Worst name you have ever come across.

[Lemondrizzle4A]

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

Well, yes. That was the point the poster was making.

Peculiar - a boy called this. Family were from Africa and tbf she pronounced it in a way that sounded nice.

Blaze

Beverley was fairly common as a girl’s name when I was growing up, and it can be used as a boy’s name too.

My Auntie was called Senga. It was only when she died i found out her real name was Agnes.

Yes but this thread is about horrible names, and I think it's a horrible name.

Beverley isn't uncommon, usually shortened to Bev.

I still think it's a horrible name.

My cousin has a daughter called Hunni-bee. The poor kid is 18 now and goes by H to everyone.

When I was younger my imaginary DDs were Sherry and Martini. Very classy!

I don’t know him personally, but I saw a man on TV named Happy. He said people criticize him if he doesn’t always look cheerful. His parents named him Happy because they wanted him to have a happy life.

I think PP meant that Rodney is better than Roderick when your surname is Hunt …

The only name I’ve come across that really made my heart sink was presumably fine in its native context, just extremely unfortunate in England. Kunt, short for Kuntinee.

I taught a Lion King in SE Asia.

Frazor (pronounced Fraser, which is a perfectly nice name) but spelt like that. Brother was Logan-Elan. Parents had wanted it to be Lotus-Elan but decided Lotus was a bit too girly. There was another sibling with a totally unremarkable name that I can't remember.

Lots of the names on this thread I dont think are at all strange or unusual like Trinity, Travis and Valentina.

My daughter was at nursery with a girl called Oceania (I thought) which was unusual but pretty. Then I saw it on her peg and it was actually O'Sheayana. Poor lass spelling that out loud for people for the rest of her life.

I also know someone in her early 40s called Amazon. She really carries it off though.

It was and maybe still is the name of a cruise ship. Many moons ago my brother worked on it.

Hank Wankford.
The surname Rapey.

This reminds me of having to read Enid Blyton to a class and the sniggers for Dick and Fanny- I resorted to Ronald Dahl instead.

if anyone remembers 19 kids and counting (the American one) one of them has a son called Spurgeon

Friends of my husband called their children Austin and Mercedes. They were real car fanatics. Apparently the company Mercedes was originally named after the owners daughter but both kids hate their names and both have used their middle names since becoming teenagers

Hank Wangford is the name, (not Wankford) and made up, to sound C&W and after a village in Suffolk.
Real name Samuel Hutt.

Oh shush. You can't think "normal" names are vile. Only the ones that sound "lower class" or foreign are allowed, silly Billy.

As a nursing student our dummy patient for practising on was called Melaena Stool .....

Lay-By. Yep, conceived there .....

Findanus is an ancient Scottish name for a boy, but only a couple of members of the peerage have it as a middle name nowadays, thankfully.