Worst Baby Names Of All Time!!!!

Meghan - posted on 08/09/2010 ( 69 moms have responded )

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What would compel a parent to bestow a newborn with a name like “Cholera Peace” or “Pomegranate Purple”? Or an amusing choice like “Wanna Towell"? It’s not just Hollywood’s elite opting for unique, embarrassing names—throughout history, normal people separated their offspring from the masses with truly terrible names.

In “Bad Baby Names,” Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, of the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, share thousands of shocking names given to real people, as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Discover the funny names based around common themes, like diseases (Fever Bender), food (Bread White), pets (Good Dog), and if you thought Wednesday Addams was unfortunate — wait till you meet Monday Monday.

Bad baby names:

Celebrities:
Forget Suri or Shiloh – celebrities have given their children far stranger names! Discover the stars' oddest, most bizarre baby names:

Sparrow James Midnight Madden (Nicole Richie and Joel Madden)
Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa (Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa)
Seraphina Rose Elizabeth (Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck)
Bronx Mowgli (Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz)
Zuma (Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale)
Clementine Jane (Ethan Hawke and Ryan Shawhughes)
Knox Leon (Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt)
Sunday Rose (Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban)
Apple (Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow)
Moxie CrimeFighter (Magician Penn Jillette)
Hopper (Sean Penn and Robin Wright)
Pilot Inspektor (Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf)
Sosie (Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick)
Destry (Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw)
Aurelius Cy (Elle Macpherson)
Kal-El Coppola (Nicolas Cage)
Bluebell Madonna (Spice Girl Geri Halliwell)
Audio Science (Actress Shannyn Sossamon)
Kyd (David Duchovny and Tea Leon)
Fifi Trixibell (Bob Geldof and Paula Yates)
Calico (Alice Cooper)
Denim and Diezel Ky (Toni Braxton)
Seargeoh and Sage Moonblood (Sylvester Stallone)
Jermajesty (Jermaine Jackson)
Hud and Spec Wildhorse (John Cougar Mellencamp and Elaine Irwin)
Rebel, Racer and Rogue (Robert Rodriguez)
Free (Barbara Hershey and David Carradine)
Reignbeau (Ving Rhames)

Diseases:
You'd have to be really sick to infect your offspring with virulent names like these:

Fever Bender (born 1856)
Leper Priest (born 1929)
Cholera Priest (born 1830 during the second cholera pandemic)
Rubella Graves (born 1814)
Typhus Black (born 1897)
Hysteria Johnson (born 1881)
Emma Royd (born 1850)
Kathryn E. Coli (born 1894)
Mumps Sykes (born 1891)

Professions:
With names like "Mayor Bland," it seems like some parents had high, ambitious hopes for their children's future.

Cook Cook
Governor Bush
Lawyer Low
Doctor Love
Teacher Blackbear
Judge Savage
Editor Honeycutt
Mayor Bland
Sales O. Justice
Gamble Moore

Sins:
The authors found 149 records for people named Lust, 70 for Greed, 12 for Sloth, and 830 for Pride. Which of the 7 deadlly sins was missing? Only gluttony.

Lust Garten
Greed Sister Mancini
Avarice Sullivan
Sloth Washton
Wrath Gordon
Envy Burger
Pride Saint
Greed McGrew
Pride Saint
Lust T. Castle

Irish luck:
Plenty of parents must have thought that naming their child Lucky would translate into a bright future. In 1930 alone, there are 463 Luckys.

Some lucky favorites:
Lucky Green
Lucky Jewell
Shamrock Hardeman of Illinois
Shamrock Dates of Mississippi

The religious types:
Saint Patrick Blan
Saint Patrick Forrest

The patriotic:
Ireland England
Ireland Green
Ireland Brew

Whimsical:
Rainbow Green
Emerald Jewel
Clover Field

A St. Patrick’s Day feast:
Beef Cooper
Guinness Dack
Cabbage Haywood


Foods:
Some parents loved eating so much, they named their kids after favorite meals, snacks—and even condiments:

Lunch Magee
Dinner Ware
Bread White
Hero Brat
Mayo Head
Mustard M. Mustard
Pickle Parker
Plum Sellers
Banana Bowdy
Cherry Grant


Simpson pranks:
Bart Simpson's prank calls to Moe's Tavern are nearly legendary, but the sad fact is that some people actually go through life with those goofy names. The following Bart creations all exist within the Ancestry.com databases:

Al Caholic
Oliver Clothesoff
I.P. Freely
Seymour Butz
Mike Rotch
Hugh Jass
Amanda Hugginkiss
Ivana Tinkle
Anita Bath
Maya Buttreeks

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Sharmaine - posted on 07/16/2011

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Jason Ellis who is on sirius faction and skate boarder he named his son Tiger and I love it :)

Christina - posted on 07/16/2011

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The name I hate most in the world is Hortense!

Laura Zoey - posted on 07/16/2011

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My great u cle goes by Dick Bunn, his name is Richard so idk. Why he goes by Dick instead of Rich or Rick considering his las name....

Ashley=) - posted on 10/08/2010

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We had a talk going back a few years by a man called Jerry berry..now Jerry fine but would you put it with berry for heaven sake..he has to say his full name everyday in all the lectures he does lol.The place irrupted in laughter..god love him.

Jodi - posted on 10/07/2010

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Quoting Corena

"I know of a family who are very "fire and brimstone" Christians who named their son Repent Or Burn. They call him Rob."



Sorry, I nearly spat my drink when I read this. My husband's name is Rob. I just took great pleasure in reciting this one to him!!



Edited to add: I am pretty sure his birth name is Robert and not Repent Or Burn, but hey, you just never know after all the crap I've heard he did when he was much younger!! One of the reasons I am SO glad I didn't meet him until he was in his 30s, or I probably would have thought he was an imbecile.

Jodi - posted on 10/07/2010

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And then we have the Chief Minister for Delhi (or whatever her proper title is) during the Commonwealth Games, whose name is Sheila Dikshit. Ok, so it pronounced Dixit, and I get it is a cultural thing, but......

Shannon - posted on 10/07/2010

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My mom had a neighbor named Lucinda Klunt.
I waited on a guy once named Dick Lasalle.
I had a friend in school named Andy Hurlbutt, we called him Puke Ass.. lol

Stifler's - posted on 10/07/2010

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BAHAHA. I've heard of someone thinking Candida was a cool name and naming their kid that.

Shannon - posted on 10/07/2010

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My sister who is a nurse in Las Vegas, helped deliver a baby to a black woman that had no idea what to name her new baby girl.... When my sister was going over the facts about babies first poop, the woman said "OMG, that is a beautiful name. I will name her Meconium!" ..lol ...sick

Rebecca - posted on 10/07/2010

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For their children's sake, I sure hope so.

Stifler's - posted on 10/07/2010

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I red through the names and was just like... are they making this up for a joke???

Rebecca - posted on 10/07/2010

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hahaha i saw that. I posted twins names as black and white. I mean, come on, most of those names on there are basically nick names that emo kids give themselves to make themselves "Unique". Sadly enough, it's the parents giving their children these same names.

Stifler's - posted on 10/07/2010

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I posted that I named my kid Adolf Schindler bahahhaha

Rebecca - posted on 10/07/2010

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lol. That post on the teenage/young moms is pretty hilarious. Most of those names are ssoooooo ridiculous, it makes me feel so sorry for those kids growing up.

Stifler's - posted on 10/06/2010

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My boyfriend also wanted to call our son Bruce Wayne as my dad's name is Bruce and his dad's is Wayne. I was like NO>

Stifler's - posted on 10/06/2010

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Eugh. Why do these people breed. I've heard a lot of bad names since coming to CoM, namely on the teenage mothers/young mothers community. I mean come on, they're NOT EVEN REAL NAMES. Or the people who deliberately misspell a name like "Annibel" for Annabelle. Shoot me now.

Heather - posted on 10/06/2010

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My brother played football with a guy named Dusty Bleu Couch...always wondered if he was named after where he was conceived.lol

My grandmother's best friend in high school was named Ida Pig...her sister's name was Yuda.

Kelly - posted on 10/06/2010

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I went to school with a girl named Crystal Shanda Leer (Crystal Chandelier). And my uncle was once in court with a child named Donald Duck. The kid was in trouble repeatedly, he committed suicide a week after that court date, and it was thought that his name was to blame--he was always trying to separate himself from it, it was like he was always a joke; his name, which is essentially his identity, was a joke.....that always makes me sad :(

Holly - posted on 10/06/2010

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I want to name my first son Bruce Wayne! My hubby vetoed it though... That and Ignaz... I saw that name on this show about decorating store fronts for Christmas (he was a designer for one of the stores). :)

Our girls ended up with pretty normal names, but I do get comments on how they're so "ethnic" (they are Sasha, Nadia, and Elena - all Russian).

Jayde - posted on 10/05/2010

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Wow & i thought the name Summer would may be be too out there!

Nicole - posted on 09/21/2010

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Moonunit Zappa is one of my favorite awful names. I seriously went to high school with a girl named ShiThead Joyner. What an evil mother she had. On her first day, a teacher though someone was screwing around with the attendance cards.

Anika - posted on 09/20/2010

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@Barb. Ah. I see it. The Wendy-windy combo just didnt stick out to me.

Kate CP - posted on 09/20/2010

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My husband seriously wanted to name a son Bruce Wayne or Iran (pronounced eye-run) after his grandfather. I said no. :P

Sapphire - posted on 09/20/2010

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My former student's first name was Brock....middle name Lee
Another former student Justin....middle name Tyme
Plus I've had all the weather names like Sunny, Icy, Breezy, Stormy, etc. And of course all the gem stones, and calendar months.

Barb - posted on 09/20/2010

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to Anika;

Because they are sisters and the names are all about weather. They aren't odd on their own, but as sisters we called them the weather sisters.

Anika - posted on 09/20/2010

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@Barb, what's weird about Misty, Haley and Wendy???

My mum knew some kids called Andy, Mandy and Candy. That still cracks me up.

Barb - posted on 09/20/2010

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wow! LOL, these were awesome to read.

I went to school with 3 sisters named Wendy, Misty, and Haley.

I worked with a lady who's last name was Baer, but pronounced Bear. She had twins and named them Theodore Edward and Edward Theodore. They they would always be her Teddy Eddy and Eddy Teddy Baers.

There is a recent article on Live Science about how a baby's name can affect it's growth educationally and socially.

here is a link to that article: http://www.livescience.com/culture/baby-...

Jacqueline - posted on 09/20/2010

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my boys' therapist just worked with a set of twins named Fat-Fat & Moon Pie

Olwen - posted on 08/24/2010

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I'm pretty sure she used the actual symbol. Thank god she home schooling her because she was going to be bullied so much. They're in australia, the land of pie's.

Sarah - posted on 08/24/2010

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did they spell it Pi? b/c if they spelled it with an e but named her after the math number, their super dumb! LOL

Olwen - posted on 08/24/2010

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I know someone who named her girl, Pie, not after the horrible food but after the mathematical symbol. Worst name i've ever heard

Jennifer - posted on 08/24/2010

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Ok I think I have it beat. My friend works for childs services in Florida, one child's name was pronounced ash-o-le...asshole.....lolol....another was no lie abc'de. Now thats just sad, why?? why?? I think something went wrong with the epidural...lol

I almost had a weird name. My middle name was suppose to be Bocheutt...it means morning star rising in the east, who knows in Tsalagi a Native American dialect...my mom was like no!..So now I just have the initial B.

Tara - posted on 08/24/2010

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dang, and i thought i was wierd cuz i wanted to name my son Breven! he got Justin instead. but i did go threw phases when i was little where i swore up & down my daughter would be named Fushia Rose (like the color, but spelt different) and then i wanted to name my daughter after my younger sisters, so i made up Aronica (Angela, Ronnie & Erica together) i gave up on that, since it sounded like a porn stars name, so now shes getting Emilee!

Corena - posted on 08/20/2010

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My brother had a friend in elementary school whose last name was Cox. I later found out that his father's name was Harry. Poor guy!

Emily - posted on 08/19/2010

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lol! some parents just don't think!
I went to school with a Chester Field and my husband works with a Chubaka Prince STRANGE people out there :)

Rosie - posted on 08/19/2010

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going through my child's snack list for school, there is a child that is named Seven in his class. wonder what his/her last name is? people are too mean. :)

Kat - posted on 08/17/2010

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oh, i forgot. you know those little license plates with kids' names on them they can put on their bikes? there was a lady who was mad because her daughter's name Anna-Arexia (anorexia) wasnt able to fit her name on one.

Alisa - posted on 08/17/2010

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lol... the weird and wonderful world of crazy people.....

Jane - posted on 08/16/2010

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Oh yeah, and a guy I worked with years ago, married a woman who's name was Roberta Pins but she called her self Bobbie. She's older than me and I'm 51 so parents have been screwing with their kids for years (LOL)!

Jane - posted on 08/16/2010

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Those are funny. I knew a guy named Richard Iwickie but he called himself Rick. When he was paged over the loud speaker at work, they would page Rick Iwickie...we used to crack up all the time :)

Brittany - posted on 08/14/2010

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Also, I knew a black woman who named her child Abcde (AB-se-duh)

Brittany - posted on 08/14/2010

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Frank Zappa's children take the cake IMO
4 kids: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen

COME ON!!! THIN MUFFIN?!

Rosie - posted on 08/14/2010

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a man wrote a check at my checkout line yesterday, and his name was richard dick. i about shit! what are these people doing to their poor children! lol!

Ary - posted on 08/14/2010

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Oh my, Carol, lol. Well, I guess if by unusual, she means that Michaela isn't the name of a food or common household object, she'd be right ;)

Johnny - posted on 08/13/2010

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A couple weeks ago a woman with a daughter named Sprout told me that she thought my daughter's name, Michaela, was unusual. It was really challenging not to start laughing.

Ary - posted on 08/13/2010

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Wow. Just wow. Don't parents remember what it's like to be a child? Poor kids get teased enough about just anything. Why make them an obvious target? That's why my boys got simple "boring" names...David and Sean =) I love their names though (obviously), and they suit each of them.

Kat - posted on 08/13/2010

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a friend of mine named her daughter Kaylie McKenzie. which wouldnt be so bad but her last name is McCleod. so it's Kaylie McKenzie McCleod. too many "ie" and "mc" sounds makes it awkward.

i also know someone who named their kid Wyatt. (never liked that name anyway), but his middle name is Wieyatt, and their last name is Wyatt. so he's Wyatt Wieyatt Wyatt. poor kid.

other (bad) names of friends' kids are Nattas; brothers Nehemiah, Jerusalem, Canaan & Nazareth; Dezmond Akira-Niban, Lan Hikari-Kenshin (both brothers who are blond whose parents are obsessed with Japanese anime); Kason; and Egan. my 2 cousins (mothers of Kason and Egan) told me that Tristan (my son's name) was "too weird and out there" for a kid, lol

Meghan - posted on 08/13/2010

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I do like Moxie too...but I believe she is named after Moxie soda lol...

Mae - posted on 08/13/2010

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Ummmm wow! Everyone told me I picked a weird name for my daughter (Aurora Leigh) these are so much worse. I knew about Penn's daughter's name and I like her first name Moxie is kinda cute.

Kyle - posted on 08/12/2010

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At my job I had a child support for a child named Emoney (E -Money)....Really people com'on.