Worst names ever...

spiffy · July 2009

Real ones, that is. I want them.

You great great great grandparent's name or some hideous thing you read in a novel or even something you think is real.

MIL and mother won't stop asking about names even after having been told for months that we're saving the name until the baby is born. We've begun feeding them a line of BS and some of the worst names imaginable that we're 'considering'. Unfortunately, there are only so many Thorfinns and Syphilidaes, and I'm running out of truly awful names.

So help a pregnant lady get her jollies, huh?

SpecialWife · July 2009

DH made up Lucilla Penelope(some may like this so sorry!) and Begonia for those nosy name asking people. His boss actually called Teagan "Lucilla Penelope!"

streamtrax41 · July 2009

My cousin's son was dubbed Jarvis Mason while in the womb. Someone came up with it, and it stuck throughout the pregnancy. He's been Alexander since he was born, though, thank goodness!

LoriFalce · July 2009

Forsythia.

Andalusia

Manhattan (because Brooklyn's passe)

Think of a pun. We told people we were going to name our baby either Niagara if it was a girl, or Truman Robert if it was a boy. Bad, but not terrible, right? Add in our last name - Falce. So it's Niagara Falce, or Tru R. Falce.

FMIL&MOB · July 2009

Rancinda, Meconium, Druella, Cruella

dbucksbebe · July 2009

Bertha, Agatha

ambrvan · July 2009

When I was in high school, there really was a brother and sister with the worst names ever. Halloweena Pumpkin was the girl, and Skates Booger was the boy. What were their parents smoking?

My mother is a nurse and she once had an older male patient named Nosmo King. Yes, you've heard it in jokes before, but this was totally for real.

AllThatGlitters101 · July 2009

Sigrid is in my family tree. It's a she. For real.

NerdBride_D&D · July 2009

DH's parent's didn't know if they were having a boy or girl and called him Justin Case while he was in the womb.... as in "Justin Case it's a boy". Thank God they didn't keep that name, lol

dgurl26 · July 2009

my friend named her poor DD Jam Metallica. I have no idea what the hell they were thinking.

HawaiiBrideGrm · July 2009

Elvira.. it's my gma's name and thank God she goes by Vera. Hate it!

momtodaisy · July 2009

Personally the justin case one is my favorite. When my friend was researching dog names she came up with Askim as in "Ask Him?". Use some alliteration with your last name too. I wish I had thought to do this - because I got some flack for the middle name that I chose - it was my grandma's name so it is less than popular by today's standards.

maiziejenga · July 2009

We've been telling everyone it's Mildred Olga.

AggieDee · July 2009

A co-worker named her daughter Jagger, as in Mick Jagger.

DS goes to daycare with a Titus and a Delton.

*Scuzzlebutt* · July 2009

My husband went to high school with a guy named Johnnifer (his twin sister was named Jennifer!) I didn't believe my husband when he told me, so I made him get his yearbook out of the attic. JOHNNIFER. And apparently he never went by "John".

I have friends who named their son "Knathan" so that he would have a name that "matched" their "K" names and his siblings with "K" names.

C12H22O11 · July 2009

My BF taught a kid named Brooks Dunn. I know a Bullet, Jeston, and Cannon. My great grandma's name was Elektra.

maltwin1 · July 2009

My Dad's former receptionist was named Dorcas. I always felt bad for her.

dionnemd10 · July 2009

some chica on the today show this morning had a sign saying hi to her boyfriend "Mason Dixon" and the hosts asked if that was really his name and she said yes. i found that to be an interesting name!

RFBsbride · July 2009

There is a woman in the news that I read about last night whose name was RebelJane.

I gotta say, I love the idea of throwing some out-there names at people to get them off your back. I may have to try that when my time comes!

dpdw · July 2009

I have a great-great uncle named Adolf. DH's family tree has a Concepta (which was apparently quite popular in turn-of-the-century Ireland, along with Immaculata).

C12H22O11 · July 2009

Oooh! I thought of couple other ones. One of the rep's I talk with on a frequent basis is named *** Creek. And I distinctly remember reading an article in my alumni newsletter in which a man named Timber *** was being interviewed (he worked for the US Forest Service, appropriately enough).

C12H22O11 · July 2009

C12H22O11:

Oooh! I thought of couple other ones. One of the rep's I talk with on a frequent basis is named *** Creek. And I distinctly remember reading an article in my alumni newsletter in which a man named Timber *** was being interviewed (he worked for the US Forest Service, appropriately enough).

Yeah, the asterisks are supposed to be D!ck.

Lambie. · July 2009

Sky Blue Baby

Yes, those were all in the childs legal name. For real.

CMDR513 · July 2009

Student two years ago-

Sukhdeep

mellieg8582 · July 2009

I'm a special ed teacher so I get kids with some pretty weird names.

I knew kids named Forrest Greene, Hannibal, Chardonnay, Devon (for a girl) and Odessa. Bertrand Emanuel ( that was my grandfather)

foundmylazybum · July 2009

maltwin1:
My Dad's former receptionist was named Dorcas. I always felt bad for her.

This is a bad name, but at least she is a character in "The Winter's Tale." ?

soccerwife · July 2009

I recently learned one of my relatives was named Herman. All I could think of was Herman Munster.

userdeleted · July 2009

I have an ancestor named Hortense, I think that's pretty awful

seanswife · July 2009

My great great grandfather's name was Szymon Alphonse....eek.

ara4488 · July 2009

One year at summer camp, I had a counselor named 'Sunnye' (spelled that way) and another named 'Freedom' (true.)

Also, once met a competitive skier in Colorado with the first name 'Tree'.

mrsekins · July 2009

I went on a hospital tour with a girl named Jillizabeth. As in Jill+Elizabeth. Awful.

And we called my nephew Gunther while in the womb.

SaucySarie · July 2009

Hermosa. Oh and her brother's name was Gamil. I also have twin uncles named Quentin Donell and Dentin Ronell. True, no joke.

PianoPlayingSarah · July 2009

Twins - Nester and Nesterine.

anarivera · July 2009

In highschool thera was a girl called Julyernest for Julie+Ernest

borc0080 · July 2009

A friend of mine referred to LO as Forbes (boy) or Fanny (girl) until we found out the sex. Both are pretty bad, but believable if you really want people to get off your back about names!

DevonPow · July 2009

lissasue3:

PP - why is Devon bad? I've known several Devon's.

Bad names: Grandmothers' names: Delores, Edna

Saw in baby book: Citronella - for a boy!

Thanks for standing up for us Devons in the world! Yes

stewiegriffin · July 2009

We are planning on naming our next one Octavius Maximillian until we find out the sex. The last one was Arturis.

miss_beckman · July 2009

Claire Annette for a girl. Dagger for a boy. (Or jax)

bmstee03 · July 2009

My great uncles name is Golden (they had 16 kids so i think they ran out of names). I also have an aunt named Misty Maybelle.

brookelynpaisley · July 2009

My fiance thinks the most clever name ever for a baby is Doctor. Because everyone will assume he is one. Blah. In my family I have Ethel, Erma, Gertrude, Morton, and Anton that I don't like.

You could go with the tried and true Nevaeh. Bonus points for keeping a straight face when you excitedly tell them it's Heaven backwards!!!!!

If all else fails, tell them you're naming it after where/how it was conceived. Something pretty and sophisticated like Duvet. A classy friend I went to middle school with got pregnant while drinking Alize, and named her baby that.

proudarmywife08 · July 2009

miss_beckman:
Claire Annette for a girl. Dagger for a boy. (Or jax)

What's wrong with Claire Annette? Both fairly normal names...and DD's name is Claire so I think its pretty. :-) Although Dagger and Jax...ick.

ETA: haha I get it...Clarinet...DOH. Ok Pregnancy brain strikes again! Nevermind my post :-)

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