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What is the dumbest, most enbarrassing name any parent gave their kid (since 1850, let's say).

Posted - January 13, 2018

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  • 17364
    Bobo.........I have always thought parents were nuts to call their baby boy that.  
      January 13, 2018 11:59 PM MST
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  • 5835
    I thought Frank Zappa had scarred his little girl for life when he named her Moon Unit. Well, she is an established entertainer now, still using her given name.
      January 14, 2018 2:21 AM MST
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  • 3375
    I actually remember that.  In the entertainment arena though, it was likely as asset to have this name.  
      January 14, 2018 1:44 PM MST
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  • 17364
    It would not have served her well in any other intelligent career path.  She would have had to change it or shorten it to Moon or something.  I wouldn't want that name in my law office.
      January 14, 2018 2:36 PM MST
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  • 5808
    A boy named Sue
      January 14, 2018 8:55 AM MST
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  • 2657
    Stoleded my answer. In today's world, it wouldn't likely be a problem.
      January 14, 2018 3:50 PM MST
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  • 3375
    ...and to have Johnny Cash write a song about you would really be cool.  
      January 17, 2018 12:27 PM MST
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  • 44175
    This is not a joke. A woman named her daughter Vagina. One of my students told me about her when we were talking about strange names.
      January 14, 2018 10:23 AM MST
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  • 6477
    There are so many... ranging from outrageous to less so but still odd.. Bunny is a daft name, 
      January 14, 2018 1:40 PM MST
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  • 5835
    The animal's name is coney, which is pronounced "cunny". People immediately noticed the resemblance to the name of a body part, so they said bunny instead.
      January 14, 2018 3:26 PM MST
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  • 6477
    thank you, I am sure that's true and I didn't know that..  I am in the UK so not sure we have the same reference to conny here? , I was referring a gardening celebrity here called Bunny. This post was edited by Adaydreambeliever at January 14, 2018 3:39 PM MST
      January 14, 2018 3:35 PM MST
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  • 3375
    My dad who grew up in the early 1930's claimed to have had a schoolmate named Lotta Krapp.  He said he always thought it was a cruel thing for her parents to do.

    I have to agree with him.  
      January 14, 2018 1:43 PM MST
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  • 5835
    In the 50s there was a produce packing plant here run by a woman named Ima Hogue.
      January 14, 2018 3:28 PM MST
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  • 13071
    Pubert.
      January 14, 2018 2:38 PM MST
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  • 5835
    I don't know if this story is true, but it certainly rhymes with reality.

    A fellow named R. B. Jones got drafted into the army. The army is very persnickety about certain things, and one of them is "payroll signature". It is required to write your first name in full, middle initial, and last name in full, all in some sort of script handwriting such that it is clearly legible. Well, "R. B." does not fit that definition, so he was given a change of name affidavit. He declined it because he intended to keep his given name. The army types did the army thing and threatened him, then they sent him to be psychoanalyzed. He remained firm, saying he knew what his name was and he intended to keep it. They offered a compromise: he could use the signature R.(only) B.(only) Jones. He declined, saying that he did not care to be known as "Ronly Bonly Jones".

    I don't know exactly how they ever worked this out. After all, courts have ruled that a man's name is anything he says it is and it doesn't have to be spellable or pronounceable in any particular language. And the army types firmly believe they can do anything they want.
      January 15, 2018 3:06 AM MST
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  • 5835
    Now this: https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp
      January 15, 2018 3:11 AM MST
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