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?
Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations
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?
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
I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay
Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!
Actually
it’s pronounced Trinitay
But the pronunciation of Triniteigh would have the sound like “neighbor” so wouldn’t be said like Trinity (tee)…
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Ok but Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides goes 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.
Triniteigh
This one makes Jesus cry.
*creigh
Makes me cry too…
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
It’s a real tragedeigh.
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.
It’s not unique at all, it’s the first half of a shitty 80s cock rock band.
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
Personally, I prefer names that are forbidden, like Username, Null, Admin, 'SELECT * FROM Users;-- , [email protected], Error, <FirstName>,
Found the Microsoft employee.
ah yes, the classic admin, or my personal favorite. [insert product name here]
Ok Elon
Sigurd. Felix. Wolfgang. Atreides. No one can mess with that mf.
Jean-Baptiste. Emmanuel. Zorg.
Praise Zorg
Not one not two not three, but four! Four stones!
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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.
Sounds like a gender neutral name for a crunchy red root vegetable to me.
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.
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.
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
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.
Sorry Trayden xXx PuSSy SlAyer 42069 is taken. You’ll have to pick another name.
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.
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
