Monday, 18 May 2009
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What's In A Name?
So on the yahoo front page (which, by the way, is the source for pretty much all of my news. If I didn't have the internet, I probably wouldn't know that Obama was president) there was an article on why people choose baby names.
I expected it to be pretty boring, as they had just had something similar within the last week, and that one wasn't very good. But this one was better. It talked a lot about baby name trends, but not in just particular names, but types of names. How vowel names are gaining popularity, whereas 20 years ago names that began with consonants were more common.
It led my wife and I to this site which my wife and I then started playing with for the rest of the night. It's basically just a graphic version of the Social Security Names website, with lots of different ways to visualize the popularity of names in America over the last 130 years.
This led us to talking a lot about names. Common names, and uncommon names. Stupid names, and cool names. Biblical names and weird names. This eventually climaxed in my wife suggesting we name our next child Shart.
That's right, shart.
That basically ended the conversation.
What's the worst name you've ever heard?
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I don't know, I've forgotten most of the worst names I've heard. I think I blocked the memory out. I'd say that what celebrities are beginning to name their children would be at the top of the worst, though. Some of them have pretty names while some of them are way too silly. Then again, some people try to add NUMBERS to their kids name.
Instead of Haley you'd have H4l3y. Oh boy.
shart? that's a fail. shit+fart. who the heck made that up? that's wrong. uh the worst name i've heard is one my dads friend claims is one of her students. shithead pronounced shi-theed. isn't that fucked up? oh and jason lee (gotta love him. mallrats ftw.) named his kid "pilot inspektor" how about you inspect hell for us shortly after your arrival bud :)
I always thought Apple was pretty dumb. But then mama went and named the second kid Moses.
She wants her kids to be bullied, I guess.
My ex-boyfriend wanted to name his (future) son Solo King, and I think it's not a horrible name, it's just an unusual name. I think the celebs go way overboard with their kids names. Suri is a cute kid, with a funny name.
green.
and thing.
Nevaeh
HAHAHA Shart...that's funny.
Wow, Shart is officially the worst name I have ever heard.
I also hate it when parents completely butcher the spelling of names.
Clitoris or Shithead (pronounced shh-teed)
I once was looking at baby names and one of the unusual ones was "Oral"... But "Shart" tops that completely!
Pilot Inspektor. Horrible!!! It's one of those awful celeb baby names. IDKY they want to do that to their children.
My father in law was a high school teacher, and he once had a student named--and I kid you not--Shitonya. Pronounced 'Sha-TAWN-yah,' and spelled just like 'S*** on ya.' He actually had to speak to the girl's mother one day, and he asked her if she had another kid named Pissonya. She got mad, but you know what? She freakin' deserved that. Poor kid...
Cuntianna, pronounced exactly how it looks. My dad is a lawyer who works with a lot of lower income families and that was the name of one of his clients.
okay...so i'm a teacher. we've got triplets in our school named - i swear i'm not making this up - Yo'Magesty, Yo'Highness, and Lil'Princess. i think those are pretty stupid.
the worst celebrity baby names I have heard are : audio science, moon unit and diva muffin, moxie crimefighter and her brother zolten, blue angel, everly bear, and the list goes on and on ... what were these people thinking???? and whats with master p (the rapper) naming his kids hercy,mercy,vercy and percy jr? are these people on crack? ugh.
I think the worst name I've heard was this poor kid's name who was a few grades behind me in middle school and his first name was "chase" and his last name was "debuck" I felt so bad for that kid; sometimes I think parents should get smacked upside the head sometimes...or something along the lines of that.
SHART?
lmaoooo!!
You should read Freakonomics; it has a section on baby names and how people perceive certain names.
I had a kid a grade below me named Fanny. And I went to church with this girl name Dorkus. Poor thing. Eventually she started going by her middle name, Ruth.
My name is Venus and although people say it is pretty now, there are still a lot of retards out there. As a kid it rhymed with a certain male appendage. Now, I get the stupid comments like, "Is that your stripper name?" and "Do you have a brother names Mars?" Pretty much puts someone on my shit list when they say things like that. I like my name but I recommend parents really think before they go naming their kind something odd.
I know of twin girls named BabyGirl1 and BabyGirl2. ra-diculous.
This probably isn't the worst name in the world, but one of the funniest (I think)... Starquandasia.
Yeah. Pronounced: STAR-KWAN-DAY-SIA... I would feel bad for her but she loved her name and would write it everywhere, desks, chalkboards.. etc.
Also... Frank Zappa should not be allowed to name kids. Ever. Ever.
lol shithead n moses? really funny.
idk any worse names yet.
I think the "Shithead" thing is an ubran legend or something. I've heard that before a couple of times (my dad's a college prof).
A girl growing up in my school system was named Summer Hair. I think that's the weirdest name I've come across so far, at least the last name is. I don't know anyone with the last name "Hair". I have a friend who's middle name is Allegra-and I've never met anyone else first or middle-with that name.