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just curious...

what's the worst name you've ever come across? or the most unusual?

here are some of mine:

ocean - a kid i taught in swimming lessons (a girl)

willow - some kid who sends her santa claus letter into the paper every year,

b'elana - willow's even-more-badly-named sister. who would even consider apostrophes to be appropriate in names?

tyger - in the unusual, and not worst category. a kid i babysat, and hated his name until i met him and now i like it (but not enough to name my own kid that). and i think it's cuter than the tiger woods version with an "y" instead of an "i."

jago - friend of tyger's, strangely. and now that i think about it, it reminds me of "jaguar."

and some bad spelling ones...

gulia - pronounced "julia," but moronically spelled with a "g." another kid i taught in swimming lessons, who we all called "GOOLIA." like you would.

gared - brother of goolia, almost as bad, pronounced "jared" but spelled with that stupid "g" again. they G kids also had another sister named genevieve or something that actually worked with the "g."

okay, your turn now!

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i like Ocean for a boy :X :X :X

in high school there was a boy named Jaguar (who had a brother named Ferrari) and another boy named Honey. and a girl named Autumn, which isn't so bad but her last name was Fields =/

in middle school there was a Precious Angel (fn/mn).

wow... those are really bad! autumn is okay, i had an autumn in a daycare i worked at, but you're right, it sucks with the last name fields.

and precious angel makes me vomit.

in my class of two year olds, we have an Autumn Rayne (pronounces Rain, though I'm sure you knew that...)

Ocean: eh i'm iffy.. i don't dislike it, but i don't like it..
Willow: I personally love that name.
B'elana: You don't know the reason they chose to put an apostrophe.. could be tradition or something?
tyger: Not that bad.. not that great either.
Jago: Sounds like it could be in the same catagory as "jose".. it might be pronouced differently?
gulie and gared: i got nothing.. i really dislike the "g" spelling..

willow wouldn't be so bad but the fact that her sister's name is b'elana just makes it seem like two kids with two crappy names. and b'elana doesn't even flow smoothly. it's like "buh-elana" to me. i'd say the apostrophe was just a case of trying to be unique gone horribly wrong.

jago is pronounced as it looks, so jag rhymes with lag. not with the "h" sound in jose.

I knew a girl named balena (that is how hers was spelled) growing up.. it's not that bad of a name to me..
But yeah, the apostrophe just.. makes it look weird. I almost want to say "bee-elena)

LOL jay-go.
Was he caucasian?? (i can understand the name more maybe if he wasn't white.. not trying to be racist or anything!!! >.<)

he's caucasian, yeah, but they were from south africa. so they said it with an english accent.

balena looks like bologna.

... B'elana...? Like B'elana Torres? Like the Klingon lady on Star Trek Voyager?

Oh... dear.

i have no idea, i just saw it written, i don't know where it came from. haha.

Hahaha. I'm glad someone else noticed. I was going to point that out, too.

Haha thats what I thought of too. I mean I like Voyager and all... but come on.

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They lose nerd points for spelling it wrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%27Elanna_Torres).

I went to HS with a Queeny. Maybe SOMEONE could consider that "cute" but this girl had the high and mighty attitude to go with it...so it wasn't. Plus, I can't see her being taken very seriously as an adult with a name like that.

Also, Ravenell. I just hated it.

This probably wasn't SO unusual for the time, but my great grandmother was named Hattibelle.

I had a dog named Queeny.

When I was young I used to play with the kids next door - their names were "Willow" and "Harvest". (I actually like Willow but the combination was quite amusing)

Their parents were very hippy like and the entire family was vegetarians - I remember them coming to my birthday party and they must not have been exposed to junk food before because they both threw up....yeah good times...

My cousin's name is Casual Fire Atwood. Seriously. My Aunt was living in a commune when she had him.

casual... wow :p

"Gulia" makes me think of Julia Gulia from "The Wedding Singer," LOL

haha, i was thinking that as i was writing it :)

Sibset: Lightning, Buckshot, and Rooster. Lightning was a girl, the other two were boys. Central Florida.

Also in Florida, sibset: Trust Jesus, Mercy Lord, and Blessing (MN unknown).

lol Willow and B'elana's parents must by Trekkies and Buffy fans.

I'm starting to like the name Belana, sad on the Trekkie thing and really, no ' would ever work in any name yah know? But if it sounds like Alana, with a ae sound not ah, and it's like Belle-a (ae)-na I like it! haha.

Oranjello and Lemonjello - twins listed on a hospital medical bill when I was working in collections. Its orange and lemon jello! The mother really got pissed when someone else in my department suggested that.

Giulia is still pronounces Julia, and is the Italian spelling (as there is no J in the Italian alphabet) and I think Giulia is actually very pretty, but you're right, Gulia is Goo-lia.
And Gared is Gah-red, not Jared. Giared might work, at least in terms of how it's supposed to be pronounced but it looks rather fugly.

Summer June. . . Eck.

My cousin named her kids Alexis Snow White and Odesius Hercules.

The meanest by far was Brooklynne Mackenzee Van Dusen. I feel bad for that kid when she tries to learn how to spell her name.

i love the name brooklyn. not spelled with the extra "ne," though. a girl on my f-list has a little girl named ciara, pronounced "keera," which is pretty but nobody will ever spell her name right.

There's a girl in my school name Kermika. While it's not a particularly "OMG WTF"-type name, it's still ugly =x.

reminds me of kermit the frog :p

I knew of a River Ridge.

Hippie parents. She's like 25 now.

hehe, now that you say that, i went to school with a girl named rainbo. no "w."

"So your name will be Julia Goolia?"

I had to... those are all awful.

I coached a girl in baseball named Preslyn, and on another team was a girl named Burgandy. I also know twins named Kailyn (girl) and Tylan (boy) God I could go on forever...

Jago's actually a Cornish name, so that one doesn't bother me. The rest of them are pretty horrific.