As mentioned by a few people above, Azriel is a very normal Hebrew/Jewish name, and in Jewish lore, is not the angel of death, but the angel in charge of collecting prayers when they reach heaven.
Adonis is certainly unusal, but not in the “WTF” category. At least it means his parents consider him, or hope him to grow up, exceptionally handsome.
Melaena (or Melena in the US) is tarry stool (faeces which is black because it contains old blood). Malena and melaena are pronounced the same way.
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“Sex Fruit”? Seriously? Someone tried to name their child “Sex Fruit”?
“Yeah Detroit” is funny because it doesn’t even sound very enthusiastic. These people are mildly in favor of Detroit.
“Stallion”, although a ridiculous name, doesn’t seem bad enough that it should have been prohibited.
For years, my wiseass suggestion to friends who were expecting a boy, and then my own joking claim when my wife was pregnant, was Hiram. It was just such a ridiculously old-fashioned sounding name (as in, circa 1830) as to be laughable. In this thread, of course, we know where this is going.
Last year, while on the daycare playground after picking my 3-year-old, I heard a mother calling to her son. “Hiram! Hiram, stop that!” etc. I about strained a muscle in my neck stopping myself from the double-take I started to do.
Even better, I later saw the child’s name on a roster of kids at the daycare. I was wrong about the spelling. Apparently it’s “Hyrum.”
Talk about a name that fails the “throes of passion” test. “Ohhh, that feels soooo good! Ohhhh, Hyrum!” Makes me cringe just thinking about it. Of course, it may be a self-correcting problem, as there’s a good chance that a young man named Hyrum will never get to be intimate with a lady.
My son’s middle name is Gal, which is Hebrew for “wave” (it’s a common name). Can he be their friend?
That better be spelled with a “כ”.
Ugh, this is always an interesting topic to me.
I worked my way through college in a medical records department at a hospital.
We’d see some really crazy names. The hospital was in downtown Tulsa; which makes me wonder if correlation is causation in this case. IOW I would like to see if there is a correlation to babies names that are uncommon and income or race.
From when my kids were little my son played on a soccer team with a kid who was named Sunny. Yep that’s the right spelling, and he had two younger sisters named Stormy and Rainy.
I knew siblings with the last name Ray. The boy’s middle name was Sun and the girl’s middle name was Moon. I kind of like that. They had normal first names so it was nothing that would ever sound unprofessional or whatever.
My second option for my son’s name was Julian. I thought it was cool, and it came directly from a place of love: Deep Space 9.
However my third choice was Mordred. That didn’t fly. Neither did Kinthalis, EVEN when I offered to change my name to Kinthalis so he’d be Kinthalis Jr.
I think they should bring back ancient Mayan/Aztec names. They were cool. Would love to see a teacher try and pronounce them on their first day of school 
Huitzilopochtli
Quetzalcoatl
Draco. Yes, that’s right. Draco.
I’ve no objection in principle, but it’s a helluva commute for a play-date.
Well, to be fair, the only “official” spelling is in English, where it’s spelled with a “ch”
However, the Biblical personage is spelled with a ches, not a chof.
Zev Steinhardt
I will never think of her without equating her to a dead underwater city now. And I thank you for that.
Evidently, just like “Stariana” would be pronounced. My friend (who is awesome) had to write a note about the kid to the principal, and just refused on general principles to include the “o.”
I saw another good one on a mom message board … Tenesea (pronounced like Tennessee). WTF?
Assuming we’re allowed to have a historical version of this game, it gives me the opportunity to share the all-time greatest name I’ve encountered personally in real life.
This is one of those that falls into the category of “Your last name is bad enough…now you want to make things even worse for your kid?”
In junior high school I took music lessons from a guy whose name was…
Loyal Mould
A relative recently named their child Leah…nice enough, especially since it’s an older name used on that side of the family.
The child’s middle name is Skye. Okay… now guess what the child’s last name is. :smack: Hopefully the kid will get more “wow, cool!” comments than teasing.
I like some place names but some people seem to think all place names can make good names for people. The kid of a friend of mine in Utah had a classmate named Seattle.
And, I’m REALLY not one of those people who thinks it’s horrible if a name could ever conceivably be mispronounced (my name is very rarely pronounced correctly by English-speakers and I’m cool with it), but no one is EVER going to pronounce Tenesea like Tennessee on the first try.
I have a Thywillbedone from an eccentric part of the country (India) which has also produced Memorabilia , morningstar and Adolf Hitler
Saintly Loser:
Did she frequently need help from Sister Rhonda?