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Worst baby names you’ve heard of recently..

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Poppylizzyrose · 09/01/2019 19:54

I’m talking the ridiculous ones, so not meaning to offend anyone. If you remember the story how you heard it please include that too!

Mine Grin
When I was in hospital after my c section 6 weeks ago, lady across from me was talking to a nurse. The conversation went like this-

Nurse “he’s gorgeous! Does he have a name?”
Lady “yeh he’s legend king, after my dad”
Nurse “ooh....lovely!”
Lady “yeah named him after my dad as my dad died yesterday, same day e was born”
Nurse “oh I’m so sorry!”
Lady “it’s alright happened years ago, he was stabbed never liked the bastard serves him right!”
Nurse “okay! Right you can have these pain killers...”

😂😂 know I shouldn’t laugh but me and my mum told everyone at Christmas.

Names and stories please!

OP posts:
tillytoodles1 · 26/03/2019 14:00

My FIL is called Woolf. I think it's a lovely name, his mum was Russian.

HarrySnotter · 26/03/2019 17:12

I know a Woody, which I LOVE and wish I'd thought of it.

cantfindname · 26/03/2019 17:20

I have heard of a couple of Phaedra's recently. Which is fine, except that they are both boys and it is most definitely a girl's name. She was the wife of King Theseus of Athens, and had an affair with her own stepson.

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xsquared · 26/03/2019 18:11

There's no need to swear Dianne.

megrichardson · 26/03/2019 18:26

Ebonie - for a pale, blonde baby.

HarrySnotter · 26/03/2019 18:29

There's no need to swear Dianne.

Grin Are you new to MN?

xsquared · 26/03/2019 18:40

Been here for over 10 years Harry.

donajimena · 26/03/2019 18:42

Macrae and Chicane. Born to two formula one fans Confused

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 26/03/2019 18:57

Theon
Zephyr
Neyon
Neeve (no, not Niamh, NEEVE)

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 26/03/2019 18:58

Oh, and DS2 has a Kyzah in his year at high school...

Hellenbackagen · 26/03/2019 18:58

Shabonce.

Mum likes shakira and dad Beyoncé.

Poor. Little .sod.

And one I saw on local news yesterday was destinie. (Find your feral child name - take a normal name and spell it wrong.)

DieCryHate · 26/03/2019 19:05

Baby girl called Disney. Her mum is currently doing the rounds on all the local media about it.

CCquavers · 26/03/2019 19:06

Storm was yelled across playground!

MrBobLoblaw · 26/03/2019 19:26

Just after I'd given birth to DS I heard the following convo through the papery curtain of the wards:

Mum: I just had your mum on the phone telling me we should rethink DS' name!
Dad: err yeah.. I think they have a point.
Mum: Rex is a fine name, I don't get it.
Dad: it's just Rex with our surname, babe.
Mum: Rex Clement, what's so bad about that?
Dad: well it kinda sounds like excrement, babe.

DP and I were doing everything we could to not burst out laughing. Rexclement. I think about it every now and again and have a laugh.

So sorry Mrs Clement if you are a MNer. You were also really bloody loud talking on your phone at 3 am both nights so I'm also not that sorry.

Shookethtothecore · 26/03/2019 19:33

I once worked with a lovely Chinese lad. He was a student over here and a truly lovely guy, he was beautiful and very trendy. Dressed immaculately always cool designer stuff looked like he was in a magazine. He chose his English name because he loved the tennis.... Rodger. He just didn’t look like a Rodger at all! But he was lovely and I loved him and I will never forget him

ShowOfHands · 26/03/2019 19:45

@tillytoodles1 so good you said it twice?Grin

I love some of the names on this thread.

Kittykatmacbill · 26/03/2019 19:55

To carry on the Chinese boys named Kenny, I was at school with one in the 1990s, he would about 39 now. Think he moved to hongkong and became something glamourous in the movie industry....

Quite like Winnie-Sue.

IggyAce · 26/03/2019 20:06

At dd school there is a girl called Hogan.

Tinyteatime · 26/03/2019 20:15

Ginger, Emilee Hmm, two sisters Called angel and petal.

Kintan · 26/03/2019 20:18

There is a Hebe at my son’s nursery. I know this is an old name, but I just think heebie jeebies whenever I hear it!

Tinyteatime · 26/03/2019 20:19

Oh and baby next to us on postnatal ward recently was Cobin. I thought at first he was named after Jeremy Corbyn but no, CoBIN!

FlaviaAlbia · 26/03/2019 20:21

I wouldn't believe this if I hadn't heard it myself but Buster Danger {Surname} because danger is literally his middle name
Shock poor kid

katseyes7 · 26/03/2019 20:23

There was a little girl in my cousin's youngest's class called Sharlit….

katseyes7 · 26/03/2019 20:27

A few years ago, my eldest stepson rang me to ask if l'd tell his mum he'd changed his name.
His original name was Christopher. He hated it. He changed it, by deed poll, to 'Xtian'. (He's a Goth).
l refused to tell her, so he did. He's 25 now, and he's stuck with it, says he loves it. She still calls him Christopher, though.

Blompitude · 26/03/2019 21:00

I once came across French girls called Prune and Cerise.

A French baby boy in the birth announcements column sported the name Hyacinthe Bastard...