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Hello,

I enjoy going to your website looking up names for my co-workers and my mother… Lately I’ve been watching Maury Povich and the folks on there are just as bad as Jerry Springer. But, I just wanted to give you a few names to ponder over.

Maury show: Repelus (female) sounds like a new bug repelant to me. Of course she was trying to find the father of her child and the two on the show were “Not the Father”.

My friend’s, friend’s daughter: Devonataysia: I don’t know how mom spells her 4 yr old daughter’s name but the pronunciation is: De Vonna Tay sha.

Also: Nagleatha, LaForest (female) Tion’a (pronounced: Shawn-nay)(this should probably go under your syllable exchange program.

Jerry show: Gwantina, Kitaka

Carmax sales woman: Larkeetha

Little girl on American Juniors: Jadzia

She was showing me how to work Meeting Maker: Makneeka

Maybe there is some meaning I just can’t find regarding these names, but they are NBA football players: Peerless, Plaxico, Laveraneus, Avon, Shantee, Tebucky.

Friend’s mother and her twin: Della Rae and Stella Mae

I guess that’s enough for now.

-D.

I knew a guy in college who’s name was Biff. I had to ask what his real name was. He explained that his name was actually Biff. He very pregnant mother had been standing in line at the grocery store and at the next register was another pregnant woman and a friend. The friend jokely siggested the name Biff and they laughed while Biff’s mother thought, “hmmmmm, what a great name.” The rest is obvious.

-E

When I was teaching, I had a boy student (from Korea) whose name was Gun Bang. Mom’s name was Mi Sil (missle).

Fortunately the kids didn’t make fun of him—they were all autistic and couldn’t really talk.

-M

My daughter had a boy in her 4th grade class this year named Sauconey Apt.

Now why would you name your kid after running shoes??

-D

From a Baby Center bulletin board:

Which name sounds better?

Skylande Aaliyah Noelle…or Skylande Mahoganey Niquolle….I love the name Messiah for a boy. My sister says it’s too close to meaning Lord, but I love it and I love odd names. How many Messiah’s do you know???? My last name is (easy British-origin last name)…

I looked up ‘Skylande’ and got a lot of pages in Swedish, but it’s not in any dictionaries I can find. Anybody know? (Please tell me it translates “too close to meaning Lord.”)

Your site is hilarious, constantly laughing out loud like everybody e lse reading it. Here are some names I’ve come across in the past few y ears:

Raven which isn’t so bad, but coupled w/ her sister’s name Harvest …need I say more?

A little boy named Cincere, I had to write his name out while at work for a coupon, & his mother got irritated w/ me b/c I initially spelled it Sincere.

I am not making this up, it sounds crazy, but I know a guy named Frank Frank, yep both 1st & last names are ‘Frank’, I don’t even think his f irst name is officially Francis either, as far as I know Frank is his full 1st name…but wait, there’s more – I’m not lying, he lives in a town called Frankfort.

Thanks, B.

I was reading your site which I found particularly hilarious, and was inspired to think up bad baby names of my own.

Most of these come from recent birth sections in my local city newspaper, but some names are ones that I know  from babies or children at the childcare centre in which I worked for a month late last year, or from family friends.

Netley
Delicia
Weaver
Dalgety (last name Dickie)
Bowie
Love
Ryly
Sadie
Phaedra Moon
Rocky
Rocko
Rainbow
Micol (maybe that’s the medicine the mother was taking when she picked the name)
Romeo (a brother for Juliet. I am not joking)
Ellowese (rhymes with yellow wees too, for extra pleasure)
A family friend wanted to name their son Matthew, Matt for short. That was all good and fine, but Matt’s last name was Russ.
Destiny
Starbrite (This is the daughter of a 16 year old illiterate mother I found on a bullitin board. She has a two year old sister Destini and at least 3 fathers.)
Pleger Blake Blee (try and say that. His brother’s name was Flynn Blee)
Dante (last name Taylor-Peak. Do you see anything wrong with that picture?)
Shyralee (May be related to Shirley…)
Munday (as opposed to Wudnesday or Fruday)
Nakkaytah
Rafferty (His parents names were Sharon and Mark…)
Heaven (where their daughter will wish she is in a few years…)
Cara Mel
Macson

– Gaye (mother’s name also Gaye. Shouldn’t there a law against hereditary bitterness?)

I usually read the births column of the local paper every week looking for such amusement but this site was just so much bladder-loosening hilarity that I almost passed out.

So…and I wish these weren’t true:

Bilbo. Yes, really. This one cropped up in the birth’s column of the local paper. His parents must have been Tolkien fans. Guess what his nickname is going to be the first day he sets foot in primary school?

Zenon. This was the fault of a couple who were friends of a friend. It was one of those names where you had to nod and smile and say it was ‘unusual’ when it fact it’s an inert gas.

And just to prove that it’s not just 18 year old bimbos who name their kids frightening things, a tale of woe from an old schoolmate whose highly educated but hippy parents had saddled him with the handle Quantum Feardash. Funnily enough, he preferred to be known as ‘Ben’.

Thank you for making me laugh so hard I nearly inhaled a crab and green ginger noodle.

– A

About the baby name Onarada:

“Are you choosing a name for your baby? I’ve never met no namesakes. If you please, name your baby Onarada!”

Onarada means “it’s a fart” in Japanese.

Given the unusual syntax of their message, I think that the writer was a Japanese who wanted to play a joke on stupid Americans. I loved the message written by the Lakota person.

Great site!

–V

From a Pagan forum, by a woman aptly named ‘Lunacie’:

My oldest granddaughter is named Katlin Kay Alexandria B. The Katlin is Irish without being especially traditional in spelling, the Kay is my middle name, and the Alexandria is my daughter’s ‘working’ name.

My youngest granddaughter is named Nove ‘Mber B. Hey, if people can name their girls April, May, June, etc. why not November? She was born the 27th of November…