What's the stupidest name you've heard someone give their child

[Greedo]

I'm not talking about famous people like Bowie calling his son Zowie. I'm talking about everyday people

The reason I ask is a girl I met earlier who was called Suchelle. She was in for an interview with us. She was as white and Glaswegian as you could get.

I said that's an unusal name. Never hear that before.

She said her mums mum was Susan and her Dads mum was Michelle so they named her after both.

I was telling a guy in the office and he said his wife has just had someone start in her office called Joanna Dance!

 

[Kirstie]

I was in lyon airport once about to get a flight to stansted. Sat next to a stereotypical Essex-y family with three kids: Kia, Brianne and DeMay. DeMay was a boy, perhaps the middle one was named after her dad (Brian?) and the first was named after where she was conceived? I have no idea...

Definitely unusual names though.

 

[Fnaar]

I once knew a Ms. Paige who was going to marry a Mr. Webb. They decided against the double-barrelled approach

 

[snakehips]

Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii and Number 16 Bus Shelter are (among the) strangest I have heard of. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7522952.stm

 

[LLB]

Princess - but then the parents were west Indian.

Sky - but then the parents were old Hippies.

Have you hear the joke about 'Two dogs screwing' ?

 

[HLaB]

Occasionaly I hear about people with rediculous surnames calling their son Richard, like Mr & Mrs Pooler. Why subject your son to that torture.

 

[papercorn2000]

I called my daughter SRAM Red 10 speed Groupset.

Tied it into a very lucrative sponsorship deal ...

 

[gbb]

Nevaeh...
Chav family of course....its heaven backwards. I dont go for that kind of thing, but each to his own i spose

 

[Fnaar]

Celebs get away with it (well, don't get hauled into court over it, they just have to put up with the tabloids hounding their offspring into rehab)
Peaches, Fi-Fi Trixibelle, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger-Lily, Prince Michael, Arse-Biscuits, etc

 

[ChrisKH]

Nevaeh...
Chav family of course....its heaven backwards. I dont go for that kind of thing, but each to his own i spose

And how do you pronounce it?

Is it "NEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, come in for your tea, NOW".

 

[colly]

Crimea............ after a relative who in turn was named after the battle.

Bennalise........after Benny, the dad, and Lisa, the mum.

Mandy. Not so unusual you might think but Mandy is a bloke.

Not people I know myself but my mrs does know them.

 

[Landslide]

My girlfriend knows a lass who named her first-born using Greedo's approach. Thankfully mum is called Natalie and dad's Ashley, so the daughter ended up Natasha-May (May being granny).
I did recently see reference to a kid named (I can only assume) Caleb, but the parents had decided that the spelling should be Kaylub???

 

[ChrisKH]

Got a kid in my son's class called John-Jo which was the first time I had heard of it. Wife tells me she's seen it before and it is of Irish catholic origin. News to me.

 

[Kirstie]

Got a kid in my son's class called John-Jo which was the first time I had heard of it. Wife tells me she's seen it before and it is of Irish catholic origin. News to me.

John-Jo O'Neill was a famous jockey* from the 1970s

*I could mean rugby player but my memory is a bit hazy. It's one of the two.

 

[Landslide]

Easily confused...