For me I don’t think anything will ever beat my grandson’s name: Belial. Yes, like the devil.
Guy i know worked emergency rooms.
Nosmo. Mother couldn’t think of a name and looked up at the “no smoking” sign.
Did he say it noz-moh or noh-smoh?
Nosmo King was the stage name of an early 20th blackface comedian as well as one of Carmen Sandiego’s henchmen.
I don’t think I’ve personally encountered anything too weird, but a family member of mine apparently once had a coworker named “Orangello”, who had a sibling named “Lemongello”
That’s kind of cute.
A dude I know only online has a kid named Apple. After reading some of the other names here, Apple isn’t the worse i suppose.
Just as long as the kid isn’t of an ancestry for which “apple” is a race-based insult.
I knew a girl in high school named Whisper
I like that. But the fact I’m not a native english speaker must biais my opinion.
Poor kid will never be allowed to be loud.
Gangolf Eierschmalz.
Gangolf is an absolute death sentence of a first name, but if your last name then also translates to either egg lard or testicle lard…
Jewish Ukrainian maybe ? They were often given weird names on purpose
On purpose? Please elaborate
I met a Theresa Green once, she went by Terry.
Funniest two I remember were Crystal Poon and Anis Turki.
I once worked with this guy, who now inserts a H between his first and last name, probably because the “joke” has gotten old for him decades ago.
I would have sued my parents in his place.
I don’t understand why anyone would keep a name they hate. Like so much weight was lifted from my heart when I legally changed my name from a stupid ugly mishmash of syllables.
In many countries, it’s difficult and often very costly to change one’s name. I know in France for example, you have to prove in court that it’s a handicap in your daily life, like if your parents gave you a legal first name that resulted in something really egregious when spelled out with your last name.
This makes me wonder what happens if a person with dual citizenship that includes one country that makes name changes hard and one that does not, legally changes their name in the easier one. Do the two countries end up disagreeing over what that person’s name is, or is there some kind of international agreement on recognizing the same names to prevent confusion for law enforcement and such?
I’m from the us and got married in Germany (to a German as a resident, not like a destination wedding). They told us we could change our names differently in the US and Germany would accept them, but they could only do so many options here.
Hating it so much you hide yourself and withdraw from society is not a big enough issue? I hate these laws.
Nothing prevents you from going by any name of your choosing in your daily life without necessarily having your name legally changed. Plenty of trans people do that.
Utah Mormons often give their kids odd names. That’s where “Nevaeh” was invented, too.
I went to school with a kid named Merlin Sunlight.
Elon Musk’s 7th and 8th offsprings take the cake: X Æ A-Xii (pronounced “X Ash A Twelve”) and Exa Dark Sideræl (nicknamed “Y”). Stupid rich people will do stupid rich people shit because they’re not like the rest of us…
I think that’s a „nicknamed “Why?”“ in real life.
They’re insulated from the real world.
Indeed. Normally I pity fhe kids whose parents give them stupid names because they have to carry the burden for the rest of their lives. But ultra-billionnaires’ offsprings who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth and zero obligation to work for anything in life don’t exactly elicit sympathy in me.
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Found Gandalf Rakhyvel (translates approx. Safety razor) on an online phone book many years ago.
Maybe a trap name to detect copying because it has disappeared.
One time at the gas station I saw graffiti that said ‘Misty Rain is a slut’ and all I could think was … what did her parents expect with the name like that
Heh. I know a Misty Hyman, who achieved some notoriety as an athlete (swimmer).
It is difficult to say or even think of her name with a straight face.
I had a church “sister” named Mercine. We would nickname her Mercy.
These aren’t unique, but that’s the problem.
Twins named Brittnay and Brittney.
Me thinks they weren’t planning for twins and panicked.
Jesus, how high were the parents when they made that decision?
This is mild, but I once read a paper with an author called Warwick Blood. Apparently he was a leading researcher into the role of media in public understanding of social issues who died in 2022, and not the big bad of a D&D campaign.
