One of my friends is a teacher, and recently I was ranting to him about my previous post on this sub about one of my pokemon go friends naming their child Zekrom. He legit goes "I've seen way worse."

So naturally, I asked him what could possibly be worse.

He said that he gets quite a few kids that that are named after objects, as well as some others

Here are a few of the more memorable ones:

-Marble (parents were big hippies)

-Twine (I feel so bad for him)

-Bead ("unique" spelling of Bede)

-Rhad (pronounced like 'Rod')

-Flower (what the fuck)

-Bucket (apparently mom got attached to it during pregnancy and had nobody stop her. He goes by Buck)

-Saedin (pronounced like Satan. Parents probably thought it was funny)

-Colon (pronounced like Collin, mom didn't make the connection)

-Tina (It was for a dude. Mom wanted a girl and decided the next best thing was to treat her son like one)

Yeah, I think this might be worse than Zekrom

EDIT 6/21/24: Holy shit this got a lot of attention. I would like to clarify a few things.

1) the 3rd name on the list was spelled B-E-A-D. Not B-E-D-E. The parents wanted to give their child a unique name, and settled on that as a variation of the latter. I saw quite a bit of confusion in the comments about that one.

2) 'Rhad' is not an ethnic name in this case. The parents are just crazy

3) Flower is by far the most mild on this list. However what my friend forgot to mention is that their initials happen to spell out a 3 letter slur used against gay people. (I'll let you figure that one out)

4) Another name that wasn't mentioned before was Canada. As in the country. Parents are immigrants from somewhere in Asia (I think they're from Thailand but I'm not sure) and they tried giving their American-born child a more 'Western' name (which they technically succeeded in I guess?)

5) I'm sorry that I can't read everyone's comments. The ones I did read were very funny, however I can't really get around to reading all 5,000 comments.