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Worst name you have ever come across.

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Lemondrizzle4A · 11/02/2026 09:15

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

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TankFlyBoss · 12/02/2026 19:42

I once met a Titus

SuziQuinto · 12/02/2026 19:43

I think some urban myths are being repeated on here!

stample · 12/02/2026 19:45

Cultural differences though… some people more likely kids would laugh at someone of Pakistani origin called pooja or hardik.
A name is a name as long as it’s not television or armchair!

Slyolfox · 12/02/2026 19:45

Tigerbalmshark · 12/02/2026 19:22

That is where the nickname “Nazi” comes from. “Nazi” short for “Ignatius” was a stereotypical nickname for a thick racist Bavarian peasant. Kind of like calling somebody “a bit of a Darren”, or “a total Kev”.

It’s short for national socialist with national being pronounced with a Z in German which is where nazi came from.
what I heard anyway

Jitterybugs2 · 12/02/2026 19:45

AquaticWarbler · 12/02/2026 12:16

My mum was due on Valentine's Day so her parents planned to call her Valentina! I think that would have been pretty bad. Luckily she was late.

Spare a thought for those born on Pancake Tuesday 😊

Random321 · 12/02/2026 19:52

Brian O'Brien
Patrick Fitzpatrick

Why oh why would anyway give someone the same name twice?

Also knew a guy called Draco - full name Dracula. He was an accountant which didn't help.

Greyeyesgreenlight · 12/02/2026 19:58

There's a boy in my DS's school called Oscar Worthy. Which is kind of brilliant, but he hates it.

My parents were at school with a girl called Honor, which is usually a lovely name, but doesn't work well with the surname Bottom.

Pebbles16 · 12/02/2026 20:04

We had new neighbours move in last year with a lovely little girl called Maddie. So far so good. When they sent us a Christmas card, it is spelled Mardy. I can only hope they don't move to the north west.

shuggles · 12/02/2026 20:05

Random321 · 12/02/2026 19:52

Brian O'Brien
Patrick Fitzpatrick

Why oh why would anyway give someone the same name twice?

Also knew a guy called Draco - full name Dracula. He was an accountant which didn't help.

David Davis.

SkyPanel · 12/02/2026 20:11

TruJay · 12/02/2026 17:33

I had a midwife do the same about my dd’s name, she even made the suggestion ‘oh not insert her suggestion then?’ where she’d changed one letter and it became a similar sounding name, e.g. I said dd is called Milly, midwife said with a disgusted face ‘oh not Molly then?!’ and just laughed hysterically like I was naming my child the most vile name in existence. It was bizarre and really rude! DD’s name is very uncommon and quite old English sounding and popular in the Victorian era, but it’s really not weird at all.
People are very marmite with my youngest son’s name too which is also traditional but rarely heard so people just say it’s weird. I love my kids names, as do they.

I’m guessing Amabel

LakieLady · 12/02/2026 20:11

SuziQuinto · 12/02/2026 17:06

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

I saw him play at a GLC sponsored gig in the early 80s. In between songs, he told stories about when he was a doctor.

Gardenservant · 12/02/2026 20:14

AquaticWarbler · 12/02/2026 12:16

My mum was due on Valentine's Day so her parents planned to call her Valentina! I think that would have been pretty bad. Luckily she was late.

My son was born on Valentine's Day. I was surprised how many people asked why I didn't call him Valentine!

Confusedmum74858 · 12/02/2026 20:15

Hugo/Hughie and Margot

Probably would’ve been ok names if they weren’t absolutely decimated by Chavs

StephensLass1977 · 12/02/2026 20:15

stample · 12/02/2026 19:45

Cultural differences though… some people more likely kids would laugh at someone of Pakistani origin called pooja or hardik.
A name is a name as long as it’s not television or armchair!

Those aren't Pakistani names, though. They're Indian, Sanskrit. Unsure where Pakistan comes into it.

Tillow4ever · 12/02/2026 20:17

Tigerbalmshark · 12/02/2026 19:17

Mis-spelling of “Sylvie”? Or “Sylphide”? “Selkie”?

There’s apparently a character in Final Fantasy called “Selphie”, maybe parents were a fan.

Oh maybe then? Although the person doesn’t strike me as any sort of Fantasy tv program fan. I know the daughter was born around the time selfies started really becoming a thing and the term was being thrown around more.

I don’t know them well enough to ask so I guess I’ll never know. And if I were to ask I can’t think of a way it wouldn’t sound judgey - and I wouldn’t want them to feel that way.

DreamingOfGeneHunt · 12/02/2026 20:17

PuppiesProzacProsecco · 12/02/2026 15:02

Thank fuck I didn't have a teen pregnancy as I planned to call any baby I had either Heaven, Angel or (this one is the worst/best) Juanita Isabella Venus-Maria but Jazz for short. Brucey bonus to anyone who can get the trashy novel authors connections...

And for anyone wondering, I didn't consider the possibility of having a boy. Only girls allowed.

Lady Boss! Jackie Collins.

Kpo58 · 12/02/2026 20:17

I know someone with a first name along the lines of Davidson. Why would you give someone a surname as a first name?

Halloumiqueen · 12/02/2026 20:19

CheddarCheeseAndCrispSandwich · 12/02/2026 12:33

If I’d been a boy I was going to be named Ernest Hagar, (after my two grandads). I’m all kinds of grateful I am female. It’s not ‘the worst’ name out there, but it would have been a bold choice, even in 1964! 😂🥴

(No hate to all the Ernies/Hagars out there 👌🏻)

Aww I love it!!! Great name

EmpressSisi · 12/02/2026 20:20

I know a little girl called Bonnie-Blue (not a bad name in itself, just very unfortunate).

Her parents used to insist everyone refer to her by her full name and they’d get quite huffy if anyone dared shorten it. But after the recent news stories about a certain OnlyFans star, they’ve suddenly started introducing her as just Bonnie.

Poor kid!

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 12/02/2026 20:23

Needmorelego · 12/02/2026 19:37

I thought it was a shortened of the German "National Socialist Party" (obviously the German spelling - which I am not going to attempt)

I thought that too and googled it after seeing the previous post. According to google, both are right. Initially a Bavarian name for a socially awkward, clumsy person from the name Ignaz, it was used by opponents of the National Sozialist party as an insult and then became a general coloquial shortening.

canuckup · 12/02/2026 20:24

Princess

Bloodycrossstitch · 12/02/2026 20:26

Lemondrizzle4A · 12/02/2026 19:28

Do you like your own name. I love mine. Popular in the fifties much less so now. Never taught one in 30+ years. Four letters. J**e.

June? That’s one I can see becoming popular again in the near future

SirQuintus · 12/02/2026 20:29

I know a little girl called Bonnie-Blue (not a bad name in itself, just very unfortunate).

@EmpressSisi That was the name of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler's child in Gone With The Wind who was killed after breaking her neck in a horse riding accident aged 5.

That's still my first association with the name rather than the porn film woman who had sex with all the men.

Either way it's not a good luck name.

Keppoch · 12/02/2026 20:29

youalright · 12/02/2026 16:45

Blaze

I know a Blaize, with sisters Flame-Carmen and Ember-Rose.
Also brother and sister Hyland and Infinity

CeciliaMars · 12/02/2026 20:36

I saw an American kid on tv called Pudge Pudge. Also someone in the UK who named their baby boy ‘Baby’.