Unfortunate kids names from 2014

[lindyanne]

Poor kids

www.today.com/parents/12-craziest-new-baby-names-oh-no-they-didnt-t22971

Top 12 Bad New Names from 2014
Billion
Common
Dagger
Lay
Londynne
Mickinley
Payzley
Royaltee
Ruckus
Sadman
Swastik
Wimberley

[Deleted]

I feel like half of those are names of the children of Mormon mommy/fashion bloggers.

[Velar Fricative]

Those are terrible but I expected to see Isis up there too. Not a made-up name but an unfortunate one for 2014 (and 2015 and a few more years to come, at least).

[sjh722]

These are all really bad, but Swastik? Like, oh, Swastika is too obviously nazi inspired. Let's do Swastik. Do you like Swastik Adolf or Swastik Hitler better, sweetheart?

[VillainV]

May 26, 2015 21:48:31 GMT -5 sjh722 said:

These are all really bad, but Swastik? Like, oh, Swastika is too obviously nazi inspired. Let's do Swastik. Do you like Swastik Adolf or Swastik Hitler better, sweetheart?

I wonder if people who do this just like the way a name sounds and honestly have no idea what a swastika is. Sadly there really are people who are that dumb/out of touch.

[kershnic]

May 26, 2015 21:48:25 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Those are terrible but I expected to see Isis up there too. Not a made-up name but an unfortunate one for 2014 (and 2015 and a few more years to come, at least).

Isis is a million times better than this list.  Also I used to know a kid named Isis who was born in 2005ish.  

[anna7602]

May 26, 2015 21:48:25 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Those are terrible but I expected to see Isis up there too. Not a made-up name but an unfortunate one for 2014 (and 2015 and a few more years to come, at least).

I have a very distant cousin named Isis. She is 17, but it is still unfortunate at the moment. 

[ladygrey]

Haha - I posted last month about an acquaintance who named her kid Payzlee.

[mcfelix]

Terrible!!

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May 26, 2015 22:19:50 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

I was reading these to H, and I lost it at "Sadman."

I totally read this as Sandman.

And now I have the Enter Sandman Metallica song running through my head.

[sent]

May 26, 2015 21:48:31 GMT -5 sjh722 said:

These are all really bad, but Swastik? Like, oh, Swastika is too obviously nazi inspired. Let's do Swastik. Do you like Swastik Adolf or Swastik Hitler better, sweetheart?

So Swastik/Swastika is a legit Indian name with Sanskrit origins.  It has an unfortunate translated English spelling for those living in 2015.  It was an auspicious symbol in Eastern and other cultures for a long time before the 1930s.  

I don't know why it is appearing on this list though.  

I saw a young adult Payzley's bio on an office website recently and it took me a full minute to realize the pronunciation of that name.  I this the office was located in the South.  

[waterchurch]

Those are indeed unfortunate. Yikes.

[anna7602]

May 26, 2015 22:23:56 GMT -5 sent said:

May 26, 2015 21:48:31 GMT -5 sjh722 said:

These are all really bad, but Swastik? Like, oh, Swastika is too obviously nazi inspired. Let's do Swastik. Do you like Swastik Adolf or Swastik Hitler better, sweetheart?

So Swastik/Swastika is a legit Indian name with Sanskrit origins.  It has an unfortunate translated English spelling for those living in 2015.  It was an auspicious symbol in Eastern and other cultures for a long time before the 1930s.  

It still weirds me out when I walk into Indian stores in NY that have flags with swastikas on them. I get it rationally, but the emotional me still reacts to it. 

[Velar Fricative]

May 26, 2015 22:09:31 GMT -5 kershnic said:

May 26, 2015 21:48:25 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Those are terrible but I expected to see Isis up there too. Not a made-up name but an unfortunate one for 2014 (and 2015 and a few more years to come, at least).

Isis is a million times better than this list.  Also I used to know a kid named Isis who was born in 2005ish.  

It's a nice name, just a ruined one at the moment!

See also: Katrina in 2005.

[aspentosh]

May 26, 2015 22:21:39 GMT -5 @roseyposey said:

May 26, 2015 22:19:50 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

I was reading these to H, and I lost it at "Sadman."

I totally read this as Sandman.

And now I have the Enter Sandman Metallica song running through my head.

Same here. 

These are are all awful.

[ringstrue]

I knew a dog named Ruckus.

DH wanted to name DD Cannon if she were a boy so really I'm just glad we skirted this whole issue.

[lishie]

For your reading pleasure, I present the list of names that DH gave me for DS2. He was 100% serious about them, though he composed the list while drinking whiskey and watching some war show on History Channel, so that explained some of these names.

Rain, Savage, Gray, Cobalt (Coby,) Corban, Dusk, Kilo, Nox, Vega, Daemon, Hoax, Victor, Viktor, Vector, Hector, Saber, Pike, Torque, Somers, Denver, Salem, Tacoma, Harrison, Hunter, Logan, Macon, Owen, Bryce, Bale, Van, Mace, Mark, Weston, Masa, Kai, Kayne, Kell, Kyler, Roman, Rau,l Rhys, Rhodes, Rider, Rivers, Rune, Case, Cole, Slate

[Birdie]

May 27, 2015 6:38:24 GMT -5 lishie said:

For your reading pleasure, I present the list of names that DH gave me for DS2. He was 100% serious about them, though he composed the list while drinking whiskey and watching some war show on History Channel, so that explained some of these names.

Rain, Savage, Gray, Cobalt (Coby,) Corban, Dusk, Kilo, Nox, Vega, Daemon, Hoax, Victor, Viktor, Vector, Hector, Saber, Pike, Torque, Somers, Denver, Salem, Tacoma, Harrison, Hunter, Logan, Macon, Owen, Bryce, Bale, Van, Mace, Mark, Weston, Masa, Kai, Kayne, Kell, Kyler, Roman, Rau,l Rhys, Rhodes, Rider, Rivers, Rune, Case, Cole, Slate

Mine based his names off of Game of Thrones

[Muddled]

May 27, 2015 6:53:44 GMT -5 Birdie said:

May 27, 2015 6:38:24 GMT -5 lishie said:

For your reading pleasure, I present the list of names that DH gave me for DS2. He was 100% serious about them, though he composed the list while drinking whiskey and watching some war show on History Channel, so that explained some of these names.

Rain, Savage, Gray, Cobalt (Coby,) Corban, Dusk, Kilo, Nox, Vega, Daemon, Hoax, Victor, Viktor, Vector, Hector, Saber, Pike, Torque, Somers, Denver, Salem, Tacoma, Harrison, Hunter, Logan, Macon, Owen, Bryce, Bale, Van, Mace, Mark, Weston, Masa, Kai, Kayne, Kell, Kyler, Roman, Rau,l Rhys, Rhodes, Rider, Rivers, Rune, Case, Cole, Slate

Mine based his names off of Game of Thrones

Ancient Rome and mythology here. :/

[kershnic]

May 27, 2015 5:15:13 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

May 26, 2015 22:09:31 GMT -5 kershnic said:

Isis is a million times better than this list.  Also I used to know a kid named Isis who was born in 2005ish.  

It's a nice name, just a ruined one at the moment!

See also: Katrina in 2005.

Yeah, fair enough.  But I guess I find the two relatively easy to disconnect.  (ISIS and Isis).  We actually debated about Katrina in 2014 and still decided the association was too strong.  

[Birdie]

"Grandma I'm going to go play with Isis on the playground. Be back in a bit!"








That's what I keep thinking of lol

[bowies]

May 27, 2015 7:11:53 GMT -5 Muddled said:

Ancient Rome and mythology here. :/

Oh Brad.

[spankswife]

Horrible. I feel like the kid is destined to live up to it, and havea strange character too, with parents like that.

[Muddled]

May 27, 2015 8:01:56 GMT -5 bowies said:

May 27, 2015 7:11:53 GMT -5 Muddled said:

Ancient Rome and mythology here. :/

Oh Brad.

Right? Think Venus, Hercules, Trajan...

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DS2 has two little boys at DC with...different....names. They are Khaos and Darwyn.

[bowies]

May 27, 2015 8:04:27 GMT -5 Muddled said:

May 27, 2015 8:01:56 GMT -5 bowies said:

Oh Brad.

Right? Think Venus, Hercules, Trajan...

Smack him on the head for me. You are not naming Baby Muddled after a razor.

[sunshine608]

I know a Ruckus- he's my age though.

[Muddled]

May 27, 2015 8:09:47 GMT -5 bowies said:

May 27, 2015 8:04:27 GMT -5 Muddled said:

Right? Think Venus, Hercules, Trajan...

Smack him on the head for me. You are not naming Baby Muddled after a razor.

Venus is the one you choose to pick on? Lol. That's the best of the bunch!

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May 27, 2015 6:24:00 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

I knew a dog named Ruckus.

DH wanted to name DD Cannon if she were a boy so really I'm just glad we skirted this whole issue.

Someone I went to high school with has a Cannon. Its grown on me. 

[lillaguma]

Too bad no one suggested Royaltee to Duchess Kate. Missed opportunity there.