Bad names for kids...

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  1. CripNite

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    The people who live upstairs have a daughter named Precious. We make fun of her name often. Especially because my first cat, who I had when I was like 7, was also named Precious.

    That's a really pretentious name to give a kid.
     
  2. Lady_Prime

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    OH Lordy..this is the thread that will kill me..

    MOM (my other mom) has a black book on unusual names of children that actually exist. None of these are made up:

    Bluewater Avery

    Richard Hardon

    Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (all girls)

    Princess

    Va-Gina (pronounced Vageena)

    Richard Fenis (pronounced Feenus)

    and this last one is my favorite:

    ATOMIC ZAGNUT.. (I asked MOM about that one and she said it is a real person).

    Heather
     
  3. Liege Prime

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    Wasn't that last one the name of the candy bar Beetlejuice offered to the fly?
     
  4. The621

    The621 Fuck you, that's why!

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    Oh yeah, this happened a while ago. It was on my ROTC field trip and they were announcing names for the bunking. And they made a mistake on my friend's name and said ,"Next one is... Fuck You N?".
    They can't even pronounce a name right. Dumbasses.
     
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    Actually, he got stung by a bee. 0.o
     
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    A friend of mine's dad is a coroner. I did his clinicals for med school in Memphis. He said that a lot of unwed mothers came through. Many had no idea what to name their children, so being a nice guy, he'd offer suggestions. My favorite is there was a girl named Chlamyidia Jones. (not sure of spelling) He liked using diseases, but it blew his mind when people started using them.
     
  7. Blu Skys

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    I girl I work with named her son "Shy" (Don't know the spelling) I think it's a dumb name for a boy. For a girl "Shyla" could work, but Shy is jut a dumb name.

    My sister has an unusual name. My parents name her "Sapphire" She's been made fun of, but not too bad. It's usually "Really? That's a cool name."
     
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    Ha, forgot about my dad's side of the family. :lol 

    Marcelinanio, unsure of the correct spelling, but it means something like bread and wine. I have a cousin named Blanca, since she was the palest looking of the kids when born. Kid you not. And then of course is my dad, whose middle name is Sartininio, again unsure of the spelling but it roughly means Star Boy since he was born at night. On my dad's side of the family, all of his relatives names have a meaning to it. Should start researching them. Never know what I may find.
     
  9. Strikeback

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    Can I rant here for a sec? I hate parents that think in order to be counter-culture, you have to do everything unpopular including naming your kids something "The Man" won't agree with.

    I took an order for a girl named "Hopeful Destiny" and her father--who wandered around the bookstore barefoot and looked like he hadn't washed his hair ever since he was born--kept making snide comments about "Birthdate! Social Security number!" when I was taking her info down for the order. I felt like slapping him and going, "The '70s are over! YOU LOST! Get over it!"
     
  10. Zathras

    Zathras Vive le Quebec Libre

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    I've heard of parents who wanted to name their kid Spatula.

    Good thing that in Quebec these names can be rejected bu the government
     
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    My son's middlename will be Reign and my daughter's middle name will be Turtle's Run
     
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    I grew up next door to a family in which the father named his sons after his favorite racehorses.
    The oldest was named "Fancy".
     
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    wow, I read that book too.

    what about these girls named Lemonjello and Orangejello. and a boy named Shithead pronounced Shi-thed
     
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    My ex-wife is the champion of this stuff. She did social work for a while in Atlanta, and kept a list of the batshit insane names people gave their kids.

    Like "ABCDE," pronounced "ab-seh-de."

    Or "Javajive," after a local coffee place, pronounced "Hah-va-veeve."

    Or a boy named "Sharon," pronounced "sha-rone."

    Her list was literally 70 or 80 names long, all just as bad. These are just the ones I remember.
     
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    I still think the most unfortunately named person I've ever met was a kid i went to school with. His name was Mike Hunt.
     
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    I forgot the name that that one women gave her child that was supposed to sound elegant, but was actually another word for promiscuous.

    Do you remember that name? (I lent out the book)
     
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    Hey! I also went to school with a kid named Mr., but it was Mr. McDowell

    -Tony!
     
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    Sometimes an unusual name can be made worse depending on whom you marry. I had an aunt named Sunbeam. She married a guy who's last name was Ray. So she became Sunbeam Ray. Go figure.

    A friend of mine from high school also swore she knew a girl named Sunlight Window Sil because her parents were major hippies, she was called Sunny Sil for short.

    I personally like names that are a bit unusual but not weird, something you can easily find in a baby name book but something that you don't have to worry about five people in your class at school sharing the same name.
     
  19. butz

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    I wonder if anybody in the world actually has the name "4real"? Y'know, like that couple who named their kid "Superman" wanted, but couldn't do.
     
  20. llamatron

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    I know someone called "Carmen Varkis" - yes, that's right, as in "come and fark us."