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

[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]

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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]

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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"

 

[DaveC426913]

... Meconium(the parents saw it on their discharge papers...

Meconium. Discharge.

Ahahaha!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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

Bill Cosby?

 

[Ben Niehoff]

I'll have to ask her to confirm the story. I didn't know it was a common urban legend.

 

[Dadface]

I know somebody called Robert.

 

[Borg]

I dated a speech therapist once who told me about a patient named Psalm Siv. She asked where they got such an unusal name and they replied that they wanted to give their child a name from the bible. They had randomly opened the bible and chose Psalms IV.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Harry Balzer
http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_about_hbalzer.html

 

[GeorginaS]

(Sorry if this was already mentioned -- I didn't read through the whole thread) Anyone else run into this yet? A friend of mine works at a daycare and defied us to pronounce this name:

La-a

 

[Ben Niehoff]

One of my friends' friends had a run-in with La-a also...small world.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Mortimer Titian.

 

[Gokul43201]

(Sorry if this was already mentioned -- I didn't read through the whole thread) Anyone else run into this yet? A friend of mine works at a daycare and defied us to pronounce this name:

La-a

Hope it's not as hard to do as Nippl-e.