Strange baby names?

amysj303

I met someone named extrafine once, yes extra fine. Interestingly she wasn't, I guess people don't always grow to fit their names. oh and there is a movie star who's kids name is I am pretty sure pilot inspector.

that's Pilot Inspektor, with a "K"! it's actor Jason Lee.
And there is Moxie Crimefighter, born to Penn or Teller, I think.

kleavitt1992

Growing up I knew a girl by the name of Vodka

HAHA well she must have been the life of the party

Seajolly

One of my friends has a nephew named Jasper. A co-worker recently named their son Clyde. I realize these names aren't that "out there" but all I can think is poor kids. Thank goodness you can change your name when you grow up. I've always hated my first name and I plan to drop it when I get married.

What is wrong with those names? They are fine names...

amysj303

So, this one is often regarded as an urban myth. I am here to tell you that, unfornately, it is not.

My stepmom works for Children's Services. One of the girls on her case load is named Sh*thead (and if you've heard the "urban myth" before, yes --- it is pronounced "Shi-theed").


Please tell me how THAT name was ever legally allowed. Poor girl. There's a reason children's services is involved.


(Coincidentally -- Police Officer that patrolled near my high school was named Richard Butt. He actually went by ****.)

It's actually a pretty common Indian name, pronounced Shi-thay-yed, my friends husband saw it on the roll when he started as a teacher, yikes, I wouldn't know what to say!

lilRicki

Billie Joe Armstrong (lead singer of Green Day) named his son Jakob Danger Armstrong...so he can say "danger's my middle name" lol I think that's awesome

lindsaylove07

I'm pretty sure in Austria nad Germany it's illegal to name your kids Adolf or Hitler. I went to school with a family of kids, Duke, Duchess, Prince, and Rashaad....I'm not sure whether to be glad or sad for Rashaad that he got left out of the royal naming trend...

Then there was Cash Money (pronounce Cash Monet), then there's the urban legand of La-A (prounounced Ladasha, yeah, read the dash out loud lol) A friend of mine had a cousin name Female (pronounced like tamale), it was a hispanic relative who didn't understand the form where it said name-female, she thought they had named her daughter already or something? It was strange

Chiquita_Banana

oh my husband worked with a guy whos name was ahshoh...they called him (a*shole)

thedreamhazer

So, this one is often regarded as an urban myth. I am here to tell you that, unfornately, it is not.

My stepmom works for Children's Services. One of the girls on her case load is named Sh*thead (and if you've heard the "urban myth" before, yes --- it is pronounced "Shi-theed").


Please tell me how THAT name was ever legally allowed. Poor girl. There's a reason children's services is involved.


(Coincidentally -- Police Officer that patrolled near my high school was named Richard Butt. He actually went by ****.)

It's actually a pretty common Indian name, pronounced Shi-thay-yed, my friends husband saw it on the roll when he started as a teacher, yikes, I wouldn't know what to say!

Didn't know that! I'll try to pretend like that's what this girl's mother intended.

(Poor husband! I wouldn't even try. Just ask them, lol.)

Kolohe71

Also had a college professor that was named Harry (not Harold) Weiner. It was rumored, but never confirmed, that he named his son Richard.

Angellore

I work at the airport and I hear and see some odd names. Just the other day this very posh English woman (i'm British) was shouting at her screaming little brat who was running around being obnoxious: "Huxley you come here, right this instant". My colleague and I just looked at each other. Huxley? The thing is there used to be a cartonn on in the 80's which was called Huxley Pig! Incidentally, she later told him that if he didn't behave she would tell his nanny!
Another time a woman came through and she had twin boys. Their names were Calvin and Klein. Poor things.
Get alot of people called names like Godspeed, Godswilling, those names are very popular in Nigeria. Just today my friend dealt with a lady called Beauty Smooth!
I'm sure i'll remember some more later.

thunt1990

I have a friend who named her baby boy Dartagnane (i guess its pronounced Dattanion) I was told he is the 4th musketeer idk. I think its a dumb name lol but his moms name is ayla so i guess its ok. Oh yeah the last name is Van riper. Dartagnane Van Riper....

MrsCon40

One of my friends has a nephew named Jasper. A co-worker recently named their son Clyde. I realize these names aren't that "out there" but all I can think is poor kids. Thank goodness you can change your name when you grow up. I've always hated my first name and I plan to drop it when I get married.

My mom's husband's name is Clyde. I love him and he's fantastically awesome.

WowieGarcia

Geez, feeling sorry for your kids or any you'll have.

MrsCon40

The San Francisco Giants used to have a pitching coach named D!ck Pole. Seriously.

Lleldiranne

A few years ago, I had a kind in my Kindergarten class named Imhotep. It was a few years after The Mummy (movie) so it makes me wonder. (No, the family wasn't Egyptian or anything, either)

thetrishwarp

My mom joked that she wanted to name my brother Ryan and myself Ginger Dale ... like Rye and Gingerale...


thank goodness she didn't!

Seajolly

I like weird names... My children are going to have really eclectic names! I'm a big fan of these names:

Tea (girl) pronounced Tay-a
Finnigan (boy) - I realize this is not a totally weird name, but kind of a rare name. Nickname would be Finn.
Anders (boy) - popular Scandinavian name, but not popular in the US.
Bine (girl) - another Scandinavian name. Pronounced 'bean'.
River (boy or girl)
Freja (girl) - Scandinavian name.
Gunnar (boy) - Scandinavian name.
Hanne (girl) - pronounced Hanna.
Harbor (girl or boy)

chocolateandvodka

my first name is Leora. it's awful. I am called "Leroy" daily, and 99% of the people i meet add an N in my name. seriously. it's awful. yet although i've been married and divorced, i've kept the horrific moniker because... i'm the third Leora. My mother and grandmother were both amazing people and it's one thing i'll always share with them even though they aren't here.

Of course, both of them went by their middle names, but my middle name is even worse, so i suffer through it. (or go by Miko)

Two same name stories: i have a sister in law who is named Dana Dawn. Her sister is also Dana Dawn. no lie. one goes by Dana, the other goes by Dawn.
Then i have another friend named Charlie. apparently his dad was obsessed with the name and used it for every dog he ever had, (and any other kind of pet) as well as his only son "Charlie".

amberleebrock

my friend just named her son Phinneaus Danger Mathison

thkelly

One of my friends has a nephew named Jasper. A co-worker recently named their son Clyde. I realize these names aren't that "out there" but all I can think is poor kids. Thank goodness you can change your name when you grow up. I've always hated my first name and I plan to drop it when I get married.

my nephew's name is Jasper. i think it's pretty cool. it's a really cool town here in Alberta.

misscristie

I met someone named extrafine once, yes extra fine. Interestingly she wasn't, I guess people don't always grow to fit their names. oh and there is a movie star who's kids name is I am pretty sure pilot inspector.

Pen Gillette named his little girl Moxy Crimefighter. I kind of love that one.

And, of course, Nicholas Cage named his son Kal El (Superman's Kryptonian name, for the non-geeks).

Love Penn Jillette!! He had to name her that because he's awesome.

r3451

I worked in a school where we had a 5th grader named Alize...she had twin younger sisters named Tequila and Tanqueray.

chelekaz

Well we named our first son Xavier and had a lot of people looking at us quite strangely in our family. I know that it isn't a common name but seriously? Wyatt is our second and everyone was against it because of Wyatt Earp...

BUT... the cake (mmm,....cake LOL)... If Xavier had been a little girl her first name would have been Isabella and her middle name would have been Serendipity. We had agreements. Boy - he gets first name, I get second and reversed for a girl. So now we have Xavier Lance (Lance was my Dad's name) and Wyatt Wayne (Wayne was DH's brother's name; though I feel like we are talking like Daffy Duck when saying it together!).

And... one of my best friends name was Dartania growing up (feminine form of D'artagnan the 4th Musketeer).

ChristinaMarie85

I heard about a woman who named her twins La'Washa and La'Drya, she explained how to spell it "L-A-comma on top..." since she didn't know what an apostrophe is...

hahahahaha:laugh:

Froggy1976

Ever hear of the race car driver D!ck Trickle? Unfortunate name......
My sons name is Fletcher...not too off the wall but not too common either.

edit because I got stars for his first name.....it's a name!

losethechalupa

ABCD pronounced Absidy.

I do think ppl should be able to name their children what they want w/o gov intervention. Don't they have enough say in our lives as it is?

I agree that alot of names are ridiculous but who am I to judge.

Trixtabella

I like the name Lucifer, it means The Morning Star. I don't see any issue with calling a child this name.

cjstrong

I cant stand guys that have girl names like...

STACY

sucks for them

fbmandy55

My mom's old bass player had kids named Nico and Nigel.

I also know lots of hippies. One of them has gone with strange names for their kids (Star, Rain, etc.) I am a somewhat of a hippie myself but never considered elemental names.

LilChickPea

I went to high school with a girl name Happy Anne Kuhn. She always told us her parents were hippies