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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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Schmasch · 05/09/2012 21:02

There's a Bobdylan in DS's class at school. Not two names; not hyphenated - one word. Poor chap.

Naoko · 05/09/2012 21:00

What's wrong with Manon? It's a girl's name in French speaking countries, and I knew several growing up in the Netherlands as well. It's not weird or made up or anything, just not common in Britain?

FoxSake · 05/09/2012 20:59

Little girl in a supermarket with her grandma shouting shakira at her.

Dh once taught a little chubby kid called Adonis.

Tequila

Janice1211 · 05/09/2012 20:55

I know of a girl called Manon- thats pretty awful.

candytuft63 · 05/09/2012 20:40

Ocean
Milan
Madrid

PigletJohn · 05/09/2012 20:28

Paris Hilton is crossgendered? Shock

quazi · 05/09/2012 20:27

Not a horrible name as such, but a girl whose name was Siobhan, but her parents didn't realise it's pronounced shevorn - they referred to her as si o ban. Bit embarrassing for the teacher who rang home saying said child was poorly and needed to go home - the mother didn't know who she was referring to...Wink

Margerykemp · 05/09/2012 19:59

Carly-Jo

Anakin

E-Jay

SilkStalkings · 05/09/2012 19:42

Piper Noveaux (real spelling)
Armani (girl)

Frontpaw · 05/09/2012 16:41

Could've been a lot worse. Isn't there one in Bangkok?

OhBuggerandArse · 05/09/2012 16:05

But if you are Paris Hilton, are you named (cross-genderedly) after Homer's Paris or Daddy's hotel in Paris the city? I'd always assumed that latter.

BlueChampagne · 05/09/2012 13:28

Think Homer pre-dates city of Paris.

Frontpaw · 05/09/2012 12:05

But Paris was named after... Well Paris!

Lucky I wasnt called Gorbals then...

PigletJohn · 05/09/2012 12:01

Paris is just a city. London is just a city. Chicago, Vienna, Venice and Rome are just cities.

If you've never been there, and only seen it on films and travel brochures, or perhaps if you've had a wonderful holiday, then your associations will not be the same as for someone who trudges through the traffic every day to work in a noisy factory or a sewage works.

NotGeoffVader · 05/09/2012 11:53

Yes, OhBugger, imagine if they'd travelled to (and conceived) in Essex -
"Vange" and "Pitsea" are such nice names for twins! :)

OhBuggerandArse · 05/09/2012 10:57

Walked past an American mum this morning shouting after her bolting toddler girl: 'London, London'!

Is that because it's dead romantic and exotic everything, like Paris? Or just that she was conceived there?

All it did for me was make me think of really unexciting bits you wouldn't want to be called after. Like Walthamstow, or Crouch End.

Frontpaw · 05/09/2012 09:19

Isn't that the disease that turns your wee blue

greencolorpack · 05/09/2012 07:25

Porphyria.

Probably off topic, but any American series that has supposedly British people who are white and posh and have the first name Devon. It just doesn't happen.

diddl · 05/09/2012 07:16

OK.

I never associated melaena with the name Melina-which I really like.

oldwomanwholivesinashoe · 04/09/2012 23:12

Melaena - passage of black tarry stool (usually due to GI haemorrhage)
Candida- basically, thrush
Chlamydia - STI
These are not pretty names! And I realise that not everyone is aware of their meaning but the NHS employs a fair amount of people.
Apart from that I think that names are what you make them - how many times are you put off a name just because it reminds of some snotty kid you were at school with!
And as for judges etc - a name can't stop you doing anything! I'm sure that in the past only upper class people could afford further education etc and as these people tended to be called Charles or Albert or William (and so on...) then judges had those names. Now it is easier (but still not easy) for anyone to go to university and train to be whatever they want so we will have judges/accountants/doctors etc called all sorts.
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet!"
But love hearing some of these names. I have a boring name and as a child dreamed of having been adopted and having a ridiculously exotic birth name...

inkonapin · 04/09/2012 22:47

:D at "Ribena"
Worst one I ever heard was pronounced "Duhkeeny", spelt... DKNY!!

SilkStalkings · 04/09/2012 22:29

I know an Arthur Shilling.

EcoLady · 04/09/2012 21:20

Highbury?! Did she have a younger sibling called Emirate?

[Arsenal references, for anyone confused]

topknob · 04/09/2012 21:17

Not read thread yet but the worse one I heard was for a girl and was Highbury.

thebiglight · 04/09/2012 21:17

Sisters called Desiree and Dakota - hmmmm......

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