Worst first name you have come across

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For me, it has to be the name Jay-T

Oooh, hilarious, let's laugh at funny forrin names, chavs who can't spell, hippies and posh people.

The equal opportunity sniggering makes it all ok, of course.

ok - so it's not about foreign names??

Precious - very common name for children particularly in Southern Africa, (along with Gift, Faith, Grace, Patience, etc etc etc)

Bunny - I had a lovely colleague who was known as "Bunny" all his life - tbh I'm not sure what his proper name was - but he was bunny to everyone that knew him.

One of our S. African friends is called Innocent (he's a man).

DH worked with an African man called Mercy.

and the other two?

Trillian & Jolian (brothers).

actually i'm not mocking them i'm offering my personal opnion in thinking that they are odd, i think lots of english names are odd to. Is storm foreign or silver and yet these two are allowed, are we not allowed to disagree when liking names these days??

a few other perfectly legit names that appear on here

Mercedes
Mikael - foreign version of Michael - although usually admittedly it is a boys name.
Alaric
Caledonia (well we the boys name "Scott" is considered ok - so what's wrong with it's other name?)
Tahliya
Dorcas

thank you Expat - you've added a few more of them .

I worked (and taught) lots of "virtue" names - but had a blank

cookielove, that's my point entirely. no point starting a thread asking posters what they think worst names are if we aren't allowed to actually give our honest opinion.

for what it's worth, I didn't think you were mocking anyone

I had an African boy in my homeroom class at high school who was called Prometheus.

Some Native Americans will also use names some might find odd.

Mercedes very common Latina name.

half these names are great...

Dorcas
Portia
Mercedes
Albert

what's the issue

One of my ancestors was called Dorcas, she was either Irish or Scottish - it's an old name I think.

Why the big hoo haa over the thread though? Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I got slated by my FIL when we named our DS but I couldn't give a toss what other folk think.

thank you canttouchthis

My friends a teacher, and I cannot decide from amongst her class
Herb
T-Bone
Shiten
Hashish!!!!!!

Actually, little Herb sounds almost normal....

I love the name Mercedes and was first choice if either of dts had been a dtd! Never mind the car, I like the Spanish connection and as any child of mine would be dark haired with dark eyes it would suit.

And I think you might find that Ocean is actually a very fine Irish name - OISÍN - which is another favourite if I were ever to have another (unlikely as I am on my own now but never mind.)

I still love the New Zealand story about people naming their children things like Bus Shelter and stuff - and the best Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii, you never forget a name like that.

but they're not "odd" - they're just unusual to you.

and the thread title is "worst" - hardly a nice way to do it is it.

If it was really a thread about unusual names that wasn't intended to take the p*ss out of anything that people don't consider normal (or even a name....) then it would have been a more positive thread title.

Along the lines of

"heard some unusual names today".

Shiten - probably Japaense?

I have an Oisin and a Candida in my family!

And I love the name Dorcas (but was told I wasn't allowed to use it for dd...)

Zillion

Oísin is hardly odd! Its as common as Jake or Luke in Ireland, its an everyday name, completely normal (and pronounced uh-sheen, rather than ocean)

Why don't all the people who don't like this thread just hide it instead of turning themselves into the mumsnet police?

Iona is a beautiful name but not when paired with the surname Boyle

thedolly - perhaps because we're a bit fed up of the ignorance from some posters about the origin of some names.

Or perhaps we've had one of our own DC's names ripped to shreds as "not a proper name" on one of them before.

no one is saying they are not proper names, and if someone had said that i missed it,

It was pronounced See-ob-han.

The mum had read it and liked the look of it, but hadn't made the link to Siobhan.

(and before anyone accuses me of being snobby, I honestly thought Hermione was pronounced Hemy-own, pre-Harry Potter...)

but it's hardly a positive thread title.

It's an invitation to rip the piss out of any name that you don't think is a normal name.

sorry, candida, thrush, just to similar..

and also, yup, shiten might be japanese and perfectly normal in japan but here it is a swear word plus en. sorry but that really does makes it a bad name....

iona boyle.. poor bugger.