To think if you call you child such a ridiculous name

[southnownorth]

They will get mocked at some point.

The child in question is called Abcde, pronouced ab-city.

Whilst it was very unkind to do it so the child can hear, I think it is the most ridiculous name I have ever seen.

abc7chicago.com/travel/southwest-gate-agent-mocks-5-year-old-girls-name/4784746/?sf203189021=1&fbclid=IwAR0aIHQzwe4b-L8RAIKn7hoxrMLGwzXfNV-PR2HbazxiqX3I-pzTGPuilu8

Wonder what the poor child's siblings are called? ...I dread to think!

DD works for the NHS

A colleague called out a patients name "La-A Smith please"
(Read as it looks)

A young girl and her mother stood up.

"You don't say it like that" said the mother, "her name is LaDasha"

WTAF?

The thing that surprised me most when I read this story in the news was that there are 138 other Abcde folk called that in the US of A.

No they didn’t edison 🙄

larry Precious is a perfectly acceptable name in many countries, including the UK.

I hope the child isn't overweight - sounds a lot like obesity! Poor kid.
I once worked in a school where a new girl arrived called Fanny Ting (she had a Chinese name but when parents came here they chose a ' nice traditional English name') - the head had to have a word!
Same school - one of the governors was called Robin Banks...

I've seen the questionable names at work. But they mostly reflect the laziness or lack of imagination on the parents side.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/

I think precious and patience are quite common Caribbean names.
A little boy at our nursery was called wise, but he was like a little owl, it quite suited him. I like the name epiphany.

At least people will know how to pronounce “Living Proof”.

My sons went to school with a boy named Josh that was spelled XJosh (the X was silent!).

Poor kid. Stupid parents.

There was something in take a break about a kid being called Kaitlyn but it was spelt KVIIIlyn. The parents needed a little slap.

stupid thing to do to a child but

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/uncommon-and-unusual/

I sometimes worry my sons will marry women who think ridiculous names are appropriate.

*Yesterday 17:28 BathFullOfEels

I have a name that when I was a child (late 70’s) adults would laugh out loud at. It was mortifying and I remember once my headteacher presenting an award to me in front of the whole school and asking me about 5 times what my real name is as he didn’t want my nickname printed on the trophy. Despite my insistence he refused to believe it was my name until my form teacher backed me up and he did an ‘okaaaay, well, that’s unusual’ while my while school tittered at me.
Anyway, last year my name was the 11th most popular in the country*

Please tell us your name?

Once had a dull HR sort of job that involved going through staff list of a big employer in an area with lots of 1st generation migrants from Africa. I always enjoyed noticing people called 'Fortunate ', 'Blessing ', ' Beloved ' and similar. To go through life knowing your birth was a joy: there's something lovely about that.

Just remembered there was a 'Happiness' on that list too.

11th most popular name in 2017 was Ella.

I went to school with a girl named Feather Byrd.

I also remember reading long ago about a mother who was recently immigrated to the US from a non English-speaking country and named her baby girl "Chlamydia" because it sounded pretty and she didn't know what it meant. Who knows at this point, maybe it was an urban legend.

Poor girl. That said though, lots of Americans give their kids names which I think are strange, such as Hunter, Chase, Oak, Lark, Brie, and Diamond for example.

Living Proof is also the name of a reasonably expensive brand of hair products btw!! 😳

Was she mocking the child or posting the photo in disbelief? I would be tempted to do the same. The mother probably called her that in the hope something like this would happen.

I live in the South of America and you're entirely right, they give kids ridiculous names here. I know kids named Hunter and Chase, as well as Fox, Canyon, Canyun, Scout, Cash, Cannon, Southern...I bet I know a lot more but my memory have given out. These are actually people I know in real life, not weird names I've just heard of.

I named my dd the extremely traditional Elizabeth

Crazy names have been around for years. I remember when I first started work in the 70s - one of our clients had a surname of Pye and had called their twin children Kate and Sidney!

I know a ’Godslove’ a ’Lordspower’.

True story.
Thought it was a brave choice by the parents 😶

I was reading a thread about this last night. One poster wrote, “I am an Abcde. I love my name. It’s unique and beautiful. There are six Abcdes in my town”.

It’s not unique, then, is it?

Even for America it's a silly name.

I see that Moon Unit Zappa is still using her given name.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Zappa