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Names that made you think wtf?

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 18:21

My friends Mum recently had a baby and couldn't think of a middle name for her newborn girl. The Mum has a teenage sister, so whilst walking to the birth registration place, she let her pick the middle name just so her daughter had one. Turned out to be a normal name but what a way to pick a name.

There was a boy in my year who's middle name(s) were Ryan Giggs.

Anyone else come across strange reasons/funny names that made you wonder why the parents would want to put there child through it? Grin

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 17/04/2017 21:59

None personally but been googling and found some funny ones
DR B.J Harddick.
P. Ennis
Chris P Bacon
Dawn Hobbs.
Iona Gunn
Helen Back
Willie Stroker
Ima Hogg
Jo King
Ben Dover

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sistermj · 17/04/2017 22:01

Wayne King

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olderthanyouthink · 17/04/2017 22:02

Shithead (Indian name I think)

My parents let me pick my brothers name btw. I was 4 and he got a more normal name than I did.

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MaryWortleyMontagu · 17/04/2017 22:04

There's a girl in dd's nursery called Amazing-Grace.

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Pinkandwhiteblossoms · 17/04/2017 22:04

John-Jo Johnson Hmm
Alice Cooper (little girl at DDs nursery)

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 17/04/2017 22:06

Who could forget. Fanny Chmelar.
Grin

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Ellieboolou27 · 17/04/2017 22:07

I know a Mr Terry Berry Grin

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SuperBeagle · 17/04/2017 22:09

Was reading an article ages ago about a body that went missing from a funeral home, and one of the guys mentioned in the article was called Dick Tips.

And there's an author named Dick Swaab.

Both bloody dismal. You'd change your name or go by fucking Richard surely?

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BackforGood · 17/04/2017 22:09

You'd be amazed.
I can't list any as I come across them through work, and, because they are unique, I obviously can't mention them on here, but whenever I need to look through the database of names, it goes through my head that there ought to be some kind of "monitor of sensibleness" sitting at the registry office and refusing to allow people to give their poor kids such ridiculous names. I also often think 'MN would love these' Wink

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SuperBeagle · 17/04/2017 22:10

Alice Cooper (little girl at DDs nursery)

There's a character on the new Netflix series Riverdale called Alice Cooper... and I just think, "Did no one do a quick google search before they named these characters?!"

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SmilingButClueless · 17/04/2017 22:10

There must be a few Mike Hunts out there.

Friend of a friend was apparently called Crystal Maze. Not sure of the spelling, and I think she was actually named before the TV show.

I've met a Dr D'Eath.

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SuperBeagle · 17/04/2017 22:11

Thought of another one. The miserable hag careers adviser at my high school was named Philippa Condon.

And that was her married name. She chose to be called that.

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twinmamma2b · 17/04/2017 22:11

I once knew a Tamara Knight.

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Rockaby · 17/04/2017 22:11

I don't actually know this family, but a friend of mine knows a couple who named their son Daddy-Cool. I really hope that little boy is cool enough to make that name work for him!

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 22:13

Omg some of these are hilarious! 😂😂
There was a boy who lived up the road from me when I was growing up who was called Jackson Daniels but people called him Sonny.

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 17/04/2017 22:13

There's an actor named
Tuesday Knight

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skyzumarubble · 17/04/2017 22:13

Ita Peach
Chelsea Stamford
Tia Maria

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 22:14

I also had a teacher called Mr Hiscock. He still works there now.

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 22:15

@SuperBeagle I'm crying 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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PunkrockerGirl · 17/04/2017 22:15

Most of the ones on the baby name threads, tbh. Grin

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 17/04/2017 22:15

Oh I.could just have a glass of ice cold Tia Maria, now.

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 22:17

Wish I put my better ones in the OP. These comments have really made me laugh tho!

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DanGleballs · 17/04/2017 22:18

Doris Rose Mycock
The surname Biggerdyke.
Drew Peacock
Willie Wanklyn
M Inge
Shitrah
Mandeep

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anyadviceplease78 · 17/04/2017 22:19

Harry Potter in dd class

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Mrsknackered · 17/04/2017 22:21

Deputy head (or one of those roles) at my sixth form was Jo King.
Always made me laugh when she introduced herself at the beginnings of assemblies

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