Worst name to name your kid?

[orangecoloredapple]

In the 21st century. I have a grandma named Myrtle, and she's great, but I wouldn't name my kid myrtle.

Worst possible names?

[SiobhanClancy]

1. Flossie Flora

one of my neighbors was named that.

[orangecoloredapple]

15. Sjounds like someone was telling her she was a plant

that needed to take care of her teeth. :)

[slackmaster]

2. Osama, Orenthal, Liberace, Adolf, George, Dorcas, Framis, Gleeg

:shrug:

[DODI]

17. I take exception to "Dorcas"

I love that name. No one EVER forgets meeting me. And in the bible, she was pretty cool.

[orangecoloredapple]

21. I had an aunt Dorcas

she got cancer, but she was beautiful (as I recall - I was 10 last time I saw her and I thought everything was beautiful.)

[Breezy du Nord]

3. I had a really pretty young teacher named Gretchen

She just didn't look like a Gretchen. That's like a grandma name.

[short bus president]

25. Oh, no...

I knew TWO gorgeous Gretchens in college. One very Scandinavian-looking, the other Asian. But two more beautiful women never graced the campus.

I'll grant you, however, that it's tough to come up with a suitable nickname.

[GOPisEvil]

I'm with short bus!

I went on a date with a Gretchen about 5 years ago. (I'm 35 now) She was second generation German. Very pretty. :-)

[Champion Jack]

4. Jerkoff

the kid will be scarred for life

[Warpy]

26. I went through the 60s

...and after getting the umpteenth birth announcement for little Rainbow, Sunrise, or equally nauseating hippie name, my ex said "If we ever have a kid, I'm naming it Pustule!"

You'd get along fine with that man.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Damien

can't deal with that one after seeing THE OMEN.

[U2Fanatic]

6. my grandpa...

wanted to name my mom Edwina, but grandma wasn't having it, thank god!

[SmileyBoy]

7. Any of those bouegeois SUV suburban soccer-family names:

Cooper, Cameron, Madison, Taylor, etc.

And to digress a little, this is just a shameless plug to say that I've ALWAYS loved the names Phillip and Brian.

[theemu]

20. Ugh. I know a Madison.

Worst. Name. Ever.

[CarlBallard]

8. I knew a girl named

Tierra. But she was the last of a baker's dozen or so children.

[orangecoloredapple]

11. Tierra's okay

I kind of like that!

[Ellen Forradalom]

44. from this week's New Yorker

"An exasperated resident named her newborn De Las'One."

[BlueJazz]

9. Bertha

I can't imagine any woman who would want to be saddled with Bertha.

[dolo amber]

10. A friend of mine

named her son Gravel Clinton Behr. NOT joking. I have a 3 year old named after my Nana, and I don't even care if it's old fashioned: her name is Ruby. :)

[orangecoloredapple]

12. Ruby is timeless

one of those always good ones.

[dolo amber]

43. Ruby and I

BOTH thank you. :)

[arwalden]

13. Agnes, Bertha, Matilda, Mildred...

... and all of these women are in MY family.

-- Allen

[SiobhanClancy]

16. Agatha,Winifred,Gladys,Ethel,Viola,Florence,Mabel,Maxine

are also on my "Bad names list"...and for guys,Elmer.

Sorry if I mentioned someone's mom/grandmother's name!

[arwalden]

19. I Dated An Elmer (Very Hot Hot Hot)

And I have an Aunt Maxine.

But she knows her name is a bit old-fashioned.

-- Allen

[SiobhanClancy]

23. Some old-fashioned names I like

for instance,Grace. One of my grandmothers was named Grace,and it suited her perfectly.

[On the Road]

42. Hey, "Elmer"!

Like my grandfather. That was going to be my choice for worst boy's name.

And for worst girls' names, "Bertha" is hard to beat.

[DEMActivist]

14. Clyde

My poor brother is a Clyde, Jr.

But now that I think about it, he didn't have it as bad as the first born - Clydell! (a girl - not me)

[Twillig]

58. The name 'Clyde'

has a particularly good rep in my state.

Now 'Rasheed' is at the opposite end of the spectrum.

[ILeft]

18. Doesn't it depend on the last name? You know, like "Mike"...

...doesn't go with the last name "Hunt." Or the confusing name of the stock car racer from Wisconsin: "Dick Trickle" (is it a noun or a verb?)

[U2Fanatic]

28. my dad once knew....

a dick payne. I kid you not. You would think that he would at least go by Richard!

[lpbk2713]

54. I worked with a guy named Dick Hohl

No joke........ Also had a neighbor named Ada Stone.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

22. George Bush (insert last name)

[nuxvomica]

24. "Acetaminophen"

Imagine having that for a name!

[short bus president]

27. or for the Brits

"Paracetamol"

[Breezy du Nord]

29. Names where you have to correct the pronunciation

like my friend Kailea. Every teacher, from sept. to june always said it "ky-lee-a" or something else, when you're supposed to say it "ky-lee"

Or Brianna, a girl i went to Mexico with, always told people to say it "Bree-AH-na". So she spells it "Briauna" now, though I don't think it mattered, since everyone called her Breezy. (no, it's not me)

[eileen from OH]

30. Chlamydia

has a certain lilt, I know, but still not a good choice.

eileeeeen from OH

[orangecoloredapple]

32. Now THAT IS FUNNY

it does has a certain lilt.

[SiobhanClancy]

33. That's really bad..

it sounds like something you'd need a prescription for:o

[theemu]

35. That's great!

I've always joked that I would name a daughter Chlamydia. I mean, if you divorce the word from it's meaning, it's really a beautiful word. I've also commented at times that if my future wife and I ever have twin girls, I'd convince her to name them Penelope Lane and Abigail Road.

[orangecoloredapple]

36. You might be better off just saying

Let it be! or Strawberry!
Am I on the wrong track? I enjoyed the thought of it!
My son - Mr. Mustard!

[dolo amber]

49. AAHHHH!!!

That reminded me...I have a cousin who's a classically trained pianist, she named her twin daughters Melody and Harmony. :eyes:

(The names themselves aren't bad, but in that context...HOKEY, much??)

[Madrone]

31. One of our customers is named Odd.

ODD - how's THAT for a name? I forget it's origin - but apparently it's a common name - *somewhere*


My stepfather's middle name, and his father's first - Emil.

Lot's of people hate the girl's name Madison - I love it, but for the fact that it's "trendy" - which I hate.

The girl's names I hate most are Tiffany, Brittany, Candy, et al.

[inthecorneroverhere]

34. names

'Madison' and 'Dakota' are kind of cute and verry, verry American. I kind of like 'em. They remind me of wind-blown prairies and wide-open spaces.

I detest Tiffany-Brittney-Candy...

I still love the old Bible names...John, David, Mark, Rachel etc.

[Brazosboomer]

37. Odd Couple

My son's best friend is Noah. He married a girl named Rainbow (no kidding, that's her birth certificate name. Her Mom was a REAL hippie.) They are expecting a child. If it's a girl, they say that they'll name her anything except "Dove."

[orangecoloredapple]

38. Serious now - Paloma is a nice name

the bird of peace (a dove) - Picasso's daughter - good name.

[Madrone]

48. Olive?

heh

[Kat45]

39. Edna

I have a friend named Edna, and her mother's name is also Edna. If my name was Edna, I certainly wouldn't saddle my daughter with it too--it's such an old-lady name.

[kanrok]

40. Hmmmm....

"Douchebag" seems pretty cruel.

[orangecoloredapple]

41. Kanrok hurts too!

uh huh!

edit: just kidding you know!

[mitchum]

45. Asswipe?

[kanrok]

46. yep

That's cruel also.

[tjdee]

47. That's pronounced "Oz-wee-pay"...

There was an SNL skit awhile ago where Nicolas Cage and his "wife" were trying to pick out a name for their kid--every name his wife came up with, Nicolas would go "oh no, the kids'll make fun of him," and he would make fun of it and pretend he was teasing the kid because of it.

Finally, there's a knock at the door and a delivery for an "Asswipe Johnson". Nicolas goes, "Yeah, uh, that's pronounced Oz-wee-pay."

Pretty funny. One of the few SNL skits I can remember!

[Snellius]

50. Grover Norquist

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[LibDemAlways]

51. Any name that makes a kid a target at school

is a bad name.

I once taught at an elementary school attended by a boy named Arpad. That kid was mercilessly taunted every day.

I have an unusual ethic sounding first name coupled with an ethnic last name and dreaded the first day of school each year when the teachers would breeze through the Johns, Mikes, Kathys, and Debbies and then proceed to butcher my name so thoroughly that the kids would laugh. It was awful.

[orangecoloredapple]

52. you're right - but that's where teachers come in

we had a bunch of dumb regular names except for the Mennonites. The teacher taught us tolerance, truly did - no one bothered those kids though their house and clothes and haircuts were all different. I thought it was cool.

[SmileyBoy]

61. I know how you feel. I recently legally altered my name...

...from a very complicated ethnic Finnish and Turkish name. It's still complicated as it is. Many a time occurred when I was a kid wishing that my name was Michael Anderson, or something.

[Section_43]

53. My Grandmother had a sister named

Ima Jewel

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

55. My picks

(no offense to those with the names)

Esther, Gertrude, Gretchen and definitely, as you said, Myrtle.

[5thGenDemocrat]

56. My grandmother's middle name was Engleberta

John
And Polly is Polly Louise (which she hates). It could be worse -- it could be Polly Esther.

[44wax]

57. SHITHEAD - THIS IS TRUE

Some fucking krakkhead named his son shithead. The kid is severely retarded and attends a school an acquaintance works for.

[SmileyBoy]

60. OMG, you're serious, right???....

And the kid's retarded, too???? FUUUUUUUCK.......

[SoCalDem]

59. Temple Star Gunter

A hospital "roommate" of mine named her newborn daughter that.. Her husband was in jail, but they let him out early to see the baby..That was in the day when they made you stay in for 3-4 days.. She never took a shower(eeew).. and when hubby showed up (with beers in his jacket pockets), she got out of bed and there was this huge reddish orange shape on the bed.. She had a fluorescent orange nightgown and the sweat had faded it onto the sheet...

The nurse came in and gingerly changed the sheets while she was down the hall sneakinig a beer with her jailbird hubby..

I often wonderd how little Temple Star turned out.. Their 4 yr old was named Chevy Ford Gunter :eyes:

[Sideways]

62. Plato

I shit you not I met a child at one of the many play groups I took my children to named Plato. Problem was he was dumber than a dirt sandwich. My oldest son Ben took to calling him Plate-O-Poop.

My four children are Benjamin, Callie, Ian, and Peyton Rose. I better not hear any complaints on those names! LOL!!!!

[Nay]

63. There was a poor fellow on my mail route whose first name was "Vaseline."

Ya gotta wonder what mom was thinking.

Other terrible boys' names: Elwood, Bruce, Cecil

Terrible girls' names: Edna, Contessa(another name from my mail route), Wilma

[Iverson]

64. Percy, Obedientia, Formica

There must be more.

[blockhead]

65. Harry Dix

He was a fellow union brother of mine.

[ronnykmarshall]

66. Crazy names from the 60's and 70's

Ok, this is not a slam at those of you that were in the hippy days. But I've heard people naming their kids names like:

Woodstock, Wind, Earth, Ski, Sea Breeze and so on. I heard a story of a kid named "Pepsi" because his mother drank a lot of it when she was pregnant.

[Darranar]

67. Darranar...

What? You're named after that crazy left-wing pro-peace anti-corporation global socialist? Just kidding... my real name isn't Darranar, anyway.