9mo ago

Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name.

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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?
  
  This one is truly a... Mystereigh
- 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?
  
  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
  
  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,
- 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"

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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Now I'm really curious about how people call her in day-to-day life.
- 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 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.
- That "leigh" suffix got the caucasians in a chokehold 😂😂
- Alright Jay-Kwelin, sit down.
- Hey Wolfgang may be weird but leave little wolfy alone or he will bite
  
  The dog's name is Max. Your foster parents are dead.

Triniteigh
This one makes Jesus cry.
- *creigh
- Makes me cry too...
- Look, it's the holy Triniteight! Or something like that...
- I thought "mispellings of basic white girl names" are funny enough, but nope, we now have mispellings of words that are not even names. Triniteigh... What's next, Conflagurayshawn?
  
  Maybe the parents are Matrix fans
  
  Trinity's a common enough Christian name!
- It’s a real tragedeigh.

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
- I could see a system like that being used to racist ends in America. “Please select from the pre-approved list of biblical names”
  
  I'm having trouble finding articles about it because search engines have become terrible, but I've heard trans people talk about how the Swedish law has been used to transphobic ends (and, yes, racist ones too because common names in immigrant communities weren't on the list). There's few gender neutral names on the approved list and getting a gendered name approved for a name change is difficult and leaves the door open for outright transphobia - and legally changing your gender required surgical sterilization in Sweden up until the end of 2012.
  
  Spoiler alert: Swedes aren't above that
  
  The Nazis did it
  www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-nazis-used-personal-names-to-spawn-the-holocaust-1.5818120
  
  perhaps we have a list of "accepted variations of names" where that is what is legally recognized. Though the body will have to regulate it properly of course.
- I’m proud to be an American, where at least I can name my kids Yungblud Founding Father Lee Awesome. I won’t forget the Kanyes and Jason Lee’s who named their kids weirdly. And I’ll gladly stand up next to Pilot Inspektor and Jermajesty!
  Don’t mind me, I’m just the local idiot.
- I dated a girl from Sweden named Saga. You guys got awesome names.
  I should text her...
- Sounds pretty dumb, not gonna lie.
  Harm doesn't come from names, harms comes from people.
  Last thing I need is government regulation for naming my child. (It is very strictly regulated where I'm from. So a classroom of 30 kids has 6 "Johns")
  Every name was unique at some point.

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.
- This is our future, I'm afraid.

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.
  
  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
- no no you misunderstand, the child is the vanity plate for the parents.
- Well at this point they might be the weird one if they're named Anna.

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.
Mötley might be weird but it's at least unique.
- the canonical spelling is ashley btw.
  You spell it in any other fucking way and you should be inflicted with the curse of dyslexia for the rest of your livable life.
  
  "Ashleigh" is normal too and not a part of this modern spelling trend. For example, this one was born in 1912: https://olympics.com/en/athletes/ashleigh-gordon-pilbrow
- It's not unique at all, it's the first half of a shitty 80s cock rock band.
  
  An awesome shitty 80s cock rock band! (I adore that garbage)
- that's + auto suggest is a good way to avoid getting someone else's email at work. when I started at my new company of 300ish people there were 12 with my first 3letter name

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.

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.

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.
  
  Sorry Trayden xXx PuSSy SlAyer 42069 is taken. You'll have to pick another 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.
- 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.
- Mua'dib

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.

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.
  
  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.
- 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
- You could shorten it to rad, and call him rad dude.
  
  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.
- Just don't be morbidly obese if you're named Leviathan...
  
  That'll be a case of nominative determinism
  
  I mean being obese will result in a hard time growing up no matter what your name is let's be honest.
  
  Or Behemoth for that matter

Dusti Rose sounds like a 40 year old chain smoker that looks 65
Why would you name your kid that

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!
- 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.
- 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

People really took "video game name genrator" to the real world.

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

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.

Coyote Bao just sounds like a health code violation lmao

Whenever I read Mötley Crüe I have to think of this:
When we finally went to Germany, the crowds were chanting, “Mutley Cruh! Mutley Cruh! “ We couldn’t figure out why the fuck they were doing that.
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 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.

Mericka is 1000% getting bullied in every single grade

Sigurd Atreides sounds cool enough but they went and jazzed it up.
- The "Wolfgang" was a nice touch of ironic humour.
- i concur!

My sister named her baby “Ecks-Fourmerlee-Twittre”
- I have a hard time believing that.

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.

Did r/tragedeigh make the jump yet? If not this would be a good first post

raddix.
Where my radix sort homies at?
leazel sounds like a pokemon ngl, it's kinda sick.
- Leazel sound githyanki
  
  Almost like a githyanki fighter
- 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.
  
  maybe? Idk, im not german.

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.
- I mean, "Spicytuna" is traditionally a girls' name.
- Quis ut deus? That's Latin for Michael. "Who is as God?", asked in a menacingly manner, holding a flaming sword to strike down the unbelievers. That's the archangel Michael's job.

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.
- I'd order a Coyote Bao if I saw it on the menu
  
  Would it be a drink or dim sum?
- definitely a furry screen name.
  That's the worst part.
  
  brb changing all my socials
- Bao like the Asian bakery food? Seems confused to me.

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.

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

Half of these sound like Elden Ring boss names

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 have to think about Radix Sort when I read that name
- If it's a girl you could call her Behemothany!

I once met a kid named Odin. Absolute banger of a name.

These are all amazing FFXIV pc names but not real names

Parents with undiagnosed learning disorders will create children with learning disorders.

These are starting to sound like dark souls bosses

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.

Look out for Madden Raige playing EA sports on Xbox Live in about 12 years

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