Category: Bad Baby Names

I love your website and came across your call for anyone knowing a Velveeta. I went to Highschool with a woman named Velveeta Germany in 1973. She’s in my highschool annual.

Love the website!

-T

I just have to tell you about the children of an acquaintance of mine: Indigo (boy), Jadziah (girl) and Atreyu (boy). I’ve been too afraid to ask what their middle names are. Their mother’s last name is Moonstone (gosh, you wouldn’t be Wiccan or anything, would you?).

Please don’t publish my letter on your site – Ms. Moonstone holds a place of honor in my community, and I would be in trouble if she knew how awful I think her kids’ names are. But I know I’m not the only one.

-(name withheld, so if you’ve got a problem, Ms. Moonstone, you can cram it. It’s called Free Speech.)

I teach school and run across many unsual names…I wont say where in Minnesota….last year I had a student in my class. Her father’s name was Germaine and her mother’s name was Shanta (pronounced Shawn-Tay) the little girls name is Germisha and her sister’s name is Shamaine!

My family attends church with a family whose last name is Berning and the father’s name is Les, my (relative) a retired fire fighter always says they could have really used him on the fire department. (Les Berning)

(Someone else nearby) had parents who must not have been thinking when they named him and hyphenated their last names to create his… his name is Trevor Mangles-Dick.

-W

I keep remembering bad names! Titus Beaver in KS. Albee Damm in Colorado. I come across these names in my work, I work for a company in community corrections and the names come in daily.

-H.

I dread to think what would happen if parents got hold of the passenger listing of the Mayflower or other such voyages and decided to make a tribute. Such gems as Oceanus and Damaris Hopkins, Humility Cooper, Wrestling Brewster and Remember Allerton are nearly destined to make a comeback in the present climate of “unique” baby names.

-E

From the Associated Press

Forest Service worries about environment, violence at peace gathering
By Don Thompson, Associated Press

MODOC NATIONAL FOREST — Lucky Sunshine Day says he arrived at this year’s Rainbow Family Gathering “a moon cycle ago,” measuring time much as he has the last 20 years of his life.

He spent much of his youth traveling aboard a Rainbow bus with his parents, Flower and Two Rock. To reach this year’s Gathering, he hitched a ride deep into the woods of Northern California.

“It’s about love, it’s about community, it’s about family,” he said. “We’re here to restore the earth to its natural state.”

This year’s annual peace Gathering got off to a bad start when one participant beat another nearly to death with a shovel for driving too fast through a campground. …

The counterculture festival reaches its high point Sunday when more than 10,000 self-described hippies from at least 40 states and eight nations are expected to hold hands in a circle, silently praying for world peace from dawn until noon. …

“Everybody with a bellybutton is a Rainbow. Some people just don’t know it yet,” said Sarieah, cradling her 2 1/2-year-old daughter Zakiaya on her hip. …

Elsewhere, as the full moon came up the drums came out, filling the woods with a hypnotic tribal beat. Rainbows consider themselves a tribe, or a gathering of tribes, and have drawn much of their language and tradition from American Indians.

Yet their choice of a site drew protests from the Fort Bidwell Indian Community Council, which worried diggings of latrines in particular would harm ancestral artifacts. …

The Rainbows have no leadership, only unofficial elders and organizers, and decide everything by consensus at council meetings. Most refuse to acknowledge they need a permit to freely assemble on public land.

“Whenever there’s a problem, we deal with it. We call the sheriff,” said Kalif, the head gatekeeper. …

Kalif turned in his longtime friend, Harry “Hugs” O’Neill, 47, of Whitehorn, on June 22 after O’Neill allegedly used a shovel to smash the windshield of a pickup truck and beat the vehicle’s two occupants. O’Neill remains jailed on felony assault and battery charges.

Christopher Witcher, 47, of Roan Mountain, Tenn., nearly died from injuries that included a punctured lung, ruptured spleen and head injuries, police said. Kelly Cook, 44, of Brosnan, Texas, suffered a head wound but later returned to the Gathering.

I know two sisters named Kezza and Velvet who have named their children (all girls) Stormy, Treasure Dawn, and Harmony. Apparently they have followed in their parent’s footsteps in deciding to torture poor defenseless babies! My husband, who is related to these women, wanted to name our second child Shediah (hello…Shediarrhea!)

I know a guy whose son is named Skyye Walker Stevens. And yes, he’s very into Star Wars.

My former brother-in-law is Danny Daniels (Jr).

– Lynn

I have worked in the computer field for almost fifteen years now. Worked with a fellow named Dan who named his first son Solaris (after the SUN microsystems unix operating system) his second son Linux (after the open source unix operating system) his wife got to the third birth certificate before he could though and named the third Stephen.

-D.

I found a link to your site the other day while reading a news article on celebrity baby names. I couldn’t resist reading as I was hoping to find my name on your list……. well. I didn’t. I couldn’t resist sending it and few other names in, out of curiousity I wanted to see if I could find anyone who shares the name with me.

Well, here goes…… My name is Dawntta (it was orginially Dawnetta, as if that’s any better). It is pronounced as Dante, Dontay just like a boy, by the way I am a WOMAN!!! Say what you will about it but, I love the fact that I haven’t met another female with the name (plenty of guys though!)

If that isn’t enough for you……my best friends name is Mihown (pronounced MY-Own ….as in My Own Child …or at least that’s where the name comes from, she’s an only child).

A friend of a friend thought this was a great name……. Heavn Isa Angel (Heaven Is A Angel….???……I laughed at first, I didn’t think she was serious) Apparently she took her husbands last name after they married…angel!!!

My neighbor, after waiting until she was in her late 30’s to have a child, named her poor daughter NoMorea Jones…..as in No More Jones (can you tell the dad’s not around).

Well that’s it, just wanted to share

Luv your site, Dawntta