Weird baby names

Conor108

So I was watching some show last night/this morning about parents training their kids for the Olympics and whatnot. Now there was this one family who called their kids names like:

Spartacus
Aphrodite
Caesar Augustus
Venus
Angel

Like whats wrong with Jack or Jill?? I suppose its grand when theyre very young but what 15 year old in school wants 'Caesar Augustus' read out on the roll! Or if your 20 year old guy and someone asks you your name they're gonna assume your taking the piss:cool: Mad parents

Peyton Manning

Hemroid

Holsten

I'd love to be named Caesar Augustus, god damn parents!

Overheal

Violence

Captain Ginger

Abortion

GirlInterrupted

Venus is a big risk because your daughter may turn out less than gorgeous.

Spartacus is a risk because your son may not turn out to be Kirk Douglas.

Angel is a risk because your other daughter may turn out to be a devil.

And the rest are just silly.

Munya

Riot
Miz'Unique

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I think it was Practchett who wrote of four daughters, Hope, Chastity, Charity and Faith.

They were, respectively, a manic depressive, a hooker, in jail for theft and an athiest.

Dennis the Stone

Michael Moran, the books editor for Times Online, has discovered a book that makes every Jane Doe or Tom, Dick and Harry thank their lucky stars.

We're familiar with the celebrity trend of giving children playful, silly, impractical names on the basis that they'll never have to endure the vicissitudes of a real school or workplace. The first one most of us noticed was probably Zowie Bowie, or perhaps Marc Bolan's little boy Rolan, and probably reached its apotheosis in the wilful christening flightiness evinced by Bob Geldof or Gywneth Paltrow.

Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, the authors of a new book, Bad Baby Names, have looked into a century of US census reports and discovered that the history of weird names is longer, and stranger, than most of us could have possibly imagined…

Here, in ascending order of weirdness, are the 20 strangest:

20: Wanna Funk

19: United States

18: Lotta Bacon

17: Hysteria Johnson

16: Waitress Seholley

15: Nail Rambo

14: Jump Jump

13: Tackle Feigenbutz

12: Mustard M.Mustard

11: Jelly Bean Cook

10: Fat Meat Fields

9: Geography Bryan

8: Zero Pie

7: Cylinder Klinefelter

6: Nice Veal

5: Cylclops Walthour

4: Envy Burger

3: Cancer Grindstaff

2: Young Boozer

1: Dracula Taylor

And, just to demonstrate that not all parents are capricious and michevous come christening time, here are an even dozen names that I’d prefer to plain old Michael Moran:

Peach Skeeters

Watermelon Pete McNeil

Experience Fairweathers

Limbo Holloway

Bluebell Plopper

Beauty Outlaw

Darth Wilson

Christian Devil

Welcome Darling

Sexy Chambers

Love Catts

Permelia Buckaroo


http://timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/2008/07/20-strangest-ba.html

what2do

Two sets of unfortunate twins in NZ - fish and chips, Benson and Hedges!

StormWarrior

In the daily mail recently was a story about a boy who was refused a place at a Christian primary school because his name was Max Hell!

Guy:Incognito

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

Spartacus is a risk because your son may not turn out to be Kirk Douglas.

.

Probably more likely to turn out to be kirk douglas than to lead the roman slaves to an uprising.

Spartacus would be a cool name to have btw.

stovelid

Sherifu posted this already today, but it's worth repeating:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116

Al_Fernz

Slasher FTW

I'm calling my ginger kid Blaze and I don't shiote what any of you think!

alexjk

When I used to live in Ballymun,I heard a woman shout "Shakiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiira, get off the bleedin' balcony!".Brightened up my day.

stovelid

Moonbaby wrote: »

I'm calling my ginger kid Blaze and I don't shiote what any of you think!

He'll just called 'Blazer' in school...

Al_Fernz

stovelid wrote: »

He'll just called 'Blazer' in school...

.....or jasper/gingerpubes/giinger.

kittensoft1984

Sitting in the cinema last night and the name effy popped into my head!

I have no idea why..... For a girl obviously!

Loomis

Wivoney

pickarooney

Angel is a very common name in French and Spanish-speaking countries.

Useless allegedly of the day.

Malice

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

Sitting in the cinema last night and the name effy popped into my head!

I have no idea why..... For a girl obviously!

Wouldn't that be pronounced like "Evi", short for the not-very-wierd "Evelyn"?

gogglebok

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

Sitting in the cinema last night and the name effy popped into my head!

I have no idea why..... For a girl obviously!

I like Effi. Isn't it a straightforward German name? There's a novel called Effi Briest.

lolly22

Hardrock...for a boy ofcourse, and chardonnay for a girl.

Hmmm

stovelid

I wanted to call my son Man From Atlantis but my wife vetoed it.

lolly22

And im sure your son will thank her for it

kittensoft1984

gogglebok wrote: »

I like Effi. Isn't it a straightforward German name? There's a novel called Effi Briest.

Thats the one. I heard it a while ago and liked it instantly!

John Mason

my cousin called his new baby Willow


big baby willie

all the stars

So former customer told me

She treats kids for stutters/ speech problems...
One of her kids was called....

Thumbelina.....
:eek:

with some mad regular surname like Daly... poor child.
She was saying she just cant bring herself to call the lil un anything but "pet".. Talk about advertising to bully the poor kid..

all the stars

alexjk wrote: »

When I used to live in Ballymun,I heard a woman shout "Shakiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiira, get off the bleedin' balcony!".Brightened up my day.

i heard that in a shop in Portlaoise, followed by "Britney i said no fookin chocolate" in bit Dub accent... amybe same woman?

gloobag

My first born will be named 'The Hulk', boy or girl, it doesn't matter to me :cool:

T.G Catter

I know of someone living in London who called their daughter Fianna. Kind of an Uachtar reoite, Ultan, Fionn type baby name I suppose.

Piste

Timpiste

Malice

T.G Catter wrote: »

I know of someone living in London who called their daughter Fianna.

Is that actually how it is spelt or is that how they pronounce it? I know someone who's name is Fiona but it's pronounced like Fianna.

Piste

I know a girl whose name is pronounced Fianna but it's spelled Fiodhna.

T.G Catter

malice_ wrote: »

Is that actually how it is spelt or is that how they pronounce it? I know someone who's name is Fiona but it's pronounced like Fianna.

Spelled and pronounced as Fianna. Horrid name.

Pepe LeFrits

stovelid wrote: »

He'll just called 'Blazer' in school...

When I have kids I want to call them Blade, Laser and Blazer... and maybe Tazer.

stovelid

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

When I have kids I want to call them Blade, Laser and Blazer... and maybe Tazer.

'Blade laser' does have a fetching, spaceship-hero ring to it, I must admit.

anthony4335

Do know of a guy who was named Rocky.
Isn't one of the characters from the channel 4 program "Skins" named Effy.

Ross_Mahon

Big Boss
Revolver Ocelot
Maximus
Hercules
Gigantor
John Connor
The boy
Max Payne
Pornwadee
The Chosen One

The list goes on and on...

metaoblivia

Some names I've come across while living in Florida and Georgia:

Fabulous
Knee-Knee (pronounced 'nay nay')
Scooby Crockett (Scooby was his given name)
Keeundra
Cymbre (kind of pretty, this name, but unusual)

keevita

Piste wrote: »

Timpiste

Lol

MysticalSoul

Jack can be strange too. I knew a guy whose first name was Jack, however the problem lay with his family name which was Russell ie Jack Russell :rolleyes:

Black Swan

What did Cher name her first child? Moon (something)? Now that they are grown up, I wonder if they do it a lot?

boneless

Let's face it folk, there are estates in this land of ours where the kids named John, Jenny, Keith and Angela etc. are the ones who are laughed at and bullied....:P

Carsinian Thau

Worst I ever heard was "Xerox".

And yes, in case you're wondering, that is a brand of photocopier.

forestfruits

Friend of mine has taught a Madonna, Cher and an Emerald!

All In fairly rural school

Warhammer

Butch
Dick
Rod
Woody
Johnson
Bubba
Rubella
Anna Lou

hunnybunny

The worst name I ever heard was Fanny!

In France she introduced herself and said Je m'appelle Fanny! I nearly splutered on my tea. I asked her 3 times to pronounce and spell it. I was in shock:eek:

Who would call their child Fanny? My mother explained it was a dated name deriving from Stephanie (a name I liked until I heard fanny)!

French people were soooo shocked when I told them what it means to us. The cultural differences between France and Ireland never seemed so great!

My friend Fanny was going to Dublin to assist in French lessons. I advised her strongly to use her full name Stephanie.

Imagine standing up in a rough city school and declaring your name is fanny.:D
She would be torn to shreads by Dublin students!

ibh

hunnybunny wrote: »

The worst name I ever heard was Fanny!

In France she introduced herself and said Je m'appelle Fanny! I nearly splutered on my tea. I asked her 3 times to pronounce and spell it. I was in shock:eek:

Who would call their child Fanny? My mother explained it was a dated name deriving from Stephanie (a name I liked until I heard fanny)!

French people were soooo shocked when I told them what it means to us. The cultural differences between France and Ireland never seemed so great!

My friend Fanny was going to Dublin to assist in French lessons. I advised her strongly to use her full name Stephanie.

Imagine standing up in a rough city school and declaring your name is fanny.:D
She would be torn to shreads by Dublin students!

Famous Five books featured Aunt Fanny. Needless to say she was a bit of an oul cnut in them.

Probably should have gone the whole hog and called her husband Dick..

On-topic, i think Rod is a cool name at shouldn't be on the list. At least most these kids will get used to sexual in-ur-endo at an early age.

SoWatchaWant

Hate funny names. All my boys will be called John, Stephen and Martin. In that order.