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

[ChrisKH]

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.

Well, there you go. Learn something new every day. Can't be rugby, I would have recognised it.

 

[papercorn2000]

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???

Caleb is an old Welsh name. Having said that, the wrong spelling is unforgiveable.

 

[papercorn2000]

And on that subject, Cadel is also an old Welsh name although it should be spelled Cadell with the double "l" making a "ll" sound (that's the lispy sound that always attracts soooo much hilarity).

 

[papercorn2000]

Mind you, Cadel Evans is a twat.

 

[Dave Davenport]

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.

Went to school with a John Jo, he was one of the about 26 McDevit brothers, so suppose it is Irish catholic. His claim to fame was that whilst working at the local petrol station he faked a robbery and sent his dog home with the cash tied to him, but it came back while the police were there.

 

[Fnaar]

The Spanish name Juan-Carlos is routinely shortened to Juan-Ca (I kid you not) And when I lived over there I knew a guy called Fulhencia, whose name was shortened to Ful (pronounced 'fool')

 

[Maz]

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

Imagine if mum was called Lynn.

 

[Greedo]

Imagine if mum was called Lynn.

 

[Moose]

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

Arse-Biscuits is a new one on me, but it has a certain ring to it

 

[Fnaar]

Arse-Biscuits is a new one on me, but it has a certain ring to it

OK, not a real name, nicked from Father Ted

 

[papercorn2000]

+1

 

[theclaud]

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

Not that weird. Could be an abbreviation of the Jewish name Mandel. Mandy Patinkin is the guy who plays the marvellous Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride - he has a weirdly interesting singing voice, and also played George (Seurat) in Sunday in the Park with George. Not everyone knows that...

 

[Maz]

I knew a chap called Ehma, pronounced Emma.

 

[mr_cellophane]

I worked with a Christopher Peter Bacon. Not so bad you might think, but he was known as Chris.





Chris P Bacon (say it quickly)

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I knew a chap called Ehma, pronounced Emma.

i know of a chap called mehul, surname patel…