For me I don’t think anything will ever beat my grandson’s name: Belial. Yes, like the devil.
No one yet has mentioned a common yet pretty bad first name : Dick.
Guy i know worked emergency rooms.
Nosmo. Mother couldn’t think of a name and looked up at the “no smoking” sign.
Nosmo King was the stage name of an early 20th blackface comedian as well as one of Carmen Sandiego’s henchmen.
Did he say it noz-moh or noh-smoh?
Girl in my middle/high school is named “Violence”
L-a.
Pronounced luh-DASH-uh.
I don’t know what terrifies me more. The fact that we know the same person, or that there’s multiple L-a’s out there.
I have met somebody with the lastname “Unbekannt”. That would mean ‘Unknown’ In English.
Next say you the last name wass
nullAccording to some random website I found there are 14000 people in the US with the last name Null.
My partner works with children/family events so she’s always coming home with some wild ass names. In the past month, I remember her telling me about a brother and sister duo named “Renaissance” (sis) and “Woodstick” (bro)
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 had a kid at a summer camp where I was teaching have an unusual one maybe 5-6 years ago.
I’m going through the roll call, and there’s a kid who’s first name was listed as ABCDE. I think that’s pretty weird, so I assume it’s an error like somebody made a mistake on the intake form or the database garbled something.
So I skip over that one, and at the end I ask if I miss anyone. A girl puts up her hand so I ask for her name and she pronounces it like “Ab-siddy”
I realize they’re the same kid, and that her parents fucked her. I think she knew what was up and was kind of ashamed. Poor kid, I didn’t ask her to spell it
I’ve actually heard a story from a family member once about briefly encountering a kid with that name and pronunciation. So either funny coincidence to meet the same kid, or there’s more than one set of parents out there that thought that was a clever name idea somehow.
Yeah, I think these goofy names are all based on trends. There’s probably some overlap between the people who would name their kids without regards for their kids’ feelings, and the people who would jump on some bandwagon or claim it as their own.
A distressingly common one I’ve been seeing is “Nevaeh” which is “Heaven” spelled backwards. If you’re devout enough to name your kid after the pearly gates though, you’d think you’d realize that backwards heaven is likely hell
A good friend of mine in college had that name. Nicest girl. Really should have dated her when I had a chance.
This one reminds me of “La-a” (pronounced Ladasha)
I considered trying to change legal name to “Thbptbpt” (pronounced like a fart sound/blowing a raspberry)
Yup I’ve seen ABCDE too. Pronounced just how you say
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.
There’s an ob/gyn for whom I used to fill prescriptions named Dr. Tara Cherry.
The best unique name by far is this one: Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow.
These aren’t unique, but that’s the problem.
Twins named Brittnay and Brittney.
Jesus, how high were the parents when they made that decision?
Me thinks they weren’t planning for twins and panicked.
Revolution Fighter. He went by Rev.
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.
