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?

Neveah (heaven backwards) cracks me up just because it's so crazy to take a concept and spell it BACKWARDS!

Could be a trend though
Yoj
Yppah
Esidarap

My middle name is Alice, after my great grandmother, My daughters middle names are Beryl and Elsie after my grandmothers, who only had one name (as there was a war on and none to spare). I couldn't give two hoots if anyone finds their names mockable, my grandmothers were delighted and now they're gone I love the fact my girls carry their names.

A baby Edna.

malena/melena / milena

Just because I am medical and that is the term for a black tarry stool. Objectively I can see that the name is perfectly fine if you werent medical and I usually dont read too much into name meanings, but if you lived in an english speaking country wouldnt that put you off?

We have a Scout. Still love it.

Just names. No need to get upset about someone elses choices or opinions.

I think it also depends on the surname as to whether you like a name,nothing to do with being sneery or anything here, I like people using unusual names and it's probably better that you do when you have a plain/common surname, but usually uncommon first names used with more unusual/exotic (for the Uk) sound better. e.g i'm not a big fan of the the name Demi as it's not to my taste (I like Celtic/Scottish names personally) but Demi Lovato sounds awesome, Demi Brown not so much...

"Jermajesty" it's bad but I like to think Jermaine Jackson had his tongue in his cheek when he dreamed that one up, it's kind of funny, how the poor bearer of the name went through life with it but maybe it wasn't a problem, he's a "Jackson" after all.

Katie Price has sure lumbered her four youngest with some damn awful monikers, particularly Princess really awful.

Hate faux French names such as Shequille.

at Janet and Jonet

Why on earth would anyone choose Glumdalclitch? Poor girl! Glum for short?

I love the name scout, as I love the book, and the girl in it.

I do feel sorry for the girls called Isis though. One of our NCT group 15 years ago had a baby and called her Isis, such a lovely name, so pretty, strong too, and then it gets spoilt.

Mind you I knew a family who were a little precious and had 3 boys with strong traditional type names (George etc) and then had a little girl. They wanted something beautiful and unusual.
They called her Hermione.

It would have been about 3 years before the first Harry Potter was published, and I assume everyone she has met as an adult would think she was named after the books.

Where does Glumdalclitch come from? I have never heard of it.

I think Bronte is a really nice name

Only Bronte's I have met have been American maybe it's popular there

Actually, Arian comes from Ariana which was once the name of Afghanistan before it came to be called Afghanistan!! It is an Afghan /Persian name and as India and Afghanistan were neighbours (before Pakistan existed), there was strong influence from both countries within each other. There are no bad connotations with the name Aryan, only people put them there. The people of Afghanistan ARE the Aryan race...

Love the sound of Elowen, a name I've never heard before.

Feel a bit harsh here because it is a bit of a mean thread, but my contribution is Wanko. It's the name of a clothes shop in Hong Kong and I had a student who used that as her 'English name'. TBF, she has a perfectly normal Chinese name. Wish she would use it more!

Oakley. Just sounds like sunglasses.

Scout is a wicked name!

Agree it's such a shame about Isis. There's a hairdressers in the town I live that was called it and recently changed its name.

I know of a Minnie Welwet. She's in her 80s.

Don't get what's wrong with Jayden.

I know of two brothers called Cooper and Baker, awful. I hope Baker's middle name isn't Gregory.
Others are Hartlie and Magnus for boys and London for a girl.

Exactly Whynot! Well said x

Neveah (heaven backwards) cracks me up just because it's so crazy to take a concept and spell it BACKWARDS!

I agree but it's been done before e.g Senga became quite popular in Glasgow/west coast Scotland and is Agnes reversed. It occurred becasue of the naming structure used where names fromfamily were used for children in a certain order - cant remember what it was,but say for example first girl was called after Maternal grandmother etc. Someone thought Agnes was a bit old fashioned so reversed it and so it caught on and became very popular. There are other examples such as Myra instead of Mary (not a reverse but a re-ordering).

It's all very interesting and also reflective of popular culture. People being names after popular film stars back in the day and then names like Wendy and Kylie suddenly becoming popular etc.

Glumdalclitch is the name of the giant girl who looks after Lemuel in Gulliver's Travels.

*Ellie56

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.*

Voorhees has just blew my mind. I love a slasher movie but my god, would you really want to name your kids after them?! I might line up Jigsaw for my next.

I had to look up Glumdalclitch. Wow. There's absolutely no poetry to it, is there!? And no nice nicknames either. Horrific.

Worst name I ever heard was Boy-Boy Angel

My daughter is called Mackenzie (Mackenzie Amelia Grace). Although I've had a few nasty remarks and it's been called chavvie on a couple of occasions, if you met my daughter you'd see that it suits her down to the ground!! She's mummy's little Kenzie-Boo and no other name wilful be right for her! I don't regret it one bit! *
My point? Just because a name sounds unusual or is disliked, doesn't mean it won't work for that particular child. This thread is cruel....

*Really must stop calling her "Baby" in public. People must think that's her name!!

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

Wrong, @BluthsFrozenBananas. As someone has already said. Plus it was a girl.

If you heard the child being called that in a supermarket, you have no idea if that is her real name or a nickname. You cannot shorten my daughter's name. In a long contrived story that is of no interest to anyone except me, she has the nick name Mash. It's not her name. It's not a shortening, or anything like her real name. But when I use it out of the house I get some horrified looks. Clearly by people who are too dense to realise it's not her actual name. Beige could be her name. Equally, it could be a nickname.

These threads are just nasty and pointless. Name slagging off. It's the equivalent of the bitchy girls in the playground trying to make everyone else feel bad for no reason.

I never understand what is wrong with jayden,Kayleigh etc yeah i wouldnt choose but its a personal.choice and i accept that not everyone likes the names i chose for my boys.