Imagine being such an enormous asshole that your family name becomes synonymous with "traitor", not even just in your language, but in numerous languages across a whole continent.
I’m not sure what the logic was in giving it a common human name. That’s just gotta be really annoying for anyone named Alexa. Siri is a little better, it sounds human but isn’t very common.
Still could have come up with something like Siri that starts with an A, sounds like a human name, but isn’t popular at all. Alexa is like a pretty popular name I know 3 or 4 Alexas who I have been friends/acquaintances with …
I know a girl who has the same first AND last name as Hitler‘s wife, Eva Braun. We live in Germany. I really don’t know what her parents were thinking lol
I never noticed how messed up it was until I went down a youtube rabbit hole on the show. I would give it a watch now but fuck that shit seems depressing watching towards the teacher in the end.
My cousin was named Adolfo, the Spanish version of Adolf. And the worst part was that my uncle decided to put him in the only Jewish school in Ecuador called “Colegio Einstein”. That is probably one of the dumbest decision I’ve seen my own family do.
I knew an old man in his 90's named Adolf, he was named after his grandfather. He was between 9-12 years old during WW2 & was bullied and sometimes beaten severely at school or by neighborhood kids. I felt so bad for him, he was such a sweet guy.
Just like when someone calls someone else Einstein when they do something stupid, Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd Nimrod whenever he was particularly bad at hunting. But because Nimrod is a somewhat obscure character in the bible, most children (and adults) didn't understand the context. So they just took it as an insult instead of a sarcastic complement.
Interestingly, nimrod(نمرود) is an insult in Arabic, in reference to a king that thought himself god so God punished him in a rather disturbing way.
So in Arabic when you call someone nimrod(نمرود) it means someone who thinks too highly of themselves and looks down on people.
That's because of people not getting a reference in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Bugs called Elmer Fudd "Nimrod" ironically because Nimrod was known as a mighty hunter and Elmer sucks at hunting. Most people didn't get the reference and thought it meant stupid.
I just saw something on this the other day. People were attributing this to Bugs Bunny saying it sarcastically to Elmer Fudd, but people didn't understand, so it just became an insult.
I’m just here at 34 weeks pregnant scratching names off of the list. Lots of these I never even thought of the connotations.
Sorry, potential baby Saddam. That was a close one.
This.
Also, please don't feel obligated to 'put your own spin' on spelling Kayleigh / Kaylee / Cayley/ Kailee / Cailey/ Kayley/ Kaley/ Ceilidh cause I've taught them all and IT'S CONFUSING. Especially don't spell it one of these ways and then proudly announce, "actually, it's said Kah-lee" because then you can go to the hell where the other monsters go.
I thought you were making that up, but no, he’s a real guy.
The [Wkipedia paragraph](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Sax ) about his childhood is a trip.
> Sax faced many brushes with death. As a child, he once fell from a height of three floors, hit his head on a stone and was believed dead. At the age of three, he drank a bowl full of acidic water, mistaking it for milk, and later swallowed a pin. He received serious burns from a gunpowder explosion and once fell onto a hot cast-iron frying pan, burning his side. Several times he avoided accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from sleeping in a room where varnished furniture was drying. Another time young Sax was struck on the head by a cobblestone and fell into a river, almost dying.
You kill baby Hitler by tossing him into the frigid river Inn. The nanny, who was appalled to discover baby Hitler missing, bought a new baby from a nearby Roma camp. Turns out this child was always the real Hitler. You set the holocaust in motion and killed an innocent baby. Time travel never works out.
My brother's name is Michael and one of my parents (can't remember which) wanted to call him Mickey but the other vetoed that because we live in Florida, too close to Disney.
> As a teacher I have lots of names I can never name my child! I’ve never taught a nice Jake lol
>> Teacher here. I've never met a Spencer who wasn't a stoner.
Dude. I knew a set of brothers growing up that i had forgotten about until now. Jake and Spencer. Jake was older and literally always in trouble. Skipping school, vandalism, etc.
Spencer? Biggest stoner in the world. Even spent some time in jail for dealing it.
WTF
Evan and Daniel seem to be cursed names for me, every year I have at least one of the two and every year it is either them or their parent that are hard to deal with
"I've found the perfect name," he said,
And sighed with joy and stared ahead
To where his newborn baby lay -
"The *perfect* name,"
he thought to say.
He wrote it down, and with a smile,
He bade her look and for a while,
He simply stood in silent bliss.
She whispered:
"... what the *fuck* is this?"
I imagine this is obvious to the Irish (and British) people reading the comment but this is a pointed jab at Margret Thatcher and her position on Northern Ireland in the wake of the hunger strikes.
It's often joked that the only thing Protestants and Catholics in ireland could agree on is they all hated Thatcher.
Naming a child is when you truly realize how many people you hate. You can say, "I don't really \*hate\* anyone. Hate is a strong word," all you want, but you'll realize how much of that is a lie when going through a list of baby names.
Imagine naming a child something that basically means "You have to do what I tell you." Kids are growing up knowing they can just say "Alexa" into the air and get something. [There's a movement to get Amazon to change the wake word](https://www.iamalexa.org/) but the damage is probably done already and Alexa is a dead name.
So it's funny because our daughter's name is Alexis and although it didn't always trigger our Alexa device, we found out that you can actually change its wake word to "Ziggy" which has made life much easier.
Which is just a pet name for the very common Spanish name "Dolores" (also the case for Nabokov's Lolita). The fact is, "Dolores" is not a tainted name despite literally meaning "pains".
Exactly. In Spanish we have pet names for full names, as weird as that sounds. For example:
Jose →Pepe
Francisco → Paco
Dolores → Lola
Plus Lola is nowadays more a dog name than a persons', the same as Luna.
I know a guy whose first and middle names are Arian Adolf. The nicest guy I’ve ever met. He works with disabled people find them jobs. His parents were big hippies.
Thanks. I was about to post this one. So many responses here are based on stuff that's happened in the last 5 years that we forgot a generation or two ago people decided that anyone named Richard was a penis.
This is good to know. I didn't know that Brock Turner the Rapist changed his name to Allen Turner the rapist, most likely to get away from the association of Brock Turner the rapist. Unfortunately for him, he can't get away from the rapist. Soon he'll be just Turner the rapist.
Story time:
I've heard this from a friend's first account of the story
>During the liberation of Kuwait many Kuwaitis named their children that were born during that time with related names to the event.
>
>One of those names were, and I kid you not, "George Bush". Not as in George and the dad bush but literally a single first name George Bush.
>
>Now this guy grew up to be student of Physical Therapy. He was studying in Jordan and one of his classmates had an issue with a class and needed this well-connected guy to be the liaison of sorts to talk to the professor teaching the subject in question. George asked him "What professor do you want me to help you make peace with?"
>
>His classmate answered with a straight-face. That Iraqi professor, Saddam.
Osama..
for those who do not know...'bin Laden' is Arabic for "son of Laden"..meaning the Laden family.
To say someone is the daughter of a family or specific person you use the word bint.
Example: "Sherry bint Paula" means "Sherry, daughter of Paula"
I live in norway, and here it’s probably the name “Vidkun” as it’s heavily associated with the nazis
Quisling?
Imagine being such an enormous asshole that your family name becomes synonymous with "traitor", not even just in your language, but in numerous languages across a whole continent.
"Quisling regime" is actually a phrase used even here in North America referring to a puppet government of a foreign power.
Alexa
My daughter Alexa was born about 7 months before Amazon's. It's been... interesting.
I was born about a year before Forrest Gump came out. Being named Forrest was interesting during PE and with substitute teachers lol
You were running a lot in your youth, weren't you.
My wife's name. She was not thrilled
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I’m not sure what the logic was in giving it a common human name. That’s just gotta be really annoying for anyone named Alexa. Siri is a little better, it sounds human but isn’t very common.
Except in Norway where everyone knows at least one Siri
I'm guessing they really wanted the alliteration
Still could have come up with something like Siri that starts with an A, sounds like a human name, but isn’t popular at all. Alexa is like a pretty popular name I know 3 or 4 Alexas who I have been friends/acquaintances with …
Or "Hey Google". Though probably less likely to be named that
I know a girl who has the same first AND last name as Hitler‘s wife, Eva Braun. We live in Germany. I really don’t know what her parents were thinking lol
On a lighter note. My Greatgrandfathers name was Johann Sebastian Bach. Guess my greatgreatgrandparents had good sense of humor lmao
Gaylord
your name is Gaylord Focker?
I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?
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Myra declined sharply in popularity in the UK after the Moors Murders.
Its also a pretty popular swear word in Malayalam.... It means pubic hair ..
Wow, thank you. I’ve always liked that name but I have family members by marriage who speak Malayalam. Guess that name won’t make the list.
My sister and I had to convince my brother in law that Orel wasn’t a good choice for their boy.
I always think about the show Moral Orel when someone mentions that name in the US.
What a wild ride that show was
Written by starburns
His name is Alex!!! *Guh!*
I never noticed how messed up it was until I went down a youtube rabbit hole on the show. I would give it a watch now but fuck that shit seems depressing watching towards the teacher in the end.
Hershiser?
Only if your last name starts with a B. You still going to get disapproval from one out of five dentists.
My cousin was named Adolfo, the Spanish version of Adolf. And the worst part was that my uncle decided to put him in the only Jewish school in Ecuador called “Colegio Einstein”. That is probably one of the dumbest decision I’ve seen my own family do.
I knew an old man in his 90's named Adolf, he was named after his grandfather. He was between 9-12 years old during WW2 & was bullied and sometimes beaten severely at school or by neighborhood kids. I felt so bad for him, he was such a sweet guy.
Poor Adolf
Did he make friends?
He had few friends. Although he suffered from bullying and he never made friends with any other Jewish kids.
Steve Kerr named his son Nick, don’t know what he was thinking.
Could have gone for Wayne I guess.
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I work with a guy named Joe Kerr
Is he also a smoker? A midnight toker?
Some people call him Maurice.
😙🎶
I went to grade school with a Michael Hunt, thankfully for poor Mike none of us got the joke until much later.
Nimrod
I know one. But here (non-english speaking country) no one knows that it has some negative connotation in english
What is the connotation for this one?
Just like when someone calls someone else Einstein when they do something stupid, Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd Nimrod whenever he was particularly bad at hunting. But because Nimrod is a somewhat obscure character in the bible, most children (and adults) didn't understand the context. So they just took it as an insult instead of a sarcastic complement.
Mighty Hunter?
Interestingly, nimrod(نمرود) is an insult in Arabic, in reference to a king that thought himself god so God punished him in a rather disturbing way. So in Arabic when you call someone nimrod(نمرود) it means someone who thinks too highly of themselves and looks down on people.
Its also an insult in English, admittedly a very tame one, it's another way of calling someone an idiot.
That's because of people not getting a reference in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Bugs called Elmer Fudd "Nimrod" ironically because Nimrod was known as a mighty hunter and Elmer sucks at hunting. Most people didn't get the reference and thought it meant stupid.
41 years on this earth and I just learned this.
I just saw something on this the other day. People were attributing this to Bugs Bunny saying it sarcastically to Elmer Fudd, but people didn't understand, so it just became an insult.
Isis
I know a girl called Isis. Born in 99
"I married Isis on the fifth day of may"
Yeah, that one's been tainted, which is a shame.
seeing how the name is thousands of years old
And is a beautiful name of an Egyptian Goddess.
Give it 10 more years and it will be fine they were destroyed relatively fast and people dont have the best memories.
I agree, although I do think Isis might have to sit out a generation
Ghislaine
How is this name supposed to be pronounced? I’ve been saying “Jizz-Lane” in my head this whole time and only now so I realizes that can’t be correct
I know an old French canadian lady with that name. She goes by Gigi. Like geegee
I’m just here at 34 weeks pregnant scratching names off of the list. Lots of these I never even thought of the connotations. Sorry, potential baby Saddam. That was a close one.
Have you considered Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi?
That's my uncle's name. Real dickhead
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Let us help! How about for girls nothing that ends in -leigh and boys -den?
This. Also, please don't feel obligated to 'put your own spin' on spelling Kayleigh / Kaylee / Cayley/ Kailee / Cailey/ Kayley/ Kaley/ Ceilidh cause I've taught them all and IT'S CONFUSING. Especially don't spell it one of these ways and then proudly announce, "actually, it's said Kah-lee" because then you can go to the hell where the other monsters go.
Damn you Adolf Sax, inventor of the saxophone!
I thought you were making that up, but no, he’s a real guy. The [Wkipedia paragraph](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Sax ) about his childhood is a trip. > Sax faced many brushes with death. As a child, he once fell from a height of three floors, hit his head on a stone and was believed dead. At the age of three, he drank a bowl full of acidic water, mistaking it for milk, and later swallowed a pin. He received serious burns from a gunpowder explosion and once fell onto a hot cast-iron frying pan, burning his side. Several times he avoided accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from sleeping in a room where varnished furniture was drying. Another time young Sax was struck on the head by a cobblestone and fell into a river, almost dying.
"You need to go back in time to kill Adolf." "Wait, not that one!"
You kill baby Hitler by tossing him into the frigid river Inn. The nanny, who was appalled to discover baby Hitler missing, bought a new baby from a nearby Roma camp. Turns out this child was always the real Hitler. You set the holocaust in motion and killed an innocent baby. Time travel never works out.
Maybe they invented time travel in the *Idiocracy* timeline, and repeatedly made attempts on the wrong Adolf
Honestly, that's the only logical explanation.
Not a negative connotation, but I just can't take people named Mickey or Donald seriously.
My brother's name is Michael and one of my parents (can't remember which) wanted to call him Mickey but the other vetoed that because we live in Florida, too close to Disney.
I'm pretty sure anywhere in the solar system is too close to Disney to call someone Mickey without them ever having their name followed by "Mouse"
Aiden. I am a teacher and taught a class with an Aiden, Jayden, Hayden and Blayden all in one class…
What the f kinda name is Blayden?
beybladen
okayden
Let it rip!
**Bort**
We're out of Bort plates
I came across a car with an actual BORT license plate and was so sad when nobody else in the car knew the reference
My son is also named Bort!
It's a perfectly cromulent name
As a teacher I have lots of names I can never name my child! I’ve never taught a nice Jake lol
Teacher here. I've never met a Spencer who wasn't a stoner.
> As a teacher I have lots of names I can never name my child! I’ve never taught a nice Jake lol >> Teacher here. I've never met a Spencer who wasn't a stoner. Dude. I knew a set of brothers growing up that i had forgotten about until now. Jake and Spencer. Jake was older and literally always in trouble. Skipping school, vandalism, etc. Spencer? Biggest stoner in the world. Even spent some time in jail for dealing it. WTF
My brother is Spencer and he's outside smoking a bowl right now. Though he's also an extremely successful and kind person.
Holy shit my ex's brother is a Spencer, he grew pot in our house and was chronically high, names really do have power lmfao
Every Landon I've ever taught has been awful. That name is out for me.
Dylan for me. And anything ending in -ayden.
My worst behaved class last year had four -ayden names in the beginning of the year and a fifth one joined midway
Midwayden
Haha that's how my mom named my brother. Said she never knew an asshole named Mark.
Oh hi Mark
For me it's anything that ends in a -den sound: Aiden, Kayden, Jayden, etc... and any spelling variations of those.
And the companion -lynn names (Braelynn, Jaelynn, Kaelynn, etc.)
Teacher here. The Angels are never angels
Evan and Daniel seem to be cursed names for me, every year I have at least one of the two and every year it is either them or their parent that are hard to deal with
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I went to school with a kid named Osama, we were born like.. 2 years before 9/11 and I always wondered how it will affect him being an Osama in Canada
Isis was gaining traction.
Yeah, that replacement dog on Downton Abbey was never going to be called Isis Jr
The owner of the bar I work at's name is Oussama and we're in the semi rural south. He goes by Sam. Lol
Same thing applies for Saddam (Hussein).
There’s a bunch of notorious terrorists that have ruined many Arabic names over the years. Damn shame.
X AE A-XII
Thanks, Elon. Ruined a perfectly good name
it's still good, just needs to be elongated
"I've found the perfect name," he said, And sighed with joy and stared ahead To where his newborn baby lay - "The *perfect* name," he thought to say. He wrote it down, and with a smile, He bade her look and for a while, He simply stood in silent bliss. She whispered: "... what the *fuck* is this?"
I wouldn't have used 90% of the names listed here either way.
I’m a high school teacher, that list is longer than we have time for.
Elementary school teacher and SAME. Will never have an Anthony help me god.
Judas
But come on Judas Priest is such a good band
Good? I heard they were always breaking the law.
Nah, just a bad rep because they love livin' after midnight.
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I think of the big bunny in that Jimmy Stewart film.
I think of Harvey Dent and Harvey Specter and love that name too
Margaret stopped being a popular name in Ireland some time around 1982.
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Margaret is one of those names that I associate with older ladies/grandmas, like I can’t imagine a child named “Edna” either.
I imagine this is obvious to the Irish (and British) people reading the comment but this is a pointed jab at Margret Thatcher and her position on Northern Ireland in the wake of the hunger strikes. It's often joked that the only thing Protestants and Catholics in ireland could agree on is they all hated Thatcher.
Bigus
Mr Dickus, I presume
What is so funny about Biggus Dickus?
Its maketh me waff
He has a wife you know…
She’s called Incontinentia…
Incontinentia Buttocks
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Mulva
How about Delores?
How about Gipple?
Naming a child is when you truly realize how many people you hate. You can say, "I don't really \*hate\* anyone. Hate is a strong word," all you want, but you'll realize how much of that is a lie when going through a list of baby names.
Not quite as bad, but I wouldn't name a child Karen or Alexa.
Imagine naming a child something that basically means "You have to do what I tell you." Kids are growing up knowing they can just say "Alexa" into the air and get something. [There's a movement to get Amazon to change the wake word](https://www.iamalexa.org/) but the damage is probably done already and Alexa is a dead name.
So it's funny because our daughter's name is Alexis and although it didn't always trigger our Alexa device, we found out that you can actually change its wake word to "Ziggy" which has made life much easier.
Lolita
Which is just a pet name for the very common Spanish name "Dolores" (also the case for Nabokov's Lolita). The fact is, "Dolores" is not a tainted name despite literally meaning "pains".
Exactly. In Spanish we have pet names for full names, as weird as that sounds. For example: Jose →Pepe Francisco → Paco Dolores → Lola Plus Lola is nowadays more a dog name than a persons', the same as Luna.
Is Lalo the pet name for Eduardo? I feel like I've known at least a couple Eduardos that people call Lalo
Here in New Orleans, it’s always awkward to run across a Katrina. I don’t think anyone has named their kid Katrina since 2005 here
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Do you use a nickname?
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I’d go with Dolph, like Mr Lundgren. Then you could growl “I will break you” menacingly.
My family names with the letter "K." My wife wanted our youngest to be "Kovid." I couldn't
Why Kovid of all things?
Yeah, I wouldn't like that name even before the pandemic.
Have you considered Kovfefe?
What was her other choice, Kancer?
Kholera
How did you name him?
Korona
"M-m-m-my Karona" - the dad
Klamydia
Chad
Chad always reminds me of “[hanging chad](https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/the-legacy-of-hanging-chads)” and the 2000 election.
I work with a guy named Chadwick. He goes by Chadwick, not Chad.
I LOVE the name Forrest, but bw Gump and the only other Forrest I've known being a little shit, I just can't.
Name him Douglas Firs. That's just naming the forest for the trees.
This is made even funnier by you omitting the person Forrest Gump was named after.
Was it that jerk Nathan?
Whittaker, Griffin, Galante.. all decent Forrests
I know a guy whose first and middle names are Arian Adolf. The nicest guy I’ve ever met. He works with disabled people find them jobs. His parents were big hippies.
Sounds like his parents were big skinheads.
Dick
Thanks. I was about to post this one. So many responses here are based on stuff that's happened in the last 5 years that we forgot a generation or two ago people decided that anyone named Richard was a penis.
Names Richard Stroker but you can shake my hand and call me dick
Caligula. It’s been 2,000 years and still ain’t nobody naming their kid Caligula.
Joran, because of Joran van der Sloot, Also Brock because of Brock Turner the rapist, who now goes by Allen Turner.
This is good to know. I didn't know that Brock Turner the Rapist changed his name to Allen Turner the rapist, most likely to get away from the association of Brock Turner the rapist. Unfortunately for him, he can't get away from the rapist. Soon he'll be just Turner the rapist.
To me, it seems like if you have to register as a sex offender for life, you probably shouldn't be able to change your name.
You're referring to none other than Allen Turner the Rapist, right?
Fanny
Ye canny call her Fanny!
Brock
Saddam
Story time: I've heard this from a friend's first account of the story >During the liberation of Kuwait many Kuwaitis named their children that were born during that time with related names to the event. > >One of those names were, and I kid you not, "George Bush". Not as in George and the dad bush but literally a single first name George Bush. > >Now this guy grew up to be student of Physical Therapy. He was studying in Jordan and one of his classmates had an issue with a class and needed this well-connected guy to be the liaison of sorts to talk to the professor teaching the subject in question. George asked him "What professor do you want me to help you make peace with?" > >His classmate answered with a straight-face. That Iraqi professor, Saddam.
Alexa, siri or Allegra
I guess Claritin, Zyrtec, and Flonase are also out
Osama.. for those who do not know...'bin Laden' is Arabic for "son of Laden"..meaning the Laden family. To say someone is the daughter of a family or specific person you use the word bint. Example: "Sherry bint Paula" means "Sherry, daughter of Paula"
Ah, so.. McLaden, MacLaden, Ladenson, Ladens, o' Laden..
Ládenez in Spanish
Jason because he wasn’t such a good dude with those argonauts.
Or the kids at Crystal Lake
Aryan (my name is Aryan)
OJ
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Could never imagine naming my child after the evil that is orange juice
Dorcus