Kiwis Lead The World In Bad Baby Names

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The other names in the article… Sex Fruit! Cinderella Beauty Blossom is bad, Number 16 Bus Shelter is worse, but I can’t get over Sex Fruit.

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Oops - meant to put this in MPSIMS. Could SKS report my post please?

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I met a kid in Mangere (predominantly Polynesian suburb of Auckland) who had the first name of “Saint John The Baptist” (no Sinjin there)

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I think I know where this trend is coming from. We were recently given a copy of The Complete Book of Baby Names as a gift. (This review is far too kind.)

The authors went for comprehensive, rather than comprehensible.

Some of the suggested names that made an impression on my memory:

A girl’s name:

“Panda - resembling the bamboo-eating animal.”

(There was “Beaver - resembling the amphibeous animal” for a boy. At least they didn’t reverse the genders.)

Also, “Mania” for a girl.

“Bachelor” and “Flirt” for boys and girls, respectively.

Also suggestions for deriving nonsensicals names from reversing the letters of favoured words, or by combining the letters of the parents.

It should have been called “The Complete Book of Child Abuse.”

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Fish and Chips? Seriously?

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…disturbing.

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Actually, I find it less so than Number 16 Bus Shelter. Since I suspect it was chosen for the same reason that Fenchurch of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish was given her name. Just how many children want to know where they were conceived? Let alone being reminded every time they have to share their names not only of the incontrovertible fact that their parents did the nasty, but that they know exactly where they did it.

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It sounds like they’ve been reading Alfred Bester. One of his characters is named FeFi. Well, that’s her nickname. Her mother named her after what she was and where she was born, so her full name was Female, Row 5, Grauman’s Chinese. :smiley:

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One would hope the name came from the place of conception or birth and that they didn’t just like the sound of it.

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Sex Fruit is inexcusable. I’m shocked any sane person would believe otherwise.

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Obligatory link to the Utah Baby Namer. If you think Sex Fruit is bad, how’d you like to be a boy named Estrus?

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There’s also FSU footballer Craphonso Thorpe. Yeah, not nearly as bad as Sex Fruit, but still…

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…who wanted to name their baby :01100010010001110?

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My brother mentioned to me that someone we mutually know had told him that she wanted to name her kid Judas because no one else would have that name. Yeah, no one else would have it, but imagine the stigma… perhaps not so much in the more secular culture today, but I can’t imagine a name like that going over well with other kids at all.

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From an AP story

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The poor girl. She must have hated meeting new people.

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Speaking of biblical names, I’ve often wondered why we don’t see many boys named Onan.

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Well, there’s Onan Co’Brian.

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Someone at my company is named Princess Leia. (Found when searching for last name Prince)

Susan

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I don’t see Judas as a bad name at all–after all, without Judas, there’d be no crucifixion. :wink: Also, he could be called Jude for short and no one need know.

I feel sorry for kids like this. But I don’t know which is worse: kids with eccentric names or the ones whose fairly common names are butchered beyond recognition like in that Utah name link: Chylar for Skylar? WTF? Ayeschleighe instead of Ashley etc. :rolleyes:

Wasn’t there a couple who wanted to name their kid a punctuation mark a few years ago? May God have mercy on us all…