February 8th, 2005

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Worst Baby Names Ever

A while back, I wrote a cautionary post about naming your children. My friend Gwendolyn recently sent me a link to Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing, subtitled ‘A Primer on Parent Cruelty’.

It’s simple. Some parents are just plain crazy. But few are as crazy as many soon-to-be parents, who, wrapped up in the fear and anticipation, the social status and expectations, go just plain mad. Mad as march hares with swollen ankles and morning sickness. The following is a catalog of naming questions and suggestions posted on several different baby naming bulletin boards going back as far as early 2001. All entries are left unedited except for length.

I had a quick look around the site. Most of the names break at least one of my rules. For example, “I heard the name Zavary today for a boy. I love it!” God help little Zavary.

Comments: 281 Responses so far

Science fictions geeks should also not name children. Over Christmas, I heard a woman yell, “Strider, get back here!” At least she didn’t name the poor child Aragorn.

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Overheard on the BC Ferry: “Nikita, Elton…let’s go.” I’m convinced the parent was an Elton John fan.

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I can’t stop laughing. Thanks for the link. :)

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The three funniest kids names I recently overheard at the mall were Hartley (boy), Forrest (boy), and Stockton (girl).

I think “Strider” takes the prize though!

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My wife went to school with a guy named Strider - but that was years ago, and it was Strider from the Lord of the Rings books, not the recent movies, so I suppose that’s at least a little bit better.

I had a friend in high school with the middle name “Dorcas.” She obviously tried to keep that name under wraps during those teen years.

I think Gwenyth Paltrow naming her kid “Apple” and Courtney Cox naming her daughter Coco are fairly criminal as well.

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I think that Pushkar is the funniest name :P push-car *shakes head*

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The coolest name is Nero. buh the worst is Kawshit. (Cow Shit)

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I kid you not, but I know of a child called………wait for it……Cosmo Ranger!! How cruel can parents be!

I don’t think names like this should be allowed.

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there’s a girl i know called fairy-anne

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Rutger is pretty good
Raule
Spencer

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Some friends of the family called their baby girl Pina Colada and their 3 year old boy Jack Daniel. Yes, we do suspect they have a bit of a drinking problem…

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my name is kenitra it is a pretty name but you never see it posted up anywhere i think the people in the world needs to change that.

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hi this is kenitra again but can ask the people of the world is this a beautiful name or what jenitra renee knight?

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I went to school with a girl named Golnaz - everytime I saw her I thought of testicles and that’s just not right.

Not as bad as the Seamen family that named their son Eaton. No joke - Eaton Seamen.

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i think tullulah honey-pop is the worse name ever. and so is banjo, pixie dixie, and crow.

if you named all your children crow, you’d have a ‘murder’ of crows and if you were a babysitter, how fast would you hang up if someone asked you to babysit their murder of crowes?

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I grew up with a girl named “Gretchen”she called herself”vicki”and the bad thing is that she is an amazingly pretty and sexy girl with a name like that

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I know a girl named “Shithead”, pronounced Sha Thead. This is not a joke.

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I have a cousin called TOBYLEONARD WELCH-CUNNINGHAM

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ive got a mate called Newc Hassle R Schit

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my friend colin crompton, used to be called peter beardsley but changed his name

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how about the name morag its like crossed between moran and hag lol and wot about poor olga and helga and i feel sorry for gaylord and gurtrude. how sad!!!

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My name is also Kenitra…there is never anything about it anywhere…it sucks!

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wait…i forgot I also know someone named clany yancy…horrid horrid name.

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Met a woman the other day (96 years) named “New Orleans Gold”. She wasn’t from New Orleans and had no Gold. Met a coupld who named their baby boy “Lestat”, and to see another click the link above.

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My friend is going out with a guy tonight that she knew in highschool. his name…Guthrey Gillings. We got on the internet to look for a possible worse name than his, but no luck. No worse name was to be discovered. Guthrey Gillings. WORST NAME EVER!

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my 2 favorites i heard were of 2 twins: Lemonjello and Orangejello (pronounced Le monge’ ello and Or onge’ ello). i don’t know what to say…it’s just scary.

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Bruno has become a stereotypical gay name, just like Bruce

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I recently came across a baby girl that had been named Cleopatra Evita….

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Went to high schoolwith a guy named craven moorehead thats wild!

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hiya wow

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i know a boy called ivan griffin coco and another called cedrikson mabinty

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its funny i came across this but i met a boy named pubicky the other day from ireland

pube-icky

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I knew this guy who named his twin daughters both “Andrea” with the same spelling. One was pronounced “On-drey-ah” and the other was “An-dray-uh.”

When I was in high school, there was a foreign exchange student with a ring in her nose (not typical for 1975) named Shakuntla Singla. I don’t remember anyone making fun of her, but I really didn’t know her and breathed hope every time I saw her in the hall that her life was spared the misery of people using her name in vain.

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My Grandpa is called Eldred Clark. And i went to primary school with a guy called Mattew Bate. Nothing to bad there as long your over 18. Other wise you get letters addressed to Master Bate. I always thought that was one of those joke names. At least it’s only tempuary

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My sister is pregnant and wants to name the baby girl Angel. Her boyfriend want the middle name to be Neveah…..heaven backwards of course!!! Angel Neveah. Now this is the worst name ever!

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Sorry, misspelled heaven backwards, apparently it isn’t that easy to do. Yet another reason to not use that name. It should have been Nevaeh.

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I know two guys with a hippy dad…the oldest is named DL - no periods, doesn’t stand for anything (that we know of) - and his little brother is called Justin Casey. The joke?? “Just in case he dies, we have another one,” or, “Justin Case-y the first one dies, we have another one.” His dad was actually the one who explained it to me.

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Ooh, I forgot one…My dad’s name is Jerry Derwin. I am the first born, and when I once asked my mom what other names they considered for me besides Bonnie Nell, she replied with a straight face, “Well, if you were a boy, we were going to name you Erby Derwin…and if you were a girl, we were going to name you Erbina Derwina.” It took me an hour to finally get her to admit she was kidding.

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I am a huge star wars nut and am considering(eventually) naming my first son after my favorite character from the books, Corran(thats “KOR-in” or Corey for short). But when i heard that some friends of mine named their son Anakin, i thought that was way too far, even for a die hard fan. Other dumb names i’ve heard are: Sladjana(sluh-JAH-nah), and Branch(boy), and if i was a girl, my mom tells me my name would have been “Anina”. Thank God for the Y chromosome i say.

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the worst name in the world was Fanny Urin ! :0 the teachers would say x

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I want to call my baby boy Syringe, wat do u think?

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Yeah my name is Syringe, go figure I happen to think it is a wonderfull name allthough people ask me for drugs all the time.. i talked to dr phil about this problem and he told me that sticks and stones will acually break my bones but names will always hurt me, im so lonely! hug me!

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I am thinking of giving my child the name Ever, but it will be her middle name. Scarlet Ever. What do you think?

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I am thinking of naming my child Ever, it will be her middle name so her name would be Scarlet Ever. What do you think?

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Listen here sherry i think wat yr doing to ur child is unthinkable, how could u call u daugther middle name ever? u might as well call her ever after, because it so silly!

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I used to baby sit for a biker family, they had 2 kids Harley (girl) and Davidson (boy). Talk about cruel.

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Brianna Reply:

Well, the name Harley isn’t so bad. I like it better as a guy’s name though. But having a child named Harley and another named Davidson is just horrible.

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I went to school with two kids, they were brother and siter. The sisters name was Crea (first) Ting (middle)and the brothers name was Evory (first) Ting (middle). I thought it was cool…

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I think parents have every right to name their kids whatever they want. My twin boys are named Lexington Avery (Lex for short) & Foxworth Deacon (Fox for short)… I also love the names Jai, Lucas, Madden & Blaise.

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The worst name ever…in the history of worst names…and I don’t think it will EVER be beat…is Toprameneessha. What would a jury do if this child murdered her parents and said…my name is Toprameneesha, guess how well they parented.

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Remember boy meets world? The “Topanga” character… horrible.

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I went to school with a chap called: Leigh Francis Windmill… he was my best mate and i havn’t seen him since… hopefully he’ll come across this from googling and get in touch again, he’ll know who I am.. find me on myspace dude - name above is a clue

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Parents have the right to name their children what they want.

And children have the right not to have to live with a Sh1tty name.

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We have a friend called Thomas Macthomas of Finegand. HA!

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i heard one named lake and one named river

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My mother wanted to name me Augusta, Allegra, Agatha or Alberta. Or Arthur if I was a boy. At least they decided to call me Alexandra.

She wanted to call my sister Anne Shirley (like the character in Anne of Green Gables) I managed to talk her out of that.

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I have had two that should make a top worst list… One had first name just the letter “M” and middle was “E”. He always said when I was born, my dad said “he looks like me” so my dad named me M E. He went by the name “em-ee”

Now, here is a clear candidate for all time best of the worst… About ten years ago, my company hosted a meeting of engineers in Silicon Valley and one man registered and arrived with the first name, literally, “Dickshitz” any one want to top this one??? Honest!

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Just as I sent the above posting, my wife reminded me of an interesting last name both she and I knew of before meeting each other, “Sicendik” or spelled something close to that spelling (pronounced like it looks). Wouldn’t you go and legally change your last name or take your wife’s last name when married instead?

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I have a second-cousin whose last name is Rice. His parents decided to name him after a local politician whose name was Bland. So he grew up as Bland Rice.

No, he doesn’t have a sister named Wild.

Probably the worst name I ever heard of being inflicted on a baby was a girl’s name. It was three syllables. The first “shi” was pronounced “shee”. The second, “the” was pronounced “tay”. The third syllable was “ad” pronounced as in “advertising”.

You can recombine the pieces in the privacy of your own home.

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Heard on David Letterman once a guy named Dick Assman From Canada. That is the worst.

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I once came across the name Fanny Wannacock.
Braine is a bad last name. no first name sounds good with it. I went out with a guy called Richard Braine (dick braine).

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I once worked with a woman named Wynn Mainprize. Totally fucked parents if ya ask me.

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I know someone whose first name is Tracker. His parents must really like that Chevy car or something.

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I went to school with a girl named…
Anita Cone sounds like (I NEED A CONE) poor girl got labelled as a stoner mayeb her pearents had a few too many cones when pickin this name..also my next one isnt a weird name just a classic example of the importance of matching your first name with your last name..I went to school with a boy whos name was CHRIS DEAN (whenever we had roll call it would sound like they were callin out Christeen) i thought that was a bit cruel!

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my friend has a brother in law with the last name hill, they named there daughter meadow… meadow hill. could be worse but c’mon folks.

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Went to school with a girl who’s surname was Christmas and mothers name was Mary! No word of a lie. She ran a pub so her name was above the door as well. Her parents must have hated her!

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Absolutely true Andy. There is a pub in South Birmingham run by Mary Christmas. She has managed a few pubs around this area for a number of years and is quite well known, but as far as I know she married into the name. My baby daughter is due in March. What do you think of Armani for a name?

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I knew a kid named Ronald Rinker in school. Shoot, with a name like that, how could he have been anything BUT the fat, unpopular kid?

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Two worst names I have heard are Archiebald Codwaller and Horace titsworth. I have friends that named their kids Rowdy (boy) and Rumor (girl).

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I knew a kid named Seamore Butts

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I’ve seen some bad ones- had a teacher who was Crystal Shanda Leir, married a guy to become Crystal Pallis… she couldn’t get away. Also met a Pepsi Love, Willie May Sprinkle,and Richard (Dick) Head. Also two geologist’s kids named Cole and Steele. My mom’s a physical therapist in an inner-city area, and she runs into at least one girl of illiterate parents who think that their kid was named for them by the hospital– they see the bracelet that says: Smith, Female– and they think, hey, Female (pronounced Femily), that’s pretty!

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Here’s two: Ima Hogg And Yura Hogg!!!! They were our neighbors. And There was……Candy Cotten!!!!!! She was my great grandmothers BF.

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I hate it when people name their kids stupidly. I have met A LOT of people who had names like Jon Jonson or Hazel Hazelton or Sam Samuels it’s SO FREEKING CRAPY!!!!

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There are girls in my school with the following names 1.Dai Yung 2.Yung Joo 3.Yung Ho when I brought this to my friend he told me there was a guy in his school named Suk Deep. lmao poor kid I think the 3 worst names ever are
1.Mortamer
2.Pelswick
3.Kermit

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the worst name ever in the history of names must be…………………………….. wait for it………………almost……… Johnathon Goldstein. What were my parents thinking. Go Mets. Go Jets. Go Chemistry.

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Had a client once named Candy Pucci…One with the last name penas…My supervisor knew a family in college with the last name Rabbit…they had 3 kids..2 boys and a girl names? Jack, Peter, and Bunny.
a co-worker of mine has a client with the first name “fart”.

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The worst names to me are Jorndan and a name that i think that is really cute is Isabelle or Emma.

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I HATE THE NAME JORDAN AS WELL. TO ME IT IS THE WORST NAME EVER.

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The name Michelle is ugly

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THE NAME JEAN IS UGLY AS HELL

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When my mom was a school girl, she knew two sisters named, Youra and Ima. There last name was Pig. Isn’t that cruel of the parents?!

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im 16 and i am starting to date this guy and and he is real nice but i am concerned because his name is…

Elmer

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My boy friends mom was a teacher who had a young girl named FEMALE, she pronoucned it FE-MAL-EE

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My name is Jordache, my parents told me they didn’t want me so they named me after the favourite jeans. I’m changing my name when i’m 18. I go by JJ now since my last name is jertolis

I know someone across the pond whose name is Bon Kers. dont know why there parents wanted that bonked name.

My least fav. name is Obus

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Ohj yea i forgot one I also met a couple whose surname is peed, pronouced “pid”. and they are naming there kid stewart.

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my best friend named her son pickle. she was 16 when she had him and was a big rugrats fan. (dill pickles remember??)

we are best friends and one of are best friends named her son tray, another named her first-born plate (play) and my first born will be spork michael ….whatever our last name will be

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i know this girl named tamina and a person named takari.

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there is also this girl in my class named sugar-free and jericolon?its weird i wonder what parents were thinking

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you tools are fools. the worst name ever :homojopolopolous.

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i forgot i no a girl named chisom nand her sisters name is somtoya.im not lieng about any of these.

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I once met a girl whos name was Rock’N and her last name was Roll, no joke. She and everyone else completely adores her name

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I went to school with these two girls that were cousins and they were named Alicia Steinkey and Amber Picker. Horrible last names. Those snobs deserved it though. We called them Alicia Stinky and Amber nose picker.

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Umh Forrest isnt a wierd name, infact he was a famous civil war hero…
My brother is named forrest and I have beaten so many little kids up over that name… he was born 2 years before the movie after and Uncle who died in a firefighter rescue misson..

The ugliest name is Bertha

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My neighbors named their daughter “Artimus” after the Greek goddess of the hunt. Unfortunately, their research stopped there. Later “Artimus” blended with “Diana” and became the multi-breasted goddess of orgies. I don’t have the heart to let them in on this info.

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I think Tara is stupid name! It sounds so ugly.

I once knew a girl at school named Tara Newbiging, we used to call her Tara Booniging

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worst name ever is Veyda
I’m sure kids will call her Darth

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a couples last name is teed.. they had twin boys and named them guaran & warran

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No shit, I was in line at a movie theatre once and I heard a black woman scream, “Quit fighting with your brother Iyemeunique!” Pronounced “I’m unique”. I tell ya, not people don’t put in dick effort to figuring out a good name for their child. Or maybe they just have a sick sense of humor???

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I used to work at a school where there were five kids in the one family named after herbs and spices:

Pepper, Ginger, Sage, Cinnamon and Rosemary.

I’m still trying to figure out if I like the idea or not.

At least it wasn’t Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

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There is a girl named Pumpernickel at my friend’s gym, no kidding.

Reminds me of bread, wonder why??

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I once knew this girl, her parents names were Jim and Lesa (spelled Lesa) and they’d combined her names with an apostrophe to make “J’Lesa.” Yes. Two capital letters. She’s white, but “Jalisa” is a popular black name, and people always say “Ja-liss-uh” instead of how you really pronounce it. “Juh-lee-suh”.

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There is a girl i came across called jade poon. also there is one called pinky lee

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also a woman named iona parrot

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Sexanna?

Yeah.

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I went to school with triplets named Chastity Siemann, Gyna Siemann, and Rosemary Siemann. Seriously. As if their last name wasn’t horrible enough.

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Let us not forget about Dick Butkis and Dick Trickle!

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My name is Lannetta Renee.
I married a man with the last name Gaiter. Not bad, until I used my intials L.R Gaiter (Later Gator)People thought that was funny. The kicker is I have a daughter named Alexa yeap use guessed it Allie Gaiter. She does not like being called Allie….. hmmmm I wonder why :-)!!!!

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I work as a nanny and one of the girls in my charges class is named Mcgyver(like on television). i’m not sure if that’s how it’s spelled but i’m pretty sure any parent over the age of 20 should no better! also, there is a little girl in the same class named Kaki..like the color!

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Jack Harder, Anita Dyck, and Harry Dyck are common names in my hometown. I also know a guy named Jaun Dyck (pronounced won dick)

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OK SO MY NAME IS REBECCA-EADEN-LARUARINE SKYE-ARABRAH HALL NO JOKE….my name is Rebecca-eaden-laurane and my middle name is Ahabrah-skye and my last name is hall i swear idk what my parents were thinking but i kno arabrah-skye is winter skye and my first name no clue…the funny thing is my mom name is Rainhley (rainy) and my dads name is Jakcshon (jackson) no clue why the named me such a weird long name but all my friends call me RELASH (RELISH) CUZ MY INITALS SPELL RELASH so yea for 13 years of my life ive been called relish great..

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READ #110

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my dad’s good friend is called Red Dick with out a lie and he wont even tell us his middle name maybe it’s small! hahahah

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im prgnant with my 3 rd child who is a girl and i have two other kids names molly and mary-kate im thinkin gon nameing this one melrose what do u think

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I went to jr. high with a girl named Saccharin (spelled like the sweetener, but pronounced sa-KAR-in). I had a teacher in high school who had seven sisters all named Mary, but with different middle names (they were Catholic). Knew of a lady named Donnaleen Elaine Flack - say that 5 times fast! Also, I new a family with three girls named Mandy, Sandy and Pandy. That is just so sad.

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In high school i new of a guy named Tag. He also happened to be one of the only openly gay guys in school. You can imagine what they called him…

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I worked for a year in an ATT Wireless Call Center and received a call from a gentleman by the name of Hairy Bush who had a question about his account. I never laughed so hard in my life! His parents must have been smoking something good!

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“# JP Says:
October 30th, 2006 at 4:09 pm

my 2 favorites i heard were of 2 twins: Lemonjello and Orangejello (pronounced Le monge’ ello and Or onge’ ello). i don’t know what to say…it’s just scary.”

lol, I know about those kids! They live in the same city as me and were in an a college prep program I worked for….

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My mom said that she knew someone with the name Tiffany Lamp.

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Try “Miss Unique Miracle Johnson.” The mother gave the baby this name when she went through a difficult birth. Evidently the doctor announced the baby’s survival as a miracle and the rest is history.

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There’s now a list of the worst 10 names of 2007, some are absolutely hilarious!

Here’s the link: http://lifestyle.msn.com/familyandparenting/babyandpregnancy/articletkt.aspx?cp-documentid=6359418&GT1=32001

Some of the names include: Magnus, Heaven Rain, Superman and E. (as in just the letter e wat the…?) I recommend you take a look. :P

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omg i love these names they are all so funny but i feel bad for the kids with those names and my favorite name is Hairy Bush i thought it was so funny me and my cusin laughed for like and hour and we almost started crying it was sooooooooo funny!!!!!……lol

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ok …. now what is the deal here i cant find my name spelled right anywhere!!!! Except for a sports uniform brand…. lol it really isnt cool!!!!!

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i no this girl from my school and her anicials are so funny and they match her perfectly….lol…..they spell SAS(shamber a. sinks) i dont make funn of her because we are like best friends…lol….but i always think something mean in my head!!!!

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theres this girl at my school and her name is salinia…..WOW…wat were her parents thinking were they like drunk…i feel so bad 4 her….lol!!!

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I have this kid in my school named Israel Gay. Is. Real. Gay. Middle school is so brutal WITHOUT a name like that. Poor kid.

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Did you know that David Bowie named his daughter …. Zoe ….Bowie. Come on now Zoe Bowie! Rhyming first and last names? I feel sorry for her.

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Ok I’m dating a mana named Richard Panek. (Dick Panek) And if we get married my name will be Kayla Mae Panek.

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I mean I’m dating a man not a mana.

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oh and I like my Panek attacks! lol

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Then there is the woman who named her twins ‘twina’ and ‘twinba’ (TwinA, TwinB)

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i know two sisters named hiedi and helga

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My cousin recently had a baby, and the nurse was telling us a story of a girl that had her baby a few days earlier…she named that poor child Delmonte ABCDE (pronounced like Obesity)

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Yeah my great grandma almost named me……..Buela Maude……….Then my parents said no to that one thank God.

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How’s this one for size: Stan D. Ardman? As in “Standard Man” What are peoples thinking?

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the name tara is not ugly whoever wrote it go to hell. screw you

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My sister works in psychology. Brace yourself. She had a client who named her daughter Clitoria (because it sounded so pretty). No joke.

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I know a girl named Kristian Kuntz. Enough said.

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My dad had a classmate named Fonda Dicks. Seriously.

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I found in my middle school yearbook a boy named Forest Fairy

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My parents didnt want give me a standard name… but they liked jessica. soo they spelled it weird. Jessyka. i mean i like but… but only some days.

I used to go to school with two twins named Natasha and Natisha… yes twins named tisha and tasha. it was sad.

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