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"Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

Posted by Cole Gamble

As we recently learned with the New Zealand court case liberating the poorly named Tallulah Does the Hula to Hawaii from her cumbersome moniker, celebrities are not the only ones to dole out crappy names to their kids. Here are some awful names bestowed by civilians like you and me. And yes, they’re all real names.

 

Superman

Not a bad name, if you want to get beat up every day. This New Zealand couple (Again New Zealand, keep up the good work!) originally wanted the name 4Real, but NZ officials didn’t go for it. So Superman it was, arguably a more ridiculous name. Sadly I doubt this was the first time someone’s name was chosen purely out of spite.

 

Sh*thead

If you ever question how free we truly are in America, look no further then two parents naming their daughter Sh*thead. Now a grown woman, Sh*thead tries to mitigate the damage by insisting it’s pronounced Shi-TAYd. Nice try.

 

Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon

Apparently daddy was a holy roller.

 

Al Caholic

Somebody thought they were funny. But really, when you have the last name “Caholic” to work with, who could resist? 

 

Roxanne Gravel

Get it? “rocks and gravel.” Cleverness kills a kid’s school career once again. 

 

Felanie

A pregnant woman liked the name Melanie, but also like the idea of a name that starts with “F.” Viola! Felanie. It’s funny how you can’t see something so obvious until it’s too late.  

 

Governor Bush

Seems a little short sighted now, doesn’t it?

 

Doctor Love

For once a novelty name might actually help a kid get a leg up in the world. Let’s hope he develops a passion for fur jackets and yellow fedoras.

 

Sloth Washton

Often people name their pets by characteristics they first notice about the animals. We named our first cat “Romy” because she liked to rome around a lot. Yes, newborns are a bit sluggish, but maybe Sloth’s parents should have waited a little longer before settling on that name. And this brings us to… 

 

Satan

Talk about prejudging your child. I’ll admit, this is what I call my toddler all the time, but it’s just a nickname. Maybe the Australia couple who went with this had their hand forced because Australia was all out of the other names.   

Heard any worse ones????

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Comments

 

Michelle said:

I once had to call on a woman named Blowma Johnson.  I also had a teacher in middle school whose last name was Hiscock.  Sadly his wife was named Edith.

August 8, 2008 1:17 PM
 

Leela said:

I was entering death certificates into a database at work one day when I came across a woman who had been named L. Chlorine [Last Name].  First of all, who gives their kid the middle name Chlorine?  Second, how bad is your first name such that you choose to go by your middle name of Chlorine?

August 8, 2008 3:02 PM
 

AE said:

Keep in mind that Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon lived almost four hundred years ago.  His more famous brother bore the slightly less cumbersome moniker Praise-God Barbon.  Ah, those crazy seventeenth-century English Puritans and their virtue names.

August 8, 2008 7:08 PM
 

Combermere said:

Sh*thead is an urban legend...

www.snopes.com/.../names.asp

August 9, 2008 4:01 AM
 

Cole Gamble said:

Actually the name Shithead is not an urban legend. The woman is named Shithead but pronounces it as SHAW - TAYD. It says so right there is the Snopes article you linked. It might mitigate the damage to pronounce it differenetly, but try putting "Shithead" down on an application for a bank loan.

August 9, 2008 12:39 PM
 

mishmish said:

my wife went to high school with a girl named Formica Dinnette (pronouced Four-mee-caa Dee-Net).

i also knew a girl when i was very young named Ecstasy... i vaguely remember asking her why that was her name and she told me her parents said it was because she was made in a moment of pure ecstasy...  imagine my parents faces when I asked what that meant at 6 years old.

August 12, 2008 9:48 AM
 

Dawn said:

I knew a girl named Berlin Wall.  What a name!

August 18, 2008 2:19 PM
 

Petey said:

I know a woman named Anita Hoare.  Never name your daughter Anita because you never know who they're going to marry.

August 20, 2008 10:32 AM
 

Becky said:

The Shithead one is true, my cousin was actually in a class with a girl named Shithead, but she pronounced it Shith-ade... though my cousin tells a very funny story about the day they had a substitute who was calling attendance...

August 27, 2008 5:26 PM

About Cole Gamble

Cole Gamble’s writings on the crimes of Willy Wonka, man-eating beds and tales from his cringe-worthy life appear here on Babble, the humor site Cracked, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post and Salon. He is working on a book entitled, Conquer Everything! A Self Help Book to Destroy All Other Self Help Books and Grant You Mastery in Everything.

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