Least Popular Children's names of 2004

**Ghost Lemur** · 1st January 2005, 09:32

Originally Posted by moko

...biggest culprit has to be Frank Zappa,son Dweezel,daughter Moon Unit(!!!)

Interesting story I heard behind Dweezels name. The nurse refused to write it as his name on the birth certificate, so Frank rambled off this huge list of (normal) names and made her write them all down. When Dweezel was told this story when he was older, he chose(sp?) to change his name to what it was intended to be.

For those who don't know where the name came from, it was Franks nicname for his wife's bigtoe.

My kids are Dante and Sebastian. Original enough for them to feel some sense of inderviduality, but easy to spell and unlikely to get them strange looks. Wanted to name Sebastian Poe, after Edgar Allen, and keep the literary theme (Dante was named after Dante Aligieri). Got totally overruled on that one though.
Could never have named a kid John or James, etc.

**moko** · 2nd January 2005, 02:41

Then there`s Bob Geldof`s kids,Fifi Trixibelle and Pixie

**MSTRS:Me** · 2nd January 2005, 08:41

There was a butcher in Glasgow many years ago named Ian Mark Smellie Go figure

**Yokai** · 2nd January 2005, 09:23

I know the following people:

A girl called Bobby-Jo - 9 years old - known as BJ at school - poor kid ...
Went to school with a guy called Richard Head
Worked with a guy called Michael Hunt - known as Mike.... figger it out.
Pair of brothers at highschool called Paul and Peter Peters.... ???!
And my favourite is in a book called "The battle of St. George Without" - Dawn Mudd!!!!

**marty** · 2nd January 2005, 13:42

I went to school with Wayne Kerr. Dealt with a local politician named Naughty Sea Monkey. There's plenty of Harleys and Bonnevilles out there, I've met a Fireblade and a bad guy on the run at the moment is James Triple M Ford

**Hitcher** · 2nd January 2005, 18:18

I've met in my life so far:

Tui Bird
Catherine Wheel
Kerry Hunt (subtle that one, Dr Spooner)
Dr Phillip Graves
Randy Lei

**sels1** · 2nd January 2005, 18:26

Our local Dog Ranger is Mr Wolf (true!). And his brother works for the Wgtn SPCA

**Hitcher** · 2nd January 2005, 18:43

Oh, and the legendary Hemi Royds...

**Riff Raff** · 2nd January 2005, 19:04

Knew a guy called Wayne King and his sister Jo King. Mother was a nutcase and gave them their names cos she thought it was funny!

**bluninja** · 2nd January 2005, 23:31

My mate John named his daughter Holly.....Day. Another mate called Chris Plant married a lady called Hazel.

What amazes me is that so many people don't ever change their names. After all the given names identify more about the parents than the children given them.

**Hitcher** · 4th January 2005, 15:31

One of the more ironic aspects of the Christchurch "body in the backyard case" (the one where the woman poisoned her husband and then buried his body) was that the said victim's name was Doug Gardener...

**toads** · 4th January 2005, 18:47

a friend of mine has a relative who named his daughter amanda ( lynn)
which I thought was quite funny, and obviously unintentional. another badly chosen name I've heard of is Theresa Green, who my kids went to school with, and also a cousin of mine had the unfortunate initials P.I.G, he never changed his name either.
another kid my kids went to school with rejoiced in the first name Douche, which sounded very romantic unless you knew what one was! lol