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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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Hotcoffeeisamemory · 06/09/2012 11:26

Circle. I shit you not.

drjohnsonscat · 06/09/2012 10:57

There is a story I have heard from several people that there are American twins called

O'rangelo and
L'mangelo

The apostrophes are essential.

It might be an urban myth but I like it anyway.

shrinkingnora · 06/09/2012 10:46

Ahem. I think I win.

Mr K O T Jungle. King Of The Jungle.
Mr Ni German Shepherd Dog.

Both real honest names. Why anyone would do that, I do not know. I also know someone who changed their name to Dave Gorman as part of that TV thing he did. Yep, she changed her name to Dave.

BellaOfTheBalls · 06/09/2012 10:31

badtime was flicking through the paper while waiting for our takeaway last night. The context of the story was a mum who was entering 4yo Ocean into beauty pageants, but didn't agree with fake tan so let her sunbathe in the garden with her Hmm and did not see why people had such a problem with it.

I cant recall where they were from but they were most definitely not middle eastern.

badtime · 06/09/2012 10:24

Milan is a real name, like Milan Kundera (pronounced something like Mee-lann).

I suspect from the context, though, that this was not an eastern European child with a name reflecting his culture...

BellaOfTheBalls · 06/09/2012 10:00

There was an Ocean in the paper yesterday. Twin brothers Milan and Madrid.

goshandspecs · 06/09/2012 09:47

I like the name Oscar but not the spelling Oska. I like the name Phoebe but not FeeBee. It just looks like the parents need to go back to school and learn how to spell. Either that or they are trying far too hard to be 'cool'.

goshandspecs · 06/09/2012 09:39

Chamonix - a name for a girl.

Oska - a name for a boy.

At least Denim can be shortened to Den which is a normal name. What would Chamonix be shortened to? Something that sounds like shamy. Ugh - thank goodness people can change their name by deed pole when they get older. How can you be expected to be taken seriously when you get older and attend interviews with a name like Ebony (sounds like a name for a stripper) or Oceana? Nevaeh or Precious? Felix? (Lol, makes me think of catfood).

Frontpaw · 06/09/2012 08:59

I have met a few french Manons. Not an unusual name.

gazzalw · 06/09/2012 07:05

Damien Lewis's daughter is called Manon and son is Gulliver!

diddl · 06/09/2012 06:50

Manon-lovely.

Manon des Sources-love that film.

CaseyShraeger · 05/09/2012 22:16

Manon is (I think) in the top five girls' names in France. And is the main character in a series of Francophone books and accompanying TV series with an annoyingly catchy theme tune that I now have stuck in my head.

Psammead · 05/09/2012 22:08

Lovely girl in DD's music class called Myra. Nice name, terrible connotations. We're in Germany so no biggie, but I think my eyebrows did raise when I heard it for the first time.

RosinaCopper · 05/09/2012 22:06

I heard a woman shouting for Ebony (but in a Nottingham accent, so Ebbonneh). I was expecting to see a child with jet black hair. Little Ebony was a very fair skinned blond girl...

scottishmummy · 05/09/2012 22:05

I'm imagining a noddy holder voice
v funny description

HeadfirstOverTheHighJump · 05/09/2012 21:59

When we went camping last year, there was a very loud mother family pitched near us. Every bloody time she wanted the kids for something she would stand at the tent door and yell their names.

China and Ireland.

It gets worse.

They had a broad brummy accent so were actually yelling Choy-na and Oy-er-land Hmm

Think these things through please people. DH liked the name Hazel but I vetoed it on the fact that around here everyone drops the "h" sound, so it would have been "Ay-zul"

Glittertwins · 05/09/2012 21:58

I went to school with a Melina over 20 years ago. I also know of a girl named Piper, another named Angel and a boy with a name of a London area (don't want to out myself by saying what it is).
Weren't Ocean, Madrid and Milan in that report about child "beauty" pageants?

GoldPicnminx · 05/09/2012 21:53

Ruby Marmalade is great. Love interesting and varied names, although dcs' are pretty run of the mill. Sometimes though I do wonder why parents give their dcs a tough name to own, I know a Gypsy who at 6 is insouciant and spiky and a gentle Gaylan who is probably in for a tough time as he gets a wee bit older.

Virgil · 05/09/2012 21:48

Gojng back to the OP DSs middle name is denham. It's a family name on DHs side.

DH loves lord of the rings and wanted to call DS1 samwise. I'm glad I overruled that one

Virgil · 05/09/2012 21:39

Manson is a lovely French name. I also know of a tequila. Overheard in a beauty salon love'elle (spelled out). For a boy.

Worst one i know of and in very poor taste is treblinka.

Anifrangapani · 05/09/2012 21:38

Sorry in advance to all the people who think my children are called Tom Window and Stropalot.

crackcrackcrak · 05/09/2012 21:28

E jay!!! Oh god you couldn't call a kid that down here it was a metal bar I used to drink at with my bloke mates Grin

CheerfulYank · 05/09/2012 21:25

I know twins called Piper and Prairie.

Cupcakes24 · 05/09/2012 21:21

Burberry, heard it today when visiting a school

HereBenson · 05/09/2012 21:19

Ghengis Khan O'dell, known as Genghis.

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