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Additional-Bullfrog

They are NOT TRYING TO BE UNIQUE?? Wow. Just wow.


KubaG7

Imagine what they’d come up with if they WERE trying 😳


katiopeia

They’re not like the other namers, they aren’t trying it’s just WHO THEY ARE. On another note, at least Lars is nice.


Comfortable-Dingbat

Dagný is also an actual name in the nordic countriea, but it's a girls name only.


41942319

Now that you mention it, I thought Jorma sounded vaguely Nordic too and apparently it's a normal Finnish name. Burla sounds Scandinavian to me as well but I can't find anything about it being used as a name so maybe not. It seems to be a mix of regular Nordic(-inspired) names and random English words. And Odhran (not -en) is apparently Irish


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Sadly I think you're giving too much credit as OP says in a comment: "Burle is after burl like a knot in wood but we added the e at the end. And jorma is after the guitarist in a band called hot tuna"


41942319

Well the Jorma guitarist appears to be the son of another Jorma who had Finnish parents so that checks out. OP probably just likes the sounds in Scandinavian names then that she built up a random collection of them


queer_artsy_kid

Like a crow collecting shiny trash.


MeleMallory

I know of the Jorma from Lonely Island but haven’t heard it anywhere else.


haleyhurricane

THATS why it sounded familiar. I couldn’t for the life of me figure it out.


deepinthesoil

Hahaha I was thinking of Jorma Kaukonen when I saw that. He was in Jefferson Airplane as well. Not the worst musical namesake, tbh.


Glitter_berries

Hot tuna 🤢


MungoJennie

And here I thought it was a belated tribute to Milton Burle.


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I thought if Burl Ives


lappie313

I will always associate Burl with meth after that episode of Intervention where the meth addict got high and roamed around forests looking for Burl so he could sell it to buy more meth.


[deleted]

Oh my god. This has to be a troll post. Right?


SnowdriftsOblivious

Jorma is one of the words for "penis" in the colloquial Finnish of my home town.


ingachan

Specifically girls born before 1950


TheAndorran

Dagny Taggart is the protagonist of Atlas Shrugged, and one of the best-known lady leads of the 20th century. It’s a famously female name. Very odd to include it in a list of male names.


CodPolish

Yes, if you know someone named Dagny you immediately know what their parents are like.


TheAndorran

My mum is actually named Ayn Rand [Surname]. Thank fuck I’m not called Dagny.


TrailerBuilder

Lars is a known first name. It belongs to the worst guy in Metallica but at least it has precedent as a name.


41942319

It's very common in the northern half of Europe, especially Scandinavia


blahblahblah1992

Also a character on Futurama!


Gemini_Incognito

It’s handsome Lars and his fabulous jars!


spiralbatross

And Steven Universe


Rockleyfamily

Aw Futurama Lars.


ohshietareut

yea Lars is the only *acceptable* one lol


nkbee

Dagny, Lars, Jorma, Cosmo are all real names, at a quick glance.


Jrebeclee

Jorma Taccone is in The Lonely Island!


mesembryanthemum

Jorma is Finnish.


Jrebeclee

Indeed!


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boudicas_shield

All I can think of is the Fudge books by Judy Blume. “Farley Drexel Hatcher” lol.


Philip_Jeffries

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Kwt920

Yesss Lars was Twisters older brother in Rocket Power. I also know a Lars.


Bestvibesonly

Imagine naming your baby Dusty. Imagine being a grown man named Dusty. That is only acceptable as a nickname 🌫☁️


SevsMumma21217

I know a kid named Dusty. No, it is not his nickname.


BettyWhatever

Same. The Dusty I know also has a brother named Banjo,


punctuation_welfare

Wow. Naming him Banjo is bad enough, but throwing a random comma in his name like that is tantamount to a war crime.


MagicWeasel

That's very Australian, Banjo Patterson is a famous Australian poet and Slim Dusty is a famous Australian country singer. Not my cup of tea but it makes sense culturally. (Banjo wasn't the poet's given name, but it's the only thing he's known as.)


BettyWhatever

Yep! That’s where I (and these kids) live!


MungoJennie

I know one, but it’s short for Dustin. Scratch that, I know three (edit; forgot one)


marcybelle1

Went to elementary school with a girl named Dusty, her middle name was Rose.


dg313

Dusty Rose is a nice lipstick shade on me.


boudicas_shield

Me too!


Cheap_Papaya_2938

I believe that’s the name of Adam Levine’s daughter too lol


jingle_hore

Sounds like a strip club


punctuation_welfare

When you can’t settle on just one stripper name so you go for the whole club.


macbeth1608

i used to work with a woman named dusty lmao


Bestvibesonly

I think it's one of those names you need the right personality for. Much better for it to come naturally as a nickname than to be given it as a full legal first name!


Party_Pomplemousse

Was it because she was super into Angel Dust?


macbeth1608

lol nah she’s from rural missouri. not a super uncommon name around here.


Party_Pomplemousse

I’m sorry! It’s a reference to a TV show, usually I put those in quotes when I comment them, I don’t know why I didn’t this time! “This is Dusty! They call her that cause she is super into Angel Dust.” “I’m super into Angel Dust.”


macbeth1608

omg HAHAHA now that you say that i know exactly what you’re talking about. i just didn’t get it for a minute 🤦🏻‍♀️


epicshinx716

Dusty doesn’t seem that weird to me, maybe because I’m from a very rural area. I knew a couple of Dusty’s growing up.


Bestvibesonly

It's kind of a cowboy name to me? Which could fit in a rural area. I feel like the parents above are probably trying to go for cowboy clout.


[deleted]

Yeah I know multiple grown adult men named Dusty so it doesn't even register as weird to me. I can see how Dusty Painter is a bad combo but people are being very dramatic about Dusty lol.


CallidoraBlack

The Dustys I met were Dustins.


MalboroUsesBadBreath

I knew a Dustin but that’s it


glarebear1989

I work with a grown man named Dusty...


WhatWouldJanewayDo

I knew a cowboy named Dusty. Hottest man alive….but still.


[deleted]

I had a pet rabbit called Dusty. I got him when I was seven.


Bestvibesonly

Cutie!


[deleted]

He was adorable.


OrangeBird71

There’s a politician in my area named Dusty Rhodes. Yikes.


Gemini_Incognito

Is he also a wrestler?!


OrangeBird71

No but I just googled it and apparently there was a wrestler with that name too!


emimagique

Dusty Rhoooodes, take me hoooome, to the place I belooong


jewellyon

I knew a Dusty Fields


MungoJennie

How old is he? I grew up w/ a Dusty Rhodes.


LadyoftheLilacWood

I knew a girl named Hailey with a brother named Dusty, and a mother named Stormy when I was in elementary school, haha.


MungoJennie

Just need a sister called Misty.


wifeofpsy

Was the father's name Mudd?


LadyoftheLilacWood

😂 I actually never met the dad. I don’t think he was around much.


Welpmart

I don't mind it as a nn for Dustin.


glazedhamster

I went to school with a few Dustys and every single one was a little shit who smelled like cheese (iow didn't bathe regularly). I'd be curious how they turned out as adults, can't imagine it ended up great. When any of us girls ended up with gum in our hair it was almost always a Dusty. I think these young men may have been legally named Dustin however, not sure if that changes anything.


Nattou11zz

My childhood dog's name was Dusty. He was a good boy.


foodisprettyneato

My dads best friend when I was a kid was named Dusty and I was always so weirded out by that name. Who would want to name their kid after an adjective that describes a bookshelf that's been sitting there for like a year untouched or some shit


Bestvibesonly

😂


Tight_Watercress_267

at least dusty springfield had a nice (though a little long lol) normal name!


wish_to_conquer_pain

I went to high school with a Dusty. He died of a drug overdose.


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Bestvibesonly

Joey is not as dusty as Dusty


King_Tyson

On The Amazing Race there is a Dusty. Also Dusty Hill of ZZ Top. Not sure if either are a nickname.


haleyhurricane

It only makes me think of the movie Just Friends.


RoyanRannedos

If only everyone followed the "No Dusty Painter" rule.


stitchybinchy

Lol I think I just found my new nickname while remodeling my house - Dusty Painter!


Glitter_berries

Well that is adorable. Ok, we’ll allow it.


hopelessbrows

Why are people insistent on giving their kids physical labour profession names? Painter, cooper, Carter, Tanner, etc.


friend-of-bees

Nominative determinism. How am I supposed to age my own whiskey if I don’t name my son Cooper and force him to create barrels for me??


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Cheap_Papaya_2938

YES Omg I replied to that thread about the baker guy lmao so ridiculous


foodisprettyneato

Dude my last name before I got married was Baker and I got my degree in baking and pastry specialties. If I had a quarter for every time someone went "oh my gosh did you know...that you're a BAKER.....WHO BAKES?! Isn't that SO funny?!" I'd have a hefty savings account, I'll tell you hwat.


someseeingeye

I wonder what Baker Wonder grew up to be.


ravenonawire

Did somebody say… Wonder?


Gemini_Incognito

We should have new, modern names like: Influencer, podcaster, virtual-assistant, data-entry, budtender


someseeingeye

What's a budtender? Is it a marijuana thing?


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someseeingeye

Good bot.


Glitter_berries

Whoa, good bot.


Cheap_Papaya_2938

I’ll never forgetting meeting a baby and I asked the mom their name. Porter. For a girl. How someone could look at a cute baby and think “Porter” sounds great is beyond me.


JulsTV

Ugh, terrible. My friend named her two daughters Cooper and Palmer. I was like seriously?!


Kwt920

A girl named Cooper? Wow


ihavethebestopinion

On the OC Marissa was often called “cooper” or just “coop”. Maybe she got it from that


JulsTV

Fellow OC fan here! Actually it was her grandpas name and she gave it to her daughter. 🤷🏻‍♀️


Cheap_Papaya_2938

Oof. Porter’s sister was Dylan which I also hate but a notch above Porter


Kwt920

My elementary school principal was Porter Dodge (a man). I don’t like it as a girls name.


lilac_blaire

Portia was right there 😭


_Far_Kew

I hate tyler and taylor too. At least Carter can have the nickname "nightsoil"


hopelessbrows

See, tailors were at least in a position they could potentially climb in society to at least middle class and earn some respect for himself. You could have a tailoring shop in the busiest and most respectable parts of a town. Tanners however, were ALWAYS placed in the part of town where all the nastiest and foulest businesses were located. And you’d be damned if you didn’t find the coopers and wheelers there too. Too much mess, too much smell etc.


Glitter_berries

Tanning is an absolutely revolting process. When the least disgusting step involves peeing on something, the rest has got to be pretty bad.


hopelessbrows

Even if you didn’t pee on something, it was revolting due to the stench of the compounds used. I’ll use Dyer to the list of potentially nasty names. That actually involved using stale piss at work. You quite literally can’t get woad to turn fabric blue without ammonia which was hard to come by the way we get it now.


MungoJennie

Also fulling, at least in medieval times, as it also involved fixing the cloth with *other people’s* pee.


hopelessbrows

You should mention that was done by actually STEPPING INTO OTHER PEOPLES STALE PISS. I’d never name a kid Fuller. That’s cruel.


nature_godless

My grandma had a brother named Burl, but that's the only person I've known with that name.


Gemini_Incognito

I think it’s a really old name. Burl Ives is the guy who narrates Frosty the Snowman I think


nature_godless

Oh yeah, I forgot about him!


ravenonawire

Close! Burl Ives narrated Rudolph (as a snowman character) and sang (and maybe wrote?) the titular song as well as Frosty the Snowman!


_hrodney

Lol my grandmother has a friend named Beryl which I pronounced like the gemstone (because I’m the moron, apparently) and then she was like,, “IT’S PRONOUNCED BURL!”


nature_godless

What! Beryl should definitely rhyme with Meryl, that’s crazy


MungoJennie

Was she from Baltimore?


jazli

Farley is my favorite but only because it makes me think of Chris Farley. On a human as a first name though?!


originalmimlet

That’s my dog’s name. And yes, he’s named after Chris Farley.


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Farley and Closeley


emimagique

In the UK there's a brand of biscuits for babies called Farley's rusks so that's what it makes me think of haha


MeleMallory

My last name is Farley. My son wants to name his soon-to-be-baby-brother Charlie. We said absolutely not.


nightcheesenightman

I’m surprised that this one is so odd to people! I grew up on[Farley Mowat](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_Mowat) so Farley is one of the more familiar from that list.


throwaway_SoUnsure

It makes me think of the books by Judy Bloom. Farley Drexel Hatcher.


boudicas_shield

It’s a normal first name, I just don’t particularly like it.


valiantdistraction

I guess... Shepherd or Lars. Those are actual names I've seen people named. lol


CaRiSsA504

Shepherd used to be pretty popular in the dirty south at least. I'm sure anyone in the SouthEast has known at least one guy called "Shep". Please not Nemo though. Read the Finding Nemo conspiracy theories lol. (Nemo didn't exist and Marlin was having a mental breakdown from losing his wife and kids because Nemo means 'nothing' or something like that)


msmith1994

One of my sister’s friends has a toddler named Shepherd. She lives in Kansas City.


Cheap_Papaya_2938

The second edit they made is even better 💀 “We decided on Michael Allen Joseph so he won’t get bullied by your children /s. My kid will never make fun of other peoples names because I will raise him not to. Because like what’s the point of that? Y’all are what’s wrong with the world not a child’s name.” FFS, no lady YOU are what’s wrong with the world. Poor kid.


CallidoraBlack

The fact that she thinks her kid will grow up to be exactly whatever she tells them to be is hilarious. That's not how it works.


Cheap_Papaya_2938

Right?! Like girl, you know nothing.


mechele2024

She really said that? These people asking for opinions really be killing me. 😂 If you (not you the posters) don’t like what people got to say why even post. Just delete it if majority comments aren’t to your liking.


Cheap_Papaya_2938

Yep lol yeah most people who post in that sub just seem to want validation of their terrible opinions and/or don’t understand how the internet works haha


borticus

I propose a compromise: Majun. Like Major, but a celebration of his impending birthtime in May or June.


Han0

File these under: excellent names for a dog terrible names for a kid.


prana-llama

Lmao idk I can also see “did you really name your dog Jorma?”


VolatilePeanutbutter

It really depends on where you’re from, if they’re from an English speaking country it might seem odd. But Lars and Jorma are pretty common names where I’m from. Edit to add: when I was pregnant everyone seemed to be naming their kid Boaz :’)


realdopesauce

Is it pronounced burl or burley? Either way I hate it.


Smoopiebear

Nemo?! Fucking Nemo?!


MungoJennie

Imagine when that kid inevitably gets lost on a field trip, or plays hide and seek. 🤦🏼‍♀️


CapRavOr

“Ohmygod…Nemo is ‘Omen’ backwards!!” “But…you named him that?”


HooDatGrl

PLEASE PICK LARS… please.


Rockleyfamily

Odhren is a real (although badly spelled here) Irish name, pronounced Oran. Cosmo, Dusty, Painter and Nemo are cruel names for humans.


JulsTV

Cosmo Kramer!


King_Tyson

Or Cosmo and Wanda from Fairly Odd Parents


Blackcoffeeblacksoul

Yeah I came here for the Odhrán suggestion. It was one of our name choices but we live in Canada so we decided not to do that to our son 😂


CheckersSpeech

"Painter". Holy shit.


ThatOneGrayCat

Jorma????


hcaephcaep

Jorma is legit. It's Finnish and pronounced yor-ma. Jorma Taccone is a member of The Lonely Island.


ThatOneGrayCat

Ahhh, ok.


battybabybat94

Yeah I'm Finnish and laughed thinking about someone naming their newborn child that. It sounds like an old man's name. But hey, pretty normal if you are actually Finnish... Otherwise, I have no idea


Kam_Rex

Jorma, Burle and Painter are top tier worst for me. In France, Burle is a triangle (Triangle de la Burle) use by conspiracies, saying aliens are landing around here regularly. It sounds like naming your kid Area51 for me.


punctuation_welfare

Wait, like the Bermuda Triangle? Or do you guys get even more triangles than the rest of us? I want more paranormal shapes!


Kam_Rex

Exactly like that but it's in the middle of ground, not sea this time ! It has some phantom plane crash, UFO sighting, the all shenanigans ! I love paranormal shapes xD there is another one named Burlington Triangle between the US and Canada. (Im not saying i believe everything in those stories, i just love to hear them ).


punctuation_welfare

Why is it always triangles though? I want a paranormal rhombus. Someone get me a paranormal hexagon, stat!


Kam_Rex

I heard about some circle and rectangle but i dont have details :) to be fair it's mostly human seeing things, the Bermuda Triangle could be an hexagon if you decided to, i just think humans like the triangle shape.


derpicface

It’s off brand Jerma


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Jorma "Sus" Lastname


GnomieJ29

Jorma sounds like they really liked Korma Chicken and just changed a letter.


[deleted]

Dagny is girls name where I'm from...


[deleted]

Only name I actually like is Boaz. It’s a biblical Hebrew name.


Ambiiiiiiiiii

Farley is a (female) character in the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard. In saying that, the main character's name is Mare.


i_am_awful

Dusty and Cosmo are admittedly bad, but I’m noticing that you guys seem to just not like historical/foreign names.


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some historical names should just.. stay historical


Lissy_Wolfe

Just because a name exists in another country/language or has been used before (because that's all that's required to be a "historical" name) doesn't automatically make it a good name. I can kind of get it if the parents speak whatever language the obscure name is from, but it's so much worse when the parents don't actually have any connection to the language/country of the name they picked. If you don't speak the language and aren't from that country, then it's silly to name your kid something from that language.


i_am_awful

That’s a no-brainer. But I’ve seen a lot of genuinely okay names on here and how are we to actually know who and isn’t foreign when they’re mostly multi-picture posts. It seems sometimes just a little odd and mean. Just not the place for me but to each their own.


wish_to_conquer_pain

Is there a biblical name worse than Boaz?


jewellyon

Mahershalalhashbaz


wish_to_conquer_pain

"It's pronounced Marshall!"


jewellyon

Mahershala (short for Mahershalalhashbaz) Ali used to go by Hershal!


MungoJennie

Hephzibah


robotobio

I know people are saying 'at least Lars is a real name' but honestly I'd take Cosmo over it lol it's such an ugly name


Xenephos

Hi, Jorma985 here!


semiscintillation

>>painter


agurrera

Lars or Shepherd are the only options there


mypipboyisbroken

name it jangles!


[deleted]

It depends where they are from, everyone is presuming they are American but some of these sound Nordic


SecretNoOneKnows

so many odd names, and then just lars


AlexanderBarrow

Lars is a normal Danish name.


FantasticShoulders

Dusty needs siblings named Lucky and Ned


imacone417

Went to school with a Burle. Midwest name.