"Bad Baby Names"

KUSA - We've all heard about bad baby names. Celebrities seem to come up with most of them; Apple, Moon Unit, and our personal favorite Fifi Trixi-Belle. But they're not the only ones who've named their children with truly bad names.

Authors Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback have scoured census records going back to 1790. They've discovered such names as Garage Empty, Hysteria Johnson, King Arthur, Infinity Hubbard, Please Cope, Major Slaughter, Helen Troy, several Satans and a host of colleagues to the famed Ima Hogg (including Ima Pigg, Ima Muskrat, Ima Nut and Ima Hooker).

The authors also interviewed adults today who had survived names like Candy Stohr, Cash Guy, Mary Christmas, River Jordan and Rasp Berry. All of them, even Happy Day, seemed untraumatized.

"They were very proud of their names, almost overly proud," Sherrod says. "We asked if that was a reaction to getting pummeled when they were little, but they said they didn't get that much ribbing. They did get a little tired of hearing the same jokes, but they liked having an unusual name because it made them stand out."

A bad name doesn't necessarily doom a child, but why would any parent christen an infant Ogre? Sherrod found several of them, along with children named Ghoul, Gorgon, Medusa, Hades, Lucifer and every deadly sin except Gluttony (his favorite was Wrath Gordon).

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