# Bad baby name....Oh my! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157 "2008-06-16T21:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/21 "2008-06-17T15:58:29Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Power would have been a better middle name. [/QUOTE] Power Peter should take a backseat to no one. I knew a Max Maxwell and a Rock LaRocca. Still, Maximus Peter… woah. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/22 "2008-06-17T16:03:33Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] Why don’t they just call him “Biggus Dickus” and be done with it. [/QUOTE] Do you find it amusing when I mention my fwiend Bigguth Dickuth? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/23 "2008-06-17T16:20:34Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] I know a couple who are going to have a son in a few months. Their chosen name: **Talon** [/QUOTE] There were two Talons at my high school. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/24 "2008-06-17T16:34:44Z")
Being known as Max Peter isn’t much of an improvement. Maximus Prime would have been cooler. They could say it’s Optimus’ brother. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/25 "2008-06-17T19:01:03Z")
[QUOTE=Elza B] I’m thinking a Farscape fan who can’t spell. [/QUOTE] How would a Farscape fan spell “talon?” ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/26 "2008-06-17T19:22:50Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] How would a Farscape fan spell “talon?” [/QUOTE] Talyn. It was the name of one of the living ships. (The only reason that occurred to me was because I do know someone who named their daughter Aeryn after the show. Now I tend to associate ‘talon’ with ‘Talyn’ when I hear it.) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/27 "2008-06-17T20:09:48Z")
[QUOTE=cards] … Everyone is doing fine, but I fear for the boy named: **Maximus Peter.** … [/QUOTE] 1.) Peter comes from “rock.” Some guy named _Rocco Mediate_ just came this close to beating Tiger Woods. 2.) When the lad is really in trouble, the neighbors will hear his mom yell, “Maximus Peter, get in here right now!” 3.) Artist Peter Max did all right for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/28 "2008-06-18T00:39:40Z")
Don’t mind me, I was expecting [Lego](http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C06%5C10%5Cstory_10-6-2008_pg9_13). ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/29 "2008-06-18T00:54:13Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Normally, when a posters say “no, don’t use [name X], your kid will get teased!!!” I think it’s ridiculous, because every kid gets teased and the teasing also ends in time. [/QUOTE] One of the uhh… “liberating” things about having **Dickson** as a surname was the knowledge that there probably wasn’t much we could do in the choice of first names for our son that would significantly increase the chance of any name teasing at school. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/30 "2008-06-18T03:39:53Z")
[QUOTE=Apollyon] One of the uhh… “liberating” things about having **Dickson** as a surname was the knowledge that there probably wasn’t much we could do in the choice of first names for our son that would significantly increase the chance of any name teasing at school. 😃 [/QUOTE] Not if you went with: Eatmy Wantsum Yurra Little Bob ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/31 "2008-06-18T12:25:55Z")
[QUOTE=cards] Isn’t Maximus Latin? And is Maxwell German? [/QUOTE] I am of German ancestry, and there are a lot of classical-sounding Latin names in the genealogy. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/32 "2008-06-19T02:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Not if you went with: [/quote] Well, I did say “wasn’t much” we could do to worsen it… but then we weren’t _trying_ to be cruel to the poor child. 😃 > [@](#): > > Bob I had a (paternal) uncle named “Bob”. No idea if he got extra stick for that name. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/33 "2008-06-19T02:50:18Z")
Ah yes, Dickson…my son’s 6th grade math teacher was named Mr. Dickson. He had one of the worst toupees I have _ever_ seen, and dressed in shabby argyle vests, and was generally peculiar. The kids all called him Mr. Dickhead. Sometimes, to their horror, to his face. 😃 People just don’t think about names. My cousin, last name Ball, named her son (who died a few hours later, I’ve always said so he wouldn’t have to face the world with the name she gave him) after two dear family friends, using one’s nickname. So she named her child Bracken Waxy Ball. To this day I don’t think she realizes how awful it was. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/34 "2008-06-20T02:25:18Z")
[QUOTE=Apollyon] I had a (paternal) uncle named “Bob”. No idea if he got extra stick for that name. [/QUOTE] Was thinking more about this and realized that another uncle’s name of “Peter”, and a grand-father “Thomas” suggests my father’s family is possessed of either a blissful ignorance or a streak of cruel humour. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Neverender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/848f3c/32.png) [@Neverender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverender)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/35 "2008-06-20T02:42:59Z")
As i mentioned in the other names thread, i have recently learned from a friend that her cousin has just name her newborn daughter Paris Star Austin. Kids gonna grow up to be a high class hooker or a porn star. You can just _tell_. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/36 "2008-06-20T03:54:19Z")
I’m sorry, but the two worst baby names ever (although by the time I heard them they were adult names) remain **Latrina** and **Shitonya**. ---
**Author:** ![joemama24\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@joemama24\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joemama24_98)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/37 "2008-06-20T15:28:19Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I’m sorry, but the two worst baby names ever (although by the time I heard them they were adult names) remain **Latrina** and **Shitonya**. [/QUOTE] We have some friends who have some friends who adopted a baby from an African country…I forget which one. They really struggled with whether to keep his given name or not, which apparently is a fairly common cultural name It was “Shithead” (phonetically: Ssshhh “the” pronounced like “the” - “ayed”. But spelled Shithead. They ultimately changed it. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/38 "2008-06-20T19:52:23Z")
BIGBOO_TAY!_ Y’know though, abbreviated, Max Peter sounds even _more_ like a porn name. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/39 "2008-06-20T23:46:35Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] I know a couple who are going to have a son in a few months. Their chosen name: **Talon** [/QUOTE] That’s a friend’s nearly two-year-old grandson’s name, with that spelling. She said her son is a scifi fan, but I don’t know if Farscape was the inspiration. I think of hawks, so clearly it wasn’t a work I’ve run across. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/40 "2012-05-15T20:02:39Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I’m sorry, but the two worst baby names ever (although by the time I heard them they were adult names) remain **Latrina** and **Shitonya**. OK, sorry for the bump, but this was the lates ‘ridiculous name thread’ I could find. While this thread started ending up with some of the usual urban legends (see above), [here’s a story](http://www.wistv.com/story/18385867/fraud-suspect-turns-self-in-after-seeing-self-on-news) about someone who comes pretty close to “Sh’tonya.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157.md?page=3)