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?

I know a small boy named Onyx. Knowing the parents I'm 99% sure it was after the Pokemon not the gemstone

Malena!!! It medicine it's a poo with blood on it.

'Let's get La-a out of the way early on. My best friend's postman's cousin taught a girl named La-a. La-dash-a. LOL.

hmm

This won't end well.'

Or 'Fem-ally' but spelled 'Female'. Another urban myth.

Someone I know has a baby called Aryan

I know an Aryan. It's a fairly common choice among Indian families.

I have also come across a Paisleigh and a Conan-Rio.

I love Elowan!

Is it a girl or boy name?

Andre Agassi and Steffi Graff named one of their kids Jayden so I think it's lovely because I love both of them.

I've met a Lenor and just thought of fabric conditioner. She was American though so maybe not a big brand there

I knew a cinnamon at school. Why! Just why!

A D-lister in Australia has a daughter named Lolita-Luella.

The problems with name choices is that in the U.K. They are so tied up with class that the whole debate gets bogged down in snobbery both up and down looking.

The thing that annoys me with baby name decisions is that it seems rarely do the parents think forward 20 years and wonder how much a certain name will impact their lives. Children are your "arrows shot forth into the world." You owe it to them to name them kindly and with forethought.

I know a kid called Troy. I think it's just awful. It just makes me think of the war, and Achilles dragging Hector's body around after his chariot and trying to abuse the corpse for days on end.

I really wanted to call dd Artemis and ds Icarus. Dh vetoed them for being too weird, I still love them though. Even if my dc would be in these threads, they're beautiful names. A friend I hadn't seen for years ended up with a ds called Atlas, I was and am very envious. Again not everyone's thing, but I love it.

'I've met a Lenor and just thought of fabric conditioner. She was American though so maybe not a big brand there'

It's not a brand at all there. Lenore/Lenora is a very old name/diminutive of Eleanor.

The worst I've heard was Indie Josh being shouted all over the park. There was a Penny too, which isn't too bad but her surname was a noun so her name sounded ridiculous.

The worst name I have heard and it's only the worst because of the combination of first and surname Missy Pitts. Some parents need to remember to check how a full name sounds.

Timotei. Just no.

Ah thanks expat

For posh names I don't think I've heard worse than Ptolemy or Tarquin. For plain old-fashioned there's Mabel, Florrie and my personal dislikes are Elsie and Ethel. I used to work with a woman who hated her names of Beryl Gertrude.

Alistair - Elowen is a girl's name, meaning elm tree in the Cornish language, although it is a fairly recent name, rather than a traditional one. I haven't heard of Elowan before.

Why are people so sneery about certain names? I live in London and I've seen it all, diversity is what makes the world go round. It says more about you than it does about the parents. Particularly the posters above posting about Aryan (Indian) or Elowan (I thought Celtic?) you just make yourselves sound ignorant. My kids have slightly unusual names and literally no one bats an eyelid where we live. Finding the name Mabel hilarious as one poster did above? Marks yourselves out as 'chavvy' (read ignorant and uncultured/unworldly) rather than the opposite.

People (strangers) probably think my taste in names is odd.
I call them by nicknames when we're out, many reasons but mostly because their names aren't that uncommon.

Think teddy and lols. This isn't their names but people probably assume they are.

I like an unusual name. I also come from a town with an oceanania nightclub, early 90s. Deliciously lax on age restrictions and probably why they didn't make the "noughties"

Ptolomey does my head in because i didn't know how to say it somebody on a thread explained what it meant and sounded it out for me I actually know a boy with that name but for years i thought it was tommy

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230142/Pregnant-mother-13-says-I-having-babies-I-twins.html

Apart from the first 2, this is a whole family of awful and some completely batshit names. Poor kids.

Finding the name Mabel hilarious as one poster did above? Marks yourselves out as 'chavvy' (read ignorant and uncultured/unworldly) rather than the opposite.

I clarified in a second post that Mabel is a Beryl/Mavis equivalent where I live, which is why I included it.

Save your breath to cool your porridge.

I know Aryan is an Indian name, it still has bad historic connotation I feel is best avoided.

But of course that's only my opinion.