# The worst name in recent history? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270 "2015-03-29T14:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/41 "2015-03-30T21:02:18Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Shiloh Pitt. Surely his classmates wouldn’t be so cruel as to mix it up a little. I’m not getting what pun you think that morphs into. Technically, it’s Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and Shiloh is going by John these days, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/42 "2015-03-30T21:45:06Z")
Discussed here when it first came out, Pile o’ Shit. Kids will take something as innocuous as a bunt cake and… Shiloh normally is a pretty cool name. Here, I’d go by John too. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/43 "2015-03-30T22:00:25Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > For my money it’s going to take some real effort to beat > [http://groundreport.com/zezozose-zadfrack-glutz-survives-his-mother-susan-atkins/](http://groundreport.com/zezozose-zadfrack-glutz-survives-his-mother-susan-atkins/) Manson may not have been the biological father, but he’s the one (surprise!) who named the kid. The last name came from the name he gave to Atkins, “Sadie Glutz.” Manson gave most of the women new names, with the notable exception of Leslie Van Houten, who apparently felt left out enough that one of the reasons she agreed to participate in the Tate-LaBianca murders was that she was hoping it would earn her a nickname. At least, so she said in an interview years later. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/44 "2015-03-30T23:30:29Z")
I just finished reading that book. He wasn’t in American custody for a full day before they advised him to change it, which he did. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/45 "2015-03-31T04:11:34Z")
In my neck of the woods, there is a family of prominent businessmen with the last name of “Raper.” Pronounced just as you’d think. Raper car dealerships, Raper Auditorium at the community college, Raper scholarship, etc. Big billboards, catchy ads on the radio, etc. I still cringe every time. “Save today, the Raper way!!” [http://content.dynamicmessenger.com/fmca/images/390/raper\_logo.jpg](http://content.dynamicmessenger.com/fmca/images/390/raper_logo.jpg) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/46 "2015-03-31T07:11:48Z")
“Where Fun Begins”?! :eek: Ew. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/47 "2015-03-31T13:56:05Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > “Where Fun Begins”?! :eek: > > Ew. EXACTLY!! 😛 :smack: (Funny thing is, we were maybe going to look at RVs…I don’t know if I could keep a straight face!) Just read that they’re selling the (auto) company to a non-Raper. I suppose they’ll be changing the name first thing! ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/48 "2015-03-31T14:21:09Z")
How about the recent spate of children named Abcde? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/49 "2015-03-31T14:45:46Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > I’m still voting for “Hitler” as the worst name ever. Just TRY and find one in the phone book, these days. And “Adolf” (or “Adolph”) used to be quite a popular name for men. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/50 "2015-03-31T14:59:16Z")
> [@Elemenopy](#): > > In my neck of the woods, there is a family of prominent businessmen with the last name of “Raper.” Pronounced just as you’d think. Raper car dealerships, Raper Auditorium at the community college, Raper scholarship, etc. Big billboards, catchy ads on the radio, etc. I still cringe every time. > > “Save today, the Raper way!!” > > [http://content.dynamicmessenger.com/fmca/images/390/raper\_logo.jpg](http://content.dynamicmessenger.com/fmca/images/390/raper_logo.jpg) > > :eek: You must live near me. I’ve heard ads for the Raper RV dealership on the radio. Jeez! He must know how cringe-worthy that sounds. On a similar vein, there is plant called rape, and its seeds are used to make a very popular cooking oil. The producers of this product wisely decided to call it Canola oil, rather than Rape Oil :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Brynhildr\_Budladottir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Brynhildr\_Budladottir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynhildr_Budladottir)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/51 "2015-04-01T05:38:42Z")
I once found a thread on another forum on an urban legend about a guy whose last name was supposedly Darling. His initials were WB and they stood for “Welcome Baby”. [Here](http://https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/misc.writing/f7cXbmPgyvc/KEyLjJwNks0J) and [here](http://http://www.fluther.com/157919/whats-the-silliest-baby-name-youve-ever-heard/). And not that unfortunate but when my brother and I were in high school there was a boy in the year below my brother at his school who had a really long surname. Apparently he cried when people called him by his full name. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/52 "2015-04-01T06:23:02Z")
I have for some time thought that the worst name one could give a daughter would be Cinnamon Candy Ryder. That girl is just plain going to be a stripper. C Candy Ryder? Cinnamon C. Ryder? CC Ryder? Nope. No doctor is going to have this name. Batman bin Suparman, on the other hand, hit the jackpot. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/53 "2015-04-01T06:30:57Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Let’s not forget baseball! > > How could we all forget Kosuke Fukudome? For me, nothing will beat that one. I feel like I’m missing something. With a lot of effort, I was able to arrive at “fuck you dome”, but that takes more gymnastics to arrive at than your statement that it can’t be beat would seem to imply. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/54 "2015-04-02T03:10:06Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > You must live near me. I’ve heard ads for the Raper RV dealership on the radio. Jeez! He must know how cringe-worthy that sounds. Actually, I wondered if it was the prevalence of the name “Raper,” which probably either comes from the older meaning of the word “rape,” which would make “raper” mean “thief,” which isn’t great, but not as bad as, well, “rapist,” that caused the word “rapist” to be coined in the first place. “Rapist” is kind of an unusual construction. It’d be like calling someone who bakes a “bakist.” Usually -ist is added to nouns and -er is added to verbs. Now, I realize that rape is a noun and a verb, but typically verb+er is the default to form an agentive when the root word is both noun and verb-- “painter,” for example, or sleeper. It’s only when the root word isn’t a verb at all, like deist, or futurist, that -ist gets used. I’ve heard Raper RV ads too. I went through life before I was married as a “Goldhammer.” To be honest, I stopped hearing the meaning of it. It was just my name. When someone would point out that it meant something, I’d have to think about it for a minute. > [@](#): > > On a similar vein, there is plant called rape, and its seeds are used to make a very popular cooking oil. The producers of this product wisely decided to call it Canola oil, rather than Rape Oil :eek: Rapeseed oils was a specialty item available in “health food” stores, and in stores that sold the raw ingredients for making Asian (mainly Indian) dishes. When it hit the mass market sometime in the 90s it became Canola oil, because it was a Canadian import at first (or something-- it’s Can+ola for Canadian oil. > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I feel like I’m missing something. With a lot of effort, I was able to arrive at “fuck you dome”, but that takes more gymnastics to arrive at than your statement that it can’t be beat would seem to imply. “Fuck you, do me.” ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270/55 "2015-04-02T08:29:14Z")
There’s a famous footballer [Johnny Raper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Raper), and a bunch of his relos also footy players. Which led to this > **[Joke lands captain in trouble | News24](https://www.news24.com/news24/xArchive/Sport/MoreSport/Joke-lands-captain-in-trouble-20040304)** > > The captain of Australia's rugby league Test team has been rebuked after he made a tasteless joke about rape. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-name-in-recent-history/716270.md?page=2)