Worst name you have ever come across.

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Someone who loved Judge Dread was going to call child Dread. Thankfully was persuaded otherwise.

Mortality. Saw it on a waiter’s name badge in a hotel in Lagos (Nigeria).

And, seen in an American magazine, Randy Ponce. (Yes, I know the surname would be pronounced differently in Spanish.).

And Florian Finkbeiner - name on the wrong lunchbox dd1 once brought home from nursery. The child was American.

I also like roderick, wimpy kid books did ruin it though

The name is Io not Lo. She’s a character from Greek mythology. Beautiful name. I taught one a few years ago.

I quite like some of the names mentioned on here. I'm not a fan of names that don't sound like grown up names (eg Poppy) but no strong reaction.

The name Dave makes my toes curl. It just sounds gross and I've never met one that isn't a twat.

Buddy-Gene is the most not-to-my-taste name that I have come across. The parents are hip east London types though so I am sure in that milieu it was perfectly normal :)

Jaden?

Means pretty in Spanish .

I knew someone who called their daughter Chyme.

Very…..gastric?

There is a TikTok influencer who has called her son this, but pronounced Mason as usual. She says she loves the meaning of the name, but clearly not the pronunciation 😂

There's Oriane de Guermantes in Proust - Orianna/Oriane/Oriana all sound pretty to me.

In Scotland a big jessie was a common derogatory name to mock someone who was a big feartie or gay,

I haven't met anyone with this name, apart from old ladies.

David is a lovely name but Dave has such a different vibe (and not in a good way). I couldn’t imagine a Dave Attenborough, Dave Bowie, Dave Schwimmer. Davey Jones was ok though because he was very cute and Davey suited him.

Paige. Just screams chav to me.

I envy you, I really do.

I love the name Adelaide.

Gay Hore. Dead now so feel I can mention it. Assuming there isn't another one.

Candida is a 1970s song (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
It’s always mentioned on these threads and gives me an unwelcome earworm.

Bre from Selling Sunset named her son “Legendary”. I mean what if he’s just a normal bog standard kind of guy when he gets older?

Jersey. For a girl. So awful that when I was told it I couldn't keep the horror out of my expression.

There was a girl in DS's primary school class called Isis. I felt a bit sorry for her after I did the maths and realized that the name didn't have the connotations it does now when she was born.

I remember the TV critic Nancy Banks-Smith writing about how she loved watching the credits of Twin Peaks because of all the American names - Bambi Sickafoose was one, I believe.

That's always my first thought when a name thread pops up.

There's almost always a 'I really do know someone who named their child this'

Isis is an Ancient Egyptian goddess.

Ah yes wasn’t there also some guy in an American high school year book called Rusty Cuntz ?

Yes I knew an Isis who unfortunately was born just before the name starting be used for evil.
I grew up near Oxford and the River Thames there is historically called the Isis.
Several Oxford businesses and a school ended up changing their names.
It's sad because as an actual name it's so pretty.