Also, @theresat858, I really love the name Zephyr.  I don't think I have the balls to actually name my kid that, though.

sabby2

I know a few kids named after state school sports teams and things related to said sports teams.  The names themselves aren't really bad and are pretty normal but I don't get it.  That would be like naming your child Giant because you like the New York Giants.

My mom went to school with a Candy Cane.  She also worked with a kid named Harley Davidson and then his last name.

Maggie6424

PC0909 said:

My husband's coworker named her twins Cash Money(boy) and Stolen Money(girl) .

It shocks me that anyone who would choose those names is employed..

pushgal84

@SusieBW I personally don't get the virtue themed names like Hope, Serenity, Grace, Temperance, etc. Some are better than others, but still not my thing. Perhaps it's the strong religious undertone I get from them? Eh, to each their own!

jmw222

pushgal84 said:

My sister does grading for a middle school teacher and came across the name La'-ah (pronounced Ladasha). Just awful

I used to work in college admissions and we had a candidate named T'-ah.  (tadasha)!

pushgal84

theresat858 said:

The worst we have among our friends is brothers... Caspian and Zephyr.   Caspian seems almost normal to me now that they named their second son.

And then there's Solana.  Not a terrible name on its own, but they live in Solana Beach. Yes, name your kid after the town you live in...that won't ever cause any issues...

It could be worse, they could live in Encinitas. At least Solana is pretty?

fireflyrebirth

I'll side eye some of the celebrity baby names

Kal-el (Nicholas Cage)

Moxie CrimeFighter (Penn Jillette)

Apple (Gwyneth Paltrow)

Sage Moonblood (Sylvester Stallone)

Moon Unit (Frank Zappa)

There's tons of other good (re: horrifying) ones but I'll leave it there for now.

Seriously, people?  Nicknames exist.  You can call your kid whatever you want--just don't put it on the birth certificate.

Emerald27

pushgal84 said:

@SusieBW I personally don't get the virtue themed names like Hope, Serenity, Grace, Temperance, etc. Some are better than others, but still not my thing. Perhaps it's the strong religious undertone I get from them? Eh, to each their own!

I actually really like the name Joy, but DH has said no, never.

Some I think are not cool: Temperance, Chastity, etc.

But Joy, Hope, Faith...those are pretty and good for MNs.

Ashmwarren

Two kids yesterday: Jehovah and messiah.

Not kidding. I work in an ER.

AlinnJo

I knew a student named Hawk. He also had a Mohawk haircut. Pretty interesting!

pushgal84

Worked with a guy who's son is named Sabbath. As in, he's a huge fan of Black Sabbath.

Emerald27

I remember another one! But this isn't a real name...

When I was born, I was in the NICU for 10 days. My isolette was near the window, so anyone passing by could look in and see me and the other babies. My mom was looking through the window and another woman walking by stopped to look in. She asked which baby was my mom's, and my mom pointed to me. The woman exclaimed; "Isolette! What a beautiful name! Congratulations." And she kept on walking.

My mom was completely confused...then she saw that there was a sticker that said "isolette" with some temperature regulating instructions on the side. She likes to tell the story waaaay too often of the woman who thought my name was "Isolette."

SusieBW

Emerald27 said:

@SusieBW I personally don't get the virtue themed names like Hope, Serenity, Grace, Temperance, etc. Some are better than others, but still not my thing. Perhaps it's the strong religious undertone I get from them? Eh, to each their own!

I actually really like the name Joy, but DH has said no, never. Some I think are not cool: Temperance, Chastity, etc. But Joy, Hope, Faith...those are pretty and good for MNs.

I like virtue names for girls, and I think most of them are pretty.  I don't have a problem with my friends' kids' names at all, I just thought it was funny that we both knew someone who chose to name their daughter "Serenity Rayne!"  I think the hyphenated first name thing, plus a middle name, is a bit much, but I'm not side-eyeing it or anything.  I don't care for Chastity, and Temperance lends itself too well to things about "temper" so it's not my style, but I like Serenity, Mercy, Patience, Hope, Faith, Grace, etc.

AppleGrapeMSTK

I work in corrections.  I see lots of names.  We had two women named Female when this was a co-ed facility.  I currently have a client named Nick Claus and Arreola Michael.

In my personal life, I know several, too.  

S.urr.eal C.ox (funnily enough, she is a lesbian / periods added to protect Google searching)

De'Rick (DD's bio uncle- pronounced Derek)

Thai (DD's bio brother)

Nevaeh Eleanora Miranda Chastity Lastname (forgot the relation to DD's bio family, but it's 2 middle names too many)