What's the most ridiculous name you've ever heard of/ seen used?

[firstontheway]

Obviously it's my own fault for choosing the 'one million and 3 baby names' book instead of a more sensible '1000 baby names that are good and you might actually use' book, but COME ON! Some of the names in here are just so ridiculous it's crazy....

Frigg
Schmoopie
Candida
Hitler
Abacus
Flirt
Butter

I can't honestly believe someone would go through this book and think 'hmmm, Sarah, Samantha, Scarlett... Schmoopie. Yes, Schmoopie, the perfect name for our dear daughter.'

And I once looked after a little baby Chlamydia poor foreign parents didn't speak english very well and wanted a name that sounded pretty when you said it

hatrick - that's why i asked. I wanted to put the name on this thread along with Mia cos i didn't think it was the right way to be pronounced but thought i better check first as i wasn't 100% sure.

a distant relative called their little girl Sha-nie-ah
as in Twain

but you can tell I don't know how to spell it.
and i went to school with a Petronella, which was unusual then.

I've heard of a 'Champagne Cocks' who lives in Chatham.
Says it all!

Shaynie ... who has a sister called Shayla.

I met a man once through work who was called Mr. Disco Dan. He showed me his bank card to prove it as i didn't believe him!!

I knew a ping pong wong, i love it

Boogie

A cautionary tale for those puckered old prudes poo-pooing unusual names.

Too Many Daves

by Dr. Seuss

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
had twenty three sons and she named them all Dave?
well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one and calls out 'yoo-hoo!
come into the house, Dave!' She doesn't get ONE.
All twenty three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
as you can imagine, with so many Daves.

And often she wishes that, when they were born,
she had named one of them Bodkin van Horn
and one of them Hoos-foos. and one of them Snimm.
and one of them Hot-shot. and one Sunny Jim.
and one of them Shadrack. and one of them Blinkey.
and one of them Stuffy. and one of them Stinky.
another one Putt-putt. another one Moon Face.
another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
and one of them Ziggy. and one Soggy Muff.
one Buffalo Bill. and one Biffalo Buff.
and one of them Sneepy. and one Weepy Weed.
and one Paris Garters. and one Harris Tweed.
and one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
and one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
and one of them Zanzibar Buck-buck McFate...
But she didn't do it.

And now it's too late.

Satin Heaven.

Abishag
Indigo (boy)
Petronella
Blue

Sisters called

Degas and Monet
Prada and Vogue

Jay-Kay (boy)

My mum was at college (this will have been back in the '50s) with a woman called Cherry Flan. So ridiculous names are not a new phenomenon.

There was a Diamond Lee in the supermarket the other day...

And triplets (2 girls, 1 boy) called Faith, Hope and ................

Colin

FAQ - 'Yehudi' means 'Jew' in Hebrew. That is how Jews call themselves. I'm sorry to hear that you are only now hearing about this.

You named your DS after Yehudi Menhuin? Well, here is why his own parents chose to name him "Jew":

Menuhin was born in New York on April 22, 1916 to Russian immigrants who had met in Palestine. Indeed, his parents reportedly named him Yehudi, Hebrew for "Jew", after a landlord who was showing them an apartment told them that one benefit of the building was that no Jews lived there.

From jewishsf.com.

Yehudi meaning 'praised by God' (not 'praise God', as baby websites would have you believe) comes from Book of Romans (I think) where Paul explains how Jews were praised by God but gentiles could also achieve this distinction. I read all this a long time ago, so you might like to check the details.

CoteDAzur - why are you 'sorry' that she's only just hearing this? It's still a nice name...

It is a nice name for Jewish boys (and YABU if you flame me for saying something so obvious) Like Christian is a nice name for Christian boys.

I'm sorry she is only just hearing this, because her DS is 8 years old. Amazing that she didn't hear about her DS's name meaning "Jew" for so long.

I would have said the same if a Jewish friend called her 8 yr old DS 'Christian' because she liked the sound of it, and only just found out what it means.

CoteDAzur - I wasn't going to flame you. You're entitled to your opinion. Just felt your apologies were a bit weird, IYSWIM. Names don't have to be sacrosanct (to continue the religious theme... ). Besides, it's his middle name.

I know a boy called Jesus, for the record. Now, he is nice and all, but he isn't really the son of God. Should his parents have thought twice?

32 yrs ago, my french primary teacher called her daughter "Prune"... everybody in our village were talking about it, her parents hold the fruits & vegetables stall at our local market too.

One of my school friend was called " Raphael Porto"... names of liquors!

"Jesus" is quite a common name in Latin America. I bet his parents were Christian, though.

I'm loving Soggy Muff McCave!

constance and pearl (sisters)

hamish and mungo (brothers)

clementine and badger (brother and sister)

(all friends of posh friends)

cortina (concieved in the back of one)

j.c. (actual name, jay-cee)

atillanta-aqualina (named by a seven year old, sounds like cleaning fluid to me)

(all from when health visiting in very shabby town)

at candida though.

Prune! Cherry Flan excellent
Someone once told me they'd heard of Fanny Highman

In a really rough area of Glasgow there is a Pocahontas, she'll be about 10-12 years old now. What was worse is her surname is something like McClurg.

There are plenty of little girls called Demi in this area. Only I am sure I read that the actress pronounces it D'mee so I assume these ones are named after Demi Roussos (sp?)