101 of our favorite Malawian names

On this Father's day, let me take a moment to shout out a word of appreciation to my folks for being excellent parents and for not giving me a name on this list. Caryl with a "y," can be a tough name for both spelling and pronunciation. However, I officially retract any previous complaint about my given name and its spelling. I am very grateful for my name! And, to the fathers that named their kids some of the following, I can only ask, what were you thinking???

We promise that all these names are actually people's legal names.

HOW TO RAISE MALADJUSTED KIDS NAMES:

1. Acid

2. Alias

3. Archangel

4. Bloody

5. Cheapo

6. Danger

7. Exodus

8. Graft

9. Obedience

10. Toxin

11. Trouble

JUST PLAIN WRONG NAMES

12. Africano

13. Boil

14. Labia

15. Negress

16. Orphan

BIG 5 NAMES:

17. Hippo

18. Rhino

KILLING WITH KINDNESS NAMES:

19. Beauty

20. Blessings

21. Bright

22. Darling

23. Comfort

24. Divine

25. Fortune

26. Gift

27. Handsome

28. Happy

29. Marvelous

30. Precious

31. Sugar

32. Wonderful

PERSON PLACE OR THING NAMES:

33. Address

34. Booth

35. Chair

36. Coaster

37. Diamond

38. Fanta

39. Ford

40. Freezer

41. Heritage

42. Hyphen

43. Layout

44. Liver

45. Orchestra

46. Overtone

47. Planet

48. Sausage

49. Sheriff

50. Simcard

51. Soup

52. Watch

NAMES FOR HIGH SELF ESTEEM:

53. Ambassador

54. Caesar

55. Captain

56. Cleopatra

57. Doctor

58. Flare

59. Genius

60. Midas

61. Mighty

62. Love

63. Lucky

64. Prince

65. Prosper

66. Queen

67. Ramses

68. Rejoice

69. Scholastica

70. Star

NAMES FOR LOW SELF ESTEEM:

71. Fat

72. Fatiness

73. Forget

74. Godknows

75. Guest

76. Lemon

77. Lonely

78. Manginess

79. Square

LEGAL NAMES:

80. Evidence

81. Witness

LACK OF CREATIVITY NAMES:

82. Child

83. Friday

84. Obvious

HARD TO CATEGORIZE NAMES

85. Catless

86. Lickness

87. White

88. Promise

89. Remember

90. Welcome

91. Examination

EVERYONE LOVES A SUFFIX NAMES:

92. Dryness

93. Faniless

94. Fatless

95. Fatness

96. Lackness

97. Neatness

98. Loveness

99. Stainless

100. Stainwell

101. Tryness