Terrible Baby Names

[Dysnomia]

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Yup! Another one is Nastya for Anastasia

Now I know why my aunt's nickname made zero sense to me.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

I've come across a few stinkers in current job.

The worst by far was a girl serving me at the shops and her name was Kiama, for anyone not aussie born its a name of town on the South Coast of NSW full of deros and white trash. Also known for having a big blow hole.

So i guess her blown hole was busted out too.

 

[mmm semen]

>go shopping at a grocery store in nogtown
>look at cashier's name on receipt
>Eboni
>"E-bony? The hell kind of name is that? Ohh...Ebony."

Name's a real word but spelled retarded. Reminds me of another black name, L'dasha, spelt "L-a".

 

[Dicksmash Turbofist]

None worse than Mohamed.

 

[glioblastoma multiforme]

Niggers really like trying to be "yoonik" with their names, don't they?

I don't care if this is true or not, I was told a primary school in London had a class with 5 children called "Unique" in it and the possibility it even might be true is hilarious to me.

Names after qualities are pretty much anti-nominative determinsim. I've met an extremely imprudent Prudence and a very unserene Serenity.

A family member was giving birth next to a Mrs Kirton who was dead set on naming her daughter Annette. It was over 40 years ago and she still hasn't gotten over Annette Kirton. If net curtains are a mostly British thing this may be lost on the non-bongs.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

I'm pouring one out on this thread for the missing Moon Unit Zappa and Dweezil Zappa, Frank's kids.

And for those of you not around in 1982, here is everything about that time: Moon Unit on Solid Gold, lip-synching her classic, "Valley Girl," surrounded by the Solid Gold dancers in primo skanky early 80s fashion. Special props to Moon's own Easter Sunday outfit.

 

[Diet Cake]

My youngest niece has an unnecessarily complicated spelling of a normal name (without dawksing, imagine instead of Lilo, it's Lileaux).
My sister also works with public schools and she sees the lot. There's apparently a large Nigerian population in the area because she sees a lot of names like Goodmorning, Monday, Favorite. But then there's a little girl she met named Daddy. D-a-d-d-y.

Not really a baby name: At a previous job, there was a guy with a first name Tiger who appeared in company signage a lot. I thought this was a unique situation, but no! Tiger is a not totally uncommon choice Chinese people pick as an English name.

 

[Snazzy Sneedy Snake]

You mothers are making me rethink character names (or rather, names of kids of said characters)...

I don't care about Jennifer, Jonathan, and Benjamin on English-speaking kids, fine but not great so whatever. But on other Northern European kids, I totally hate those names. The Js in these languages are pronounced like i or y in English and I think it's just so off-putting.

Depends entirely on how they're said in those languages. Especially the last two you mentioned, because the original forms of those do, in fact, use "y"s. Both are Hebrew; Jonathan is from Yehonatan ("Yeh-Ho-nah-tan"), Benjamin is from Ben-yamin ("Ben-yah-min"). Very common,

Jennifer though I do think sounds a bit odd with a Y (it's originally the Cornish version of the Welsh Gwenhwyfar, where we get Guinevere from via Norman French.). Sort of feels like the whole "Let's replace a random letter in this name to be unique" thing.

 

[seri0us]

My kids play soccer with a boy named Hammer. Just, why?

STOP
Hammer time!

 

[AMHOLIO]

Not really a baby name: At a previous job, there was a guy with a first name Tiger who appeared in company signage a lot. I thought this was a unique situation, but no! Tiger is a not totally uncommon choice Chinese people pick as an English name.

I love Chinese people who pick their own names. "YEAH CALL ME TIGER" kicks ass.

 

[Chromeo]

A family member was giving birth next to a Mrs Kirton who was dead set on naming her daughter Annette. It was over 40 years ago and she still hasn't gotten over Annette Kirton. If net curtains are a mostly British thing this may be lost on the non-bongs.

I knew someone whose maiden name was Loss (I think it was spelled differently but it was pronounced that way,) and their sister was named Annette. So every time the girl was called on, she was "a net loss."