Reminds me of the article about black Americans visiting Africa and being devastated that they weren't "welcomed home" but rather just treated as visiting American tourists.
I worked under someone at an old job who named his son Jaxon. And kept pictures Jaxon drew and signed on the wall of his office. So every time I needed something from him, I would have to see Jaxon's name in his office. And I hated it.
Because you hate your child but don't believe in abortion. Just yesterday, I avoided spelling my preferred email on a phone call because a company already had a different address on file.
Ex and I once joked about this subject. We decided it'd be funny to named an unwanted child Paisley.
Hm. In my experience, -eigh has always been pronounced -ee. In most cases, Leigh is a homophone of Lee, as it comes from an English word meaning “meadow”, and you’ll find many pronunciation guides that confirm this. Not that I find it all that intuitive, I would have assumed it to be pronounced -lay myself, like sleigh or eight. English is dumb like that, and if you or anyone else wants to pronounce it -lay, nothing should stop you.
It's to add a little uniqueness, and avoid them being the 14th Erica in the classroom, but not going so far as to not give them one of the "normal" names.
Or they just think it looks prettier. It doesn't have to be about accomplishing something beyond "I like how that looks".
You'd be surprised how little it actually matters. It just means they have to spell it for people occasionally.
My name isn't common here, but it's also perfectly well known and spelled in the traditional sense.
I have to spell it for people, and often use a middle name for takeout orders. That's about the extent of the burden of having an unusual name.
My last name is also perfectly common, and I need to spell it as well.
I've seen a lot more "burden" on people with alphabetically late names, since they often are last in line for stuff.
I'm all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?
I'm a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you're an author. Perfect compromise.
We gave our daughter a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant. We just wanted a name that wasn't religious but still normal enough that she wouldn't get bullied for it (she got bullied anyway). We realized later that it actually made sense in terms of her ancestry because her mother has a plant name, her grandmother has a plant name and her great-grandmother had a plant name. One long lineage of plant names.
Dude I see you around here on the regular, so I’ll mention that this is ironic for me to read this, because we also named our daughter an old, obscure but “real” name that is also a plant (a flower, specifically).
It’s from France, so I asked a French friend before using it if it was ok to use and not a weird name, and they said “sure it’s ok, but it’s like an old grandma’s name no one uses anymore.” And that’s when I knew it was the one!
Honestly being bullied for a weird name just feels like victim blaming. It's just someone else's shitty behaviour we're expected to dance around? That was the one problem with the name.
I don't disagree, but it's also a parental responsibility, in my opinion, to help your child avoid bullying. It's not possible to avoid entirely, but there are definitely ways to make it worse. And a weird name is one of them.
Same boat. I think I guessed it, and it's absolutely killing me knowing I'll never know if I'm right. But also, my brain itch doesn't trump doxxing a person (or even a squid) or their kid.
It's a pretty common practice where I live for a kid to be named after someone for their first name, but go by their middle name. So I think it's perfectly fine to have one normal name and one weird name in any order.
A. John Smith is an accountant. Atreyu J. Smith is a musician who wears leather pants and some sort of studded headband.
In the fall of 2019, Vandyck sponsored the Marijuana Pepsi Scholarship for first-generation African-American students at UW–Whitewater.
If someone with a brand name… name… starts a same-industry business in their name, or offers a scholarship for nazis, I wonder what kind of recourse the original brand has.
I guess if everyone has a weird name, that doesn't matter. Maybe kids don't make fun of weird names anymore. Who knows, maybe it's the Johns and Marys who get made fun of for having uninteresting names.
My name is a standard name, but super uncommon here. It's not that bad, since I got picked on about as much as anyone else. It's not like they won't just because your name is unremarkable.
If you don't get bullied for your name, you'll just get bullied for something else. At least with the name you can blame it on your parents, maybe. Kids are assholes.
Except a kid like that automatically has a free pass for eternally being pissed about their father and their father before them not also having had that name so they could be "... the third'!
Do these parents not realise that they are naming real humans that will also be adults one day? Like, just imagine a grown-ass woman named "Brexleigh".
A baby name from Amazon would be like "BABY CHILD YOUTH LIL ADULT 6LB 7LB 8LB DOCTOR OLYMPICS ATHLETE FAMOUS TALL INDOOR OUTDOOR EASY TO CLEAN CUTE COLLECTIBLE FAMILY 3-PACK"
What irks me the most is the effort these idiot parents will go to give their baby as basic a name as "Allison" or "Ashley"
Ashlie
Ashlee
Ashly
Ashleigh
Ashlea
Ashli
Ashely
Ashlei
Ashleah
Asheleigh
Ashelie
Ahshlee
the list goes on and on and on
No amount of vowels is going to make your kid's name stand out when at the end of the day it's the same pronunciation as the most common, basic form of it.
I have a half-baked outline for a character who goes by C. M. Mil’naire and is really embarrassed about the fact that his full name is actually Cash Money Mil’naire. I have no idea how to use him, but I love him too much to not keep around.
I've always felt like the names we pick for ourselves ought to be more valid than the ones others choose for us. We should choose names for ourselves at different stages of life, and just tack them on in whatever order we like. You want something more fun than mummy and daddy gave you? Knock yourself out. Were your idiot parents drunk when they signed the papers? Well you can fix that at 12 if you like. We are who we choose to be and this the goddamn future.
Yep. That's Felix. I don't even know his deadname. I think my daughter told me once because the school deadnamed him over the announcements and she didn't know they were talking about him.
It makes me think of Felix the Cat, which is not an insult. I like Felix the Cat. Dude knows how to party.
Squid has mentioned Squidling's trans friend in other comments.
I'm a transgender man who also picked a "popular in Europe, not in the US" name, and names popular for trans people is a running joke in the trans community. When I came out, Aiden/Kayden/Jayden were the ones that everyone joked about being popular, and then it was the "drowned Victorian child" names, now it's Elliot and a few others I can't remember right now (and for trans women, my support group back in the day had a half dozen Jen/Jenny/Jennifers and now the popular trans femme name is probably Emily). And non-binary people stereotypically pick nouns, Target's pride collection had some stuff by someone who picked the name Bird.
Such a weird mishmash of German, Latin and Greek, although Felix is extremely common in Germany too. Sigurd isn't though, that's some old germanic kinda name, like Æthelwulf in the anglosphere.
If someone in central Europe named their kid that way, that would be a give-away for a nationalistic/conservative ideology. Though Atreides obviously is from Dune lol
Funnily enough, I was talking with my kid yesterday how my parents almost named me Levi and was joking how I could just force people to call me Leviathan instead.
If I had been named Triniteigh I would have legally changed my name as soon as I was old enough. That's an atrocity of a name. Some are so funny they circle back around to something that would at least be interesting to have as a name (Raddix Zephyr is dumb but in more of a fun way, and I would genuinely not mind being named Leviathan), but Triniteigh is just so, so bad.
As someone whose name is an odd spelling that is close to something more conventional, life can be taxing. I'm not saying that there isn't room for creativity or fun/romantic name choices here. But Triniteigh's Parents are setting their kid up for a lifetime of bullying and inconvenience, followed by the shock of their kid going to the courthouse at 30 to undo things.
They're not exactly known for their smarts. The only musician who was both a genius and would write a song called "Slice of Your Pie" was Frank Zappa. They only achieved the latter.
Of all the names on the list, Leazel is absolutely killing me. Everytime I think it I'm laughing again. A little disappointed but you're probably right - it's meant to be Lae'zel.
Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides - I literally laughed my ass of. "SFWA, don't touch that". Once I heard a mom calling her little "Riddick", I couldn't control myself either. My daughter had a little chubby in her class, his name was "Maxxx", yeah, with three "x". (Wasn't there a comic or something called that way back??) I maybe shouldn't laugh so loud, our daughters second name is "Galadriel". But our names were so boring.
My first name is pretty uncommon for girls, but I am the only guy I know bearing my first name. I get misgendered a lot that way. Nobody who reads it pronounces it correctly. Nobody who hears it spells it correctly. It's frustrating sometimes.
I am comfortable disclosing that my middle name is Michael. It narrows my identity down so very little because it was the most common English boys name every year from 1961 to 1998 and was a top 10 boys name every year from 1943 to 2004.
So common is it that the Japanese punk band Peelander-Z made a song in 2009 called "So Many Mike," poking fun at the phenomenon.
So to avoid confusion, I use my middle name when I'm out.
For a bounty hunter? Definitely. For shift supervisor at the run-down Walgreens on the shitty side of town in Des Moines next to a Matress Firm and the CBD shop? Less so.
Okay, but Raddix Zephyr and Leviathan are fucking cool names. Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides could be if you split it among like, two kids instead of one.
As someone with a name that is a slight variation in spelling and pronunciation of a common name, I'm so tired of explaining that don't even correct people about it anymore. Please name your kid something fucking normal.
A lot of these people grew up being called "The Black Kim" or "The Fat Jessica" because there are only so many standard names. Think about what that does your self esteem? All of your experience is summed up as "Fat Jessica" for the entirety of your formative years.
Further, I am one of 15 people in my company with the same first name, and 3 of which have the same first name, last name. I spent easily an hour per pay period forwarding emails to the correct parties.
I work in youth therapy. These are exactly the kind of names I regularly see on admit forms. Not saying it's a direct cause, but theres a lot of coincidences when looking at youth therapy cases as a whole.
I thought "Raddix Zephyr" might've been inspired by the sorting algorithm, but that's not the name of its creator nor the algorithm, which is actually spelled "Radix".
All those -eigh names are pretty funny though. Your kid ain't a horse! It's not gonna neigh!
And I thought my idea of naming my kid Asrah was already pretty out there lol
And this, kind people of Lemmy, is why these names are bully-bait. Grade-schoolers are gonna figure that one out in the first week, and these kids are gonna go home in tears. Doubly so if the teacher is an idiot, and points out the odd spelling while taking attendance (the kids probably wouldn't know otherwise).
Ngl, I find some of these Hella cute. But I'm also someone who loves creative/unique names (to a point). I don't like offensive/obvious sponsorship/stupid joke names (the infamous "Ladasha" spelled "La-A" or "Absidy" spelled "ABCDE")
But I think Rocklyn and Brexleigh are adorable names for little girls! I'd probably spell it Brexley though.
Then again, when I was growing up I liked the name "Huxley' as a gender-neutral name for a future child, so, do with that what you will
Huh. I didn't know Brooklyn meant that. 5 year old me was definitely a fan of naming my Barbies "Brook", so I've suffered a lack of taste since the beginning it seems 😂
Haha bruh that's aight. I'm actually a treasure trove of traits to make fun of!
Fortunately I'm child-free so no human ever has to bear the weight of my creative naming conventions...only my D&D/RP/Video Game characters have to suffer.
ok so uh, how the fuck do you pronounce the one with the X though? breckslee, or braelee.
Rocklyn is in a similar vein imo. Although in that case, they're both concoctions of what are individually bad names. Brayden, and haley. Rebecca, and whatever the fuck else terrible name you wanna pick.
london would be the equivalent to america though. And i mean, in some capacity, that is kind of a name, miss america for instance. Still pretty silly to use because it's a bad name but wouldnt the equivalent here be memey slang? Or is that lisbon, im not EU pilled. Lisbon is a terrible name honestly.
I'd totally get it if you were complaining about terrible misappropriation of foreign cultures... But you're all complaining about the name itself and the spelling. God forbid someone move from a place where that pronunciation is fine, or they want to pay homage to their Welsh grandparent or something. FFS take a look in the mirror, and think about the etymology of your own name.
Lol honestly I wouldn't even mind. Where I grew up, that'd be a pretty cool name as a kid. Maybe not as an adult, but most adults I know can keep that shit to themselves.
I mean, hippie culture used names like "summer" and "rain" which are bonkers but we got used to it.
I watched an interview with someone who was named after a car part and they said it was fairly common, but I can't find that interview to figure out what country it was anymore.
Old names that span cultures often have wildly different spellings, or pronunciations that don't seem to make sense in English (like pretty much any Celtic name). It's one thing to appropriate that culture, it's another thing to say that names taken or derived from that culture are stupid. People move. People have parents or grandparents from other places. I don't think it's reasonable to say the name is bad just because it's spelled unusually or is something that isn't typically a name where we live.
Why is it better if a name is an English word? In fact isn't that exactly why you're saying they're terrible names?
And it's cute that you think those names fell out of fashion because they're "bad" and that they won't be back in a couple generation along with all the names that were popular at the same time as those ones.
In the meantime, why don't we shit on names like "john" which is a stupid misspelling of the original Yohanan?
Like... I agree they're bad. But mostly because people are just stealing little snippets of cultures they know nothing about, just to make their kids names unique.
I don't think there is anything wrong with a unique name, but don't make a mockery of another culture in the attempt.
But probably avoid names that rhyme with dirty words...
idk, i think it's productive to make fun of names from time to time, i think we attach to them too much. It's definitely too much to make fun of people with bad names though.
There are definitely a lot of other names in other cultures, but i would need some genuine context before hand. Otherwise im just going to assume it isn't a real name, because people have a weird propensity to just fucking lie all the time for some reason.
I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
What a tragedeigh
Or tragideh if you're Canadian
Is there a similar community for these here on lemmy?
Start one, call it lemmeigh
Brilleighant.
As you wish:
https://lemm.ee/c/lemmeigh
(Though I have no experience, does anybody have tips or something for running a community?)
I just made one. Idk how to link it but you can find it on my profile.
This one is truly a... Mystereigh
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
This one is truly a... Mystereigh
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
You're just sentencing your child to forever have to spell out their name to strangers
Meh, depending on the last name that might happen anyway. I just spell out my last name by default now.
Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations
“It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”
It doesn't even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American
Reminds me of the article about black Americans visiting Africa and being devastated that they weren't "welcomed home" but rather just treated as visiting American tourists.
It's cute
I worked under someone at an old job who named his son Jaxon. And kept pictures Jaxon drew and signed on the wall of his office. So every time I needed something from him, I would have to see Jaxon's name in his office. And I hated it.
Was his middle name Mississippi?
Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?
I have no idea.
We might have the same employer! Or at least I hope so, I can't imagine two different sets of parents deciding that "Jackson" is just too boring
It was a long time ago and he quit before I did, so doubtful.
honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.
Did Jaxon have cybernetic arms?
It reminds Big Literacy that they can't control our minds
Because you hate your child but don't believe in abortion. Just yesterday, I avoided spelling my preferred email on a phone call because a company already had a different address on file.
Ex and I once joked about this subject. We decided it'd be funny to named an unwanted child Paisley.
Mike Hawk
Jenna Talya
Or just James, but spelled Chaymz
To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh
Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!
I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay
But the pronunciation of Triniteigh would have the sound like "neighbor" so wouldn't be said like Trinity (tee)..
Not necessarily. Think Leigh and its relatives (e.g., Ashleigh, Kayleigh, Charleigh*)
*made that one up but still,
Um, I had someone in my class named Kayleigh, and it was indeed pronounced Kay-lay. I pronounce all these like "lay", I don't understand the example.
Hm. In my experience, -eigh has always been pronounced -ee. In most cases, Leigh is a homophone of Lee, as it comes from an English word meaning “meadow”, and you’ll find many pronunciation guides that confirm this. Not that I find it all that intuitive, I would have assumed it to be pronounced -lay myself, like sleigh or eight. English is dumb like that, and if you or anyone else wants to pronounce it -lay, nothing should stop you.
Actually
it's pronounced Trinitay
genuinely, i think committing crimes against parents of those names should be legal, to a degree.
It's actually fucking obtuse.
I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.
It's to add a little uniqueness, and avoid them being the 14th Erica in the classroom, but not going so far as to not give them one of the "normal" names.
Or they just think it looks prettier. It doesn't have to be about accomplishing something beyond "I like how that looks".
I feel like "my child will be burdened by this for the rest of their life" wins over "it looks cool"
You'd be surprised how little it actually matters. It just means they have to spell it for people occasionally.
My name isn't common here, but it's also perfectly well known and spelled in the traditional sense.
I have to spell it for people, and often use a middle name for takeout orders. That's about the extent of the burden of having an unusual name.
My last name is also perfectly common, and I need to spell it as well.
I've seen a lot more "burden" on people with alphabetically late names, since they often are last in line for stuff.
Fuck you Wolfgang Atreides is money. I'd follow that baby into battle.
Also, Leviathan? 100%. And my only problem with Dusti Rose is the "I".
Dusti Rose sounds like a matricidal professional wrestler.
Definitely a stripper name.
Or some telsel product
Gave me folk singer vibes
Yeah it made me think they wanted to name their son Dusty but had a girl, and tried to feminize it lol
Sounds like a bit actor for a Weight Watchers ad
Good luck following into battle an asthmatic baby armed with a mall katana who is easily felled by a whiff of peanuts
I'm all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?
I'm a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you're an author. Perfect compromise.
We gave our daughter a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant. We just wanted a name that wasn't religious but still normal enough that she wouldn't get bullied for it (she got bullied anyway). We realized later that it actually made sense in terms of her ancestry because her mother has a plant name, her grandmother has a plant name and her great-grandmother had a plant name. One long lineage of plant names.
Dude I see you around here on the regular, so I’ll mention that this is ironic for me to read this, because we also named our daughter an old, obscure but “real” name that is also a plant (a flower, specifically).
It’s from France, so I asked a French friend before using it if it was ok to use and not a weird name, and they said “sure it’s ok, but it’s like an old grandma’s name no one uses anymore.” And that’s when I knew it was the one!
Yep, that was basically our reasoning. Vintage name, so it's memorable, but not a weird one and spelled normally.
And absolutely not religious.
Wait, it's all bullying?
She was bullied for other reasons. Most significantly being as eccentric as her parents.
That does tend to happen to children that are half human and half flying squid
At least she can spray ink on her enemies and then fly away.
Good tactic for almost any situation in life imo
Honestly being bullied for a weird name just feels like victim blaming. It's just someone else's shitty behaviour we're expected to dance around? That was the one problem with the name.
I don't disagree, but it's also a parental responsibility, in my opinion, to help your child avoid bullying. It's not possible to avoid entirely, but there are definitely ways to make it worse. And a weird name is one of them.
Give a kid a weird name and the bully will pick on them but set a bully on fire... no... wait, I think I got that wrong.
It may be someone else’s problem, but as a parent , you should consider your child’s well being when naming them, and try to avoid obvious pitfalls
I mean yes obviously, but still. Just angering me we have to fight human shittiness with something like this
Always has been.
Describing it like that makes it really tempting to try and guess the name. Out of respect for your and her privacy, I won't, though.
Okay, I admit it. Her name is Cannabis Indica.
What an awful parent you are, doxxing your own kid on the internet!
Never post while high.
Same boat. I think I guessed it, and it's absolutely killing me knowing I'll never know if I'm right. But also, my brain itch doesn't trump doxxing a person (or even a squid) or their kid.
Ngl having "Wolfgang" as an example for a weird name was really strange to read for me… but I'm German.
It's a pretty common practice where I live for a kid to be named after someone for their first name, but go by their middle name. So I think it's perfectly fine to have one normal name and one weird name in any order.
A. John Smith is an accountant. Atreyu J. Smith is a musician who wears leather pants and some sort of studded headband.
Let me introduce you to Marijuana Pepsi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck
The kicker is her parents and siblings have normal names.
If someone with a brand name… name… starts a same-industry business in their name, or offers a scholarship for nazis, I wonder what kind of recourse the original brand has.
Now I'm really curious about how people call her in day-to-day life.
That may be one case where a non medical PhD would be justified in just going by Doc
mari, or mary.
Imagine you're a seven years old little fat kid and your name is Leviathan
That one I actually like. It's easy to short it to Levi in public, but still be able to flex among friends.
I guess if everyone has a weird name, that doesn't matter. Maybe kids don't make fun of weird names anymore. Who knows, maybe it's the Johns and Marys who get made fun of for having uninteresting names.
My name is a standard name, but super uncommon here. It's not that bad, since I got picked on about as much as anyone else. It's not like they won't just because your name is unremarkable.
Narcissism
If you don't get bullied for your name, you'll just get bullied for something else. At least with the name you can blame it on your parents, maybe. Kids are assholes.
Ok but Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides goes pretty hard.
Well, it TRIES pretty hard 😜
Except a kid like that automatically has a free pass for eternally being pissed about their father and their father before them not also having had that name so they could be "... the third'!
But now they can yell "I am Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides, First of my name"!
Definitely has some Rogue Trader energy to it.
I'm not one to judge parents baby names, but Merricka??
Fuck yeah!
🫡🦅🍔
Can't forget 🔫
I was considering it, but didn't wanna shoot the burger.
I heard so much racism/making fun about black names growing up, but like, white people names are some of the absolute goofiest shit I've ever heard.
This one makes Jesus cry.
i'm so fucking happy sweden has laws preventing this stuff, names here have to be approved as not causing undue harm to the child
Personally, I prefer names that are forbidden, like Username, Null, Admin, 'SELECT * FROM Users;-- , [email protected], Error, ,
Exploits of a mom
Found the Microsoft employee.
Ok Elon
ah yes, the classic admin, or my personal favorite. [insert product name here]
Do these parents not realise that they are naming real humans that will also be adults one day? Like, just imagine a grown-ass woman named "Brexleigh".
If I was a primary school kid with a classmate named brexliegh you can bet your ass I'd be calling them brexit
If I had a friend right now with that name, I'd be calling them Brexit. Would fit right in with Charles Barkley, Dick Towers, Mr. Toast, and Lexicon.
This is our future, I'm afraid.
My friends daughter is Braxleigh, I laugh when I imagine being 60 and filling out AARP paperwork with the name Braxleigh
Some of these names sound like those brands you only ever find on Amazon
Amazon barely even does brand names now.
A baby name from Amazon would be like "BABY CHILD YOUTH LIL ADULT 6LB 7LB 8LB DOCTOR OLYMPICS ATHLETE FAMOUS TALL INDOOR OUTDOOR EASY TO CLEAN CUTE COLLECTIBLE FAMILY 3-PACK"
Sold by Nrnrnrg, a small "Ukrainian"* family owned company trusted for generations, established last week!
*designed in the Ukraine but assembled and shipped by our "trusted Chinese partners"**.
** partnership also first formed last week, sight unseen.
But also sold by OMNIX and some other company called XENKO. And they're using the same product picture. Weird, right?
The "6LB 7LB 8LB" bit broke me, congratulations with a hearthy laugh.
Don't forget weird ASCII symbols.
“Introducing our daughter, Kaeighleigh Pooplunch”
It's a child not a vanity plate
What irks me the most is the effort these idiot parents will go to give their baby as basic a name as "Allison" or "Ashley"
No amount of vowels is going to make your kid's name stand out when at the end of the day it's the same pronunciation as the most common, basic form of it.
Mötley might be weird but it's at least unique.
Sigurd. Felix. Wolfgang. Atreides. No one can mess with that mf.
There was a missing child report near me whose name was Mill'ionaire.
I have a half-baked outline for a character who goes by C. M. Mil’naire and is really embarrassed about the fact that his full name is actually Cash Money Mil’naire. I have no idea how to use him, but I love him too much to not keep around.
A shady merchant that arrives just when the main character needs help would work.
Well some of these will not require your daughter to think of her stripper name.
I've always felt like the names we pick for ourselves ought to be more valid than the ones others choose for us. We should choose names for ourselves at different stages of life, and just tack them on in whatever order we like. You want something more fun than mummy and daddy gave you? Knock yourself out. Were your idiot parents drunk when they signed the papers? Well you can fix that at 12 if you like. We are who we choose to be and this the goddamn future.
My daughter has a friend named Hayley. She is not amused when I spell it heighleigh
My daughter's two best friends are Isabella and Felix, so she lucked out on that front.
... Felix is the trans guy, right? Felix seems very much like the name a trans boy would pick out for himself, lol.
Yep. That's Felix. I don't even know his deadname. I think my daughter told me once because the school deadnamed him over the announcements and she didn't know they were talking about him.
It makes me think of Felix the Cat, which is not an insult. I like Felix the Cat. Dude knows how to party.
i feel like i've just witnessed something which i don't have the context to, and should.
I dont know how to feel about this interaction.
Squid has mentioned Squidling's trans friend in other comments.
I'm a transgender man who also picked a "popular in Europe, not in the US" name, and names popular for trans people is a running joke in the trans community. When I came out, Aiden/Kayden/Jayden were the ones that everyone joked about being popular, and then it was the "drowned Victorian child" names, now it's Elliot and a few others I can't remember right now (and for trans women, my support group back in the day had a half dozen Jen/Jenny/Jennifers and now the popular trans femme name is probably Emily). And non-binary people stereotypically pick nouns, Target's pride collection had some stuff by someone who picked the name Bird.
ah ok, thanks for the context, i figured it must've been mentioned somewhere else, just haven't seen it.
If you pick out Felix for yourself, you're definetly a furry
You’re gonna look me in the eyes and tell me Raddix isn’t straight fire?
Raddix Zephyr is def the name of the protagonist in a JRPG.
Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides is for sure the Prince in an Isekai anime.
Such a weird mishmash of German, Latin and Greek, although Felix is extremely common in Germany too. Sigurd isn't though, that's some old germanic kinda name, like Æthelwulf in the anglosphere.
If someone in central Europe named their kid that way, that would be a give-away for a nationalistic/conservative ideology. Though Atreides obviously is from Dune lol
Japanese authors live off that kind of cringy mishmash
Forget the Coyote Bao, I'll have the Æthelwolf Wellington
Agreed, but not with that middle name.
Funnily enough, I was talking with my kid yesterday how my parents almost named me Levi and was joking how I could just force people to call me Leviathan instead.
My nephew is named Levi and I 100% plan on calling him Leviathan when he's a bit older. I hope my brother hates it! Haha
Sounds like a gender neutral name for a crunchy red root vegetable to me.
For an action movie protagonist? Sure. For an actual human being that didn't choose it? Hell no.
Drop a D and you’ve got the raddest (pun) software engineer that’ll ever grace this earth
The nicknames write themselves
Yes. It's either a plant, a foodstuff or a mathematical concept, none of which invoke the idea of "person".
Unfortunately for you, I’ve made a meme where you’re the Soyjak and I’m the Chad, checkmate
Naming your child after the number of unique digits in a number system sure sounds fire, ig.
If I had been named Triniteigh I would have legally changed my name as soon as I was old enough. That's an atrocity of a name. Some are so funny they circle back around to something that would at least be interesting to have as a name (Raddix Zephyr is dumb but in more of a fun way, and I would genuinely not mind being named Leviathan), but Triniteigh is just so, so bad.
People really took "video game name genrator" to the real world.
Leviathan is awesome. I'd trade that for my common but bad name.
Many people dislike their own names, but I think SomeGuy69 is an awesome name, too. Cheer up!
That would be some next level approach. Love this idea.
Leviathan is terrible. What if your kid is chubby? They'd be bullied to no end
They'd be bullied regardless ;)
Levi for short.
Too awesome for FF16
Tyranids approve
Dusti Rose sounds like a 40 year old chain smoker that looks 65
Why would you name your kid that
Agreed. Mötley can stay.
As someone whose name is an odd spelling that is close to something more conventional, life can be taxing. I'm not saying that there isn't room for creativity or fun/romantic name choices here. But Triniteigh's Parents are setting their kid up for a lifetime of bullying and inconvenience, followed by the shock of their kid going to the courthouse at 30 to undo things.
To be fair, Leviathan is a banger middle name. Plus you can be called Levi for short :)
Madden Raige.
Lmao. Accidentally named your kid into a contract with Khorne.
As society progresses, baby names reduce in degrees of separation from the Warhammer 40K universe.
My firstborn will be called Everliving Eternal Guide of the Greater Galactic Human Empire, on the off chance it could be important.
Either that or a career in the roller derby.
Good
Coyote Bao just sounds like a health code violation lmao
I give it about a 98,5% chance, that the ones wanting to name their kid "Mötley", have no clue how "ö" is actually pronounced.
True, but neither did Mötley Crüe.
Depends on the language, though they'll probably pronounce it in a way disregarding every language with ö's rules.
Whenever I read Mötley Crüe I have to think of this:
Source
They're not exactly known for their smarts. The only musician who was both a genius and would write a song called "Slice of Your Pie" was Frank Zappa. They only achieved the latter.
Umm... Brian May.
I don't know, that's a pretty American-sounding dirty song title for Brian May. He'd call it something like 'a bite of your biscuit.'
Soggy biscuit
Sigurd Atreides sounds cool enough but they went and jazzed it up.
Mericka is 1000% getting bullied in every single grade
Did r/tragedeigh make the jump yet? If not this would be a good first post
What, there's a misspelling of Lae'zel but no Kerlack? Boo!
..or maybe someone suggested Karlach and she didn't include it because it's a list of BAD name suggestions 🤔
Exactly. Karlach definitely goes on the "best baby names" list.
I work with a woman whose name is very close to Jaheira. It's kinda kick-ass actually.
Of all the names on the list, Leazel is absolutely killing me. Everytime I think it I'm laughing again. A little disappointed but you're probably right - it's meant to be Lae'zel.
My sister named her baby “Ecks-Fourmerlee-Twittre”
I have a hard time believing that.
raddix.
Where my radix sort homies at?
leazel sounds like a pokemon ngl, it's kinda sick.
I refuse to beleive Madden Raige is real.
Rage generated from playing Madden is certainly real
Do Americans have an equivalent of FIFA "sweaty goals" in Madden?
My friend likes to join these groups and just throw shitty names and watch people go "Omg so cute 😍😍😍"
Mad enrage, Made in Rage(sounds like angry/revenge sex to me)?
Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides - I literally laughed my ass of. "SFWA, don't touch that". Once I heard a mom calling her little "Riddick", I couldn't control myself either. My daughter had a little chubby in her class, his name was "Maxxx", yeah, with three "x". (Wasn't there a comic or something called that way back??) I maybe shouldn't laugh so loud, our daughters second name is "Galadriel". But our names were so boring.
My first name is pretty uncommon for girls, but I am the only guy I know bearing my first name. I get misgendered a lot that way. Nobody who reads it pronounces it correctly. Nobody who hears it spells it correctly. It's frustrating sometimes.
I am comfortable disclosing that my middle name is Michael. It narrows my identity down so very little because it was the most common English boys name every year from 1961 to 1998 and was a top 10 boys name every year from 1943 to 2004.
So common is it that the Japanese punk band Peelander-Z made a song in 2009 called "So Many Mike," poking fun at the phenomenon.
So to avoid confusion, I use my middle name when I'm out.
Coyote Bao is pretty badsss actually
For a bounty hunter? Definitely. For shift supervisor at the run-down Walgreens on the shitty side of town in Des Moines next to a Matress Firm and the CBD shop? Less so.
That walgreens would be off the fucken hook. Only pharmacy that also stocks street drugs and ammo.
definitely a furry screen name.
That's the worst part.
brb changing all my socials
uh oh. What did i miss?
I'd order a Coyote Bao if I saw it on the menu
Would it be a drink or dim sum?
Bao like the Asian bakery food? Seems confused to me.
Is Mötley's last name "Crüe"?
Leazel sounds like a fine name ngl, but others lol
That's the lady from Baldur's Gate who looks like the Grinch
My first thought too, but misspelled which somehow makes it worse
Nah it sounds like a knock off Pokemon. Like something from palworld
Leazel the Weasel
Leaz the sleeze
Come on, man. Mötley is a metal name. Literally. I'd love to be named Mötley. Especially if it came with the umlaut like it's supposed to.
Well, there was Liesl Von Trapp. Maybe they just didn't bother to check the spelling.
I hate that my comments often are about US culture but damn, almost none of them would be legal to give to your child here in Germany
Goddamn, the Germans pass laws like the French count.
idk if thats how passing laws works in germany, but i can definitely confirm that the french do count.
Dusti Rose sounds like a Sonic Prime character (Rusty Rose)
Or the daughter of wrestler Dusty Rhodes
Pro wrestlers famously pass on their first name to their progeny, so as to not fuck up the kayfabe.
It's a porno name
Didn't some celebrity just name their kid Raddix?
I just Googled it, it was Cameron Diaz.
When I hear Raddix, I think Raditz from DBZ.
Edit: Wait, Leviathan? Oh, so does this mean the name Behemoth is back on the table?
I once met a kid named Odin. Absolute banger of a name.
Half of these sound like Elden Ring boss names
These are starting to sound like dark souls bosses
Parents with undiagnosed learning disorders will create children with learning disorders.
These are all amazing FFXIV pc names but not real names
Okay, but Raddix Zephyr and Leviathan are fucking cool names. Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides could be if you split it among like, two kids instead of one.
I highly agree with how they do it in Iceland. There is a list of 3000 or so names that you can pick from, that's it.
Dumb people should not be allowed to pick names for human beings.
As someone with a name that is a slight variation in spelling and pronunciation of a common name, I'm so tired of explaining that don't even correct people about it anymore. Please name your kid something fucking normal.
Look out for Madden Raige playing EA sports on Xbox Live in about 12 years
This is why I don't have complaints about the naming law in my country
When you pressing random name button 56 times during character generation
All a bit rich coming from someone named 'Henny '
Considering her name being Henny Gesserit she just might be Wolfgang Atreides' older sister...
Maybe she's a chicken.
Probably short for something like Henrietta, tho based on her handle she may go by Didi and there’s no telling what that’s shortened from.
That’s 100% not her name
We really need to revive The Name Of The Year bracket. That was a hidden internet gem.
That's a lot of y's
Sigurd is good but they took it too far with the middle names.
ITT: the very people the xeet is about
Leviathan is just fucking awesome. Imagine some big power lifter dude and he's named Leviathan.
"Cool, but what's his real name?"
"That IS his real name"
"Nayeli Pixie" is definitely a misspelled stripper name though.
Well at least now i have a good amount of names to use in a TTRPG campain
Merricka was someone mishearing her their boyfriend talking about elden ring
Leviathan seems to stand out.
i cannot imagine the jokes and innuendos that's gonna be made on the kid due to the name.
I’m guessing that Brexleigh’s parents are British and get their news from tabloid newspapers.
So how many of these people are Mormon?
How many of these? No idea. How many in general? 100% too many.
A lot of these people grew up being called "The Black Kim" or "The Fat Jessica" because there are only so many standard names. Think about what that does your self esteem? All of your experience is summed up as "Fat Jessica" for the entirety of your formative years.
Further, I am one of 15 people in my company with the same first name, and 3 of which have the same first name, last name. I spent easily an hour per pay period forwarding emails to the correct parties.
I get the concept but it's a bit too far.
Mötleys parents called the elder brother Richard
Muttley, you snickering, floppy-eared hound!
When courage is needed, you're never around!
Those medals you wear on your moth-eaten chest
Should be there for bungling, at which you are best.
I'm going to give you the only name you spelled right on this list! Max Power
I work in youth therapy. These are exactly the kind of names I regularly see on admit forms. Not saying it's a direct cause, but theres a lot of coincidences when looking at youth therapy cases as a whole.
Hudson-Adonis seems pretty cool. It also isn't spelled retarded.
Hudson is pretty cool
Adonis is a loaded name destining the kid for bullying and therapy, unless he really is God’s gift to women
I know of an Adonis. Skinny gay kid that was really into gymnastics and choir. He went by his middle name, don't remember what it was.
this comment is like the preamble to an entire novel.
I thought "Raddix Zephyr" might've been inspired by the sorting algorithm, but that's not the name of its creator nor the algorithm, which is actually spelled "Radix".
All those -eigh names are pretty funny though. Your kid ain't a horse! It's not gonna neigh!
And I thought my idea of naming my kid Asrah was already pretty out there lol
And this, kind people of Lemmy, is why these names are bully-bait. Grade-schoolers are gonna figure that one out in the first week, and these kids are gonna go home in tears. Doubly so if the teacher is an idiot, and points out the odd spelling while taking attendance (the kids probably wouldn't know otherwise).
I see there are people who think they are on a character creation screen while others just don't think at all.
Honestly I find most of them pretty cool.
I mean, that's also how now commonly accepted names came into being in the first place.
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Ngl, I find some of these Hella cute. But I'm also someone who loves creative/unique names (to a point). I don't like offensive/obvious sponsorship/stupid joke names (the infamous "Ladasha" spelled "La-A" or "Absidy" spelled "ABCDE")
But I think Rocklyn and Brexleigh are adorable names for little girls! I'd probably spell it Brexley though.
Then again, when I was growing up I liked the name "Huxley' as a gender-neutral name for a future child, so, do with that what you will
Rocklyn sounds too much like Brooklyn (which some people also name their kids unfortunately) and Brexley sounds like Brexit.
Rocklin is also a popular neighborhood in Oakland
What’s wrong with the name Brooklyn?
For one thing, it means "broken land."
Huh. I didn't know Brooklyn meant that. 5 year old me was definitely a fan of naming my Barbies "Brook", so I've suffered a lack of taste since the beginning it seems 😂
/"marshland", which would give a whole new relevance to getting "swampy".
Oof were making fun of you. Sorry.
Haha bruh that's aight. I'm actually a treasure trove of traits to make fun of!
Fortunately I'm child-free so no human ever has to bear the weight of my creative naming conventions...only my D&D/RP/Video Game characters have to suffer.
ok so uh, how the fuck do you pronounce the one with the X though? breckslee, or braelee.
Rocklyn is in a similar vein imo. Although in that case, they're both concoctions of what are individually bad names. Brayden, and haley. Rebecca, and whatever the fuck else terrible name you wanna pick.
A dry dick?
tf is so bad about Dusti Rose?
How is Deegan weird? It is an old Irish surname, and it is even spelled correctly.
O'Shaughnessy is also an old Irish surname. Do you think it would make a good first name?
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If it was the first time being used then it would be strange, but Deegan is a boy's name with a long history. It means "dark haired".
how many kids with dark hair are named deegan you think?
Also, imagine naming your kid after the color of their hair, truly the most creative of decisions.
Textbook strawman lol
I know loads of Deegan families, but it would be a strange choice of first name...
White people finally figuring out what names are for... https://youtube.com/watch?v=63ldknEhOMM
All these names are awesome, I don’t know what they’re on about
ah yes, love naming my kid after the commonly memed homophone of murica.
lol why not? Is it any better than London or Lisbon?
london would be the equivalent to america though. And i mean, in some capacity, that is kind of a name, miss america for instance. Still pretty silly to use because it's a bad name but wouldnt the equivalent here be memey slang? Or is that lisbon, im not EU pilled. Lisbon is a terrible name honestly.
God y'all have no chill.
I'd totally get it if you were complaining about terrible misappropriation of foreign cultures... But you're all complaining about the name itself and the spelling. God forbid someone move from a place where that pronunciation is fine, or they want to pay homage to their Welsh grandparent or something. FFS take a look in the mirror, and think about the etymology of your own name.
They're only stupid because you're not used to them.
Some names in other English speaking cultures sound wild to us. Why should we care?
Found Raddix Zephyr
Lol honestly I wouldn't even mind. Where I grew up, that'd be a pretty cool name as a kid. Maybe not as an adult, but most adults I know can keep that shit to themselves.
Adults that keep their names to themselves?
Yeah, it’s pretty badass. I sure wouldn’t name my kid that, but in abstract, it’s dope.
Such as?
I mean, hippie culture used names like "summer" and "rain" which are bonkers but we got used to it.
I watched an interview with someone who was named after a car part and they said it was fairly common, but I can't find that interview to figure out what country it was anymore.
Old names that span cultures often have wildly different spellings, or pronunciations that don't seem to make sense in English (like pretty much any Celtic name). It's one thing to appropriate that culture, it's another thing to say that names taken or derived from that culture are stupid. People move. People have parents or grandparents from other places. I don't think it's reasonable to say the name is bad just because it's spelled unusually or is something that isn't typically a name where we live.
yeah, but the difference here is that summer and rain were actual words. And that nobody uses them today, because they're terrible names.
Why is it better if a name is an English word? In fact isn't that exactly why you're saying they're terrible names?
And it's cute that you think those names fell out of fashion because they're "bad" and that they won't be back in a couple generation along with all the names that were popular at the same time as those ones.
In the meantime, why don't we shit on names like "john" which is a stupid misspelling of the original Yohanan?
probably beacuse im an english speaker growing up in america. Cognitive bias and all that.
I'm sure they'll be back later, i'll still hate them just a little though.
Like... I agree they're bad. But mostly because people are just stealing little snippets of cultures they know nothing about, just to make their kids names unique.
I don't think there is anything wrong with a unique name, but don't make a mockery of another culture in the attempt.
But probably avoid names that rhyme with dirty words...
idk, i think it's productive to make fun of names from time to time, i think we attach to them too much. It's definitely too much to make fun of people with bad names though.
There are definitely a lot of other names in other cultures, but i would need some genuine context before hand. Otherwise im just going to assume it isn't a real name, because people have a weird propensity to just fucking lie all the time for some reason.