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Examples from my friends and family.

Herkimur Horatio (my brother) Herk is a blackbelt, I wonder what made him learn to fight?

Eian John Bartmess (They named him Eian because it means John in some language, basically they named him John John).

-Curtis

Seen on the “thanks” page of Amy Tan’s “The Hundred Secret Senses”: Logan and Linden Berry.

-Jess

When I was in high school, my Journalism teacher’s last name was Penny. She named her daughter “Precious Penny”. How’s that for pretentiousness? Of course, I suppose it COULD have been worse. She could have named her daughter “Worthless”.

-M

Your site reminded me of some names from my ghettofab high school. There was a January, Pleschette (inspired by the last name of the 70s actress), and a girl named Ilahkcherriessence. All one word. I don’t know how they managed to fit that in the yearbook year after year.

One of my closest friends in high school was a girl name Patryc N’Koul (pronounced Patrice Nicole). My mom’s a high school teacher in DC and about 10 years ago she had a male student named Silky. She also had a student named Mussolini. I kid you not.

Oh and here’s one close to my heart. My grandmother is named Korea. Just like the East Asian nation. Her father gave all her siblings names that started with K. I don’t know how he ran out of girls names with the letter K after only one other daughter but hey…what are you gonna do? It was 1920 and it’s my grandma. I can’t crack on her too much.

-K. (not Korea, though!)

I have a few for you.

I went to school with a girl named Rose Plant.

I worked with a guy named Richard O’Shea. Do not EVER call him Rick.

I went to school with a boy named Triste Coffin (sad coffin).

My brother went to school with a boy named Ura Jauregi, who was called “You’re a Doggie” quite often.

A little boy across the street was named Rombom.

All of these children grew up and are now adults…

Best,

-Greta

Just stumbled upon these pages, and I love ’em– and wish to submit a few of my own.

1) Various classmates of mine with the names of Antwanette, Macmillan, Radford, Kremer, Hayden, Yemmi, Azizi, Viridiana, Cheree, Wyatt, Jesus (for a girl) Shanty, and my personal favorite, Cleveland A. Motley IV.

2) a cousin of mine named Ella Cotton. Although Cotton is a old family name of ours, we can’t help but think of toilet paper when we hear it.

3) my sister in law’s family are very, very Catholic, and her parents gave all their children the middle name of “Mary”. Which, although it goes nicely with Catherine and Bernadette, doesn’t fit quite so well with John, Michael, and Peter.

4) My grandfather was named ‘Beverly’, and my own father named after the degenerate son of the next-door neighbour that my grandparents barely knew.

5) my mother used to work in an insurance office in Eastern Kentucky, and came across twins named “Positive” and “Wasserman”. It’s bad enough to name your children after a syphilis test– but why then would you name one ‘positive’?!?

-Susana

Ok, so are there ANY names you actually like? If so, which ones?

Interested to see if you can come up with something really funnily sarcastic about my 2:

Sandrine Leïlou (Sandrine named for her uncle in a roundabout kind of way, it being a short form of Alexandria and his name is Alexander).

Nyssa Winter (born at the beginning of winter).

Have fun!

Fiona

I get a lot of e-mails from people sending in bad names asking, “Do these parents WANT their kids to be beaten up?” According to Fiona, yes. Yes, they do.

I stumbled across your bad baby name site and got a big kick out of it. I wanted to tell you that my boyfriend’s sister named her son Sahvere Kyree (her own name is Kylee King)

Also, an ex-friend of mine named her daughter Daisy Elizabeth Nadine Morgan Riff (last name).

-A

I almost named my future child Nicholas (last name Cutler). I thought harder after reading your site and realized that Nick Cutler sounds like some sort of after-shave product. Now the boy has no name. Thanks a lot.

– Capt. Cutler, CentCom

There was a guy at my high school (Willingboro HS – Willingboro, NJ – 1987) who was saddled with “Notlef Lefnot Felton”. It’s pronounced “not-leaf leaf-not”. The guy went through school called “Left Nut”. Unfortunately, he hasn’t registered at classmates.com and I couldn’t google him so I can’t provide proof.

On the horrible spellings front, I know someone named “Jewdypthe Phaiye” (Judith Fay). Two weeks after her birth, her parents came to their senses and amended her birth certificate to the regular spelling.

Finally, I know a “Richard Doctor”. He works for a hospital and goes by “Dick”. I can vouch for this because he’s my dad!

– Julie