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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