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Re: The worst name you have seen on a real person.

by number1212

9/26/2023, 4:52 PM

in reply to a message by VeronicaLove_yoot

There was a student at my school named Vanity. She was African, and I know that characteristic names are popular in certain African cultures, but still….why?

As for bad first name/last name combos, we also had a student named Kelly Green. I also had a coworker with a daughter named Indiana Jones.

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- erb816

9/27/2023, 6:07 AM

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.

- Realisticmind379 +3

9/26/2023, 5:54 PM

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.

- Manipura (glaucous) +2

9/26/2023, 7:27 PM

At least it wasn't Dolly Llama or Rhoda Llama. I think that'd be a hard surname to pair anything with (like Carmen Llama wouldn't sound better to me than Karma Llama).

This message was edited 9/26/2023, 7:29 PM

- Realisticmind379 +1

9/26/2023, 8:02 PM

Yeah, those would have certainly been bad. What makes Karma Llama unfortunate, and what made my sister and I crack up so much, was the rhyming of the two names, instead of just them being unusual and uncommon.

- Manipura (glaucous)

9/26/2023, 8:16 PM

Huh, it doesn't rhyme to me.

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