What are some of the worst names people have given their children?

[larkspur]

More people seem to be making up names for their kids these days. The worst ones I have personally come upon are:
Sh*thead (*=i, PRONOUNCED "Shuh-theed"), Metal Alloy, and Meconium(the parents saw it on their discharge papers and thought it sounded pretty...I guess they didn't have internet access to look up the meaning). I just feel sorry for those poor kids.

Anybody have more names to add to the list?

 

[Math Is Hard]

ha ha ha! My mom worked at a hospital for years and saw some pretty crazy baby names come through. One woman named her baby Female (pronounced feh-MAH-lee) because it was on the baby's hospital wristband. Another couple named their child Urine (pronounced yuREEN).

 

[Danger]

And I thought that Frank Zappa had exotic taste.

 

[Chi Meson]

My friend from Florida knew of a woman who looked in her cupboard and decided to name her son Lemonjello ("le-MON-je-lo").

And a long ago friend of mine gave his son a random middle name. Specifically, Random.

 

[scott_alexsk]

Evil Canevial( definite sp e) is pretty bad too.
-scott

 

[JamesU]

For fictional charcters: Anus Magillicutty

I can't think of real people...

 

[selfAdjoint]

My friend from Florida knew of a woman who looked in her cupboard and decided to name her son Lemonjello ("le-MON-je-lo").

And a long ago friend of mine gave his son a random middle name. Specifically, Random.

Only trouble with those two is that Lemongiello is an actual Italian surnname and Random is an old Southern name.

 

[heartless]

One woman named her baby Female (pronounced feh-MAH-lee) because it was on the baby's hospital wristband. Another couple named their child Urine (pronounced yuREEN).

Was it a boy or a girl?

Personally I wonder how names like 'Proton' or 'Neutron' would work in a wild :-)

 

[larkspur]

There used to be a gynecologist in town named Dr. Clapp.

 

[Evo]

Governor Hogg of Texas named his daughter Ima. Ima Hogg. It's true.

http://www.fm.coe.uh.edu/comparisons/ima1a.html

 

[larkspur]

Personally I wonder how names like 'Proton' or 'Neutron' would work in a wild :-)

Somehow, I think the parents of Meconium and Sh*thead would never think of Proton or Neutron on their own. Metal Alloy's dad was an engineer so that would be a possibility...

 

[Pengwuino]

Yesterday, Ivan pondered if some people just aren't meant to be parents.

I think this proves his point.

 

[larkspur]

Yesterday, Ivan pondered if some people just aren't meant to be parents.

I think this proves his point.

Amen to that!

 

[zoobyshoe]

I knew a girl who named her baby some impossibly long name she invented by stringing together pieces of other names. It took her about a minute to recite the whole thing for me. I was horrified.

 

[arildno]

The great American tradition of giving their children impossible names is obviously still very much alive.

But, what could you expect of the descendants of guys named Increase who then went on to call their sons Cotton?

 

[Chi Meson]

Only trouble with those two is that Lemongiello is an actual Italian surnname and Random is an old Southern name.

no WAY!

 

[brewnog]

I knew a Chinese girl who had chosen a Westernised name when she moved over here for uni; Goldilocks.

 

[Leonardo Sidis]

My mom works as a secretary at the Music department of a university, and she handles the concerns of a lot of foreign students that come. Whenever she comes home she usually tells me a funny name she saw that day, and believe me, some of them would be horrible to have.

A guy with an American dad and Asian mom = Chu Johnson

Another Asian guy = Sum Ting Wong (something wrong)

My friends mom is a nurse and he told me that his mom once helped a mom deliver a baby that she named "Urethra" because she thought it sounded cool. She must not have known what it meant haha

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I once worked with Harry Dong.

 

[bomba923]

well, this may not be as lame...
but some parents name their children after herbs & spices;
...
Dill¹, Herb, Ginger, Paprika, Oregano, Parsley,
Coriander², Boldo, Jalap, Nutmeg, Stevia³, Tamarind, and Tansy⁴

Particularly infamous are names like Cumin () and Malabathrum (?)

¹-a.k.a, "Dillard"/"Dillian"..etc
²-a.k.a, "Cory"
³-girl's version of "Steven"
⁴-as opposed to "Pansy"

 

[matthyaouw]

My parents found that a lot of the people in shops like starbucks in Beijing have adopted western forenames. They've not quite got the hang of male/female names yet, and you get a fair few men with nametags reading "Susan", "Julie" etc.

 

[motai]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116

Names can't get too much longer than that...

 

[larkspur]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116

Names can't get too much longer than that...

The state of TN could lower their sales tax if they charged a fine for poorly named kids!

 

[wolram]

Dick Trickle, the racing driver.
Have you ever had dick trickle in your car ?

 

[Danger]

Have you ever had dick trickle in your car ?

There was an incident in an alley a couple of decades ago. Can't remember the lady's name.

 

[George Jones]

There was an incident in an alley a couple of decades ago.

For one reading of what wolram wrote, I don't think you meant this.

 

[Danger]

I did ponder that possibility, but decided to take the high road of interpretation.

 

[bomba923]

My friend from Florida knew of a woman who looked in her cupboard and decided to name her son Lemonjello ("le-MON-je-lo").

And a long ago friend of mine gave his son a random middle name. Specifically, Random.

Only trouble with those two is that Lemongiello is an actual Italian surnname and Random is an old Southern name.

Heh...
~Lemongiello \to "Lemon jello"
reminds me of
~Copernicus \to "Copper nickels"
though there may be many more...

 

[larkspur]

Heh...
~Lemongiello \to "Lemon jello"
reminds me of
~Copernicus \to "Copper nickels"
though there may be many more...

I have heard of of kids named Syphilis (pronounced"suh-Phyllis") and Gonorrhea(guh-NORE-reeah) but always thought that was Urban Legend stuff.

 

[Artman]

The Sass familly.

Bill Sass, Mary Sass, and all the young Sass's. (Real last name, can't remember the actual parents and kids names.)

 

[Danger]

While they're quite common here, some of the family names on the Stoney reserve next door probably sound weird to people who haven't been exposed to them: Shotbothsides, Rollinmud, CrowSpreadHisWings, Powderface, Manywounds, Twoyoungmen etc..

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I have been watching the old Lost in Space series [turns out I never saw much of the first season!] and noticed the name of the writer of the episode "Oasis":

Peter Packer

 

[wildman]

I once worked for a fellow from Japan who's name was a dirty word in Arabic. A friend of mine who was from Libya couldn't help but laugh out load each time that fellow from Japan was paged. Imagine having a name that was a swear word!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Seach the white pages for Crapper.

Hopefully there is no Ima.

 

[glueball8]

<----

I like my name though.

EDIT: It would be "Yu" if I didn't change it. Imagin how confusing that would be.

 

[matthyaouw]

I once knew a girl called Genna Taylor. Say it out loud a few times if you don't get it.
And a schoolmate's father was called Mike Hunt.

 

[Vanadium 50]

My mom worked at a hospital for years and saw some pretty crazy baby names come through. One woman named her baby Female (pronounced feh-MAH-lee) because it was on the baby's hospital wristband. Another couple named their child Urine (pronounced yuREEN)

Since we're necroposting...

My mom worked at a government office and ran into similarly odd names. One women named her children after ritzy Chicago suburbs: her sons were Willmette (called Will), Evanston (called Evan) and Kennelworth (called Ken), and daughters were Winnetka and Northbrook (called Brook). There might have been a Glen in there...Glencoe or Glenbrook.

I'm glad she stopped before Buffalo Grove!

 

[Saladsamurai]

I once knew a girl called Genna Taylor. Say it out loud a few times if you don't get it.
And a schoolmate's father was called Mike Hunt.

Funny, there was a guy named Mike Hawke on TV the other day. Wonder if they know each other

 

[Averagesupernova]

Le-ah. Pronounced 'Lee-dash-uh'.

 

[turbo]

I worked off and on with a highly respected paper machine engineer whose first name was Omega. He was a lanky southerner who claimed his mother named him that after declaring "No more kids!"

In high school, there was a special-ed kid named Mike Hunt that got paged frequently when he went missing or hadn't showed up for scheduled programs. His oldest sister was the prettiest girl in school, and a real sweetie, and it ticked me off that other kids teased her when Mike was being paged.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Jimmy is a nice name.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

<----

I like my name though.

EDIT: It would be "Yu" if I didn't change it. Imagin how confusing that would be.

I have a colleague name Yu. I don't need to imagine.

 

[jobyts]

One of my friends has a chinese or Korean colleague named "Tao Lee". In my language, it means mother-f..ker.

 

[Ben Niehoff]

My friend from Florida knew of a woman who looked in her cupboard and decided to name her son Lemonjello ("le-MON-je-lo").

And a long ago friend of mine gave his son a random middle name. Specifically, Random.

Twins, actually. Lemonjello and Oranjello. My mom (a doctor) knows who delivered them.

 

[lisab]

Twins, actually. Lemonjello and Oranjello. My mom (a doctor) knows who delivered them.

Wow...are you serious, Ben? That has to be the weirdest coincidence ever...wow.

 

[negitron]

More people seem to be making up names for their kids these days. The worst ones I have personally come upon are:
Sh*thead (*=i, PRONOUNCED "Shuh-theed"),

I'm very nearly positive this one's an urban legend. Until someone can produce an actual, bona fide birth certificate with this name on it, I'm calling bullcrap on anyone who claims to have come across it.

Ditto Lemonjello and Orangello.

These and other examples come up repeatedly on urban legends sites, such as Snopes but no one has ever managed to produce any satisfactory evidence.

 

[junglebeast]

This is pertinent...


Ima Hogg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg

"Texas legend insists that when Jim Hogg ran for re-election as Texas governor in 1892 he often traveled with Ima and a friend of hers and introduced them as his daughters Ima and Ura. Ima Hogg maintained throughout her life that this never happened. She was frequently forced to dispel the myth; hundreds of people wrote her letters inquiring whether her name was real and if she really had a sister named Ura.The Kansas City Star even invented another sister, Hoosa."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dick_(ice_hockey )

Still none of these come close to the ridiculousness already mentioned...

 

[junglebeast]

I once knew a girl called Genna Taylor. Say it out loud a few times if you don't get it.
And a schoolmate's father was called Mike Hunt.

Took me a while to get those!
We had a substitute teacher in high school named Mr. Bates

 

[Redbelly98]

We had a substitute teacher in high school named Mr. Bates

I'm sure he could hold his own.

Another bad name trend: having the same first and last names. I know of a Warren Warren, just for example.

 

[ranger]

Theres a "Ima Cracker", "Al Kaida", and a "Ball Sak" on Facebook.

My friend was also telling me about a "Lardas Amerika"