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?

@GlitterBallSacks says the one whos username is Glitter Ball Sacks.

Know quite a few princesses, but hate it as a name. Also a L'Oreal.

I'm Another one who meant nevaeh 😂 I clearly need to get used to spelling backwards!

I heard a man shouting "Rimmer" to his toddler son down town recently. Keep trying to think what I may have misheard but pretty sure that's what he said. Maybe he's a red dwarf fan.

All of Jamie Oliver's kids have horrific names IMO

Rimmer. That's.......................bad. The first thing to do when choosing a name is to make sure it doesn't refer to any sexual acts!

Laurence Olivier has/had a granddaughter named Isis. We bought a boat from her and her husband in the early 90s. I thought it was such a pretty name (the Thames in Oxford). Such a shame that it is spoiled now. When I was young Gay was common for girls but maybe not used much nowadays.

There are no babies in Uk registered as La-a.

Very outting but I certainly work with a family who have multiple children, of either gender, who have names La'XYZ, every one of them, La'Toya, La'Tisha, etc (obvs not real names used in this post)

@squoosh that's exactly what I said! Basic.

I used to live next door to a bj. Wasn't even short for anything.

Personal hate of Elsie indeed! I have this username in celebration of my gloriously badly named nine aunts. Hello Winifred-Annie!

I had a colleague who worked as a teacher in Birmingham who swore a child in her class was called bicycle. Surely not.

As for film/tv names, I have rather a liking for Demelza and I suggested this to my (horrified) daughter during her last pregnancy.

When I worked in Lancashire a colleague had several kids. The first were by her ex and had everyday names. She then had some more with a new partner. Two were called Bubbles and Jumbles. It took a bit of getting used to but after a while it seemed perfectly normal

Vanilla

@notacooldad were they a circus family?

Elouise. Terrible name. Sounds like a hygiene product and whenever you say it it sounds whiney. For some reason popular here

How do you know there are no children with a certain name? Where is this information held?

Nooooooooooo... Stupid parents, don't they know that Khaleesi is a title, not a name?! Like Queen, Tsar, etc.

I have taught a Queen, as in someone with that name, and a Princess.

I saw a blog post where a mother had nearly called her child Andrew. A very normal name, nothing wrong with that, he was going to be known as 'Drew'.

Then she googled the name with their surname, Peacock.

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.

I knew a Lenore. She was about 2 when the fabric conditioner came out.

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No,not circus people!
They were very nice colleagues just went for bonkers names for some of their children. It was weird because the first one or two ( I can't remember now) was perfectly ordinary and then that!

@brasty You could tell in Scotland becasue they publish data on every name used down to names where even 1 use of a name is published. They don't do that in E&W as far as I am aware, they only publish down to names of 3 uses or more. Maybe if you are registered wth some websites it might be possible to check? Im not sure if NI have their own records or not and what they do in terms of publishing.

A family I know has 3 girls and a boy, I'll not put their real names but close.
Girls: Letisha, Tonisha, Mericka
Boy: John

There are no babies in Uk registered as La-a.

There is a L'a recorded in the UK birth records though (for the late 1990's I think).

Not RTFT so somebody may have raised this but...

is there an element of 'Performance Naming' in calling your child something, ahem, unusual, and then yelling it all over the supermarket/soft play/playground?

My kids have fairly unusual names, but they tend to go by nicknames (unless I am very very angry, which tends not to be in public and they are older now so...) so I'd be shouting 'Libbie! Don't do that!' or 'Bubs, come here sweetie!' not the full (unusual) name.

Are those who are shouting (f'ex) 'Walinda-Koala, come here!' really showing off their 'Performance Naming'? Because at home the child is known as 'Wally-K', but that won't turn any heads at soft play, will it?

On Linkedin I seen a woman called Koriand'r. Looks like it's pronounced the same as Coriander

Timotei si Romanian for Timothy !

WaxOnFeckOff absolutely did not know that, thank you still sounds strange to me though.

DD went to nursery with an Endurance.
Primary school with a Zebedee (siblings were Matthew and Elisabeth!)
She goes to dance school with an Angel.