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To ask the worst names you have heard?

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user1488794856 · 02/10/2017 09:09

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?

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Danceswithwarthogs · 02/10/2017 16:53

It's noreally really about judging other people's name choices... everyone has different tastes and opinions...

I just feel sad that some parents use baby names to make a statement about themselves and don't consider the person who has to live with it/spell it/correct others' pronunciation/explain they're actually a girl/boy or even experience discrimination at work/job interviews because of it....

Maybe better to use the really out-there names on your pets

yomellamoHelly · 02/10/2017 16:55

Met a little Italia this w/e. Wanted to ask if her dad really likes football. Lovely girl though.

shooeghMcFee · 02/10/2017 16:56

I thought I had posted on here already, but never mind. Purely personal: Travis, Hillary, Margaret, Derek.

shooeghMcFee · 02/10/2017 16:57

A woman I know named her daughter Harlequin. Now, there's a reason that name is unusual.

MitMopse · 02/10/2017 16:58

'Chloe - it's got an apostrophe in it' (so C'loe then ?)
Nod and smile, back away from the crazy person...

SliceOfTruth · 02/10/2017 17:01

Maribella

SirRaymondLuxuryYacht · 02/10/2017 17:01

I'm friends with a punk couple who called their daughter Anna-Kay (anarchy) I love it.

ManicUnicorn · 02/10/2017 17:01

Chlamydia.

Yes, really.

AmysTiara · 02/10/2017 17:01

The poster, sorry i can't remember who it was, who knew a Ryangiggs made me laugh.

Poor lad.

I knew a Mercedes years ago. I loved the name.

squoosh · 02/10/2017 17:03

Obvious football names like Ryangiggs (!) Beckham, and Trafford are the worst I think.

FithColumnist · 02/10/2017 17:31

A few years ago a friend of mine taught a boy called Spyder. With the obvious surname beginning in W. Apparently the mother was highly concerned that her child would be bullied- surely she should have thought about that nine years previously?

DrWhooves · 02/10/2017 17:33

I've met children called Ace, Blu and Oceana. And a friend's sister used Nevaeh although I haven't actually met that one.

Raisinsaretoddlercrack · 02/10/2017 17:49

I always wanted to call my first daughter Galadriel but my DH said no. I have a feeling that she would have featured on this thread had he agreed!

Fekko · 02/10/2017 17:53

The threads too long and I only got to page 1 and saw the usual suspects.

Aryan is a traditional Persian name and not pronounced in the way that Mr Hitler would have.

DameGlitterSparkles · 02/10/2017 17:54

Babelynn

DameGlitterSparkles · 02/10/2017 17:56

Fuck off a little boy called RASPBERRY?! 😂😂🙈🙈

0ccamsRazor · 02/10/2017 17:58

Robert Sole
Teresa Tickle
Philip McAvity
Benjamin Doon
Michael Hunt

Oh and Dunstan Dunstan, I did ask if his middle name was Dunstan, he just gave me Hmm look and said 'no that would just be silly' Shock

Gwencooper81 · 02/10/2017 18:05

My daughter's actual name has been mentioned early on in this nasty racist thread.
How lovely to see the name we lovingly chose being mocked openly.
What a bitch.

Fekko · 02/10/2017 18:05

Why racist?

ArbitraryName · 02/10/2017 18:10

One of my friends at school had a boyfriend called mike hunt. What were his parents thinking?

DameGlitterSparkles · 02/10/2017 18:11

Not liking a certain foreign sounding name isn't racist FFS. My niece is mixed race - if someone said they didn't like her name to my siblings face they'd probably be laughed at and said oh well not your kid. If they called her a name based on her skin colour then they would be called a racist and told to fuck off

Gwencooper81 · 02/10/2017 18:12

Possibly not racist then, I saw the names Precious and Mercedes mentioned .. but I skimmed reason anger so possibly our of context.
I still think the poster is a bitch though, and her username is shit Grin

DameGlitterSparkles · 02/10/2017 18:12

Fekko some people seem to think pulling the race card (or other discriminatory term card) means their opinion is correct and they win 🙄

troodiedoo · 02/10/2017 18:14

I went to school with a hen (ry) farmer.

Gwencooper81 · 02/10/2017 18:14

Ffs *I skim read in anger, so possibly out of context.
No, disliking a foreign name isn't racist, but mocking it for being 'chavvy' ' made up' or 'stupid' is horrid and rude.

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