AWFUL NAMES TO CALL YOU CHILD...

[Justine888]

I dont think there's anything people get more worked up over something that is none of their business than what someone has or wants to call their child.
With this in mind, I thought it might be fun for people to nominate some really bad names they've heard friends or relatives have given to these poor little children.... Whats the worst you've ever heard?
Who knows... this page might be inspiration for some pregnant ladies out there!
Have fun!

I currently work with some children whose names are a bit unusual

Star (girl)
Thierry (girl)
Kaitlyn, Katelyn and Caitlyn
Jambo (boy)
AJ (boy)
Tiana-Louise (must ALWAYS be said in full, not Tiana)
Charlie-Mae (girl)
Malisha
Kelan (boy)

I did do a double take at some of them at first, but the children themselves are so utterly delightful (Thierry is a terrific little girl, all smiles and sparkle) I can't possibly snigger at their names. They stop being funny when they're the names of particular people AFAIAC.

And I am a consummate bitch, everyone knows that

I thought Thierry was a male footballers name?

Yes, it is - and now it's also the name of a lovely little girl I know. It wouldn't have been my choice - but it's her name, and for me that's reason enough not to sneer at it!

thierry henry, now theres a rather handsome bloke maybe shes his kid?????

i think its rather cute

I wasnt sneering! just said that the only other Thierry id heard of was a male!!

NortherLurker, along the same lines I encountered a few Melenas when I was working in Oz. I had to restrain myself from saying "you do realise that in medical world melena is just the very very worst smell in the world ever?

(apologies to any parents of Melenas who inadvertantly thought it was a pretty name).

Greensleeves - I said something similar on another thread about teachers' reactions to children's names.

You may snigger or groan at the class list, but when you meet the children themselves, names mean really very little.

sorry Lottie, didn't mean you specifically

Nork-Lea

DS' name provoked the biggest name-related tant since Rumpelstiltskin's in DP's childhood chum.
Do you know what? He still refuses to use it...calls him "The Stig" instead.

yep i agree madonna, you could call a baby a really lovely "acceptable" name, and he/she could be a selfish/horrid/cruel/rude kid. then the pretty/cool name fades into the distance, and you just think of them as a little brat
on the other hand you can have a child with a "wierd" name, and they could be lovely and this obviously shines through.

I was in the park with DS2 the other week and he was playing with a Echo and a bliss, I thought they were beautiful names.

I worked with a Dick Siemens and a Dicky Glasscock. I've taught a Lilette and a Fanny. I also know a Kerry Hunt.

Personally ( and this is just MY opinion ) I dislike names that seem to be collections of random syllables, not 'names' as such.

But I'm getting on and uncool.

My DH used to know a Polly Esther.

I used to work with a girl called Friday. I kid you not!

there was a minor councillor/businessman somewhere in bucks called dick everard
snigger

Message withdrawn

Sahara
which was lengthened to: 'ar Sahara-ara

Well DD2's middle name has already been mentioned in a bad way

Babies in our local paper this week included Precious Bird; Petal Darling; and sisters Ruby-Star and Dolly-Sky. (Do first names really need to be hyphenated?)

(Apologies if you are the mum of these girls)

lol
my teacher at school was pete bull, i have a friend whose cousin is a malena slubberdegullion (i laughed when they first told me her name as i thought they were joking...her mum is a nurse BTW and didnt realise until the baby was registered...she is now forever named after blood in the poo...lovely) my sister did a placement in a nursery and a little boy was called england marshall french!!
xx ei xx

My Dss name has been mentioned on here, but its him 'pet' name or short name rather than his actually name ... DJ, its just his first and middle name initials.

I dont think its chavvy,

I was at university at the same time as an American postgraduate called ...

... wait for it ...

Fanny Hyman

My old home economics teacher was Mrs Kerr and she named her son Wayne.... I kid you not.

My IT teacher was Mr Woolcock,

never found out his first name though!