People really took “video game name genrator” to the real world.
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?
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.
That may be one case where a non medical PhD would be justified in just going by Doc
mari, or mary.
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.
Narcissism
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.
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?
Always has been.
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
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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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Did r/tragedeigh make the jump yet? If not this would be a good first post
I made it!
come one, come all!
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.
Sigurd is good but they took it too far with the middle names.
It’s a little sus imo
Like naming your kid (or mercenaries) Wagner
Well Wagner is a surname, so you might associate it with a famous person, whereas Sigurd is just a normal first name.
For me, the Felix takes away the nazi allegations, since it’s a Roman name. But you never know.
Well, lots of mall Nazis are also fanboys of the Roman empire.
You’re right, I forgor Nazis defining trait is their stupidity. For me being proud of germanic/ Scandinavian stuff (Wolfgang/ Sigurd) would exclude being proud of Roman stuff. Because defying and defeating Rome is an important pillar of the German national mythos.
((Just in defence of the names Wolfgang and Sigurd, they are perfectly normal names when worn by a normal person))
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
Your kid ain’t a horse! It’s not gonna neigh!
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’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.
I wouldn’t trust the 12 years old me to decide a name for myself.
Yup. Looking back at my first email address, I’m glad I didn’t change my name.
Honestly, I think it would be fun to choose new names at various stages of life, adding them on as we age. If our parents aren’t going to take naming us seriously, why should we? So what if we have a dozen names we no longer use? It becomes a summary of who we were, how we came to be ourselves, a reminder of growing up.
Sorry Trayden xXx PuSSy SlAyer 42069 is taken. You’ll have to pick another name.
I wholly agree with your initial sentiment, although I envision it being structured differently. I think it makes sense for a person to have a name when they are growing, especially one given to you by your parents since they are (typically) a huge part of who you are at that point in your life.
But, no one stays who they are when they were 7, or 12, or 16. By the time they’re not a minor I would argue that they’re hardly the same person. Thus, I think it should be expected and tradition for people to change their name once they truly become individuals.
And I think it doesn’t even have to be a legal thing. Parents can just be like, “think about and pick your new name” and once the person decides, they (and everyone else they inform) just starts calling them that name.
I agree that there should be no need to make a legal name change. Likewise, it’s nobody’s business how many middle names we build up over our lives. If one of them is “Superman” from when we were six, nobody needs to know.
We really need to revive The Name Of The Year bracket. That was a hidden internet gem.
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.
Mericka is 1000% getting bullied in every single grade
Personally, I prefer names that are forbidden, like Username, Null, Admin, 'SELECT * FROM Users;-- , example@contoso.com, Error, <FirstName>,
ah yes, the classic admin, or my personal favorite. [insert product name here]
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Found the Microsoft employee.
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 🤔
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.
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.
Ok but Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides goes pretty hard.
Definitely has some Rogue Trader energy to it.
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”!
raddix.
Where my radix sort homies at?
leazel sounds like a pokemon ngl, it’s kinda sick.
I Think Leazel is a traditional German/Austrian name. Wasn’t one of the Von Trapp kids Leazel?
You are probably thinking of “Liesel” a diminutive of the name “Elisabeth”. Pronounciation is LEE-zəl, so maybe this is indeed some weird attempt to use a german name.
Ah-yep that’s what I’m thinking of. Thanks.
Lae’zel is a character in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Leazel sound githyanki
Is Mötley’s last name “Crüe”?
It’s actually Terry Crews’ youngest child.
I’ve got good money on both their last naming actually being Crew and them not knowing what motley means.
