Bad baby name

klv

I am a teacher, so I've had the pleasure of meeting thousands of kids.....many with some pretty unfortunate names. I could write a novel. 

I just don't see the appeal of naming your child something that they ( and anyone trying to spell/pronounce their name) will struggle with their whole life. I usually judge in silence, but I thought this one may be cringe-worthy enough to share. 

Bry'leighBell.e. (Added the period so it would not come up in a search, but the rest is accurate)

lmno304

My brother in law's ex named their son Josziyah. Like Josiah but with 30 extra letters. Every time i see him i get kind of sad. Also i work at a drug store where people like to ditch their kids on the toy aisle while they do their shopping, but somehow still think it's okay to shout across the store at them. I've heard a few weird names that way...

br0co1ii

A teacher friend had a student named Syphilis.  It was pronounced sih-fy-lus. The mom apparently saw that word, and not knowing what it was, thought it was pretty.

SnobunnieMel

In medicine people keep a running list of these. My favorite is actually quite common I guess. La-a. Pronounced ladasha. Because now we pronounce punctuation. 

SuperKristy85

Oh no! Poor little syphillis!!!! 

westcoastfoodie

@SnobunnieMel YES! I've spoken to a La-a for work! I asked to verify the spelling of her name and was met with "*heavy exasperated sigh* It's REALLY not that COMPLICATED."
Uh....

nsquaredlife13

@Julia70286 I have no comment yet other than your siggy looks like the most glorious thing on the planet and I need it in my belly NOW!

alysie89

I know a girl who is named Fau.nus... because her parents saw a fawn on their way home. 

I feel sorry for children with out there names.

Cubslove12

Always love students names after liquor.....I know of a Tanquera.y and Tequill.a 

gatorMom2014

My mom had a little girl named Cigarette nn Ciggy in her class. 

@snowbunniemel La-a is unbelievable.

Bringmemylongswordho

SnobunnieMel said:

In medicine people keep a running list of these. My favorite is actually quite common I guess. La-a. Pronounced ladasha. Because now we pronounce punctuation. 

Eeeennnnhhhhhh

https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp
It's also a really popular racist urban legend.

xiphos13

A former teacher of mine talked about he had someone named Female, pronounced fee-mah-lay. He had several other interesting ones, but that one always stuck out to me.

SnobunnieMel

@Bringmemylongswordho it may have started as legend, but people liked it enough I have personally had 2 patients with that name. 

dobbyisfree

I work in a pharmacy in a very inner city area. I see lots of names that just add a bunch of letters. And a names like Precious and Queen 

Bringmemylongswordho

SnobunnieMel said:

@Bringmemylongswordho it may have started as legend, but people liked it enough I have personally had 2 patients with that name. 

It has never been recorded.  A name has to be used 5 times a year to be recorded. Even if you use the excuse that the SSA doesn't record the hyphen,  La is extremely rare and Laa has also never been recorded . In 1990 80 girls were named La. This is the single highest amount in a year, and no year since has even had half that amount since 95. Statistically, it's highly unlikely that anyone has met a single la or la-a, let alone two.

So, I'm sorry but I don't believe you. The numbers aren't on your side.

lmno304

Yes! Like "Diamonde" and, I shit you not, Jealousy.

CaptainPhasma

I met a little girl recently named Samurai. Both parents were of European descent, as was she. My husband was not a fan, tha kfully he balances out my terrible taste in names. 

I thought it was kinda cool because I love unusual names, particularly word names as they are easy to spell. 

My defense of unusual names is that I grew up with one of the top 10 most popular names for my generation and there were always lots of girls with the same name and every nickname variation and last initial. I dislike non-traditional or yoo-neek spellings but I love a good hippy name that avoids making my kid Emma S. or the Other Jacob in that class.

My least favorite baby name is Nevaeh. To me, heaven spelled backwards means the opposite of heaven. Just name your baby Heaven, or Elyse after the Elysian fields.

_darth

Jedi.

gatorMom2014

I noticed that the judge who signed off on no autopsy for Justice Scalia was named Cinderella.  All stand for the honorable Cinderella.

JamieK1882

This thread reminds me of the Key and Peele skit "Substitute Teacher." If you've never seen it, do yourself a favor and YouTube it immediately.

kmtz89

In Tanzania there are a lot of wonderful swahili names, but then sometimes people just use english words to name there kids. I know a lot of kids named Precious, Brightness, Happy, Happyness, Lightness, Gladness, Angel, Goodluck, Godlove, Godson, Loveness... (those are just a few...)

Blonde1817

@Bringmemylongswordho I have to agree this probably is urban legend, because I have heard from soooo many medical professionals or teachers that they knew someone who knew someone with this name.  There may be some out there, but probably not that many!

@JamieK1882 I love that sketch!!!

i have kind of a different issue... I used to work as a preschool teacher and while I didn't have any inherently bad names, there are many nice names that I now have to veto because they remind too much of former students.  I've taught 4 Drew's and they've all been terribly behaved. 

ashleyp625

Blonde1817 said:

@Bringmemylongswordho I have to agree this probably is urban legend, because I have heard from soooo many medical professionals or teachers that they knew someone who knew someone with this name.  There may be some out there, but probably not that many!

@JamieK1882 I love that sketch!!!

i have kind of a different issue... I used to work as a preschool teacher and while I didn't have any inherently bad names, there are many nice names that I now have to veto because they remind too much of former students.  I've taught 4 Drew's and they've all been terribly behaved. 

Same! (Although it's middle school for me.) For me, it's Jacob and Emily, which is really too bad, because Emily is quite a nice name. 

gatorMom2014

@blonde1817 @ashleyp625
This makes me think of a problem I'm having--what abou ex-boyfriend names?  Recent (college and later) are definitely off the table...but I have one that I feel like I can't use because I had an 8th grade boyfriend with that name.  It seems ridiculous to go back to middle school, but I hate to have my child's name remind me of some kid I kissed in the movie theater when I was 14 lol.

housewifehobbyist

DarthFuriosa said:

Jedi.

My cousin named her kid that.  Middle name Knight. 

joyful08

A lady I knew worked at the dmv and she met someone named flanne.l pajama.s... Pronounced (hopefully this will make sense) fla-Nel pAj-a-mas. I don't know if I did the pronunciation correctly but it's a terrible name. Poor kid

CopperBoom86

A young couple (16 and 17) in my neighborhood just had a baby boy. The name on his birth certificate is Anakin Skywalker Metts. Of course, they call him Ani. 

I don't buy the La-a thing either. That's almost as bad as the Lemonjelo and Orangejelo urban legend (lemon jello, orange jello). I've heard numerous nurses and teachers claim to have cared for/taught all of the above. Eye roll. Hard. 

AshleyGemini24

 I'm up for using unique names, but not going overboard. Both FI and I have very common names, and want our LO to have an unpopular name. 

CopperBoom86

AshleyGemini24 said:

 I'm up for using unique names, but not going overboard. Both FI and I have very common names, and want our LO to have an unpopular name. 

I have a pretty uncommon name (Thea) and I love it... now. I hated it when I as younger. I just wanted to be an Ashley, Brittany, or Lauren, like my friends. So be prepared for that lol. 

Edited to add my name. 

LauraPCOS

Wow this is awesome! I wanted to name my child's middle name, if it is a girl, Grey. Her first name would be very ordinary and I just felt it had a nice ring to it.  Hubby thought I was weird but Grey is definitely better than these names.

emmaaa

Obviously my name is Emma. When I was younger, I didn't know any other Emmas. Now, I'll be in the grocery store and hear a mom call for their Emma and I respond 100% of the time. My name was uncommon when I was younger but not an unusual name by any means.

DH and I like traditional, family names for our baby. We also both went by a different name than our Birth certificate. I go by my middle name and he goes by a nickname. It's a pain. We want our children to just go by their first name as is. Granted, it could easily turn into a nickname.

von1976

LauraPCOS said:

Wow this is awesome! I wanted to name my child's middle name, if it is a girl, Grey. Her first name would be very ordinary and I just felt it had a nice ring to it.  Hubby thought I was weird but Grey is definitely better than these names.

I feel like Grey is getting very trendy, perhaps a bit more for boys, though. I wonder if it's because of Fifty Shades?

celette482

my job brings me in contact with hundreds of names a day. My personal favorite category of bad names? One's where you have the same name as a famous person: the Michael Bolton. I have seen a few. Not much you can do to avoid that ahead of time, since most of the ones I've seen were of a similar age. But it's hilarious to say "Harrison Ford? But not THAT Harrison Ford" (a made up example)

Kaessi

In my occupation, I see A LOT of strange names. So much so, that I started a text to DH with the "Name of the Day" and we've talked it about it so much that when I see friends, they anxiously ask, "So, what's the name of the day today?!" Haha.
Probably my favorite to date: Lasagna.
Why would you do that to do a kid? That on a job application is so not appealing.
Others I've seen recently: Cash Money. Starhop. Twilight. Daquiri. Strawberry Fields.
One mother had twins, and named one something perfectly normal - John. The other...she named 2012. Like the year. She was involved in a court case with the kids and the judge actually made her change it, which is something I've never seen. He said, "You honestly cannot expect your child to go through life with a number for a name, have you thought about the effect the will have on your child's life?" I'm sure one day that child will be very grateful to that man!

LizaKate1213

The La-a name is the biggest modern day urban legend that I know of. Everybody fell for it, everybody knows somebody who knows a La-a but nobody actually knows one in person because she doesn't exist.

JDMRS

CopperBoom86 said:

A young couple (16 and 17) in my neighborhood just had a baby boy. The name on his birth certificate is Anakin Skywalker Metts. Of course, they call him Ani. 

I don't buy the La-a thing either. That's almost as bad as the Lemonjelo and Orangejelo urban legend (lemon jello, orange jello). I've heard numerous nurses and teachers claim to have cared for/taught all of the above. Eye roll. Hard. 

Ahh my friend from high school (more than 15 years ago) named her baby Anakin about 10 years ago so little Ani isn't alone!

CaptainPhasma

Yep, when the prequels came out I met a guy who named his baby Aniken, I wonder if we'll see some kids named Kylo this year...

Though I can't judge, if I had boy - girl twins I would have a strong desire to name them Luke and Leia

SnobunnieMel

I also love when a person has a first name as a last name and their parents give them that same name as the surname. So it's just the same name repeated twice. You couldn't think of ANYTHING else? Like David davids or Steven Stevens 

TNgoldengirl

This isn't the most crazy, but an unusual one I've seen this week and took note of: Greenlee

Jen080916

I've seen a couple of unfortunate last names paired with "Anita", like Mann or Lay. 

LOL and in high school, we had a Michael Hawke. Mike for short

ammiddleton3

CopperBoom86 said:

AshleyGemini24 said:

 I'm up for using unique names, but not going overboard. Both FI and I have very common names, and want our LO to have an unpopular name. 

I have a pretty uncommon name (Thea) and I love it... now. I hated it when I as younger. I just wanted to be an Ashley, Brittany, or Lauren, like my friends. So be prepared for that lol. 

Edited to add my name. 

I'm an Ashley, and I always had multiple Ashley's in all my classes! It was confusing, but I don't really mind having a popular name.