View Full Version : Unfortunate baby name, or April Fools?
Jhani Vandolay
03-31-05, 01:59 PM
Damned if I can tell. (http://www.newbabynews.net/hospitals/mmc1/public/mmc1birthannouncement.pl?babyID=h1-4161)
Its probably real, but I bet they pronounce it "R-E-On", not "Air-E-N", since theres a spot that says its French meaning "Holy".
Along the lines of unfortunate names..... (http://www.etoychest.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=951&Item id=2)
Or possibly like "Aeryn." Maybe they're Farscape fans who can't spell.
Velvetrose
03-31-05, 02:42 PM
lol I feel bad for the both of them.
I knew of a family whos last name was Trout.
They named their poor girls Rainbow and River. :crazy
There's a girl who lives in the 3rd floor of my dorms named Taryn Hymann...
Yeah... she was born and raised in the US.
Firiona is obscure enough to work as a name, it's not like her third grade class bully is going to hear that and go "Hey, that's elfish!", and by the time she grows up video games ought to be a seamless part of the cultural fabric, no stranger a source of inspiration than anything else.
Aryan Justice, though... Oy.
shehab aldean
03-31-05, 03:17 PM
Aryan Justice, though... Oy.
does the bun have any realtion to gernamy ? or i'm missing it ?
Velvetrose
03-31-05, 03:19 PM
Oh Oh and I forgot and I swear to God this is true
My sister in law teaches in a school in Los Angeles, she has 2 students...twins. Their names are...I'll try to give you the way they are pronounced first....Fe-Mal-Lay and Mal-Lay Jones.
The mom thought it was weird that the nurses had named her kids but sure enough it was written on the little tags on their ankles...Female Jones and Male Jones...so thats what she wrote on their Birth Certificates.
Jhani Vandolay
03-31-05, 03:28 PM
[...]it's not like her third grade class bully is going to hear that and go "Hey, that's elfish!"
Don't be so sure (http://www.thesafehouse.org/~nocte/A/01.jpg)! :pulid
Deltar Battlewall
03-31-05, 03:32 PM
Oh Oh and I forgot and I swear to God this is true
My sister in law teaches in a school in Los Angeles, she has 2 students...twins. Their names are...I'll try to give you the way they are pronounced first....Fe-Mal-Lay and Mal-Lay Jones.
The mom thought it was weird that the nurses had named her kids but sure enough it was written on the little tags on their ankles...Female Jones and Male Jones...so thats what she wrote on their Birth Certificates.
http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm
One of my co-workers has a twin sister named Sharon Dix. :(
Oh, and I think I've mentioned this before, but my husband desperately wants to name a daughter Dorla. I haven't quite agreed to this yet...
Cantatus
03-31-05, 05:18 PM
My aunt worked with a woman named Rosey Butts. (Not sure how the last name was actually spelled, but that's how it was pronounced.)
Velvetrose
03-31-05, 05:55 PM
I called my sister in law about the link you posted Deltar. :)
She said she had Female Jones in her P.E. class and on her color guard team at Eagle Rock High School in Eagle Rock CA 4 years ago. My Brother in law...her husband and my husbands brother had Male in his Honors Bio class. SO some "urban myths" are true.
I went to high school with a Sandy Beach and a Crystal Bell
Llabak Tharr
03-31-05, 06:20 PM
My wife was at a delivery of a girl named Bonka. Mom wanted her to be named Bianca, but either chose to spell it wrong, or didn't know the difference.
"Bianca! B-O-N-K-A"
One of the delivery nurses at that hospital also swears she was at the delivery for twins, Lemongello and Orangello, although she may have just been pulling my wife's leg.
Caldiien
03-31-05, 06:45 PM
Back when i worked in customer service, I had a woman come up to the desk to pay a bill one time and when I looked at her account I cracked up. Her name? Mary Christmas. :crazy
Pyrocat Moonstalker
03-31-05, 06:46 PM
The best I've heard of are hippy children names.
Rayne Frost
Summer Tyme
two girls that I went to highschool with
Soulstealer
03-31-05, 07:41 PM
Look no farther than the next Nascar race for some great names...
**** Trickle (http://www.dicktricklefanclub.com/) :crazy how would you like to have had that one in school....
No worse than our former House Rep (http://www.vis.org/crc/MemberTermInfo.aspx?p=297)
There were a couple guys in my husbands Navy boot camp class. Last names Guzzler and Stains.
All recruits were addressed as "Seaman."
Guzzler became Seaman Guzzler.
Stains became Seaman Stains.
They petitioned the higher ups to change their rank to Fireman instead of Seaman. They were approved.
There were a couple guys in my husbands Navy boot camp class. Last names Guzzler and Stains.
All recruits were addressed as "Seaman."
Guzzler became Seaman Guzzler.
Stains became Seaman Stains.
They petitioned the higher ups to change their rank to Fireman instead of Seaman. They were approved.
:rofl
Jasminne
03-31-05, 09:53 PM
Patty Pigg remains the most unforunate name I've ever heard.
I knew a kid named Twinkle Ann. (No, really!) Her mother totally regrets it.
Kaielen
04-01-05, 05:39 AM
I mailed an envelope once to a Colonel Ben Adick.
Know five brothers and sisters named Arthangeles, Losangeles, Fernando, Arlando, and Ed.
Work with a woman named Cinnamon Berry.
I've lost count of the number of last names that just slay me. Glasscock, Lipshitz.
Not to mention that there is a dairy farm outside of Dallas named "Four Tits for Texas."
Velvetrose
04-01-05, 06:00 AM
There is a woman who works for my husband named Cherri Stemm...Stemm being her Married name
Friend/Neighbor of mine who lives two houses away from me has the last name Cabeza. He is from Ecuador(sp?).
For those that don't speak any spanish Cabeza means head.
Unfortunate for his though...
His dad's name is Richard. Stuff like this you just cant make up.
My mom has a friend named Cookie Preztal (Married name)
I know a kid at school named Guy Duer. Wow that really has to suck being named Guy Duer.
Darkefang
04-01-05, 08:22 AM
I see an investment banker mentioned from time to time in journals named **** Richardson. That means his real name is probably Richard Richardson. That isn't really a bad name, just a really uncreative one. Then, of course, there is the ex-Wisconsin governor and HHS secretary Tommy Thompson, or Thomas Thompson.
When naming your kids, you also have to watch out for their initials. We had a girl in elementary school whose initials were A S S, which the kids quickly figured out, and was probably the dirtiest word we knew back then.
We have a client here named Thomas Thomas
Why would a parent even think of naming their son that?
Xaxony Silentshadow
04-01-05, 02:13 PM
Three cousins referred to as the "Family Jewels" in my family...
Ruby Ruthella, Goldie Pearl, and Opal Icephene. I also have a cousin whose first and middle name was Asbury Pooley, I kid you not.
Gotta love coming from a family full of hill billys *grins*
Cortadillo
04-01-05, 02:40 PM
I was a few IQ points away from being named Marlon Brando(first and middle name). My dad, who didn't speak english very well at the time and was in full panic when I was born said "Marlon Brando" when the nurse asked him what my name was to be. Wisely, she only put Marlon down and I was left without a middle name. I need to track that nurse down someday and give her a hug.
(Sidenote, Marlon sucks as a name, everyone thinks I say Marvin or Merlin when I tell them my name, WTF?!)
Hummerlein
04-01-05, 04:14 PM
Try telling people chuck. They come up with stuff that doesn't even make sense. I actually had this conversation once:
Me: Chuck.
some guy: Judd?
Me: Chuck
some guy: Oh, Chud?
Me: no, Chuck.
some guy: Oh ok, Chug.
Me: Yeah
Velvetrose
04-01-05, 05:32 PM
My son's name is Pirmin. Its pronounced Pier-Min.
People have the hardest time with that name. People always HEAR Herman.
I found out at the end of the school year that one of Pirmin's classmates mom thought his name was Pyramid. She asked me if I was a "New Ager" at kindergarten graduation. I was confused till she said "well you named your son Pyramid so I just thought...."
lol I feel bad for the both of them.
I knew of a family whos last name was Trout.
They named their poor girls Rainbow and River. :crazy
If they have a son they should name him Kilgore.
That is one ugly baby in the original link.
...It finally dawned on me that the French name they must have been thinking of is usually spelled Arianne.
But in certain places in the US, spelling your babys name the way its supposed to must be a offense punishable by law. And oh yes, that's an ugly baby, she makes you wonder how ugly her parents could be!
Oh, I almost forgot.
My ex-husband went to highschool with two guys who were twins. One had a regular name, like John or whatever, the other brother's name was ...Twin.
"Hi I am John, and this is my twin brother Twin" :banghead
Velvetrose
04-02-05, 03:42 AM
"Hi Im Larry, this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl"
lol I feel bad for the both of them.
I knew of a family whos last name was Trout.
They named their poor girls Rainbow and River. :crazy
Holy hell, I went to camp with a girl named Goldie Trout. And, if my memory serves me well, her middle name was Lake.
There's a girl who works at the Border's near school named Arwen. Of course, geek that I am, I find it awesome.
InvisiBill
04-03-05, 08:14 AM
My wife's sister and her husband went to school with Peter Palmer. His dad was Richard. His grandpa was ****.
Do people really have the "it happened to me, so I'm gonna do it to someone else" mentality when naming their kids?
Aenamael
04-04-05, 08:42 AM
When my Mom was pregnant with me the name she planned on giving me if I was a girl was Crystal. My last name is Rock. Yes, I have hippy parents. She won't tell me what she originally had planned as a boy name, just that my grandparents talked her out of giving it to me. All I know is it was a character on the show Dark Shadows.
Velvetrose
04-04-05, 11:05 AM
Hopefully it wasnt going to be Barnabas Collins the main Vamp.
lol I feel bad for the both of them.
I knew of a family whos last name was Trout.
They named their poor girls Rainbow and River. :crazy
If they have a son they should name him Kilgore.
That is one ugly baby in the original link.
Heh, I'm slacking off from writing a term paper on Slaughterhouse Five atm, I was gonna post that :applaud
A Local TV Talent is named Mel Showers. He named his daughter. .... April
Dragynphyre
04-04-05, 11:22 AM
On TV in New York City we have Dr. Frank Fields and his son, (drumroll) Storm Fields
both meteorologists...
trophimus
04-04-05, 12:30 PM
I know a Richard Richard. His last name is French, so it's pronounced "Ri-shard."
My mother worked for a guy who's name was **** Freezin. :blink
I kind of like my name but it is rather unusual. People are always misunderstanding it. And the japanese teacher I had never did say it right. She kept calling me "Sequa" like the tree. Other people sometimes hear "Square", when my name is actuall "Squire" :p
Deltar Battlewall
04-04-05, 01:22 PM
I don't know if he's still around, but there used to be a guy in San Diego County who'd run for various county offices named **** Ryder (he changed it to Richard Ryder after a while).
Velvetrose
04-04-05, 03:46 PM
My husbands boss is William A. Holl
Solanar
04-04-05, 09:09 PM
Used to know a guy named Ollie. His brothers were Rolly and Jolly, his sisters were Molly and Polly.
When I was working for GMAC, there were a TON of names on contracts that made me crack up, but I'm not supposed to share those :crazy
My mom used to work in a factory that packed rubber gloves for hospitals, it was in a small...inbred town and some of the greatest names ever came from there...
Christal shanda Lier
Richard **** (or **** **** as he was called)
**** long (look it up in the phone book....Long ****)
and she knew one called Taran hyamenn as well :)
people have such cruel senses of humor when naming their children!
There is (was?) a football player who goes by **** and his last name is Pound.
CogginsEQ
04-05-05, 02:13 PM
Qtip and I had a friend at high school named...
Thats right....
Mike Hunt.
They refused to say his name over the loudspeakers, it was always "Michael <middle initial> Hunt" lol
kporter007
04-06-05, 04:12 PM
I originally cam from Kerrville, TX. The founding peoples last name was BUTTS.....They named the library (and HEB grocery stores) after...
Wait for it....
Harry E. Butts.
The library proudly displays its name-Butts-Holdsworth Memorial Library.
Nimmbull
04-06-05, 04:29 PM
I called my sister in law about the link you posted Deltar. :)
She said she had Female Jones in her P.E. class and on her color guard team at Eagle Rock High School in Eagle Rock CA 4 years ago. My Brother in law...her husband and my husbands brother had Male in his Honors Bio class. SO some "urban myths" are true.
hrrrrm. Doubtful. Even if they were real names, how did they come up qith the knowledge that the Mom had "seen a tag" at the hospital and thought it was the name of their kid? I'm calling B.S.
As for weird names- I had a girl in my high school named Maya Joy Rodd. Lots of fun stupid high school guy chuckles from that one ensued...
I just got back from a banquet with a Ms. Cinnamon Bair (pronounced bear)
I asked her... "okay time for the the same question everyone else in the world asks you....." and she filled in the rest...
of course last name bair.. her mom was watching mission impossible (tv) and saw a char named Cinnnamon Carter and thought that was the coolest name.. Her middle name was lee soo up to about kindergaren her mom was calling her, Cinnamonlee. Then one day said... "Oh My <insert diety> what have I done"
sidenote: she said that she's been called every kind and type of bear imagionable and ran through some of thelist... I asked about "Snuggles" and she said that I was the first ever to come up with that one. :thumb