Teachers: the names you will never name your own kids

[Serenity]

Anything with capital letter, apostrophe, and then another capital letter just annoys me. For example, N'Dari.

I have at least five students each semester with apostrophe's in their name.

[lyrelyre]

I'm not a teacher, but I work with children. Several names have been ruined for me (although, some of these I never would have considered anyway):

Destiny (or any alternative, such as Destinee, Destined)
Journey
Heaven (or any alternative, such as: Heavenly, Heaven-Leigh)
Nevaeh (yes, that's Heaven backward)
Hope, Truth, Patience, Charity, Chastity (pretty much naming your child after a "virtue" removes any possiblity that they will possess said virtue)
any jewel of any form (Diamond, Diamoniq, Emerald, Saphire, Opal, Topaz - this is unfortunate, because I like Ruby)
Cheyenne, Dakota, Kiowa (anything "Western" sounding)

I've also had some doozies: Fast Indy Race (one can probably guess what the last name is), twins named Rage and Fury, more than one ABCDE (that's pronounced ab-suh-dee), Placenta (the mother heard the nurse say it and thought it sounded pretty), Clitoris (I didn't even ask why), and I'm sure I'll remember more later.

Unfortunately for me, my own name is actually on this list. I've asked my mother how it's possible I never ended up in foster care (I think it offended her).