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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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seeker · 30/08/2012 16:11

My pet peeve is when eople use famous peopl's nicknames in the belief that those were there actual names. Spike, Coco, Woody and Bear are examples of this............

NellyJob · 30/08/2012 16:12

my obstrecian (sp) was called God's will

alemci · 30/08/2012 16:14

Bob Gedolf chose awful names like Fifi Trixabelle and Peaches

seeker · 30/08/2012 16:15

I bet he didn't. I bet Paula Yates did!

candytuft63 · 30/08/2012 16:20

I know a boy called Toady.
Its a nickname of a nickname ffs Angry

NarkedRaspberry · 30/08/2012 16:23

My least favourite name is Junior as in Jack Junior, Dave Junior, even Storm or Tiger Junior. At least pick them a name of their own.

recall · 30/08/2012 16:23

Rogan Joshua - true ! my husband's cousin's son.

hermionestranger · 30/08/2012 16:23

There is a truely (yes spelt that way) at ds2's nursery.

xmasevebundle · 30/08/2012 16:25

Is savannah a bad name? I am one Envy, named after blue savannah though.

I always thought poison ivy the one that gives you rashes and blisters etc? Forgive me if i am wrong!

No i am in south of england?!

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popsypie · 30/08/2012 16:25

I once heard someone shouting "get 'ere now jepetto"!!!! As In Pinocchio's father. Now that is an awful name.

Dillydollydaydream · 30/08/2012 16:29

La-a
Ruubee
Ramsay
Destiny

poshbeaver · 30/08/2012 16:32

I once taught a boy who was called Levi with a middle name of Denim!! I kid you not!

WoodlandHills · 30/08/2012 16:42

My friend swears that while shopping, in asda she overheard a mum shouting at her toddler daughter "SILUMEHHHH !!!!! GET THE FOOK OFF THEM BISCUITS! NAHHHH!!"

presumably the poor kid was called, Silumi / Sillumey ?? Confused

usualsuspect · 30/08/2012 16:43

Destiny, Precious and Truely all sound like perfectly acceptable Afro Caribbean names to me.

These threads sometimes strike me as a tiny bit racist.

Zara1984 · 30/08/2012 16:46

woodland was the name possibly Salome (pronounced badly!)?

Someone I went to uni with named her baby girl Bentley Princess.

A friend of a friend (well an old uni friend, really just a FB friend now) called her daughter Moet.

In my experience girls get landed with the weirder names....

NellyJob · 30/08/2012 16:48

true the only little Precious I met was African.
the very worst have to be Jamie Oliver's kids..
what are they.. something like Petal, Honey boo boo and Buddy Bear?
I mean ffs...those poor poor children.., they sound like soft toys.

WoodlandHills · 30/08/2012 16:51

Oh yeah and I used to work as a medical receptionist and was ASTOUNDED when a mum bought her two kids in for an appointment, one was called "T-Jay" (spelt EXACTLY like that) and the other one was called "Migell" (like Miguel, which would have been a normal name, but like she couldn't spell it properly) Confused

mathanxiety · 30/08/2012 16:54

Yes poison ivy gives you a horrible rash but it is not really a member of the ivy family. Real ivy is a climbing evergreen vine, with dark green leaves. It's a member of the ginseng family.

outtolunchagain · 30/08/2012 16:55

I don't want to make this too identifiable but I came accross a little girl,known as Hattie but her christian name was an area of New York and her surname a man who wears a suit of armour .Poor girl,only about 6 at the moment but I dread her teenage yearsGrin

Badvoc · 30/08/2012 16:55

Savannah isn't a bad name...I just don't like it.
Don't like my own - much more traditional name - much either tbh...
I have always wished I was called Megan for some reason (I read the thorn birds at an impressionable age)

squoosh · 30/08/2012 16:56

MK?

Sounds like a Blackpool brothel.

Oh dear.

Frontpaw · 30/08/2012 16:57

Truly Scrumptious! Some names he are just a bit forrin. I know little Salomes, Ulysses, Astrids... And no one would bat an eyelid when the Kia go home for e summer.

Is the made up ones or weirdly spelled ones that I wonder about. Just what are the parents trying to say about themselves and their kids?

Pop stars and celebs get away with it because they and their kids are so rich or well connected they are hardly likely to get bullied at the local secondary modern are they?

TheCraicDealer · 30/08/2012 16:57

My boss is called Dawson and he's near 60. Mind you, this is due to some odd "first son named after Mum's maiden name" tradition in their family, not James Van Der Beek.

hattymattie · 30/08/2012 16:57

I know two French sisters - the eldest is Sandy and the sister is Ocean Confused

Kayano · 30/08/2012 16:58

Saffire