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

[ianrauk]

Also in my line of work I deal with a very nice chap in Norway called Odd.

 

[goo_mason]

Little sister of a schoolfriend of my sister called her lad "D'Ellis" (pronounced 'Dee-Ellis').

And wasn't there someone is the US who called their kid "LaTrine" ?

I used to work at Ed Uni with Andy Ness (A Ness). I think he got fed up being asked if he had a brother called Peter.....

 

[Kirstie]

Anyone watch the ski jumping on eurosport. It's an innuendofest.
There's a chap called Andreas fiddle from Austria, but the commentators pronounce it 'Vank.' There are other ski jumpers with the surnames 'koch' and 'oili'. You can imagine the podium, 1st, 2nd and 3rd...

 

[Fnaar]

Anyone watch the ski jumping on eurosport. It's an innuendofest.
There's a chap called Andreas fiddle from Austria, but the commentators pronounce it 'Vank.' There are other ski jumpers with the surnames 'koch' and 'oili'. You can imagine the podium, 1st, 2nd and 3rd...

Also the batsman's Holding, the bowler's Willie

 

[Will1985]

Enlighten me on Jenny Taylor and Teresa Green - I don't get those ones...

 

[Landslide]

Enlighten me on Jenny Taylor and Teresa Green - I don't get those ones...

Trees are green. Not quite so amusing if you're in a deciduous wood during autumn!

 

[Dalestar]

The more i think about this the more weird i think relations family are.

I have a cousin who named his kid Logan Surname Berresford
My brother married Emma our surname is Dale
And another cousin married Mr Chicken to become Mrs Chicken and they were both middle school teachers.
And i have a second cousin who is called Theresa Yates (nee Greene).

Thankfully my parents are a little more sensible and just go plain old Andrew.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Enlighten me on Jenny Taylor and Teresa Green - I don't get those ones...

She's a bit of a c*nt (genitalia). Sorry!

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I have a cousin whose first born was named plain Adam. He was a very, very timid child - you had to avert your gaze when he came into the room or he would just not come in!!! When he reached the age of about 4 and was still no more confident his parents had a sibling for him. Presumably they thought that a slightly less mundane name would make her more outgoing... she is called Saskia Korenza. As much as I quite like the name, I bet he'll feel a bit put out that he has such an ordinary name (and no middle name) while she has an exotic sounding one... maybe not though, he may be living in a cave with no contact with the outside world by then.

 

[PaulB]

I was in our next door neighbour's when I was a kid and the mother asked my mate to go and get their Lawrence in from the street. My mate looked literally clueless and said, "Who the hell's Lawrence?" and the mother said, "He's your brother, stupid." and my mate went, "He's called Larry, not Lawrence" and the mother said "what do you think Larry is short for?" and my mate said "Larrold. If Harry is short for Harrold then surely Larry is short for Larrold." He was serious as well.

 

[ChrisKH]

I was in our next door neighbour's when I was a kid and the mother asked my mate to go and get their Lawrence in from the street. My mate looked literally clueless and said, "Who the hell's Lawrence?" and the mother said, "He's your brother, stupid." and my mate went, "He's called Larry, not Lawrence" and the mother said "what do you think Larry is short for?" and my mate said "Larrold. If Harry is short for Harrold then surely Larry is short for Larrold." He was serious as well.

My brother is called Robert. At home he was called Rob (or git face, actually we called him smellbag fertiliser but that's another matter). All his mates called him Bob. Who's Bob? we'd say.

 

[ACS]

Some more

German translator: Herr Krauthammer.
Typist: Frau Heidi Wankum
Groundsman: A(ndrew) Plank
Willie Ramsbottom

 

[Ghost Donkey]

Favourite celeb name is Germajesty
I went to school with a boy called Meredith and one called Salmon (as in Rushdi, but the fish pronuncialtion was always used by everyone who knew him. There were two good surnames, Crapper and Pratt.
My youngest daughter is called Eleftheria which no one seems to have heard of around here but it's common in Greece, which is where her mum's from (which hopefully means we don't get classed as chavs).

 

[Amanda P]

Anyone remember Djamolidine Abdoujaparov?

Probably a common name in Uzbeckistan, but I remember the commentators of Le Tour relishing saying his name as often as possible. Which was often in the 90s; he won in 1991 (I think) and had a wild sprinting style that had other riders diving for cover, not always still on their bikes.

 

[swee'pea99]

Anyone remember Djamolidine Abdoujaparov?

Probably a common name in Uzbeckistan

I for one find that very hard to believe.