Bad baby names.

[whiterabbit]

[QUOTE=whiterabbit]
(well, David is pretty popular, but it’s not trendy) names. Oh my yes. I like my name!

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David would be my brother’s name, btw, I’m female – and too old to have been given a boy’s name because “it’s cuuute!”

[FilmGeek]

Originally Posted by Audrey Levins
My own name, which has never been revealed to the members of SDMB, sounds innocuous until you realize it’s inexorably tied to a legendary sitcom from the 70’s. Which I have to hear about EVERY SINGLE TIME I introduce myself to anyone. My parents didn’t do it on purpose, but I don’t care; I’m extremely bitter.

I was guessing Laverne or possibly Shirley.

[Loopydude]

My mother has a college friend named Bambi. But it gets better: She has another college chum named Shanda Lear. And, no, neither one of them were porn stars. These were given names, not chosen ones, I’m afraid.

[Loopydude]

Oh, shit, I just remembered another good one:

My ex-girlfriend Kim’s mother worked in Charleston, SC as a social worker, counseling single mothers. Well, one of her clients announced she wanted to name her daughter “Euthanasia”. I swear, I absolutely SWEAR I am not making this up. The woman simply liked the sound of it, and that was that. Kim’s mom tried every way she could think of to get this woman to change her mind without overstepping her bounds as a counselor, but to no avail. In fact, she wound up pissing the woman off in the process, and mother-to-be stormed out of her office in a huff, never to see her again. To this day, none of us knows for sure if there’s a Euthanasia out there or not…

[Beauty_Personified]

Alice Cooper and his wife Sheryl named their kids Calico, Dashiell and Sonora Rose. Dashiell is their son! Fortunately, they just call him Dash, which is pretty cool. And of course, their father’s name is Alice.

Boxer George Foreman named all five of his sons George - George Jr., George III, George IV, George V, and George VI. He also has five daughters. I don’t know their names, but I’m not sure I want to.

Anyhoo…

[elmwood]

Not a baby name, but still timely - a few days ago, after a trip to the supermarket, I checked my reciept.

GIANT EAGLE
Your cashier is DEVIOUS

[jastu]

@Audrey Levins

I used to know a family who named their daughter Bronte. Like the author. They got it from the movie Greencard. (And no, I do not know how to do the little two dots over the “e,” and I’m not bored enough to find out how.)

Seriously, people. Can anybody think of a few handy nicknames she’ll get in school? Bronte-saurus, just for starters?

I have a step-brother Bronte and a brother in law Hilton Attila.

@Audrey Levins

My own name, which has never been revealed to the members of SDMB, sounds innocuous until you realize it’s inexorably tied to a legendary sitcom from the 70’s. Which I have to hear about EVERY SINGLE TIME I introduce myself to anyone. My parents didn’t do it on purpose, but I don’t care; I’m extremely bitter.

Maud?

Rhoda?

[larsenmtl]

@Mangetout

I used to live near a family that named their young children Darren, Sharon, Karen and Aaron.
Now, there’s nothing wrong with any of these names, but when they are bawled a the top of your voice in quick succession; “Darren! Sharon! Karen! Aaron! stop kicking the fucking dog!” it just isn’t right, somehow.

There was another family in the same street who I think just made up nonsensical, polysyllabic names for their children; I can’t even remember what they were now though.

Not quite as bad, but a family I knew growing up named their sons, Brad and Chad. And of course, there was their Dad. Trying to get the right person to the phone was a pain.

[Nightingale]

@Audrey Levins

My own name, which has never been revealed to the members of SDMB, sounds innocuous until you realize it’s inexorably tied to a legendary sitcom from the 70’s. Which I have to hear about EVERY SINGLE TIME I introduce myself to anyone. My parents didn’t do it on purpose, but I don’t care; I’m extremely bitter.

It’s hard to keep smiling the ten billionth time somebody makes the same joke about your name.

C’mon people. THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

[Jan Brady voice] Marsha, Marsha, Marsha![/Jan Brady voice]

[lisacurl]

@Beauty Personified

Alice Cooper and his wife Sheryl named their kids Calico, Dashiell and Sonora Rose. Dashiell is their son! Fortunately, they just call him Dash, which is pretty cool. And of course, their father’s name is Alice.

I think Dashiell is the most normal of those three names. Maybe they’re Maltese Falcon fans.

[USCDiver]

@Audrey Levins

My own name, which has never been revealed to the members of SDMB, sounds innocuous until you realize it’s inexorably tied to a legendary sitcom from the 70’s. Which I have to hear about EVERY SINGLE TIME I introduce myself to anyone. My parents didn’t do it on purpose, but I don’t care; I’m extremely bitter.

Chachi?

[Loopydude]

Meathead?

[Helen_s_Eidolon]

@Skerri

Obligatory link:

Baby’s Named A Bad, Bad Thing

Hilarious. Hours of amusing, horrifying reading.

I’m… DYING…

I haven’t laughed so hard in a while.

[Happy_Lendervedder]

@Jeep's Phoenix

I know of a child named Fisher. Not so great by itself; however, the poor child’s last name is Price.

LA Dodger Milton Bradley.
And as far as the 70s sitcom name goes, I guess:

Babarino.

[Flutterby]

@whiterabbit

David would be my brother’s name, btw, I’m female – and too old to have been given a boy’s name because “it’s cuuute!”

My name was once a boys name, but is now used as a female name (at least I’ve never run into or heard of anyone of the male persuasion with my name)

[FairyChatMom]

@Silver Fire

My cousin is having a baby soon and he wants to name it Zavior (yeah, like Jesus with a Z) if it’s a boy.

Are you sure he’s not just misspelling Xavier? Just a thought

[matt_mcl]

1. My mom’s next-door neighbours (friends of the family) named their oldest daughter Aurélie, which is a lovely name until you realize that in English it’s pronounced Orally.

(They don’t have the excuse of being francophone, either, as the mom is Polish and the father is I think American. And they are both doctors – mercifully, not ENTs.)

Mercifully, her nickname is Lili. If it were me, I would give serious consideration to making that my usual social name.

2. Narrowly averted bad name: a pregnant woman in one of my classes was discussing baby names, and said she was considering Alexia. Again, a pretty name; too bad it means “the pathological inability to read.”

It could be worse. “Amelia” means being born without limbs.

3. Google reveals a number of people named “Brent Paris,” which is a fine name – unless you know German. “Brennt Paris?” means “Is Paris burning?” It’s what Hitler screamed in a rage over the telephone to his prefect in Paris, whom he had ordered to burn the city down during the last days of the war.

[quiltguy154]

Years ago I worked for a doctor who did an internship in OB-GYN at a charity hospital . One of his patients, who already had several children, bemoaned the fact that she was running out of names. Her last name was Lee, he jokingly proffered the name “Vagina.” She liked the sound of it, and it later apppeared on the baby’s birth certificate. Poor kid, hope she had a sympathetic circle of friends and co-workers.

[belladonna]

@matt_mcl

It could be worse. “Amelia” means being born without limbs.

I love the name Amelia, meaning be damned! It was top on my list of girl names with my last baby. I ended up with a boy though so I’ve got an Atticus instead of an Amelia.
As to the running “What’s that name?” game, I’m guessing Farrah.

[Marley23]

Alice Cooper and his wife Sheryl named their kids Calico, Dashiell and Sonora Rose. Dashiell is their son!

Dashiell is a boy’s name, as opposed to Alice (girl) or Calico (cat). I actually like it, although I don’t know if I’d use it myself.