Names

I have a lifelong fascination with names, I always watch movies all the way through the credits to name watch. I collect examples of names good, bad and just plain awful, my daughters share my obsession and cannot wait to tell me of the latest atrocity. Laura was a great source when she was teaching here and Marni has supplied me with some doozies, more have come from our files at work, we have 70,000 members so great opportunities to find some bad ones. I have a ranking system in order of ickyness, here are some with actual factual examples, I couldn't make these up I promise!

• Normal name spelled eewneekly on purpose to be diff'ren'T

Jaymz, Steffanee, Dunkin, Genefor, Jewd, Mattu (pron. Matthew), Rakkael, Feenix

• Matching or rhyming or theme names for siblings or even worse, multiples

twins named Mark and Marcus

sisters named Shakaya and Shakoda their cousin is Shakylah and their aunt is Shakira

• Odd names for siblings

brothers named Maverick and Brumby

sisters named Cameron, Ripley and Ziggy

• Names that sound awful with the last name or create a bad set of initals

Drew, surname Peacock (say it fast)

Mrs V D Hoare

Chastity Bell

• weird names, often from a movie or celebrity
  

Elvis Valentino

Trinity

• Bland or boring names because the parents couldn't be bothered.

Ben Jones and his sister Sarah Jones (my cousins), John
(so named because he was born on his uncle Johns birthday and "we couldn't think of anything else")

Bassett, because he was named after his father!! Yup lets just pass on the misery...

I have many more but these are my worst of the bad names I have come across... let me know if you have any I can add to my lists!