History Main / WhoNamesTheirKidDude

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'':
--> '''Kent Mansley:''' Hogarth? What an embarrassing name. Might as well call him Zeppo or something. What kind of sick person would name a kid [[EurekaMoment Hoga-]]...

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqXL31wKiOo What Kind of Name is Hermione?]]," a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' FilkSong.

* The protagonist of the Music/MelanieMartinez ConceptAlbum ''Music/CryBaby'' is named...um, [[CharacterTitle Cry Baby]]. In the music video for the song "Cry Baby", it's shown that her brother wrote it on her birth certificate after hearing her mother refer to her as such.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4yURoIWkV0 "Horrible Names For Your Children"]] is a song that lists off ridiculous names people attempted to name their kids (some of which ''succeeded'') in real life. Some of them even appear on this page.

* Creator/RowanAtkinson makes excellent sport of this trope in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiWJWLCoH2M School Master sketch]]. Such pupils in his class include Nancyboy-Potter, Undermanager, Zob, and Orifice.

* One of the kids from WebAnimation/StarshineCarly in the episode, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XqKuZfBOw&t=182s Welcome to pre k #1]] has someone named...Xiao Long

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luI0jRMUjFo Power Rangers Legacy Wars: Street Fighter Showdown]]'': In this short film tying in to ''VideoGame/PowerRangersLegacyWars'', Chun-Li laughs and makes fun of Rita Repulsa's name. Tommy Oliver retorts, "What kind of name is M. Bison?" and she shuts up.

* When ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcgmWb1As1JMz5mfUUvv26A Tsiah IV]]'' did a summary of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyxj26_URw0 the story of Perseus]], he made fun of the character Dictys, pronouncing it "Dicktease" and asking, "Who thought this was a good idea?"

** {{Discussed|Trope}}: Upon realizing that "[[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper Pines]]" is [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname just a nickname]] he got [[DistinguishingMark from his birthmark]], [[CoolBigSis Wendy]] lightheartedly says that she "just thought your parents hated you." Though for the record, he's similarly ambivalent about his real name, [[spoiler:Mason]].
** For that matter, [[AlphaBitch Pacifica]] meeting [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]].

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* The title of ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' is also the full name of its main character. As in, someone named their child "Simple".
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* Suberted in ''Kid West'. When Faye asks the eponimous heroine, how her parent would name her a name that wouldn't fit when she grows up, she reveals that "Kid" is just a nickname. Her actual name, is Harper.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has Nah ("Nn" in Japanese, which sounds just as strange). She's very well aware of what a bizarre name her mother saddled her with.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', the titular character has the weirdest name out of the entire cast. It's eventually revealed that his birth name is actually Zach, but the events of the episode "The Name" has him legally change it to Gumball. Similarly, his mother Nicole actually has the first name of ''Doctor'', the result of her parents having stringent expectations for her when she grew up.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' often has the triplets Huey, Dewey, and Louie express issues with their full names Hubert, Dewford, and Llewelyn, particularly the latter two, and do not like people using them. Their opinions on the names that their mother ''wanted'' to give them (Jet, Turbo, and Rebel) aren't as clear except for Dewey, who is rather annoyed that Donald replaced that name with 'Dewford Deuteronomy Dingus Duck'.

** {{Discussed|Trope}}: Upon realizing that "Dipper" is [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname just a nickname]] he got [[DistinguishingMark from his birthmark]], [[CoolBigSis Wendy]] lightheartedly says that she "just thought your parents hated you." Though for the record, he's similarly ambivalent about his real name, [[spoiler:Mason]].
** For that matter, [[AlphaBitch Pacifica]] meeting [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Mabel]].

* ''Series/{{The Umbrella Academy|2019}}'' has the titular Academy, who usually go by nicknames: Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Five, Ben, and Vanya. Why are their nicknames mostly normal names? Well, their adoptive father named them Number One, Number Two, Number Three, Number Four, Number Five, Number Six, and Number Seven. Most of them picked new names to go by and be known by- Five didn't.