Unforgivable Hood Baby Names: Celebrity Edition

December 9th, 2011 - By Renay Alize

Regular folk aren’t the only ones who name their children reckless and ratchetly. Celebrities, black and white, have been known to find some off- base monikers for their little ones as well. Perhaps they know their children won’t have to scrape and scrap like the rest of us. Money opens doors you know. Check out these crazy celebrity names, below.

Pilot Inspektor (Son of Jason Lee)

Whaaat?!? Actor Jason Lee and his wife must have been sipping on something lethal when they named this wide-eyed, blonde haired little boy Pilot Inspektor. I can almost understand Pilot, it’s someone with know- how who takes charge, but Inspektor? Never would you insert a permanent spelling error into your child’s name. No bueno.

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  • FromUR2UB

    Does anybody remember the products: Esoterica and Porcelana?  I always thought those sounded like names someone would give their kids.  Chauncey is not so bad.  My mom miscarried before I was born, I think it was a boy.  His name would have been Chauncey Trovar.  Oh, well, on the ‘Trovar’ part.  My mom was a creative southern girl.  Teehee!
     
    1.  Should have named him Pilot Inspektor Gadget Lee
    2.  Jermajesty sounds like phonetic spelling for a speech impediment
    3.  Audio Science: genderless all the way.  Is that a girl or a boy? I’m not sure the kid will know.
    4.  Camera: I wonder if mom regrets that.
    5.  Reignbeau: hey, with a daddy named “Ving”…
    6.  Christare: Well, it is different.
    7.  Yamma:  too bad she’s not from Alabama, then she could be a Yamma from ‘bama.
    8.  Reginae is not so bad.  It just sounds like a combo of Regine and Desiree.
    9.  Zonnique: Look at the source.  I knew there’d have to be at least one name with a ‘q’ in it.  The  ’z’ makes it ex-Zotic.
    10. Cymphonique:  definitely contrived.  What is it about q’s?

  • Farrar

    A second “m” would have been helpful.

  • Simonique

    “que” can be the ending to a very pretty name, mind you. Its just the examples in this list are horrid. For instance, my name is Simonique (see-mo-neek). I’ve always loved my name and plan on naming my first daughter Simonique as well.

    • ash

      Please no.

  • Najahhh

    This has been known for years, my cousin is also named this  I happen to like the name.   Better than many of those trashy names out there.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Hagan/500233232 Jennifer Hagan

    Romeo is and has been a perfectly suitable name for a child. Travel a little why don’t you?

    • FromUR2UB

      As a name, Romeo is not bad.  It doesn’t sound made up or have some ridiculous spelling.  I think it’s because the name is associated with a man who’s supposed to be a lover or romantic.  I don’t know if that was a consideration when selecting the name, but if it was, it’s a little amusing to put all that on a baby.  There’s nothing new about people naming children according to the attributes they’d like them to have, but if they’re not careful, it can sound pretentious or frivolous. Thus the names like Queen, Princess, or people named after fruit and desserts.  But, a name is what one makes it.  So if the person grows up and becomes someone notable, then their unusual name sets them apart as truly uniQue.

  • Nashay1987

    MY NAME IS DOMINIQUE SO POW POW THAT. I THINK SOME NAME CHOICES ARE A LITTLE WEIRD BUT ID RATHER HEAR A UNIQUE. NAME THAN SOMETHING THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME!

  • Abickmen

    Ironic given the author’s “creative” spelling of Renay, lol

  • Carolyn

    I think the “author” of this article needs to add her name to the. Renay Alize? Doesn’t get any more hood than that!

    • FromUR2UB

      There’s a alcoholic beverage called, Alize’, so if that was the inspiration, then that makes me think ‘hood or ‘country”, even though the name is a legitimate Hebrew word for ‘Joyful’, according to the baby books.  But the author has probably heard it all before about her own name, which may be what prompted her to write this article.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PNG3DVFSGPP65XJXFZC25D3JRU Lan

    my friend
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  • Franklin

    Two of my favorite hood names, for people that follow sports, are D’Brickashaw and Barkevious.  Really?  That’s as hood as it gets

    • Tranurse

      ralph d’brickashaw was one of the main characters in ‘the thorn birds’.  i guess his mama liked the mini-series.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DOW7ZDQIOYSTD5BYQ7KLFK5TOU Frank

        no, his name was ralph de bricassart, NOT d’brickashaw.  i’ve read “the thorn birds” numerous times, and that’s the name of the main character.

  • Mimihaha

    Shannyn Sossamon? Who? Shouldn’t the people on this list actually be famous?

    • Mykia_d_pearl

      I know yall didnt forget about Lil Mo’s daughter’s names…..Heaven Love’on Stone and God’Iss Love Stone. Smdh…..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LHCRHU7GAN6I4V6DRPPMOQDWQM Thomas

    Let’s not forget the name of actors Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa’s son Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa. Though the father being part Hawaiian might explain it a little.

  • Umkoofu

    Those names are weird

  • Herman Cain

    these names scream :”my parents are hood ,but want to seem sophisticated”…fail.

  • birthday girl

    I am a teacher and I must say the names are getting more difficult to spell and pronounce as the years go by! I feel sorry for many of these kids when they get older. If a potential employer can’t even figure out what your name is …. then into the trash can your resume goes. For example.. one of my students was Cash Money Moore, another was Che’Foxy.

    • Topanga

      I agree with you, Birthday Girl, but there also might be a racial bias when it comes to names. There was a recent study showing that when (phony) applicants interviewed for a job and said their names were Ebony and Jamal, they were less likely to be hired than if they used less “ethnic” sounding names. There’s nothing ghetto about Ebony or Jamal. Jamal is an Arabic name. I think the employers had a bias against people with those names, thinking that they WOULD be ghetto–loud, lazy, and unreliable. These are horrible stereotypes of my people, but there are many Americans who believe them to be true.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DOW7ZDQIOYSTD5BYQ7KLFK5TOU Frank

      all this is doing is dooming their children to a life of mediocrity and minimum wage jobs.  people who work in human resources will be able to instantly spot the black applicants from the white ones simply by their names.

  • JudgeMental

    Tylenol and Advil are pretty lame too.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DOW7ZDQIOYSTD5BYQ7KLFK5TOU Frank

      yes they are lame, IF someone named their offspring after two well-known pain relievers.

  • Oreke

    Camera is a west african name and the name of the author Camera Laye who the wrote “the African Child”. Do some research before getting all uppity.

    • T.

      And? Because its African its no longer ugly? Please go have a seat Umbookoo

      • Gebrela

        you are an ignorant brainless twit. just because umbookoo doesn’t translate  in english doesn’t mean it lacks orgin in native african language.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DOW7ZDQIOYSTD5BYQ7KLFK5TOU Frank

      nobody’s getting uppity, as you claim, but THINK about it for a minute, at first glance, no one’s going to break that name down and place the emphasis and pronunciation on the first syllable, as it is in the case of the late arthur ashe’s daughter, making the proper pronunciation “kuh-MER-a; most folks are going to see that name and the first thing that will come to mind is “cam-a-rah”, that is the device one uses to take pictures.

  • Ifuaskme2

    I like Audio science. Clever. Anyway, I’m still waiting for the ‘celebrity’.

  • Pete2polly

    Does this have anything to with that “Kodak moment”?

  • Xander

    Would this count as “Black people’s problems” because they -give- the crappy names or “White people’s problems” because we have to hear them?

    “Le-a”  (=Ledasha, “Tha dash don’ be silent!”)

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