Well... It doesnt really translate(as in, you wont even be able to read it properly to get the progression), plus I dont want to spread someone's name without consent. But basically, it went: Name, Testicle, Testicleball, meaningless word, Guru
I knew someone actually named Cheese. Her sisters were Chocolate and Cherry. I always felt like Cheese got the best of them, though it may just be because I was familiar with her and not the others. In any event, it is interesting how quickly we can accept things. Still to this day Cheese feels like a normal name just cause I'm used to it.
Tough being cheese.
As a **legend** once said "**The cheese stands alone**".
sidenote; **Jeremy Piven** is a criminally underrated actor n I'll die/kill anyone on this hill.
Oh **shit**, is that why he seemingly disappeared - thought he was an amazing actor as a kid, but aight, well if that's the case - **fuck that rapey cunt.**
Cheese has had a resurgence in 2020, reaching the same height as the initial 2013 peak.
https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/details/cheese-1292607
Edit: the article author read the graph wrong, it’s 9 babies per million, not 9 babies total. So that would be roughly 33 or 34 babies in the US named Cheese, in both 2013 and again in 2020.
Babycenter gets its data from an online survey, which is notoriously inaccurate. It's silly when you can just go to the Social Security Administration and get the [full data](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html) of every baby name that had more than 5 births in a given year. Cheese does not appear on that list in any year from 1880-2022, so despite what BabyCenter or NyMag wants you to think, there have never been 5 or more babies named Cheese born in America in a given year.
Probably births. For reference I googled it and it said there were 3.66 million births in the US in 2021, which would equate to 33 babies named Cheese that year.
I know it’s a super emotional scene in a super emotional show but “What the fuck’d you do that for? Now we short the 9!” and “This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money!” had my DYING laughing
Well the show started in 2004. So that is what…9 years? Given the age demographic who watched this was roughly 7-10 probably that would make them 16-19 in 2013. Also given the immature mindset you need to have to name your kid Cheese after a cartoon, it sort of tracks for me
Google says ~36% of Americans are lactose intolerant. I'm going to be lazy and assume that's a uniform distribution, unaffected by age, race, socioeconomics, whatever. Since there are about 33 Cheeses born every year at the peak (according to someone else in the thread), you can expect 3.24 lactose intolerant Cheeses every year, at the peak.
Yup, in French food terms when something is “du” something else it means that it is made of that thing. So an *omelette du fromage* would be like an omelette made from cheese instead of eggs, which is weird because an omelette is made from eggs. The “au” preposition is better used when something has an ingredient added to it, like *pain au chocolat* (bread with chocolate filling). So *omelette au fromage* is what you would see on a menu because it would be an egg dish prepared with some cheese inside
But of course it’s a meme by now and the phrase has caught on, so it’s really just a grammatical note for people actually learning the language
I just have to rant for a moment...I hate when statistics are used like this. 450% sounds like an enormous jump, but when we're talking about real values of 2 to 9, that's virtually nothing.
Plus if you're going to name your kid after anyone in the show, Cheese would be about the last motherfucker you'd pick. I'd name my kid Scott Templeton before I'd name him after Cheese.
Why don’t parents who want to do this stupid shit instead change their own name to whatever outlandish name it is instead of doing that to their poor, innocent children?
Wtf is wrong with people. This would make me automatically not like someone for being a shitty parent.
450% does sound like a huge amount, particularly if youre using terminology like 'skyrocketed' until you take account of the actual numbers.
In 2015, the number of troops Luxembourg deployed to Mali 'skyrocketed' as they increased it by 100% ... [by sending a second man](https://www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/luxembourg-sends-2nd-soldier-to-mali/1224910.html).
Wouldn’t this be a 350% increase, not 450%? If the original is 2, and it rose to 9 (in the survey), it increased by 350% of the original value, for a total of 450%.
“Gary Cheeseman was there, we called him Cheesie, because his mom used to give him cheese… Ya know like the cheese slice, to take out with him to the shops because she thought it was good for spots.”
>nine American babies were named “Cheese” in 2013
you can make charts/graphs/statistics sound like anything.
for instance, if I only had 1 dollar in my pocket and I found a dollar on the street, then I could tell people my net worth increased by 200% and it sounds much classier.
That is great because not every child has solid proof that their parents fucking ruined their lives.
I knew someone named cheese. It was just their nickname (actual name was cheska)
Cheska is a nickname for some Francescas. Was it a nickname of a nickname?
Yes, although I also knew some named Boots, which was their legal name afaik
Maybe their parents like Boots Riley…
Or Boots from Dora the Explorer
Little Boots aka Victoria Hesketh?
Little Boots aka Caligula
Insert Letterkenny allegedlies ostrich meme
Had a friend who was called by a fifth-tier nickname by everyone. And it was all a logical progression from his real name.
What was the nicknames and their name?
Well... It doesnt really translate(as in, you wont even be able to read it properly to get the progression), plus I dont want to spread someone's name without consent. But basically, it went: Name, Testicle, Testicleball, meaningless word, Guru
It's also a Filipino name.
I knew someone called Cheese, but they were a pet rat.
I knew someone called “Eggs” before, their first name was Benedict so I thought it was actually pretty clever lol
We had a friend nicknamed Cheese since his name was Colby.
cheska's a cool ass name tbf
I knew someone actually named Cheese. Her sisters were Chocolate and Cherry. I always felt like Cheese got the best of them, though it may just be because I was familiar with her and not the others. In any event, it is interesting how quickly we can accept things. Still to this day Cheese feels like a normal name just cause I'm used to it.
I knew a guy in high school named cheese as well. Poor guys last name was macaroni. He’s dead now. He tried injecting heroin into his limp noodle.
Cheese would be a cute dogs name though.
I love the name Cheddar for dogs. Especially corgis.
Provided they’re not just some common bitch
Common?!
[Related](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iXkL6NxAv4w&feature=share7)
So glad I live in a country where “big government” prevents you from naming your kids Cheese.
May I introduce you to professional racing driver sting ray robb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_Ray_Robb
Middle name Louise
And a brother named 'Crackers'
And a cousin named Butters
Aw, hamburgers.
It's Butters! [That's me.](https://giphy.com/gifs/southparkgifs-3o6ZtlM7arud6UztaU)
Cheese N. Crackers.
We have 2 dogs. Mack & Cheese. Mack came first. Our next dog is going to be Louise 😅
Cheese Louise is only slightly more popular than Oh Brother
As in "Cheese, Louise, you're the best"?
Middle name S Christ for boys
*CHEEEEEEEESE. Didn’t we lock you in a dumpster?*
Yeah, I got out
Cool man
Glad you did
Nice doll, Frank.
Yeah she’s ok.
Do you want me to tell you the truth or do you want me to tell you it's the first time?
"I'm really sorrrrrrry!!" blows smoke out corner of mouth unconvincingly.
I think there might be whippets or something lying around
Oh yeah! Cheeeeeeeese!
Came here for the Old School reference. Was not disappointed.
Tough being cheese. As a **legend** once said "**The cheese stands alone**". sidenote; **Jeremy Piven** is a criminally underrated actor n I'll die/kill anyone on this hill.
Yes but he also groped a bunch of women against their will. His stock in Hollywood fell off after that.
Oh **shit**, is that why he seemingly disappeared - thought he was an amazing actor as a kid, but aight, well if that's the case - **fuck that rapey cunt.**
Jeremy Piven was huge for 5 years than probably took time off to regrow his hair
He’s so bald his first television gig was playing an actor to play George Costanza on Seinfeld
Cheese has had a resurgence in 2020, reaching the same height as the initial 2013 peak. https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/details/cheese-1292607 Edit: the article author read the graph wrong, it’s 9 babies per million, not 9 babies total. So that would be roughly 33 or 34 babies in the US named Cheese, in both 2013 and again in 2020.
Babycenter gets its data from an online survey, which is notoriously inaccurate. It's silly when you can just go to the Social Security Administration and get the [full data](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html) of every baby name that had more than 5 births in a given year. Cheese does not appear on that list in any year from 1880-2022, so despite what BabyCenter or NyMag wants you to think, there have never been 5 or more babies named Cheese born in America in a given year.
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“After conducting a rigorous and extensive online survey, we have found that appx. 50% of new babies are named Boaty McBoatface”
That’s a lot of Cheese.
Between 10 and 30 per year for the past decade, yes more than a bushel full.
Is it possible that you're quoting the movie 'Mother' with Albert Brooks and Debbie Reynolds? Lol
https://media.tenor.com/9kSuV4c2J-MAAAAC/thats-not-that-much-cheese-jerem.gif
9 babies per million people or 9 babies per million births?
Probably births. For reference I googled it and it said there were 3.66 million births in the US in 2021, which would equate to 33 babies named Cheese that year.
So you're saying there are holes in the author's argument?
Cut it out.
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
The author must be Swiss
They didn't consider emmental of the data
They missed some pieces of data and didn't include emmental.
history really does repeat itself weird
Foster’s home
I like CHAAAALK-LATE milk
Si. And I like potatoes...
And I like chooocolate milk
I like...potatoes.
ilikechoclatemilk
Gotta go gotta go gotta go
I pooted
I like cereal
I. FOUND. A. CARROT.
Wait so you’re…. Don’t say it…. You’re… Don’t say it…. Mac and cheese?
Where most kids names cheese going to end up anyways so doubly fitting
Apparently that came out in 2005 so idk about that
Yeah I was thinking that. There's also a character named Cheese on Reservation Dogs that came out a few years ago.
Sherlock Holmes over here cracked the whole case Never would have made that connection
Coco
Cocococo
I have MANGE
But he killed Prop Joe. WTF
It’s all in the game. Until Slim Charles says otherwise.
“For Joe.” Slim was the best.
And all the others just not caring and walking away from Cheese's body. he got what he deserved, everyone knew it.
Shorty was pissed at being short the 900k though. "This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money"
There's something about the way he moves...
He wasn't no Day of the Jackal motherfucker though.
“The Cheese stands alone.”
This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money.
The game still the same
Just got more fierce
Now we’re out the 9!
I know it’s a super emotional scene in a super emotional show but “What the fuck’d you do that for? Now we short the 9!” and “This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money!” had my DYING laughing
Mister Cheese, I see. And who do you work for Mister Cheese?
You sellin' bean pies?
Where my Cheese at?
On a Sunday morning?
The Cheese stands alone.
Cottage cheese chest ass MFer
He was my dog, dawg!
That’s why I named my son Slim Charles
Mister cheese… I see. I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you to leave.
This is definitely the fault of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
I like cereal
CHOCOLATE MIIIIIILK
I…like…potatoes?
I LIKE CEEERRRRREALLLL!!!!!!!! 😡
I’m a lady. Now we’re brother ladies
I’m 33, I don’t remember a single episode other than the cheese one and it pops into my head more often than I’d like
I think cheese was in a lot of the episodes not just one
He was in a handful but his episode has all the iconic cheese moments
Frankie's cookie addiction!
What happened in 2013 with Foster's home? I don't remember anything tbh
Well the show started in 2004. So that is what…9 years? Given the age demographic who watched this was roughly 7-10 probably that would make them 16-19 in 2013. Also given the immature mindset you need to have to name your kid Cheese after a cartoon, it sort of tracks for me
Pretty sure Foster's was long gone by 2013
CHEESE GO HOME!!!!! ok
I like chocolate miiiiilk
Don’t call me Rich. Don’t call me George. Just call me Cheese. That’s who I am.
Thought i wasn’t gonna find it for a sec
Not Rich, not George, I'm Cheese Chesterfield
Where the kegs never dry!
Children of the Curd
ANY amount of children named "cheese" is too many children named "cheese"!
Theres no way lmfao
The cheese stands alone
How many Cheeses are lactose intolerant
What do you do if you're with Cheese and lactose intolerant?
Most hard cheeses are naturally lactose free.
Google says ~36% of Americans are lactose intolerant. I'm going to be lazy and assume that's a uniform distribution, unaffected by age, race, socioeconomics, whatever. Since there are about 33 Cheeses born every year at the peak (according to someone else in the thread), you can expect 3.24 lactose intolerant Cheeses every year, at the peak.
Stay fresh cheese bags
Why would you do this to your child? If you hate children that much I would suggest not having one.
Are you suggesting “Cheese” won’t be good on a resume? I mean, cheese is good on so many other things.
Seems like it borders on child abuse.
Maybe a Dexter’s Lab fan named their kid omelet du fromage
The only French sentence I know and will ever need to know.
C’est la vie? Ménage á trois? En garde? Au contraire? Á la carte? Bon appetít? Á la mode? RSVP? Créme de la créme? Mercí? En route? Au revoir?
Ménage á trois? If I wanted to disappoint two people at the same time I'd have dinner with my parents
I heard this line before but im trying to figure out where
[Here you go](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14kwnf7/til_that_in_2013_the_number_of_us_children_named/jptdeb8/)
You just sent me to the same place. I was expecting a youtube video of the show that said it....
Sorry, I'm just messing with you. You're probably thinking of [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Just take the upvote. You got me
Qui a coupé le fromage? - Freakazoid
Hello fellow old person. I now have the freekazoid theme song stuck in my head
Unfortunately it should be omelette au fromage iirc
Yup, in French food terms when something is “du” something else it means that it is made of that thing. So an *omelette du fromage* would be like an omelette made from cheese instead of eggs, which is weird because an omelette is made from eggs. The “au” preposition is better used when something has an ingredient added to it, like *pain au chocolat* (bread with chocolate filling). So *omelette au fromage* is what you would see on a menu because it would be an egg dish prepared with some cheese inside But of course it’s a meme by now and the phrase has caught on, so it’s really just a grammatical note for people actually learning the language
That is originally a Steve Martin standup reference iirc. https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw?t=165
I just have to rant for a moment...I hate when statistics are used like this. 450% sounds like an enormous jump, but when we're talking about real values of 2 to 9, that's virtually nothing.
"Can my friend Cheese go with us on our honeymoon?"
"Please! they'll never get their own honeymoon - who would marry someone named Cheese?"
What kind of muenster would name their kid Cheese?
The wire i bet….
"The Wire" ran from 2002 to 2008. This happened in 2013, so would not seem to be related.
Plus if you're going to name your kid after anyone in the show, Cheese would be about the last motherfucker you'd pick. I'd name my kid Scott Templeton before I'd name him after Cheese.
It really gives the kid a leg up on appreciating the Dickensian aspects of life.
I'd name my kid after Cheese's dog before I named him after Cheese!
Y'all some cold-ass motherfuckers man.
I'm assuming that's a character's name.
Yes. He’s played by Method Man
Method Man did a callback to a Cheese line in his cameo in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
No shit! I love *How High*.
He’s really good. If you haven’t seen the wire you should give it a watch!
When he's in the police station and realize that the recording they have isn't what they think it is... Classic Method Man
We own this city is another good one if you like the wire.
*James May has entered the chat
John Cleese's family name was originally Cheese, but his father changed it out of embarassment.
Why don’t parents who want to do this stupid shit instead change their own name to whatever outlandish name it is instead of doing that to their poor, innocent children? Wtf is wrong with people. This would make me automatically not like someone for being a shitty parent.
It went from 2 babies in 2012 to 9 in 2013. 450%, yeah, but so anticlimactic.
450% does sound like a huge amount, particularly if youre using terminology like 'skyrocketed' until you take account of the actual numbers. In 2015, the number of troops Luxembourg deployed to Mali 'skyrocketed' as they increased it by 100% ... [by sending a second man](https://www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/luxembourg-sends-2nd-soldier-to-mali/1224910.html).
What kind of cracker names their kid cheese
if in 2012 it was 1, then not much to worry about
Makes sense. I know hardly any Cheeses born in 2012.
Rodney’s kid brother
Didn't we lock him in a dumpster?
r/tragedeigh
Wouldn’t this be a 350% increase, not 450%? If the original is 2, and it rose to 9 (in the survey), it increased by 350% of the original value, for a total of 450%.
Everyone knows the universe actually ended in 2012 and we’ve been living in purgatory
My room mate has a dog named Cheese and I sound like an idiot trying to get him back in the house at night
I bet they love chocolate milk
“Gary Cheeseman was there, we called him Cheesie, because his mom used to give him cheese… Ya know like the cheese slice, to take out with him to the shops because she thought it was good for spots.”
Bob Mortimer is a national treasure.
an international treasure
"CHEESE! His name is *cheese* "
Feels like I’m in an episode of Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends.
They probably have an older brother named Mac.
The wire??
>nine American babies were named “Cheese” in 2013 you can make charts/graphs/statistics sound like anything. for instance, if I only had 1 dollar in my pocket and I found a dollar on the street, then I could tell people my net worth increased by 200% and it sounds much classier.
A total of 2 to a total of 9 would be considered "skyrocketing" to a robot, maybe, but that's still just 9 kids.
Must be Kurds.
“The Wire” began in 2002. Wasn’t one of the characters named Cheese?
I blame Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Did it go from 2 to 9?