Sigurd. Felix. Wolfgang. Atreides. No one can mess with that mf.
Well some of these will not require your daughter to think of her stripper name.
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?
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.
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.
Narcissism
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.
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.
Now I’m really curious about how people call her in day-to-day life.
mari, or mary.
That may be one case where a non medical PhD would be justified in just going by Doc
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’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.
Ngl having “Wolfgang” as an example for a weird name was really strange to read for me… but I’m German.
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.
a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant
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.
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.
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
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.
Always has been.
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.
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.
Leazel sounds like a fine name ngl, but others lol
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.
Leazel the Weasel
Leaz the sleeze
Nah it sounds like a knock off Pokemon. Like sometime from palworld
That’s the lady from Baldur’s Gate who looks like the Grinch
My first thought too, but misspelled which somehow makes it worse
Well, there was Liesl Von Trapp. Maybe they just didn’t bother to check the spelling.
Parents with undiagnosed learning disorders will create children with learning disorders.
White while, hol grail
I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
genuinely, i think committing crimes against parents of those names should be legal, to a degree.
It’s actually fucking obtuse.
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.
To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh
Payniese
Mike Hawk
Jenna Talya
Or just James, but spelled Chaymz
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.
I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay
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.
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.
honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.
Did Jaxon have cybernetic arms?
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.
Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?
I have no idea.
Was his middle name Mississippi?
I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.
Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations
“It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”
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
It doesn’t even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American
It reminds Big Literacy that they can’t control our minds
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.
Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!
What a tragedeigh
Is there a similar community for these here on lemmy?
Start one, call it lemmeigh
As you wish:
(Though I have no experience, does anybody have tips or something for running a community?)
Brilleighant.
I just made one. Idk how to link it but you can find it on my profile.
Or tragideh if you’re Canadian
Actually
it’s pronounced Trinitay
I refuse to beleive Madden Raige is real.
Mad enrage, Made in Rage(sounds like angry/revenge sex to me)?
My friend likes to join these groups and just throw shitty names and watch people go “Omg so cute 😍😍😍”
Rage generated from playing Madden is certainly real
Do Americans have an equivalent of FIFA “sweaty goals” in Madden?
They’re only stupid because you’re not used to them.
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.
Yeah, it’s pretty badass. I sure wouldn’t name my kid that, but in abstract, it’s dope.
Adults that keep their names to themselves?
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.
So how many of these people are Mormon?
How many of these? No idea. How many in general? 100% too many.
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!
Leviathan is terrible. What if your kid is chubby? They’d be bullied to no end
They’d be bullied regardless ;)
Levi for short.
I’d probably be clever about it if I were the parent, like giving the (old but otherwise normal) first name of Levi and a middle name of like Nathan or Ethan to let the kid come up with the nickname of Leviathan on their own.
That would be some next level approach. Love this idea.
I’m not one to judge parents baby names, but Merricka??
🫡🦅🍔
Can’t forget 🔫
I was considering it, but didn’t wanna shoot the burger.
Fuck yeah!
Well at least now i have a good amount of names to use in a TTRPG campain
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?
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
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I know loads of Deegan families, but it would be a strange choice of first name…
Half of these sound like Elden Ring boss names
