To ask the worst names you have heard?

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In the super market today and heard a mum shout "beige" to her daughter...no joke! At first I thought I had misheard Paige...but no, definitely beige.

Got me thinking... what are the worst names you have come across?

I know a little girl called Cupcake. Poor kid. Cute when you're 6 not so much 40...

Unusual names I have come across.

Several grew on me over time due to the person.

Bede
Huckleberry
Jesus (very common in Spain)

Worked with a chap whose surname was Wanko!

The victorians had a load of chavvy names. I got bored and googled a load of names. Love, Victoria Jubilee, Candy. That kind of thing. The heart breaking thing is, in the next quarter you would see a death certificate for them.
If I had free reign of naming my daughter she would of been vixen or billie. I got a hand bagging for even suggesting the names!

@devondream I once taught a student whose surname was Wankling. Poor lass.

Also I agree about the nickname thing, I have a Jude (female) but at nursery she was nicknamed JuFu (the first two letters of her first name, followed by the first two letters of her surname) by an Afro-Carribean nursery nurse and she loved it.
Almost all of her friends and family call her that and we have derivatives such as Jufey-doo, (Jufey or Joof for short), Juferino, Jufus-Dufus and Jufey-diddles (her Dad uses that one).
She's 15 and still prefers JuFu or one of the derivatives, although I often call "Joof" in the supermarket if she has wondered off and then think - what must people think my child is actually called!

There is a boy at my DCs school who's real name is something biblical - not a common name but perfectly well known, but he is known by a nickname, think something that you would say when you jump out at someone that begins with B and ends in oo.

That's the name he is known as by the teachers etc. too

We always called our son M oose as a nickname but he does have a real name. I keep expecting to appear on one of these threads.

Once encountered a woman through work named 'Jenna Taylor' .... sounds a lot like ....

I've worked with someone called precious

I knew of a boy called Bubble-Lee.

We have friends in France who have called their son Hippolyte.

They pronounce it ee-poh-leet
The weird thing is that is Greek mythology Hippolyte was a woman. Also that the child will be called Hippo for short once at school

I also knew sisters called Tuppence and Ha'penny. That was odd.

Once encountered a woman through work named 'Jenna Taylor' .... sounds a lot like ....

Unfortunately, if she is from Lancashire there is a definite probability that she is a cousin in our family. ( not joking).

Norman Reedus from TWD's son is called Mingus Reedus

Tinkerbell.😕

Once served a customer when I worked in a shop at uni who called his twin daughters 'Ocean' and 'Spirit'.

Hearing him loudly call over a large queue of people at the till 'Ocean, Spirit, come here!' was not only cringe worthy it triggered a lot of looks between the other customers!

Woman in shopping centre with 3 kids, one ran away and she shouted after him 'Rolex, get back here'

Stopped me and a few others in our tracks, did wonder if the other 2 were Timex and Sekonda, what was she thinking......

Frazzled I was just going to say that I call my daughter Tinklebutt as a nickname, more often shortened to Tink, so people probably think her name is Tinkerbell when I call her that in public!

Ocean-Rose - sounded like a yacht. School refuser, never actually met her.

Mama/Papa/Nana. Three West African siblings.

My name and my sons name has popped up on one of these threads before 😂

I don't take it to heart, I like my name and my son likes his.

If you can't beat them, join them.

I know several girls with the name Rhea (pronounced rear) makes me think of a bum (your rear end) or worse diarrhoea...

Least name but still.

Phuck

Pronounced with a P sound at the front. I think it might be a European last name but, poor thing, it really doesn't work in English.

There is a Bodie at my son's school.

(I think it's a bit unwise because it's easily misheard, I suppose)

Rather like Beagle, then again
my middle name is Thistlewood !

Huckleberry

I dated a boy called Huck (short for Huckleberry) as a teen. He was dead cool.

Twins named One and Two.

Also an adult named Bliss, who is definitely not blissful.

@Averille I don't get it - what could it be misheard as?