What are the craziest names that someone you know named their children?Or did they name them after a category?

Question

Please share your stories. By category I mean, Country, City, Plant, Celebrity characters, something like that.


Someone I knew a while ago had 5 children and named them: (I'm not kidding)

Vivien Leigh (Girl)
Racer James (Boy)
Elizabeth Taylor (first and middle of a girl)
Daytona Karr (Boy)
Grace Kelly (Girl)

Obviously the mother was very into show business. The father was into racing cars, he ended up naming the boys and she the girls.

Answer 1

spatula (the pancake-flipping thing) for a girl

Answer 2

My daughter went to school with a family of children that were half indian (mom) and the dad was a blonde blue eyes racer. The children all have a K for the first name (not sure where that came from) and a "outdoorsy" middle name. Such as Kelsie Moom, Kameron Rain, Krusier Thunder, Karson Storm, and there were 5 more kids).

My best friend in jr high was a girl that was named based on the city she was concived in Celina. I think the city is in Ohio or something like that. Her sister was named based on the city too, but when it came to their brothers they were given plain names such as john and bob.

Also I once dated a guy named William Williams, everyone called him Billy. He had a brother named Bobby.

Answer 3

You wouldn't believe it but down here we come across names like Network, Roaming, MTN (a local mobile service provider), Powerful, Confidence, Performance ...I even have a friends called Something and Mistake.

I am in South Africa, you find some parents having heard a word back in the days and not knowing what it meant but knowing its an English word so they end up giving it to their kids (mostly as middle names). Funny I know..but it happens.

I am thinking with the increasing literacy level, these kinda names will soon be a thing of the pas..but at the moment, they are fully with us.

Answer 4

All these are true, the first 2 were told to me by a friend who was a Social Worker, The last 3 are names of people I have known.

Nosmo King - At first glance it is not that big of a deal but on the second look NOsmoking.

Syphilis {Pronounced Psy Phillis} she got the name off her medical chart.

Snow White
Tempest Star
William Williams

Answer 5

My cousin's 3 daughters are Haylee, Whitnee, and Lyndsee... kid's will never find anything with their name on it.

My niece's daughters are Ciclali and Fatima

But the worst I think is a girl I went to college with. Her name was Nashaydeth Navola Jayann (2 middle names). It was something like the 1st name was pieces of her mom's friends names put together. The 1st middle name was pieces of her mom's sisters names. and the 2nd middle name was pieces of her dad's sisters names... And I don't know if I spelled it right or not, but I definitely remember how to pronounce it cuz I had to tel people over and over and over... and that was 13 years ago!!

Answer 6

I hate it when people name their kids something that sounds like their last name:

John Johnson
Steve Stephens
Robert Roberts

But this is a no kidding, I used to work at a window factory and over the intercom a name "Buck Bu" would come across, now imagine what that really sounds like in a factory as it is muffled and echoing!!

Answer 7

Emily Elizabeth (as in the little girl in the "Clifford" books)

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Actually, this is one that a woman I work with through a non-profit said that if she had to rename her girls, that's what she'd name them.

There's a woman named September who teaches in one of the schools I teach in. She's a really neat lady, but I don't care for her name.

Answer 8

my wife grew up with someone named Buster. not a nickname, on his birth certificate it says Buster.

Sean Penn's son is named Hopper Jack. sounds like a kangaroo.

i know someone named Bo. birth certificate, also

Nikki Nikita

someone on this site wanted to name their child Autumn Rayne, and was asking opinions. of course , many said, they liked it. me and some other poster said it sounded like douch, stripper, trailer park. we were given multiple thumbs down.

i posted a Q similar to this one a few months back, and the one i picked as best answer were twins Marcus and Demarcus.

this is off the wall but, i know 3 tommy smith's. i live in a very low population area too. there must be at least 250,000 tommy smiths in the USA. how unoriginal.

Answer 9

A girl named "Portland" - her brother was Phil - I used to ask her if that was short for Philadelphia. I can't tell you her last name, but it was Polish & had about 6 sylabils, 16 constenants & only 2 vowels. That was the worst!

Answer 10

I know a lady that named her son Sean Cassidy (first & middle).

Category-wise a lady that named her kids retarded spellings of common names

Ashleigh for Ashley
Tiannen for Shannon
Shelagh for Sheila

Answer 11

Eck! That's terrible. I knew a coworker that named her son Elvis Presley. I've heard Luke Skywalker and the brother sister combo Luke and Leia.

Thankfully, no one close to me has given their kids such horrible names. The worst offender by far is Moxie Crimefighter followed closely by Telluah Belle.

HAVE TO UPDATE:

Urien (sounds like urine), see for yourself
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