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Baby names are a very common dilemma for parents. Most parents want to give their children names that are meaningful, unique, and practical at the same time. And sometimes, that's a tall order to fill. According to a BabyCentral survey, 9% of moms regret the names they gave their babies. In turn, only 2% of grown-up Americans say they hate their birth name, and 4% just dislike it.
While it may seem that children don't hate their names as much as parents may fear, it's still hard to tell how a certain name will affect a child as they go through life. For a child, a unique and meaningful name can still mean years of ridicule and annoying comments from strangers and friends alike.
Some parents understand how badly they messed up just a few years or months in, and Bored Panda has collected the experiences of these parents from several online threads to show just how much some moms and dads regret naming their babies.
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#1
Named my son Angus. He can't pronounce his g's yet :(
Kim Gatlin 2 months ago
That's hilarious. Just give the little guy a guitar and a schoolboy uniform. He'll be ok.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
My inner 13-year-old sense of humor misses that show SO much. I know it was super dangerous and they all got beat to sh!t physically over the years from the stunts, but I still LOVED watching the show (and the movies.)
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#2
I used to have some regrets about my daughter's name. When she was 3 years old her name skyrocketed in popularity and has been a top 3 name in my country ever since. So much for me choosing a fairly unique name.. I struggled with it for a while, but I got over it. It just fits her perfectly.
My youngest has changed their name when they came out as non binary, and it felt right from the start. It's not a name/style I would have picked, but I never had any trouble adjusting, it just clicked straight away.
Their deadname was a lovely name but I cringe whenever I hear it now. That's not my kid!
Funny thing is, when I was pregnant with my daughter she came to me in a dream and told me her name, so that's what I went with. When I was pregnant with my youngest I had a dream about a kid, and I asked what their name was, and they responded with "just pick one, it doesn't matter".
In retrospect it feels like they told me it didn't matter because they were always planning on picking their own name when they were ready. It was never supposed to be more than a temporary name.
Luke Branwen 2 months ago
😆 The enby kid was like "Just pick a placeholder, idc." Also this is one S-tier mother.
nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
I don't know why people want unique names for their kids. I am eternally grateful that my parents wanted us to have ordinary, "normal" names.
Johnnynatfan 2 months ago
I have no problem with anyone who is transgender but something seems wrong to me about calling the name your parents gave you a "deadname". If you had s****y parents I can see that but if they are loving and supportive I think some other term is nicer. Maybe my middle aged white male self is just over thinking it also.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
It is not the parent in this case who chose the term "deadname"; many transgender/non-binary/gender-neutral people use the term as they feel that the identity/name forced upon them at birth is now a "dead" person once they are allowed to actually express who they are and choose a name that fits who they are. Since they never felt that that "person"/name was actually "who" they were/are, it makes sense that the identity is "dead" once they are allowed to be who they truly are inside. I'm not trans/NB myself, but that is my understanding of it, from discussions with my friends :)
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
IMHO, everybody over the age of legal adulthood should be allowed ONE name change, for free, without having to take time off from work to go to the courthouse. That would take care of a lot of people who don’t like their name, or who transition, or really any other reason. More than one name change, though—and you should have to pay and go through the hassles (because it would be chaos if a lot of people changed their names every year.)
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
That sounds an awful lot like 15-year-old me angrily screaming "I'm NOT an atheist, because atheists don't believe in God and that means admitting God still EXISTS but I just don't BELIEVE in him, so I REFUSE to be called an atheist!" - in other words, spurious and facetious. Non-binary literally means "not binary" - you are NOT part of the binary system if you are NON-binary. It means you are OUTSIDE of the system. Not a part of it at all.
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#3
I named my daughter Karen. Thanks, Internet.
StPaul9 2 months ago
Well, I have never met a nasty woman named Karen. All of them have been wonderful. D**n it, Internet.
Farah (she/her) 2 months ago
My therapist was called Karen she was so sweet
Load More Replies... Billo66 2 months ago (edited)
First day of school, the teacher was having the children introduce themselves. One little girl said her name was "Happy Bütt" Teacher said that can't be right. She looked in her attendance book and said, "It says here your name is Gladys" Little girl says Happy Bütt, Glad äss, whats the difference?
Sarah 2 months ago (edited)
It’s a trend .. in a few years time it’ll be forgotten . In early 2000s a friend with surname Matthews really wanted to call Daughter Meg. But wouldn’t do it because she said daughter would now have same name as Meg Matthew’s married to one the oasis brothers. At the time MM was all over tabloids. No matter how hard I tried to convince her that by then time she was a teen no one her age will know of MM. silly behaviour
Chai Block 2 months ago
Karen as a name was originally a Danish short version of Katherine, it just became popular as a name because of the Viking influence. Katherine itself originally meant "Pure", so you can reclaim that :)
Sam Trudeau 2 months ago
The other similar name that would be only bad because "internet" is "Alexa". And by "internet" I mean Amazon.
Billo66 2 months ago
And for my friends in New Zealand. I want to visit Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. I hear it's a nice hill. I just can't get directions.
Savannah greenleaf 2 months ago
Had to google that. It looks like a very pretty area.
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Michael Largey 2 months ago
If the Internet has ruined things for her, have ask to see its manager.
For many parents, the name they give their child seems fine until the baby arrives. Then, comments from family members, friends, and sometimes even strangers begin. Parents may start to see that, although unique, the name they've picked isn't all that they thought it would be. The disappointment is real – months of research and planning result in disappointment and heartbreak.
Sometimes, a name suddenly might become associated with something bad if the baby's famous namesake becomes infamous. For example, fewer parents are willing to name their kids after celebrities. Names like Rihanna, Kourtney, Donald, Zayn, Kylie, Miley, and others are becoming names that parents avoid when picking monikers for their children.
#4
Named my son Gunner, we call him Gun for short. Started kindergarten, first day of school he was so excited to grt inside he ran in the parking lot. I screamed "Gun stop" caused massive panic.
sturmwesen 2 months ago
rule of thumb: try: yelling the name/nickname, try the initals, spell backwards, does it sound good for an adult?, does it have to be spelled out?
Trillian 2 months ago
And see if that name also works in your native language
Load More Replies... Luke Branwen 2 months ago
Naming your child "Gunner" is kinda yikes by itself. A uniquely Republican flavor of tragedeigh.
Agfox 2 months ago
I remember reading about a woman who regretted having to stand on her front porch at night calling out "Whoopie" to try & get her cat to return home. Another good reason to keep cats inside or in fully enclosed yards
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
At least she didn't call the cat "Fire".
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Hassel Davidhoff 2 months ago
I work in a rural library in the U.S South. On the weekend I met a kid named Tuff. It was confirmed that this was NOT his nickname.
Diane Tucker 2 months ago
Well I guess it's the same as naming your dog -- you're going tot have to shout it out loud in pubic at some point. Check that stuff!
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
There’s a Nordic name, Gunnar (spelled with an A, not an E.) But I think it works better in Nordic countries, and especially not in the U.S.
#5
Friend's family is from India. His parents immigrated here hardly knowing English, let alone any American slang. They named him Hardik (a relatively common Indian name). Grade school was the worst for him, but he stuck it out until after college. He finally changed his name to Haresh.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
There's an Indian cricketer called Hardik Pandya, but I guess cricket isn't very popular in the US so most people wouldn't know that.
Julie S 2 months ago
Reminds me of that wonderful bit of commentary by Brian Johnson "The bowlers holding the batsman's willey".
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David 2 months ago
Bobby Jindal's name is Piyush, his parents were immigrants from India and he grew up in Baton Rouge, and he got teased for it, so he asked his parents as a kid for an American name, they told him to pick one, he picked bobby, and has been known by it since. Nikki Haley's birth name was Nimarata Nikki (Nikki is a Punjabi name) and growing in a mostly white area of South Carolina, she went by her middle name as a kid, bc while a different spelling than the english name Nickie, its pronounced the same, which made it easier for her. A lot of foreign kids have trouble when their names dont translate well into the local language (not just non-white kids in the west, but white kids who grow up in places like Japan or Korea for example) and pick local names as a nickname.
MagicalUnicorn 2 months ago
as someone who worked with indian colleague named Kurva, i get it...
#6
Well I don’t think they regret it or care but my name is Latina and I’m black. I always get asked about it and have to explain that it was completely arbitrary and I speak no Spanish.
Edit: to clarify, I’m not saying I have a Latin name, my name is literally the word Latina.
Apatheist Account2 2 months ago
"La" seems quite a popular prefix among black girls, and "De" among the boys.
Luckily, there are ways out. Some parents choose to change their baby's name a few weeks or months after they're born. In fact, according to a 2019 survey by Channel Mum, 20% of parents who weren't happy with their kids' names call them by a nickname or a different name altogether. And 14% have considered legally changing their names.
Some cultures have solved this conundrum by using "temporary" names and nicknames upon birth. In China, for example, a baby is given a "milk name," a familial nickname before birth. As time goes by, the milk name might be forgotten as the real first name takes its place. But it's a good chance for the family to see if the name the parents picked sticks.
#7
I'm from the north of England, Yorkshire specifically. A girl I used to work with pondered for ages over what to call her kid. She didn't want anything he could be made fun of for but still something not too old fashioned. She settled on Sol (Pronounced Soul). All was well until her grandmother enquired after the kid in her broad yorkshire accent "How's ar sol?".
Jay Scales 2 months ago
This one made me laugh :D He's gonna have to move south to escape that! :D
Johnnynatfan 2 months ago
Sol = Sun in Spanish. Not bad. My nephews name is Delante which in Spanish means " in front of" My sister didn't think that through.
Farah (she/her) 2 months ago (edited)
hows arsol sounds like hows arsehole (a**e instead of a*s in british)
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When I had my first son, I was young and naive. My ex, a felon, wanted to make our sons middle name Arian. What I DIDN'T KNOW, was that "a***n" is a prison g**g of white supremacists. Well, luckily he misspelled it (He's kinda dumb), but when I realized what he'd done I had it legally changed to Aaron.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago (edited)
"Ary@n" with a 'y' and a normal 'a' is a common Indian name. (It was censored by BP.)
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
Aryøns were originally from India, if I remember correctly.
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I knew an Analeze once, and when she was 8, they realized that the unique spelling of her name was a popular personal lubricant.
Borg 2 months ago
well....just the fact that the parents thought it was a good idea to literally chose a name starting with "a n a l" says a lot about either their intelligence og lack of fantasie. Poor girl.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I wonder if they thought it was a clever spelling of "Annalise" :/
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Lynn Peterman 2 months ago
We had a girl at school named Evagiselle. The principal, over the radio, called her E-Vagisel.
If parents realize they don't like their baby's name after they're born and have already been named, they most likely need to act fast. Pamela Redmond Satran, co-founder of Nameberry.com, told TODAY.com that the cutoff for changing a child's name is around one year. Another important element is not to get stuck overthinking.
"Sometimes I want to say to parents, 'Just pick something!'" Satran said. "Whether you name her Jennifer or Gentry or Eugenia, it's not really going to determine how good her life is. You can overthink it too, because every name has advantages and disadvantages, and it can really be impossible."
#10
When my sister was 5, my parents adopted her from Russia, and decided they wanted to change her name. My dad wanted Kelly. My mom thought Kelly was too boring and insisted on sticking "Ann" onto it. My dad thought this was stupid-sounding but my mom is bossy as fuck so they changed her name to Kelly Ann. When she started high school, people started calling my sister by just "Kelly" and it stuck. My mom is pissed and my dad feels like he won.
Also, I was adopted too and they decided not to change my name. It's Mariel, but when I went to college people started calling me "Ellie" for short. My sister and I are now Kelly and Ellie. Our mother hates this.
nicholas nolan 2 months ago
F****n changing the name of a five year old? WHAT THE F**K?! It's a child, not a shelter cat, you f***s.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I'd give the parents a little grace in this case - it sounds like the child was adopted from another country, and sometimes it is difficult to pronounce given names from another country, especially for children. Also, if the child's name was very unusual for, say, America (but a normal girl's name in Russia), she may have gotten teased or mocked by the other children just for having an unusual name. Think names like Olga, Kseniya, Irina, Svetlana, etc. - all very normal and traditional in Russia, but not as common in America. I'm not saying it's always the "right" or correct thing to do, but that perhaps it's not as awful as you're making it out to be.
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I worked at Disney World a few years ago as a photographer. I was taking pictures of these two little girls with a character and they were really enjoying the experience. The parents were ready to move on and told the girls it was time to go. The oldest one, who was about four, moved but the youngest one, who was two, kept playing. Finally the mom said, "Come on, Elsa." I looked down and realized she had a pin that said "Happy Birthday Elsa." I asked the mom if that was really her name. She sighed and said, "Yeah... she's Elsa." This was about six months after Frozen came out. You can tell they never expected that name to get as wildly popular as it did.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
Upvote! When I was a little girl, I loved “Born Free.”
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Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I taught a girl called Ana. She was 3 and would have been 2 when Frozen came out. She seemed happy with it, as did her mum (I think it was a traditional name in her language).
Diane Tucker 2 months ago
When I was a kid there was a crazy popular movie called Born Free, about a lioness named Elsa. I still think of that when I hear the name.
#12
I let my ex pick my daughter's middle name, since he agreed to the first name I had always wanted for a potential daughter. He choose Isis, after the Egyptian goddess. This was before Isis (Islamic state of Iraq and Syria) was a thing. I never loved it, but I figured it was just a middle name, so who cares? Now I care, a lot.
Upstaged75 2 months ago
I went to high school with a girl whose FIRST name is Isis. It didn't have any negative associations back then.
Child of the Stars 2 months ago
It's really unfortunate too. The goddess Isis was all about gender equality. She's even become a symbol for feminism.
SheamusFanFrom1987 2 months ago (edited)
I met a girl named Isis when holidaying with my Broskis 4 Life in Japan (Technically we met her parents first and she came along with the package obviously). We celebrate Christmas together occasionally and I will always have the distinction among us of figuring out the meaning behind her name (Egyptian Goddess and not THAT organization).
nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
I named my cat Isis way back when. She was a black cat, and named after the cat in Star Trek. The "Assignment: Earth" episode, the one with Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
Taught three kids who call had Egyptian names as second names: Isis, Osiris and Cleopatra. Their first names were Regomoditswe, Moosa and Palesa. Moosa and Palesa went by their South African names but Regomoditswe went by Isis.
Farah (she/her) 2 months ago
Isis is a very pretty name. Shame it was changed into something vile like that
Caffeinated Ape 2 months ago
This is why it annoys me that the media propagated that term for the group instead of ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or Daesh. Thankfully nowadays I mostly just see them referred to as IS and the association can return to the Egyptian deity and not the fundamentalist terror group. Isis is a pretty name.
On the other hand, many parents feel as if they have to bow to external pressure to rename their kids. Granted, some names can really be inappropriate, like one girl's name on this list that sounds like an adults-only product. However, it should also be said that sometimes, a baby's name is the parents' business, not anybody else's. If they like the name and don't regret it, they should be able to go about their lives without receiving demeaning comments and criticism from friends and family members.
#13
My friend's sister made a deal with her husband; she would name the first child and he could name the second. He has a last name that can be used for a first name and he'd always wanted to name his child lastname lastname. We'll say Jordan, for the sake of example. He wanted to name his child Jordan Jordan. Everyone told him it was a terrible idea, that he was setting his kid up for mountains of paperwork errors and long explanations, but he was insistent.
The baby was born, he named it Jordan Jordan, but as they were checking out of the hospital the paperwork so confused the billing person and took so long to sort out that he immediately changed the first name to something reasonable.
nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
I once knew a guy whose surname was Doctor. Later he got his PhD.
Jay Cee 2 months ago
Policeman at our local station had the family name of Sergeant. PC Sergeant was fine as was Inspector Sergeant - he couldn't wait to get promoted from the rank of Sergeant Sergeant. But wait, there's more. His uncle who lived in the next village had hated his time in the army and called his son Francis Urban (Catholic family, it was a Pope's name). That's right, he named his kid F U Sergeant! (Honest truth).
Load More Replies... Luke Branwen 2 months ago
I know a Czech traveler whose name is Pavel Pavel, IIRC he figured out how the people of Rapa Nui moved the Moai statues
CP 2 months ago
Those two names are different. The "s" changes everything! 😅
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We went with less common-in-their-generation ‘normal’ names. Older child got called the trendier similar name quite a bit, but was ferocious about correcting people.
Younger child we gave a girl a more common boy name. It works, she likes it enough, despite’s years of people reading it and saying “he” until they knew. This bit us back in a humorous way last year. We had a new calf born while she was home. We asked for names. She suggested Daisy. “Well it’s a boy” “you named me —————-“. Ah, yup. We have bull named Daisy. :D.
LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
Casual reminder that the Reynolds/Blakely coupling gave the world a young girl they named James, so...
Crissy Newbury 2 months ago
My daughter’s friend called her little girls Nirvana and Valhalla. I love it!
#15
My name is Jessica, which is the name my dad wanted. Mom wanted to name me Clarissa. I was born early and they hadn’t settled on a name, a nurse suggested combining them... they seriously considered naming me Clarissica. They had even decided my nickname would be Rissy. I am so glad Mom decided Jessica was fine, I never would have forgiven them.
amy lee 2 months ago
Or how many times she's made this suggestion and the parents went with it... her culpability in the current terrible name era we are living in could be huge.
Load More Replies... Lily bloom 2 months ago
I was going to name a daughter Melica (pronounced melleeka) combining two of my high school best friends. We drifted apart long before I had kids so I scrapped that idea. Had 3 other names picked out, but alas, none of my 3 daughters have any of them
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
When I was born a few doors down another baby girl was also born. They called her Jessica and apparently it was gossiped about. If anyone knows why ‘Jessica’ was a comment worthy name in 60s UK please let me know. Was it a ‘made up name’? Out of fashion? Too modern? Common? Posh? I read the OP and think, yet again, call your babies what you want.
Certified nurse-midwife, pediatric nurse, and founder of Gathered Birth, Diana Spalding, CNM, is a big believer in not saying anything at all. Even when you don't like someone else's baby name. "You are not going to like everyone's baby name decisions and that's okay. But please, keep your opinions about other people's baby name choices to yourself," she writes.
"When a parent tells you their baby name choice, tell them you love it, or don't say anything at all. 'I can't wait to meet them' is always a lovely thing to say! Anything negative and hurtful needs to be kept to yourself."
#16
Meh. My daughter is named Capri and I get asked about Capri pants and Capri Sun all the time. She's actually named for a Colbie Caillat song. We call her Pri or Pripri.
My son, on the other hand, his first name is Donald. It's not what he goes by, but I feel like it's about to become cumbersome.
Luke Branwen 2 months ago
I think that, for the future generations, the name "Donald" will meet the same fate as "Adolf"
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
Maybe it’s different in the US but in the UK the name Donald (in England at least, it’s a Scottish name) is very out of fashion for boys and has been since forever, whereas Capri comes across as very, very trendy and modern. So the idea of siblings called Donald and Capri is hilarious.
Northlander72 2 months ago
My first thought with the name Donald is always going to lead to a certain temperamental duck man rather than the biggest dingbat to serve as President in the US, mostly because I grew up with his comics.
#17
A friend of my soon to be in-laws is a geologist, and married another geologist. They named one of their daughters Crystal-after the geological phenomenon. Now that they live in Vegas they've realized how popular it is as an [exotic dancer] name and they completely regret it. Especially since their other daughter is also an [exotic dancer] name, Diamond I think, and they are religious conservatives. They would like a do-over please.
amy lee 2 months ago
Always thought Malachite would be a good geology themed name. I fail to believe that you have to be in vagas to know that crystal is a s******r name. There are so many alternatives, amber, rose, jade if they wanted something mainstream.
Starbug 2 months ago
In that theme, love Sapphire as well. I have met many Ambers, but all the ones I've met were HORRIBLE people
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago (edited)
I hated it as a child, not gonna lie (my name is Crystal.) I got teased and mocked and bullied for it as a kid, which always seemed so dumb because the best the kids could come up with was screaming "Crystal pistol! Crystal pistol!" over and over, but it still hurt as a kid. I also had to endure every single "Crystal"-based joke over and over again. I had a math tutor as a teen who would look at me at least once per lesson and say, "Is that.... CRYSTAL-CLEAR, Crystal?" ugh. XD There was also a popular powdered-mix drink called "Crystal Light" when I was a kid, and I got called that a lot too. And all I ever wanted was to be nicknamed "Crys" (said like "Chris") but my mom and sister called me "Cryssie", and it stuck. I wasn't very girly or feminine, so, it kind of sucked as a name XD And NO ONE can spell it correctly, it seems like. People are ALWAYS misspelling my name with random Hs or Ks or sometimes jam an i or two in there where they don't belong (I think the worst I ever saw was "Khristle".) I'm fine with it now, because ironically I grew up to love rocks/minerals and almost became a geologist XD
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 2 months ago
Fine as long as the surname isn't Glass, Palace or Chanda-Lear.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
My name is Crystal and I was actually named AFTER a chandelier. Not joking. When my parents went to be present at my birth (I'm adopted) they didn't know what gender I was going to be, and apparently, didn't have any girl names prepared. They called my grandma, who was babysitting my older sister (their bio child.) Grandma looked up at her bedroom ceiling at her chandelier, and said, "Name her Crystal." XD And yes, I've gotten every single joke about last names ever XD My ex (the one I was with for 24 years) had a last name that is pronounced like "Loo", so if we'd gotten married, I'd have been Crystal Loo, which is... not as bad as Crystal Méth or something, but still sounds ludicrous XD
Load More Replies... tresgatos72 2 months ago
I met someone named Vanadanite once. I asked her, "Like the pretty rock?" and she was THRILLED that someone knew what it meant and how to pronounce it correctly. Yes, her dad was a geologist. She said her brother's name was Mica.😆
Michael Largey 2 months ago
If they're so religious, how do they come to know that Crystal is a common name among exotic dancers?
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
For that matter, if they’re religious conservatives, how are they also scientists? Don’t they feel some conflict between what they know from science, and what their religion teaches them?
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On a whim I gave our oldest son the middle name "Rainier" (pronounced like the mountain, not the French way). For a long time I wondered if I'd made a mistake but now he is 7 and when he has to give his middle name he proudly adds, "Like the VOLCANO." So that worked out well.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
When I give my order at Seattle Coffee or Starbucks, I say, "Marina, like a boat dock." Being that we're all South African I usually get, "What?" and a laugh.
tresgatos72 2 months ago
Until he gets into high-school and realizes he shares his name with a brand of beer...
TonjaLasagne 2 months ago
Made me say out loud the commercial: Rayyyyy nearrrrrrr beerrrrrrrr. For those of you who think I’m insane, you can check out the old Rainier Beer with the motorcycle commercial on YouTube.
Load More Replies... What about you, Pandas? Have you ever been mad at your parents for the name they chose for you? Did you ever consider changing it? Let us know in the comments!
And if you're looking for some baby name drama stories, check out this one where a dad saves his son from a lifetime of ridicule by giving him a regular name, and this one where the name 'Luna' made the dad's Christian family uncomfortable.
#19
I named my daughter Alexa... way before... ‘Alexa what time is it?’ was a thing.
Abby Louise Rexroth 2 months ago
Don't name products or pets with proper names...yuck, that's why I named my dogs (past and present) Gadget and Velvet.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley have a daughter together named Alexa.
#20
Right after I gave birth I was still very [medicated] and they brought the birth certificate, big mistake. My son's name was to be Joseph but I misspelled it and it is now Joesph (Joe-sffff). We didn't know until he was 16 and went to get his driver's license😂 He loved the story so much He's kept it and he's 30 years old now 😂 I can't believe it took us 16 years to realize it was the wrong name. It actually legally turned out to be a huge deal when he went to go get his passport and his school records did not match his birth certificate. The spelling, it turns out, have to be identical. It was a mess lol 😂
BrownEyedGrrl 2 months ago
The middle name on my dad's birth certificate was Eujune. Supposed to be Eugene.
Elio 2 months ago
My brother's birth certificate lists the wrong state for where mom was born. She said it's an upgrade since it says California (she was born in a rural area in Arizona) but it might cause problems if he gets a passport. I got a passport recently and I listed the correct states for both my parents.
Lucy Covington 2 months ago
You need to submit school records to get a passport? Why? In the UK it's just birth certificate and passport photos that are signed on the back by a Dr, School Teacher etc to confirm that you are that person. Does that mean if you flunked out of school you can never get a passport?
nicholas nolan 2 months ago
It can be used as a second form of ID. We need two in the US.
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
There's a member of the band Mansun called Stove King, which allegedly came about because his mother misspelt the birth certificate. There's also a similar joke in Men Behaving Badly: "Why did you call your son Biff, George?" / "It was supposed to be Bill, but the registrar dropped her thermos on the typewriter".
Trillian 2 months ago
You did not check the birth certificate even once before your kid was 16????
Aileen Grist 2 months ago
My Cameroonian daughter from another mother should have been Odette, but her father couldn't spell and it's Ourdert.
KatSaidWhat 2 months ago (edited)
Turns out medical records also need to match passport... big discovery during covid when people started flying again and did tests before but didn't get through passport control. (Private, not NHS - NHS needs ID)
Trista JW 2 months ago (edited)
There are multiple traditional ways to spell it and as long as it's not like "Aeiouyliszabeth" or some modern Elder Thing or Outer God-esque spelling, they are all valid.
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Before my son was born, my husband and I were having a lot of problems picking boys names. Everyone in my husband’s family has two middle names so that made it a lot harder.
After a few days, we landed on a name we loved. Harrison Atlas Henry Ames.
After a few hours of blissful happiness, I stopped in my tracks, telling my husband we can’t name our son that.
His initials would’ve been HAHA.
kissmychakram 2 months ago
If I were a boy, my parents were going to honour their Scottish heritage and call me Stuart Hamish Ian. My surname begins with a T.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago (edited)
My brother's initials are MRH and we found it hilarious when we were younger that letters addressed to him could be MR H or MR MRH
Rob Stevens 2 months ago
My aunt's last name begins with S. My aunt named her daughter Angela Sue. No monograms for that girl.
Sarah 2 months ago
But who would know? I think that’s being a bit silly. We all Have initials that spell Something.. and when did we ever hear anyone else even care? The passport checker at airport dissolving into hysterics??
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
Only if you got monogrammed towels or bathrobes or something, I suppose XD Or when you're filling out paperwork and someone says "initial here." (As an aside, I've actually always loved that my initials are CC!)
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My friend named his daughter Randy, which is fine in the US, however when she was about 10 they moved to the UK. Apparently being named Randy is not a good name for a girl or anyone else in the UK. Dad had to explain to her very gently why she had to go by her middle name while they lived there.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 months ago
Prince Andrew was dubbed “Randy Andy” by the British tabloids in the 1980s
nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
It's not so great for a boy, either. IMHO of course.
Load More Replies... Sam Trudeau 2 months ago
They also call f***y packs "b*m packs" in the UK apparently because of slang differences. And in Quebec, you don't ask about "les gosses" (which apparently refers to a guy's kids in France)
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
I knew an American woman that moved here and went into Marks and Spencers to ask for a fånny pack. This was in the 90s so less exposure in general to American culture (pre-Youtube etc). I found this hilarious and can only think they thought she was asking for sanitary protection (which they don’t sell - they primarily slight upmarket clothes plus a food hall)
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I have heard of plenty of males called Randy (though not born in the last 50 years) in Australia, but never a girl. It has the same connotations here as in the UK.
Abby Louise Rexroth 2 months ago (edited)
And F-a-n-n-y was a popular girls name (think Jane Austen) but in the UK it's a girl's privates (US equivalent-nickname for cat).
KatSaidWhat 2 months ago
Me aged about 10 calling a horse randy instead of frisky. And now as an adult, not sure I would call a horse either of those...
SheamusFanFrom1987 2 months ago
Sorry not sorry, but whenever someone tells me their name is Randy all that comes to mind is... OUTTA NOWHERE!!! XP
#23
I wanted to name our daughter River after the character in Firefly. Wife vetoed that said no one would name their daughter that. She wanted Taylor after Taylor swift. I vetoed that. Settled on Siena. Later we ran into a couple with a daughter about the age of our daughter. Husband says we named her River after the character in Firefly. Cue me staring at wife.... Any way we have a lovely daughter and she loves her name so all good!
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I taught a boy named River, presumably after River Phoenix, but his brother's name was Chevy so who knows.
Load More Replies... Sam Trudeau 2 months ago
I know a kid or two locally (not personally know, but I know they have the name) named River. Beautiful name
tresgatos72 2 months ago
I had a student named Firefly, and another named Gallifrey. Her brother was Dalek.
#24
I regret spelling my 3rd kid’s name the trendy way. It’s Jaxon instead of Jackson, and while I love the name, it really grates on me that I spelled it like an [idiot].
All of my kids have fairly classic names, and verbally they match but then when they’re written out his just looks so out of place 🥲.
Sara Frazer 2 months ago
It's okay, it could be worse, I know of a kid named Jaxxson. Wish I was joking
BarfyCat 2 months ago
Both my husband's first name and last name can be either firsts or lasts, think "George Michael" or "James Stuart." It's mostly fine, you just have to deal with people accidentally switching them around.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
I have a friend whose grandson is named Jax. Not Jack. Jax. 🙄
Michael Largey 2 months ago
The was an incredibly good underground comic artist, last name Jackson, who signed his work Jaxon.
#25
My Mom def regrets my name. She named me after her favorite aunt that had [passed away] a few years before I was born. The wound was too new and no one wanted to call me by her name. My middle name is Mackenzie after the beer dog Spuds Mackenzie, my dad got to pick that one out. He lied to her and said it was after his 'Irish heritage'. So I get called by a name that is not on my birth certificate.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
M(a)cKenzie means "Son of Kenneth". I love that so many Americans use it as a girl's name.
Billo66 2 months ago
Hmmm. Donald. McDonalds. Son of Donald? That explains why there food tastes like tears and disappointment.
Load More Replies... Robert T 2 months ago
A surprising number of people go by their middle names, even there is nothing wrong with their first name. I know a Richard John who prefers to be called John. Guess he didn't want to be Díck for short!
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I only ever knew my best friend's dad as Bruce, but his first name was Malcolm. Not sure why he went by his middle name.
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While my name is perfectly fine in my own language, it spells out as "Imad" in english. I'm so tired of all the "IMAD? HAH, U MEN I MAD HAHAH ARE U MAD HAHAHA LOLOL".
You would surprised how many people think they were the first to discover that joke.
The Other Guest 2 months ago
As a former grocery store worker who heard, "If it doesn't scan it must be free, har har har" more times than I care to count, I would not be surprised in the least.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
As someone named Crystal, literally everyone thinks they're the first person to ever ask me "Is that CRYSTAL-CLEAR?" I had a math tutor who did this at least once per lesson when I was a teen XD And yes, I also get the "hurr durr Crystal mèth" jokes as well XD
Mike F 2 months ago
Your name is beautiful, C. It was a very popular name when I was growing up and I don't remember anyone ridiculing it.
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Min 2 months ago
It took about 30 years to finally stop hearing, "Where's Mork?" everytime I introduced myself as Mindy.
Farah (she/her) 2 months ago
Ohhhh its an Arabic name! My cousin is called Imad but it's spelt as Emad. For you non Arab pandas, it's hard to explain, but the closest letter to the starting letter in English is E, even though it doesn't sound like it at all. I'll try to explain so bear with me, heh. Its like a sound you make in the depth of your throat. It looks like this: ع and yeah it's too hard to explain
#27
I named one of my daughters, Bella. Google top female dog names. 😂
tresgatos72 2 months ago
Thanks to the Twilight yuck, I now have students named Emmett, Carlisle, and Reneesme. 🙄
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
“Bella” reminds me of the horrible sucky abomination that was “Twilight.”
Verfin22 2 months ago
It could be short for Isabella. Side note, I never understood giving pets human names. It can be confusing to them if they are ever near someone of the same name.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I feel confident that most pets are intelligent enough to know when their human is calling for them and not their friend who also happens to be named the same thing.
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I didn’t get the chance to name my son; he came pre-named.
I’m always very sad that I wasn’t able to do so, but grateful that he is able to have a gift from his first mother.
I honestly hate his name, but it’s his and we use a nickname that’s more palatable.
Edit to add context: we got placement at 9 months, and recently adopted after 3 years. We were not allowed to name him what we wished, and it would not have been appropriate to do so when he was still not legally our child.
We attempted reunification with the bio parents, who are my husband’s relatives. They were not able to follow case plans in order to get custody back.
I don’t like his name because he’s named after their d**g dealer who passed away, firstly, and secondly because it’s a popular, more common name with the -son, -ton, -den ending. It’s not my thing.
Adoption is trauma, and we don’t think we’re saviors or anything. Just love a little dude and have now promised to be his parents.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I was adopted at birth, so I didn't come pre-named XD But I imagine that, if I had been adopted after birth and my parents had forced a name change on me, it might be something I'd feel angry or resentful about later on in life - as I might see it as my adoptive parents trying to "erase" my birth identity. Again, it's not the case in MY case, but I can sort of imagine how I might feel. And not going to lie, some days I'm curious what my bio mom and dad would have named me. I know what my two bio sisters are named, but I wonder what I would have been named :)
Brian Droste 2 months ago
Have you ever tried to find or connect with your bio parents? If so how did they take it?
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my sox are in flux 2 months ago
Maybe when he gets older, you can ask him which name he would prefer (providing he knows about his adoption).
Brazen 2 months ago
I found my adoption papers when I was 18, so I knew what my birth mother had named me according to the records. I met her when I was 26 and learned the story behind the name. It was the name I had for the first 6 months of my life before I was allowed to be adopted by someone. To be honest, I feel like that name is more "me" than my adoptive name is. I had always felt like my name wasn't my name, and in fact, I really hate it. Weirdly comforting to me to know it was something else when I started out in life.
Robert Trebor 2 months ago
Just love a little dude and have now promised to be his parents. I just love that.
#29
I'm American living in a different country. I gave my child a family name that wasn't top 100 in the US, since I'd grown up with a top 5 name and it suuucked. Come to find out, the old fashioned family name I picked is actually hugely common here and he will have the same experience I did. Whoops.
Gonna have to name number two KalEl Aubergine or something....
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
They joke, but the family opposite us were fostering a boy called Kal-El...
Robert T 2 months ago
You should have seen him helping his foster dad change the wheel on the truck - picked it up just like that - no jack or anything! ;-)
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 2 months ago
My name has only dipped out of the top ten once or twice in my 35 years of life, but I never worried about it. I had two other girls with my name in my class through high school. The only annoying thing was that one of them also had a surname that started with the same letter, so teachers would always call us by our full names.
#30
I’m named after a song. It was also in the top 5 names for the decade in which I was born. Pretty sure they started to regret it the first time there were more than 5 kids sharing my name in my class.
Billo66 2 months ago (edited)
By Marillion iirc. I was thinking Mister Mister but they did Kyrie. The Lyrics say Kyrie Eleison which people thoght was a girl but it means "Lord Have Mercy" in Greek. It was a prayer.
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JenniB 2 months ago
As a Jennifer I feel this lol... Myself and two friends got to be Jenn, Jenny and Jennifer so at least our name had options!
Jenna Kay 2 months ago
I will never forget one of my teachers who seated everyone in alphabetical order - Jennifer Lane, Jennifer Lang, Jennifer Langley, Jennifer Moore, and Jennifer Morrison. Teacher then insisted we would just go by middle names ... turns out four of us were Jennifer Kimberly and one was Jennifer Kimmery. I tried to avoid this when I named my own children and for both my daughter and son used classic names I loved but were not popular ... where we lived. We moved 😬😢😭
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R Dennis 2 months ago
We named our daughter after my wife's grandmother. She then had two other girls with the same name in her class from kindergarten to graduation. They all went by their first name plus their last name initial - (name) D, (name) C, (name) S. In middle school, another (name) D showed up and they all started going by their last names.
Kim Gatlin 2 months ago
My daughter's middle name is Jude. But that was and always will be a classic.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I wasn't named after a song, but there is a song with a version of my name in it that my mum banned my dad from singing to me because it's about a girl that commits s*****e.
#31
My daughter’s middle name is Willow. She is the least Willow like child ever. Dragon Fire, Savage, Wildfire, Lady of chaos … all would be more appropriate.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
As a child of the 80s, there is forever only one thing that name will remind me of. XD
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
My physical therapist was named Willow. It suited her, she was indeed willowy.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago (edited)
Haha, I know a Willow like that! Her sisters both have plant names too- Poppy and Clover. It's a really common name at the moment where I live, I currently have one student called Willow, and another two at least that I will teach next year.
#32
My friend's name is Sepfora, and she was named that before the popular make up company Sephora got big. It's the greek version of the biblical name Zipporah (Moses's wife).
Abby Louise Rexroth 2 months ago
I had a college class with a girl named Zipporah, I knew where it came from and always told her it was a wonderful name.
#33
My son's middle name is Beren which is a Tolkien reference from the book "the Silmarillion". While I still love the name and look forward to my son discovering the hero that he is named after, it is a repetitive and painful process explaining the name and it's origins over and over again to fellow parents and relatives and then feeling their silent judgement upon that level of nerd-dom.
Wyrdwoman 2 months ago
My daughter is named for something in LOTR and she's met someone else with the same name. Us Tolkien nerds are spreading our nerdery, one child at a time :D
nicholas nolan 2 months ago
I still think "Tom Bombadil" was a weird thing to name your daughter, Wyrd.
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Dustinthewind 2 months ago
I like that name. I don't care about the origin (although I like that too). It's a name that sounds (or maybe is) old Dutch / German.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
My brother has a friend our age (50+) whose parents named him Aragorn. When FB first required you to use your real name, he had to send them a copy of his birth certificate because they wouldn't believe it was his real first name.
tresgatos72 2 months ago (edited)
Not nerdy at all. I've had students named Arwen Eowyn, and Galadriel since the LOTR movies came out, and there's a Thorin and a Faramir (he goes by Amir) at our school now, too.
Sam Trudeau 2 months ago
I've read the Silmarillion, and I usually have trouble remembering some of the names in there. Mostly because at least a dozen of them get used twice for two different characters
Agfox 2 months ago
I could be a bit harsh but I think parents loving a name is not necessarily the best reason for choosing it for their child
The Other Guest 2 months ago
Agreed. It can and should be *part* of the reason, but there are more important factors to consider such as, What if this movie/miniseries character going to turn out to be an AH in Season Eight? How likely is it to be misspelled/mispronounced on a regular basis? Is this name more appropriate as a nickname for a child than it is for the real name of an adult (eg Tiny, Princess, Sugar)?
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I named my daughter 'Bella' eight years ago. Goddangit Twilight.
hannahbahngswife 2 months ago
At least Bella is more common and not everyone will make the connection to Twilight. Unlike Renesmee.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 months ago
I did see someone post about their child, Renesmee in a Facebook group
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 months ago
I wonder if people introduced to the daughter say "So, you don't drink ... wine?"
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
😩 Ugh. Worst vampire book/movie ever. I didn’t think anything vampire-related could annoy me, but “Twilight” did it.
KatSaidWhat 2 months ago
You realise it was written specifically for teenagers, right? Lots of adults complaining about Twilight don't realise they were not the target demographic 😆
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We named one of our children after a specific person in my in-laws family. Unfortunately, our child is severely autistic with cognitive disability and the in-laws have never helped. Haven't been on a date with my wife in two decades. So, I regret putting anyone from their family in a place of honor in mine.
amy lee 2 months ago
In fairness to in laws sever autism and a cognitive disability and other children doesn't sound like there are many people that would know how to help.
Judes 2 months ago
They could try learning, just like the parents had to.
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Kika González 2 months ago
That sounds familiar, the people i was named after have not given a d**n about helping me in my life. I take it back, one person helped once.. in my entire life
#36
I'm the son. My father regrets the name he gave me, because it's nearly identical to *his* name. Only difference is the middle name / initial- which rarely shows up on paperwork. So almost any time that either of us goes to do any paperwork or sign up for something, we run into issues involving our nearly identical names.
For example: We both face roughly a 20 minute delay when trying to vote because they mix up which of us is which. I receive his best buy receipts. He gets packages and mail meant for me and I for him. His credit card routinely pops up on my credit report, my student loan routinely pops up on his.
Hugo 2 months ago
I once shared a railway carriage (in the days when those existed) with a John and Mary and their children John and Mary. A bit unimaginative, I feel.
amy lee 2 months ago
One day they will have a Jesus and a Messiah and come full circle
Load More Replies... Kim Gatlin 2 months ago
If you get to the point where you both have Medicare, you can give billing companies a headache. I've seen it happen more than once with JR/SR. You would think Medicare could keep it straight with a SS number. But nope.
Sara Frazer 2 months ago
My partner has the same first, middle, and last name as his dad. And his grandfather. I feel like he and his dad have had some mixups like this. Or intentionally; for a few years my partner drove his late grandfather's truck, that was left to his dad, because it was always the same name on the title 😹 (dad was letting my partner use it for a while)
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
I'm in exactly the same situation as OP. Thankfully (in this case) my parents divorced when I was fairly young, so the same name thing was never much of a problem as far as post goes.
Jay Cee 2 months ago
Daughters went to school with a family named S J Patel (pronounced Pattle): Simon James (father); Sheila Joan (mother); Sammy Jo (1st daughter); Suzie Jean (2nd daughter) Sally Jean (3rd daughter). I imagine it was either a hard search or coincidence that the husband and wife even met?
my sox are in flux 2 months ago
My husband and his father have the same first name, same middle initial, and obviously same last name. Absolutely ridiculous the stuff we've had to go through, especially since we went no-contact with him and his family 30 years ago.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I went to school with a family that had two girls. The first was Melissa Jade and second Melanie Jane. If they had a boy it would have been Mal Jay. I think father's name was very similar. There was some confusion when girls were mentioned in the school newsletter because both went by nickname Mel.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
I just don’t get why a parent would name a child after themselves. It always seems very egotistical to me (I guess I’m missing something), unimaginative to the extreme, and not having a desire to see your baby grow into their own person. That said, call your baby what you want, that’s just me.
#37
During my pregnancy, my (now ex)husband wouldn't agree with any of the names I wanted to give our son.
He liked the name Sapphire.
So now i have a three year old boy named Sapphire and a father who is barely involved.
As much as the name seems to suit him, I kind of wish I'd just told my ex to shove it and named my son what I wanted to.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I've been wracking my brain for a way to make the name "Sapphire" sound inherently masculine, but the best I've come up with is "Samphire". Which is worse XD
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
It seems that a lot of names are becoming less gender-based these days.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
It's the name of a mineral, so it's not really gendered. There are a lot of male names that end in -e as well, so it's not like the ending makes it masculine. I get what you're saying, though.
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We changed my son's middle name because we didn't realize the family member he was named after was traumatically [mistreating] my aunt/mom. Took forever and he has an "amended" birth certificate.
#39
My wife and I don’t like all the family politics of naming the children. Someone’s going to get bent out of shape because one family member got used and not another. So, we racked our brains to agree on a name not used on either side of the family.
Didn’t announce the name until the birth. Neither my mother or father said anything for a year. Then, one day they casually mentioned the name of my uncle’s first son that I wasn’t even aware of. He had [passed away] at only 6 weeks old, 15 years before I was born.
I don’t know that I regret the name of my son. But, it would have been crossed off the list of contenders had I known.
Judy Reynolds 2 months ago
My ex grandmother in law said if I gave birth to a boy, he had to have a "family" name. So many of those names were already used by living men in the family, but there was a set of twins a couple hundred years ago. I said we would use Ebenezer, because they might have agreed to Ralph. Fortunately, we had Sarah.
Catmom 2 months ago (edited)
Family politics of naming. 🙄 I was the first grandchild of my generation. Before I was born, my parents chose a first & middle name for me that they liked. My dad's father went whining to my mom's father about naming me for a dead relative. My parents caved. Sixty+ years later, I have still never vibed with my name. The OG name is meaningless to me, as is anything else I come up with. 🤷♀️ I strive to end the family tradition of being passive-aggressive.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
My mum waited until my youngest brother to consider 'family' names (except that my oldest brother's first name is my dad's middle name, but was just chosen because it was a popular name at the time). She couldn't decide between two names, so he is the only one of five kids with two middle names, which I always thought was weird.
#40
My MIL's name is Candy, or so I thought. When we were expecting our second child (daughter) I said to the SO, why don't we give the MIL's name as our daughters second name, as this was my family tradition. We called the MIL and announced the news and this is when I found out that Candy was actually the shortened version of Candida!! For anyone not knowing, Candida is a yeast infection... a type of thrush!! I tried my hardest to back track and keep it at Candy but to no avail!! My 4 year old daughter is very proud of the fact that her Grandma and her have the same name... little does she know!!
Brian Droste 2 months ago
Once she gets a little older she will find out. She might regret then.
CB 2 months ago (edited)
My first name is Candy (not short for anything else). My mother claims she forgot what she was going to name me so she chose Candy at the last minute. She didn't take into consideration what my last name was. And I'm a 52 yo grandma of 4. Also, I went to school with a Candie and her first name was actually Candida and she said that her mother named her after the Tony and Dawn song. Same person, maybe? :)
KatSaidWhat 2 months ago
I do still smile childishly when I hear that name. Also, F***y was common for a while in the UK it appears.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
Short for Frances. No idea why that name became used for vülva, anymore than why the nicknames for William and Richard became euphemisms for pénis. There was a drowned girl found in the Thames called Fånny Adams, I think back in Victorian times, and no one knew what had happened. She became known as Sweet Fånny Adams. The term ‘Sweet Fånny Adams’ came to mean nothing, and became shortened to ‘Sweet F. A.’ Then people heard it, made assumptions, and in my life term it’s turned into ‘Sweet fück all’! So it’s turned from not a swear word into a swear word.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
Even the shortened version, Candy, isn’t great….sounds like a strîpper.
#41
I named my daughters Sienna and Shyann not knowing there both names for mini-vans 😔
Brian Droste 2 months ago
I have a married couple that is about my age I am friends with. Their youngest daughter is named Sienna. It is her name. I don't connect her name with any vehicle or do any other friends.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
Same, I think of it as the name of a color (a shade of brown) instead of a vehicle model XD
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I would think that godawful shade of dark burgundy-red would be the traditional minivan color, not beige XD
Load More Replies... #42
I don't regret giving her the name, but my daughter has told me she wanted to change it for several years during her childhood. (Thanks to a certain pop star who shaved her head).
kaycee14 2 months ago
Or Britney. Britney Spears shaved her head, and is more likely to be described as a "pop star" than Sinead.
Load More Replies... Kim Gatlin 2 months ago
Lots of variation on that one. And said pop star does kind on rock, doesn't she?
#43
I named my daughter after my [late] mother. I kind of regret it, only because I have a hard time saying it sometimes.
#44
One of my good friend's named his son Kale. Not after the vegetable but for some other reason completely unrelated. Two years later...Kale becomes a HUGE hit and becomes the leafy green of choice and now everyone thinks he is named after that.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
Well, broccoli is named after the Broccoli family who developed it....
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
There are a couple of Canadian athletes named Kael (note the spelling.)
BookFanatic 2 months ago
My friend's cousin has a little boy named Kale. Her husband bought her a little kale plant for her first Mother's Day and it sits proudly on her windowsill. I think it's adorable.
#45
I named my son Emmett after Emmett Cullen from Twilight. I was 17.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
Tell everyone he's named after Emmet from Keeping Up Appearances.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago (edited)
(Showing my age) In the Alien Nation movie, George tells Sykes his son's name is Richard. "We named him after your former president, Richard Nixon." Sykes asks if he's open to advice. "Me, I'd tell people I named him after the actor, Richard Burton." George just says okay!
Sara Frazer 2 months ago
I've never seen those movies, is the pic shown actually from the movie?? Is that the character they're talking about?? He looks scaaarry, like, uncanny-valley-inducing not real scary 💀 looks like a fake CGI AI person
KatSaidWhat 2 months ago
It's not a great photo, but yes. The vampires are all quite pretty...
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#46
I named my kid after a Pokémon - Eevee. Thought it was a super cool idea in 2002.
#47
I regretted what I named my fourth son, so I changed it when he was nine months old. I couldn’t spend the rest of my life calling him a name I hated. It was Xander and I changed it to Jonah.
#48
My son is Something Something Something IV. Though it's a normal, solid name, his father and I were already on shaky grounds relationship wise and I didn't like the whole passing on the name principle and how much stock him and his family put into it. It was clear he cared more about his first son being named after him, his father, and grandfather than he did about taking on the actual role of fatherhood.
Being young, having more important things to stand my ground on, and trying to be as mature as possible while not feeling like I was I let his dad win that debate. Predictably, sadly, my son barely ever sees his real father but is still very close with his father's family which is nice. But his name doesn't define him and I use his nickname which I prefer anyway.
megabeth 2 months ago
Why is this exactly thing so common? I can think of three friends without trying that have their absent fathers name and go by their middle.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
Another way of controlling women and making them produce copies of themselves, then move on?
Load More Replies... #49
My parents regret naming my brother Chandler, because there's a handful of Chandlers in every class he's ever been in.
"Friends" generation.
nicholas nolan 2 months ago
"Could there BE any more people with the same name in this class?"
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I'm of that generation and never met a Chandler. I wouldn't be surprised if my sister named a child that. At one point (maybe still) she wanted to have three children and name them Seamus, Shaymus and Seamusina, because she was in love with Seamus Dever in Castle.
#50
I regret giving my daughter my mom's name as a middle name. It's a regret due to my mom being an evil person, though.
#51
I named one of my kids a name that I knew from childhood, but is french. Because I am so used to the name it didn't occur to me that everyone is going to mispronounce it for the rest of their life.
#52
Yup. Named him, literally rolled out of the operating room and a nurse said she just named her kid that name. It exploded and now it's everywhere. My first name was the most common the year I was born and I hated it and never wanted that for my kids. My maiden name was 13 letters and can barely be pronounced so didn't want to go that route either. Easy to spell, easy to say, not common that was all I asked. And I failed.
BrownEyedGrrl 2 months ago
When my daughter was born, I didn't know of ANYONE with her name. Her name is Amanda.
Brian Droste 2 months ago
I know only one person personally with that name. I know of one actress with that name.
Judy Reynolds 2 months ago
With all the fuss about unique names and spellings, I think you should write the name on a piece of paper and ask twenty people to say it, just to get that out of the way with before school.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
Why in America is there this massive pressure to immediately name your baby and stick to it? When our second was born they didn’t look like the name we had in mind for a baby of that séx so we had to go back to the short list. It took us three days, but that was literally no one’s business.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I remember about 10 years ago in Australia a couple all over the media because their child was the longest unnamed. I think it was 18 months or something. In most of Australia, it must be registered by 60 days at most. I think they were being fined but kept dodging payment or something.
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I regret letting my mum sway my first sons name away from my first choice Thomas. She keep saying you can’t call him Tom-Ar$e emphasising the ending with incorrect pronunciation 🙄 I went with a more modern name which is often slammed for being “bogan” if you are Australian for reference 😞
He is 30 now and likes his name so no big deal but it is a regret for me I let her get in my head.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I don't think I've ever heard even the most bogan Aussie pronouncing it Tom-a**e. Mum is the a**e here.
#54
My daughter is Ada Florence Joy, I really wish I’d just kept it to Ada Joy but I was so sure I wasn’t having more children that I felt compelled to use ALLL the names.
I regret not using restraint.
StumblingThroughLife 2 months ago (edited)
I've noticed that so many people are using these old names for girls nowadays (mostly based in the USA; I haven't currently come across these names being used, so far, in the UK). I was born early 60s, and women as old as my late grandmother had these names. It's one of the recycled trends from the past that jars so badly (for me, anyway) when I hear them in this era. But then, that's a ME issue.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
In Australia, new migrants (especially Asian) are often the ones using 'old fashioned' English names, though not exclusively. I even heard someone called Bertha recently and laughed because one of my great aunts (born 1920s) was named Bertha and I always thought it a fairly ugly name but here was someone who thought it was beautiful.
Load More Replies... Agfox 2 months ago
My wife has 3 names, as do her 2 sisters. Over the years we've found that very few official forms that require her full name provide sufficient space for her to do so. To make matters worse, she has dodgy thumb & fingerprints that always seemed to be an issue at certain airports where Immigration used that technology
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
My youngest brother had two middle names, whereas the other four of us had only one, which is odd.
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Not me but my SO teaches two sisters named Princess with their middle name as the differentiator. If they haven't regretted it they will when both 'Princesses' grow up...........I hope (gulp).
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
Princess is a common name among black South Africans. You name the kid after something you aspire to, or hope for them, or to remind you of something. I've taught kids named Happy, Doctor, Passion, Fidelity, Precious, etc.
#56
My daughter was born in 2012. We named her Piper. In 2013 Orange is the New Black premiered and got big. People assume that we named my daughter after the character from the show. I'm always pointing out that the show wasn't out yet. I think Orange is the New Black is a great show but the character Piper isn't a great person. She's very naive and selfish. Not at all someone I would name a child after. I wouldn't say I regret it but it's annoying.
Dustinthewind 2 months ago
Wasn't Piper also from the series with eh... the witches... and demons...Charmed!
The Other Guest 2 months ago
She was so good in "Carrie" and "Twin Peaks." In 2018, I was very excited to see her at a convention, and it ended up being quite sad. She was by herself (no agent or handler) at the autograph booth, and didn't seem to know where she was, why she was there, or why strangers were coming up to talk to her.
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Piper McKnight 2 months ago
Oh boy, I knew my name would be on this list! I was born in 1970 - predating the Pipers of Charmed, Orange is the New Black, and the Pixar short. I was frequently asked if named after the actress Piper Laurie (Carrie's mom), and sometimes I wish I was because the explanation is shorter. My parents named me, their only child, Piper, because they fell in love with the 1968 movie starring Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, "The Sandpiper" - the story of a minister on a family vacation to Big Sur who meets a young artist living in an impossible-to-afford cabin overlooking the beach. Together, they find an injured sandpiper bird and nurse it back to health over the week he's in town. They also have a steamy affair but agree it was just a fling when the week is over. The bird is healed and he returns to his family, leaving the young woman alone and pining for him. Yeah, great story guys! To add insult to injury, my parents didn't give me a middle name so I would only be called Piper.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 months ago
i remember watching that movie when i was a kid. i'm sure i didn't get what was REALLY going on, but i remember thinking it was a sad movie.
Load More Replies... nicholas nolan 2 months ago
Piper is also the name of the bird in the most adorable Pixar short ever.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I know a lot of Pipers, born before and after 2013. Never seen the show and never heard anyone assume the name came from there. I think it's a really nice name.
Sam Trudeau 2 months ago
If you want to switch it up, teach her to play the flute, and she can lead the rats into the homes of those who make fun of her name
Judy Reynolds 2 months ago
There are three beagles on the block, and both of the girls are named Piper. The boy is Chai like the tea.
#57
I was very young when pregnant with my daughter, my mom a teen mom herself suggested she raise her as her own as she had just given birth to a little boy earlier that year. So I went through the state required counseling etc and was fully prepared for this to happen. Because of this agreement my mother named my daughter. It's a very dainty girly name. And the middle name is kinda odd. Well cut to a month before the birth and my mom changed her mind about the whole thing and said it was just an inconvenience and she wouldn't take her. (Yea I was a little inconvenienced too now thanks mom) so I for some reason (probably in hopes my mom would change her mind) kept the name she chose. My mom didn't stop the disappointment there though and we stopped talking for good at around the time of my daughters first birthday. Her name reminds me of the unfortunate way that I came into motherhood. It reminds me of how I felt that I didn't have a choice in any of it. And it's so feminine that I worry it may be overlooked in the professional world.
#58
This reminds me of the local newspaper article about the Peacock family who changed their son's name from Drew to David by deed poll a week after registering him.
Think about it...
#59
My friend is legally named "Dennisdennis" because of a typo.
#60
We gave our sons similar sounding names, and the same initials. Now I want to go kick my 9 month pregnant self that thought that idea was "So cute!" I love their names individually though.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
Those brothers are either going to love that they have similar-sounding names, or hate it XD
SaraCapybara 2 months ago
I'm friend with a guy named Kirk. He has five brothers, they all have names beginning with "K". When mail arrived addressed to K. Lastname, it was always a mystery who the actual recipient was.
BrownEyedGrrl 2 months ago
My oldest son's name was Andy. My daughter's name is Amanda. I had to correct SO many people who called her Mandy. Andy & Mandy. Gag. Guess I wasn't thinking.
#61
Yep. We named our daughter a boys name, although it can also be considered gender neutral. I feel like the biggest piece of white trash now when I tell people her name...
I Need More Espresso 2 months ago
I have a female friend with a traditional boy's name. It suits her and it has benefited her applying to jobs that are traditionally male dominated.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I'd be thrilled if I'd have been named a traditional boy's name XD I never was "girly" and am not "feminine" at all now. (My name is Crystal, and if you can believe this, my middle name is Joy.)
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Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I like most gender neutral names as girl's names than boys, not sure why.
#62
My mom regrets my name. They thought I was going to be a boy, and had a boy's name picked out. I arrived, very much not a boy, after 12 hours of labor and no epidural (sorry, Mom). She told my dad to just pick a name, so he named me after his sister. My mom and my aunt don't like each other. At all.
Dad did not get naming privileges for my siblings, and Mom made sure to pick one name for each gender well before they arrived.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
When my mother was pregnant with my brother, they never considered the baby might be a boy and told me "she" was going to be named Vanessa. When he was born I kept saying, "Can't we still name him Vanessa? Or as a middle name?" Nope and nope. (Sometimes I call him that as a joke.) My mother then wanted to name him after our dad, but one of our cousins was already named that and he was a criminal. My dad was like, "You're not naming my son after a thief!" They ended up naming him after my dad's uncle, though it's the same name as my mom's one brother. They told mom's bro that it was after him so he agreed to be godfather!
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
My mum and dad took turns naming us, which turned out to mean mum named the boys, dad named the girls, except my sister's name was heavily influenced by my mum.
#63
Didn't anticipate spelling her name every single time you need an appointment, prescription. It's a strange but known spelling of a common name. Used it television, fashion, and an author with it.
Like Cierra for Sierra kind of difference.
I was also unaware of how people butcher my now husbands last name (German but short). We werent married at the time. So this kid has to spell out her first And last names every single time usually twice.
She just starts spelling now vs saying then spelling bc people still get it wrong.
The Other Guest 2 months ago
How can you give your kid a less-common spelling for their name, and then not anticipate having to spell it out for people on a regular basis?
Aileen Grist 2 months ago
I'm Aileen - I gett Eileen, Elaine, Irene, Helen, Ellie - I alwas have to spell it and if I get a letter it's usually Mrs E rather than Mrs A. I hate my name
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
My name is Crystal and it's actually spelled normally. However, I STILL have to spell it out, because if I don't, for some reason, EVERYONE misspells it and either adds Hs or Ks or an i or two. I've been Krystal, Cristalle, Chrystal, etc. I think the worse I ever saw was someone spelling my name "Khristle". Now I start with "Crystal, like a rock." XD
Catmom 2 months ago
You'd think so. That rarely works for me. My first name is an uncommon spelling of a semi-common name. My last name is 5 letters long but unspellable, unpronounceable, and easily mocked. So very ugh in childhood/teen years and inconvenient now.
Load More Replies... Trista JW 2 months ago (edited)
It happens with old-fashioned names that aren't common, as well. Yes, my name is Trista. I have had people try to spell it Tristan/in/en/ain/am when I've spelled it over the phone for them. I've also said my name and imediately had the other person respond with: "Tristam. Tristan. Triton. Chrissy. Christie. Terry. Crystal." And have had to repeat myself constantly to get them to pay attention. My boss was the worst with actually just spelling it, though: I had to tell her twice that the spelling is traditional, not "Trystah."
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
My sister also spells her name rather than say it when registering somewhere. It's a name with multiple common spellings, so I imagine everyone with the same name is in the same boat. Her most used nickname now is her name with one letter added in reference to her favourite animal, so I guess if you know that, it's easier to work out the spelling of her name.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
To be fair my surname is two VERY common English words put together, although an uncommon surname in itself, and over my life time has been messed up in ways you couldn’t even imagine, so now I always spell it out. And considering how easy the two words are it does come across as sarcastic at times, but hey ho.
#64
Not full regret but my daughter’s name is Lucia. Lou-C-uh. But we slid into calling her “Lucy” and I just like Lucia so much more. She’s in kindergarten now and almost exclusively goes by Lucy.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago (edited)
That could change :) Sometimes kids "mature" into wanting to be called the long, more "sophisticated-sounding" full version of their name later in life. EDIT: Also, it's about what the child wants, not how the parent is upset that no one is calling the child by the speshul name they loved/picked out...
Brian Droste 2 months ago
There was a girl in my grade name Michelle. Every one called Shelly. That is what she went by.That what every one through middle school, junior high and most of high school. By the end of senior year I thought of her more like Michelle than Shelly. I don't know if any other classmates felt the same way.
Load More Replies... nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
I rang up Pantucci. Spoke to Lucia, gave them all they needed to know.
#65
I still love my daughter’s name but it is 1 letter off from a really popular name for her age. She started going by her initials because even though she likes her name she gets really frustrated with people not listening to her when she says it. If I had known how popular the other name would be I wouldn’t have used hers.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I wonder what the name is. Bolla instead of Bella? Lunu instead of Luna? XD Mory instead of Mary? (yes, I am being an árse)
#66
My mom wanted to name me Maggie May or Bradlina. She went a completely different way after my godmother threatened her.
#67
I know a girl named Claire. Her mother got a divorce and married a german whos name is "Anlage". Those two names together sound like "Kläranlage", which literally means sewage plant. She didn't take the name though, but it was a close call.
Hugo 2 months ago
I have a German dictionary of surnames with an estimated 14 thousand names, and Anlage is not shown. It must be a very rare name.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
Taught a child named Bohlokwa. The 'hl' sound is hard for white people to pronounce; most people pronounce it as a "sh" sound. But if you pronounce Bohlokwa with a 'sh' sound it means "cow p*o". So she ended up being called Buh-lor-kwa by most white, Coloured and Indian teachers because they couldn't say the 'hl' sound. (I can!)
#68
I almost divorced my wife each time we went to name our kids. They were that bad. We landed with Hayes and Beau.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
So.... pronounced "hays" and "bow"? :/ I'm not sure those are ostensibly "better" than whatever OP's wife might have wanted... (as in, "Beau" is generally seen as a very... Southern-ish name in the US, and Hayes is just.... it sounds like a surname, not a first name.)
EmJay 2 months ago
They both roll off the tongue easily, though, and that should be an important quality in a name, I believe.
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My gf named her daughter Lera, but she admitted she made a mistake once she realised it the full version of it was Valery (which is both male and female name in Russia), and that was the name of her step-father, whom she hated her entire life.
#70
My middle daughter's name is Dawn. My mother in law suggested it at the hospital. It's fine I guess, but I only agreed to it because I had just a cesarean, hadn't thought of anything yet, and I was too tired to [care]. Now I regret that I didn't come up with something better ahead of time.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on...?
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I had my daughter at 21. There is nothing wrong with having kids on the younger side, but sometimes you end up naming them like a baby doll or pet, I named my daughter Khloe. I still love that name. But here is where it gets a little weird. In some lame attempt at being quirky and original, I ended up giving her two e’s. And I decided she needs an apostrophe. She needed to be Khloe’e. It needed to be extra spicy.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I wonder if OP's daughter ever wanted to legally change the spelling (to at least remove the apostrophe) XD
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 2 months ago
The first time I saw Chloe spelled Khloe was Kardashian so I dislike it purely because of that. I watched an English show with a character called Chlo which I've often wondered about. Is this common?
Brian Droste 2 months ago
I have two young female friends. Both named Chole. But one is spelled Khole.
#72
Yup,I really dislike my older sons name now that I'm no longer friends with the person I named him after.
#73
We gave my son the middle name of “Danger” thinking it would be bad a** when he was a high school QB, or make him look cool at college parties. But now that he’s a teenager I think it’s safe to say that if my son ever even attends a football game it will be because he’s playing the Tuba there (not that there is anything wrong with that but probably wouldn’t associate the middle name danger for someone on marching band.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
Why would you stick a name like that on a child either way? They might come to like it as a middle name when they're older, but that's an awful choice for a middle name no matter what you envision them being in high school.
Trista JW 2 months ago
Danger isn't a name at all, nor is it a word that could hypothetically be a human name. (Just like how "Chicken Nugget" might work for a cat, but not a baby.) I don't understand why parents pick non-name words and think they'd work for a human, even if it is a middle name.
#74
My ex and I couldn’t agree on names, so he picked boy names, and I picked girl names. He named our son after his role-play character. I wanted to make him something normal like “Michael”. This is reddit, so I’m not going to say the actual name, but it would be like naming your child “Agamemnon”. Poor kid got teased for his name all through school.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
To be fair, I've gone by "Lakota" online (and in online games) for so long (34 years!) that I actually ANSWER to it when someone calls it out, like "Hey, Lakota, we're over here!" XD I've met online friends IRL who call me "Lakota" in person and it's fine, it's more or less a part of who I am at this point. (I also will answer/respond to "Tysabri", the other name I sometimes go by in online games.) But I could NEVER imagine naming a child after my character D: The closest I got was naming my gray cat "Wintressia" when I was 16 and playing a lot of Dungeons and Dragons XD
megabeth 2 months ago
That's super funny. I've heard you mention your cats name before and Im always like huh...16 year old girl + D&D... NOW it totally checks! I have a cat named Ocelotta though so... Lol
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#75
Regret's not the word, but I am surprised at one particular thing we didn't consider. We named my son Brendan, which I did not think was going too far out of the box. But you know how every gift shop in the country has racks and racks of personalized nonsense with every name under the sun, and how your kids will always flock right to it and try to pick out their names? Try to find a Brendan. "Brandon", yes. "Brenda", yes. Brendan? Nope. Almost never.
He eventually got used to the disappointment of knowing his name would never be there (he's 9 now), but it doesn't stop me from looking every single time. I once found a fake street sign thingie that said Brendan St. so I grabbed it immediately. The next year we were vacationing in the same general area and I saw it again and bought it again, forgetting that I'd gotten it the first time.
Oh, and also his initials end up being BM. We didn't think of this at all until a baseball game when one of the players wanted to be called by his initials, so then they all wanted that, and the next thing you know my kid is up and the coach is yelling "Way to go, BM!"
For those missing it, "BM" is a common abbreviation for "bowel movement".
Na Schi 2 months ago
The tourist shop story reminds me of The Simpson episode where the shop only had Bort cups but no Bart cups.
Jake Bertz 2 months ago
Literally the first thing that came to my mind as well.
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I rarely find name-souvenirs with my name on it (Crystal) but it is even rarer to find one with my older sister's name (Melanie)! XD
Lucy Covington 2 months ago
Go to Ireland, you'll find Brendan things there. My partner is a Brendan and he's mentioned that he could never find any trinkets with Brendan on growing up (England). It's a very Irish name. He's named after an Irish poet.
Lucy Covington 2 months ago
I'm a Lucy and also could never find things with my name on. Late 70s/early 80s there I was the only Lucy in my school, the name was seen as very old fashioned at the time.
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#76
Not the name, changed the spelling because I thought I was being cute & it ended in years of mispronunciation. I couldn't bear the thought of her needing to correct people for the rest of her life.
#77
My dad regrets my name. He wishes he had named me after his father. When my parents had me both his younger brothers were engaged, so he figured they'll probably have sons and name him after their dad. Well one had two sons and the other had one. None of them need after my grandfather. My dad regrets picking the name he preferred and has said, "If I could go back in time, I would name you Thomas."
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
How hard for OP :( Even if OP's dad truly felt that way, what a sh!tty thing to actually say to your child.
megabeth 2 months ago
I don't find that s****y at all. A father regretted not honoring his. If he said I hate OPs Stoopid name that would be s****y.
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I dont *mind* my sons name but I regret that I didn't stand my ground and insist that his middle name be my great grandpa's name. I really wanted to honour my opa who was a big part of my life and my ex insisted it was "too German" and insisted he have a "good Irish name" and "allowed" my alternative. My ex is like a quarter irish through his grandma that he never met, meanwhile my German dad literally didn't speak English til he was 7 and my mom is German and I grew up in a household where German was spoken too but go off i guess.
#79
Collin Pope said by a two year old sounds an awful lot like "colon p**p". If that weren't bad enough his first name is really John, another name for the throne.
Sorry little guy. :(.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I've never seen the first name Colin spelled with two Ls before. Even though it's my pop's name, I've never really liked the name Colin, or nickname Col. Actually I don't really like any of his eight brother's names either, except Harley and he was the one who died in infancy.
#80
I did name my kid ‘Bradley’ after Sublime.
#81
My son came home, I looked at him and said "you are NOT a Jameson" 😂
#82
Only my daughter’s middle names a little.. yes names.. I love giving my kids long names so they have 2. Anyways it’s Ezmay Rose. So pretty! Didn’t know it was the names of the moms on Twilight until someone told me and I watched the movie….. that bothers me a little….but I loved the name rose and couldn’t find names that I liked to go with it until Ezmay. Taylin Ezmay Rose.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
So that OP can feel oh so clever and oh so original. ::eyeroll::
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John O'Donnell 2 months ago
My friend’s daughter is Esme, I think it’s from Catcher In The Rye.
megabeth 2 months ago
I just can't get into that novel. Everyone loves it! It gives me the ick. Been years since I've read it though.
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Huddo's sister 2 months ago
My cousin's name is Catherine Rose, which I think is really pretty together. Where does the name Taylin come from?
#83
I named my first son Declan and the only reason I regret it is bc I never expected the mispronunciations we'd get at doctor's offices.
Sarah 2 months ago
That’s a very common name? ( in Ireland) how wrong can a person get pronouncing it.
#84
My oldest is trans and doesn't like her birth name. Wish I had gone with something more gender neutral. I loved her birth name and she could've used it after she came out. There is no guarantee she would've liked a different name once she transitioned. But I would've liked to try, I guess.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I think it would be lovely if people who came out as trans involved their parents in choosing their new name, but there are far too many s**t parents who don't support their trans children anyway :(
#85
Let me preface by saying that every name I came up with was shot down & she eventually named my 2 for her mothers plea of happiness .. but my 2 are named Olivia Peyton & Eli Cooper .. good combo'd names RIGHT??? ... but .. her mum is a football mark "colts especially" & if you add the last name "Manning" to each first & middle name you'll see a pattern develop .. :-z
BrownEyedGrrl 2 months ago
Eli & Peyton Manning are brothers and American football players.
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#86
I centered my husband and let him veto a name I loved. When she was two he casually said “(name) would have been fine, I don’t know what my problem was.” I cried for two days. Lss: men suck.
megabeth 2 months ago
Not a fan of saying any gender s***s. I think it was the casual comment. Not like he gave a heartfelt speech.
Load More Replies... #87
I named my child " Camille." Asked my English husband to say the name and somehow he NEVER said it the way anglophones say it. Noticed the first time we went to the 🏨. Now I hate it 🤣🤣
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I've only ever heard it pronounced the correct way in Australia, though I guess our 'English' is often different.
Sam Trudeau 2 months ago
Camel. In French, (source: am bilingual Canadian like OP) it's pronounced "cah-meall"
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
I’m English with an English friend called Camille and we do NOT pronounce it Camel, we pronounce it Ca-meal
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What do you think ?
BookFanatic 2 months ago
My mom (Karen) told my dad (Kent) wanted to name me Katherine because we could sign our Christmas cards as K*K*K. Luckily my grandfather overheard and pointed out the obvious.
Gingersnap In Iowa 2 months ago
I named my son August. No, he wasn't born in August. I call him Auggie and sometimes Auggie Doggie. 😁
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
That is an excellent name.... dare I say it is an AUGUST (dignified) name?? XD (Sorry. Couldn't resist.) Plus, if your son (for whatever reason) didn't want to be called August or Auggie, "Gus" is a fully legitimate nickname for August as well!
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
My real name was extremely popular when I was born, there are 3 other women with the same first name in the senior's building I live in. Except I wasn't named due to it being popular, but to honor my late maternal grandmother. I love my name, but prefer to stick with Lady Eowyn here. Love that name, too.
James016 2 months ago
We were going to call our son Harry (after my paternal grandfather) but then we just kept hearing it everywhere and it got tired quickly. Then my wife suggested at Turkish name that we liked but then she decided that Brits would mispronounce it. So about 2 weeks before he was born she suggested another name, we settled on that one. We named him after someone who constructed a boat a very long time ago.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
Noah? XD If so, I think it's a lovely-sounding name. I'm not religious, but have always liked the way the name sounds.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 2 months ago
A friend of ours called his children Anthony and Natalie. Which are both fine until you give them nicknames. You don't half sound daft shouting "Ants and Nats" across a playground as though you're the insect whisperer.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
Somewhere recently on BP, a woman named Marlana reminded us to check what a proposed child's name would read backwards.
Marnie Reville 2 months ago
I was named after an Alfred Hitchcock film. There were two other Marnies in my grade in high school. I love hearing Sean Connery say my name with his Scottish accent.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
Be glad they didn't name you after the Hitchcock film with the shower scene.
Load More Replies... Chich the witch 2 months ago
Going to think I'm lying but I once knew an Anita D**k. Her parents had to have known what they were doing, no?
BookFanatic 2 months ago
My mom (Karen) told my dad (Kent) wanted to name me Katherine because we could sign our Christmas cards as K*K*K. Luckily my grandfather overheard and pointed out the obvious.
Gingersnap In Iowa 2 months ago
I named my son August. No, he wasn't born in August. I call him Auggie and sometimes Auggie Doggie. 😁
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
That is an excellent name.... dare I say it is an AUGUST (dignified) name?? XD (Sorry. Couldn't resist.) Plus, if your son (for whatever reason) didn't want to be called August or Auggie, "Gus" is a fully legitimate nickname for August as well!
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
My real name was extremely popular when I was born, there are 3 other women with the same first name in the senior's building I live in. Except I wasn't named due to it being popular, but to honor my late maternal grandmother. I love my name, but prefer to stick with Lady Eowyn here. Love that name, too.
James016 2 months ago
We were going to call our son Harry (after my paternal grandfather) but then we just kept hearing it everywhere and it got tired quickly. Then my wife suggested at Turkish name that we liked but then she decided that Brits would mispronounce it. So about 2 weeks before he was born she suggested another name, we settled on that one. We named him after someone who constructed a boat a very long time ago.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
Noah? XD If so, I think it's a lovely-sounding name. I'm not religious, but have always liked the way the name sounds.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 2 months ago
A friend of ours called his children Anthony and Natalie. Which are both fine until you give them nicknames. You don't half sound daft shouting "Ants and Nats" across a playground as though you're the insect whisperer.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
Somewhere recently on BP, a woman named Marlana reminded us to check what a proposed child's name would read backwards.
Marnie Reville 2 months ago
I was named after an Alfred Hitchcock film. There were two other Marnies in my grade in high school. I love hearing Sean Connery say my name with his Scottish accent.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
Be glad they didn't name you after the Hitchcock film with the shower scene.
Load More Replies... Chich the witch 2 months ago
Going to think I'm lying but I once knew an Anita D**k. Her parents had to have known what they were doing, no?
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