Aretha (sounds too much like Urethra)

My daughter was born on tax day...we kid a bout naming her IRiS. That would have been awful!

Hershel, Mabel, Hortense, Herbert, Henrietta, maybe H names.... ;D

Dick, Adolph, Nelly...

Adolf

Herman,Thurgood,Thurman,

Homer, Maynard, Hubert, Cleophus, Maybelle, Wootney, Sylvester, Henrietta.

Mine is bad enough so i will keep it to myself. My apoligies to anyone out there called Agnes Agatha bertha Hilda Lucretia Maud Queenie Winifred Claude Cuthbert egbert Gertrude Many more

Crandel,Charmain,Ferris,Hermy,

Based on last names, these are pretty bad: from http://learn.ancestry.com/LearnMore/Article.aspx?id=12538&sssdmh=dm13.161932 "Bad Baby Names, by Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback Take, for example, the name Title Page. Or how about Magenta Flamingo? Ghoul Nipple? Mann Pigg? The list goes on and on. And on. In fact, Bad Baby Names has somewhere around 2,000—shall we say—unconventional names: Mary A. Belcher. Deuteronomy Temple. In the beginning, the idea for the book came from a group of names collected by the hard-working digitizers and indexers at Ancestry, who keep a running list of funny things they see in their work. But from there, the project took us down a slippery slope of madness and confusion. Why would anyone name their child Hell Grimes? Or Lucifer Carmendo? You can argue all you want about historical context (for example, the name Fanny, which shows up in abundance in this book, really wasn’t bad in the good ol’ days), but Hell and Lucifer are fairly unambiguous. So here’s what I meant when I said the census changed the way I saw the world: partway through the project, we gave up on the list and started just thinking of any topic we could. Clothing? Try these names on for size: Shirt Duggan, Fedora Spurlock, or Socks Brockington. How about numbers? We found every number from one to twenty, by tens to a hundred, and thousand, million, billion, and infinity—all as first names. Hungry? Have a sandwich with Sandwich Green, Hoagie Hoagland, Mayo Head, or Tuna Fish. And keep in mind that almost every first name in this book shows up multiple times. After a while, we were more surprised by what we didn’t find than what we did. Take, for example, the seven deadly sins: we found 149 people named Lust, seventy named Greed (with forty-two named Avarice), twelve named Sloth, twenty-four named Wrath, seventeen named Envy, and 830 named Pride. But for some reason, there was no one named Gluttony. So it’s okay to name your kid Wrath Gordon or Envy Burger, but not Gluttony? (Although I think Envy Burger is a good substitute.) Today, I can’t go anywhere without wondering if the things I see will show up in the census. I go to the movie theatre: popcorn? soda? On a hike: mountain? trail? Honestly, it could be anything. The first question everyone asks me about this book is, “Why would people name their kids that?” quickly followed by “Did you see any patterns?” To answer the first question—frankly, I have no idea. All I can say is that they are there. I looked at every single name in this book on the digital images of the censuses on Ancestry, and the names are definitely there. How they got there is a different story. As for the second question, I can say that I definitely saw a pattern, which was simply that there was no pattern. These names showed up in almost all fifty states and in every census from 1790 to 1930, with no rhyme or reason. When Jana Lloyd, the editor of the Ancestry Monthly newsletter, asked me to write about our book, she mentioned that many readers had expressed interest in a tome of wacky names. I’m happy to say we can finally deliver. Bad Baby Names is available now pretty much wherever you can buy a book (including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, and our own Ancestry Store) for $9.95. Come on. Let the census change the way you see the world too." And see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/11tier.html?ex=1362888000&en=594bf4e9cdd1260b&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink for even more.

Had a customer named Dick Mouth (true)

Some Zimbabwean nurses i know have some very strange/unusual names, heres a few Bigboy - apparently very common! Loveness - common Jealousy Comfort - also common

i must say that everyone has come up with some pretty bad ones....great question! makes me laugh :) how about: lafawnda napolian (i watched napolian dynamite recently..haha) bernard harry dick general **sorry if i offended anyone~didn't mean to**

Eggbert for a boy. Lesbia for a girl.

Bueford!

Any name that is a word. For example, I go to college with a guy named Tell and another guy named Store. What are the parents high when they name these kids or what???? Why not name them Ketchup?? Or Pancake?? Or Plate?? Or Telephone?? Or Burger King????

Bertha, Mildred....wtf were ppl thinking when they named their kids??!!!

Muffy

Shi-thead Take away the dash, and put a space between the "T" & the "H"

Work at a place where I see baby names all the times ABCDE ... people trying to be "creative" "NEMESIS"........ that one made me be awww but lol "NEVAEH"... heaven spelled backwards

I don't like the names: Lauren, Mary, or Carry.

Agnes. Myrtle. Winthrop.

I once knew a girl with the name Marijuana Pepsicola Jackson. I also knew a guy whose father retired from the army. His name was Major and his older brother's name was Sergeant.

wally,ermintrude,regina,morag,peaches,mingis,ghengis wow that was hard work thinking of those.

Ebeneezer.

King Lear's daughters: Syphilis, Chlamydia, and Gonorrhea They are just too hard to spell

Perhaps I'm looking at these wrong, but aren't a lot of these names that are disliked of germanic or english origin? Like Agnes, Gertrude, Agitha, Bertha, Maud, Hilda? Although I know these are fairly common, especially among the older folk, I've always disliked Frances, Edith, Vivian, and for guys, it is any name that we commonly think of as a girls name, like Marion, Joyce, Gail, Francis, etc.

Susan, Valerie, Beverley etc., for a boy!

Olive Glendine Hortense I have a friend whose first name is Olive. She hates it. She goes by her middle name, Jean. It was her grandmother's and mother's name. You think they could have used it for a middle name. Sheesh. One of my great-grandmothers was named Olive. Guess it was fashionable in the late 1800s, but it sure isn't now. (Although, I have to tell you this: as much as I dislike the name Olive, I do like Olivia.)

Mike Rotch, Imade Adoodie, Amanda Huggandkiss, I.P. Freely, Jacques Strap, Seymour Butts, Homer Sexual, Imastupidmoronwithanuglyfaceandabigbuttandmybuttsmellsandiliketokissmyownbutt

Unis, Helga, hortex for girls

A boy in my primary school class was called Simba. Cute, but how does he ever get taken seriously?

Alikhandra!

Mary-Joe wtf

In Highschool there was a kid named Leshawn.. I don't think he knew it means "HOG" in Spanish

boris

Lemonjelo. While I have yet to see proof of this on a birth certificate, a nurse in Chicago said that the couple named their child this. I have no reason to doubt her.

ESPN. It still boggles my mind people did that.