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?

These threads are weird to me. I guess because most adoptive parents don't get to choose their children's names, although some might choose a middle name or a nickname. So it's never really come up in our house.

Little kids being mocked based on their names is distasteful though. Names are a huge part of a child's identity, like their appearance or accent. I bet most people wouldn't mock a child's glasses?

Not a weird name, but a weird spelling.

There is no way I can prove this, so you will just have to trust me when I tell you I once came across a 'Quiche', pronounced 'Keesha'.

I had to work with her for about a week on a project I was on. Her email address didn't have her name in it, it was like an [email protected] address. So when my boss said, 'can you drop a note to Keesha to say blah blah blah', I started my email: 'Hi Keesha'.

And she was lovely in her reply but gently corrected me that the spelling was Quiche. I was like .

Surely she knew? I mean, why wouldn't you just change the spelling?

Oops sorry notacooldad I'm not sure where she's from but I met her in Leeds briefly through a work thing. Sorry if it's your cousin, she was quite open about her name though regarding all the stick she got about it from colleagues.

I'm friends with a Peregrine. He only ever refers to himself by his nickname.

In Hong Kong a lot of people with Chinese names give themselves anglicised names. I know a "Pizza" and a "Cake" !

My best friend's postman's cousin taught a girl named La-a. La-dash-a.

No. no they didn't.

Hashtag. There was an article written about the poor little thing.
Arson
And yes khalaeesi, katniss, Etc are very dated and won't age well. Imho

I actually like Beowulf (obviously shortened) and other unusual names of classic characters or old Victorian names.

Thank you - you don't have to say it's nice!

He likes it though unfortunately so we can't change it now.

He has made it to ten though without getting beaten up

Travis

In Hong Kong a lot of people with Chinese names give themselves anglicised names. I know a "Pizza" and a "Cake"

No you don't. You are just making this up because you want to make a racist post about funny Chinese people not understanding English because you think it is funny to make racism is funny if it is disguised as a joke.

This thread is racist and really unpleasant

Beryl!!! That's great I'm saving that for a cat

My best friend's postman's cousin taught a girl named La-a. La-dash-a

Yes another racist person stating something that is simply not true. This is an internet myth being peddled by racists laughing at names beginning La that are common to some African-Amerivcans.

So no, your best friend's postman did not teach a girl with that name. You however, are a racist.

Nausea.
I wish I was joking.

This thread is racist and really unpleasant

Thank you macncheese. No point reporting either because MNHQ seems blind to the racism on the site.

The person who posted the La-a comment was being sarcastic, angry people!

Neon. The kid was quite hyperactive so it kind of suited though.

pigsDOfly - I think I know the name you mean and I love it. Was one of my choices if we'd had a girl.

No you don't. You are just making this up because you want to make a racist post about funny Chinese people not understanding English because you think it is funny to make racism is funny if it is disguised as a joke.

It's not made up. I used to live in the Far East and Australia and it's quite common for Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, Thai and Pacific Islanders to take English words as their name. And the words they use aren't always what English speakers consider names.

My teacher friend in Hong Kong had an Apple, a Pepsi and a Benson (after Benson & Hedges) in her class. I also met a Pixie in Thailand and a Pacific Island kid called Cupcake.

It's not racist to point that out. It's an interesting cultural idiosyncrasy.

Yes another racist person stating something that is simply not true. This is an internet myth being peddled by racists laughing at names beginning La that are common to some African-Americans.

I think you missed the sarcasm there. That poster was making exactly the same point you are making. Go back and read it again.

When CaoNiMartacus mentioned Ladasha, she did so precisely because on every one of these worst names threads, someone comes on and claims to know a Ladasha.

She is taking the piss out of the many people who claim to know a Ladasha.

Clearly.

I think the person who posted the original La-a post (with the obvious convoluted friend of a friend link) to ward off the usual raft of posters that these threads usually get saying that they definitely know someone with the name. When they obviously don't. It always happens. Hence saying 'getting it out of the way early'. At least that's the way I read it. I don't think they were saying they knew one.

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Loving the outrage at the poster making a point about l-a.

My mum would come out with some crackers when I was pregnant. We settled on a nice name.

I haven't heard anything too bad but have heard of acquaintances calling kids
Jax
Mercedes
Aliah-Rose

It's an interesting cultural idiosyncrasy

Interesting that this "interesting cultural idiosyncrasy" should be posted on a thread where people are making fun of people's names. Can you not see how racist this sounds in a context in which the subtext is that there are people who give their children thick, uneducated or stupid names?

I know a little boy called Stone

I love Janet and jonet