"Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

re: "Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

Becky — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:26:01 GMT

The Shithead one is true, my cousin was actually in a class with a girl named Shithead, but she pronounced it Shith-ade... though my cousin tells a very funny story about the day they had a substitute who was calling attendance...

re: "Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

Petey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:32:55 GMT

I know a woman named Anita Hoare. Never name your daughter Anita because you never know who they're going to marry.

re: "Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

Dawn — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:19:23 GMT

I knew a girl named Berlin Wall. What a name!

re: "Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

mishmish — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:48:24 GMT

my wife went to high school with a girl named Formica Dinnette (pronouced Four-mee-caa Dee-Net).

i also knew a girl when i was very young named Ecstasy... i vaguely remember asking her why that was her name and she told me her parents said it was because she was made in a moment of pure ecstasy... imagine my parents faces when I asked what that meant at 6 years old.

re: "Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

Cole Gamble — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:39:19 GMT

Actually the name Shithead is not an urban legend. The woman is named Shithead but pronounces it as SHAW - TAYD. It says so right there is the Snopes article you linked. It might mitigate the damage to pronounce it differenetly, but try putting "Shithead" down on an application for a bank loan.

re: "Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

Combermere — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Sh*thead is an urban legend...

www.snopes.com/.../names.asp

re: "Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

AE — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:08:36 GMT

Keep in mind that Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon lived almost four hundred years ago. His more famous brother bore the slightly less cumbersome moniker Praise-God Barbon. Ah, those crazy seventeenth-century English Puritans and their virtue names.

re: "Satan" and 9 Other Bad (but real) Baby Names

Leela — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:02:08 GMT

I was entering death certificates into a database at work one day when I came across a woman who had been named L. Chlorine [Last Name]. First of all, who gives their kid the middle name Chlorine? Second, how bad is your first name such that you choose to go by your middle name of Chlorine?

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Michelle — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:17:17 GMT

I once had to call on a woman named Blowma Johnson. I also had a teacher in middle school whose last name was Hiscock. Sadly his wife was named Edith.