I worked with a guy named Frank E. Frank. He never told us what the "E" stood for.

One of my good friends is married to Joseph Joseph.

Two of my high school classmates: Piddney Kobs and Nimrod Funk. Why would you do that to a kid.

Names of students I or teacher friends have had in the past.

2 brothers names Jail (pronounced Ja-eel) and Prison (pronounced Pe-ree-son). I used to laugh when the mom would get uptight over everyone mispronouncing their names. She was a flaming idiot.

Dijonnaise (like the mustard), her brother Dijon, and little sister Dojonaise. The parents were idiots.

My personal favorite, Jack Inoff. No joke. He used to be a student my mother-in-law taught over 20 years ago. The guy is probably in some serious therapy now because his parents gave him that effed up name.

I also went to junior high school with a girl named LaCola. The problem is that in Spanish, this means "the ass" so she was mocked horrendously.

Oh hell I remembered some. What about bad spelling? I'm talking:

Kody
Kaleb

and things like that.

ugh...I know a Kourtney, and then there are the Kardashians (from "Keeping Up with the Kardashians"): Kris, Kourtney, and Khloe (Mom kept the K's coming with Kim, Kendall and Kylie).

Seriously, parents, Don't Trick Up Your Child's Name.

I used the exact same method as SWTX... how will it sound at graduation, how will it look on a resume, and I went one step further... would it look good on a doctor's coat?

Ask any Kristie/Christy/Cristi... it is a beating to have to always spell your name. So why do we get so many variations on names these days? I just can't keep all the Jaden/Jaydn/Jaydon etc straight.

Don't give unusual names if you are a stickler for the pronunciation, either. My boss named his son Raoul, which is a family name (French, pronounced like "Rowl"). They freak out because people see it and assume it is pronounced "Ra-ool". Instead of just letting it go in casual conversation, they have to give the entire family history, blah blah blah.

Great article on bad baby names--

http://coaches.aol.com/kids-and-fami...14104809990001

I hadn't thought of the resume thing but I had heard about standing with the door open and yelling "Can XXX come out to play?"

There was a kid in my 6th grade class named Ortwin Klose. Thankfully for him he was good looking (at least at age 11).

Crazy parents!

How about taking a perfectly good name like "Emily" and making sure the kid's life will be all about having to spell "Emmaleigh".

One of my sisters swears that when she was a social worker in Charlotte, she had the jello kids (orangejello and lemonjello) among her caseload.

Snopes says there was a pitcher for the Astros with the lastname of Lemonjello... http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

That could be entirely possible... my BFF's grandfather was an OB/GYN in the Charlotte area and often suggested crazy names to new moms who hadn't picked out names yet. Those were a couple of them, along with Chlamydia and Gonorrhea. :eek:

There was a Today show story about this. The guy in the story suggested that people who want to name their kids something "unique" should go out and introduce themselves as the potential name and see what kind of looks they get. I think that guy wrote a book, which may have already been discussed in the thread, so my bad if I'm being redundant.

I went to school with a girl named Kizzie Butts. She was a real sweetheart, but I always felt so bad for that name and how some people were mean to her because of it.