The worst baby names you have ever heard?

[IAmTheOneWhoKnocks]

Just starting a list of what not to call my baby. I don't usually make a habit of judging babies by their names but some I've heard recently have been frigging awful! The most recent one being Katara it just reminds me of that phlegm when you've got a cold.

So what would you not name your baby?

It gets worse, my dad missed a letter off the end of my middle name so people looking at it cant decide what it actualky is

2 of my dcs have c names , one has even been refered to as chavvy

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I honestly dont think some people realise how much their child will be judged based on their name.

They seem more concerned with being modern and fashionable.

I use other parenting forums and the baby names on here is the most scathing. Names with a K for example dont get slated like they do here

Well if my son is judged on his name it says more about them then him.

It's a name. Its not like I slapped a keyboard and just named him after what showed up.

A thread won't stop people calling their children what they want.

How can I offend the most Mumsnetters possible hmmmm I hate Sophie and Jack they are truly awful

Just joking I am seriously.

Woohoo I've finally seen dc4's made up name on a Mumsnet name thread (well the shortened version anyway)!

I feel like I belong now.

I like Katara. I think its really pretty and unusual. I also don't get why someone would object to Crimson (I don't believe the second name was Tide and think that was added to try and get some sympathy to the view of the previous poster) but Scarlett is perfectly acceptable as a name. Also fail to see what's wrong with Roman or Ocean.

Some people need to get out a bit more and realise that actually with the billions of people on this planet, there are more names out there than you can possibly comprehend and even though YOU don't like it, and its not popular where you live in your middle class street in suburbia, doesn't mean in another culture its not a perfectly valid name.

I work in a public facing role and see thousands of names a year. Guess what, each one has a person attached to it, and an awful lot of them have very respectable jobs and seem to be coping just fine with life as an adult with an unusual name. I spoke to an Aristotle recently. Rather than think it was a laughable pretentious name I thought, he sounds interesting.

I would rather have an interesting name than be one of three million Amelias, Olivias or Rebeccas.

Was that link for me MrsDevere? I've never mentioned sexually transmitted disease so will continue to ignore.

I couldn't care less about your bingo card either. There may be a reason certain facts keep being repeated and thats because they are true.

Maybe you should use your googling and C&P skills to read up on socialogical studies done in the 80's and 90's regarding job applications and names.

Maybe then you can scrub that one off your bingo card

I have a K name. But then it's spelt with a K, although I know loads of people who consider it 'chavvy' (I hate that word)

I know a man called Methuselah. Quirky, for sure. It definitely developed to become him, and what his name was didn't matter. He liked the name (he told me as such), his parents liked the name, so meh.

Skrifa We may have the same name

Met a Melena. Those on the medical profession will know it doesn't get much worse

Maverick real housewives of oc

Poo

I think knigel with a silent k is the best ever

I once saw a patient named Melaena ElBombero and yes it always made me smile. And I have also heard of a Clamydia, and have no reason to doubt the source. After 30 years in practice no name surprises me, but I'm ashamed to admit they are often a source of amusement as they must be for everyone else.

Twinkle has got to be the worst name for a child I have come across. She must be 8 by now

Moomins, I'm sure you know, but Cara and Kara are actually different names with different origins that just happen to sound similar. Kara is the name of a Valkyrie!

There are actually a lot of names which don't go down well on MN because of ignorant people thinking that they are misspelt variants of unrelated names:
Ciara (people thought it should be Chiara)
Rihanna (an Arabic name, not Rhianna spelt wrongly)
Talia (not Thalia)
Neve/Neave (either a variant of 'Neva', which means 'snow' or a surname name, as well as an anglicisation of Niamh)

I have seen a lot more, but can't remember off the top of my head.

This is on top of the people who don't realise that as it has a Greek origin, Chloe was originally spelt with a K (yes, like the Kardashian!)

MN is really not always very well informed about names, so I would not really listen to its collected 'wisdom' on this subject.

FF has just named DD Silver.

Bad yep, although not many people seem to know that and my parents didnt when they chose the spelling.

They do say wild, stormy one suites me though

D'Alan

Conquistador

Blomegard

Fringe!

Oops just caught back up with this!
Just been speaking to DP about it and he said he met a man a couple of years ago called Mistake. Harsh name to give a baby!

He also reminded me he wanted to call our first DC either Aurora or Oracle. I remember firmly vetoing them.

And fwiw it's the poncey names I dislike most. Too try hard IMO.