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...

Ivy doesn't mean poison ffs. It's a very old name. Like Holly Rose

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And Brizzmus that's bullshit too. What 5yo boy knows the names of sanitary products?!?! You know this first hand? Or you've just "heard of" it?

ThePigOnTheWall is correct. "Poison ivy" (a North American plant) is not a true ivy. Ivy is not poisonous, is a beautiful plant (imo) and gave rise to a popular name in my grandmother's generation.

Thanks hairy. Ivy no more means poison than Rose means thorny and Holly means prickly. Ridiculous.

thepigonthewall I taught him. And didn't say he was 5yo??

Dd you actually ask the Mum to spell the child's name? I mean, it might have been Denholm, or Denham. They're pronounced the same.

And where are you getting your learning from, if you think Ivy means 'poison'?!

There is a type of ivy (is it even a real ivy?) that is poisonous; is that what's confusing you? Otherwise - ivy is the name of a plant.

Want to join the chorus of about 'Ivy means poison'.

Symphony. NN Symi. Not Phony..
And DD3 knows a girl named Tieranny, pronounced tyranny.

Bryleigh, Bristol, Trig, Tripp, and Brayden

Toni Braxton has two sons, Denim and Diesel.

Still not convinced Brizzmus. Not convinced any age of boy would know that was a brand of "women's necessities" whatever the hell that means

Teenage boys would, if they have sisters. Or, um, mothers...?

Why would she make it up?

A friend of mine once heard a scary-looking woman yelling for her barely-more-than-a-toddler daughter who was racing up and down the aisle...

"POCAHONTAS! POOOCAHONTAAAAS! C'MERE NOW POKEY!"

By aisle I mean supermarket aisle, not church.

BlueSuede, my Mums cousins DH is called Renault. He's French and it's apparently very common over there. Still makes me think of a car.

I used to work with a French guy called Renaud (same pronunciation) - is that the spelling?

I love mumsnet. I was just about the get the out re Ivy meaning poison but I see it's covered.
DS would have Ivy were he a DD.

I was in the emergency docs once with a kidney infection triggered by a D&C.
You can imagine how wretched I felt, but when the mother of the teeny toddler opposite started yelling (in a broad Manc accent) 'Chardonnay, will you leave it alone' I fell about.
I had heard of it on telly but in real life?!

Cat, was that in Gravesend by any chance?

Pocahontas is one thing, but to shorten to Pokey?! The kid ain't going to thank her for that, is she?

There was a baby on the news recently called Sativah. SATIVAH. She had an older sister and I was hanging out for them to name her, but they didn't. Can only imagine.

Tia Maria
China blue (what makes this worse is it's the name of a well known shop on the main road to lots of places that anyone from this area would have seen)

Was having a picnic and the family next to us kept shouting after the toddler... "London!"

a child at my son'd first nursery alled Tellulah, not even sure how to spell it. ALso know of a child called Ribena

I know someone called Denim. He's lovely and the name really suits him.

I know a little boy who's middle name is Bud. Not Buddy, just Bud.

JoshyDarlling. I am sure that the child was simply called Joshua, but his mother insisted he was Joshydarling. All one word.