Worst name EVER!

Lady Leigh

So I was randomly reading this article and the name just ...Wow!

Knatalye? Why couldn't you just spell it Natalie.... 
Anyone else run into some questionable names lately?

https://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/texas-news/2014/09/03/hope-faith-conjoined-twins-texas-childrens-hospital/15008341/

janda426

For fucks sake

janda426

Might as well be Gnatalee

Mary and Dave

I work at an elementary school, I see all kinds of off the wall names. It never gets old!

lewispm

A friend of mine recently named her baby girl Bayeleigh, pronounced Bailey. No clue why she chose that spelling but so painful to look at!

It definitely doesn't beat Knatalye though! YIKES

lewispm

Random, but @katydid2014, I love your dog! I chuckle every time I see your siggy. So cute! I feel like his (her?) name should be Fergus. Is it Fergus??

lifewrite

Ugh. They are from my city so I get to see this name all over the local news. Awful.

lewispm

katydid2014 said:

@lewispm lol  Not quite, her name is Belle.  She definitely has bed head in that pic and her tongue always sticks out because she has no teeth left (almost 14 years old).  She is our pitiful princess.

I love her.

homegrown2

I work in auto claims so I see all kinds of good ones. Today I had a claim on a woman named Special. Yep, that's her legal first name.... :-q

jess412love

A girl I know named her daughter Clover. Not a weird spelling but just an awful awful name, can you imagine introducing yourself as an adult "hi my name is clover." I just can't....

kellbell1982

How about the name Fawn? I had a childhood friend with that name and I always secretly loved it. My DD wants to name this baby Beyoncé if it's a girl lol

bdazzld

FFS SMH Humanity...why.

kella0708

Shithead. Pronounced "sha-thayed"

massiejs09

I work with a woman who goes by the name Brownie. And she's all business too which makes it that much worse. You can't be taken seriously, in a professional setting, if your name (as an adult) is Brownie.

Other good ones from the workplace are P'Nina and Fitzroy.

It takes a village.

hydrangeablue

One of my friends just went to a baby shower for a "Korbyn"... she posted a photo of her with the mom to be and I almost commented because I was in that kind of mood. Corbin is already an interesting and not very popular name, why the need to f it up? Names with random y's kill me in general.

bumpuser10258960

So I literally just found out that a friend of a friend is having a girl and is naming her: Jadzia

Apparently it is the name of a character from their favorite show, Deep Space Nine. 

MalVough

I have a nephew named Wybie... from the movie Coraline.

It's just weird. He's 4 and it's still weird.

starsailorr26

Some of these are horrid. I've had people give me grief for using a popular name, but at least I didn't spell it Uhlivihia. or something.

CoozieInMyPurse

I work with a Chetia. It's pronounced Keisha. I call her Cheetah when she's not around.

amberb612

Omg I was thinking the exact same thing when I read this. Plus why would you give one child a crazy name and the other a "normal" one!?!

hydrangeablue

TikTak said:

JessicaMontello412 said:

A girl I know named her daughter Clover. Not a weird spelling but just an awful awful name, can you imagine introducing yourself as an adult "hi my name is clover." I just can't....

I read an article on CNN.com yesterday by a woman named Pepper. Poor, poor woman.

I dont think it's that bad... I think of Pepper Potts from Iron Man

jpavenski

That's terrible! If you didn't write Natalie after I wouldn't have even known what the name was supposed to be. I once had a precious in a dance class. I also worked in a hospital doing newborn photos, I heard some interesting ones. Once I had a set of twins names essence divine & honor queen. I'll never forget them cause the mom brought princess crowns for them to wear too lol

suziemags

My husband and I joke that we are going to name the baby Turboawesome Megafun. Pronounced Tur-bah-sum Mc-gaw-fun. It's not that bad in comparison to some of the real names on this thread.

JeepersWife

Good lord...some of these make me smh...

A lady on FB is having a grandson, his name will be Kohl....why?!?!

meowkitten

Ugh I see some awful names as a teacher but that's pretty awful!

I once had a little girl in my class name Me'kehyla, she had two brothers named Me'laiyka and Me'leieka and a sister named Me'laehnah. Yeah. How could you keep your kids straight...and just why!?

molassa

There is a preschooler where I work named Clear. I still shake my head at that one. I wonder if her parents meant to name her Claire but couldn't spell it?
It seems like adding random Y's is the trend. Of course my kids have unique names so I'm not opposed to unusual names but I do have enough sense not to name them anything too crazy or anything spelled awkwardly.

Lmsq1611

I knew a woman named Princess. That was her legal name and her siblings were Valerie and Sam so completely normal names. How would you like to introduce yourself, "Hello, I'm Princess".

texassweetheart04

Growing up, I had neighbors Cricket and Jazz. They were sisters. I remember thinking how "cool" to have such a different name. Not so much my feelings now

mangomimosa

Pepper isn't terrible. Not great either.

I knew a woman named Cinnamon. I asked her to repeat herself to be sure I heard correctly & she got huffy about it. Get over yourself, dude. Your parents were high when they named you. Not my fault.

lisap0924

I work in a school and there is a girl named taylah. (Like Taylor)
I live in MA. You know we don't like our R's....;)

bwftw

harper3 said:

Has anyone read/watched Freakonomics? I wish people would think of their child's future. When they apply for a job and an employer only sees their resume with their 'unique' name, it will be difficult to take that individual seriously. Names matter.

This. My sister is in HR. If she can't figure out how to say a name, they don't get a call.

Whitfry

A friend of mine posted this photo she took when she dropped her son off at daycare.

stefanie_cbc

My sister had a classmate in middle school named shithead... They pronounced it shi-thead. I may never forget that name for the rest of my life.

jr_packard

This. When we were throwing girl names around with our first (who turned out to be a boy), it had to pass the business suit test: could a grown woman wearing business attire, walk up to an important colleague/client, and introduce herself without receiving snickers? "Snickers," for example would *not* have passed the test.

blinksmb

SO's half sister just had a boy a couple weeks ago and named him Archer. Worst part? Her last name is Bowman.
Archer Bowman.

neonviolet

I know a Talyn (like Talyn, but of course with an unnecessary y), whose brother is Austyn. I knew of a Cinnamin (yes, spelled incorrectly) in college, and growing up knew of a girl in the next town named Pepper. I thought it was cool in a Punky Brewster kind of way and it always reminded me of "Annie". One of the orphans was named Pepper right?

sashass

At the end of the day everybody has their own reasons for naming their children what they do, just because something isn't exactly your first choice doesn't mean it is a bad name or that the child will suffer in later life. Surely the problem here is not the parents or individuals with unusual names, but the judgemental people who hear them and make a decision about that person without knowing them? Never judge a book by its cover, the text inside is what really matters.

stellarsoundz

RQuinlin said:

I grew up with a girl named Sequin. She ended up stripping, but seriously, what did her parents expect?

does anyone here watch The Boondocks? All I could think of reading this was an episode from the first of second season where a... questionable... woman starts "dating" the grandfather...

052806

sashass said:

At the end of the day everybody has their own reasons for naming their children what they do, just because something isn't exactly your first choice doesn't mean it is a bad name or that the child will suffer in later life. Surely the problem here is not the parents or individuals with unusual names, but the judgemental people who hear them and make a decision about that person without knowing them? Never judge a book by its cover, the text inside is what really matters.

No- surely the problem is saddling the kid with an unpronounceable or always going to be misspelled moniker. The name IS the cover of the book that is going to be presented to the world- it's hard not to judge when that is basically all you are going by on a generic resume and you see someone named "Princess Sparkles".

My sister's name is Elyssa (pronounced Elissa). It isn't a unique name, but it's an unusual spelling and she has spent her entire life correcting people as they call her Elise, Elijah, Elsa and everything else in between.

alexandria22489

sashass said:

At the end of the day everybody has their own reasons for naming their children what they do, just because something isn't exactly your first choice doesn't mean it is a bad name or that the child will suffer in later life. Surely the problem here is not the parents or individuals with unusual names, but the judgemental people who hear them and make a decision about that person without knowing them? Never judge a book by its cover, the text inside is what really matters.

False. The problem IS with the name and the parents because no child should have to go through life with a fucking ridiculous name. Don't tell me it's acceptable for someone to name their child Shithead.

But thank you SO much for coming here to teach us all a lesson, I'm sure it is greatly appreciated by all and all of our opinions have changed.

*eye roll*