I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
genuinely, i think committing crimes against parents of those names should be legal, to a degree.
It's actually fucking obtuse.
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.
Yeah it made me think they wanted to name their son Dusty but had a girl, and tried to feminize it lol
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.
She was bullied for other reasons. Most significantly being as eccentric as her parents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'!
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.
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;-- , example@contoso.com, Error, <FirstName>,
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.
My friends daughter is Braxleigh, I laugh when I imagine being 60 and filling out AARP paperwork with the name Braxleigh
A lot of these people grew up being call "The Bllack Kim" or "The Fat Jesse" because there are only so many standard names.
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?
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.
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.
... 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.
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.
Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides
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
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
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For an action movie protagonist? Sure. For an actual human being that didn't choose it? Hell no.
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.