Teachers: the names you will never name your own kids

[DaffyKD]

My sister and her gf always share the unusual names of the children in their class on the first day of school. This year sister lost-- no unusual names but gf took the prize by leaps and bounds. She has a child in her class named WAFFLE. My BIL was asking if Waffle is Belgian, the friend replied no, but Waffle does have a brother and his name is FRENCH TOAST!

That actually beats a girl I graduated HS with-- her name is Twinkle Star and she was born in the '50's when the unusual names were not as common an occurrence.

DaffyKD

[xomanadaxo]

I read some of these and think to myself "that HAS to be made up." WAFFLE and FRENCH TOAST?!?

[carnation]

I've put this on GC before but my husband's all-time worst name and possibly student was Reptipilis. Seriously.

And he keeps getting reminded of it because ole Reptipilis' name keeps ending up in the paper; despite being close to 40, she can't stay out of trouble.

[KSUViolet06]

To quote my kinderarten teacher friend: All Chads and Dustins have a 99% chance of being the spawn of Satan.

She also has triplets in her class named (ready?) Kamri, Lexis, and Mercedes who are complete hellions.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

To quote my kinderarten teacher friend: All Chads and Dustins have a 99% chance of being the spawn of Satan.

She also has triplets in her class named (ready?) Kamri, Lexis, and Mercedes who are complete hellions.

LOL @ Kamri. I guess she's the prodigal daughter? Why couldn't she be a luxury car, too?

Audisha? Infinitanya? Something!

[atrianglepi]

Sunshine Flamer- my daughter took a summer art class with her. Sunshine's mom was the teacher.

[Gusteau]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

LOL @ Kamri. I guess she's the prodigal daughter? Why couldn't she be a luxury car, too?

Audisha? Infinitanya? Something!

My thoughts exactly! Sorry Kamri, you're reliable and affordable...

Originally Posted by atrianglepi

Sunshine Flamer- my daughter took a summer art class with her. Sunshine's mom was the teacher.

Of course she was.

[tinydancer]

As a librarian, I saw all the children in the school and I have seen my share of "unusual" names:

Uniroyal
Bobshonda
Peaches - she went by her nickname because her real name was Cocaine
Shellafonica
Ivory Cloud - who I think should have been a famous athlete or have his name up in lights somewhere

Angel - never met a boy Angel who was decently behaved

[ColdInCanada11]

COCAINE AND PEACHES FOR ONE KID?!?!?!? Holy carp, someone hates that kid

[sceniczip]

These names are just crazy! How do people even come up with these names?!

The only one I have so far from teaching experience is Melissa. I have other names on the list but that's the only one on there because of teaching! I never liked the name Melissa anyways

[BraveMaroon]

I'm not a teacher, but I worked with a woman who named her daughter Britney Crystal. Eugggh. But it gets better. The last name? Ball.

Charming.


In grade school in the late 70s/early 80s I had schoolmates named Venus Wiggly and Curvaceous Bass.

[DaffyKD]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

Not a teacher but I could never name a child after my nemesis, Ashley. The only other person I've ever hated like that was a guy in high school named Mirko. Fortunately, I don't really have to worry about coming across anyone else with that name.

Leslie, Mirko and his wife bought my house 2 years ago. Never heard the name until the offer was presented to me.

DaffyKD

[AznSAE]

there is an agent that we work with all the time. his name is dick cummimg. i kid you not.

[carnation]

In high school, we had a boy named Nimrod Funk and a girl named Pidney Kobs. I always wondered what became of them.

My worst experience with names as a teacher, though: I was calling the roll on the first day a few years ago and said, "Whitey (last name)?" and a black girl raised her hand and said icily, "It's *Whitley*."

I doublechecked and the roll did say Whitey. They didn't change it for a couple of days and in the meantime, she got called Whitey when the roll was called in every class she had.

[KSUViolet06]

Oh boy.

Reminds me of our Honors Physics teacher in HS. There was a kid (Black) whose last name looked similar to the "n word" (think "Niger").

First day of class. Totally calls him on roll as "Philip N-word."

Big oops.