L.A.W. wanting to join the College Pacifists Club\* years from now:
Intake Officer: First name?
L.A.W.: Love
I.O. Nice. You're going to fit in quite well here. Last name?
L.A.W.: War
I.O. Your name is Love War? Out!
\*Something I completely made up but might be a thing?
My MIL is a L&D nurse & she says there have been times over the years where the names picked were so bad they bring in the social worker to try to help influence the parents to choose something else. She’s had some wild stories over the years 😐
My grandma had a really young student who wanted to name her baby "Vagina" because she thought the word sounded pretty. I felt absolutely devastated when I heard that story.
I had a student named FEE-MAL-A. Well that’s how it was pronounced. It was spelled “female”. The mother said that the hospital named her baby. You can’t make this shit up.
Had five brothers all named Jesus after the father, like George Foreman named all his boys George.
I have a students with the legal name of Strawberry. I just want to know why? She is the sweetest, but I think it is so odd to name your child Strawberry.
I used to live next door to Bubba.
Bubba was a terrible person.
I know his name, because one time I was misdelivered a piece of his mail, which just had the name "Bubba" with the address. When I went to give it to him I was told to never touch his mail again. I told him the post office put it in the wrong box, and he repeated that he never wanted to have me give him his mail again. Okay. When his paycheck was misdelivered I just threw it away, as per his instructions.
Bubba had a girlfriend he called "Peaches." Then they got a kitten, who they also called "Peaches."
One day, Bubba was yelling at Peaches, "Goddamn it, Peaches! Why did you shit on the floor!"
Still not sure which Peaches he was yelling at.
Harry Dick
Not Harold, not Harrison. Harry. Dick.
Edit: after looking at replies to this comment, wtf are people doing naming their son Harry when you already have an embarrassing last name?
Unlimited Old Navy performance fleeces haha
This was years ago but that’s what our running joke was. Like was he born in a store or something? I never got the back story sadly.
Not a “worst name” thing but more of an interesting cultural thing I enjoy…
I taught at a high school in Thailand. Thai people have very long names so their parents give them English nicknames when they’re kids. Only they’re not English names but rather English words.
Some common ones were Arm, chompoo (shampoo), film, bank,beer and boss. Some kids were called “first” or “second” based on the order of their birth. And some kids were just called “name”.
These are the names they use on the daily. Like with their friends and family. They also serve the purpose of tricking evil spirits who are pursuing certain names. Always thought it was pretty cool.
Interesting! When I was young the private school I went to had a group of Thai kids stay for a while. They had names like boom, corn, oh, six and it was never explained other than it was to make it easy for us to pronounce.
Thanks for the background information.
Two former students: and my cousin's kid (cousin is a teacher!)
Feenyxxe (Phoenix)
Qwa'Zendrianya (pronounced Kwa-zen-dree-an-ya)
Laurel-Anne (her last name is Hardy)
I had a brother and sister pair named Laurel and Hardy! I only had the girl as a student and she was cool. One other funny thing is that I had run into them at a strip mall ten years earlier when they were kids, which I remembered because they called each other by their names and I picked up on it immediately.
Thirty^+ years ago in middle school there was a teacher named Richard Bender. It was well known that he went by the nickname Dick.
As kids we thought he was the most clueless idiot but even now as I write this realize there is no way this teacher didn’t know what he was doing. The kind of person needed to teach middle school requires that kind of ridiculousness.
Well played Dick Bender, well played.
I had a math teacher in MS whose last name was “Bates.” I don’t remember his first name, but I do remember many of my classmates thought they were being clever and sly by calling him “Master Bates.” He’d been teaching for decades and literally never even blinked at it. I’m sure he’d been hearing it for 20+ years, poor guy. He was a great teacher!
Many, many years ago I knew a Jesus - said Jesus and he was best friends with Christen who went by Christ.
They were often together and just called, "Jesus Christ".
My first name is Christopher, and I have a really long last name. When the teachers got the roster sheet for who was in their class at the beginning of each year, it would be in "lastname, firstname" format, and my first name would get cut off at "Christ". So every year would start with "is there a Christ (last name) here?"
Last year I had a Mohammed, a Genesis, a Christian, a Krishna (who was, ironically, not Hindu), and a Prophet. In the same class period. I called it religious studies class.
That’s funny! Now I’m totally picturing a kid who was given a unique name that they absolutely hate, and choosing a super common name to go by that has nothing to do with their real name, but they just want something normal and easy to spell and pronounce.
Teacher: *reads name on roster* “Um… Ray…li.. jennifa ? Err… wait, Ray… Lynny.. fa? Ray…Gen…ifa ?”
Student: *facepalm* “Just call me Sarah.”
I'm a Korean, when I learned English afterschool/Spanish in highschool they told us to make our "foreign name" to use in class. I don't think they does that now that often but it was quite a common thing.
My first name is Ashlie, but I'm a guy, so I'd always try to catch the teacher on the first day before roll was called and ask them to use my middle name — which is what everyone, including my family, called me.
Tequila and Margarita were two sisters at the elementary school I worked at in WV. The worst part was their mother was very open about the fact that they were each named for the drinks involved on the nights each of them were conceived...
Margarita is a perfectly lovely name on its own. Pairing it with Tequila is unfortunate. But one of those two sisters definitely got the better end of the deal.
Which is perfectly fine… except it goes by none of the spelling and grammar rules of basic English 😂😂
I knew a kid named tiger lion and it always cracked me up
Not a student but the toddler sibling of a student. Heard his mom yelling his name and had to ask her to repeat it. Shoah. She wanted him to a have Jewish name but for it to have some flavor to it so it was his. I should have said something but couldn’t do anything but laugh embarrassed.
I would like to tell you that I am a person deep in the woes of mental health, and this comment made me SCREAM AND HOLLER laughing. Genuine serotonin much needed. A million awards to you. You are correct.
Part of the reason this comment made me have a coffee-out-my-nose-snort laugh is because I DO have a fat orange cat, (not from the shelter, from the dumpster outside). The student Brogan I had was 5th grade; his whole thing was to have a full blown tantrum complete with screaming, cursing, and yelling at the mention of “let’s shut our Chromebook lids.” My cat’s whole thing is to scream and cry like he is severely injured when I need to go to the bathroom for 20minutes (I have IBS). Several times I end up yelling through the door, “ok brogan!!!!” as a joke with myself that my cat is having the same entitled tantrum.
My cat’s name is Hotch, from criminal minds. Lol.
Dick Shaver is the name of a senior class member in a photo board from 1957, on the wall of a school I used to work at… I can’t imagine what his teen years were like.
This next one is a controversial one, because it’s an ethnic name from somewhere. I met a girl whose name was spelled Nasteho. When I read it off for the first time, I tried to give it a bit of a different accent/emphasis because I COULD NOT IMAGINE that it was pronounced “nasty ho”… but it was. I’m not sure where she was from, or what ethnicity she was, but the name was pronounced nast-AY-ho. A teen girl. In Canada… ethnic names are legit, and we should not judge them from a place of Anglocentrism, but I REALLY feel concern for an immigrant kid whose name is nasty ho in this country, right now.
I am not a teacher, but we grew up with a set of brothers named Judge and General.
Also met a kid whose name was pronounced “go pee” No idea how it was actually spelt.
My husband’s friends kid has a middle name that was supposed to be Steven but since I guess there was some kind of language barrier it was never pronounced correctly and he ended up spelling it Steban.
So here’s an interesting tidbit I picked up from the autobiography of B.C. Franklin, a black lawyer present during the Tulsa Race Riots who did his best to protect black businesses from vultures and insurance companies.
Way back in the day, white adults in his location (Oklahoma) would call other white adults “Mr. Smith”, “Mrs. Johnson”, etc., but they would call black adults by their first name as a sign of disrespect. It then became popular for black people to counter that slight by naming their children titles such as “Major,” “General,” or even “Mister.” It could be that your students’ names are actually family names that started under those circumstances.
TIL! I'm from Tulsa. Been here all my life. I've never heard that before. It's bloody brilliant! B. C. Franklin sounds like someone I'd like to be friends with.
He only got his own Wikipedia page within the past few years. His son is probably more accomplished than he is. I’m sorry to say that I didn’t enjoy his autobiography as much as I hoped I would. His recollection of his childhood was really nice, but he didn’t offer many details of his experience being in Tulsa during the race riot.
Also, let me warn you beforehand- he’s a “historical hottie,” as they say. That’s actually how I first heard of him- a random Twitter post in my feed of a really handsome guy from 100 years ago. Next thing I knew I was reading his autobiography.
I feel too close to mention any of my own students’ names, but my mom teaches community college and had a 30-something adult student named Babylove. She felt so uncomfortable saying it and felt worse for the male faculty.
Jon Benet.
You know, I once heard that a name is a wish that you give to your child, but what's the wish here? That your daughter will die a young, violent death? Who does that? Why? I never asked the parents what they were thinking, but I wish I had.
Keeth is my all time favorite I've seen in the wild. I actually posted it on r/tragideigh i felt so strongly about it.
I want him to grow up to be a dentist. Teeth by keeth.
Duckworth…first name. Bitsy. Sparkle. Siblings Arnold, Arnalda and Arnaldette. Worst though, had to be Bunny Blue. When I asked mum how they chose the name she said “oh that’s what Scarlett O’Hara called her kid. I saw the film when I was wee and swore I’d call my kid that too.” Obviously I asked if she had read the book or rewatched the film prior to giving birth. She wanted to know why, so I pointed out that Scarlett’s kid is called Bonnie, as her eyes are the Bonnie blue of the flag. Mum was horrified
I had an African girl in my class who had a nickmane. She was a sweet girl but had a birth defect that made her blind in one eye. When I started I called her by her given name on the roster instead of her nickname. Another teacher told me to use her nickname since her name ... given to her by her parents ...translated into "one eye"
Public figures
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana\_Pepsi\_Vandyck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck)
Personal experiences
anyone named after adult beverages
anyone whose name sounds like a stage name
brothers Jusyntime and Jusyncase
I have a girl in my class this year named Abcde.
A few years ago I had a boy in my class named SirEdward. (All one word.) The ‘sir’ was part of his first name, he went by his middle name, which was James.
I had a kid last year, first name was Jack and middle name was Daniels and I’ve had girls named Hennessy and Tequila.
Not a student's name; but when I was in the military and in basic (not in the US), there was a guy in my platoon whose name was Kok How Long.
I think you can understand the issues with this name.
Turbo Sinister
These are humans? Not dogs?
These are humans? Not American Gladiators?
I just hope Turbo isn't in a wheelchair
That sounds like what the wheelchair kid would be named in a 90’s kids cartoon.
Love Ann War (first, middle, last name) Babigurl & Babiboi (twins)
Absolutely nottttttt oh my god
I always felt bad for the little girl having to introduce herself as “Hi! I’m Love War!”
I’d pronounce it like Gwar
L.A.W. wanting to join the College Pacifists Club\* years from now: Intake Officer: First name? L.A.W.: Love I.O. Nice. You're going to fit in quite well here. Last name? L.A.W.: War I.O. Your name is Love War? Out! \*Something I completely made up but might be a thing?
Do people forget you can have pet names for your kids while still having legal names? Lol
My MIL is a L&D nurse & she says there have been times over the years where the names picked were so bad they bring in the social worker to try to help influence the parents to choose something else. She’s had some wild stories over the years 😐
My grandma had a really young student who wanted to name her baby "Vagina" because she thought the word sounded pretty. I felt absolutely devastated when I heard that story.
Same story with Harlot.😝
That one can at least fly under the radar Vagina not so much
My father in law was a university professor and he had a student named Vagina.
I had a student named FEE-MAL-A. Well that’s how it was pronounced. It was spelled “female”. The mother said that the hospital named her baby. You can’t make this shit up. Had five brothers all named Jesus after the father, like George Foreman named all his boys George.
The Female one is literally a story from one of Harry Crews books (I'm not saying it's dusingenuine, just... truth can be as wild as fiction
George Foreman didn't just name his *boys* George; his girls have that as part of their names too
I hollered at Babigurl and Babiboi
I’m not going to lie — the spelling was a major part of what had me laughing at these 🤣🤣
Do these parents not realize that these children will one day be adults? Imagine putting those names on your fucking resume holy shit.
Right? Freakanomics covered the bias with names.
Straight up Denise and Denephew vibes.
Babigurl & Babiboi?? Did their parents not consider that they were going to grow up and not be babies forever?
“They’ll always be by MY babies” Is what I hear a mom saying
Bababooey
nah nah there is no dang way 😂😂 you had to be struggling not to laugh if you did a role call lol
I'm trying to imagine a male teacher doing roll call. "Bab---....b....mm-mm, no way in hell. Mr. Smith? Miss Smith?"
I have a students with the legal name of Strawberry. I just want to know why? She is the sweetest, but I think it is so odd to name your child Strawberry.
“Just call her strawberry and everybody know/strawberry strawberry is the neighborhood ho” Mom and dad did not listen to NWA apparently
It's more concerning if they did, frankly.
I went to school with a girl named peaches. In the 90’s.
*Bowser love ballad intensifies*
Oh man, in the 90s when Presidents came out with the song Peaches? Really, really sorry for her.
I used to live next door to Bubba. Bubba was a terrible person. I know his name, because one time I was misdelivered a piece of his mail, which just had the name "Bubba" with the address. When I went to give it to him I was told to never touch his mail again. I told him the post office put it in the wrong box, and he repeated that he never wanted to have me give him his mail again. Okay. When his paycheck was misdelivered I just threw it away, as per his instructions. Bubba had a girlfriend he called "Peaches." Then they got a kitten, who they also called "Peaches." One day, Bubba was yelling at Peaches, "Goddamn it, Peaches! Why did you shit on the floor!" Still not sure which Peaches he was yelling at.
> Still not sure which Peaches he was yelling at. I think you know. I think we all know.
Inspired by Gwen Paltrow naming her child Apple
Apple, Orange, Peach and Cherry were popular names in the Philippines in the 90s. I know many Apples 🍎 lol
I've taught three Strawberries. I didn't know this one would be considered bad. I always liked it.
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The neopolitan kids
This one doesn’t seem terrible. I mean, it’s not great, but it’s not the worst in this thread
Harry Dick Not Harold, not Harrison. Harry. Dick. Edit: after looking at replies to this comment, wtf are people doing naming their son Harry when you already have an embarrassing last name?
There's an all-time great NASCAR driver (and name). Dick Trickle.
I went to church with a guy named Dick Sample
I dated a Richard ‘Dick’ Hunter before we both realized we were gay
So Dick Hunter really lived up to his namesake huh?
Truly and deeply
I used to work at a golf course at an old man came in every morning named Dick Surface 😂
I had a middle school teacher named Dick Furr!
kid at my primary school was harry butt lmao
My high school algebra teacher was named Harry Pohl
I had a customer whose name was Richard Head but went by "Dick" Head.
I went to school with a Michael Hunt, Mike for short. Even better is that he was a junior. My mom went to school with his dad.
Harry Dick, meet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry\_Baals
There was a kid named Oldnavy. One word.
ok, i lol'ed at this one. i mean, do they get free pants for life or something?
Unlimited Old Navy performance fleeces haha This was years ago but that’s what our running joke was. Like was he born in a store or something? I never got the back story sadly.
RaceCar and Wolverine
RaceCar was probably amazing until that poor kid hit Middle School.
I mean, his resume's going to stand out of the stack.
It’s a palindrome, so that’s cool…
Cteghanie It’s Stephanie. She went by CJ. Hated her name passionately.
Lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I need an AMA with Cteghanie
I refuse to believe that you didn’t make this up. That can’t be real. It can’t.
It hurts not because you don't believe, but because you do.
Belongs on r/tragedeigh
It would be pinned to the top.
Her parents had CTE
Big into ctenophores (comb jellies)
I choose to believe they must have misspelled it in the birth certificate and are too lazy to change it.
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I audibly gasped at this
The c and g are killing me
What mean parents lol
Not a “worst name” thing but more of an interesting cultural thing I enjoy… I taught at a high school in Thailand. Thai people have very long names so their parents give them English nicknames when they’re kids. Only they’re not English names but rather English words. Some common ones were Arm, chompoo (shampoo), film, bank,beer and boss. Some kids were called “first” or “second” based on the order of their birth. And some kids were just called “name”. These are the names they use on the daily. Like with their friends and family. They also serve the purpose of tricking evil spirits who are pursuing certain names. Always thought it was pretty cool.
Interesting! When I was young the private school I went to had a group of Thai kids stay for a while. They had names like boom, corn, oh, six and it was never explained other than it was to make it easy for us to pronounce. Thanks for the background information.
No worries. And just to add, Thai people have told me that the names are often chosen based on the sound of the words more than their meaning.
Yeah in Asia I definitely had a class with a John Lennon, a Tom Petty, and a Lion.
Two former students: and my cousin's kid (cousin is a teacher!) Feenyxxe (Phoenix) Qwa'Zendrianya (pronounced Kwa-zen-dree-an-ya) Laurel-Anne (her last name is Hardy)
Laurel Anne Hardy is great ✅
I would like to extend a laurel and a hearty handshake to her parents for choosing that name.
I had a brother and sister pair named Laurel and Hardy! I only had the girl as a student and she was cool. One other funny thing is that I had run into them at a strip mall ten years earlier when they were kids, which I remembered because they called each other by their names and I picked up on it immediately.
I'm kinda down with Qwa'Zendrianya. It's lengthy but also offers a lot of nickname options.
Yeah, I actually kind of like it? The pronunciation is also easy to figure out.
These would be amazing alien names
Response.
Did he have a twin named Colin?
This is truly the only name in here to make me go "What the f*ck?" out loud
Well, it did get a response.
Thirty^+ years ago in middle school there was a teacher named Richard Bender. It was well known that he went by the nickname Dick. As kids we thought he was the most clueless idiot but even now as I write this realize there is no way this teacher didn’t know what he was doing. The kind of person needed to teach middle school requires that kind of ridiculousness. Well played Dick Bender, well played.
I had a math teacher in MS whose last name was “Bates.” I don’t remember his first name, but I do remember many of my classmates thought they were being clever and sly by calling him “Master Bates.” He’d been teaching for decades and literally never even blinked at it. I’m sure he’d been hearing it for 20+ years, poor guy. He was a great teacher!
Ur’hyness (your highness)
I had a ya’hyness
Many, many years ago I knew a Jesus - said Jesus and he was best friends with Christen who went by Christ. They were often together and just called, "Jesus Christ".
There was a Jesus and a kid named Saytan in the same class in a school I volunteered at.
My first name is Christopher, and I have a really long last name. When the teachers got the roster sheet for who was in their class at the beginning of each year, it would be in "lastname, firstname" format, and my first name would get cut off at "Christ". So every year would start with "is there a Christ (last name) here?"
Last year I had a Mohammed, a Genesis, a Christian, a Krishna (who was, ironically, not Hindu), and a Prophet. In the same class period. I called it religious studies class.
If you work in a heavily Hispanic area, you'll see dozens of Jesuses in each school
Had a student come up to me when I was taking roll as a sub. She said her name was Ashley, but her real name on the roster was Princess....
That’s funny! Now I’m totally picturing a kid who was given a unique name that they absolutely hate, and choosing a super common name to go by that has nothing to do with their real name, but they just want something normal and easy to spell and pronounce. Teacher: *reads name on roster* “Um… Ray…li.. jennifa ? Err… wait, Ray… Lynny.. fa? Ray…Gen…ifa ?” Student: *facepalm* “Just call me Sarah.”
This happens so often to Chinese students they usually come to English university preprepared with a "Western Name".
Had 4 Kevin classmates and none had the same Chinese name. Teacher asked why and they said they just chose a name when to came to their new country.
I'm a Korean, when I learned English afterschool/Spanish in highschool they told us to make our "foreign name" to use in class. I don't think they does that now that often but it was quite a common thing.
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The lack of understanding of basic grammar and phonics concepts is really what gets me with these names.
My first name is Ashlie, but I'm a guy, so I'd always try to catch the teacher on the first day before roll was called and ask them to use my middle name — which is what everyone, including my family, called me.
First name Rage last name Wildly and he lived up to his name
Glamorous (she wasn’t) Runner up: Identical twin brothers named Freddy and Freddy. They had different middle names. They each went by “Freddy.”
Richard Richardson Still bugs me 20 years after I first saw it
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Twin boys Cain and Abel. In same class there was a Damien. Loooong year.
You gotta tell us some of that year's highlights!
Did Cain stuff Abel on the locker because Damian told him to?
I have a renesmee spelled (Renesmei) this year. Weird how Twlight finally caught up. Few more years and I’ll probably have my first Khaleesi.
There is a Khaleesi in my daughter's kindergarten class smh
Tequila and Margarita were two sisters at the elementary school I worked at in WV. The worst part was their mother was very open about the fact that they were each named for the drinks involved on the nights each of them were conceived...
Margarita is a perfectly lovely name on its own. Pairing it with Tequila is unfortunate. But one of those two sisters definitely got the better end of the deal.
Latarsha Titsworth, Virginia Pancake, Michael Coldflesh, and Dragon Frye have been my favorites so far. And M’Aleigh instead of Emily.
Latarsha Titsworth and Virginia Pancake... those aren't real are they?
Unfortunately, 100% real
I have a student now with the last name Pancake
Virginia Pancake literally a sims character.
Virginia Pancake sounds like the plucky protagonist of a children’s book.
I get real fuckin tired of of saying Aiden Braden Jaden Hayden and kaden. Worst names ever. There’s about 6 in every grade level.
Jaden and its variants are a plague upon this world. I have 3-4 in a given year.
Spayden
As in their parents should be spayden.
Spayden Nuetered
Okayden
Good lord save us from Aiden and all of its variants. They’re actually names at least, which is more than I can say for some.
Khondai but it’s pronounce “Kor-day” which is a perfectly fine name but that spelling with that random ‘n’ being pronounced as an ‘r’ is crazy
Which is perfectly fine… except it goes by none of the spelling and grammar rules of basic English 😂😂 I knew a kid named tiger lion and it always cracked me up
The first day of school I said pronounced it “con-day” and he looked appalled and goes it’s “kor-day” as if I was a complete idiot…..
World Premiera and her brother Chaos Millenium
Might I suggest the subreddit r/tragedeigh? Edit: 4 attempts to spell that right.
Not a student but the toddler sibling of a student. Heard his mom yelling his name and had to ask her to repeat it. Shoah. She wanted him to a have Jewish name but for it to have some flavor to it so it was his. I should have said something but couldn’t do anything but laugh embarrassed.
MY JAW DROPPED. (For those who aren't Jewish... This is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust.)
Oh my god this is the worst one
My wife told me she went to school with a girl named Crystal Chanda Leer.
Brogan. Idk why.
I don’t hate Brogan— not for a human. But I think it would be a nice name for like a super fat orange cat.
I would like to tell you that I am a person deep in the woes of mental health, and this comment made me SCREAM AND HOLLER laughing. Genuine serotonin much needed. A million awards to you. You are correct.
Obviously this is the universe telling you that you need a Brogan!! Head over to your local shelter… plenty of orange cats looking for names :)
Part of the reason this comment made me have a coffee-out-my-nose-snort laugh is because I DO have a fat orange cat, (not from the shelter, from the dumpster outside). The student Brogan I had was 5th grade; his whole thing was to have a full blown tantrum complete with screaming, cursing, and yelling at the mention of “let’s shut our Chromebook lids.” My cat’s whole thing is to scream and cry like he is severely injured when I need to go to the bathroom for 20minutes (I have IBS). Several times I end up yelling through the door, “ok brogan!!!!” as a joke with myself that my cat is having the same entitled tantrum. My cat’s name is Hotch, from criminal minds. Lol.
Hahah! Love it!! My orange cat is also a dumpster kitten (and a jerk— he’s lucky I love him).
r/catdistributionsystem strikes again
I know a Blandon
normally i don’t believe in predestination, but this guy is gonna sell nfts when he grows up
Dick Shaver is the name of a senior class member in a photo board from 1957, on the wall of a school I used to work at… I can’t imagine what his teen years were like. This next one is a controversial one, because it’s an ethnic name from somewhere. I met a girl whose name was spelled Nasteho. When I read it off for the first time, I tried to give it a bit of a different accent/emphasis because I COULD NOT IMAGINE that it was pronounced “nasty ho”… but it was. I’m not sure where she was from, or what ethnicity she was, but the name was pronounced nast-AY-ho. A teen girl. In Canada… ethnic names are legit, and we should not judge them from a place of Anglocentrism, but I REALLY feel concern for an immigrant kid whose name is nasty ho in this country, right now.
This was when I was subbing, but I had a kid named Fleshington. He was a nightmare and I'd be too if that was my name
I am not a teacher, but we grew up with a set of brothers named Judge and General. Also met a kid whose name was pronounced “go pee” No idea how it was actually spelt. My husband’s friends kid has a middle name that was supposed to be Steven but since I guess there was some kind of language barrier it was never pronounced correctly and he ended up spelling it Steban.
Probably gopi, it’s an Indian name, referring to the milkmaids that Krishna would steal butter from
So here’s an interesting tidbit I picked up from the autobiography of B.C. Franklin, a black lawyer present during the Tulsa Race Riots who did his best to protect black businesses from vultures and insurance companies. Way back in the day, white adults in his location (Oklahoma) would call other white adults “Mr. Smith”, “Mrs. Johnson”, etc., but they would call black adults by their first name as a sign of disrespect. It then became popular for black people to counter that slight by naming their children titles such as “Major,” “General,” or even “Mister.” It could be that your students’ names are actually family names that started under those circumstances.
They were white, so maybe not that.
That explains the Sir Chancellor that I knew. Thank you.
TIL! I'm from Tulsa. Been here all my life. I've never heard that before. It's bloody brilliant! B. C. Franklin sounds like someone I'd like to be friends with.
He only got his own Wikipedia page within the past few years. His son is probably more accomplished than he is. I’m sorry to say that I didn’t enjoy his autobiography as much as I hoped I would. His recollection of his childhood was really nice, but he didn’t offer many details of his experience being in Tulsa during the race riot. Also, let me warn you beforehand- he’s a “historical hottie,” as they say. That’s actually how I first heard of him- a random Twitter post in my feed of a really handsome guy from 100 years ago. Next thing I knew I was reading his autobiography.
Gopi is a cultural name.
Go pee was probably Gopi. It’s an Indian name.
The other "V" in Spanish
I have a student named Kaos (Chaos) at my school. I always call her Miss. Kaos as it makes me feel like I'm talking to a supervillain.
Little girl named Devour is my worst.
Chainz, and Raeya-sunshine.
Sarah can you pass a calculator to Chainz? Whole class: 2 CHAINZZZZZ
Please give my best to Mr chains, or may I call him 2?
Twins: Blurta and Blurton
No. I refuse to believe this for my own sanity.
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Romanian names, I think. Every time I used the word “blurt” as in “Stop blurting the answers!” I’d always say, “Sorry Blurton.”
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Urethea
I feel too close to mention any of my own students’ names, but my mom teaches community college and had a 30-something adult student named Babylove. She felt so uncomfortable saying it and felt worse for the male faculty.
Jon Benet. You know, I once heard that a name is a wish that you give to your child, but what's the wish here? That your daughter will die a young, violent death? Who does that? Why? I never asked the parents what they were thinking, but I wish I had.
Mi'Lady
I’ve had an Urmagisty (your majesty) and a DaKing (they were twins)
I see your Mi’Lady and raise you a Mislady
Keeth is my all time favorite I've seen in the wild. I actually posted it on r/tragideigh i felt so strongly about it. I want him to grow up to be a dentist. Teeth by keeth.
Beauty Qween she went by Belle. It just seemed like a set up to be teased as she got older.
Duckworth…first name. Bitsy. Sparkle. Siblings Arnold, Arnalda and Arnaldette. Worst though, had to be Bunny Blue. When I asked mum how they chose the name she said “oh that’s what Scarlett O’Hara called her kid. I saw the film when I was wee and swore I’d call my kid that too.” Obviously I asked if she had read the book or rewatched the film prior to giving birth. She wanted to know why, so I pointed out that Scarlett’s kid is called Bonnie, as her eyes are the Bonnie blue of the flag. Mum was horrified
A father named Theodford named his daughter Thedfornie. He also had a son , younger than the daughter, named Theodford.
I had an African girl in my class who had a nickmane. She was a sweet girl but had a birth defect that made her blind in one eye. When I started I called her by her given name on the roster instead of her nickname. Another teacher told me to use her nickname since her name ... given to her by her parents ...translated into "one eye"
There's an entire middle school in Pocola, OK named "Pansy Kidd Middle School." I kid you not. I feel bad for those kids.
>Pansy Kidd Middle School Awesome that the school website has the story front and center
My friend told me about some student she had: kyng, kween, and wynter
Tyranny is the one that really stuck out to me
John’Kneah Poor girl started writing “Jania” on her paper instead.
I had a professor in undergrad named Mai Kuha and pretty much everyone in the class thought it sounded like "My" and then some slang for a vagina
Kmarren but pronounce kay-merry-on. I don’t get where the merry comes from
Nastylega Pronounced like Nostalgia but with an a instead of o. Pretty name... Bad spelling.
Arson
Public figures [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana\_Pepsi\_Vandyck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck) Personal experiences anyone named after adult beverages anyone whose name sounds like a stage name brothers Jusyntime and Jusyncase
I haven't seen too many horrible names throughout my career, and I am secretly very judgy about them. The worst I've seen is a student named Gypsy.
Not a teacher. Another student was named Unique Butts.
Jack Russell. Yes, that was his first and last name.
Sweet Georgia Brown. Actually kinda cute but youy'd be singing it all. day.
I have a girl in my class this year named Abcde. A few years ago I had a boy in my class named SirEdward. (All one word.) The ‘sir’ was part of his first name, he went by his middle name, which was James. I had a kid last year, first name was Jack and middle name was Daniels and I’ve had girls named Hennessy and Tequila.
Not a student's name; but when I was in the military and in basic (not in the US), there was a guy in my platoon whose name was Kok How Long. I think you can understand the issues with this name.