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?

A personal loathing is Jayden. I don't like names that are made up of bits of other names and this is a prime example of it.

Not mad about Chardonnay. Absolutely hate Irene, and initials for names, like Jay Jay. (OK for Ross' monkey though).

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

Sigh. Mercedes is a Spanish name, Catholic in Origin, meaning Our lady of Mercies. See also the name Lourdes. The name Mercedes existed long before the car.

Perhaps learn some other languages before you mock names in languages other than English?

People on this thread are really exposing their small-minded Little Englandness.

I have a question about names, if anyone can answer?
There are a few folk I went to school with who have double first names iyswim. Jojohn and johnjames. Is it a tradition in families or were they real names at some point, either shortened now, or split over time into separate names? Nothing to add except this question don't know much about history of names

Personal preferences.

Ah, so just liked by the parents? I wasn't sure unusual names and sounded very much more interesting than the names used separately. I was hoping there was an exotic history and the names had been split or something.

Sanoffy, are you in the UK? It sounds like an American thing, like JoBob, have heard it in movies, maybe I am wrong.

Personal preferences was in response to an earlier post

Daemon I'm in Scotland actually so perhaps learn some other countries before you start mocking

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?

Nope. I can't see it at all. Making fun of people's names is making fun of people's names. Why are you insisting on a subtext?

Sorry. Confusing when a thread moves so fast!
Yes I'm in the uk. Never thought of it being American in origin.

And who said I thought it was linked to the car? It's still shocking for a Glaswegian chav to call her kid that I really doubt she chose it for her religious beliefs and love of Spanish culture.

at the folk completely missing the point of the La-a post. It said "best friend's postman's cousin" as well as getting it out of the way early

sanoffy in Scotland the only boys I knew growing up with double-barrelled names were Catholic and there was usually a saints name involved.

That's just my own experience though.

abcde? really how do you even pronounce that?

Trampire DD narrowly escaped having Amidala as a middle name. XH wanted it, I put my foot down.

A girl called chantanna and Cheyenne and a boy called brishen

@MissFlashpants yes, Scotland these boys had a traditional Irish surname. Always thought they suited their unusual names, they were wild! But most of the boys in my school were, mind you

There are a few folk I went to school with who have double first names iyswim. Jojohn and johnjames. Is it a tradition in families or were they real names at some point, either shortened now, or split over time into separate names?

I thimk it's to with the naming culture of using grandparents and parents names in orer an in larger families there would be repeats so people started saying both first and middle names to differentiate so there would be JohnJoe and JohnJames for example to distinguish the two Johns. I think over time they just got merged into one. Quite common incultures that use naming systems but that is dying out now since the rise of the internet and social media etc which is allowing people to see much more choice.

The weird thing is that is Greek mythology Hippolyte was a woman.

Nope. Hippolytus was definitely a man.

I met a teacher on holiday once who told me she had taught a L-a
I believed her and have retold the story to many........now feeling a bit of a fool reading this lol!!!
( also feel I may be part of the problem for spreading such a fib!!)

Interesting. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity. True that I haven't met anyone since, or heard of anyone else with the double first name, so it probably is dying out.

The only thing that really bothers me about people’s choice of names, is when they change the spelling to try be unique. I was watching a programme the other day, and the little girl was called Knatalye (Natalie). Why change is so much. Poor child is going to spend their whole life correcting the spelling of a perfectly nice name.

I grew up in west of Scotland as well. And there were a few boys called John-paul.

Only unusual one I can think of is one i seen on Facebook. It was dawn-louise

My DC have very ordinary, top 20 names. They have various nicknames that have evolved over time and just stuck. We call DS "Dave" and DD "Chaz" a lot, it used to be funny, a running joke etc. Except i still use these nicknames, so out an about, it's quite possible people will hear "Chaz and Dave" and judge me/us. These are not their names and not even close, but I always expect us to pop up on threads such as this. As an aside, I'm in my 40s and my dad still calls me "babba" or "the baby". I am the youngest of a big family. Again, odd to anyone listening in.