Worst Name?

[Anonymous]

You are all hereby assigned three readings of the Kevin Henckes book, Chrysanthemum, as your penance.

[Anonymous]

One of the executive secretaries at a company where I interned in college roomed with a new mom who planned to name her newborn son "Harrdick" It is an Indian name and she and her husband had both moved to the states very recently for school and had their son here. In their language, the name meant something wonderful and they obviously had no idea of the English meaning. Someone pulled the dad aside and explained the English meaning and they wound up changing the name since they planned to remain in the states.

[Anonymous]

Jacaylalee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're all so IGNORANT sometimes...
I understand silly names with American words but did you know that some of the "weird" names pointed here are considered beautiful or even common in other countries/cultures?
You should open your mind a little bit and understand that the world does NOT revolve around "America".

Well, it was only a matter of time-some folks were having a little innocent fun and some Rainbow Coalition fruitcake gets her panties in a bunch-by the way, the District of Columbia is located in AMERICA! Thus the name DCUM and thus the fact that the majority of the posters here are posting from America-no one meant to insult clueless foreigners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're all so IGNORANT sometimes...
I understand silly names with American words but did you know that some of the "weird" names pointed here are considered beautiful or even common in other countries/cultures?
You should open your mind a little bit and understand that the world does NOT revolve around "America".

Well, it was only a matter of time-some folks were having a little innocent fun and some Rainbow Coalition fruitcake gets her panties in a bunch-by the way, the District of Columbia is located in AMERICA! Thus the name DCUM and thus the fact that the majority of the posters here are posting from America-no one meant to insult clueless foreigners.

Oh my god, thank you. I am laughing so hard, I can't stop.

[Anonymous]

Worst I heard so far (IMHO): Cassandra, Genevieve, Faith Ann, Hope, Cooper, Sunshine, Apple, Taylor and Owen.

[Anonymous]

Hope and Owen, really, they sound pretty normal to me. I think perceptions of names change overtime. When I was 10 names like Debbie (remember Debbie Boone) were really popular and I wished my name was Debbie. I knew a girl named Lily and everyone felt sorry for her with that name. Now, I named DD Lily and absolutely love the name and couldn't imagine naming my kid Debbie. IMO its a bad idea to try to get too creative with spelling and the worst is adding in non-alpha characters like an apostrophe.

[Anonymous]

Mable and Macey

[Anonymous]

Track and Trig

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hope and Owen, really, they sound pretty normal to me. I think perceptions of names change overtime. When I was 10 names like Debbie (remember Debbie Boone) were really popular and I wished my name was Debbie. I knew a girl named Lily and everyone felt sorry for her with that name. Now, I named DD Lily and absolutely love the name and couldn't imagine naming my kid Debbie. IMO its a bad idea to try to get too creative with spelling and the worst is adding in non-alpha characters like an apostrophe.

You heartless bitch-I'm a middle aged Debbie who was never a cheerleader and now you've insulted me-don't you know in English and native American Intuit Debbie means "woman of great power who speaks anonymously on the internet, congratulates herself on her own witty responses, loves sushi, hates eggplant, and calls herself Jimmy when shes had a lot of cough medicine"?

[Anonymous]

These are a few names of people I actually have met:

Harry Ball

Star Dust

Summer Day

Crystal Chandelier

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are all hereby assigned three readings of the Kevin Henckes book, Chrysanthemum, as your penance.

I agree!

[Anonymous]

I positively hate unusual names that parents think reflects their creativity or quirkiness. You meet a William, and the mom and dad know that's a boy who will have to own that name and define that name himself (usually in a large crowd of Williams). Then you meet some kid named "Artemus" and you'll hear the mom saying his name over and over again in the supermarket, every time he picks up a lemon or points at the sky. "What did you find, Artemus? A lemon?" "Artemus, stay with mommy!". "Look Artemus! A shopping cart!" That's a mom that is irritatingly proud of the unusual name she's found for her lemon grabbing child.

I like plain names precisely for that reaon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're all so IGNORANT sometimes...
I understand silly names with American words but did you know that some of the "weird" names pointed here are considered beautiful or even common in other countries/cultures?
You should open your mind a little bit and understand that the world does NOT revolve around "America".

I don't think this is a matter of ignorance at all... it's a matter of taste. If I don't like how a name sounds, regardless of its country of origin, I don't like it. That doesn't make me ignorant. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of the name Barack (just don't like the way it sounds) but I'm sure it is considered a "beautiful, common" name in Nigeria. And I'm sure in Nigeria names like Ava, Emily, Sophie, Michael, and Jack could be considered ugly. They wouldn't be ignorant or nation-centric for thinking that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're all so IGNORANT sometimes...
I understand silly names with American words but did you know that some of the "weird" names pointed here are considered beautiful or even common in other countries/cultures?
You should open your mind a little bit and understand that the world does NOT revolve around "America".

So if I moved to France and decided I'd name my kid Merde b/c I thought it was great-sounding, or I moved to Mexico and thought Puta would be a lovely name would anyone who told me (mercifully!) otherwise be an anti-American prick?