# Coworker got married last week...help me think of annoying names for offspring

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 6, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425 "2011-09-06T19:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/1 "2011-09-06T19:46:32Z")

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Her new name is Dropp. I feel it is my duty as an annoying coirker to come up with names for her children.

So she should consider Dew and Rayne as good kid names.

Help me out 🙂

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/2 "2011-09-06T20:14:17Z")

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Lyman! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/3 "2011-09-06T20:15:00Z")

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Surnames that can be used as first names:  
Maille  
Pinn  
Marquette  
Price

For when the child is listed alphabetically by last name:  
Anne Rolle  
Kick  
U. Laika Badde Abbot

Optimus Prime (to my husband: Okay, dear, I said it. Happy now?)

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**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/4 "2011-09-06T20:22:12Z")

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Nayme  
Drippe  
Tyr

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/5 "2011-09-06T20:23:03Z")

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Or better yet: (Dropp), Eula Eicke Abbad Abbot

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/6 "2011-09-06T21:28:06Z")

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Dewey  
Pearl  
Coffee

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/7 "2011-09-06T21:57:50Z")

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[Operation Dumbo](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114048/).

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**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/8 "2011-09-06T22:15:29Z")

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Seven

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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/9 "2011-09-06T23:33:58Z")

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[TABLE students; –](http://xkcd.com/327/)

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/10 "2011-09-07T00:55:12Z")

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Wowbagger

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**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/11 "2011-09-07T01:12:13Z")

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Sun

> **[Sun Drop](https://www.sundrop.com/)**
>
> It’s like a giant pipeline of refreshment channeled directly to you, for the sole purpose of quenching your thirst.

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**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/12 "2011-09-07T02:35:51Z")

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She can’t use Dew if it’s a girl, because she’ll be sentencing her daughter to a life of looking for some Chinese guy named In to marry.

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/13 "2011-09-07T03:14:14Z")

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[Gum](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4re9zTiAag).

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**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/14 "2011-09-07T07:56:13Z")

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Penny  
Long  
Stop (and roll)  
Snow  
Si

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/15 "2011-09-07T16:58:06Z")

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Candy

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**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/16 "2011-09-07T17:41:52Z")

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> [@Green\_Bean](#):
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> She can’t use Dew if it’s a girl, because she’ll be sentencing her daughter to a life of looking for some Chinese guy named In to marry.

Even better, she can marry a Chinese man named Ping and go by the nickname Lady Bird.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coworker-got-married-last-week-help-me-think-of-annoying-names-for-offspring/595425/17 "2011-09-07T18:54:14Z")

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Long
