Worse name you EVER heard for a child

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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...

Ummm you don't work in a strip bar do you?
'Peechez Delight plays the Fanjo Banjo'

Oh god, and I haven't even been drinking tonight.

I went to an open air paddling pool in cleethorpes in July and a woman there was shouting her daughter...nyrobi

Now I don't know if it's common or what but I thought it was a country!! Or place!!

Goat. There was a lovely little girl in the birthday announcements in the local paper and her name was Goat. It could have been a nickname, but that's still quite cruel.

Raislin or Raistlin, Ladyemem?

The only Raistlin I know is a dark mage from the Dragonlance Chronicles, definite broody antihero material I had a massive crush on him. I can't help but be slightly in awe of someone naming their son after him.

Nairobi, capital of Kenya...

Trixeebell

Destinie

Coco

Star

Porshee (spelt that way and express the 'ee')

mathanxiety Greville Starkey, successful jockey in the 70s/80s.

Some of the names on this thread are fabulous! I'm not a fan of name-child-as-if-it's-a-soft-toy names or kre8tiv spellings of accepted names, but each to their own.

The snobbery on this thread makes me chuckle though: "oh, I heard a better-not-say-chav-even-though-everyone-knows-that's-what-I-mean woman calling some ghaaarrstly name across the supermarket". Well yes, but you're shopping in the same supermarket as they are so you obviously aren't as posh as all that, are you?

I do suspect at least some of these names are or could be nicknames anyway.

thegreylady I too thought of the Abbey books straight away when I saw Jehane upthread! It's a beautiful old name.

Worst names I've heard recently were Stan Lee (Lee being the surname) and Venka Grail (female). Not Vinca as in periwinkle, not Gail - I checked. It just sounds harsh - too many hard consonant sounds.

I know of a few baby girls called Beau and that jars - I immediately think of my class's old French teacher having a fit at our inability to get masculine and feminine correct.

Orange I agree about Beau for a girl. I met one for the first time recently and don't mind it for a boy, but a girl's name?? I was at a soft play place and got chatting to a mum who's daughter was playing with my daughter. She had a little baby too and I admired her and asked her name. Her reply was, "I have a Belle and a Beau, my two beautiful girl's"!

There was a Jagger being called by his/her mother in the pet shop yesterday.

Frontpaw Nope, hospital. Peechez was a 16 yo that hadn't come home that day. The police were looking for her. She's probably run off to change her name.

"However else it's used Melina is actually a legitimate Greek girls name and means 'honey' (same roots as Melissa) and was one of our short-listed names"

Some names just don't travel well if they have a meaning in the new place. It doesn't matter how often you explain that "Shit" is a genuine transliteration of part of a name in Cantonese, that is never what a UK person would think first. (And is why the transliteration is changing to "Sit") So a name that is a homonym of a common medical term for bloody shit will be heard first that way, no matter how much one knows of its history. An as English is the global lingua franca at the moment, it's the one whose unfortunate meanings are most likely to be problematic no matter how pretty in another language.

The worst name I found in the baby book for a boy was Nimrod

I love the name Storm for a boy. (DH has refused to allow me my way with any of our Dcs... have NO idea why!).

Also love the name Raven for a girl. (see above. )

We ended up calling all ours fairly traditional names, and yet still one of them turned up on one of these threads once!

I taught a Chanel. Quite tame in comparison to some of these. Except it was officially spelt Channel. Poor thing.

I don't think your meaning is well known though Edith, unless you're a medical bod. I've never heard of it before this thread and I doubt if anyone I know would either.

It's not "my" meaning, I'm not the only one who mentioned it on this thread, but I suppose I do know quite a lot of nurses and some care home workers.

I know two sisters with the surname Kuentz, pronounced Cunts. That's pretty bad.

My gran was at school with a Percy Priddle

Percy Priddle! So cute.

Huxley!!!!! And he was a rather large child too, Casey spelt KC and I also knew a girl called Pepsi!!!

I also knew a girl called Pepsi, but she was really Penelope.

I saw the name Libra mentioned a few times on here and someone might already have said this but Libera is an Italian saints name. I worked with a girl years ago and thought her name was Libra, but she explained it was actually Libera and was Italian (her family were from Italy). I quite liked it then!

I know a girl called Velvet...not quite as bad as Denim...but yeah.

My friend had to dissuade a patient (she was on the gynae ward whilst a medical student) from calling her baby Placenta. Was quite sad actually as English wasnt her first language and she had heard people saying it and thought it was a pretty name.

Ok I see your Satins, Denims and Suedes and I raise you Dre and Jay-Z! Two young brothers from Ballymena, Co Antrim. Their 'rap mad' dad Philip Dunlop named them after his idols. Was all over the newspapers here a while back. Jay Z Dunlop - nice! Also my cousin reckons she has met a girl called Pocohontas Murphy - I quite like it!!