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?

Harlow

I love the name Artemis. I find the Roman equivalent of Diana a little dull in comparison, although i LOVE LOVE the name of the Radio 4 news announcer Diana Speed to be gorgeous as a combination. Plus she has a lovely voice.

We very seriously thought about naming DS 'Isis' if he had been a girl.I am rather glad we didn't now.

Oh, people have already mentioned Isis. Usually I RTFT before commenting.

There are a fair number of companies called Isis who have had to re-brand in the last couple of years.

@Sannofy My DC unfortunately have 3 Uncles with the same name - they are identified from each other in conversation by how much hair they have (bald, hairy and inbetween) rather than by using middle names! They also have 2 cousins and an uncle with the same (but diffrenet from the uncles) name. Now known as tall, short and old

It would be a very boring world if everyone liked and chose the same names. There's lots of names I wouldn't chose for my children but that doesn't mean they are bad names, just not my taste. Just like I'm sure lots of people wouldn't chose the names I gave my children. Let everyone call their children whatever they want without bitching about & judging their choice

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

I'm 100% certain that this poster was humorously trying to warn AGAINST making statements of the kind that you perceive is here.

I honestly think that you should consider withdrawing your accusation.

I don't understand why people think naming a child from a popular book, film or tv thing is odd. I'm called a Shakeperean name which didn't exist until he wrote his play. He made up loads of names that are now in common use. I wonder if people were called the equivalent of chavvy at the time for using them?

I know some people with amazing names - Aslan, Loki, Loveday are just wonderful. They are really unique people and I often wonder if their names have influenced their personalities in some way. If they were called Bob, Dave and Susan would they still be the same people?

ISIS is a beautiful name. It is very unfortunate for those named that, that it now has a different meaning. Its origin is the name of a Greek Goddess.

You've probably guest correctly SugarButterFlour. It is a lovely name. We all had a bit of an 'oh dear' moment when we found out they'd appropriated it. Funnily enough, no one's ever mentioned the connection, so far.

I love the name Ivy.
To sidetrack a little, names have changed with the times, haven't they? I started school in the fifties, and names that were common then seem rarely used now, such as;
Pamela
Mary
Annette
Susan
Rosalind
Rosemary
Sarah
Andrea
Anthea
Stephanie
Christine
Georgina
Juliet
Caroline
Carol
And I could go on! Sometimes you can almost age someone by their name. I wonder if any of these will ever come back in fashion.

Caenea DS2 was nearly called Wulf, but he would have got a lot of stick with his surname.

Nevah
Evola
Dolphin
Vega
Nova

Animal names too

I was going to say that Bronte is also a fairly common name in Australia. You wouldn't raise any eyebrows at it, anyway.

Usually pronounced 'Brontee' not 'Brontay' though.

I do think you get used to odd names and most people just end up suiting whatever they have. I can think of two babies with 'different' names, both of which I now really like and don't seem odd at all.

However, I think changing a spelling (to something ridikkyooluss) in order to make it interesting is irritating -just think of an interesting name!- and calling a child after your favourite fashion designer or car is pretty awful.

Whilst I think the Nevaeh trend is a bit twee, I think in that specific case the resulting name is a quite nice. I'd just be embarrassed to explain it.

Maybe Lucisky

Some of those I know child/teens with: Caroline, Stephanie, Rosalind, Rosemary, Sarah, Georgina and Juliet. I'm not a big fan of Ivy personally.

A friend knows a small child called Sue, not Susan, just Sue which is a bit of a throwback. I'd like to see a little Pam or Patsy about :)

I have to say I think Candida is a bit unfortunate.

BJ

Its origin is the name of a Greek Goddess.

Egyptian, actually. You're probably thinking of Iris. She's Greek.

Lucisky - they will come back.

When I was a child no-one but NO-ONE would have used any of the old lady names which are really popular at the moment
Elsie
Ad
Edie
Maisie

and so on. Now we all think they are really pretty.

And I remember my aunt was going to call my cousing edward

EDWARD - No you can't be serious, so old fashioned, so snobby etc etc.
He was called something else. he is now 40
Now I think Edward is a great name.
Times and name tastes change

Cohen and variations of. As a Hebrew myself, I wonder if people actually research the meaning of the name, as it would make no sense to name you boy 'priest'.
Especially if not Jewish. In addition, in Israel it is a rather common surname. Of people who presumably, had a priest as head of family a rather long while ago. If you are strict enough it also incurs weird crap like not being allowed in cemeteries and not being allowed to marry a divorced woman. It is non transferable! You can't just name your kid Cohen! And why would you want to!

In general I don't really get why kids get given names in some trendy exotic foreign language. If it's meaningless to you, why use it. Kind of reminds me of people getting Japanese / Chinese tattoos then later discovering it doesn't say what they wanted it because they have no idea of the language anyway. Silly.

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

This. It's horrible

What a lovely thread! Hopefully my beautiful kind little boy Jayden won't ever have to witness a grown woman snearing at his name

Soup 😂

Not a name I didn't particularly dislike but most usual was derfogail