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Worse name you EVER heard for a child

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xmasevebundle · 30/08/2012 01:26

Today i went out and was doing shopping heard this name been called i thought it was a nickname, then the dad and nan said it to him, but fuck me i feel for the kid.

His name was DENIM.

I thought about this all day and it cant be...

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Blu · 30/08/2012 01:31

Are you sure it wasn't Denholm? After the famous actor?

xmasevebundle · 30/08/2012 01:33

Im sure, 100% denim. I was standing next to his mother!!

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Mothership4two · 30/08/2012 01:36

At my son's swim lesson there is a mum who continually yells Oceana to her daughter as though to let everyone know what an unusual name her daughter has (she does this every week - as you might tell it is getting on my nerves somewhat). I loathe the name. I think it is really pretentious. But Denim is pretty awful. I wonder if anyone else named their kid after 1980s aftershaves? Hai Karate? Tabac? Aramis?

Mothership4two · 30/08/2012 01:40

On babynames.com it does list Denim as a boys and girls name. It is mainly used in the US (it would be wouldnt it). There is also the name Denham which is an old English name.

xmasevebundle · 30/08/2012 01:46

I just looked, i am stunned. I have heard really unusual names, but denim?

Poor child, he looked very sweet.

Oh my i think id tell her to shut up! I dont no why celebs call their children horrid names. Ivy?????? Do people no it means poison.

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RagingDull · 30/08/2012 01:47

worst name i have ever come across was "J" - just the letter "j".

i did not know whether to say he or she, and i never found out.

Mothership4two · 30/08/2012 01:52

Actor Jason Lee called his son Pilot Inspektor!!! And Rob Morrow (from Numbers and Northern Exposure) called his daughter Tu (get it?!) Hmm

Mothership4two · 30/08/2012 01:53

my grandmother was called Ivy! Blush

Mothership4two · 30/08/2012 01:55

might have been Jay/Jaye

RagingDull · 30/08/2012 01:56

nope. i checked. it was simply the letter J.

xmasevebundle · 30/08/2012 02:02

Are you joking with the tu? Poor children of this earth. I don't hate Ivy its just the meaning of it.

I have picked ralph for my son people said its slang for sick? I did google it and its correct made me abit put off but its 'slang' and slang isn't really real so to speak.

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iheartmycat · 30/08/2012 02:03

Real, awful, names I know of ..

Comet (boy)
Aqua (girl)
Tequila (girl)
Babe (girl)
Gauge (girl)

Moominsarescary · 30/08/2012 02:03

Don't! My sister loves the name Ivy

JellyMould · 30/08/2012 02:03

Met a girl called Mystic once.

crazy8 · 30/08/2012 02:14

Was shopping in Next and another customer started calling her toddler as he kept wandering off - Gucci. I kid you not!!

JustSpiro · 30/08/2012 02:15

OP - have you not read 'Forever' by Judy Blume?

As far as the worst names I have heard - at one end of the scale Ptolemy, at the other Tia Maria...

crazy8 · 30/08/2012 02:19

Also heard a boy called Armani.

crabb · 30/08/2012 02:20

In our local paper recently was Detroit , brother to Diesel and Axle.
Also Braxton, which made me laugh. At least not a twin of Hicks.

xmasevebundle · 30/08/2012 02:29

No! I but i did a thread on here and i found out. The people who i have told said Like ralph lauren [hhm]. Its an old fashioned name which i love!!

crabb that made me laugh.

There is a rapper called gucci manne. Wtf? LOL

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JustSpiro · 30/08/2012 02:32

I think Ralph is quite sweet xmas, but I'm the wrong generation and will never be able to get that out of my head!

Badgerina · 30/08/2012 02:32

Jonty.

Leporche.

xmasevebundle · 30/08/2012 02:37

Thank you Smile Im only 19 so i have no idea who it was neither my mum when i asked. Shes an avid reader!

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Brizzmus · 30/08/2012 02:38

Libra for a boy. Unfortunately his classmates didn't think first of the horoscope sign but of certain ladies' necessities...

BlueSuedeStiletto · 30/08/2012 02:45

Looooads at work.

MJ (full name, just initials)
Tekeela (yep, spelled just like that)
Angel Gabriel (first name Angel, surname Gabriel)
Shoosh
Cloud (baby boy. Not registered when I met him so fingers crossed they changed their mind!)
Baby
Renault
Li'lo (with apostrophe)
Lorry-blue (girl)
Hash (boy)
Melina/Meleena (for god's sake STOP CALLING CHILDREN THIS!)

Tis often hard to keep a straight face!

Naoko · 30/08/2012 02:49

Many years ago, my local newspaper had a birth announcement for a particularly unfortunate little girl called Doremi. Who does that to a child?!

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