THE BIZARRE BABY NAMES PART 2

Not so long ago, I wrote about 7 baby names that parents should have thought a little longer about. Like Tallulah does the Hula from Hawaii, for example. ‘Tallulah does the Hula from Hawaaaaii, eeeeten?’ It doesn't roll off the tongue very smoothly, does it?.

Just a little anecdote from my own old box. I was once at the playground in Vondelpark with my daughter. Next to me sat an archetypal Red Bull drinker. He was wearing a purple tracksuit that shone so much you could pluck your eyebrows in it. He took a sip from his blue-gray can, a drag from his cigarette, and hey, there was his fries with mayo being delivered. In between, he cast a glance at his swinging daughter. “Tess!” I heard him call, and I thought to myself that he had given his daughter quite a decent name. I didn't think it fit at all with the otherwise so coherent overall picture.

“I thought to myself that he had given his daughter quite a decent name. I didn't think it fit at all with the otherwise so coherent overall picture”

Until he really wanted to reach his daughter. His voice went a notch louder and he also started to speak a bit clearer. Tess turned out to be Dess. “Dess! DESS! Destiny!” Ah, thank goodness. The overall picture was still right. Better than I could have come up with myself.

Especially for you on this drizzly Tuesday, a list of the quite special names that people gave to their children last year.

Bizarre girls' names 

Poorna
Devybtreashure-Jahaily
Snoes
Ninja
Quishantely
Jiz
Mallackiahntgelly
Dox
Geurmaaraishlien
Ghi’Nay Briannah

And then the boys 

Qulaydjaël
Blaas
Drheyko
O
Million
Mourinho
Jew
Binq
Milwal