Worst Baby Name Yet?

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You know those names that make you go, "Really?! You named your kid that?”

Share some of the most ridiculous baby names you'd heard



What NOT To Name Your Baby

First, the girls' names...

Ahmiracle and Dmiracle
There were nearly 800 girls named just plain Miracle, and then you’ve got your Jamiracles and your Lamiracles.

Assia
You just can’t give a name that contains the word “ass.”

Beautyful and Pretty
She better be.

Disney
Product placement?

Erie
Lake, yes. Ontario or Michigan, maybe. But Erie is just eerie.

Goodness
Most teenagers would take this as a dare.

Ikea
A Big Box name. Another product placement?

Money and Pryce
Uh… no.

Richard
Every year there are a handful of girls named Richard….and George and David, and boys named Charlotte and Sophia. Clerical mistakes? Sometimes, probably. And then other times, they’re just mistakes.

Rosary
Saints’ names and other religious names can work, but this takes baby-name-as-devotion too far.

Shady
Weather names -- Sunny, Snow -- can work, but then there’s the other meaning of Shady.

Stonie
Will create a rocky path for your child.

Vegas
What happens in Vegas…

Younique
Unfortunately not.

And now for the boys!


Abass
You just can’t give a name that contains the word “ass.”

Carrion
Baby name roadkill.

Dolton
If Colton is a popular baby name, and Bolton and Knowlton can work as first names, then Dolton…. nah.

Emporer
Why not Tyranius?

Hamlet
Shakespearean names as far out as Romeo can work, but Hamlet is also saddled with that “Ham” syllable.

Handsome
He better be.

Harshit
Harshit and Harshita are Sanskrit names with a lovely meaning: full of happiness. But they don’t translate well into English.

Kartier
Klassy. Sounds like another product placement!

Maximum
Max or Maxim would have made the point.

Messer
Takes the Badass Baby Name idea, ala Ranger and Wilder, too far.

Patch
Like Adams?

Princeten or Prinston
Maybe he’ll get into Yale.

Ralphy
Middle name: Boy.

Rambo
Scary, yet not as scary as the six boys named (yes, really) Rage.

Vader
Ready for a lifetime of Star Wars jokes?



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