Worst.Name.Ever

Worst.Name.Ever

Okay, we want to say right up front that nobody should get insulted here. One person’s Myrtle is another person’s…..Helga. Or Taffy. Or Renesmee.

A very entertaining name game on our message board challenges players to pick the worst name ever from a series of pairs.  Irma or Moxie?  Hortense or Murgatroyd?

What do YOU think is the worst name ever, and why?  One of my worst-evers is Bertha, maybe because my poor misguided grandmother changed her name to that from the lovely Bridget because of anti-Irish prejudice.  And to Linda, almost any sound with the -erv sound is like fingernails on a blackboard.

C’mon.  Hit us with your worst shot.

About the Author

Pamela Redmond

Pamela Redmond

Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.