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Teacher criticises parents for choosing 'worst' child name she's ever heard
An educator has taken to social media to share the 'worst' child's name she's ever heard while working at schools - and it's all thanks to the child's misbehaviour
Deciding on a name for their offspring can be a formidable challenge for many parents, caught between countless possibilities for all genders. Inheritances of names can span generations, while sometimes the choice is made on the fly.
According to the Mirror, for some kids, their moniker suits them perfectly, but others might grow to resent their peculiar or "strange" birth names bestowed by parents.
An incensed teacher previously slammed a couple for burdening their child with what she considers the most appalling name encountered in her teaching life.
The oddly named pupil wasn't someone she taught directly, but from her mother's class — a name that has haunted her since her own youth.
Back in 2023, the disgruntled teacher shared on Reddit: "My mum once worked at a school and there was a kid called Thank God.
"The kid was a s*** stirrer and misbehaved in class just to hear his atheist teachers scream 'Thank God!' at the top of their lungs."
This extraordinary anecdote prompted others on Reddit to offer up their encounters with distinctive children's names, with one recounting: "I know a family with four kids: Prince, Princess, Precious, and Becca.
"The Becca at the end kills me."
A further commentary came from another user who recalled: "I was in line at Six Flags once and this woman in front of us kept calling her son Trust Jay.
"My mum, being nosy, asked about it, since it was an interesting sounding name.
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"Turns out, it was short for TrustInJesus. The kid's first name was f***ing TrustInJesus or TrustJ for short."
A third participant recounted: "Mystic Pigeon? She was a client at my office."
They continued with bemusement: "Apparently it's a real surname and her parents were hippies so named her Mystic. Like who's ever going to take her seriously?"
Another user chimed in with an equally unusual tale: "How about not giving your child a name? There was a kid I went to high school with whose legal first name was Unnamed Baby Boy."
Adding a note of intrigue, they mentioned: "I don't know the story behind that though."
It comes after a pregnant woman recounted that she and her partner had settled on their preferred name for a baby girl, only to discover her mother-in-law had recently named her cat the same.
In a Reddit post, the expectant mother explained: "This is not that serious, and no, she did not do it on purpose (she doesn't even know I'm pregnant)."
She added humorously: "But I see similar posts to this about other people stealing baby names, and I thought this would give everyone a laugh."
The woman elaborated on her naming preferences: "My husband and I have a fairly long list of girl names, but I keep learning towards 'boyish'/masculine names for girls, and as a HUGE Interstellar fan, Murphy has been [at] the top of our list."
She went on to say that her mother-in-law is "not a pet person" but relented to her younger sister-in-law's wishes to adopt a kitten.
During a phone call while her husband was at his mother's house, he informed her: "They named the cat Murphy."
