The worst, most humiliating baby names

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[Slings and Arrows]

What would compel a parent to bestow a newborn with a name like “Tiny Hooker” or “Fanny Large”? Or an amusing choice like “Wanna Towell"? It’s not just Hollywood’s elite opting for unique, embarrassing names—throughout history, normal people separated their offspring from the masses with truly terrible names.

In “Bad Baby Names,” Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, of the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, share thousands of shocking names given to real people, as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau. Discover the funny names based around common themes, like diseases (Fever Bender, Cholera Peace), food (Bread White, Pomegranate Purple), pets (Good Dog), and if you thought Wednesday Addams was unfortunate—wait till you meet Monday Monday.

[baa39]

Pothead parents is the only possible explanation to that one.

[Fiddlstix]

Ima Pigg was a real person - Can’t remember if it was Pig or Pigg...

I believe you're referring to Ima Hogg famous daughter of Texas Governor Jim Hogg.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I remember seeing a girl doing the part of Gretl as the youngest daughter in the Von Trapp family as part of a production of "The Sound of Music" whose name was . . .

Crystal Klir

As it turns out, a guy with whom I went through college music school verified that this family was for real and he went to school in his home (Chicago) suburb with the Klir family.

I can't imagine the kind of parents who would do anything like that to a child.

At least, with girls, there is the hope that they will eventually marry out of the name (such as Crystal did...), but guys?! They would have to legally change the bad name their (goofy) parents stuck them with at birth.

[50cal Smokepole]

Supposedly a real name as stated on a Minneapolis radio morning show: ‘Stewart Padasso’ ..... but you know everyone around the office calls him ‘Stew’ .....
(for those lurkers from Rio Linda, give it a second, you'll figure it out)

[Lijahsbubbe]

From the movie "The Sure Thing" here's a candidate: Eliot.

Really? I wanted to name my son Elliot, but we didn't. Anyway, I still like the name. I think it's sexy! Reminds me of a man with brains.

[scrabblehack]

Sorry, Angelina — naming a boy Pax is just ridiculous...it’s a feminine noun in Latin. Pacellus or some such might be OK if you had to go that route.

[stlnative]

I once knew a gal named Anita Pigg.

[GOPJ]

Ima Pig was from Florida, but I have heard of Ima Hogg. What were those parents thinking of?

[Cowboy Bob]

Ima Pigg was a real person - Can’t remember if it was Pig or Pigg...

It was Ima Hogg. Her father was Governor of Texas. There is an urban legend that she had a sister named Ura Hogg (but it is untrue!)

you can tour her home in the River Oaks section of Houston.

[myprecious]

Ima Pigg was a real person

Perhaps you mean Ima Hogg. She was the daughter of Jim Hogg, the govenor of Texas from 1894 - 1895.

[myprecious]

I guess you discovered that Texans know their history! LOL.

[Slings and Arrows]

[SIDENET]

Ima Pig was from Florida, but I have heard of Ima Hogg. What were those parents thinking of?

It could be worse. If she had a SE Asian background, and a really unfortunate last name, she could have been Ima Ho.

[metmom]

ping

[stlnative]

and many more here...




http://www.funnyname.com/

[rolling_stone]

Dusty Rhodes, Crystal Ball,

[stlnative]

[skeptoid]

I was in school with Claude Hopper

Jian Butt and Mook Butt both live in NYC.

And one morning at muster the OD called "Head, Dick" for the new arrival.
Then he looked up from the clipboard and said "I think we'll call you Richard".

[ThomasThomas]

People choose their own Freeper names.

Can you judge a freeper by their logon name?

Lucky Tarzan had only one son.

[MarineBrat]