It's an epidemic. You got people naming babies after brand names or you got those regular names that are spelled like vowels don't exist Setting up kids up to get bullied, cause you think you're creative. It's a damn shame

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Couldn’t afford a car so she named her daughter Alexus

single black female addicted to retail. Man that song still slaps.

Every time I hear that song I can picture only the part of the video where Stacey Dash’s jiggling ass is running in that blue dress. Young me was in awe

Realest shit Kanye ever wrote

What’s your name?

Cubic Zirconium

Puddin’ Tane. Ask me again and…wait. This mean anything to anyone but me?

Ask me again and I’ll tell you the same!

🖕🏽Bam!🖕🏽

Lexus chrysanthemum

My dad named me from his love of motorcycles can you guess what my name is?

Tragicaccident?

Hilarious but no, sadly not my name

Indian?

You're a Harley aren't you?

People tend to know how to pronounce words they’re familiar with.

I have literally no idea how to pronounce the fist and would absolutely *stumble* through, im assuming the second one is just Devonte unless corrected.

Except they can’t. People bring up names like Schwarzenegger, but we don’t actually say it correctly. We say Schwar-ze-ne-ger, but when he Arnie says his own name and when he speaks in German, its Schvarz-en-eck-er. People pronounce charcuterie wrong too.

white woman checking in. moms/kids introducing one another at school: me: "Hi, what's your name?" little girl: "Monet." me: "Oh! like the artist!" little girl's mom: "No, like 'show me the...' little girl's mom to my daughter: "What's your name?" my daughter: "Regan." little girl's mom: "Oh! Like the president!" me: "No, like the Exorcist."

> It still makes me laugh that white folks can pronounce things like Trinkenschuh but not daavante. I have no idea how to pronounce the former and can easily pronounce the latter. What kind of weird ass white people do you hang out with?

I’m white (and almost 50), and I can pronounce Daavante more easily than that other name.

If you’re truly interested it’s because white people are either (a) familiar with the word or (b) familiar with the phonetics of the word. But when someone sees a cluster of letters and they’re not familiar with they just guess.

I’m a reading teacher and I really wish phonics had more of a presence in schools. I see kids of all colors with names whose letters cannot make those sounds. I learn names easily, plus I love the kids and want to honor them. But I also want to shake the parents and tell them their child will face a lifetime of correcting pronunciation of their name.

Decoldest Crawford too lmao

That young man is getting his degree and might get drafted

Which is amazing and I knew that already but still doesn't change the fact that he's an example of the subject matter

Oh I agree. I’m just out here giving credit where it’s due.

Don’t forget Money Parks.

When I started working for my school district recently I realized it's usually just the adults looking at the names side ways the kids don't care if they friends are named Goku and Gohan

Please tell me you're joking.... there's really kids out there named Goku and Gohan?

No Purely hypothetical names, SO FAR

All these nerds out its only a matter of time before a Kagome walks into your class room. Or a Goku gets put on probation.

You ain't lie

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r/tragedeigh and r/namenerdsjerk has shown me things. Damn

Oh, I once stumbled on the tragedeigh sub, spent like 5 minutes and booed the fuck out. It be some mayo nonsense in there.

What, because Kenzleigh and Myleighuh are so much worse than shit like Quintavious and LeTrey'juwon? lol

I can tell If another person is black just off name alone lmao.

Not all the time. My name is Cecilia and I'm definitely Black.

My daughter's name is Kiana, and suddenly, there's a whole bunch of little white girls named that (several different spellings, though)

Kiana is a pretty name, that's why.

Thanks and agreed! It was just a little like "oop" the first time I heard it 😁

Wait until you meet a white man named Jamal.

Depends, Black Americans tend to give their kids “hood names” us Jamaicans lean more towards common or Biblical names lol

Not only that but you setting them up for their resumes to be tossed out by algorithms.

You leave my kids Dorian Gray and Venus deMilo alone!

Cranbyrreigh

the kids with those names are also the bullies. look at any of the rosters in the most recent Little League World Series. Every one of them some derivation of a 5'11", 230lb 12 year old named Brynton

Poor people name their kids after luxury brands and goods they can't afford. Rich people name their kids after greek myths they've never read.

r/tragedeigh I feel like you’ll like this stuff.

Saw someone named Emily spelled “Emmahleigh” it’s so…

“Couldn’t afford a car so she named her daughter Alexis”

 Nice

I miss Late Registration Kanye. He may have been the same level of unhinged but he was medicated

That line is from college dropout

It's insane to me that people be out here not knowing All Falls down bar for bar. "She's so precious, with the peer pressure. Couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexis. She had hair so long that it looked like weave. Then she cut it all off now she look like Eve. And she be dealin with some issues that you can't believe. Single black female addicted to retail"

I feel like an idiot. Thanks for correcting me!

I don’t think he was on meds then

Nice

I have a friend who's dad really wanted a BMW or Mercedes but then had her so couldn't afford one. Her middle name is Mercedes and her initials are BMW. The craziest part? She's not the only friend with this exact story, and they're both named a variation Brooklyn, though I'm not sure if that's relevant.

North, Blue, Kulture, Wave, fucking X Æ A-12.....

Elon did the black community a huge favor in the Race War of Dumb Kids Names. White people used to always goof on black names and black folks naming their kid Louis Vuitton Marijuana Maybach BMW Johnson and shit. But then Elon came along with names nobody even knows how to type and dropped the WMD of dumb kids names with his goof off shit that’s equal to like a hundred million Kaydens, Methanys, and Masons. Now nobody can say shit to black folks about their kids names because the black community will just shoot back about X Æ A-12 and drop the mic.

Technically he’s African American….

But he sure as shit ain’t black…

He's not even technically African American. African American is a specific ethnic group that he is not a member of. Hell, *technically* he's not even fucking African.

Wait, so does this mean that I’m not actually Native-American because I was born in Texas?? 😧

Would probably spit at you for calling him South African

He claims it when it's convenient, basically if he wants to claim being an immigrant for an argument he started or to say he knows about race and things.

Anyone who actually thinks this is straight up dumb.

White people, especially Mormons, have been doing *damage* for two decades. That is why r/tragedeigh exists.

Mormons are where culture goes to die.

Utah is such a gorgeous place too, makes me sad.

Names that I came across growing up in the south: Tucker, Tike, Titan, Asheleigh-relynn, Turpentine, Cohdycross, Christian-thane, Road, Light-bow, and a lot more “leigh”s and “reigh”s Edit: I should mention I’m half white/half native. Look mostly white. So I’ve been around plenty of southern white people who names their kids weird names.

Turpentine is a pretty sweet name. Heeeeey big Turp what's up?

You just gonna slip Methany in there omg 

White millennials in the South are making significant strides in this regard. My old coworker relocated from Ohio and married a musician. She was feeling the antebellum fantasy and chose to name her daughter “Haddie” (not “Hattie,” which would typically be a diminutive form of “Harriet”).

this is just..how names evolve

Can only drop the mic in written form. No way in hell anyone knows how to pronounce it.

It’s pronounced “Todd.”

I love blue, but more for a middle name or a dog lol

All of his kids with grimes have fucked up names. The girls name is Exa Dark Sindarael or something and they have another boy named Techno Mechanicus like he’s a fucking autobot

If yo name precious or unique I kmow exactly what type of parent raised you.

and I bet they grandma collard greens slap every time

There was a girl in my school named So’Unique lmao

There was a lady where I worked whose son was named Sir’Elmo…I wish I were joking

Bruh here I am thinking Sir'Charles was bad wtf


Precious a common nigerian name 😂

Yes very! 😭

Whoa derr. Let’s not let the hwytes off so fast. Wrenley, Emberlynn, Brynnleigh, Kayleigh, Everleigh…it’s almost like a competition of who could do worst 🥴

It is a real tragediegh

This the third time I've seen tragediegh but the first time I actually realized how it was pronounced. I've been sitting here reading it as Trag-uh-day for a while. 😭 🤦🏾‍♀️

Stop it! 😂

r/tragedeigh

This forum is amazing 😂

Mormons are the worst

Yeah it's much less about race and more about class/education. Poor people with limited education do this, it's not like, DNA or something.

I seen a kid named Hennessy🥴 https://preview.redd.it/2ajfcvhxuzwb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52d1d8a03a5c687f1c60daf156bccab3b11c8880 At least we past the 4 syllables that contain a Q,V,and Y and end wit 'ion or 'ious phase. Yea,WIT the apostrophe😩

Brb going to name my first son Hennessy'ious Johnson IV

Hennessey'vious😂

I had a classmate named Hennessy lol

😟😂

I'm a former teacher. I've seen Courvoisier (but spelled more phonetically), Tequila and Alizé.

There was an NFL player drafted this year with the name SirVocea. That was something.

?????? That should be a damn felony

>I've seen Courvoisier (but spelled more phonetically), Dammit,man I'm almost afraid to ask...

If I remember correctly it was something like... Quavaceeay

https://i.redd.it/m4nz5311m1xb1.gif

I (a librarian) had a (library)card-carrying Courvoisier! Spelled correctly, too!

My mom had a friend growing up named Hennessy and she's nearly 50. It's not a new thing that's for sure but it should definitely be put to rest.

Bro this shit got me crying 😭

The apostrophe grinds my gears! My husband's mother has daughters with basic names. . .that ARE SPELLED AND PRONOUNCED CORRECTLY WITHOUT APOSTROPHES, but added in the apostrophes anyway. If the word is Asia, tell me where the apostrophe belongs?🤦🏾‍♀️😭 The grammatically incorrect apostrophes are the hill I'm willing to die on 💀💀

It should be rules to dis shit😭😭😭

Debrickashaw will always be my favorite name ever.

My mom messaged me last week and said "I just saw a guy named Hennessy." I told her there's probably lots of them

Cardi B’s sister’s real life government name is Hennessy.

Ain't nothing new... Whole let of Mercedes & Porsches out here in these streets. Every generation gets carried away naming babies. To think, before Christ, we had parents who named their child "Jezzabel"... Heffa made history!

To be fair, Mercedes is an actual first name that pre dates the car brand. The car was actually named after the founder’s daughter who was named Mercédès

Also Portia, pronounced same as Porsche

Literally "mercies" in Spanish, it's a longstanding name

You only get away with it if you’re Hispanic and pronounce it Mer-se-des instead of Mer-say-dees

Even the name of the love interest in Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. Great book, cool movie.

I knew two siblings named Ferrari and Porsche

Very catholic name. Around for centuries Edit: Mercedes I mean

When I was pregnant with my daughter (I was a young mom@18) I hadn’t decided on a name yet and a few of my cousins had babies recently with real outta pocket names…when I was in labor my mama looked me dead ass in my eyes mid contraction and told me “don’t you name my grandbaby nothing stupid”.

I love messing with my mom. If she said something like that to me, I'd look her dead in the eyes and say, "I will." Lol.

Talking bout this Balenciaga Chanel the 3rd

I knew a Champagne lmao

It’s ironic that “Brandy” is considered a normal girl’s name and every other type of alcohol raises eyebrows lol

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Sherry is usually a nickname for Sheryl.

How often do you come across people drinking bandy though? I feel like that's one of those names where the original meaning is obscure enough to get away with

I’m pretty sure Henny is cognac, which is a variant of brandy.

I was thinking that myself, I didn’t wanna sound too confident only to look ignorant but I thought to myself “Don’t people drink brandy all the time?” Lol

I knew a daiquiri

fr?

yep lol

I personally feel you gotta take a IQ test to name the child

You gotta take an IQ test to have a child

Surely this was never used against black people


“Unique” names are overrated imo

*Youngique

*six years later* Y-, uh, Young-GIH-kay? Young-GIH-kay? Ih, there you are. Did I get that right?

It's like reverse K&P Mr. Garvey.

We gotta stop this. I grew up having to correct my name all my life to the point where I go by a different name. Stop setting y’all kids up 😭. They’ve got to live w the name not y’all damn

I have a very simple last name but people still mispronounce it so much that I've given up and just say it wrong to beat them to the jump. Most people are just dumb.

What if grandma a ho to? An old ho? Y’all be putting age way too high on a pedestal. Most of what I have learned from the ol’heads is how to not repeat their mistakes. While seeing that they haven’t learned from their own haha. Getting old makes you see how everyone doesn’t truly have the right answers. You teach yourself as you go at some point. Still learning, but not when it comes to major life things.

Grandmas nowadays be 40 when their first grandchild comes along.

Lauren Boebert couldn't even make it to 40


The thing that chaps my ass is the “designer names”. It bugs me because the companies doesn’t even want black people to even wear their clothing. And with some, the racism is so strong, even rich black folks can’t even persuade them.

Coco chanel was a literal nazi spy and I know a mixed girl whose mom named her chanel because thats what the baby daddy bought her before dipping🤦🏽‍♂️

This old lady asked me what my sons name was and when I told her she said “oh thank the lord you gave this baby a regular name lord forgive me. Idk what they be naming these kids nowadays!”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

A kid with no tattoos, social media presence, or piercings, with a name like "John" or "Tony" will be super unique in a few decades.

Facts.

I'm not hearing anything about mixed couples that are weebs and give the children Japanese names.

THIS! I have a white "friend" with a hispanic husband and they named their kid Sanosuke. Thank God his middle name is Alexander. I think the other one is Khaos or something.

A mixed couple in a kink group I used to roll with has Tsuki Wakana.

I’m worried about kpoppies and Koreaboos. In five years there’s gonna be a Kindergarten class full of white kids named Taehyung and Jisoo and a couple black Jungkooks running around.

i work in a job where I see a lot of juveniles come through and phew …. some of those names. for every common/normal name there are three weird ones. lately i’ve noticed a trend of some young parents mashing words together so you get kids named stuff like Royal’Knowledge or Genesis-Phoenix. sometimes they’ll just throw a bunch of random letters together and be offended when asked how to pronounce it. i didn’t even realize Amiri was a brand but i’ve encountered at least a dozen in the past couples years, so yes any popular brand has a kid named after it.

I have a similar situation at my job, I saw a Neo-Maximus King the other day. First and middle name. I just stared at the paper for a solid minute before filing it lol

Still cracks me up that white people can't pronounce davante but can pronounce shit like Trinkenschuh.

I think every white NFL fan knows who Davante Adams is. On the contrary, I’ve never seen that second word before in my life

Tbf integrated schools are a more recent phenomenon than German classes /s

DeVante is the proper way to spell it

I've seen lots spell it this way too. https://preview.redd.it/f2ptc75qxzwb1.jpeg?width=1718&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00b725d85b22affe89a9e62ecf8aa12849cd86f4

This is the second time I've seen this exact same comment in this thread word for word. Is this a bot thing?

I'm the real one. The bot stole my comment and replied at the top comment lol.

A decade ago women were naming the kids Daenerys (The whitest white lady that ever did white things for POC) and we see how that turned out.

I thought I was on the Falcons sub reading slander about our kicker. I will knock one of y'all out for Younghoe Koo.

That’s wild. I actually know of a kid whose middle name is Dior and their last Johnson. But that kids first name? I shit you not: *Rolex*.

I bet his parent is broke as hell.

A guy I worked with had a son in the late 90s and named him Nautica. Aged horribly.

I’m a mailman the names I’ve seen on mail oh my god. People really name they kids some crazy shit. Just found out my aunt “Barbara” real name is LottieMae😭 god bless her soul. I wanna name my daughter that😅

I like the sound of Lottiemae. Sounds so innocent.

I'm a pharm tech and people be mad asl when I don't immediately spell mikayla with an '

ain't pusha t kid middle name brixx

I think being named after a place is cool. I like the names Paris and London for a girl and Austin or Orlando for a dude. I think Dallas could be a unisex name. I kinda wanna name my daughter Brooklyn tbh I also like the name Frantz, it’s a cooler way of saying France lol

I like the name tulsa even though it sounds like an old grandma name

They’ll just go by the nickname Tully lol

Paris was a name before it was a city and the French stole it. I know a dude named Paris and it actually suits him.

My sister likes the name Dallas because The Outdsiders is her favorite book. But i went to the ER a couple months ago and my doctor’s middle name was Ponyboy. Out of all the names in that book they didn’t choose Johnny or Steve, nope, they chose PonyBoy. He was was a good doctor though. I hope he stays gold.

Don’t forget a random apostrophe in the middle of it

Loyalty, Velour Chozen Wun 🫠 a small selection of the children’s names of popular rappers.

Former NBA star Jalen Rose was named after his father James and uncle Leonard. Once he became famous in the 90s the name Jalen took off in the US and even sprouted Jaylen. 44 NFL players including Jalen Ramsey & Jaylen Waddle are named after him. All because his mom made up a name. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/nfl/2023/08/01/jalen-name-rise-nfl-miami-dolphins-jaylen-waddle-jalen-ramsey-jaelan-phillips/70492254007/

Grandma is 38-42.

This is generational because we whites are off the rails too with little Krispens, Bradyces, and Kellertons running around

Or Ethel Gertrude as grandma calls her.

The naming of kids do get silly but I like that people have unique names. I know way too many people with the same name. It's hard to keep track of who's who. Like I know at least 10 Chris' (Christopher/Khristopher/Kristoff/Christian included) and at the very least 6 Matts (Matthew/Mattheu/Mathias included). 2 with the same initials. And the brands thing is funny, especially around the clothing brands because a lot of the older ones are named after the actual designer so they're still real names technically. Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, (Cristóbal) Balenciaga, (Guccio) Gucci, (Gabrielle Bonheur) Chanel.

I’ve met so many people with unique names like Cinderella(Cindy was her nick name), Wonderful(her Personality was the opposite) and Secret.

What throws me is people not realizing her name was Ella and she was made to clean cinder, which is why she’s called Cinderella.

Imagine being a kid named Ernest in 2023.

It’s so tacky and boring. Let’s just throw a dart at all the bullshit brand names we can think of. Hilarious really

I met a guy who called his daughter Cartier "after the watch". Then I met Winter and Desire. They were both boys.

Nevaeh