Worst names you have ever heard?

carvers4math

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I know the grandpa of a baby girl named Kinnick Trice. They are supposedly a house divided although they are all really Hawk fans except the baby daddy. I hate names where you have no clue what the gender might be.
 

TykeClone

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Maybe the US needs a list of "official names"

Teenager Blaer Sues Iceland To Use Own Name

A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to use her name because it is not on the country's "approved" list.

Blaer Bjarkardottir has been told she cannot officially use her name because it does not appear on the Personal Names Register, a list of 1,712 male names and 1,853 female ones.
Icelandic officials maintain the list is kept to ensure names fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules and will stop children from being given embarrassing names.
Oddly, the name Elvis is on the list, as it conforms to Icelandic guidelines but Cara and Carolina have been rejected because the letter c is not part of Iceland's 32-letter alphabet.

If a name is not on the list then parents can apply to a special committee for permission to use it, which means it can then be used on official documents such as school registers and passports.
However, in Blaer's case, the committee refused and now she and her mother are to become the first to take their case to court.
 

FarminCy

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This isn't really bad names but a bad grouping. One of my wifes friends named their 3 boys Brady, Grady, Brody. Those kids have no clue which one their parents are yelling for.
 

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This isn't really bad names but a bad grouping. One of my wifes friends named their 3 boys Brady, Grady, Brody. Those kids have no clue which one their parents are yelling for.

I knew a family whose three kids are Mackenzie, Matthew, and Maxwell, which aren't so bad on their own, but they went by the shortened versions: "Mack", "Matt", and "Max".
 

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I was working on a Stat 421 project with a fellow grad student named Pha Que. He pronounced it for me and I started laughing. He said he couldn't wait until he returned home to his home country so Americans will stop laughing at his name. I apologized and said that it was an okay name...it just caught me off guard.
 

Stumpy

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I have two separate acquaintances who have named their daughters Zepplin and Sequoyah. Questionably gendered stupid names that are misspelled: hat trick.
 

carvers4math

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In retrospect, given his proclivities, Pierre Pierce was a pretty bad name.

Todd Licklieter, is that the tool that the State of Iowa just keeps paying?

Kirk Ferentz, aka Kurt Ferret.
 

Buster28

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When I worked at a music/video store in California, one of our rental customers was named "Honey Graham." It was on her license. Not that its all that terrible, but I wouldn't saddle one of my kids with that kind of name.
 

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does "my wife works at a hospital" mean "I saw something funny on the internet i'm going to share but i'm not sure if its true..."?
 

CycloneWanderer

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What are the worst names you have ever actually heard of a real person? (Not counting Ima Hogg and La-a urban legends.) It can be a really weird one, or some of the "trendy" new made-up names that a lot of kids are now being named.

Poor Farnold Degand had it pretty rough. :( Whenever my husband and I would hear his name at a game, we'd say, "Hey, Faaarnold!" (like from the old Nickelodeon show).

(Please no insulting other members.)

There was a La-a in a class I TA'd.
 

Rabbuk

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[video=youtube;G7zfJ2Z2q38]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7zfJ2Z2q38[/video]
 

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