Just no.

[Tea1Sugar]

I'm a teacher and have children with a wide range of names at school but I think Destiny and Foreva are the worst. Anyone else come across any other Just No names?

The name that's currently making my DD snigger not that we're in the middle of watching the entire Star Trek original series or anything is DeForest. Deforest? Why would you call your kid 'environmental vandalism'?

I've met some children with crazy names but frankly, who cares? They just become them after a while and it stops seeming so daft.

These threads always get filled with urban myths. I was at a baby group a few weeks after ds2 was born and the conversation turned to daft names. A woman trotted out the old SOL one (short for Stadium Of Light, we live in the North East) and I thought but since she was a teacher I gave her the benefit of the doubt. Then she claimed to have taught a Guy pronounced Gooey and I stopped believing a word she said.

Maude.

Even the act of saying that name pulls the face down into a miserable clown mask of despair so god knows how the poor lass saddled with a name like that is going to get on.

And it rhymes with "Bored".

My own children are probably Boring, Old Lady Name That Should Never Have Seen The Light Of Day Again And Reminds People Of The Thatcher Years And The Nickname You Use Doesn't Pass the Judge Test and Trying To Be Trendy according to various MN threads. MN can damn any name if it tries hard enough. If anyone can find a name that meets with the unanimous approval of MN I will give you my 3rd born child not the 1st born he's the only one that sleeps.

Just no to:
Star
Hurricane

Braxton Timms is a very promising young swimmer.

Can't spell - it's Braxston Timm.

I know a Snow-Angel. Yep. Double-barrelled even!

Also met a DeNiro.

And Gary. Unless you give birth to a 40-something IT guy.

Then she claimed to have taught a Guy pronounced Gooey and I stopped believing a word she said.

But that could easily have been true - there's somewhere in Europe (Italy maybe) where 'Guy' is pronounced Gooey. I knew a professor called Guy who was quite often fondly referred to as Gooey... I think it was a joke originating in someone's mispronunciation.

I also used to work with a guy we nicknamed Biryiani Hugs, because that was the best attempt at his name some junk mail could manage.

No Erroll is was one of those stories about parents being so stupid they saw it written but didn't know how to say it. She also claimed an ex pupil called female pronounced femahlee because baby female had been written on the hospital bracelet and the parents couldn't read. You name the urban myth name story, she tried to claim in was a pupil of hers.

I know a 25 year old Doris and it really suits her. It's interesting but not trashy which gives it points in my book.

I also know a Maude but she's a cat.

Tinkerbell-and she is an engineer who works on a building site.

When I was 11 or 12 I really wanted to call any girl I had Crystabelle. Thank God I didn't get pregnant for another 24 years!

I've heard of a boy called Sole. I wonder if his mother says "Where's r Sole?"

Indith, he was probably French - Guy would sound like Gooey the French way! It doesn't even sound odd to me!

My Grampa was called Sydney Horatio, he was born exactly 100 years after the Battle of Trafalgar. He married a Doris.

Really? I'm a native French speaker and for me gooey (as in a really sticky gooey chocolate pudding) doesn't sound remotely like the French Guy.

Anyway I shall stop attempting to have fun with the poor woman coming out with all the urban myths in the book. Unless you want to try to convince me that there really are people who call their female child femahlee because that is how they read "female" on the baby's name tag bracelet or that femahlee is how the Spanish pronounce a perfectly normal name or something.

I thought Guy was pronounced Gee (hard G, as opposed to a J sounding G, if that makes sense?) in French? Or did I imagine that?

My aunt was a teacher in a small, very poor town in Texas. She taught a little girl named Je T'aime, pronounced 'jetta mae'. Another girl was named Syphillis, pronounced 'su- phyllis'. Her mother saw the word at the doctor's office and thought it was pretty. Another child named N'Dome, pronounced 'doe-may' (the N is silent). I think the mothers felt they were giving their children a special, unusual name that would make them feel special and stand out. Unfortunately, it made them stand out for all the wrong reasons.

Oh, and my sister in law has female cousins in Alaska named Mercedes, Porsche and Lexus. Yes, really! She kept talking about Porshe and I assumed the name was Portia. Then she mentioned Mercedes...

Yes sirchen. Gee is rather more like how I and various relatives named Guy would say it. It is difficult to get over what you mean with different pronunciations though.

The name Kai always rubs me up the wrong way.

To be fair Mercedes is a legit name. The founder of the car brand named it after his daughter.

No real excuse for the other two car names though!