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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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MiaowTheCat · 02/10/2017 09:57

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LolaTheDarkdestroyer · 02/10/2017 09:58

Here we go again...bore off with these threads they are bitchy and nasty. Yes we all think some names are shit but what's the point in plastering them all over here other than to be bitchy?

Devonishome1 · 02/10/2017 09:59

Boy called Maximillion to me it sounds like thanks a million!

Clandestino · 02/10/2017 09:59

Looks like some choices of names are more victims to the ignorance and cultural isolation of some posters here than overambitious parents.
I'd be going a bit of a WTF at a Princess too (even though I believe that in some communities it's actually a common name (just like Hope etc.), but mainly because of the potential problem with bullying later on in her life and hiring managers not willing to take someone with a name like this seriously, which may happen.
It looks like though some people on this thread are more guilty of ignorance, racism (sub-conscious or open) and simply not really aware of the fact there is actually a world beyond the borders of England (or Great Britain).

iseenodust · 02/10/2017 09:59

DS is at school with an Enoch. Family is BME so I'm not sure if they wouldn't have known the Rivers of Blood connotations or it's a two-fingered response.

FakePlasticTeaLeaves · 02/10/2017 10:00

yawn.

Ttbb · 02/10/2017 10:01

Leilani

EssentialHummus · 02/10/2017 10:01

Boy called Maximillion to me it sounds like thanks a million!

Just the Polish version of the English name.

I hate these threads. I always open them hoping for a change from the usual BS that appears, and am always disappointed.

MrsXx4 · 02/10/2017 10:02

This might be a bit outing but I did my work experience at a nursery school and had a little boy there called Raspberry. He started a week in to my placement and we had to ask his mum to spell it as we thought we weren't hearing it right....but nope.....the little boy was called Raspberry.

DontOpenDeadInside · 02/10/2017 10:02

A friend of a friend (fb) named her daughter Hernia. Now I'm not sure if it's a nickname or not as i couldn't see the persons whole fb profile (she commented on friends post) but c'mon Hernia?!

steppemum · 02/10/2017 10:02

Enoch is great Biblical name.
I think Enoch Powell is probably getting to be distant enough that the name can be reclaimed.

There was a thread recently about names with unhappy connections and wondering when they will be able to make a comeback. (Myra, Adolf, etc)

MuddlingMackem · 02/10/2017 10:03

Ellie56, Eli and Malachai are perfectly ordinary, if uncommon, names, but the rest I'll agree with you. Grin

Hoppinggreen · 02/10/2017 10:04

Lisma- just Lisa with a random M in the middle
I thought the child was mispronouncing it but the mum confirmed it - she thought it " sounds different "

Yellowheart · 02/10/2017 10:06

This might be a bit outing but I did my work experience at a nursery school and had a little boy there called Raspberry. He started a week in to my placement and we had to ask his mum to spell it as we thought we weren't hearing it right....but nope.....the little boy was called Raspberry.

It'll make her feel lovely if she reads this right?

CancellyMcChequeface · 02/10/2017 10:06

I once knew a little Susej, pronounced 'soo-jay.' Those letters do not make that sound. Just naming him 'Jesus,' if they wanted to, would have been more sensible.

meltingmarshmallows · 02/10/2017 10:06

There’s still an Oceana going strong in Swansea Grin

insancerre · 02/10/2017 10:07

I know a baby boy called Spike

C8H10N4O2 · 02/10/2017 10:08

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

I was more fascinated at Sara Cox, 39, giving birth to Patrick in 1986...at the age of 8!

Acrasia · 02/10/2017 10:08

About 20 years ago I worked in a busy shopping centre and at least once a week I heard one mum shouting 'Disney, Disneeeeeeeeeeey, come back here'. Always struck me as an odd name to choose, I think mainly because at the time the papers were running stories about Walt Disney being a paedophile.

Starwhisperer · 02/10/2017 10:12

I have friends who's daughter is called Daenerys. They aren't at all "chavvy"

Mind You, my daughter is Penny, full name Penelope, which has been mentioned on here so who am I to criticize?

BluthsFrozenBananas · 02/10/2017 10:13

Timotei is the Spanish version of Timothy, so it's a perfectly valid name and not a child named after a brand of shampoo.

The worst I've ever hear was Senna. I'm absolutely sure he was named after Ayrton Senna, but all I could think was senna pod, as in the well known laxative.

TammySwansonTwo · 02/10/2017 10:15

I still can't get my head round the fact that there are hundreds of people in America literally named Abcde. Mind blowing.

TammySwansonTwo · 02/10/2017 10:16

Maybe they meant to use Hermia and got it wrong? 😳

AnUtterIdiot · 02/10/2017 10:19

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PoppyPopcorn · 02/10/2017 10:20

Timotei is the Spanish version of Timothy

No. That would be Timoteo.

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