Society & Culture Terrible baby names

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Engimal

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Ha, honestly never thought of that. I have a relative called Austin and have always liked the name. Do you get called Ozzie?
Yeah, all the time. It wasn't until I moved school in year 11 (after going to the same school from kindergarten to year 10) that anyone started calling me 'Austin' on a regular basis. If anyone asks me what my name is, I'll usually respond with 'Aussie' before 'Austin'.
 

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Alcoholics. It's not good start, Margeaux Hemmingway was named after a bottle Chateau Margeaux, and she drank herself to death.
 

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Patrina isn't a bastardisation. It comes from the Latin patrician. (I've known a Patrina for decades).

On the other hand, there's a girl at my kid's school called Paris Francis. Who the **** does that to a kid???
Am I imagining it or did Paris used to be a boys name? Greek.

Pretty sure we had one at school.
 

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Friends of friends have kids named Remmy and Arlo. Terrible.

Know a girl called Zofia. That's truely horrendous.

Possibly the worst I know is a bloke I know through footy. His nickname is Sharka so he in all his wisdom decided to name his kid Shark. What an idiot.
 

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I like Arlo, but would never pick it out. Remmy isn't my kind of name. I met my first ever real-life Romy (Rommy) a month or so ago, perfectly reasonable person but such a crappy name.
 

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Remy is quite a common French name, I quite like it as a name but only with one m and not two which just bogans it up.
 
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