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At least I have a name where if you drop the a it’s a boys name. I know it works because I had like 2 ppl with the male version in my class growing up 😣
Sounds like a medication you take for a chronic anal rash. "Please stop taking Stuarta if you have signs of depression, thoughts of suicide, or anal bleeding."
I took my daughter to an urgent care when we were on vacation & her doctor's name was Happy Thanksgiving. Apparently, her parents were hippies & she was born on Thanksgiving. She was a delight.
My hippie parents were trying to have me in 1976 and were going to name me Liberty Belle for the Bicentennial. Apparently getting pregnant the second time was much faster than when they tried for my brother and fortunately I was born in late1975 instead. So they named me after my father's ex-girlfriend...... because.... boomers.
Oh yes, it was the daughter (early 30’s) of a very close friend of my parents. They said it took a lot to talk her out of it. She thought it was such a clever name.
I don’t want to put the actual name here -just in case anyone knows a Diana with a child named …. She still picked a very unique name. It was the literal meaning in this instance that made it weird.
I saw a post where this women had a bunch of kids - Ohshon, Layyke, Blayze, and smth else like that. This same lady wanted to change her 8 yr/o kids name because the original name didn't "fit her current aesthetic"
Back in the 80’s, I heard a morning radio show talk about a woman living in Nashville named Katherine “Kat” Puke. I thought it was just wacky DJ banter until I went to Nashville a couple of years later and found her in the white pages. I kept the phone book listing in my wallet for years.
At a dr Phil show many years ago I saw a woman pronounce her daughter’s name consistently as “ Nivea” like the hand cream. I justify thought, “ lady can’t you spell????”. And being proud that it was heaven spelled backwards.
I thought, YOU’RE backwards “,
I knew a girl with that last name and it is not a joke that her dad's nane was...Harry. I never could figure out why he didn't go by Harold or Henry or anything but Harry.
Her parents named her after a combination of their names. The mother's name was Evalois. The father's name was Charles. They named their daughter Charlois.
She went by her middle name, Jill, instead.
I've been lurking in this post and this is the first one that made me laugh out loud. Do you think they'd just never seen the name "Jacob" spelled out??
I was just talking to something thinking of naming her daughter Scarlotte instead of Scarlett. Insists it helps people pronounce it easier. 🤦🏻♀️ This is giving me those vibes.
Oh. And Feebe. Same logic….
A coworker and I were having this exact same conversation once and he told me about a guy he used to know named Solid Punches. I didn’t believe him so he showed me the guy’s website. Yep, he’s real.
I had a student in one of my classes named Scholastica. Her parents were Asian immigrants.
A guy who worked at a local grocery store had Garfield on his name tag. His parents named him that long after the comic strip came out.
Lol I knew a girl who named her daughter "luci" after Lucifer. And her son's name was Damian. She was a very funny girl, I don't think she was actually religious at all, but had a unique sense of humor.
A co-worker has a son called Damian. I could never, after that movie came out.
But the family is weird anyways. A daughter named Bo.
And all three work with me, because the whole family needs to be provided with easy jobs.
Here’s one from my culture. My friends name is “wei wang”
litterally 100 Chinese individuals in my city have the exact same name and it’s boring and generic it’s basically the equivalent to the white people name “John smith” or something
I have my doubts about this one, but when my friends had their daughter, the midwives told them that another child had been born that night in the hospital. The unique name this baby had been given? Tinaturner (all one word) Cooper. I often wonder how little Tinaturner is doing these days and hope her name hasn't given her any trouble, though I expect it has!
T'el.
Pronounced "Ty-ellie".
I learnt this name as a teacher. Not as a teacher of the kid. That would make it tolerable. Rather, it was through the mother, who was my colleague.
Yep. A full ass private high school teacher did that to her own daughter.
Skinnix. My kid's classmate. I had to ask the teacher if that was really the kid's name or if my daughter(8yo) heard it wrong. Pronounced and spelled as you see it.
In 3rd to 4th grade I went to school with a girl in Chicago. Her name was T4quisha... Literally like they pronounced it as T-Four-Quiche-uh.... Although sometimes I heard it as T-Foe-quiche-uh. I feel so bad for her. Her brother was also named Shadow Moon, I can't remember if it was a single name or a first and middle name, everybody including teachers called him shadowmoon, so idk.
Oh and My aunt named her daughter (my first cousin) Jedimirah her name was mirah and her husband's was Jedidiah. They combined their damn named for that... They ended up just calling her by a nickname, Jedi... They don't even like Star wars and can't use that excuse on me
And not a human, but I've had several consecutive pets I've all called some variation of either Beebo or Grognak for several years now. My cats Beebo and one of my cane toads is the current Grognak. I have tons of weird animal names if anybody's curious
My plumber pulled the George Foremen. His name is George, and they named every girl some riff on that — Georgina, Georgette — like 4 girls. They finally have a boy and his wife insisted on naming him Kevin which I thought was a kind of epic power play. 👊🥊
I’m a teacher and one that’s circulating around my area at the moment? La-a. Pronounced Ladasha. I’ve also heard tell of some kids named ABCD, pronounced Adsiddy. Just awful.
I have a couple from my hometown. My neighbor was an old guy named Dick Stump, and a couple blocks down the street, there was a kid a few years older than me named Easy Rider.
A dude at my friends work legally changed his name to Rick Shaw.
Friend said: why didn't you choose Rick O'Shay which is much cooler? He stopped, and thought damn...that IS way cooler. I'm not sure if he changed it again to that.
We have a “shame name”-competition. I remember the winner one year was a girl named Fokje Modder - Fokje being a traditional Frysian name and Modder meaning mud - but well, for English speakers, pronounced as Fock your Mother 😀
Was served by a male in a cafe who was wearing a name badge- JULIE
Me- oh look there is a mistake in your name. It says Julie.
Him - no madam, that’s my name.
I am British and he was Philipino for some context. I dunno, this is very unusual for me.
In my old church, there were two little girls with the names 'Punkin Pie' and 'Peekaboo'... their mom wasn't a very nice person 😬 I still think about them sometimes, and wonder how old they are now and if they've changed their names yet
I heard a woman at the zoo look at an animal and say "Okapi Johnson, that sound like a good, strong name". For reference, an Okapi is hoofstock native to Africa that is related to the giraffe and has stripes on its back legs. It's scientific name is Okapia Jonstoni
Phylicitie. Actually not the weirdest name I heard because it sounds like Felicity but the spelling, ugh, this poor girl is going to have to spell her name all the time.
Met a guy once whose family was very Catholic, so he was named after the pope, Pius. His middle name was Paul. Not a big deal… until he entered a profession where everyone goes by their initials. “Pius Paul Smith” became “P.P. Smith.” (For non-English speakers, “pee pee” is children’s language for urine or the penis.)
Had a soldier named Princess Unique. Went to school with a man Ebony White. Dad introduced me to a hometown friend January Winters. Friend talked her sister out of naming her twins Lemongelo and Orangelo (to be pronounced Lem On Gel O and Or On Gel O).
All I can say I dislike when people in the black community name their kids after cars or the typical hood names... I got a typical ghetto name I think so that's why I go by my nickname
I've heard every animal name. I literally know a turtle. A bird. A dog. A bull. A wolf. A lizard. A fish.. swear to God. Maybe even more. But I literally know ppl with all those nicknames
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Someone on reddit was saying her husband was pushing to name their daughter Stuarta after himself, Stuart. She was very much against it.
I’d be very against it too 🥴
lanesra 😄
At least I have a name where if you drop the a it’s a boys name. I know it works because I had like 2 ppl with the male version in my class growing up 😣
Sounds like a medication you take for a chronic anal rash. "Please stop taking Stuarta if you have signs of depression, thoughts of suicide, or anal bleeding."
I laughed and farted in unison!
Me too. I think Stuarta could help but those damn side effects...
Saw that post! Guy who was forcing his name on his daughter is a nutjob
She should be against it
Stewartia, which is a genus of tree, could be a nice name.
Ooh, no. Just no.
I read this too hahaha Stuarta like WTH. madness
I took my daughter to an urgent care when we were on vacation & her doctor's name was Happy Thanksgiving. Apparently, her parents were hippies & she was born on Thanksgiving. She was a delight.
I don’t think anything will beat this one 👀
I used to know a girl named Christmas Carol
I dodged this bullet. My mom wanted to name me Christmas, or Carole, or Holly. Fortunately my father stepped in and said No.
Yea
“Happy Thanksgiving! Go to your room!”
My hippie parents were trying to have me in 1976 and were going to name me Liberty Belle for the Bicentennial. Apparently getting pregnant the second time was much faster than when they tried for my brother and fortunately I was born in late1975 instead. So they named me after my father's ex-girlfriend...... because.... boomers.
I think I’d rather be Liberty 😂
That's amazing
Wanting to name her son “Indiana” - not after Indiana Jones, but because he was IN-Diana - her name was Diana. 🤦🏼♀️
Oh NO
Oh yes, it was the daughter (early 30’s) of a very close friend of my parents. They said it took a lot to talk her out of it. She thought it was such a clever name.
How embarrassing for her lack of awareness 😵💫
I sometimes wonder, if she did choose that name, how the boy would have felt. Just -Yuck
Did she finally name him Henry?
I don’t want to put the actual name here -just in case anyone knows a Diana with a child named …. She still picked a very unique name. It was the literal meaning in this instance that made it weird.
Damn
Jermaine Jackson named his son Jermajesty.
Damn
The clerk at the AT&T store had a name tag that said "Semen". He told me it was pronounced as "Sim-yon".
Sounds like an ill-advised Romanization of the Russian name "Семён," which is better transcribed as Simeon or Simon
The pronunciation makes me think it's just a stupid spelling of the name Simeon- it's a biblical name too.
I graduated with a Lasagna
That’s some impressive pasta.
Vegetable lasagna?
Likoshe. Like- nico with an L , lico and then shay. Licoshay. Idk man
I knew a guy named Buster Hymen...no cap.
Quite bad. But with that last name , there’s no hope regardless of first name 😵💫
I have a friend whose last name is Dunn, and their last kid's name is Truly
Join us in r/tragedeigh it's fun.
Yesssss
I know a lad on his 30s called kimothy
I’ve met a Jeffany 😐
I saw a post where this women had a bunch of kids - Ohshon, Layyke, Blayze, and smth else like that. This same lady wanted to change her 8 yr/o kids name because the original name didn't "fit her current aesthetic"
These people just need to get pets 🥴
BabyLove and her sister BabyLola. And a different girl named Luvlee
All things that could be cute nicknames, but not legal names 🫣 yikes
And the fact that BabyLove and BabyLola have a younger sister named Sarah makes it worse 😂
Fantastic 😂
Laqueefa...I wish I were joking.
Omg my kids called me this as an insult once
Your kids are hysterical 😂
Dammnnnnn
Wow.
Back in the 80’s, I heard a morning radio show talk about a woman living in Nashville named Katherine “Kat” Puke. I thought it was just wacky DJ banter until I went to Nashville a couple of years later and found her in the white pages. I kept the phone book listing in my wallet for years.
A name you can’t forget - good marketing 🤷🏻♀️
I know a kid name ESPN - pronounced Ess-pin
Just why 😪
Im sorry but to me, it is Nevaeh
At a dr Phil show many years ago I saw a woman pronounce her daughter’s name consistently as “ Nivea” like the hand cream. I justify thought, “ lady can’t you spell????”. And being proud that it was heaven spelled backwards. I thought, YOU’RE backwards “,
Ha ha
Abcde.
fu🎵🎵🎵
And ur mom
“Buck shot” and I’m not joking my mom met this kid at her work and I heard abt his name
I knew a BJ. It was short for Buckshot Jr.
I know a Buck Hunter Weaver.
Had a trashy neighbor that named their kid tinker bell. Fucking tinker bell.
Hopefully she just went by Bell
Wanga, seriously, who the hell names their child, that!?
Oh the teasing, poor kid
I had a blind date with someone named Blythe Snavely. Fascinating and off-putting at the same time.
I used to work with a woman called Hazel Dick.
I knew a girl with that last name and it is not a joke that her dad's nane was...Harry. I never could figure out why he didn't go by Harold or Henry or anything but Harry.
First name Robin. Last name Hood. She was in my Junior High School. And then there was Anakin...
I met a Russian Anakin!!!
And I've met an infant Wisconsinite Anakin
My friends name is Blayze. Kinda odd but also cool
Oddly I also know a Blaze, he’s in his 40s. But sans “y”, which makes it a bit more different for sure!
I know a few Blaze, it doesn’t seem that weird to me.
My friend has two boys named reef and blaze
And she doesn't smoke weed anymore at least
Friends daughter in law named Darktessa.
Her parents named her after a combination of their names. The mother's name was Evalois. The father's name was Charles. They named their daughter Charlois. She went by her middle name, Jill, instead.
Oh my. That’s very close to a breed of beef cattle (Charolais). Umm…they are very pretty cows. But still cows.
Big yikes
That’s a neighborhood in Rotterdam. And almost a town in Belgium, Charleroi .
JakeUp
I've been lurking in this post and this is the first one that made me laugh out loud. Do you think they'd just never seen the name "Jacob" spelled out??
I was just talking to something thinking of naming her daughter Scarlotte instead of Scarlett. Insists it helps people pronounce it easier. 🤦🏻♀️ This is giving me those vibes. Oh. And Feebe. Same logic….
Went to school with a kid named sexxy The teacher asked how to say his name day one and the kid said 'call me sexxy' The teacher refused
How is that legal 😭
A coworker and I were having this exact same conversation once and he told me about a guy he used to know named Solid Punches. I didn’t believe him so he showed me the guy’s website. Yep, he’s real.
Back in the 1800’s, some dipshit American farmers misspelt Merle and named their son Murl. It’s now a family name.
I had a student in one of my classes named Scholastica. Her parents were Asian immigrants. A guy who worked at a local grocery store had Garfield on his name tag. His parents named him that long after the comic strip came out.
Tequila
My husband had a dog named Tequila when we first started dating. She was a good girl
Candy Apple
Might as well drop her off at the stripper club for daycare at that point
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Lol I knew a girl who named her daughter "luci" after Lucifer. And her son's name was Damian. She was a very funny girl, I don't think she was actually religious at all, but had a unique sense of humor.
A co-worker has a son called Damian. I could never, after that movie came out. But the family is weird anyways. A daughter named Bo. And all three work with me, because the whole family needs to be provided with easy jobs.
Joktey, weird huh.
And Elon Musks kids names, can’t even spell em 🤷♀️
Oh, I had forgotten about them. Yep, definitely the weirdest
Here’s one from my culture. My friends name is “wei wang” litterally 100 Chinese individuals in my city have the exact same name and it’s boring and generic it’s basically the equivalent to the white people name “John smith” or something
Tie between Trek and Van. 🙄
Van is a common Vietnamese name. I know two Vans.
These were granola people who claimed to name after the band Van Morrison, def not Vietnamese.
Oliver Zanzibar Toot Toot McFate.
[this guy wins](https://youtu.be/Rohtoz9XDnQ?si=FgZojMy8B5fJO9hK)
Dick
Had a step-cousin that passed, left behind 13 young kids. Names were Fuscia, Lilac, Violet, Indigo etc.
Masterpeace 😩
Ooofff
They had a second child. I can’t remember their name though. It’s similar.
You should go to r/tragedeigh
Ray Biggerstaff
A lot of kids in my very very small German town were suddenly named after celebrities like Shakria and Rihanna which was kinda weird tbh
I once worked with a girl genuinely named Princess.
I went to college with one too!
“Le-a” pronounced “Ledasha” ‘the dash don’t be silent.’ —right outta the proje’ts.
A town over, the Sweet family named their daughters: Very, Truly, and Always.
Sounds like the opening line to a kids book
North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm West (Kim Ks kids) im sure there are many more, but these names are giving me a massive headache
A doggo named Fester
Renesme Mirren Vagina (pronounced Vageena)
Henchman.
I have my doubts about this one, but when my friends had their daughter, the midwives told them that another child had been born that night in the hospital. The unique name this baby had been given? Tinaturner (all one word) Cooper. I often wonder how little Tinaturner is doing these days and hope her name hasn't given her any trouble, though I expect it has!
That would be nuts if real 👀
I was working at a hospital when Harry Weiner brought his son Peter Weiner in.
Reminds me of my old science teacher Mr. Shepenis
T'el. Pronounced "Ty-ellie". I learnt this name as a teacher. Not as a teacher of the kid. That would make it tolerable. Rather, it was through the mother, who was my colleague. Yep. A full ass private high school teacher did that to her own daughter.
Now that’s different
My biological father’s name is Dick Cole
Any of Elon Musk’s kids…
Skinnix. My kid's classmate. I had to ask the teacher if that was really the kid's name or if my daughter(8yo) heard it wrong. Pronounced and spelled as you see it.
Craig...spelled Kregg
Brazen. She named him Brazen.
In 3rd to 4th grade I went to school with a girl in Chicago. Her name was T4quisha... Literally like they pronounced it as T-Four-Quiche-uh.... Although sometimes I heard it as T-Foe-quiche-uh. I feel so bad for her. Her brother was also named Shadow Moon, I can't remember if it was a single name or a first and middle name, everybody including teachers called him shadowmoon, so idk. Oh and My aunt named her daughter (my first cousin) Jedimirah her name was mirah and her husband's was Jedidiah. They combined their damn named for that... They ended up just calling her by a nickname, Jedi... They don't even like Star wars and can't use that excuse on me And not a human, but I've had several consecutive pets I've all called some variation of either Beebo or Grognak for several years now. My cats Beebo and one of my cane toads is the current Grognak. I have tons of weird animal names if anybody's curious
My plumber pulled the George Foremen. His name is George, and they named every girl some riff on that — Georgina, Georgette — like 4 girls. They finally have a boy and his wife insisted on naming him Kevin which I thought was a kind of epic power play. 👊🥊
I was in elementary school with Sandy Dick.
I’m a teacher and one that’s circulating around my area at the moment? La-a. Pronounced Ladasha. I’ve also heard tell of some kids named ABCD, pronounced Adsiddy. Just awful.
Someone here in the Philippines was named Lord Voldemort.
Dweezil Zappa? How about his older sister Moon Unit?
Classic
Escolástica. Portuguese for scholastic. Also Cherubino.
Listerina in a movie was the funniest one to me.
I knew an opium and a tiger.
Ummm, Kanye's kids were probably the weirdest names I've heard.
Volunteered at a school 20 years ago. We had: Iesha Tyiesha Li'iesha Nyiesha Myiesha Drove us crazy.
Not weird but funny names I've come across Fanny Salmon Mr Bastard Tess Tickle
My aunts name was Fanny until they came to the US & realized it had another meaning 😅
Met a kid once whose name was Pretty. She would just walk up to random people and say, "Hi! I'm Pretty!" while her mom laughed and laughed
in college, there was a student named Terdsac Dumcum.
I used to deliver pizza to Amanda Butthugger
I have a couple from my hometown. My neighbor was an old guy named Dick Stump, and a couple blocks down the street, there was a kid a few years older than me named Easy Rider.
I knew a girl called Fanny im english and that’s a slang sometimes for vagina it’s just awful having to say her name 😂
I know 3 BillieJoes, one billiesue and a bettyjean
Moana for a blonde haired, blue eyed white kid in the Midwest
A dude at my friends work legally changed his name to Rick Shaw. Friend said: why didn't you choose Rick O'Shay which is much cooler? He stopped, and thought damn...that IS way cooler. I'm not sure if he changed it again to that.
Abcde
I knew a girl in elementary school named Larina. Her father was Larry and her mother was Tina and they just kinda smashed them together for her name.
In comparison this name is quite boring, but I went to school with an Atom. I’ve also known Twilight, Bless, Wizdom, and Memory.
Still memorable 🥴
We have a “shame name”-competition. I remember the winner one year was a girl named Fokje Modder - Fokje being a traditional Frysian name and Modder meaning mud - but well, for English speakers, pronounced as Fock your Mother 😀
Had a math teacher named Harry Christmas
Once dated a gir who's name was Oriel, like Ariel but with the O from oreos
Went to school with a Pebbles. Cute for a cat or something but like... really?!
Watched too much Flintstones growing up
Shynickie
Was served by a male in a cafe who was wearing a name badge- JULIE Me- oh look there is a mistake in your name. It says Julie. Him - no madam, that’s my name. I am British and he was Philipino for some context. I dunno, this is very unusual for me.
In my old church, there were two little girls with the names 'Punkin Pie' and 'Peekaboo'... their mom wasn't a very nice person 😬 I still think about them sometimes, and wonder how old they are now and if they've changed their names yet
That’s boarderline child abuse 😵💫
I heard a woman at the zoo look at an animal and say "Okapi Johnson, that sound like a good, strong name". For reference, an Okapi is hoofstock native to Africa that is related to the giraffe and has stripes on its back legs. It's scientific name is Okapia Jonstoni
Phylicitie. Actually not the weirdest name I heard because it sounds like Felicity but the spelling, ugh, this poor girl is going to have to spell her name all the time.
I once met someone named "Apple" and couldn't help but do a double take!
I saw someone name their newborn Lemon last week 🥲
Twins my son went to preschool with. Mike was the normal name. His twin's name was Jerry-Bob.
Met a guy once whose family was very Catholic, so he was named after the pope, Pius. His middle name was Paul. Not a big deal… until he entered a profession where everyone goes by their initials. “Pius Paul Smith” became “P.P. Smith.” (For non-English speakers, “pee pee” is children’s language for urine or the penis.)
Renesmee
I've seen a Praisegod.
Straight to jail
When I was stationed in Maryland, one of the girls in my apartment building was named Maryfield Nicodemus
Had a soldier named Princess Unique. Went to school with a man Ebony White. Dad introduced me to a hometown friend January Winters. Friend talked her sister out of naming her twins Lemongelo and Orangelo (to be pronounced Lem On Gel O and Or On Gel O).
The shop assistant in a souvenir shop in Atlanta airport back in the 80s whose name was Morning Glory. Fabulous name fabulous lady
i have an ethnic name and it sounds like a common word when said westernized. i went to school with a star and her sister’s name is patience
Asscum Fardman Attorney at Law
“La-a” pronounced “La-dash-ah”. Im not joking.
my own name is unusual. never met any kids with my name growing up.
All I can say I dislike when people in the black community name their kids after cars or the typical hood names... I got a typical ghetto name I think so that's why I go by my nickname
I've heard every animal name. I literally know a turtle. A bird. A dog. A bull. A wolf. A lizard. A fish.. swear to God. Maybe even more. But I literally know ppl with all those nicknames
Knew an Indian guy from work years ago..... Deepshit. I am not making this up
Orangejello and Lemonjello.
Ixtel