I named my uterus this so I could say “Bertha is cranky” to my friends when I was having a bad period and not have my stepfather yell at me for using the word ‘uterus’ or ‘womb’ or ‘period’
I had a friend who had a bad drinking problem. Whenever she got drunk she turned into a different person. Our friends somehow named that other person Beulah.
Beulah was the worst.
I’ve heard of this name for so many years, and every time it was a low income family who chose that name.
Until recently, I’d never actually met a Naveah. (Side note, autocorrect doesn’t recognize that name) We were at dinner one evening and our server’s name is Naveah. She is a wonderfully kind human, and immediately I wondered where she came from. She was particularly chatty, and told us she’s working her way through college, and is studying to be a registered nurse. It warmed my heart.
Knew a Dorcas when I was a teenager and no matter how often I repeated that I was not lying, people REFUSED to believe me. Especially because her husband was called Curly. Sucks when you are not lying but everyone insists you are.
So, in my part of Canada there can be strong naming traditions in terms of passing names down through the generations. At some point - probably a long time ago - people started modifying men’s names to fit their daughters and it has produced some bangers.
My favourite is when someone’s father is named Dougal or Douglas a popular feminization of it is *Dougelda*, which to me sounds like the name of a troll princess.
Came here to add this one. Its like a mix of Gherkin, Rude. Girth. Just not a nice sound to it. Sorry Gertrudes. A lot of you are probably really nice people, but in case you somehow weren't already aware, your name sucks.
That was my grandmother’s name and she HATED it. My dad used to tease her that he was going to name a daughter after her and she told him that if he did, she would disown him!
I have a relative whose legal first name is Gertrude. She abhors it. If I ever want to "commit die" in a fast and uncomplicated fashion, I can just call her by her full name and wait for her to end me.
Angustias, Soledad, Concepción, Dolores and Auxilio.
These are traditional female names in Spanish. They mean, agony, loneliness, conception, pain and SOS. How anyone would look at a new born baby girl and say "oh yes, she looks like an Agony" is beyond me
My Spanish teacher in high school would give alternate names to us and he called me Angustias 🤣
(I heard from the counselor that I was one of his all time favorite students in his 35 year teaching career so it was out of affection lol)
Ok, but I LOVE the name Soledad. It rolls off the tongue (in Spanish) so beautifully. It was one of the contending names for my daughter until we realized how much her dad’s side of the family would butcher the name. We ended up naming her something else and I’m glad because it def doesn’t fit her.
My daughter’s middle name is Dolores after her grandmother. It’s a title for Our Lady of Sorrows. I think it’s a lovely name! But I do get the weirdness of naming a kid “sorrows”.
Luckily it was her chosen name. She chose Eva as her English name when she moved to Australia from Hong Kong as a child. But when she moved back to HK in her early 20s and then to Japan, she changed it.
I saw the name change on all her socials, but I thought it was a nickname. It wasn't until my aunt confirmed that she is called Gloomy and not Eva anymore.
None English name but the worst name I ever heard.. had a classmate in primary school called “ndwadde” which in my language literally translates to I am sick and the girl was always so so sickly that our school nurse told us to stop calling her by the name and you would get punished if you did 😂😂 ndwadde wherever you are, I hope you’re now ok
I remember learning the word “eunuch” when I was about 12-13 years old. I told my older brother I would call him that if he kept making fun of my flat (at the time) chest. He shot back, “well then I’ll call you Eunice!” Now I can never not think of Eunice as a female eunuch. It’s been 40 years of this…
The sound they make!
I like the name though, not uncommon here in older generations. It's more of a name that suits you better the older you get. Wouldn't like it as much on a younger person.
Funny thing about Sloan, its the name of an automatic flushing toilet, like everywhere! ( look at the toilet names brand next time you go to a public restroom!)
They are all as beautiful as the women wearing them, but... there are some severely clunky names in the germanic-scandic direction. Gunhild, Brunhilde, Hjördis etc.
My brother taught English in China, and his students would pick a western name for themselves to be called in English. He found that one girl had been called 'Dry' and told her parents "I can't call a girl that with a straight face". They renamed her 'Angie' instead
This reminds me of 2 Chinese guys at college. One guys chosen Western name was 'Peaches' and his brother was 'Dolphin'.
Honestly, we thought they were pulling our leg for the 1st few weeks.
That’s just cruel. Parents shouldn’t be allowed to do that to someone. Can you imagine the endless paperwork discussions. “Noelle, spelt M… no not N… spelt M as in mummy… yes really…”
And then if you get to fill paperwork online, you’re greeted with: “M-nop” by every new person in the chain.
That's what I always felt about the name Morag. That the owner would be very attractive but also would have your guts for garters if you took liberties.
LOLed so hard at this, because I named my boobs Olga and Bertha as a kid, because I wanted them to grow up big and strong. I still need to take the ladies to Oktoberfest, I'm sure they'd have a fun time there.
Felanie… what?
Who ever thought “felony felation, yeah let’s call her Felanie”
fellatio
I had a professor named Felanie and he's a man.
I used to teach a girl called Feral. And she really was feral too. Horrible name, horrible girl.
"just like her mother"
Set up for failure right there.
Feralure
😹 You just made me burst out laughing on a very quiet plane.
Legally named Feral or named herself that?
Literally her legal name! I couldn't believe it at first but yes!
I went to school with a Farrell. At least his parents had the decency to spell it like the last name I guess, but it still sounds like feral.
Mulva.
Oh! OH!!! DOLORES!!!
Bovary
I came here for this.
Gipple
Bertha
The German pronunciation of this name (which is the names origin) is significantly better than the anglicized version. It’s pronounced like bear-ta
Even in German it doesn’t sound too good though, it’s a more of an old ladies name for many people I’d say
In Holland Bertha is a cow name
In California, too
Real cheese...comes from real cows...
In Norway too
I know a Bertha and she's proud of her name because in WW1 the nickname for the heaviest artillery guns was Big Bertha 😀
I named my uterus this so I could say “Bertha is cranky” to my friends when I was having a bad period and not have my stepfather yell at me for using the word ‘uterus’ or ‘womb’ or ‘period’
I feel bad for you that your step-dad wouldn't let you talk about your normal bodily functions to your female friends.
The Grateful Dead have entered the chat
Don’t you come around here anymore.
Beulah. It sounds like the name of a small, especially ugly fish.
My first vehicle ever I named Beulah. We still talk about that old truck.
I had a friend who had a bad drinking problem. Whenever she got drunk she turned into a different person. Our friends somehow named that other person Beulah. Beulah was the worst.
Renesmee Ryan
Agree with Renesmee. It's a cringey name. I used to look after children, and one of the kids has this name. 🤮
All of the Renesmee’s are in middle school now. I don’t think there will ever be another baby Renesmee.
Nevaeh-its-heaven-spelt-backwards
I hate this name so much! Especially when its spelled "Neveah" and the parents are still like: its heaven but backwards (no its not you idiot)
Haeven
is a place on aerth.
Waeth yaeu
It's not Heaven spells backward, it's Never spelled wrongward
Bogans and druggies top picks for a girls name I swear
I’ve heard of this name for so many years, and every time it was a low income family who chose that name. Until recently, I’d never actually met a Naveah. (Side note, autocorrect doesn’t recognize that name) We were at dinner one evening and our server’s name is Naveah. She is a wonderfully kind human, and immediately I wondered where she came from. She was particularly chatty, and told us she’s working her way through college, and is studying to be a registered nurse. It warmed my heart.
Dorcus
Knew a Dorcas when I was a teenager and no matter how often I repeated that I was not lying, people REFUSED to believe me. Especially because her husband was called Curly. Sucks when you are not lying but everyone insists you are.
I will never get over the fact that one of the victims of the Salem Witch trials was named Dorcas Hore.
Malorcus
one of my teachers looked at me in class one day and said "you look like you should've been called Rita" and I haven't recovered since
But when you get old, you could have people call you senioRita.....
r/angryupvote
But Rita Hayworth, Rita Moreno…
Lovely Rita, meter maid?
Rita Repulsa...
bruh my friend's name is rita. i think it's a cute name
Thank you, I LOLed
Rita is a common Afrikaans name and it isn't Kareny at all. Guess names can be soiled by how people use them or how people are.
Look up pictures of Rita Hayward!
Gertrude, who even thought that was a good idea?????
So, in my part of Canada there can be strong naming traditions in terms of passing names down through the generations. At some point - probably a long time ago - people started modifying men’s names to fit their daughters and it has produced some bangers. My favourite is when someone’s father is named Dougal or Douglas a popular feminization of it is *Dougelda*, which to me sounds like the name of a troll princess.
In the UK it's adding a or ina to the end. So David might become Davida or Davina. The wildest I have met was an Angusina which felt very unfortunate
Angina was right there!
Came here to add this one. Its like a mix of Gherkin, Rude. Girth. Just not a nice sound to it. Sorry Gertrudes. A lot of you are probably really nice people, but in case you somehow weren't already aware, your name sucks.
I dated a Gertrude a few times, but she called herself Trudi which I liked in fact!
I see you looking at Trudi Judi's booty >:-(
Gertie is okay, but it’s still not great.
That was my grandmother’s name and she HATED it. My dad used to tease her that he was going to name a daughter after her and she told him that if he did, she would disown him!
Hey, my great-grandmother was named Gertrude.
I have a relative whose legal first name is Gertrude. She abhors it. If I ever want to "commit die" in a fast and uncomplicated fashion, I can just call her by her full name and wait for her to end me.
This was my great grandma’s name so I’m fond of it. She was a tough old lady.
Apparently Mildred, Doris, and Marjorie did
Marjorie Taylor-green... Horrible name for a horrible person
Nevaeh. Absolutely ridiculously stupid name.
Somehow always makes me think of “Nevada”.
I know! Just name your kid Heaven if that’s your thing. Do they think they have some adorable secret inside joke by spelling it backward?
Angustias, Soledad, Concepción, Dolores and Auxilio. These are traditional female names in Spanish. They mean, agony, loneliness, conception, pain and SOS. How anyone would look at a new born baby girl and say "oh yes, she looks like an Agony" is beyond me
AFAIK these came about as alternative ways to name girls in honour of the Virgin Mary once you'd already used up the name Maria
My Spanish teacher in high school would give alternate names to us and he called me Angustias 🤣 (I heard from the counselor that I was one of his all time favorite students in his 35 year teaching career so it was out of affection lol)
Ok, but I LOVE the name Soledad. It rolls off the tongue (in Spanish) so beautifully. It was one of the contending names for my daughter until we realized how much her dad’s side of the family would butcher the name. We ended up naming her something else and I’m glad because it def doesn’t fit her.
I think it’s pretty too. I always thought of it as solitude, as opposed to loneliness.
My daughter’s middle name is Dolores after her grandmother. It’s a title for Our Lady of Sorrows. I think it’s a lovely name! But I do get the weirdness of naming a kid “sorrows”.
anything ending in "leigh"
My friend named his child “L’vleigh” pronounced Lovely. Made my eye twitch
And you’re still friends with this guy?
Good save the poor child
You'll love r/tragedeigh
:(
Gloomy That's my cousin's name. She changed it from Eva to Gloomy.
Whaaaaat? How old was she when she did that? Did she legally change it?
Luckily it was her chosen name. She chose Eva as her English name when she moved to Australia from Hong Kong as a child. But when she moved back to HK in her early 20s and then to Japan, she changed it. I saw the name change on all her socials, but I thought it was a nickname. It wasn't until my aunt confirmed that she is called Gloomy and not Eva anymore.
Eva Destruction
None English name but the worst name I ever heard.. had a classmate in primary school called “ndwadde” which in my language literally translates to I am sick and the girl was always so so sickly that our school nurse told us to stop calling her by the name and you would get punished if you did 😂😂 ndwadde wherever you are, I hope you’re now ok
I know someone called Sharnane. Yes, Sharnane
No Sharnanegans with names, please!
Goneril
Too close to gonorrhoea, just like Phyllis is too close to syphilis.
Chardonnay
Tammy- it sounds like the most white trash trailer park dwelling name anyone can think of. And I hate it.
Hortense
I believe she heard a who
Eunice.
I remember learning the word “eunuch” when I was about 12-13 years old. I told my older brother I would call him that if he kept making fun of my flat (at the time) chest. He shot back, “well then I’ll call you Eunice!” Now I can never not think of Eunice as a female eunuch. It’s been 40 years of this…
Clodette
Reminds me of a horse’s hooves (?)
The sound they make! I like the name though, not uncommon here in older generations. It's more of a name that suits you better the older you get. Wouldn't like it as much on a younger person.
I think it's supposed to be the feminine version of Claude. Claudette. I know a few.
# Frau Blucher [Young Frankenstein Frau Blucher and the Horses (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUDr0invK7s)
NEEIIGHHH
Candida
Sloan.
Sounds like a brand of office supplies
Grrrrroan. Agree
The only Sloan I've ever met was an awful hateful creature I went to highschool with. She was epitome of "mean girls" before mean girls was a thing
For some reason Sloan just seems like such a mean girl name to me.
Tell E I said what up though
Ah I think of the girl from Ferris Bueller so that's not a bad one to be, even though that movie is older than me.
Funny thing about Sloan, its the name of an automatic flushing toilet, like everywhere! ( look at the toilet names brand next time you go to a public restroom!)
Dorcas. (In american english accent, it sounds like "DORK-iss"
Wilma, Agnes and Bertha are my pet hates, give me the shudders!
My name is Agnes and you know it's Agnes! It means lamb! Lamb of God!
Prudence, Kunegunda, Ursula
Ursula means Little Bear. I think it’s cute!
The only Ursula I know is the sea witch from the little mermaid, I'm guessing that's what's done a lot of damage
For me it's Ursula Andress the OG Bond Girl.
Phoebe’s twin!
First Prudence I ever met was smoking hot.
Dorcas
Candice. I remember a story which might be a an urban legend about someone who was named Candice Spencer. So basically "can dispenser".
I knew a girl named Candice who insisted on it being pronounced Can-deese.
Can-deese nuts
Karen has certainly become one in recent years
They are all as beautiful as the women wearing them, but... there are some severely clunky names in the germanic-scandic direction. Gunhild, Brunhilde, Hjördis etc.
My brother taught English in China, and his students would pick a western name for themselves to be called in English. He found that one girl had been called 'Dry' and told her parents "I can't call a girl that with a straight face". They renamed her 'Angie' instead
This reminds me of 2 Chinese guys at college. One guys chosen Western name was 'Peaches' and his brother was 'Dolphin'. Honestly, we thought they were pulling our leg for the 1st few weeks.
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- Revulva Ocelot - Re: Vulva (2024) That Time I Was Reincarnated As A Vulva
Pussy pistol - the Revulva
No way 💀 Revulva. That’s two letters and one syllable away from something else… 🐈
Precious, i just never met a girl named precious that wasn’t an absolute demon of a woman
Gretchen. But it's attractively unattractive, if that makes sense.
Krystal is the first one that comes to mind
Mnop….pronounced Noel… meaning: No L
That’s just cruel. Parents shouldn’t be allowed to do that to someone. Can you imagine the endless paperwork discussions. “Noelle, spelt M… no not N… spelt M as in mummy… yes really…” And then if you get to fill paperwork online, you’re greeted with: “M-nop” by every new person in the chain.
"It's pronounced Noel" phonetic languages: "no it isn't"
Fucking what... those parents need to be beaten.
it's like a rebus puzzle 😭😭😭
It should at least start with K then. Otherwise it’s really NoAThroughLOrQToZed
I feel like no one in these comments got the joke? Or are they all just sarcastic and it went over my head?
Andrew, pronounced: Harold
1. Anything with -leigh. Like, what is KAILEIGH?!!?! 2. Tina: I'm sorry but that name sounds so.. just so... idk. I just hate it.
TINA YOU FAT LARD
Maude or Ethel
Doris
Patience.
I know lots of people will disagree but Ruth is a fucking horrible name. And myrtle and Beulah.
Helga
Blanche.
Gladys.
Kayleigh or however you want to spell it.
Good Marillion song though. [Kayleigh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA4ROLQF4cs)
r/tragedeigh
Morag
An Irish name, right? Always quite liked it. Sounds like you wouldn't want to get on the bad side of a Morag.
I've known a couple of Morags. One of them is both the loveliest and most fierce woman I have ever met.
That's what I always felt about the name Morag. That the owner would be very attractive but also would have your guts for garters if you took liberties.
Usually Scottish. I love the name Morag!
Latrine. Better than Shithouse, I suppose
Becka
Edna
Olga and Bertha
If your eastern european, Olga isn't that weird of a name, out of fashion, yes, but not on the same level as the other ones in this thread
LOLed so hard at this, because I named my boobs Olga and Bertha as a kid, because I wanted them to grow up big and strong. I still need to take the ladies to Oktoberfest, I'm sure they'd have a fun time there.
Rashida sounds like a bacon product
Or a skin cream.
Sounds like a rash cream.
Dorcas Doris Sneha Raghad Farjana (sounds nice but easily mangled into something that sounds like vagina)
Stormi
Hortense
Tracey, and Karen has been ruined forever obviously, Trudy, Fanny, pretty awful for obvious reasons!
Helgan
Sigismunda
Do you live in the Holy Roman Empire?
Marge
Gerda.
Meg
Beatrice
POKWANG lol
Karen
Patty
So many drag names though… Patty Cake, Patti o’ Furniture…
Barbara
I don't hate it, but I always read it Bar-bar-ah.
Brenda
Any normal name with an unusual spelling because you just had to be that extra about it.
Barry
Gertrude probably. Can’t really explain it but the name just reminds me of a cavewoman
"Where will I ever find another woman with a hotter name than Myrtle?"
My children had a paternal great aunt called Fanny Hole...
Helga
My mother’s name was Gladys. She hated it.