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Worse name you EVER heard for a child

589 replies

xmasevebundle · 30/08/2012 01:26

Today i went out and was doing shopping heard this name been called i thought it was a nickname, then the dad and nan said it to him, but fuck me i feel for the kid.

His name was DENIM.

I thought about this all day and it cant be...

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Badvoc · 30/08/2012 07:58

I know a l,ilo
My dn is called savannah which I loathe...love her though! :)
One of the worst I ever heard was in next once...the mother kept calling the girls name (so no me missed it I think)....darcie Elsie.

FloellaDaVille · 30/08/2012 07:57

I taught a Layby once. Staffroom gossip reckoned it was her place of conception!

LackaDAISYcal · 30/08/2012 07:54

I met a Lindisfarne once though. Everyone called him Farne and he was lovely.

SomebodySaveMe · 30/08/2012 07:54

My friend called her DD jasmine. Except she spelt it Jasmynne Confused

And I know a Destiny. I cringe whenever I hear it.

peanutMD · 30/08/2012 07:53

We have a Bo-Binx in our school, very sweet little boy but I have a feeling he won't be taken seriously as an adult! :o

LackaDAISYcal · 30/08/2012 07:52

I hate judgey name threads, especially on a parenting website where chances are someone reading has a creatively named child Hmm And I say this as a parent of children with not so creative names.

Ivy is a perfectly goodname as well; it does not "mean" poison.

SugarBatty · 30/08/2012 07:49

Oh and siblings river blue, ocean deep and precious

diddl · 30/08/2012 07:49

What is wrong with Jonty & Melina?

herecomesthsun · 30/08/2012 07:48

Tallulah is a recognised name, Tallulah Bankhead

salt1 · 30/08/2012 07:43

my dh has suggested hannibal for a boy and clarrise for a girl ... i am threatening an injunction ...

SugarBatty · 30/08/2012 07:39

I know of siblings called honour and legend diamond and destiny

My friends bf was called Denim he was greek

Two sisters called dior and armani

Coleman and cuffin

I don't mind these of names though better than everyone having the same boring ones!

seeker · 30/08/2012 07:32

I could win this thread hands down- but the children concerned all refused to start secondary school unless they were allowed to change their names, so I can't tell just in case somehow it gets out.

SomebodySaveMe · 30/08/2012 07:24

I know a 3 year old called London!
DP wanted to call DS Kal-El (superman geek) but I put my foot down.

Onceortwice · 30/08/2012 07:21

This thread made me Grin

I do sort of agree withthepigonthewall - I didn't think of Libra as a sanitary brand and I am female with a mother and a sister!!!!! BUT - It only takes one child to know about it and the rest of them will jump on it!!!!

ripsishere · 30/08/2012 07:18

JoshyDarlling. I am sure that the child was simply called Joshua, but his mother insisted he was Joshydarling. All one word.

Vagaceratops · 30/08/2012 07:17

I know a little boy who's middle name is Bud. Not Buddy, just Bud.

LST · 30/08/2012 07:09

I know someone called Denim. He's lovely and the name really suits him.

violathing · 30/08/2012 07:00

a child at my son'd first nursery alled Tellulah, not even sure how to spell it. ALso know of a child called Ribena

Knittingmamma · 30/08/2012 06:27

Was having a picnic and the family next to us kept shouting after the toddler... "London!"

crackcrackcrak · 30/08/2012 06:22

Tia Maria
China blue (what makes this worse is it's the name of a well known shop on the main road to lots of places that anyone from this area would have seen)

runawaysimba · 30/08/2012 06:20

There was a baby on the news recently called Sativah. SATIVAH. She had an older sister and I was hanging out for them to name her, but they didn't. Can only imagine.

ErnesttheBavarian · 30/08/2012 06:19

Cat, was that in Gravesend by any chance?

Pocahontas is one thing, but to shorten to Pokey?! The kid ain't going to thank her for that, is she?

perplexedpirate · 30/08/2012 06:16

I love mumsnet. I was just about the get the Hmm out re Ivy meaning poison but I see it's covered.
DS would have Ivy were he a DD.

I was in the emergency docs once with a kidney infection triggered by a D&C.
You can imagine how wretched I felt, but when the mother of the teeny toddler opposite started yelling (in a broad Manc accent) 'Chardonnay, will you leave it alone' I fell about.
I had heard of it on telly but in real life?!

NurseBernard · 30/08/2012 06:06

I used to work with a French guy called Renaud (same pronunciation) - is that the spelling?

McKayz · 30/08/2012 04:48

BlueSuede, my Mums cousins DH is called Renault. He's French and it's apparently very common over there. Still makes me think of a car.

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