Stupid names for children

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:03 pm

My brother had a guy in his class named after Bjorn Borg (former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden) - his name was Bjorg Rolling Eyes

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:17 pm

I went to school with a kid who's name was Richard Richards. we called him double Dick. there was lots of jokes about him but he was very popular with a girls, hmmm I wonder why? Confused

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:19 pm

It's all a question of being used to a name.

In Turkey, Nilüfer is a common first name for a girl, although it's known there to be a take-off on the German word Nilufer which means "Banks if the Nile (River)."

The beautiful Arabic name Laila means "night."

It would sound silly to name somebody "Heart of a Bear," but Bernard sounds ok, although it means "Heart of a Bear."

How about "little angel" (Angelina), etc., etc.

Interestingly enough, one of the most common English names also means "toilet": John. Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

Once overheard in conversation " Aye, and they called the wean ,Wayne "

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:18 pm

I hate people who call their kids after cars. like Porcher, Mercedes, Ford ect.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:36 pm

I plan on naming at least one of my kids after a character/actor on LOST. Yea, I know I am pathetic. *shrugs*

I found this on a website though:

Quote:

Weird names for Boys:

Abba
Abyss
Amen
Andrew's (note the apostrophe, as if the mother were reminding herself of who
the father was!)
Apple
As-Matik (say it fast, you'll see what I mean)
Bear
Blade
Brando (8 different ones!)
Charm
Confession
Dwarf (I don't even want to think about that kid's childhood)
GQ (must have been a handsome lad)
Gal
Go
Godly
Gospel
Hey (makes it easy to call him in for dinner, Hey! Hey! HEY!)
Holy
Infinite (3 different Infinites, you do the math!)
Knight Sir Lancelot (I'm not kidding)
Lisa (A boy named Lisa?)
Nadir (which means "absolute lowest point", thanks Mom.)
Stalin
Stallone
Truth ($100 bucks the kid becomes pathological liar)
Unique (15 different Uniques, and one Uneek, which when you think about it,
makes him unique)

Weird Names for Girls

Alaska
Albert
Beautiful
Beautiphul (beautiful, but in a strange way)
Boat
Chaos (what were they thinking?)
Chevy (I mean, why not Saab?)
Chevette
Choice (as in, "If I had one, I'd have chosen another name!)
Cuba
Dynasty
Final (does this mean her younger sister is a mistake?)
Galaxy (hope she ain't shy)
He (a she named He?)
Infinity (I guess infinity is any gender)
N/A (as in, not applicable?)
Nada
Precious Angel
Prince
Promise
Providence
Sin
Sparkle
Story
Symphony
Tall (you better hope she is, that's all I have to say)
Tangerine
Tequilla (this means Mom won't get upset the first time you come home wasted)
Treasure
Unique (15 of these as well!)
Virgin (ok, so her name will be obsolete around her 16th birthday?)
Wednesday
ZC (I can't even begin to speculate on that one)

All of those are names of actual people. Some kids have seriously frakked up parents. What the hell were they thinking?

The least weird one on that list, I think, is Bear. Because Bear Grylls is @#$%ing amazing!

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:23 pm

I used to work in the subscription department of a publication with world-wide distribution. So some of the names were strange to American ears and eyes. Three of them still stick in my mind, after over 30 years.

Miss Nine Six - no doubt pronounced differently from what we thought.

And two ladies who lived very near one another:
Minnie Frostie and Millie Freezee

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:32 pm

I had an elderly male friend who was named Beverly. I also have an aunt by that name. Very Happy

We named our youngest son after the man...

... we used his middle name though. Cool

edited for <strike>two</strike> three typos Embarassed

Thx TBC

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:40 pm

^^^ Might want to edit for a 3rd. Wink

Our, not out.

There were a couple people in my film class who had bizarre names. One was Yucenia. Seriously, who names their kids such whacked out names? It might sound pretty to you, but the kid won't appreciate it in high school.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:13 pm

Even more annoying are people with "normal" names with weird spellings. You have to wonder how many years of their lives they will waste patiently spelling out "M Y K A A Y L A H" or "N A Y T H U R N". Then there's the gimmicks like "Neveah" (Heaven backwards).

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:31 pm

Well who could forget little Bobby Tables?

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/jokes-for-nerds.html

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:40 am

if we'd had a boy i wanted to name him Cosmo, but it did'nt end up mattering.

i have a geneology book and the name Dorcas was a popular girls name in the 1700's. i wonder how many of them went by Dorc for short?

but i still cant believe my parents named me freddy fudpucker. those ****ers.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:04 am

Try growing up as:

Bennington Alverson Ware.

That's tough.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:19 am

^^^I am sorry... Sad

Could have been Beula Allowishes Ware. Wink

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:25 am

^^^That's my sister. Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:31 am

I've been working on a genealogy and I discovered that I have a great-great-grandmother named "America". My Grandmother was named Zola, she named her daughter Zita and my father Clyde.

But the worst name I've run across belonged a kid I hung out with when I was in Boy Scouts. His surname was "Suchsdorf", pronounced sucks-dorf. This guy had the thickest skin of any individual I've known.

Sid

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:41 am

My son has 3 sisters
Jade, Cherry - apparently looked like one. and Teddy - something about being like a teddy bear Confused

He was lucky and got Nathan but his mother called him Diddles. Confused

Luckily for all four children she no longer has any direct input in their lives.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:10 am

I am the youngest of three and I was always called "Ittyboops!" Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:36 am

<br>Somebody I know called his son Sam. What's wrong with that you may well ask? Sadly, his surname is Ware....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10w_sEcHlGs

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:44 am

I groan when I see a kid being given a name which means they will need psychological counselling for the rest of their lives simply because of their parents' idiotic narcissism. Sad

Wannabe Baiter Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 84

Let's just call everyone Sue. Very Happy

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:55 am

^^ I have 2 fish. One is called Sue.

The other is called Shi.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:03 am

ok i hate the car thing too. Maverick was a ford, mid 70's
my wife and i have one picked out for a girl, but haven had need of it. Abbigale Rose G. wife came up with abbigale, and i got the rose part. for a boy i always wanted to do a Thaddius Jeremiah. but that kinda sounds silly now, sounded good at the time though.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

I'd always beware of trends, what sounds cool now will be terrribly dated in 50 years time

Naming kids after where they were conceived??? Suppose thats why that NZ kid is Bus Shelter.
Or using place names? Works for Skye and Dakota but pity poor old Bognor.

I do feel for children that are named as an extension of the parent, a relative named his child after himself and he was named after his father, it just seems unfair not to treat each as an individual.

I dont view my kids as extensions of myself and I'm sure my eldest, Porch and Conservatory would agree

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:49 am

Can someone explain to me what causes parents to call their kids things like DaShawna or DaMarcus? Is this regarded as cool somewhere? It sounds DaF*kinStupid to me....

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