Most Idiotic Name

[Grey Bear]

Further to my despotic attempts to quell the necessity for "Names With Meaning!!eleventy!!!" argument - what's the most ridiculously stupid name you've ever encountered?

Seriously. What flagrant abuse of the K, the Y, the Z, the ', the !, the - have you come across? What is your most pathetic attempt at names?

I'll start :D (Well, you all need to know that I don't consider myself perfect....)

My worst name has to be the incredibly badly named Ghost McIntyre. Yes, Ghost. Why Ghost? I was sixteen and wanted a Mysterious Name.

Instead I looked like an arse.

:D

GB

[Kath]

Looking at houses up here, I came across an estate agent who spelled her first name "Krystynya", or something like that with an equally unforgiveable number of k's and y's.


Why is it always K, Y, Z etc?

Whatever the reason is, does this explain my brief flirtation with the spelling "Katharyn"?


[The worst fantasy-character name I devised was Hyinz-illith-tregor. Don't ask.]

[Shalyn]

Well - considering I work at a HUGE firm, and my job entails processing entries for all of the new hires for the US, I come across a LOT of bad names.

And that's not including the ethnic ones (as in, we hire a lot of Middle Eastern/Indian people). Those can be a nightmare.

I can remember a person in our Dallas office who would legally change her first name every year or so. Last time I recall, her legal name was "Princess".

I guess the stupidest thing I did was to get pregnant at 22. Had a baby, gave her up for adoption, and the name I put on the birth certificate for her was "Pegasus Ann". Yup. That's what I named my baby.

In all fairness though, I believe that if I had kept her, I would have named her Peggy Suzanne. But since I wasn't keeping her - it really didn't matter now, did it?

[granath]

Looking at houses up here, I came across an estate agent who spelled her first name "Krystynya", or something like that with an equally unforgiveable number of k's and y's.


Why is it always K, Y, Z etc?

Whatever the reason is, does this explain my brief flirtation with the spelling "Katharyn"?


[The worst fantasy-character name I devised was Hyinz-illith-tregor. Don't ask.]

The K-etc woman may be of Polish or Slavic descent. Polish is a language which can have as many as six or seven consonants in a row, not counting y.

[Lady Faizah]

What is your most pathetic attempt at names?

Khoischriantoferzinth. :crazy:

I eventually shortened it to Kinth, and had intended Kinth to be an alias from the start, but it was still a really bad name.

[Anareth]

Shalyn--getting pregnant and giving up the baby for adoption was not necessarily stupid. (Well, adoption wasn't at all. Profoundly NOT stupid, in fact.) However...Pegasus Ann? Were there flower children involved? (And who knows? Maybe the adoptive parents loved the name. I would bet she'd go by Peggy, though.)

And I'm sorry, but the court that keeps letting "Princess" change her name really ought to start asking "Uh...is there a reason for all this, or are you just trying to amuse us?"

You know, overall, my naming practices have not been all that bad. I have so much trouble thinking up names I usually resort to baby name books and, if it's non-earth fantasy, grabbing ethnic names. (I have a character with the Japanese name Satomi in a fantasy novel I'm kicking around.)

Possibly just the WEIRDEST I've ever done (discounting Star Wars fan fic, where even then I was distressingly mundane) I like and I'm keeping it. His name is Marcus Fabius Valentinan. Otherwise my character names tend to be rather blase. I'm just not creative enough to get insanely weird.

[SpaceCowboy]

I have characters named Nick Knack, Rosa Sanann Tone *, and Richard Lee "Dick" Bender.

* pronounced Rose of San Antone

[Rabble]

If i'd been a teen mother, the poor sprog prolly would have had 'Amethyst Storm' or 'Rhiannon Fern' if a girl... and 'Drake Benedict' or 'Raven Marc' for a boy.

Let's all be happy i'm childless.

RPG characters of mine... D'ire, C'raven, Dr J Scott. :noface:

[Shalyn]

Shalyn--getting pregnant and giving up the baby for adoption was not necessarily stupid. (Well, adoption wasn't at all. Profoundly NOT stupid, in fact.) However...Pegasus Ann? Were there flower children involved? (And who knows? Maybe the adoptive parents loved the name. I would bet she'd go by Peggy, though.)



Oddly enough, there was a brief stint with flower children a year later. And the kicker is - if baby had been a boy, he would have been named Keith Robert. Which - I still love that name.

In my teen years I wanted to write a series of kids mysteries featuring a magic cocker spaniel. Know what I named the dog? "Magic". *eyeroll* It really surprised me when those Gap commercials came up with a dog named "Magic". (My mother talked me out of that one - told me the name was stupid.) Oh, and then I was going to have Magic have puppies, and one of her daughters was going to be "Magicina".

I use as my excuse for that lapse in judgement the fact that I was under sixteen at the time.

Hmm. Then after reading Pern I wanted to create my own similar world. It was going to have flying horses called "Wingers", the name of the planet was "Theronn", and one of the characters was "Thera". I did have the sense to wonder if I could have a planet and character with such similar names though. And, none of this ever made it to paper.

Then my last bad choices in naming - which I don't think are that bad - is a horror story where the characters of the Trojan War are re-born. Helen of Troy ended up being Helena Trevors, Paris ended up being Prentice Harper, and Cassandra was Cassie. The horror story alone has promise - it doesn't need to be tied to spirits of the past.

[McClance]

The one that comes to mine is 'Zack Sue' as a name for a non-Human character.

Even as a Human character, that's a kind of name that you give someone who's just there to get shot or burned or killed in some other nasty way.

[GR'ass]

If i'd been a teen mother, the poor sprog prolly would have had 'Amethyst Storm' or 'Rhiannon Fern' if a girl... and 'Drake Benedict' or 'Raven Marc' for a boy.

Let's all be happy i'm childless.

RPG characters of mine... D'ire, C'raven, Dr J Scott. :noface:

You forgot Uf'fend

I have Naitanyl (N'tyl since he impressed) and Jamethiel goes by Jame

Also Evinreya goes by Reya

[GR'ass]

Oddly enough, there was a brief stint with flower children a year later. And the kicker is - if baby had been a boy, he would have been named Keith Robert. Which - I still love that name.

In my teen years I wanted to write a series of kids mysteries featuring a magic cocker spaniel. Know what I named the dog? "Magic". *eyeroll* It really surprised me when those Gap commercials came up with a dog named "Magic". (My mother talked me out of that one - told me the name was stupid.) Oh, and then I was going to have Magic have puppies, and one of her daughters was going to be "Magicina".

I use as my excuse for that lapse in judgement the fact that I was under sixteen at the time.

Hmm. Then after reading Pern I wanted to create my own similar world. It was going to have flying horses called "Wingers", the name of the planet was "Theronn", and one of the characters was "Thera". I did have the sense to wonder if I could have a planet and character with such similar names though. And, none of this ever made it to paper.

Then my last bad choices in naming - which I don't think are that bad - is a horror story where the characters of the Trojan War are re-born. Helen of Troy ended up being Helena Trevors, Paris ended up being Prentice Harper, and Cassandra was Cassie. The horror story alone has promise - it doesn't need to be tied to spirits of the past.

Cassandra shortened to Cassie is pretty horrific (ok, my pet hate is being called Cassie. Cass I can handle but Cassie. . . makes me feel like a bad mannered dog)

[Grey Bear]

I know a Cassandra. Which isn't surprising, given that I apparently bring doom and destruction. But she once said that calling her Cassie was like one of "those retards on the Internet who think that calling a child Syren after an X-man character is cool".

Some names suit shortening. Some, my dears, do not.

GB

[Grey Bear]

In fact, the best example of retard-shortening is the infamous Hermione Granger on Harry Potter fanfics.

If you check out Pottersues on Livejournal, chances are that Pottersues and her lesbian minions will have dessicated yet another "Mione" or a "Mya" or "Mia". It seems that the fools who write can't resist adding glamour to poor old Hermione in ways that hair straightening potions cannot.

The poor dear. No wonder JK laughs at fanfiction.

GB

[Kath]

The K-etc woman may be of Polish or Slavic descent. Polish is a language which can have as many as six or seven consonants in a row, not counting y.

You could be right, and in a better world, you would be.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that in this case it's just a matter of bad taste.

[Vyon]

My worst name? "Barannath" Not so bad in context, it translated as "Bear-Lord" or something like that.

But there were five of them. In the same story.

:banghead:

[B`dgyr]

um...
Selanallinyana
DONT ASK!
Dumb character, dumb premise, dumb dumb dumb story that sucked to the eleventy, as GB would say....


I have, however, learned from my mistakes. And btw, I happen to like using y's instead of i's and e's. However, other than in the really stupendously CRAPPY novel mentioned above, I don't overuse them. In fact, my daughter's name is Kathryn Susanna.
B`dgyr is obviously the dragonrider shortened Badgyr.

[Milo]

I know a Cassandra. Which isn't surprising, given that I apparently bring doom and destruction. But she once said that calling her Cassie was like one of "those retards on the Internet who think that calling a child Syren after an X-man character is cool".

Some names suit shortening. Some, my dears, do not.

GB

I know two Cassandras. Except they pronounce their names differently.

One is Cassandra with the "a" as if you were saying "sand." Everybody calls her Cassie, and I think it fits, maybe it's just the type of person she is.

The other is pronounced Cassandra with the "a" as if you were saying "Sondheim." Shortening does not fit. :shrug:

[Madrigal]

I know two Cassandras. Except they pronounce their names differently.

One is Cassandra with the "a" as if you were saying "sand." Everybody calls her Cassie, and I think it fits, maybe it's just the type of person she is.

The other is pronounced Cassandra with the "a" as if you were saying "Sondheim." Shortening does not fit. :shrug:

I know one Cassie with that as her full, legal name; two Cassandras who go by Cassie (one is a 'Cassy'); one who goes by Cass--she's a "Sondheim pronunciation" one; and another who goes by Sandra. I don't know any who go by Cassandra.

I've encountered the spelling Kassandra in real life, and Kassyndria online. Hopefully nobody's ever actually used the latter.

You guys know this site (http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/), right?

[Grey Bear]

Oh, good old Not Without My Handbag. Anareth introduced us a long time ago and it has been a long, mutual and loving relationship :D

Almost as fun as my relationship with Heartless Bitches. But nay. Now I'm on Holy Moly and Popbitch. But yah, NWMH is sooo good for mocking the stupid.

GB

[skysong]

The first time I read through what some people named their kids I nearly fell on the floor from uncontrolled laughter.

Personally, I stay away from the letter Y unless it belongs with the name. For example, Sally or Molly should be spelled with a y since spelling them with i or ie just seems silly to me.

I do have a love/hate relationship with the name Serena, always tempted to use it, but never have.

[Shalyn]

I love the name Serena also.

And Celeste.

but I've never used either.

[Madrigal]

I do have a love/hate relationship with the name Serena, always tempted to use it, but never have.

Lol. For me, Serena will always be the name of my neurotic, spoiled-brat roomate. (Her friend pukes in the trashcan? She won't even hose it out--just throw it away, and not bother with a replacement. She also doesn't talk to anyone--even me--except online. Too much of a character there for me to use that name elsewhere.)

[Brenda]

I named one of the characters in the story I'm working on "Serana." Not quite Serena.