For me I don’t think anything will ever beat my grandson’s name: Belial. Yes, like the devil.
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.
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.
The best unique name by far is this one: Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow.
Everyone I knew in high school that had a kid while still in school named their kid a combination of the mother and father’s name. Kai and Linda had Kailyn. Matt and Jessica had Massica. Jayden and Kaylen had Jaykay.
I thought they were dumb then, and I still think they’re dumb names now.
In Germany we have strict laws about how we may name our children. So that parents don’t name their kids “Arian Nation” or some shit. That said there is an actress whose name is Wolke (Cloud). She has no idea how her parents managed that one.
Apart from that I guess my Norwegian mother qualifies. Her name is Gerd which in Germany is a male name. We always know that companies have a shitty database when a letter for Mr Gerd arrives.
Huh, Pilvi (Cloud) is a completely valid, if modern, name in Finland. We have pretty strict naming laws here too.
Her name is Gerd which in Germany is a male name.
Gerd as a woman’s name sounds nordically normal. But I still snicker when I hear about someone with “Maria” as a male middle name. Like Rainer Maria Rilke, or Carl Maria von Weber.
Yep, it is in french. Except it is Marie but that make very old fashionned name like few century fashion. You can use Marie as the second member of a compound name to make out of trend but still classic french male name : Jean-Marie, Pierre-Marie, François-Marie, etc.
Maria is afaik the only traditional woman’s name that any baby in Germany can have as a second name
Strict name rules that still allow parents to name their children “Ralf-Rüdiger” or “Ronny-Horst”, both of which are real life examples (Ralf-Rüdiger worked at my company!).
still waiting for a Host-Host or Rüdiger-Rüdiger
Gerd is a normal female name in Norway. Out of fashion atm, but somewhat common among the grand-parent generation.
A man named Harold named his daughter after himself. Her name is Sharold.
That is a great name!
Neighbor’s kid named Issac Cox
I know a Kal-El. His mom just thinks it’s a cute name and has no idea where it came from so I’m sure his dad is the culprit.
Latrina
I once met a guy named Keith
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.
No one yet has mentioned a common yet pretty bad first name : Dick.
“Lavie” from “c’est la vie”.
I think it is a creative name with a good meaning behind it.
I had a church “sister” named Mercine. We would nickname her Mercy.
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.
