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We've seen baby names derived from text-message speak before (see below), and now the people behind thebabywebsite.com have gone through phone records in the UK and the States to find other tragic names as a cautionary tale for moms and dads. "When the parents of some of those people mentioned named their children, many probably didn't even realize the implications at the time" said a spokesman for the site. "What may be quirky and fun for a toddler might be regretted terribly when that person becomes older."
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Other names on the list included Barb Dwyer, Ray Gunn, Anna Sasin, Doug Hole, dentist Les Plack, and a retired RAF airman named Stan Still. "My commanding officer used to shout 'Stan Still, get a move on' and roll about laughing," Still says. "It got hugely boring after a while." To all you parents out there, remember this before you end up naming your daughter something like Helen Back.
For more crazy, real names, this time inspired by text-messages, check out the gallery below. [From: Telegraph.co.uk]
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Subscribe to commentsSFeb 26th 2009 2:57PM
There is a little girl at my brothers middle school name Aloyshaundria.
ChrisFeb 26th 2009 3:01PM
I used to work for a magazing printer. While putting together the cover one day, I glanced at the headline. There was a picture of a man in a suit, who had been interviewed for the magazine. The title of the article...."Dick Less Speaks" God, I felt so sorry for that man...in between laughing my butt off and showing my coworkers.....
JFeb 27th 2009 10:24AM
My husband was in the Navy with a man named Richard Less.
MATFeb 26th 2009 3:03PM
As a teen I worked in NJ--There was a local poultry distributor called Menella's Poultry. Didn't just know they named one son Sam? Who knew?
AnnaFeb 27th 2009 9:40PM
While my brother was in medical school, he shared with me a couple of winners. In one instance, a mom had twins, but unfortunately one died. She wanted the one who lived to always remember that she was from a twin birth, and to honor the deceased twin, so they name her "TWINA", because the hospital records had the deceased baby as "TWIN A". Another time, the doctors came in to examine a woman who just delivered a baby. When the doctors asked what did she name the baby, the woman replied, "Oh, they already named the baby for me, her name is "Femalia" (Female). Oh vey...
AlFeb 26th 2009 4:01PM
TRUE STORY (Happened in late '80's)
One time at a retail establishment in Sudbury, MA, (a town of history- dating back to England's King Phillip.. Many folks are high achievers, upper class folks...yet have an attitude of "entitlement").
I was training a 17 year old employee, on how to do sales and returns on the register.
The consumer was asked her name and address so that the return could be done:
The response was, "I da know".
The associate tried again, and finally I intervened..and kindly stated that we want to give her the cash..I recited policy for giving large cash returns..
The woman behaved as if she was insulted and loudly spells,
" I-D-A", "space," "N-O-E!"
So If you asked me if anyone made my associates' second day a challenge, my response would be, "Ida Noe".
KFeb 26th 2009 3:11PM
I went to school with a kids whose parents named him Peter. That wouldn't be bad except the last name was Wyckoff. Yes Peter Wyckoff.
momma bearFeb 26th 2009 6:42PM
Hey! There is a town in northern NJ named Wyckoff. I believe it is Dutch.
LeaPeaFeb 26th 2009 3:13PM
How about "Harry Boomer!" He is a newscaster here in Northeast Ohio!
richardFeb 26th 2009 3:19PM
everyone calls me dick for short
CatherineFeb 26th 2009 3:29PM
I work at a middle school. We had a boy at this school named "Famous". He was indeed famous-he got into trouble all the time. We currently have a boy with a first name of "Sir Isaac".
Other names: Magambaline SPECIAL
Optimus Prime, aka. OP
These are real names from our school district.
sFeb 26th 2009 3:27PM
In high school I did an internship at the ImaHogg Therapeutic School in Houston, TX. Miss Hogg was the granddaughter of the first native born governor of Texas.
soloFeb 26th 2009 5:32PM
To the poster that use to work in Houston,
"In high school I did an internship at the ImaHogg Therapeutic School in Houston, TX. Miss Hogg was the granddaughter of the first native born governor of Texas."
She had a sister named Ura too.
As for the Mary Christmas quoted in the story, there was a Merry Christmas from the Houston area, she was a guest on the Johnny Carson Late Show once because he thought it was funny & unusual.
ValorieFeb 26th 2009 9:45PM
She had a twin sister named Ura Hogg......those folks were off a few clicks!
RobertFeb 27th 2009 8:53AM
I actually went to school in Texas with two twin sisters named Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg, they were the daughters of my Biology teacher.
MelissaFeb 26th 2009 3:27PM
My husband's former boss had a son named Ben Dover.
Now that was just wrong.
DoniaFeb 28th 2009 1:58AM
I had a friend in high school named Ben Dover!
MarkFeb 26th 2009 3:57PM
Please... I know of a guy named Peter Blower. One of the worst names I've ever heard.
JessicaFeb 26th 2009 3:34PM
Thank GOODNESS my names plain as a jay bird Jessica Ann much better then some names I've come across lately..Though my Aunt Chris Is acutally named Mary Christine (meaning) Merry Christmas since she was born on Christmas Eve an hour or two before Christmas day..I think way out there kinda names are gonna make a child go hide under his or her covers till they graudate from College so think before you name your CHILD OMG or 4REAL or something like that!
MelissaFeb 26th 2009 3:44PM
My husband's former boss named her son Benjamin Dover...but called him Ben.
How mean and unfortunate is that?