What would compel a parent to bestow a newborn with a name like "Tiny Hooker" or "Fanny Large"? Or an amusing choice like "Wanna Towell"? It's not just Hollywood's elite opting for unique, embarrassing names—throughout history, normal people separated their offspring from the masses with truly terrible names.

In "Bad Baby Names," Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, of the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, share thousands of shocking names given to real people...

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