worst names ever

kboyet

ThePregosaurus said:

Had a student name MyQueen. I couldn't call her by her name.

Where are you from?!?

leoandethansmom

I've seen a post on pinterest where a preschoolers name was ya'highness but I also work with 2 people who have daughters named Djerny pronounced Journey.

bowlwoman

DD1 had a boy in her class named Thor Sammer.

momtoE25

Forgot to add...
My step dad's son named their child abcde (pronounced absity) and a fellow teacher had a child named legend.

RosieB0514

I helped twin girls at work one day. One was Stephanie Marie, her sister....Stephanay Maray. REALLY? Twins share everything, including names apparently!

Estherlovesbaby

My mother picked the most traditional names for my brother and I when she was in her early twenties. Then when she had my youngest brother at the age of 38 she decided that Z was a good name. That's right my brothers name is one letter of the alphabet.

zoester766

I knew a girl in Middle school whose name was Tninecee pronounced T-9-C... This was her name because her parents couldn't think of a name so it stands for "the 9th child"

Cconway7

ashtonkitty1 said:

amr196 said:

With all this talk of names we all like what about names that are just plain awful?

What's the worst name you have ever heard?

For example I heard from a man once (his daughter works ob in a big city hospital) that some lady named her baby shithead. Pronounced shith-eed

I knew of shithead! Maybe we're in the same city!

My cousin went to college with a Shithead in Colorado...

JaneArson

danisgossipgirl said:

Didn't take long to see the urban legends trotted out. A good read: https://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one

Ladies, please please please read this.  And then maybe read this: https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp or this: https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

And then maybe stop pretending that you've come across names that you absolutely have not encountered in person.  Also, perhaps stop repeating that your cousin or your aunt or your sister's friend encountered those names.  Because even if they told you that they did... they didn't.

I work in an "inner city" school and have come across many names that I had not heard before I moved to the city from a predominantly white, middle class, suburban Massachusetts town.  When I first started teaching I thought it was so funny to tell my family members all the "crazy" names I was coming across.  Then I slowly started realizing that they weren't crazy names, they were names from a culture that I wasn't yet familiar with.  Some of the names were beautiful and powerful African names, or African American names steeped in culture, and even when names weren't my style at all, they generally weren't something to make fun of at all.  

Think about what you're laughing at - generally it's not just the crazy name, but more the supposed ignorance of the minority, International, and/or uneducated (often "redneck") parents that give those names to their children.         

melkeeney

My dance teacher growing up named her kids Cinnamon Harry, Rhapsidy Godiva, and Cherry. I don't think they are bad names just very unique! They fit the kids for sure though.

cassiem51

I worked in a college call center for 3 years and saw the worst names! I wish I could think of more but here are a few:

Candy Store (we thought it was fake but she actually enrolled in class!)
Merry Christmas
Ur'highness
Tim Burr (always made me chuckle)
Semaj (her dad's name was James)
And my person favorite - Johnneeckqua

I'm also still mad at what my sister named her twin boys...
LaQuan Marquarius &
LaQuarius Marquan
(I wish I was lying!)

krystrist2014

NandaB said:

I taught at a school with a SirChristopher and ImUnique. Not bad names, but unfortunate pairings: I went to school with twins named Mindy & Mandy and Ronald & Donald.

Ugh, I don't understand why people do this to twins! LOL. My guilty pleasure is 16 & Pregnant/Teen Mom (no judgment please :P) and there have been two twin births on these shows where the kids practically the same name! Alliah and Alianna  &  Amayah and Amaria. I mean, their twins... yall don't think that will be confusing enough for teachers and peers?! Lol

krystrist2014

zoester766 said:

I knew a girl in Middle school whose name was Tninecee pronounced T-9-C... This was her name because her parents couldn't think of a name so it stands for "the 9th child"

This is horrible! Latin for 9 is Novem which actually would have made a half decent name, also Greek for 9 is Ennea pronounced (en-NAY-a) which would have still been a little weird but not that far from Enya so still half decent I think!

krystrist2014

Anna930 said:

@krystrist2014 ALSO my guilty pleasures (teen mom2 new season Wednesday at 10).  Yeah, Alliah and Alianna born to Leah - how self-centered can a girl be?!  OBSESSED with those shows.  Hoping Virgin Territory will be just as awesomely bad! 

Haha! Yes! Im not the only one! Lol. So looking forward to the new season... and the new Virgin Territory show.... also that other show that MTV is coming out with about the girl who was abducted and only found out her mom isn't her mom once she was a teenager. Is it me, or is MTV kind of on a role lately?!

Eora3

I taught a little boy named Brik (pronounced brick). I feel like the least they could have done was spell it correctly. What an awful name!

abcmom12

I knew two girls in middle/high school and their real names were "Queenie" and "Princess"

byrne15

My mom worked with "Candy Boles"

ColeyCannoli

mathymckenna said:

danisgossipgirl said:

Didn't take long to see the urban legends trotted out. A good read: https://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one

Ladies, please please please read this.  And then maybe read this: https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp or this: https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

And then maybe stop pretending that you've come across names that you absolutely have not encountered in person.  Also, perhaps stop repeating that your cousin or your aunt or your sister's friend encountered those names.  Because even if they told you that they did... they didn't.

I work in an "inner city" school and have come across many names that I had not heard before I moved to the city from a predominantly white, middle class, suburban Massachusetts town.  When I first started teaching I thought it was so funny to tell my family members all the "crazy" names I was coming across.  Then I slowly started realizing that they weren't crazy names, they were names from a culture that I wasn't yet familiar with.  Some of the names were beautiful and powerful African names, or African American names steeped in culture, and even when names weren't my style at all, they generally weren't something to make fun of at all.  

Think about what you're laughing at - generally it's not just the crazy name, but more the supposed ignorance of the minority, International, and/or uneducated (often "redneck") parents that give those names to their children.         

Thank You That's why I hate the Orangejello and La-a (seriously, read the other 8 of these before you post these again). They are mocking the poor and often the black community. Besides the dumbest names I've seen come from rich, suburban white hipsters. Good friends of mine moved to Seattle and changed their own legal names to October and Quasar Surprise.

norweigan

My cousin's ex-husband names his first child Miraculus. Spelled that way. He was (and still is) trying to be a singer, and that was his singer name (it has since changed). His son, who is in his teens now, changed it. Not so much because of the name (before he went by his middle name which was his dad's real name) but because he didn't want to be associated with his dad, who is a horrible human being. 

krystrist2014

ColeyCannoli said:

mathymckenna said:

danisgossipgirl said:

Didn't take long to see the urban legends trotted out. A good read: https://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one

Ladies, please please please read this.  And then maybe read this: https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp or this: https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

And then maybe stop pretending that you've come across names that you absolutely have not encountered in person.  Also, perhaps stop repeating that your cousin or your aunt or your sister's friend encountered those names.  Because even if they told you that they did... they didn't.

I work in an "inner city" school and have come across many names that I had not heard before I moved to the city from a predominantly white, middle class, suburban Massachusetts town.  When I first started teaching I thought it was so funny to tell my family members all the "crazy" names I was coming across.  Then I slowly started realizing that they weren't crazy names, they were names from a culture that I wasn't yet familiar with.  Some of the names were beautiful and powerful African names, or African American names steeped in culture, and even when names weren't my style at all, they generally weren't something to make fun of at all.  

Think about what you're laughing at - generally it's not just the crazy name, but more the supposed ignorance of the minority, International, and/or uneducated (often "redneck") parents that give those names to their children.         

Thank You That's why I hate the Orangejello and La-a (seriously, read the other 8 of these before you post these again). They are mocking the poor and often the black community. Besides the dumbest names I've seen come from rich, suburban white hipsters. Good friends of mine moved to Seattle and changed their own legal names to October and Quasar Surprise.

This may be an UO... but I don't see anything wrong with mocking ridiculous names regardless of what race or community they have a tendency to come from. My SO is very passionate about the disservice that many people from the African-American community do to their kids via naming choices - sorry if this sounds racist to some, if it helps my profile pic clearly shows that my SO is indeed African American.

krystrist2014

Re my UO (because my dumb computer wont let me edit) - Just for clarification, I do NOT mean that I like to mock ethnically derived names! I found this particular article from PP very good  https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp 

Jdogs12

I can never understand why a Richard would go by Dick anyway.  Most of them are bad with any last name.  I knew a Dick Brown. 

brittandjp

This isn't nearly as bad as some of the names you guys mentioned...

A guy we know knocked up some chick (really bad situation). They planned on naming the baby something fairly odd that I cannot recall, but apparently that name didn't fit well once they met him. They were racking their brains trying to come up with something.. and they noticed on one of the hospital beds, the manufacture's name was Stryker. The named him Stryker Luke (Luke after the hospital he was born at - St. Luke's).

SoyMissK8

My sister's boyfriend has 3 middle names, two of which are "Bus" and "Free." More hippie parents. They have 7 kids who all have multiple middle names...

Disneygeek77

I worked with a guy that had a grand daughter named Morticia. 

kirstey728

I thought this would be more about names that truly are just out there.

Working as a cake decorator I get names like:
D'anthonee, La'shawn or some colorful combination of letters and punctuation marks that I would never be able to pronounce. When my so and I got pregnant we vowed to name our child something pronounceable.

ColeyCannoli

krystrist2014 said:

Re my UO (because my dumb computer wont let me edit) - Just for clarification, I do NOT mean that I like to mock ethnically derived names! I found this particular article from PP very good  https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp 

I was speaking more about the urban legend names. Those were made up specifically to mock poor people. Like the stupid legend about the name Female being some dumb poor woman (usually a black or foreign woman) who wasn't educated enough to know that the hospital didn't "name the girl for her." Or those that directly mock the illiterate. It's not funny, it's sad.

But yeah, the name Amaizyng was still funny because its both real and I know full well that it wasn't a misspelling. They were just trying to be unique.

MaineMama

OH, I thought of another favorite of mine- A friendly acquaintance of mine (Who changed HIS name to GreenBud) had a beautiful baby girl, and named the poor thing Sativa Sunshine.

ebl2

My mom once had a client whose first name was Doctor. 

In high school one of my friends little brothers name was Chris. Nothing odd about that except their last name was Mish. Chris Mish. 

There was a kid in my middle school who was a big trouble maker and you would constantly hear the office call his name on the intercom, "Billy Willy, come to the principles office, Billy Willy."  

designchica

I went to high school with a girl named Cinnamon Seemen. 

I also went to high school with a girl whose last name is Ramz and she married a man whose last name is Cox and she hyphenated her last name to Ramz-Cox.

beachy6

Edited: because I'm not sure where my comment went and it was too long to retype. And, I'm not sure what this quote box is all about. Whatever. 

 

lovelovelove09

designchica said:

I went to high school with a girl named Cinnamon Seemen. 

I also went to high school with a girl whose last name is Ramz and she married a man whose last name is Cox and she hyphenated her last name to Ramz-Cox.

Ramz-Cox. Wow.

desireeariel

Dylan and Daylan for twins. I don't necessarily think they are awful names just awful when in a set like that. Poor little boys have some rough years ahead...

nursefarmer

La-a. Prounounced "La-dash-a"

kwikwi8181

G-zus was in my stepdaughter's kindergarten class. ( pronounced Jesus). And as a teacher I knew twins named Diabetes and Dialysis. ( their mom didn't speak good English and just thought they were pretty words).

slange310

I had a client once named Lasagna.... and her sister's name was Tahiti.... they were classy ladies.... not

krystrist2014

I honestly cant think of any really bad ones I've heard first hand... but some of you may have seen in a previous thread that while living in a very very small town in British Columbia Canada I met a Mom with the last name Gardener who named her 3 sons: Skye Gardener, Sunny Gardener, and Rainbow Gardener. The first time I heard someone refer to her youngest son Rainbow, I thought it was a joke or a weird nickname! Nope, that poor boy has to go through life as Rainbow. Lucky for them, they live in a place where there are many many hippies who don't find it as strange as others might. Haha.

rshamos

When I was in high school, there was a foreign exchange student from Italy. My friend told me his name was Alfredo. I asked the guy if that really was his name, and for whatever reason, he said yes. I called him that THE WHOLE YEAR. A week before we left for summer, I found out it wasn't true. I felt soooo stupid. But I'll never know why he didn't correct me the first day?

meanie3

I went to high school with a Harry Heymann (pronounced hymen). My husband recently had a client who's son was named Daddy Romeo.