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A friend of mine just named her daughter “Amirakle Neveah.” Yep. She misspelled “a miracle” and then spelled heaven backwards. Luckily the baby has a second middle name which is relatively normal.
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Princess [second given name] Butt. Not doxxing the poor lady because I imagine if you search Princess Butt your google search is gonna be flooded with far more interesting things than her personal information. Butt is a surname I've sometimes come across in the British-Asian community, and it's not the greatest surname ever to have for an English speaker... but with that first name. Oh no. In this case Princess was her name and not her title and she went by Princess rather than her second given name. So Princess Butt. My coworker, from the same background, enthusiastically and non-ironically complimented her name (she ignored the surname and just... liked Princess as a name apparently...) and I had to leave the room compose myself. If she had gone by her second given name + Butt it would have been far less funny.
I've also come across Khunt (surname) and Kunti (given name)... not good names to have in the UK.
I met a Boomer, but I don't know if that was his legal name and really hope it was a nickname. There's been a few with names similar to swearwords or rude terms in other languages (e.g. the obvious choice of Pippa) that made me glad I don't have that name. For the sheer ugliest sound, I've come across Gage, Brice, Kade, Kayne, Sloane, Keegan, all not nice sounds.
I've also come across Khunt (surname) and Kunti (given name)... not good names to have in the UK.
I met a Boomer, but I don't know if that was his legal name and really hope it was a nickname. There's been a few with names similar to swearwords or rude terms in other languages (e.g. the obvious choice of Pippa) that made me glad I don't have that name. For the sheer ugliest sound, I've come across Gage, Brice, Kade, Kayne, Sloane, Keegan, all not nice sounds.
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What's wrong with Pippa...? (I don't particularly like the sound of it, but I'm not familiar with any vulgar term it sounds like.)
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A long delay in responding, sorry. I've come across it meaning vulgar things in Italian and Swedish and another language I can't remember. I've also got a Cypriot friend who has it on the list of absolute no-go names he'll never use, that might be because of the Italian meaning or another unfortunate meaning I'm unaware of in Cypriot Greek.
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Have personally known people called Camper, Science, Sacred, and Tequila
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I've never actually met any person with something I consider a bad name, but my friend introduced me to someone named London and that was bad enough. I've also seen websites about some of the funniest names on the internet and apparently there were people named Batman bin Superman, Dick Long, Sam Sung (he worked at Apple) and other crazy names like this.
This message was edited 10/26/2023, 2:19 AM
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What's wrong with London? Place names are beautiful (Paris, Adelaide, Charlotte, Victoria...) And anyway, those cities are named after bearers of the name, not the other way around.
My dad told me that when he worked at a convenience store in his early 20's, an older woman requested the *freshest* pack of Marlboro cigarettes and her name was (drum roll, please) *Nutritious Love.* So he goes to get the cigarettes, peels off the label, and tells her, "These are so fresh they haven't even put the label on yet." Then as soon as she left, he just laughed with his regular customers about it.
My dad told me that when he worked at a convenience store in his early 20's, an older woman requested the *freshest* pack of Marlboro cigarettes and her name was (drum roll, please) *Nutritious Love.* So he goes to get the cigarettes, peels off the label, and tells her, "These are so fresh they haven't even put the label on yet." Then as soon as she left, he just laughed with his regular customers about it.
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I admit that some place names are nice but if the child goes to one of those places in real life they will get teased a lot. Also, I live in the UK and I'm glad to say that nobody is dumb enough to name their child London (I met the person with that name outside my country). I generally don't mind place names like Charlotte or Victoria (and yes, they're nice. Charlotte is on my PNL) but names like Paris and London are just tacky and weird, since they are more associated with the places.
This message was edited 10/26/2023, 2:11 AM
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I've come across a couple doozies in customer service. One guy, who I never actually spoke to (voicemail), was apparently named... Generation Love. Couldn't figure out if it was his birth name of if he was a hippie who gave himself that name. I also had a Shiny Day (though Shiny might have been Shiney, I'm trying to remember), she was a South Asian immigrant who might've chosen that name for herself.
There was one woman whose life was a mess and I wound up being the sounding board, but after she was gone I couldn't help but think that just one wrong thing among many was that her legal name was British (as in, the adjective).
And then, there was Kiisha and her crazy a$$. Pronounced KIE-ee-shuh. Lord help you if you called her "Keisha" by mistake!
There was one woman whose life was a mess and I wound up being the sounding board, but after she was gone I couldn't help but think that just one wrong thing among many was that her legal name was British (as in, the adjective).
And then, there was Kiisha and her crazy a$$. Pronounced KIE-ee-shuh. Lord help you if you called her "Keisha" by mistake!
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Oof
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I've seen Analia.
I don't think it's that bad with two Ns, as in Annalia, but Analia really only makes me think of one thing :(
I don't think it's that bad with two Ns, as in Annalia, but Analia really only makes me think of one thing :(
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Why are people on this site so dirty-minded? My Spanish teacher from elementary school was named Analia. I never associated it with... that.
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It has nothing to do with being dirty minded. Anal is a medical term and it's right there, spelled out in full in the beginning of the name.
In a thread like this one it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to shame people, who have certain associations. You can't help what you associate a name with.
In a thread like this one it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to shame people, who have certain associations. You can't help what you associate a name with.
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I do see your point, but it also doesn't help to make that connection, no matter how easily it reads.
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You're very judgmental. Names simply bring up associations. People can't help which associations they have. Again, it's not even a dirty word, as you claimed, it's a medical term. That doesn't mean that they would treat a person with that name in a negative way, it is simply an association. I'm not from the US and don't have an English name and some people associate my name with bad things. I associate some English names with bad things, because they mean something bad in my native language. It's just an association and has nothing to do with the person.
This is also a message board that exists so that people can voice their opinion, and this thread is specifically for this, so what you are doing is very unnecessary and not very kind. You're trying to shame and lecture someone, who simply replied to a question. Especially after you yourself said you disliked a name of a person you've met and posted the name here in full, which means that she could probably find this through google, as it's a very uncommon name. Maybe look in the mirror first, before you judge others.
This is also a message board that exists so that people can voice their opinion, and this thread is specifically for this, so what you are doing is very unnecessary and not very kind. You're trying to shame and lecture someone, who simply replied to a question. Especially after you yourself said you disliked a name of a person you've met and posted the name here in full, which means that she could probably find this through google, as it's a very uncommon name. Maybe look in the mirror first, before you judge others.
This message was edited 10/11/2023, 4:53 PM
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I'm sorry. I've been careless.
I'm not allowed to hurt others.
I'm not allowed to hurt others.
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I have known a few children with single letters as their first name which made me do a double take. Two brothers were called J and H. I have also known a Shaunie, Shaunisay and Rikkileigh all girls.
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Khaki and Honey were two that I didn't like calling people.
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I wonder if Vanity was actually named after the singer Vanity, not the vice. Vanity's real name was Denise Matthews, perfectly normal; but Vanity is... pretty awful as an actual, legal name.
Kelly Green made me laugh, not gonna lie. Indiana Jones just made me roll my eyes.
Kelly Green made me laugh, not gonna lie. Indiana Jones just made me roll my eyes.
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That reminds me of a guy I knew from school named Charlie Brown, not even joking, and a woman my family has known for years, before I was even born probably, named Mary Poppins. But, the one that has to take the cake for unfortunate FN/LN combo was this kid named Karma Llama. I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh along with my sister every time we would look through our elementary school yearbook as kids.
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It's usually hard for me to think of a name as "bad" but...
A former classmate named her kid Kaydance, which I think is dreadful and I can't get over it.
Chatted with a man who was changing his name because his parents named him "Rawhide" - that one Surprised me a lot.
I never met this person, but a coworker once told me about someone she knew who named their son "Somekid" (it was apparently a combination using the parents' names). That's unfortunate.
Also I once went on a date with someone named Semantics, I bet many people would find that name pretty bad.
A former classmate named her kid Kaydance, which I think is dreadful and I can't get over it.
Chatted with a man who was changing his name because his parents named him "Rawhide" - that one Surprised me a lot.
I never met this person, but a coworker once told me about someone she knew who named their son "Somekid" (it was apparently a combination using the parents' names). That's unfortunate.
Also I once went on a date with someone named Semantics, I bet many people would find that name pretty bad.
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From my personal experiences, these:
-Karma (Made even worse by the surname. It was something else, I tell you 😂)
-Hominy & Ginger (Twins)
-Cinnamon (A doctor in fact)
-Jazaray (Forgot the spelling, but my nephew, now in the 6th grade, had a Kindergarten friend named this. I always thought it sounded like a new age dance, combing Jazz with dance. 🎷💃
-Kansas (This one I don't think is horrible, but I'm adding it because of how incredibly unusual it is. This was a name of a girl I knew through middle-high school, and yes, Kansas was her actual, given name.)
-Stormy/Stormi (forget which spelling)
I'll share more if I can remember of any others
-Karma (Made even worse by the surname. It was something else, I tell you 😂)
-Hominy & Ginger (Twins)
-Cinnamon (A doctor in fact)
-Jazaray (Forgot the spelling, but my nephew, now in the 6th grade, had a Kindergarten friend named this. I always thought it sounded like a new age dance, combing Jazz with dance. 🎷💃
-Kansas (This one I don't think is horrible, but I'm adding it because of how incredibly unusual it is. This was a name of a girl I knew through middle-high school, and yes, Kansas was her actual, given name.)
-Stormy/Stormi (forget which spelling)
I'll share more if I can remember of any others
This message was edited 9/26/2023, 3:02 PM
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Kansas and other state names are total guilty pleasures for me.
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I think I've been generally lucky as I've not seen any of those keighleighann names
However, I once knew a Jezzika, but it at least served a purpose of being pronounced a bit differently.
Similar with Kaydea, though I don't think this one is bad, really. "kay-dee" which is probably from Katie, but... having just ran a search, it might also be a surname? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14676581/
However, I once knew a Jezzika, but it at least served a purpose of being pronounced a bit differently.
Similar with Kaydea, though I don't think this one is bad, really. "kay-dee" which is probably from Katie, but... having just ran a search, it might also be a surname? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14676581/
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There used to be, about five to ten years ago, a spokesperson for the Zimbabwe government whose given name was Psychologies. I don't remember his, or perhaps her, surname. I was once present at a university graduation ceremony at which one of the graduands had the given name Furniture. I think Psychologies is worse.
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In elementary school, there was a girl in my grade named Shawnathan. The story she told was that her parents had expected a boy and wanted to name her Jonathan, so they just mashed it together with whatever girls' name they could think of on the spot. I think, fortunately, she just went by "Shawna." (EDIT: sorry, I meant for that to be a reply to OP.)
This message was edited 9/26/2023, 1:45 PM
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