Today I came across THE WORST baby girl name ever

[saidthespiderwithahorridsmile]

I don't normally bitch about names, but this one really took my breath away

this little girl is called...... Phalia

pronounced "failure"

[struck dumb]

It must be an accent thing, but I have an Ulster accent, so would pronounce 'failure' and emphasise the R sound, therefore I don't see Phalia as being pronounced in a similar way.

Phalia? Is that not just too close to being another term for penis? I suppose they might want it pronounced like "Fa-lia". Is still quite bad.

I am at some of the other names mentioned!

I think it's a name from Pakistan?

I met a baby Nia-Mia yesterday. Kept wanting to call her Near Miss.

My husband is a teacher and comes across some very interesting names...
Two sisters: Candydarling and Bunnylove
I feel sorry for their brother: Joe.

Oh dear, some right odd names eh? Accents can really change a name, (even though I don't honestly get adding an R into names when it isn't in there lol).

At the swimming pool the other day there was a little girl called Alfresco.

Recently I've come across little girls called Terra (Terror ) and Candy-Lou (who was wearing a fetching pair of hoop earnings), but her mother was totally lovely.

I would have assumed it was pronounced 'FAL-ia' which sounds a bit phallic. Or maybe 'FAR-lia'. But then I~ pronounce Dahlia 'DAR-lia' too.

I came across a Brender this week

I would have assumed Fal-ia or Fay-lia

But if you say the last one quickish then yes, it does sound like failure.

sounds phallic to me imagine naming your kid after a cock!!

Well, it is a bit of a cross between phallic and genitalia.

Brender, not Brenda, LaVitaBellissima? The youngest Brenda is know is 24.

Not a Pakistani name, as far as I know. But DO have a friend who has a half chinese step sister with this name.

Irish accent here so I pronounce my Rs properly -- Phalia not even close to 'failure'. But I think it's too close to phallic for comfort. Maybe the parents' accent makes a PH out of TH and they spelled it as they would say it?

I came across an A n g e l - C u p c a k e this week

Hahaha - inspired! sort of name I'd have fancied aged 7.

mumonahottinroof-I am an Antonia Forrest fan-are you thinking of the Marlowe twins' friend?Her proper name was Thalia wasn't it? She was the head mistress's niece if my memory is correct.

Rhubarb. Was Nia-Mia pronounced to rhyme with Diarrhoea?!

purplepidjin I know those boys... are you a friend of their parents?

There was a 'Sledge' at my mom's scholl a few years ago (Boy)!!!!

School, sorry!

When I had my last 4d scan the sonographer said they had just has a couple in who were calling their baby bouy

DD was at school with a girl called Beryl. Prounounced Burial.

kreecher, you win!

Candydarling is on the cover of The Smiths, Sheila Takes a Bow 12" single....she was an american actress and Andy Warhol liked her.....but she used to be a man, she was a male to female transexual.

not quite sure why you would go for it as your baby name....goes well with Bunnylove though eh?

not made at all on Phalia.....however you pronounce it its too much like Failure....the mind boggles.