Primero!!

No kidding, I swear this isn't "guys at my high school...no big deal:"

I went to high school with twins named Perfect and Precious, and with boys with the given names of Lord and Sir.

A guy at my high school was named [First Name] Hawkin Seamen... it was no big deal. Oh wait, it was.

I hear that the name "Jade" also functions as a social handicap ... Did you plan this Lat?

There is a judge with the last name of "Justice," Judge William Wayne Justice:

http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=1217

I find it funny that her friends know her as "K," seeing that "K" is just about the only letter in the alphabet not in her name.

lemonjello and orangello

Two words: Learned Hand

I got to law school with a girl named Precious. Yikes!

Two words: Learned Hand

I got to law school with a girl named Precious. Yikes!

Years ago working a junior olympic track meet in the heartland one of the 8-9 yr old girls had the name Shithead Brown pronounced Shi-thade. I still wonder what happened to her.

World B. Free (changed his name in adult life).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_B._Free

In college I worked with a kid named Dickson Wang. We all referred to him as "The Unfortunately Named."

I got to law school with a girl named Precious. Yikes!

Did anyone get to law school with a girl named Precious?

There is a kid running around the Pacific Northwest with the name of Taser.

I went to school with an Emerald Green. Unfortunately she didn't have siblings named Hunter, Spring, or Lime.

There is a kid running around the Pacific Northwest with the name of Taser.

Cloroxzina.

Vagina (pronounced "Va-Geena"). Went by Gina.

Used to work with a guy named Bill Cocke.

In God We Trust is a fine American name. Good for the Illinois bus driver.

JesUSAves. One nation under GOD!

"Feel free to mention other unfortunate names you've come across, in the comments."

Whatever happened to your "policy" of not naming non-public figures? I guess non-public figures with funny names have fewer privacy rights?

While in law school I dated a resident who worked in the pediatric center. A Mother named her twins Asshole and Shithead pronounced Ashole' and Shithade

what about the judge who the 5th circuit's courthouse in new orleans is named for ?

talk about a bad name for a judge!

My sister is a pediatrician in an inner city hellhole hospital, which means lots of great name stories. Two good ones:

1. A little boy named Liam. His name was pronounced Yum. Why, you ask? He was named after his father William.

2. A little girl with the first name Millia. Middle name? N'zadallas (or something very similar to that).

There is a gynecologist in Fairfax, VA named Harry Beaver.

What's the big deal about her name? Geez.

/s/ Sex Fruit

Snowman Doe
Tedious Cornelius MacWhite
When I was coaching forensics there was a competitor with the first name Dimple. I loved that name.

"Moon Running Bear"

- Name of 3 year old white kid I met at Bonnaroo in 2005.

25 -- how about celebrity babies with names like Pilot Inspektor, Audioscience, or Moxy Crimefighter?

there is a radio station in memphis that has a segment called "bad baby name of the week". my favorite: LaPepsi. they actually talked to the nurse who attended to the mom and she asked her why she named her kid that, and she said "because i hate coke"

"Queen Quedith Earth Harrison" is competing for the US next month's Beijing Olympics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/sports/olympics/30queen.html

Her brother is named "God Goldin Zig Zag Zig Allah."

If this reference escapes you, see:

http://www.hemptopia.org/images/041_24_059~Zig-Zag-Man-Posters.jpg

I'm not sure that the children of celebrities are public figures, 33, but even if they are Lat's invitation wasn't limited to them and none of the prior comments (except for Learned Hand) have involved even arguable public figures. Seems a bit hypocritical to encourage people to name non-public figures in this thread for the sole purpose of making fun of their names but threaten to ban anyone who names the summer associate girl-on-girl kissers in the other thread.

--25

Mitochondria Jones. She went to college with me. Perhaps not surprisingly, she was a biology major.

#32

That name isn't surprising at all for the type of parents who would take their 3 year-old child to Bonnaroo.

Ice T Baby Jesus Smith

There are a bunch of idiots who have named their kid ESPN.

Two brothers: Hunter and Trapper.

Mike Hunt - say it aloud a couple of times and you'll know the pain.

Baby M.

Who the hell would give there kid such a stupid name?

- Hof1L

There is a Thai boxer named Terdsak Jandaeng.

Seven

It's got cache

Majestic Mapp used to play basketball at UVA. He had a younger brother named Scientific Mapp.

I had a professor in high school named Forest Cedar Wood.

Enough with the urban legends Shithead, Vagina, Orangello, etc.

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

France used to, but I think quite a few countries still require first-name approval, which I find fascinating. I wonder what the legal challenges would be in this country?

As for bad names, I have always felt bad for girls who got stuck with slutty/dummy names like Crystal, Britney ("Brittany" is bad enough, but a misspelled version?), Bambi, etc. It's such a hurdle if you want to be taken seriously.

36, just saying someone's name doesn't do anything to them. There's no fact pattern or behavior being discussed.

A guy I knew in the Navy married a woman from Thailand named Supaporn. (sounds like "super porn").

He checked in, I saw her name on the social roster, and I was positive someone pulled a prank on him (my "spouse" on the roster was fictitious and had a silly name, since I was single).

But then he brought her to an event and it was no joke. A hot Thai woman named Supaporn.

29 is a Gene Weingarten chatter.

Sir Mario Owens was recently sentenced to death in Colorado. Unlike in Elizabethian England however, he will not have the option of selecting beheading as his method of execution, which was reserved exclusively for nobility.

Seems there are an awful lot of girls named Precious out there, unless the one I went to elementary school with has been really really busy.

42, I grew up in a small town north of Albany, NY. I kid you not, I once babysat a kid named "Mike Hunt." And as an 8th grader (or whatever I was) it was pretty hard to keep a straight face.

Also from the mighty capital district of NY:

Haywood Jablome
He doesn't pronounce it that way but the poor guy was (at least when I was in high school) listed in the Albany phone book.

One of the partners at Dickstein Shapiro is named Woody Peterson:

http://www.dicksteinshapiro.com/petersonw/

Again: Woody Peterson. At Dickstein. That's a big bundle of near-schlong. He was also the OUTLaw liaison, if I remember correctly.

I have a friend who named her first-born daughter Defiance.

Kashmir has to be the hottest name out there, though. Show of hands?

learned hand, biatch

# 35, it sounds like their father was a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Bobby Bobby Bobby Digi Digi Digi

# 35, it sounds like their father was a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Bobby Bobby Bobby Digi Digi Digi

Musthaf Herod Apyurpuper

i was doing diligence and came across a singapore subsidiary of a company, the president of the sub's name was "Fun Kok".

I laughed my way out of that windowless conference room full of boxes.

How about the preeminant French mathematician Jacques Tits?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tits

Gene Parmesan

Reali Goode [sic]
Wolvonsky Champagne

Reali Goode [sic]
Wolvonsky Champagne

Reali Goode [sic]
Wolvonsky Champagne

lol 61!!!

That does it. I'm naming my kids after Lat.

Phil McCracken?

Anything that starts with Clyde?

A kid I went to elementary school with was named Sevn Dickey.

Hey, 69, no one will ever find your kid on Google- there'll be a gazillion hits of David Sr. Your little guy can post whatever he wants and get off scott free. And he'll always get his calls returned by lawyers/law firms.

The Bogs at the KFC in Langley Village

I have an indian friend named Hashish .. no shit

Barack Obama

48:

LemonJello, OrangeJello, and Shithead are not urban myths (though the poster who mentioned Shithead above sounds like he/she got an urban legend version of it).

Read Freakonomics by Stephen D. Levitt. It has an interesting chapter discussing childeren's names and the extent to which they predict future success.

For you history-lovers out there, we were once involved in a matter with regards to a Norman Conquest (no middle name).

There are three sisters who are actresses in Bollywood with the names Dimple, Twinkle, and Simple. Dimple's the most famous, and no one knows what happened to poor Simple.

Yu Ho. We didn't do high school graduation in alphabetical order and there was broad concensus to let him go first.

An actor (I think its the lead guy in my name is earl) named his kid "Skyrocket"

Hoof arted?

I went to middle school with a guy who was born in Korea or Vietnam (can't remember which) and he swore up and down that his birth name was Dum Phuc.

A rabbi I know tells a story that a gentile woman wanted to give her twins Hebrew names, and she found something that sounded pretty, but she wanted to know what it means: "barukh" and "hashem". "Barukh Hashem" is an expression that basically means "thank God," something you would say, for example, when you narrowly missed being hit by a car.

I Perfection Harris played football for Penn State a few years back.

48 - That snopes articles does not say people are not named that but that parents do not name their children that UNINTENTIONALLY.

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

lawyers at venable named treazure and pixie

Safe for work:

http://www.tv.com/uservideos/?action=video_player&id=JHIykTuv5bkKvDfW

This is not an urban myth. In the summer after my freshman year of college, I worked as a receptionist in a dental office. Imagine trying to call a patient named Asshole pronounced "Ashooley."

Not so much with the last name, but Harvard physics professor Cumrun Vafa might have been THE guy to invite to parties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumrun_Vafa

87 that's good stuff. I think there's another SNL sketch from the early 90s with someone's name pronounced (but not spelled) Azzweepay

Ex-girlfriend worked at a pre-school. There was a kid named D'Awesome.

75 wins. I just had to shut my door to laugh.

Bought a tshirt at an MLB game from a girl with LaMonica on her name tag. I remarked that it was a neat name and she told me it was French.

What about NY Jets lineman D'Brickashaw Ferguson?

I know a legal assistant named Trixie. Actual first given name.

No BS: I went to high school with a girl named Sparkle LaStar Moore.

Pepsi's the new generation?

Barry O'bama

Ooh, my favorite topic.

I went to school was a poor girl from Sri Lanka.

Her name was Anupria, but everyone called her Anu.

Her last name was Carr.

Anu Carr.

Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K

http://aperfectworld.blogspot.com/2005/04/worst-baby-name-ever-in-case-you-dont.html

Walker and Texas Ranger

"Greatest Generation my a$$. Tom Brokaw's a punk!"

There was a guy running around Seattle a few years back who had changed his name to Fnu Lnu. Whenever he got picked up by the cops & they entered his name into the computer, it screwed them up because the cops used those initials for "First Name Unknown" and "Last Name Unknown"

There was a guy running around Seattle a few years back who had changed his name to Fnu Lnu. Whenever he got picked up by the cops & they entered his name into the computer, it screwed them up because the cops used those initials for "First Name Unknown" and "Last Name Unknown"

I am Indian and know people with the following names:

Hardick
Anal (pronounced a-nul)
Chhabi Bhatt (yes, it is actually pronounced chubby butt)
Kamlesh (which sounds an awful like cum-less when said with the accent)

I am Indian and know people with the following names:

Hardick
Anal (pronounced a-nul)
Chhabi Bhatt (yes, it is actually pronounced chubby butt)
Kamlesh (which sounds an awful like cum-less when said with the accent)

The wife is a teacher at an urban school. Two years ago she had a student named "Courvoisier."

And way back in high school, there was a dude on an opposing wrestling team named "Thunder Grimes." Stadium announcers always loved it when he came to the mat.

Was a substitute teacher with twin boys in the class, Orangejello and Lemonjello ("o-Ron-jelo" and "le-mOn-jelo").

Was a substitute teacher with twin boys in the class, Orangejello and Lemonjello ("o-rOn-jelo" and "le-mOn-jelo").

Classmates of mine in college:

Wendy Lane
Liberty Day
Donna Reed

Ladies Love Cool James

Went to college with a guy named Dick Head, and in middle school I had a friend named Gonorrhea (pronounced Ga-Nor-E-A).

When I was a sub I also had Imagine (I-mah-jhe-nay)

Second D'Brickashaw! Also Boisfeuillet Jones, former Washington Post publisher.

Ivana Komunjer

http://econ.ucsd.edu/~ikomunje/contact.htm

Note that some languages pronounce a 'j' as an 'h' sound.

Went to school with a guy named Mike Hock (say it out loud). Also a Nathan Boob.

Lucretia Bacon (pronouced: lew-CREE-sha bah-CONE)

Studying for Arkansas bar. Case in the family law outline:

Woman gets knocked up by local TV weather guy. She names the kid "Weather'by Dot Com Chanel Fourcast". Court awarded father custody and a name change.

Does anybody remember the (very old) SNL sketch about baby names that ends with the delivery guy at the door and the conversation:

Delivery guy: "Delivery for Asswipe."
Husband: "It's Az-weep-ay"
??

Bubba Bubba Bubba

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/12/01/offbeat.name.bubba.ap/index.html

Great Nebraska running back: I.M. Hipp.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the lawyer Cupcake Brown.

Also, don't forget Oprah (which resulted from the misspelling of Orpah, the name her parents intended to give her, on her birth certificate). You'd think that parents would fix that.

Thurgood Marshall was short for Thoroughgood.

Ima Hogg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg

Phuc me? Phuc LU!

http://www.sutherland.com/phuc_lu/

My mother's co-worker's kid: Chance O. Rain.

I got to AU Law school with a girl named Orangejello ("o-rOn-jelo")

Kind of makes Jade Ray look mainstream.

--She who was conceived after her mother dropped orange acid and did the hoola

Plaxico buress, named for the company where his mom worked, if I remember correctly.

Lawyer Milloy

My husband's cousin taught a girl named Aquanetta. I am not making this up.

Oh, and a 10-year-old in our local youth football/cheerleading league is named Nicole. But it is pronounced, "Nick-oh-lee".

Doesn't Matthew McConaughey's brother (of reality-tv lumberjack fame) have kid named Miller Lyte?

There used to be a fairly prominent urologist in Toledo by the name of Richard Tapper.

I went to high school with a girl named "Anita Cox"

According to an AOL sports interview cited in a wikipedia article, Plaxico Burress was actually named after his uncle. A funny name though, nonetheless.

I've seen Trout Fishing In America's driver's license.

A friend's student:

D-Money

Here are the craziest I've ever heard:

Mydiamond Unique Johnson
Sixtoe Astudeldo

Reuben Boumtje Boumtje was a center for the Hoyas.

Boumtje is prounounced BOOMshay.

I've blogged about NZ efforts to stop a kid from being named 4real:
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/06/baby_naming_bra.html

I went to high school with a girl named Chevette.

Also, there's a football player (don't remember where) with the first name Mister.

My high school librarian was named Sunny Falling-Rain. She was most definitely not Native American.

Knowshon Moreno

I knew a secretary once whose name was Sandra Beach (naturally she went by Sandy). She was a wonderful woman and had a great sense of humor about her name.

I knew a secretary once whose name was Sandra Beach (naturally she went by Sandy). She was a wonderful woman and had a great sense of humor about her name.

I used to work with a woman whose first name was "Miao Miao" - I think she was from China - but she went by "Kitty" - seriously.

Also worked with a guy named Richard Head, unfortunately he went by Rich.

47 - go mustangs ('96)
139 - go dawgs ('00)

Punjabis have the best nicknames. I have uncles named Kitty, Rocky, Witty, Happy, Jolly, Lovely, Poply (pronounced "pope"ly), Binny, and those are the tame nicknames in our community.

I also have a random cousin named Softy. And I once knew a girl named Snowy.

There was a hearing officer at the Miami-Dade Housing Authority named Hobbit Forest.

I know a "Crystal Chanda Lear" (last name pronounced "Leer". )

In mitigation, her father founded Learjet. But still....who would do that to a kid...

(And yes, I am serious

http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/001305.html

see comments following post)

http://forum.baby-gaga.com/about249635.html

What about RAF Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup. Surely it doesn't get any better than that.

I went to high school with a girl with the last name Berry. There are a few names one should not call a girl if that's her last name. Her parents went with

Cherry.

Her name was Cherry Berry.

A girl I went to high school with named her children Lexus, Lincoln, and Legacy.

Had a friend in high school named Harvard. He had two brothers named Yale and Princeton. No kidding. None when to any of those colleges.

My old supervisor was named "Candace Koehn"---she pronounced her last name "Cane" and went by the shortened version of her first name: Candy.

http://faculty.culver.org/~koehnc/biograph.asp

How about naming a kid Destiny? How would YOU like to live up to that?

118 - Yes, I remember that sketch. It was a couple trying to pick out baby names and the guy kept shooting them all down because of how the kid could be mocked on the playground.

The actor was Nicholas Cage (who, incidentally, named his child Kal-el - after Superman).

I went to grade school with a girl named Jane Stitt. You can imagine the fun 6th grade boys had with that.

Also, my sister worked in a Chicago hospital where a newborn was given the name Nosmo King. Apparently the mother read it on a sign as she entered the hospital.

I was in a duty free shop and there was this little girl who I could hear in another aisle repeating "that's my name" over and over. Finally I hear her mother get annoyed and shout," Chanel, quit messing around and get over here!"

I also heard a story (although it could be urban legend) about a woman who named her daughter Female (pronounced feh-mah-lay). When asked why she chose that name, she responded, "I didn't, there were only two choices - Mahlay and Fehmahlay; the doctor checked Fehmahlay, and I liked it so much I kept it."

My high school English teacher's first name was Gay Ann. Her husband's last name was Mann. Mrs. Mann

She's joke about how she was the only female Gay Mann. She was cool

My high school English teacher's first name was Gay Ann. Her husband's last name was Mann. Mrs. Mann

She's joke about how she was the only female Gay Mann. She was cool

Ivan Ho and Heidi Ho (not related to one another).

Wow. If that Judge is afraid names will cause a social disability, can anyone imagine whate he would be likely to do w/ a REAL social disability ... like autism? Maybe there's a place for this judge on the Autism Mercury Vaccination Court!