What are the dumbest names people’s parents cursed them with?

Swagstika said:
I used to work with an Aryan. Not 100% sure on the spelling anymore, but I think it was with a Y. Anyways, she was black. Like, the tent-wearing black type.
I was reminded of it earlier in a discussion with a middleeastern descent friend who pointed out it's the brand name of some sort of yoghurt.
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Ice Mountain said:
Aryan is also a fairly common Indian name, which I learned from working with a few myself. At first, I thought it'd be pronounced like ar-YAN or something, but no, it's pronounced exactly how you think it is. Unfortunate.
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It's also a Persian name. Most notably Jontron's full real name is Jon Aryan Jafari. Although it's not pronounced quite like you'd expect. Discussed with the Internet Historian here:

Clown Balls said:
snooty upper class bongs slapping an A onto male names in order to name their daughters after men

Josepha, Philippa, Thomasina etc etc etc

worst one I have ever heard was Edwina...wtf do you call her for short, "Weenie"?
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To be fair, I'm pretty sure Josepha and Philippa have their origins in ancient Rome. The Roman naming convention was to take the root name and add "-us" onto the end for family names, then the women ONLY got a feminized form of the family name, which changed "-us" to "-a." So Josephus became Josepha, Philippus became Philippa, etc. Names that weren't a part of Roman culture back then, like Edwin, never had this happen to them though, so that one has no historical excuse. "Thomas" would also theoretically be "Thomasa" or "Thomasia" not "Thomasina" but that I've never heard of anyone with that name, because Thomas was an Aramaic name and the people who were using Roman naming conventions would have all been either Roman by blood or extremely culturally romanized, the latter of which the Jews notoriously resisted.
 
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PaleTay said:
Any woman with two first names.
I've met a woman named Echo.
Most of the older Eastern European names sound bad in English, like Evelyn or Evgenia.
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I don't really think Evelyn is that bad in english, its a pretty common name for an old fart too, at least around here (a country with very few eastern europeans too)
 
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A woman named Chevay (pronounced like the car though) - if Lexus and Mercedes basically curse your daughter to be a stripper, then Chevay curses her to be a more affordable stripper I guess.

My grandmother had a friend whose first name was literally just "Gay" which was the single funniest thing kid me ever heard.

Carlos the Jackal, despite having one of the best nicknames ever, actually has a pretty shitty name, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez. His commie-sperg father also named his younger brothers "Vladimir" and "Lenin".
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
At least people in East Asia seem to always go with traditional names that aren't freakish there.
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LMAO

just some examples
支付宝->Alipay
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黑木耳->Jew’s ear fungus, also an obscure way to say vagina hyperpigmentation
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好牛逼->literally "Good cattle vagina", means "awesome" or "badass" in Chinese
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卫生经->sounds like “卫生巾", means "menstrual pad"
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姬从良->prostitute goes legit
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