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...

I heard a woman shouting for Ebony (but in a Nottingham accent, so Ebbonneh). I was expecting to see a child with jet black hair. Little Ebony was a very fair skinned blond girl...

Lovely girl in DD's music class called Myra. Nice name, terrible connotations. We're in Germany so no biggie, but I think my eyebrows did raise when I heard it for the first time.

Manon is (I think) in the top five girls' names in France. And is the main character in a series of Francophone books and accompanying TV series with an annoyingly catchy theme tune that I now have stuck in my head.

Manon-lovely.

Manon des Sources-love that film.

Damien Lewis's daughter is called Manon and son is Gulliver!

I have met a few french Manons. Not an unusual name.

Chamonix - a name for a girl.

Oska - a name for a boy.

At least Denim can be shortened to Den which is a normal name. What would Chamonix be shortened to? Something that sounds like shamy. Ugh - thank goodness people can change their name by deed pole when they get older. How can you be expected to be taken seriously when you get older and attend interviews with a name like Ebony (sounds like a name for a stripper) or Oceana? Nevaeh or Precious? Felix? (Lol, makes me think of catfood).

I like the name Oscar but not the spelling Oska. I like the name Phoebe but not FeeBee. It just looks like the parents need to go back to school and learn how to spell. Either that or they are trying far too hard to be 'cool'.

There was an Ocean in the paper yesterday. Twin brothers Milan and Madrid.

Milan is a real name, like Milan Kundera (pronounced something like Mee-lann).

I suspect from the context, though, that this was not an eastern European child with a name reflecting his culture...

badtime was flicking through the paper while waiting for our takeaway last night. The context of the story was a mum who was entering 4yo Ocean into beauty pageants, but didn't agree with fake tan so let her sunbathe in the garden with her and did not see why people had such a problem with it.

I cant recall where they were from but they were most definitely not middle eastern.

Ahem. I think I win.

Mr K O T Jungle. King Of The Jungle.
Mr Ni German Shepherd Dog.

Both real honest names. Why anyone would do that, I do not know. I also know someone who changed their name to Dave Gorman as part of that TV thing he did. Yep, she changed her name to Dave.

There is a story I have heard from several people that there are American twins called

O'rangelo and
L'mangelo

The apostrophes are essential.

It might be an urban myth but I like it anyway.

Circle. I shit you not.

Was just in the park and heard a mum calling our for her DS.... Achilles!! Yuk.
Especially amusing as she was trying to persuade him to not run off, and walk nicely. Did make me chuckle as I wondered if she was going to say "Achilles, heel" LMAO

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I did my family tree a while back and I have a great great great uncle called Lancelot He named his son Lancelot too, so can't have gotten too much flack?!

Weirdest one I met irl was a 6 yo boy called Nigel - not an unusual name, but very strange on a young boy!

It annoys me when "Leaf" is trotted out on these threads, though, as it's "Leif" which is a 'proper' name in scandinavian countries

Where I live most people have Scandinavian ancestry and I know three men named Lief. :)

Cheerful Yank are you in the part of the US where Fargo was set - and the Ingalls inhabited???

Close. :)

Fargo is not in Minnesota, which is where I live, but most people think it is. It's basically the same culture and close to the same accent. And the Ingalls were in Minnesota for awhile, yes. :)

We definitely have this in spades.

Oh and certain parts of Fargo do take place in Minnesota; it's just over the border.

Paris the city is not named after Paris of Troy, that's a back-formation based on the fact that the Ile de la Cité was inhabited in Roman times by a tribe called the Parisii (the ones who revolted against Caesar under Vercingetorix).

It wasn't until I watched Fargo that I realised that the accent had a sing-song Scandinavian lilt to it!

Don't really think Lief is an awful name at all! It's just different to our Anglo-Saxon sensibilities!!

Oh yes, Lief, Gunnar, Anders, Nils...I know a few of those!

Our way of speaking also has a Scandinavian influence...something with dropped articles? I'll have to look it up again :) Also to this day you hear people (little kids even) saying things like "uff da!" Which is basicaly means "get out" or "no way". I believe it's Norwegian for "off that" but I could be wrong.