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?

OP are you Katie Hopkins?

This reminds me of a Daily Mash article where teachers beg parents to call their children Olivia or Jack as they have 12 of each per class and now refer to them as numbers. Love the Daily Mash.

Anyway, Magnus is cool, pity I don't want more kids.

Hippolyte is not unusual in France and it's cute (being shortened to Hippo is not relevant as they use the full name of the animal). Nothing worth sniggering over.

Happy kids name bashing people!!

I wanted to call DD Ziantha from a book I once read but DH wouldn't go for it. I still love it though.
DD is called Tinker bell. It's not on her birth certificate but she's still called it.

*to stop calling

Oh, I figured we were still on WORST names , maybe the thread veered onto dislike category. I was gunna say, Virginia is pretty vanilla lol.
I read a book written by a Wiley Fox. Cruel.

And "baby"?I know nobody puts baby in a corner, but nobody should be given that name in the first place, it feels very demeaning

Billi-Jo and her twin sisters Lacey-Rae and Codi-Leigh. I'm not really on board with the double barrel name trend.

I know a little girl called Vanilla.
Also a boy called Maximus.

Granted, Vanilla is unusual but Maximus? Not unusual at all, Norris Maximilian as mentioned earlier. Both we normal names.

This thread isn't nice. And shows much ignorance as to the origins of names.

And the person sniggering at 'virginia', really, grow up.

Nor is, not Norris! Though that's a perfectly ok name too.

Someone mentioned Dulcie. I love it personally. A very old name and I know woman in her 50s with the name; always think how lovely it is.

I met an Asian baby boy called Osama the other day. I couldn't help thinking it's a little tasteless in the uk. Also a baby called Leaf.

Leaf might have been Leif, were the parents Scandinavian?

I can defend Leif as it's a proper name from another culture. Can't defend Leaf, which is just dreadful.

Someone waaaay upthread mentioned Troy. This is (unfortunately) my parents very favourite boys name. Children together are not on the cards for a couple of years yet but I've already laid out for him that if he deeply desires a son named Troy then he needs to find another partner. Absolutely not!

I came across someone the other day called Porsche instead of Portia as in that's how they'd been spelling it all their life

I also know someone who's children are called Chillipepper, Box and Scooter

I feel sorry for babies who are only given a nickname or shortened version (Charlie, Archie, Theo, Vicky etc). Not great for some professions when they grow up. Names can always be shortened informally.

Theres a little girl where we live called Disney. Which is just how locals pronounces "doesn't"
Disney what??

Does anyone else read these "worst names" threads for name inspiration? I seem to have opposite taste to most MNers so I find them quite useful.

Shayd Le [last name]. Awful.

Not really, I tend to agree that most of the disliked names are awful, though don't much like the commonly liked names either e.g. Martha which dreadful imo

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.

I'm with Daemon on this one and call BS not to mention the thread is taking a bit of "laugh at any names that sound wrong to my ears."
Assuming you're for real though - Gwyneth Paltrow has an Apple. Pixie is Bob Geldof's daughter. So are actual names.

Then this I met an Asian baby boy called Osama the other day. I couldn't help thinking it's a little tasteless in the uk. Why if it's a perfectly acceptable Asian name?
Should the UK or Germany never name their child Joseph as it has connotations to the 2nd world war?
Some of the names on here there's absolutely nothing wrong with either.
I'm not for made up/original names and prefer traditional myself, but each to their own and that it's a name a child can go through life happily with.

though don't much like the commonly liked names either e.g. Martha which dreadful imo
Well, that just goes to show it's a matter of opinion as I love the name Martha.
You have people moaning about made up names, and then you have people moaning at classic, traditional, solid names.
Best off ignoring others and going with what YOU like.

Does anyone else read these "worst names" threads for name inspiration? I seem to have opposite taste to most MNers so I find them quite useful

Me i'm quite liking Artemis from this thread!

Probably Paula Yates' children

The posters mentioning Hong Kong names are not making it up. 'English names' here are in addition to the normal given names in Chinese. A lot of people have fun with them, or use a nickname translated to English eg. I know a Hamster who had chubby cheeks as a little kid and his family called him hamster in Chinese. He then chose the English translation as his English name. If someone uses Pizza as a name, it's because they want to. There are lots of wacky names here, mostly intentionally.

www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1922277/iphone-cola-and-kinky-whats-hong-kongers-name

We have friends in France who have called their son Hippolyte

Errmm...whyamIbored Hippolyte is a common name in France. My mother is French Caribbean and its very common where she is from too although as a surname, not 1st name. Hear it all the time. I can understand if you don't like the name but am perplexed re you seeming to describe it as if its unusual - when in France, it simply isn't.

at whichever poster mentioned Ghana and the name 'Nana' . Its an Ashanti name although used by other nations within Ghana also. I love it. Also used in creole caribbean as a name extension ie if your name is Adrianna you will end up nicknamed Nana

Someone I know has a baby called Aryan.

I know a grown man with this name. He's nearly 40. They pronounce it like Aaron.

My daughter has a friend called Isaac, but they pronounce it "ah-sigh-eek."

I'd only heard of Nivea as a face cream

Could it have been Nevaeh? It's heaven backwards, and fairly popular here.

Someone I know has a baby called Aryan

It's probably the most common name at our school. We have a large percentage of Indian students, so I presume it is a fairly common name in that culture.