21 Baby Names That Left People Rolling Their Eyes Over And Over Again
From X Æ A-12 to Wolf Webster, there are some baby names that leave us scratching our heads in confusion.
I recently asked the BuzzFeed Community to share ~unique~ baby names that made them cringe hard. Here's what they had to say:
1."Denny's, because they were conceived at the restaurant, apostrophe included!"
2."The Twilight nerds have reproduced. I've encountered more than one Renesmee."
3."Nevaeh. It's heaven spelled backward! So, so dumb!"
4."The newest baby boy in my family was named Magnum by his young parents. Was he named after a condom, an old fictional P.I. on TV, or a gun?"
5."My sister's last name is Frey, pronounced like fry. She gave her youngest son a second middle name, Small. His name is X X Small Frey like he's a damn McDonalds order."
6."Tootsey. It'll be cute until she's about five and cute again when she's 90, but that's a long 85-year stretch for the poor child."
—Sarah from Florida
7."I had a friend that wanted to name her daughter Debris. I had to explain that it's another word for trash."
8."I knew a kid named Resin. It was in a town known for growing cannabis, too."
9."I met a Juleigha once. It took me a second to figure out it was Julia but with a stupid spelling. Why doom your child to a life of saying, 'Oh, it's spelled like...'"
10."Vonnegut. I overheard it at my retail job and it belonged to an adorable five-year-old child, no less."
—Anonymous from Vermont
11."A girl I knew in college named her daughter Opal Margarita."
12."A coworker named their kid Vanity Sleigh. She meant to spell slay but didn't realize the error, and then didn't want to change it when she did."
13."Majesty, Modesty, Serenity. Yes, I'm a teacher."
14."I worked on campus with identical twins named Emilia (pronounced Emma-lee-ah) and Emmilya (pronounced Emma-lee-ah). Frankly, that seemed weird and cruel."
—Anonymous
15."I had a coworker at one time with the middle name Pickle. He said it was a family name. Well, interesting family."
16."I worked at a middle school. There were two brothers, R-won and R-too. They were twins."
—Anonymous
17."Our friends planned to have three kids, two girls, and the last was a boy named Atlas Peace. Like 'at last peace' but no one gets that."
—Anonymous from Illinois
18."Tyranny. That poor little girl!"
—Mari from Oregon
19."Subaru. They call him baby Soobie."
—Anonymous from Utah
20."I used to work for a county jail. All prisoners had to have a visitor list. One person had their children on the list. They were both pretty shocking, but the worst was, I kid you not, Cocaine."
—Mel from Ohio
21."While working at a daycare we had a child named Lucky Lay. Yep, she was her mom's apparent one-night stand gift."
—Drea from Utah
Are there any other ~unique~ names you'd add to this list? Tell us in the comments!
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
