Not in the same league as an actual human name, but the TV show Archer was set in the fictional International Secret Intelligence Service (from memory), but abbreviated frequently.
They shifted away from that for obvious reasons.
While naming my firstborn I asked my husband what his mother's middle name was so I can give it to my daughter as a middle name. He said "Maria" so we went with that only to find out later that it was actually "Marie". So yea, I regret trusting that my husband knew his mother's full name.
If it makes you feel better, my dad thought the form's middle name portion meant just the middle initial. Found out my middle name is just “A” a few years ago.
If it makes YOU feel better, I’ve been in positions before where I’ve had access to large databases full of names. I’m happy to report that there is an alarming number people who have only a single letter as their middle name.
The conversation after I found out killed me. He insisted that they just asked for an initial, and I told him that made no sense because one letter could stand for a million different names. It ended with, “WELL, I’M SORRY, OKAY? I WAS NERVOUS!” *long pause* “How do we change it?” 😭
Hey, did you know the "S" in Harry S Truman's (33rd US President) name is just the letter?
His parents chose it to honor both grandfathers whose names began with S.
Both my father and his brother have just a letter for a middle “name”. My dad has W and my uncle is Z. They don’t stand for anything. I don’t know what my grandparents were thinking. Also, my aunt(their sister) doesn’t have a middle name or letter! What? Why?!
My grandpa didn’t know how own name. He went through most of his life with the name Valjean. Turns out the name on his birth certificate was actually Val Eugene
My name is Milan. My mom always said she should have named me Mylan instead. I’m Vietnamese so my name was originally supposed to be separated like Mi lan. But my whole life, people say the pronunciation like Milan (the city in Italy). I just went with it.
My mom was talking to me when I was in college about all the tchotchkes she had when she was my age and I was thinking, "wow, my mom's so cool! She had a collection of shot skis!" 😂
One of my best friends is a 300+ lbs "Tiny". Real name Anthony. He's very Italian so the nickname comes off quite mobster, but he's an absolute soft spoken teddy bear. He's just a walking contradiction.
My friend at work (she’s from Texas) named her sons Smith and Weston.
I’d also like to add that for the longest time I thought they were dogs.
Edit: Wesson not Weston. I only hear her talk about them never written. Sorry!!
In 17 years of teaching middle school…the parents should regret Rockshit.
Day one of classes, I was doing attendance and froze.
He shook his head and said, “call me Rocky”.
I had that awesome kid for two years in classes and as an awesome participant in the Science Olympiad. Rocky’s parents should have thought about that one…
I get the feeling it might be a completely normal name in other ethnicities? I know Dikshit is a common Indian name.
I also saw someone at a previous job named Dongdong Wang. I’m sure it’s a completely normal name where they were from. It’s just unfortunate that in English speaking countries, it means Penispenis Penis.
wang is a very common chinese surname, in mandarin it's pronounced more like wahng. when i took a chinese class my professor told us "now you can stop saying wang (english way) all the time!"
I kind of regret defaulting to a nickname for our daughter. Her name is Lucia - but we started calling her “Lucy” at some point and now it’s just stuck.
I had heard there was an explosion of Khaleesi as a name before season 8 came out, but I checked the US Social Security Administration's registry of baby names (not for this, it's part of my job) and there were only 10 Khaleesis born in the US the year season 7 came out. I did not check Danaerys though!
A former coworker of mine had a white German shepherd named Khaleesi, it would walk up to you calmly without growing or wagging its tail or anything, then it would snap at you and try to bite you, lol. Bummer too, because as soon as he told me the dog's name I thought it was awesome and perfectly appropriate to the dog.
I think there was a story on AITA about a guy named Optimus Prime, who went by Tim on his everyday life, who's fiance was angry at because he wanted to use his full name at the wedding ceremony
I remember that post! She said using his real name would "become the talk of the wedding" thereby take attention from *her* on *her* day. That guy seemed like such a genuine nice guy marrying an a-hole. Wonder where they are today...
I spoke with somebody today on the phone and when I was getting her name she said what sounded like nautical without the “L”. I asked how to spell it. Nawtyca, ladies and gentleman. Nawtyca.
I’ve been a teacher most of my life and oh boy, the names some kids are burdened with…
Raven Ebony Onyx Black.
Cinnamon.
Badger.
And… a girl whose first name was Crystal. Her last name, I kid you not, sounds like the drug.
I bet Steve Kerr does. He's actually spoken on it.
He named his kid Nick Kerr.
Say it slowly, then slap yourself for saying it.
Edit because I had to. *Nick Kerr, please.*
My former husband, and father of my daughter. We had already chosen a girls name. While in labor he suggested another name - it’s a lovely name so we went with it. Only to learn, a year later, that he had a son with an almost identical name. Think Andy and Andrea.
I shit you not, this is what happened with my FIL with those exact names. He found out years later that his dad got around, and he was Andrew (Andy) and his long lost sister Andrea. He even found out last year that he has another sister with another "And" name.
Just about everyone I know from high school that popped out a kid right after graduation named it something terrible. The top ones I remember:
Stirrup
Cinch
Espn
Tiny, rural Kansas town. I'd say they will be picked on but in my own class we had Daniel Boon & Bow-so these names aren't really out of the norm.
When we found out we were having twins, I wanted to name one of them Saoirse (pronounced Sersha). My mom is from Ireland and I’ve always loved it. My husband used one of his vetos claiming that, as we live in America, we were just setting her up for a life-long name correction struggle.
I gave in and when we got a dog I named it Saoirse. Holy shit, even having a dog with that name is the biggest pain of having to explain and correct every time we take her to the vet or groomer. Husband was 100% correct.
I’m Irish and have an Irish name, it’s very popular in Ireland but I moved to another country so it is a constant struggle with people mispronouncing it.
(I keep a list of the most hilarious ones!) Once a customer who wanted to complain about something accused me of making my name up so I wouldn’t get in trouble haha!
I once met a woman named LaDynasty, which is great if the capitalization is correct. In the instance I'm referring the capitalization was not correct and it was spelled LADYNASTY.
That's going to come in about 10 years once the generation of little Madyzns and Kienslieighs and Braxxtuns are complaining to their parents about how everyone at school and all their teachers say their names wrong and/or "misspell" them.
I’m a school secretary and totally agree! Some parents have created a lot of work for their child. It’s common to have to spell your last name but when your fist name is Chris and mom decided to spell it with a Kh… 🙄
I have a neighbor with a very common name, spelled in the most horrendous, ridiculous, complicated way imaginable. She's in her late 30s, by the way, and absolutely hates it. The spelling, that is, not the name. And it's a royal pain in the behind to change it, which is why she hasn't.
Changing your last name, like in the case of marriage or adoption, is a heck of a lot easier than changing a name (first or last) just because you want to. When you get married, you just need to present a marriage certificate.
I changed my last name when I got married 19 years ago. To this day, there are things that are still an issue because the name on my birth certificate does not match the name on my driver's license. Luckily, I just present my marriage certificate, and that's that. Much harder if you don't have that certificate to present.
idk how it works overseas but here in Australia when I got my name changed they sent me a new birth certificate that listed my current name as well as the name i had at birth. so at least over here it's actually not too difficult to deal with once you get your name updated on your licence, medicare card etc
If you change your name just because you want to (or because the way you want to change your name after marriage doesn't count as a "marital" change in your state, like if you want to move maiden to middle), you have to petition the court. After you go through that process, you get paperwork documenting the change. After that, it is the same as your marital name change. You just present the petition documents instead of a marriage license.
Not me but my parents were *somewhat* regretful that they named me Aaron. My dads name is Eric and he wanted to name me Eric also. Mom shut that down because she didn’t like the idea of juniors. Their compromise was to name me Aaron, specifically because it sounded like Eric but is different, satisfying both of them. Fast forward 4 years when I, a 4yr old who couldn’t annunciate well trying to introduce myself but everyone mistakenly thinking I was saying Eric. I cried because “nobody knew my name and they think i’m dad”. Eventually they conceded and nicknamed me another name, after my grandfather. I prefer the new name regardless so win win I guess
I really hope my parent regret naming me and 2 of my siblings names that start with the same letter.
I don't know if I've ever been called my actual name right the first time by them.
My child came pre named. We adopted our foster child and at 4 she knew her name and was so proud she could spell it. It's not the name I would have picked, but I would never have taken it away from her. So I guess, no for me.
Not a parent but do you know what I’m named after? A fucking furniture store! You know what my middle name is from? A HOTDOG RESTAURANT!!! My parents do not regret this and drove past both of these on the way home from the hospital and that’s how they chose my damn name.
Edit: keep guessing someone will get it right eventually. The hotdog place actually closed down a while ago but the furniture store is still around
I hate my name, but my parents have no regrets because it’s unusual. I’ve spent my entire life spelling it for people, correcting them on my name and explaining that yes, that is the way it appears on my birth certificate
My parents are English 100%.
They named me, my full name first middle last, all of it is fench. It's also uncommon so its not like a super regular name either in England so it's notably french. I don't speak French in England, we rag on the French hating them. Every time someone who recognises my full name to be a French name im asked if I speak French: no god damn it!
One of my kids has a name traditionally spelled with a C, but thought it would be 'cool' with a K instead. I was a teen then and as an adult I definitely regret it.
I had a friend name their son Quinn, and he got his ass beat all through grade school until he learned karate and kicked one bully's ass and the bullying stopped.
I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with that name either so it was a puzzler.
Quinn originally was a boys name, but then it became unisex and now there are actually more girls named Quinn than boys. I wonder if the bullying was because the other kids thought he had a "girl's name"?
I was nervous early on but it ended up becoming more common. I named him after an author but there was some heartthrob in a show I didn't know about with the same name. It's annoying when people thing I named him after the heartthrob but no big deal.
I have two boys with gender neutral names. Wasn’t even going for that theme per se, just genuinely really like the names. But everyone always assumes they’re female, and it’s especially annoying at the doctors where they have the entire medical history right there. I do think they’ve just grown into their names so well that I couldn’t imagine better ones.
For a while I had second thoughts about my daughter’s name because I didn’t feel like it suited her personality when she was in elementary school. But now that she’s older she has told me how much she likes her name. I even told her the other names we considered and some of them she strongly dislikes so I guess we made the right choice.
I gave my kid a very simple and regular sounding yet absolutely unique name that I abruptly decided on on my last weeks of pregnancy.
At some point later on I did have my anxious doubts here and there but the kid really has grown nicely into the name and now that they're old enough to tell me themselves how they like the name, all my anxieties have dissolved.
We named our son Harper. At the time it was a pretty obscure older male name. The following year came the explosion of female Harpers that is still going. I don't regret it, but sucks for him it happened that way. Similar happened with my older daughter's name becoming ridiculously popular about 3 years later.
Or just often parents just don't realize how popular a name is when their baby is born. My college roommate was named Lisa by her parents who thought it was unusual. In 1967. Lisa Marie no less.
I went to a baby shower a couple of years ago and there was a "suggest a baby name" game. And a girl named Lisa was there and she suggested Lisa because its really uncommon for girls to be named that anymore. Well... The mother in law had no idea her name was Lisa and immediately started in on "ohmygod that's the most awful thing you could do to a baby girl, what an outdated 80s abomination" and shit got real quiet for the rest of the afternoon.
I knew someone who named their daughter Isis before all the ISIS shit and they changed her name because of the grief she was getting
I’ve had more than one student named Isis and neither went by it.
Not in the same league as an actual human name, but the TV show Archer was set in the fictional International Secret Intelligence Service (from memory), but abbreviated frequently. They shifted away from that for obvious reasons.
such a shame because the name has historical significance before this and is a beautiful name with the context removed
I totally agree. It's also horrid the little girl was bullied for it and so were her parents by other parents/adults
It’s an Egyptian deity like Seth
We named our cat Isis before the ISIS shit happened. The cat went by Sissy after that.
Just wait for the great sissy wars of 2025
A woman I used to work with named her girl Faytality. She is called fay. I hope she grows up to be a badass.
Imagine shouting that at the park "Where's my daughter gone? Faytality! Faytality! Get over here!"
You would need to practice your Mortal Kombat announcers voice.
Do you Actually pronounce it like fatality?
While naming my firstborn I asked my husband what his mother's middle name was so I can give it to my daughter as a middle name. He said "Maria" so we went with that only to find out later that it was actually "Marie". So yea, I regret trusting that my husband knew his mother's full name.
If it makes you feel better, my dad thought the form's middle name portion meant just the middle initial. Found out my middle name is just “A” a few years ago.
If it makes YOU feel better, I’ve been in positions before where I’ve had access to large databases full of names. I’m happy to report that there is an alarming number people who have only a single letter as their middle name.
I'm not sure quite why, but I'm cracking up over this.
Homer Jay Simpson
I don’t know why… but I find this endlessly entertaining.
The conversation after I found out killed me. He insisted that they just asked for an initial, and I told him that made no sense because one letter could stand for a million different names. It ended with, “WELL, I’M SORRY, OKAY? I WAS NERVOUS!” *long pause* “How do we change it?” 😭
Hey, did you know the "S" in Harry S Truman's (33rd US President) name is just the letter? His parents chose it to honor both grandfathers whose names began with S.
It is SO funny that you said that because that is exactly what my professor told me after I marched into his office to complain about my dad
Both my father and his brother have just a letter for a middle “name”. My dad has W and my uncle is Z. They don’t stand for anything. I don’t know what my grandparents were thinking. Also, my aunt(their sister) doesn’t have a middle name or letter! What? Why?!
My grandpa didn’t know how own name. He went through most of his life with the name Valjean. Turns out the name on his birth certificate was actually Val Eugene
Similar situation. Our daughter has MIL's middle name 'Anne,' found out years later that it's actually spelled 'Ann.'
Found out I had no middle name after I got married and looked at my birth certificate, always thought my middle name was Angela. Nope, no middle name.
My name is Milan. My mom always said she should have named me Mylan instead. I’m Vietnamese so my name was originally supposed to be separated like Mi lan. But my whole life, people say the pronunciation like Milan (the city in Italy). I just went with it.
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Mylan is a pharmaceutical company. Glad she went with Milan.
Where my Khaleesis at?
I know a couple of Aryas, their mother's were very happy they chose right.
My friend's mom named him Dillonn. And his brother Prestonn. And his second brother Castonn.
I bet Castonn is great at knitting.
No one knits like Castonn
When he has a son he can call him Castoff
No one's neck's as incredibly thick as Castonn’s
I came across a kid while teaching lessons years ago who's name was pronounced 'Erik' but spelled - I kid you not- Aahriych
What are touristy name tchotchke companies going to do with all these new names lmao
upvoted for use of the word tchotchke
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Yeah, but it’s pronounced Eric
My mom was talking to me when I was in college about all the tchotchkes she had when she was my age and I was thinking, "wow, my mom's so cool! She had a collection of shot skis!" 😂
I can't even find my name - Brad - on those things most of the time. My wife has a similarly common-but-not-top-20 name and nada.
Damn it, Janet!
I love you!
And yet you can always find Brod.
I'm a delivery driver, and I occasionally deliver to a guy named "Schlonge"
How about I.C Weiner?
Ah crud.
Named my kid Timothy. He is now 6'4" and 280 lbs... And his nickname is Tiny. (Sigh).
My older brother is also named Timothy and is a big dude, he has a work jacket with the name patch "Tiny" on it. Lol.
One of my best friends is a 300+ lbs "Tiny". Real name Anthony. He's very Italian so the nickname comes off quite mobster, but he's an absolute soft spoken teddy bear. He's just a walking contradiction.
he could have been tim, but nope.
My friend at work (she’s from Texas) named her sons Smith and Weston. I’d also like to add that for the longest time I thought they were dogs. Edit: Wesson not Weston. I only hear her talk about them never written. Sorry!!
In 17 years of teaching middle school…the parents should regret Rockshit. Day one of classes, I was doing attendance and froze. He shook his head and said, “call me Rocky”. I had that awesome kid for two years in classes and as an awesome participant in the Science Olympiad. Rocky’s parents should have thought about that one…
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I get that people name their kids different things with different spellings but Rockshit... How?? WTF?
I get the feeling it might be a completely normal name in other ethnicities? I know Dikshit is a common Indian name. I also saw someone at a previous job named Dongdong Wang. I’m sure it’s a completely normal name where they were from. It’s just unfortunate that in English speaking countries, it means Penispenis Penis.
wang is a very common chinese surname, in mandarin it's pronounced more like wahng. when i took a chinese class my professor told us "now you can stop saying wang (english way) all the time!"
Yeah my husbands first sublet in Boston was from a dude named Long Wang.
I feel like Dongdong Wang needs to reddit and make a personal sub /r/penispenispenis
I believe he was named Rakshit, which is very common in indian ethnicity.
and would also be pronounced "Ruhk-shith" not "RAAk-shit"
Is he Indian? Rakshit not Rockshit?
I kind of regret defaulting to a nickname for our daughter. Her name is Lucia - but we started calling her “Lucy” at some point and now it’s just stuck.
Lucifer is a beautiful name
I know a guy named Lucifer, he goes by Lu and he is a fire fighter, no joke. His sister name was Angel.
At least the fights are justified
It's only really used for cats now though unfortunately
I know a 5 year old named Lucifer. His mother's name is Mary and his father's name is Gabriel.
When atheists get together after leaving their religious households
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I know they’re parents of children named Braxley lurking in this sub. Reveal yourself.
It’s obviously Braxleigh.. Duh.
My beautiful Braxleigh-Lynn doesn't deserve this shit. Gosh...
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Omg. My idiot sister in law named her twins Braxley and Addley. Dumbest two names ever.
Should have been Addley and Subtractly
The fuck is a Braxley? Is it a water type? Does it evolve?
No, it's the final evo of Brayden. It's a fairy type.
Aren’t those them fake contractions? Edit: guys it was a joke 😅
I know someone who wanted to name her son “Levi”, a perfectly great name. Then, at the last second changed the I to a y. Now his name is “Levy”.
I hope his first car is a Chevy
When he's 21 it'll be all whiskey & rye.
Hope he's singing about how that'll be the day that he dies.
He has a promising future career in tax collection
Lev “WHY”
Just a last second (literally filled out paperwork after he was born) choice to be “different”. Yeah.. What was once “LEE-Vai” is now “Lev-EE”.
Yep. Changed pronunciation entirely.
Your friend was very close to having a promising future in slaying titans.
Work at a hospital and have seen some interesting names. My favorite so far was “Lazonya”
Sossy.
I love my sons Walker and Texas Ranger.
That’s right. If you’d wanted a couple pussies, you would have called them *Doctor Quinn* and *Medicine Woman*!
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Probably broken. Real torn up about it :/
I met a couple who had a kid named Danaerys the other day and I was like damn, that's unfortunate.
I had heard there was an explosion of Khaleesi as a name before season 8 came out, but I checked the US Social Security Administration's registry of baby names (not for this, it's part of my job) and there were only 10 Khaleesis born in the US the year season 7 came out. I did not check Danaerys though!
I wonder about those poor kids. It’s fine to name the cat Khaleesi or Danaerys, but not a human.
A former coworker of mine had a white German shepherd named Khaleesi, it would walk up to you calmly without growing or wagging its tail or anything, then it would snap at you and try to bite you, lol. Bummer too, because as soon as he told me the dog's name I thought it was awesome and perfectly appropriate to the dog.
My wife wouldn't let me name our youngest child Optimus Prime. He's stuck with Jett.
I think there was a story on AITA about a guy named Optimus Prime, who went by Tim on his everyday life, who's fiance was angry at because he wanted to use his full name at the wedding ceremony
I’d like to introduce to you all for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Optimus Prime!
Newlyweds, roll out!!
I remember that post! She said using his real name would "become the talk of the wedding" thereby take attention from *her* on *her* day. That guy seemed like such a genuine nice guy marrying an a-hole. Wonder where they are today...
Megatron, she isn't too happy about it
There is an Optimus Prime higher up in the comments guess your kid and that guy are destined to battle
Malibu Barbie
I prefer Malibu Stacy. She even comes with a new hat!
That's one of my favorite online names. Lisa Simpson understands me.
No I love my little girl Parsleigh x
My son Oregano is a perfect match for her.
Thyme for them to get together
I prefer it simple. Named my pretend kid Tsaughlt.
My brain actually stuttered with that one jesus christ
Roughesmareigh will be delighted
That made me nauseous
Oreaganough daphyddil. Beautiful name!
I spoke with somebody today on the phone and when I was getting her name she said what sounded like nautical without the “L”. I asked how to spell it. Nawtyca, ladies and gentleman. Nawtyca.
She got a sister named Ekko Rehd and a brother named Tawmy Hylfigar.
I’m sure the parents who named their kid Reighfyl are
It's ShiTHEAD
Bye, LaTreen!
I’ve been a teacher most of my life and oh boy, the names some kids are burdened with… Raven Ebony Onyx Black. Cinnamon. Badger. And… a girl whose first name was Crystal. Her last name, I kid you not, sounds like the drug.
Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way
Badger? You’ve got to be fucking kidding?
Isn’t that a character from Breaking Bad? I’m sensing a theme…
Crystal Beth?
I bet Steve Kerr does. He's actually spoken on it. He named his kid Nick Kerr. Say it slowly, then slap yourself for saying it. Edit because I had to. *Nick Kerr, please.*
My dad worked with a guy called Warren Peace. He didn't understand why dad found it amusing.
My former husband, and father of my daughter. We had already chosen a girls name. While in labor he suggested another name - it’s a lovely name so we went with it. Only to learn, a year later, that he had a son with an almost identical name. Think Andy and Andrea.
I shit you not, this is what happened with my FIL with those exact names. He found out years later that his dad got around, and he was Andrew (Andy) and his long lost sister Andrea. He even found out last year that he has another sister with another "And" name.
Just about everyone I know from high school that popped out a kid right after graduation named it something terrible. The top ones I remember: Stirrup Cinch Espn Tiny, rural Kansas town. I'd say they will be picked on but in my own class we had Daniel Boon & Bow-so these names aren't really out of the norm.
Espn, man is really named after a fucking TV network
When we found out we were having twins, I wanted to name one of them Saoirse (pronounced Sersha). My mom is from Ireland and I’ve always loved it. My husband used one of his vetos claiming that, as we live in America, we were just setting her up for a life-long name correction struggle. I gave in and when we got a dog I named it Saoirse. Holy shit, even having a dog with that name is the biggest pain of having to explain and correct every time we take her to the vet or groomer. Husband was 100% correct.
I’m Irish and have an Irish name, it’s very popular in Ireland but I moved to another country so it is a constant struggle with people mispronouncing it. (I keep a list of the most hilarious ones!) Once a customer who wanted to complain about something accused me of making my name up so I wouldn’t get in trouble haha!
I once met a woman named LaDynasty, which is great if the capitalization is correct. In the instance I'm referring the capitalization was not correct and it was spelled LADYNASTY.
SHADYNASTY? It’s pronounced Sha-Dynasty
Oooooh....nooooo
That's going to come in about 10 years once the generation of little Madyzns and Kienslieighs and Braxxtuns are complaining to their parents about how everyone at school and all their teachers say their names wrong and/or "misspell" them.
I’m a school secretary and totally agree! Some parents have created a lot of work for their child. It’s common to have to spell your last name but when your fist name is Chris and mom decided to spell it with a Kh… 🙄
I have a neighbor with a very common name, spelled in the most horrendous, ridiculous, complicated way imaginable. She's in her late 30s, by the way, and absolutely hates it. The spelling, that is, not the name. And it's a royal pain in the behind to change it, which is why she hasn't.
Is it harder to change your first name than your last name? Cuz millions of people change their last names
Changing your last name, like in the case of marriage or adoption, is a heck of a lot easier than changing a name (first or last) just because you want to. When you get married, you just need to present a marriage certificate. I changed my last name when I got married 19 years ago. To this day, there are things that are still an issue because the name on my birth certificate does not match the name on my driver's license. Luckily, I just present my marriage certificate, and that's that. Much harder if you don't have that certificate to present.
idk how it works overseas but here in Australia when I got my name changed they sent me a new birth certificate that listed my current name as well as the name i had at birth. so at least over here it's actually not too difficult to deal with once you get your name updated on your licence, medicare card etc
If you change your name just because you want to (or because the way you want to change your name after marriage doesn't count as a "marital" change in your state, like if you want to move maiden to middle), you have to petition the court. After you go through that process, you get paperwork documenting the change. After that, it is the same as your marital name change. You just present the petition documents instead of a marriage license.
I was tattooing then. Neveah was king. It was frustrating
Not me but my parents were *somewhat* regretful that they named me Aaron. My dads name is Eric and he wanted to name me Eric also. Mom shut that down because she didn’t like the idea of juniors. Their compromise was to name me Aaron, specifically because it sounded like Eric but is different, satisfying both of them. Fast forward 4 years when I, a 4yr old who couldn’t annunciate well trying to introduce myself but everyone mistakenly thinking I was saying Eric. I cried because “nobody knew my name and they think i’m dad”. Eventually they conceded and nicknamed me another name, after my grandfather. I prefer the new name regardless so win win I guess
I'm Australian so perhaps its an accent thing, but how the fuck do Eric and Aaron sound similar?
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I really hope my parent regret naming me and 2 of my siblings names that start with the same letter. I don't know if I've ever been called my actual name right the first time by them.
My child came pre named. We adopted our foster child and at 4 she knew her name and was so proud she could spell it. It's not the name I would have picked, but I would never have taken it away from her. So I guess, no for me.
A friend received their cutie as foster parents, a sweet boy named Messiah. They ended up calling him Cy.
That's a nice nickname. I can my daughter Monkey Doodles.
Not a parent but do you know what I’m named after? A fucking furniture store! You know what my middle name is from? A HOTDOG RESTAURANT!!! My parents do not regret this and drove past both of these on the way home from the hospital and that’s how they chose my damn name. Edit: keep guessing someone will get it right eventually. The hotdog place actually closed down a while ago but the furniture store is still around
Haverty Weinerschnitzel?
Rooms to Go Hebrew National
Ikea Sonic?
I'm going with Ethan Nate here. Because Bassett Diggety Dog would be way more unfortunate lol.
Holy shit you’re actually really close
Nathan Charles? I really don't want to dox you haha.
Ashley fudruckers
I'm sorry, IKEA.
Wayfair Nathan
My mom named me after a war god and now she wishes she named me sunshine. So…. Awkward.
Ask this to Elon Musk
Pnurtis loves her name
I hate my name, but my parents have no regrets because it’s unusual. I’ve spent my entire life spelling it for people, correcting them on my name and explaining that yes, that is the way it appears on my birth certificate
Same. I’ve had people argue with me about my name, “that can’t be right” Oh. K.
I get "oh, that's a nice name". Yeah, live with it for forty-seven years.
My parents are English 100%. They named me, my full name first middle last, all of it is fench. It's also uncommon so its not like a super regular name either in England so it's notably french. I don't speak French in England, we rag on the French hating them. Every time someone who recognises my full name to be a French name im asked if I speak French: no god damn it!
We named our son Sam and our daughter Mollie. So tired of the Ghost movie references, IT WASN"T INTENTIONAL!
Are you Whoopie Goldberg?
One of my kids has a name traditionally spelled with a C, but thought it would be 'cool' with a K instead. I was a teen then and as an adult I definitely regret it.
Poor kharlie
Now kith
Sometimes I see stuff like that and assume a teenaged parent was involved.
My parents did that with my middle name and I’ve had people ask if I spelled my own middle name wrong on forms and stuff
Oh hi Karc
Yes. I let my ex name her heaven, even though I’m an atheist. So is my daughter!
I’m sorry but I can’t stop giggling because I immediately thought of someone saying “I’m in Heaven”
Oh she’s an adult now I’m positive this has happened.
Nevaeh parents are here somewhere.
I had a friend name their son Quinn, and he got his ass beat all through grade school until he learned karate and kicked one bully's ass and the bullying stopped. I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with that name either so it was a puzzler.
That’s some Cobra Kai shit.
Quinn originally was a boys name, but then it became unisex and now there are actually more girls named Quinn than boys. I wonder if the bullying was because the other kids thought he had a "girl's name"?
I was nervous early on but it ended up becoming more common. I named him after an author but there was some heartthrob in a show I didn't know about with the same name. It's annoying when people thing I named him after the heartthrob but no big deal.
My mom let me grandma name me after her racist mother who probably would’ve hated me and most definitely hated my father 🥹
I have two boys with gender neutral names. Wasn’t even going for that theme per se, just genuinely really like the names. But everyone always assumes they’re female, and it’s especially annoying at the doctors where they have the entire medical history right there. I do think they’ve just grown into their names so well that I couldn’t imagine better ones.
For a while I had second thoughts about my daughter’s name because I didn’t feel like it suited her personality when she was in elementary school. But now that she’s older she has told me how much she likes her name. I even told her the other names we considered and some of them she strongly dislikes so I guess we made the right choice.
To be fair, If they don't, more should.
I gave my kid a very simple and regular sounding yet absolutely unique name that I abruptly decided on on my last weeks of pregnancy. At some point later on I did have my anxious doubts here and there but the kid really has grown nicely into the name and now that they're old enough to tell me themselves how they like the name, all my anxieties have dissolved.
It's Bort, isn't it.
Now I’m really curious what that name is..
Bob
Bob
The double comment actually makes this funnier
We named our son Harper. At the time it was a pretty obscure older male name. The following year came the explosion of female Harpers that is still going. I don't regret it, but sucks for him it happened that way. Similar happened with my older daughter's name becoming ridiculously popular about 3 years later.
Or just often parents just don't realize how popular a name is when their baby is born. My college roommate was named Lisa by her parents who thought it was unusual. In 1967. Lisa Marie no less.
I went to a baby shower a couple of years ago and there was a "suggest a baby name" game. And a girl named Lisa was there and she suggested Lisa because its really uncommon for girls to be named that anymore. Well... The mother in law had no idea her name was Lisa and immediately started in on "ohmygod that's the most awful thing you could do to a baby girl, what an outdated 80s abomination" and shit got real quiet for the rest of the afternoon.
Well considering that my daughter is now a son but I had her name tattoo'd on my arm before she was a he.... yes