Worst Baby Names

thisismynickname2

Oh, thought of something else.

Maybe it's because of my Midwest accent, but I find it really funny when people are so articulate about names.

Like on Dance Moms?  The child Vivi-Anne is literally "Vivi___Anne."  Not "Vivian."

On Ultimate Dance there was a "McHaylee" (I think?) pronounced "Mack__Haylee." Irritating to my ears!  To me, it should sound more like "mahkaylee."

luckya23

abcdevonn said:

This thread has been amazing. I am lol-ing at WORK, people.

I am going to have to ditto all the PP's hate names. I especially hate location names (those beach ones didn't bother me, because I've never heard of those beaches), but Brooklyn, London, Paris...yick.

If I was a boy, my parents wanted to name me DALLAS. I almost died when my mother told me that. I'm so happy I was a girl. (Ironically, my name IS a location, but not a very well-known one, so it hasn't bothered me).

I love love love the name Jane for a girl. I think it is so traditional and elegant, plus I love Jane Austen. My mother likes to remind me that people will probably call her "Plain Jane."

I have to be annoying and say I also love the name Lavendel for a girl. Pronounced like lavender, except with the softer 'L'. It's French, and I just like the sound. FI hates it, though.

Oliver for a boy. I think it is cute, and has the potential to be mature and cool into adulthood. 

Sebastian is my other secret, unusual boy name. Naturally FI hates that too :P

Oliver is our boy name too!

theartistformerlyknownas

KatWAG said:

I have two comments.

My mom's childhood best friend was April Showers. First Name, Last Name. Her parents are mean.

I use to tutor a boy named Vodka. Real name, not his nickname.

My mom dated a guy named Rusty Gates, and was friends with someone named Penny Nichols.

Kahlyla

Ugh. My mom tells me that growing up she knew a Jack Frost and a Merry Christmas (yes, spelled that way). Two different families.

My brother had a Justin Case in his elementary school classes.

ashley8918

KatWAG said:

I have two comments.

My mom's childhood best friend was April Showers. First Name, Last Name. Her parents are mean.

I use to tutor a boy named Vodka. Real name, not his nickname.

At least they didn't name her Golden?

cupcait927

My all-time favorite crazy kid/family names came from my previous job. There was a woman (not an employee but a client) whose husband's name was Riot. The children you ask? There was Hardcor (no, not a typo), Trotsky and...John.

bethsmiles

thisismynickname said:

Oh, thought of something else.

Maybe it's because of my Midwest accent, but I find it really funny when people are so articulate about names.

Like on Dance Moms?  The child Vivi-Anne is literally "Vivi___Anne."  Not "Vivian."

On Ultimate Dance there was a "McHaylee" (I think?) pronounced "Mack__Haylee." Irritating to my ears!  To me, it should sound more like "mahkaylee."

This drives me crazy. You want me to be able to pronounce your kid's name? Don't give them some weird ass name!

My friend's sister just had a baby and named him Caedmen and every time I hear it sounds like Caveman. I had to ask my friend how to pronounce like 5 times the first time she told me.

FutureMrsN3312

Just to fuck with my mom I've been randomly texting her strange weirdly spelled baby names.

The latest was Mela Mia.  So that we would have Melo (our dog) and Mela our daughter. (even though we don't know what I'm having).

I swear as son as the text went thru she called to yell at us.  "You are not naming my grand baby after your dog" "what kind of mean people are you"  Obviously she doesn't care and knows its our choice but I find it fun to get her all ampted up.

huskypuppy14

ohannabelle said:

mrsincredible0224 said:

A coworker of mine has a friend who named her 3 sons Davian, Donathan, and Daxon. I had no words except poor kids lol.

That whole family alliteration thing was sooooo huge in the 60s and 70s. Terry Tammy Theresa and Tim. Debbie Danny Denice. Bill Barb and Brian. Lori and Lisa. Mike and Mark. 

All the alliterated families lived in our neighborhood. 

Donathan takes the effing cake. That's really the worst. Poor kid is going to sound like he has speech issues his whole life, and he'll be correcting people constantly. That poor child looks like a typo. 

Did you live down the block from my dad? Three of those four names are my dad and his siblings. 

theartistformerlyknownas

huskypuppy14 said:

ohannabelle said:

mrsincredible0224 said:

A coworker of mine has a friend who named her 3 sons Davian, Donathan, and Daxon. I had no words except poor kids lol.

That whole family alliteration thing was sooooo huge in the 60s and 70s. Terry Tammy Theresa and Tim. Debbie Danny Denice. Bill Barb and Brian. Lori and Lisa. Mike and Mark. 

All the alliterated families lived in our neighborhood. 

Donathan takes the effing cake. That's really the worst. Poor kid is going to sound like he has speech issues his whole life, and he'll be correcting people constantly. That poor child looks like a typo. 

Did you live down the block from my dad? Three of those four names are my dad and his siblings. 

LOL my mom and her siblings: Donna, Deborah, Dinah... Trudy. Sorry Trudy, we ran out of D-a names.

lavenderfields13

maeday2 said:

lavenderfields13 said:

I used to love the name Declan when I was younger but not so much anymore. And it's super Irish and I'm not. I love the name Killian now but again, super Irish so FI says no.

This is what I think of, but I drink a lot. 

FI's niece is Lenox. When he told me her name after her birth my first comment was, "Like the china?" 

yeah i think that'w what a lot of people would think of! the proper Irish spelling is Cillian but I think everyone in this country would mispronounce it like that

jenna8984

My ex's last name is Dowd and he used to joke that he was going to name his son Wellen.....I know he would never really do it so it was funny.

littlepep

MagicInk said:

Dad wanted Gavin or Fynn for a boy, my mom wanted Marc, Gerard, or Noel. True story my male best friend's name (also our donor for our feature kid) is named Fynn.

Sophie went her entire life usually being the only Sophie. Now go out the mall "Sophie! Sophie! Sophia get your ass back here!"....it's awesome. For me. For her it's going "What?" and then realizing not her but rather the small child running off.

I got asked once, by an adult, if my parents named me after Fiona from Shrek. Shrek came out in 2001. I was born in 1986. I don't think my parents are time travelers...

I LOVE the name Sophie. But it's super popular now, and I named my cat Sophie (<less important). Whenever I joke about our future children with FI though I always call her Sophie (apparently our future child is a girl?). Another one of those man, I used a good name on a pet situations. 

plainjane0415

  abcdevonn said:

This thread has been amazing. I am lol-ing at WORK, people.

I am going to have to ditto all the PP's hate names. I especially hate location names (those beach ones didn't bother me, because I've never heard of those beaches), but Brooklyn, London, Paris...yick.

If I was a boy, my parents wanted to name me DALLAS. I almost died when my mother told me that. I'm so happy I was a girl. (Ironically, my name IS a location, but not a very well-known one, so it hasn't bothered me).

I love love love the name Jane for a girl. I think it is so traditional and elegant, plus I love Jane Austen. My mother likes to remind me that people will probably call her "Plain Jane."

I have to be annoying and say I also love the name Lavendel for a girl. Pronounced like lavender, except with the softer 'L'. It's French, and I just like the sound. FI hates it, though.

Oliver for a boy. I think it is cute, and has the potential to be mature and cool into adulthood. 

Sebastian is my other secret, unusual boy name. Naturally FI hates that too :P

Hey, is Plain Jane so bad?

lavenderfields13

amelisha said:

lavenderfields13 said:. 

sorry @bethsmiles and others. I guess I'm in the minority with the juniors/same names. I don't know why , it's just always bothered me. Maybe because I'm so into name meanings and I want every kid to have a different meaning behind their name? I hated my name for a long time because I don't think the meaning suits me.

I guess I'm just weird!

(Boxes?)

I personally think that passed-down names are meaningful exactly because they are shared by a family. It's kind of saying "this is the person I hope you grow up to be like." But I do think it's kind of awkward when a parent names the kid after him or herself and prefer it when a name is given in honour of a family member. I don't mind as much if it's multigenerational, but when Jaxon decides to call his kid Jaxon Jr I do side-eye a tiny bit as I think it's maybe a bit...I dunno, self-centred, conceited, something. But I think naming a child for a grandparent or extended family member is nice. 

If we have kids and have a boy, we will name him for FI's father, even though it's also FI's middle name, because the name has been used in their family for generations. I think we'd maybe use my maiden name as a boy's middle name just so my father (whose given names are very 50s-trendy so I wouldn't want to use them for a baby) is included as well. But then we've got a kid with a 9-syllable name and that seems like a lot, so I don't know. At least my maiden name is occasionally used as a given name and is easy to spell...but I worry about it sometimes because I have a feeling it might get trendy because it's a -son one. Fortunately we're not planning kids anytime soon, but what a dumb thing to worry about anyway, hahaha.

I should have clarified- I think I agree with your feeling on it. I don't really like when kids are named after their own parent, but grandparent, aunt, friend I do not mind. I don't know if that makes any logical sense. Like I definitely want my son to have my dad's first name as his middle name if I have one. I'd like to honor my dad like that. But I would not want my son to have the same name as FI and he agrees.

lavenderfields13

bethsmiles said:

@abcdevonn - SO hates all the boy names I like too. I love the name Parker (yes, I realize this falls into the whole last name as a first name thing that people hate) but SO hates it. I also really like Lucas, SO hates it too.

I also love Lucas! and of course FI hates it. We NEVER agree on boy names.

ohannabelle

My sister named her frikking cat after my father. It's also my oldest boy's middle name.

Is it reasonable that this pisses me off? I know I can be kind of a snippy bitch with her, because she really just constantly seems to be pissing me off. I don't know. It just seems....disrespectful, almost.

I don't even really like the cat. He's a skulking neurotic pisser. He pissed on my handbag. 

kaos16

 I have also taken to stalking the baby names discussions at The Knot.  I love how when someone suggests a name, even if I think it is a pretty decent one, all the regulars respond with "don't do that, name him/her. . . . . ." and give a list of names that they deem better.  Often they are a ton worse than the original!!!

VulgarGirl

KatWAG said:

I have two comments.

My mom's childhood best friend was April Showers. First Name, Last Name. Her parents are mean.

I use to tutor a boy named Vodka. Real name, not his nickname.

If she didn't become a meteorologist on TV she totally missed her calling.

hellohkb

I have a confession: I love last names as first names

Also, I would love to name my son Harrison, but I imagine a lot of people would assume I'm a huge Harrison Ford fan or something. I also like Arlo. Not after Arlo Guthrie, I just like it.

*files Arlo under names I wouldn't dare name my kids but secretly love*

kat1114

I used to work at an after-school program. Some of my favorites from those days included:

-Alize

-Blaize Muzik

-Luca (all I could think about when I saw him was Godfather)

-Jager (pronounced like Mick Jagger and not the liquor, even though they spelled it that way...)

-London (for a boy, which I thought was weirder, but boy or girl, don't like it)

-Tubtun (pronounced tube-toon, kid went by Tooney. Mom and dad were definitely foreign, but I've never been able to find anything about that name/its origin.)

lavenderfields13

hellohkb said:

I have a confession: I love last names as first names Also, I would love to name my son Harrison, but I imagine a lot of people would assume I'm a huge Harrison Ford fan or something. I also like Arlo. Not after Arlo Guthrie, I just like it. *files Arlo under names I wouldn't dare name my kids but secretly love*

I like last names as first names too, depending on what it is I guess. Some have just become too common. My brothers first name is my paternal grandmother's maiden name so it has special meaning. It was definitely NOT common at all but it's gaining popularity now.

plainjane0415

hellohkb said:

I have a confession: I love last names as first names Also, I would love to name my son Harrison, but I imagine a lot of people would assume I'm a huge Harrison Ford fan or something. I also like Arlo. Not after Arlo Guthrie, I just like it. *files Arlo under names I wouldn't dare name my kids but secretly love*

Harrison James is my #1 pick for a boy name.  They're both family names for me I love the name Harrison!

lavenderfields13

kat1114 said:

I used to work at an after-school program. Some of my favorites from those days included:

-Alize

-Blaize Muzik

-Luca (all I could think about when I saw him was Godfather)

-Jager (pronounced like Mick Jagger and not the liquor, even though they spelled it that way...)

-London (for a boy, which I thought was weirder, but boy or girl, don't like it)

-Tubtun (pronounced tube-toon, kid went by Tooney. Mom and dad were definitely foreign, but I've never been able to find anything about that name/its origin.)

I love the name Luca but I wouldn't name my son that. 

I know of a little girl named Londynn. Poor thing. I think what bothers me most about this particular girl naming her daughter a "place" name (besides the speshul spelling) is the fact that she named her after a place she's never been. I mean I'd maybe not side eye it if London was her favorite city or something. 

themosthappy91

There is a politician in my area who has attempted to run for various offices, including Congress, named Krystal Ball.

To be honest if you were going into something like politics (literally the only profession where you have to put your name on freaking signs and bumper stickers and stuff!), wouldn't you change your name if you were her?

bethsmiles

themosthappy91 said:

There is a politician in my area who has attempted to run for various offices, including Congress, named Krystal Ball.

To be honest if you were going into something like politics (literally the only profession where you have to put your name on freaking signs and bumper stickers and stuff!), wouldn't you change your name if you were her?

My dad's family is from a very tiny town in Louisiana. The last time we were visiting they were having judge(I think, definitely something political) elections and one of the candidate's name was LaLa. I was informed it is a family name.

lavenderfields13

themosthappy91 said:

There is a politician in my area who has attempted to run for various offices, including Congress, named Krystal Ball.

To be honest if you were going into something like politics (literally the only profession where you have to put your name on freaking signs and bumper stickers and stuff!), wouldn't you change your name if you were her?

haha is Ball her married name or maiden name? I have always wanted to take my husband's last name but if it rhymed with or sounded weird with my first I don't know if I could do it. Like Julia Gulia from the Wedding Singer. 

sophhabobopha

lavenderfields13 said:

amelisha said:

lavenderfields13 said:. 

sorry @bethsmiles and others. I guess I'm in the minority with the juniors/same names. I don't know why , it's just always bothered me. Maybe because I'm so into name meanings and I want every kid to have a different meaning behind their name? I hated my name for a long time because I don't think the meaning suits me.

I guess I'm just weird!

(Boxes?)

I personally think that passed-down names are meaningful exactly because they are shared by a family. It's kind of saying "this is the person I hope you grow up to be like." But I do think it's kind of awkward when a parent names the kid after him or herself and prefer it when a name is given in honour of a family member. I don't mind as much if it's multigenerational, but when Jaxon decides to call his kid Jaxon Jr I do side-eye a tiny bit as I think it's maybe a bit...I dunno, self-centred, conceited, something. But I think naming a child for a grandparent or extended family member is nice. 

If we have kids and have a boy, we will name him for FI's father, even though it's also FI's middle name, because the name has been used in their family for generations. I think we'd maybe use my maiden name as a boy's middle name just so my father (whose given names are very 50s-trendy so I wouldn't want to use them for a baby) is included as well. But then we've got a kid with a 9-syllable name and that seems like a lot, so I don't know. At least my maiden name is occasionally used as a given name and is easy to spell...but I worry about it sometimes because I have a feeling it might get trendy because it's a -son one. Fortunately we're not planning kids anytime soon, but what a dumb thing to worry about anyway, hahaha.

I should have clarified- I think I agree with your feeling on it. I don't really like when kids are named after their own parent, but grandparent, aunt, friend I do not mind. I don't know if that makes any logical sense. Like I definitely want my son to have my dad's first name as his middle name if I have one. I'd like to honor my dad like that. But I would not want my son to have the same name as FI and he agrees.

Fi has a family name, and we'll give it to our son (assuming we have one). But he'll be a NAAAAAMENAAME the 5th. Juniors bother me.

littlepep

kat1114 said:

I used to work at an after-school program. Some of my favorites from those days included:

-Alize

-Blaize Muzik

-Luca (all I could think about when I saw him was Godfather)

-Jager (pronounced like Mick Jagger and not the liquor, even though they spelled it that way...)

-London (for a boy, which I thought was weirder, but boy or girl, don't like it)

-Tubtun (pronounced tube-toon, kid went by Tooney. Mom and dad were definitely foreign, but I've never been able to find anything about that name/its origin.)

I CANNOT WITH BLAIZE. 

kat1114

lavenderfields13 said:

kat1114 said:

I used to work at an after-school program. Some of my favorites from those days included:

-Alize

-Blaize Muzik

-Luca (all I could think about when I saw him was Godfather)

-Jager (pronounced like Mick Jagger and not the liquor, even though they spelled it that way...)

-London (for a boy, which I thought was weirder, but boy or girl, don't like it)

-Tubtun (pronounced tube-toon, kid went by Tooney. Mom and dad were definitely foreign, but I've never been able to find anything about that name/its origin.)

I love the name Luca but I wouldn't name my son that. 

I know of a little girl named Londynn. Poor thing. I think what bothers me most about this particular girl naming her daughter a "place" name (besides the speshul spelling) is the fact that she named her after a place she's never been. I mean I'd maybe not side eye it if London was her favorite city or something. 

I also like the  name Luca, but unless I was super Italian, I can't imagine naming my son that.

I was talking to  my boss this morning about naming your kid after places, using Bronx as an example. She was absolutely flabbergasted. "People do that? No, I'm sorry, The Bronx is a borough, not a name."