https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:57:00 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-153074 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:02:03 +0000 sorrycharlie 153074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Nskillet: oh my gosh! ew! poor child..</p> <p>@Rachel: that site is awesome!</p> <p>I know that it's to each his own with baby names but I just don't understand why people don't realize you aren't naming a doll. Those poor kids have to become TEENS and ADULTS and ELDERLY with these names! How on earth are they taken seriously? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-153043 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:39:03 +0000 Mrs. Cat in the Cradle 153043@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@meredithNYC: Yes! It made me sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-153038 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:37:15 +0000 Nskillet 153038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH worked at a kids place that did birthday cakes and actually had to do a cake for one little girl named Meconium. Apparently, the mother thought the name was "gorgeous" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-153015 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:15:27 +0000 meredithNYC 153015@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@elgato: Was it in last weekend's NY Times magazine? If so, I saw the same thing and was shocked - and sad for the kid :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-153003 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:00:52 +0000 yoursilverlining 153003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always feel badly for kids with whacked out names. Most employers are not going to take people with crazy names seriously. Why set your kid up for future issues and failure? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152890 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:33:40 +0000 Mrs. Train 152890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A girl I went to school with had the last name delier. Her name was Crystal Shan. That's right, crystal chandelier when said together. I just don't understand some parents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152880 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:26:22 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 152880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They exist (especially here in Utah), but there is also a really nice Snopes article on this topic.</p> <p><a href="http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152876 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:23:45 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 152876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My MIL owns a daycare for teacher's kids and so I am always hearing crazy names. She just told me about some 3rd grade girls named Heavenly Miracle and Prayer. What the heck?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152852 Wed, 09 May 2012 11:54:38 +0000 Shutterbug 152852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: Yeah, there was a story about a NJ family who named their kids "Adolf Hitler" and "Aryan Nation". They lost custody over something unrelated (big surprise) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6rot3q5" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/6rot3q5</a></p> <p>I like this website - I think someone on HB mentioned it - you can "test drive" your baby's name in real world situations. <a href="http://www.babynamegenie.com/baby-name-test-drive.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.babynamegenie.com/baby-name-test-drive.php</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152831 Wed, 09 May 2012 11:09:10 +0000 Jumpingjacks 152831@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: That's hilarious, and also a good idea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152828 Wed, 09 May 2012 11:01:03 +0000 MamaMoose 152828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There was a story a while back about somewhere (I think New Zealand?) where they started a list of names that you legally couldn't give your child. One of them was Hitler. The US needs to institute this policy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152823 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:58:05 +0000 PBandBaseball 152823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Minnie_Girl: Wow. That's really sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152813 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:40:05 +0000 chopsuey 152813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: it took a while for me to get it too! Yikes </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152806 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:28:32 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 152806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>wow. i feel bad for these kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152796 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:15:47 +0000 Minnie_Girl 152796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My sister is a teacher and gets to hear all kinds of crazy names. One mother explained their child's name like this:</p> <p>"His name is Lucian. It's another name for Lucifer. You know, like the devil." </p> <p>?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152794 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:12:18 +0000 Mrs. Cat in the Cradle 152794@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not so crazy, but I did see a Malice referenced in an article. Who names their son after a word that means hatred?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152793 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:11:45 +0000 sandy 152793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My friend is arisen teaching and has a girl in her class names La-a (ladasha) too. There is also anothe kid named Clamydia...terrible! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152792 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:11:40 +0000 Goldilocks1107 152792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't remember where I heard this - whether at work or on the bee (life gets so confusing sometimes!). But one mom named her kids Ebony and Ivory. Ebony had a white father (and is pale complexion), Ivory had a black father (and a darker complexion). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152787 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:02:27 +0000 mediagirl 152787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sweet T: oh boy. And I thought my brother's kid's name was weird. It's not compared to these!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152771 Wed, 09 May 2012 09:53:09 +0000 Sweet T 152771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: I know someone who thinks she's ghetto and all of her kids have crazy names. Her son's middle name is Dephinest...like Da Finest. I kid you not! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152742 Wed, 09 May 2012 09:26:42 +0000 mediagirl 152742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@highwire: exactly. You're not giving your kid a good start to life, that's for sure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152739 Wed, 09 May 2012 09:26:28 +0000 Alivoo01 152739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow!!!! I've heard of La-a before along with or-ran-jel-lo (Orangejello) bc the mom was eating orange jello when it came time to name her kid. Poor kids!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152737 Wed, 09 May 2012 09:25:45 +0000 looch 152737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ok, I finally get Ladasha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152736 Wed, 09 May 2012 09:24:45 +0000 DillonLion 152736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How do these parents expect these kids to grow up and be taken seriously? Ugh. What a disservice to them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152732 Wed, 09 May 2012 09:22:19 +0000 hilsy85 152732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha I used to wonder if those were urban legends, until my best friend actually had kids named La-a and Abcde in her class three years ago! So they DO exist :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crazy-baby-names#post-152717 Wed, 09 May 2012 09:13:05 +0000 mrs. wagon 152717@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I was at a birthday party this past weekend and I was talking to two people who meet a lot of children in their lines of work (one is a pediatric dentist in a low income area, the other works with parents who are addicted to drugs) and they were telling us about names they just could NOT believe were actually really the kids' names.</p> <p>One was (I think this name was actually brought up here on Hellobee in the past) La-a. Pronounced la-dash-ah. Yup, they say the word "dash".</p> <p>Another was pronounced fah-mah-leh. The name? Female. The reason? The mom was high when it was time to name the baby, so she just read the hospital bracelet.</p> <p>Another was pronounced ah-show-leh. The name? A$$hole. I'm not joking.</p> <p>My favorite, though, was pronounced Ab-sih-day. Sounds actually kinda cool and normal, until you see how it's spelled... Abcde. Yes, ABCDE. And there were TWO boys named Abcde seen by this same dentist. </p>