What are the craziest, most unique names you've heard?

tmk0325 · February 2016

So for some fun for today, I thought I'd start this thread. What are some weird, crazy, unique, good or bad names you have heard? This is just for fun!

I'll start.... I know a couple that named their son Maps. Yup, you read that right. They call him Mapsie sometimes. Everytime I see pictures or hear his name, I think WTF? Apparently they heard it in a song...

I also saw not to long ago a girl named La-A. Pronounced La DASH A. Seriously?!

That also went along with a lady that named her daughter Emergenci. After the emergency room....UGH!! Poor kid.

Katienu · February 2016

Maps? Seriously. I thought mine was strange. Our friends named their daughter - Winter Sky

searchingforameaning · February 2016

my 5 year old wants to name the baby "Cousins"

amandazap · February 2016

Courvoisier.

I wish I was kidding. Except it wasn't spelled like the name of the liquor, it had a "unique" spelling.

bananers · February 2016

La-a is an urban legend. And a racist one at that.

acciobaby123 · February 2016

@bananers my mom had one in her class... I don't know if it was her official name, but it's what was on the school roll in kindergarten

bananers · February 2016

If you hang around the Bump for a while, you'll see this comes up all the time, with everyone claiming to know someone who knew someone with this name. In reality, there isn't a single documented case. I'm not calling your mom a liar, but that would be pretty unlikely, given the proliferation of this urban legend.

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

Tnallen107 · February 2016

@tmk0325

One of my aunts had a Ka-A in her class. I wanted to ask if that is how it is spelled on her Birth Certificate since most states won't allow symbols and whatnot. Crazy people, even if it is just a nickname

bananers · February 2016

^in fact, when I opened this thread I actually thought to myself, I wonder how long until someone claims to know a le-a, orangejello and lemonjello twins, abcde, or a shithead.

Pepper6 · February 2016

There's a (very long) thread on the baby names board with a lot of doozies. It's an entertaining read.

lotsofsunshine · February 2016

I think the my least favorite name I've heard is Princess. Unfortunately it isn't all that uncommon.

tmk0325 · February 2016

I didn't know that it was an urban legend, just saw it listed in a program and thought that poor child. Always having to explain herself!

Kjack85 · February 2016

Ummm I remember dagoberto (pronounced dere go berto as in there goes berto). I've always wondered where berto went ... Like did he leave the hospital or something?

kiwico14 · February 2016

DH and I are teachers. We see some really youneek names. There's a girl at his school named Iamun.ique, all one word like that. I particularly enjoy the irony of having two students named Unique in the same class.

karaszoo1 · February 2016

I have cousins named Willa wella,aquamarine and shooting star.swear on my life.yes their parents are hippies....
My aunt is a special ed teacher,she told us she's had a set of twins with the Lemonjello and orangejello names. But I Dont know them first hand to know if she's fibbing or not but my cousins names are 100% legit like on their birth certificate n ss cards..

Bringmemylongswordho · February 2016

karaszoo1 said:

I have cousins named Willa wella,aquamarine and shooting star.swear on my life.yes their parents are hippies....
My aunt is a special ed teacher,she told us she's had a set of twins with the Lemonjello and orangejello names. But I Dont know them first hand to know if she's fibbing or not but my cousins names are 100% legit like on their birth certificate n ss cards..

Lemonjello and orangejello are also racist urban legends @bananers already posted the snores link.

There a plenty of crazy names out there to not repeat urban legends.

blackistonemcgrail · February 2016

Luckily this wasn't twins, but the combination Sam and Ella said quickly makes your stomach churn and stay away from raw eggs. The siblings went to my Mom's school

JournoGrl23 · February 2016

Kjack85 said:

Ummm I remember dagoberto (pronounced dere go berto as in there goes berto). I've always wondered where berto went ... Like did he leave the hospital or something?

I can't stop laughing about that one.

Duffgurl · February 2016

One of my sons friends from preschool is named King. I thought it was funny when I told his moms that our cats name is King Comfort.

charmedlifex3 · February 2016

I think the worst was little girl (identical) twins who used to come into my studio. Alexandra, and Alexandria. And the mother insisted they be called by their full names, and got super annoyed when I mixed up the twin with the purple bow with the twin with the PINK bow. (They were two, so they were amok, and these were teeny tiny bows)

I gave up and called them both "Honey / Sweetie"

Perfectly nice names on their own, but whhhhy would you do that to your kids?

tmk0325 · February 2016

@Allisun85 I'm having twins and like two C names and I think that is bad enough and they aren't similar. Those poor girls!

LadyBear10 · February 2016

These really are not odd names but I had a group of brothers named Leantre, Leandre, and Leanfre. They went by tre, dre, and fre.

Edit: Also a student whose middle name was money.

ChrissyFromMD · February 2016

For the fruits: My father's ex-girlfriend's daughter was named Lemon, (and she was one). I had a baby sitter growing up named Cherry.

A kid I went to school with was named Sir, as in "Yes, Sir". I guess his mother wanted to ensure her son was always addressed appropriately.

My friends mother was named Pansie. Her sisters were Posey, Rose and Cookie.

I have a friend name Kitty, which is usually a nickname, in this case its not.

On the Welsh side of my family, I have an aunt Val-doris and an uncle Rahno (Ron-o). These were the younger siblings. The elder girls in that generation were all "Mary-"s (Mary-Catherine, Mary-Theresa, Mary-Elizabeth, Mary-etc)...and the list goes as there were 15 kids.

My aunt used to say be careful of who you name your children after. She named her eldest daughter after a character in a book who was eccentric, dramatic and always the black sheep. My aunt was intrigued by her because female characters weren't written that way in her generation. My cousin turned out to be exactly like the character.

acciobaby123 · February 2016

I guess I don't understand why people get so riled up at the la-a thing. #1 how is it racist, no one ever said what race these children were #2 the child my mother taught could have had her nickname be la-a, but that is what was on the school rolls

Bringmemylongswordho · February 2016

acciobaby123 said:

I guess I don't understand why people get so riled up at the la-a thing. #1 how is it racist, no one ever said what race these children were #2 the child my mother taught could have had her nickname be la-a, but that is what was on the school rolls

Please read the snopes article, it will clearly explain how and why it's racist.

In fact, here is a second snopes article that shows this shit goes back to the Victorian era
https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

mikaylasevener · February 2016

I work in a courthous and Abcde is an actual first name that has come across last year...pronounced Absidey.
Then again there are a lot of unusual names that we come across at the courthouse.
An example would be first name: Felony

bananers · February 2016

acciobaby123 said:

I guess I don't understand why people get so riled up at the la-a thing. #1 how is it racist, no one ever said what race these children were #2 the child my mother taught could have had her nickname be la-a, but that is what was on the school rolls

I don't get riled up about la-a. I just like to call out liars and you wouldn't believe how much it comes up on the Bump. Like I said, everyone knows someone who knows someone. Maybe your mom is the only one who isn't lying. It's possible, I suppose. But I seriously side eye anyone who claims they know one.

PineappleMD · February 2016

I work in pediatrics, so we see all the trends come and go.

Lately, there have been tons of Queens, Kings, Princes, and Princesses... which are only a tad odd by themselves, but we've been seeing a lot of combos too... think "Princess-Queen-Chanel" (yes, all one word) or "K'ingly", etc

Power names like that tend to be common in the AA communities we serve, while nature names are super common in the trendy hippy-type families - Stone, Lake, Sky, Tulip, Daffodil (not kidding)

And the middle-of-the-road, suburban types all tend to sound alike - Aiden, Jayden, Kayden, Zaiden, Mackenna, Makayla, Mackenzie, etc etc

At least those kids with interesting ones won't have to share a classroom with 5 other kids of the same name!

mksfav · February 2016

I was a nannie for a boy named D'Artagnan, and who they called Dar Dar......
I get that he was a Musketeer and all, but that experience has made me really evaluate the shortening or nick names people will use for what I name my child.

bearsandbeets7 · February 2016

My brother went to school with a Dayday. He used to give him rides home from school. Pronounced just like it looks. It was his legit, birth certificate name, it was the name on his license and everything.

Edited because words.

Doritoss · February 2016

Meconium, look it up
King James
Souri

Fremdschamen · February 2016

A friend worked at a government registry office where people came to change their names. A girl arrived there on her 19th birthday to change her name to Jane. Her legal name was Repentofyoursins.

telicious2 · February 2016

I saw the name Webba Weena once. That was a first and middle name. I love when I see an article that takes crazy names from the SSA's list of baby names for a particular year. This article had me rolling my eyes with the name Ruckus and Swastik! https://www.today.com/parents/12-craziest-new-baby-names-oh-no-they-didnt-t22971

charmedlifex3 · February 2016

Bjorn.

Especially since he is only a couple months old, so he is often referred to as "Baby Bjorn."

And no, no one in that family is Norwegian.

Curls919 · February 2016

Allisun85 said:

Bjorn.
Especially since he is only a couple months old, so he is often referred to as "Baby Bjorn."
And no, no one in that family is Norwegian.

I'm LOLing at Baby Bjorn.

I actually knew someone named Bjorn but it was pronounced b'jorn (you say the J) not byorn. He said he couldn't say the J sound for years so when he was small he called himself b'dorn.

bananers · February 2016

I went to high school with a Bjorn.

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