Absurd names that people try to name babies

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Rose65

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Here's a bizarre subject but sadly real.
It's hard to know whether to laugh or not at the mentality of parents who try to give absurd or frankly cruel names to their babies. Governments such as France and New Zealand have apparently have to actually ban certain names being given to children on the grounds that the poor kid would be mocked all their life.

Here are a few:
Number 16 Bus Shelter
Nutella
Violence
Benson and Hedges -twins
Chlamydia
Latrine

Have you heard of any more such absurd names?
 

My eldest daughter works for the State handling child support cases. Each case shows the names of the children for whom child support is being sought or paid. She sees some real doozies! The other day she had a boy by the name of Coyote. His sister is Zelda(not too weird but not heard every day). Usually when she sees these "different" names,all of the children in the family have unusual ones.
 
Rose65 said:
Wonder what that can be shortened to? Just X maybe.
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That's surely what I'd call him, yes. :) Broken down, the "X" stands for the unknown variable. The ā€œĆ†ā€is another spelling for AI... artificial intelligence... and it also means "love" in a few languages. And then the AII was for an aircraft that's just for traveling fast and not weaponized like a military plane or anything. They had tried to end his name differently, but since it wasn't an actual alphabet letter, California wouldn't allow it (can't remember what it was, though) and they changed it to AII.
 
Trish said:
To be honest. If I were born to ridiculously wealthy parents, I wouldn't care what they called me. I would wait until I got my trust fund and then changed my name to something like, Ms Moneybags :)
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hehe You go, @Trish . There was somewhere... at some point, someone's name that *did* start with "$" instead of an S. I'll edit this if I can find it... escaping my memory right now.
EDIT: Okay, it was/is a singer named $helly. Kind of cute spelling... I guess. :unsure:
 
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A few that spring to mind that Mrs Oy came across as a Primary school teacher.

Twins, Boy & Girl, back when the Lord of The Rings films were current... Aragorn & Arwen

Same sort of thing when the Star Wars prequels were out... a little lad called George Lucas.
 
-Oy- said:
A few that spring to mind that Mrs Oy came across as a Primary school teacher.

Twins, Boy & Girl, back when the Lord of The Rings films were current... Aragorn & Arwen

Same sort of thing when the Star Wars prequels were out... a little lad called George Lucas.
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I think George Lucas is pretty good.
 
Back in the 1970s I was substitute teaching in San Francisco and I had a student named Universe. Everyone called her Uni. I do know a kid named Anakin (he's now a young man!). I don't know if his friends called him Darth or not. Now that I think of it, I also knew a kid (also back in San Francisco and in the 1970s) called Cannabis. Not the best idea. We gave our kids totally mundane, boring names-possibly in reaction to the weird names I encountered in my youth.
 
Fancy trying to call babies Violence, Cyanide, IKEA, Monkey, Hitler, Messiah. I didn't know and am very relieved, that governments ban such names. I naively thought we are all free to call our offspring whatever we want.
Seemingly no end to human stupidity and cruelty. It has to be policed same as all our negative traits.
 
North,Saint, Chicago & Psalm.
Parents: Kim Kardashian & Ye. (Formerly known as Kanye West)

Pilot Inspektor:
Parents: Beth Riesgraf and Jason Lee
Lee named his child after the opening track of Grandaddy's 2000 album The Sophtware Slump, titled ā€œHeā€™s Simple, Heā€™s Dumb, Heā€™s the Pilot.ā€
 

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