Names that made you think wtf?

[CuppaTeaTeddy]

My friends Mum recently had a baby and couldn't think of a middle name for her newborn girl. The Mum has a teenage sister, so whilst walking to the birth registration place, she let her pick the middle name just so her daughter had one. Turned out to be a normal name but what a way to pick a name.

There was a boy in my year who's middle name(s) were Ryan Giggs.

Anyone else come across strange reasons/funny names that made you wonder why the parents would want to put there child through it?

In my DS class there is a Missy Pitts and a Tiara.
One customer I dealt with was called Buck Rogers.

I once met a Richard Dick. I always hoped no-one abbreviated his first name to Dick

I don't understand why families with unfortunate last names don't help by giving their children terrible first names too.

When I worked in a call centre I spoke to a Mrs Shite. Mrs. She chose to take that name.

Harry Potter. Are the other kids fascinated by that Any.
Just remembered. There was a Michael Jackson in my dds school. Everyone, well all the kids. thought it was amazing and wanted to be his best friend.

I work with a Jenna Taylor

When I used to work in retail, someone I worked with had to call up a customer to say we didn't have what they wanted in store.

She was a Chinese woman and we had the name written down on paper but no body could actually know how to say it. The boy ringing up the lady was someone who Liked to joked around but I couldn't actually believe it when he called her Mrs. CumOnMyMinge. He said it about 5 times so don't think she corrected him 😂😂

Was hilarious.

Bonnie Tyler

Lots of African families where I live give their children slightly excentric names. Also gypsy/traveller families.
Some noteworthy ones I've come across through work include:

Prince-Charming
Noodles
Gracious
Perfect
Modest
Peaceful

@Awwlookatmybabyspider I know a Jo King IRL! My fave from your list though has to be Chris P Bacon 😂😂

My husband went to school with someone called Richard Richards

Just remembered another one. A friend's teacher was called Richard Head, which obviously got shortened by the pupils.

A boy at my school was called Panks Wiggington. My sons had two brothers called Great and Marvellous in theirs.

I went to school with a lad called Marlon McFarlane.

I just find the craze for using surnames as first names really weird, no offence, I know a lot of mums here will have called their LOs surname names. Friends of mine have, too.

Also, when people name their kids things that really do not translate into filling in application forms for jobs - names that are really cutesy and childish.

Used to work in a hotel and a guest came to stay with his company (so presumably they know its his actual name) called Kevin Slevin.

Isla White

Beagle Alice Cooper was in the original Archie comics which the show is based off, decades before the musician was around.

I was a teacher in Thailand for a few years, and as well as their Buddhist Thai names, which are v v long, they all have nicknames - many of them western words. Over the three years, I encountered:

Oven
Sunday
Mixer
Ham
Benz
Bank
Bing Bing
Yoohoo
Best
Pukky
Nut

....and also names that translated as Watermelon, various vegetables, 'First' or 'One' (as they had been the first born in their family), Egg, Shrimp, Small, Big, Crab. The list goes on. It used to be a nightmare when you got the list of the kids you were about to teach that year, and find out all the names you were going to have to deal with! Fun, though.

Have just remembered that I also know a Nesta Twigg and a Dickie Bird.

My chemistry teacher was Mr. Hardon. My DF always thought it was hilarious, but I didn't get the joke until about year 10

Years ago I met a man named John Backholer. I'd never heard the surname Backholer before and it was all I could do to suppress a childish and rude giggle.

I know of a woman who became Teresa Green upon marriage (I was friends with her daughter).

A friend of mine became Holly Day upon her marriage, I asked if she considered double barrelling but she was really against the idea!

I don't know anybody who has been given an odd/funny name though.

My DM taught a Crystal Glass and Heather Bell.

@FamilySpartan I had to re-read your post a couple of times. I thought it said Backholder (which is weird anyway) but then I realised it said Backholer... that's jokes 😂

I know someone called Francis England. He doesn't seem to have noticed.