40 Moments Fathers Had To Pick A Name For A Baby, But Failed Epically, As Shared Online
If you've seen the movies Warcraft or Moon, for example, you probably know that they were directed by Duncan Jones. The son of the legendary British rock musician David Bowie. And perhaps you didn’t know that at birth, dad gave the boy the name Zowie. Yes, that's right, Zowie Bowie.
When the boy grew up, he first began asking others to call him Joey, and then completely changed his name to Duncan (Jones, by the way, is his father’s real last name while Bowie is a pseudonym). Well, the participants of this viral thread on X in fact have had similar experiences, opening up about various weird names given to them by their own dads...
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You are a woman. That means you are old enough to change your name if you so desire. You could choose something completely different, or just go with a feminisation of the name into Javiera.
I think if I was her, I’d just add the a on in informal settings and introduce myself as Javiera.
Load More Replies...So sad and yets there are remeies such gas a legal name change or accepting the name of Javier as a strong statement of womanhood.
For some reason, I actually like when women has traditionally male names. Bryan Fuller does this with his characters. Although they're nicknames, they're named Jay, George, and Chuck. My friend's mom named her Demetrias and I love it.
I'm often thought to be male based on the spelling of my name. My father liked the name Terry but not Theresa. When I was a kid I would be scheduled for gym class and find that I was listed on the boys roster. They would tease me by asking where I was for class. I used to hate my name and wished for a traditional girls name, but as I grew older I began to like that it was different. Now I'm especially glad my parents didn't go with their other choice for my name: Karen.
Load More Replies...Fellow female, here... This name CAN be softened... I'd wear that name like a boss ...and pronounce it as, " Hey - Vee- Ayyy" ... I hear elegance, there. 🏆... But, it is OP's choice, of course.
Javier is a Spanish male’s name. I don’t think skin tone matters as I have a few black Spanish (Spanish as in from Spain, not Latino Spanish) friends with Spanish names, but it matters in the Spanish language because it’s the masculine form of the name. She should be named Javiera, the feminine form. But ultimately it probably doesn’t matter at all; she should just own it.
Load More Replies...Your daddy was dumb, Javier is a boy's name of Spanish origin. A variation of Xavier, named for Saint Francis Xavier, Javier means "new house" and refers to the very village he was born.
Names change gender sometimes - Hillary used to be male, for example
Load More Replies...Go far away with this comment. I see where it's going and you need to take it home.
Load More Replies...Wife had a young girl patient whose parents named her, literally, "Vagina". Pronounced "Va-'jeena". 100% truth.
The comic Paul Rodriguez did a bit about how Latinos would often name their children English words that sounded nice, without necessarily knowing the meaning of the word. As an example, he used the word "genitalia". If you don't know what it means, it does sound pretty. So in his routine, Mr. Rodriguez would mock introduce his (imaginary) daughter, Genitalia. He'd follow that up, with the line, "And this is my son, Scr0tum."
Load More Replies...I had a friend who's last name was dora. Her dad wanted to name her Opentha ( as in open the dora), thank goodness her mother put her foot down!
But your name is "Jairne"? As if that's not just several random letters strung together arbitrarily?
...Soren is a fairly common name in Scandinavia
Load More Replies...My parents had 3 girls but if we were boys we were to be name Wolfgang.... we live NE uk it would have been awful
It turns out that some fathers are better off not being involved in the process of choosing a name for their child at all, because their excessive creativity often results in a bad pick. It happens that some random dude thinks the name looks ‘funny’ or ‘cool’ holding a baby, without thinking that later this very baby will grow up and may face, for example, problems or ridicule at school or somewhere outside home.
Look on the bright side, it could have been Chicken curry.
Load More Replies...That is definitely how she feels every Christmas I would gusse. Poor thing
Load More Replies...I think the husband might be a reincarnated hippie.
Good for you, those silly name belong in the past with hubby not in todays world..
Seman or Semen was my first guess.
Load More Replies...I know a family once who where Senad, Senada, Sanel and Sanella. (I probably spelled those wrong, it's been like 24 years or so. They also loved telling me that my name is Bosnian. They were all such cuties.)
Please tell me you're actually called Trillian??
Load More Replies...My sister, then says her daddy. Is that not your father as well? Lol.
On the other hand, we have many clear examples of parents coming up with a non-standard name for their kid for an equally original reason. For example, Kobe Bryant, the late basketball legend, as you may know, got his name in honor of the famous Kobe beef, which his parents once saw on a restaurant menu. Well, if Michael Jordan has to share the name “Michael” in his legacy with Michael Jackson, at least then Kobe is forever one and unique...
What a tremendous PITA this is going to be for you throughout your whole life, trying to correct people's spelling and pronunciations.
Famously, Oprah is a misspelling of "Orpah", a Bible figure. So maybe it will work out for this Bey
I was going to say this, if no one has already.
Load More Replies...Beonyce means Bees-toad in Old English. Beon (pronounced BAY-own) is the plural of beo (bee) as in Beowulf (bee-wolf) and yce (pronounced Ü-chay) means toad.
I had a girl named Mehgan at the daycare. Her parents were quite honest about not knowing where the "g" went. I think they kept it, because every other girl was getting named some variant of Megan at the time, and it was a little different.
OK how many people tried several times to figure out how that is pronounced ... Raises my hand.
Willamina would be fine; Willow is good; Mia, Mila, Lili...there are plenty of ways to name a daughter after William with a mix of letters from dad's name that would be less ridiculous. (Sorry, Mailliw. Don't let your dad define you).
Change it. I changed my Family name and it was one of the BEST things I ever did!
Why didn't he think of Josie? Clearly similar to Joseph, and not something she'll have to tell people how to pronounce.
My dad named 2 of my brothers, Christopher and Christian. They're both Chris 🤦🏻♀️ (It's also my husbands name lol)
Grandfather: Joseph, Uncle (deceased) Joseph, Dad: Joseph Alexander, Brother Joseph Aloysius, Nephews, Jeffrey Joseph, Joseph Gordon, Joseph Anthony, and I added Benjamin Joseph to the mix. (Couldn't help myself!)
However, why go far for examples? When I myself was born, my father, who by that time did not live with my mother, decided that I should be named Ivan, in honor of his own late dad - and began to tell this “news” to all his friends and acquaintances. Now imagine my mom’s surprise when, having registered me as Oleg, she once met one of these friends on the street who addressed her: “Well, how is little Ivan doing?”
Tried to? So he went with something else, and this name is now just water under the bridge. (I know. I'll see myself out...again.)
Who is that Aquafina and why is she everywhere recently? She apparently voiced the gull in Arielle and will also voice the fox thief from Kung Fu Panda 4.
Technically she spells it "Awkwafina", I think, but she's a comedian/actress/rapper, and she also does some writing/producing. Her tv show "Nora From Queens" (her real name is Nora) is very funny 👍
Load More Replies...Back in my day, it was Polly Ethylene and Polly Ester. Considered but not used. Parents can be so cruel by not thinking of their children's lives but only of their own wit.
I’ve seen this as an African family name. But for a first name, sorry, I didn’t quite get that.
Load More Replies...Put an A behind it and it is Morgana, at least thats female and to me beautiful.
Well, going back to David Bowie and his son, the rock legend wasn't worried about picking a name, saying in an interview: “If, when he gets old enough to care about his name, he doesn't like it, he can always change it or give himself a nickname. It's OK by me.” That's what happened in the end. After all, if you were given an unusual name, then who knows, maybe this is just another reason for you to emphasize your uniqueness? Or probably share your unique name in the comments to this post...
Sacagawea was a badass woman, that'd be a great baby name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea
I agree she was bad a*s. And I think an awesome name. !
Load More Replies...can you just imagine...How about Cassiopeia? I suggested that.. AITA?
I see nothing bad about Cassiopeia; can be Cassie for short
Load More Replies...How dare he suggest naming your child after an amazing role model?
It would sentence the child to a lifetime of spelling and explaining. The name is about the child, not the parents.
Load More Replies...Each time I was pregnant my dad suggested that I name the baby after him. No, thank you, Hagan Harding!
Pretty sure it stands for baby daddy, or the father of her child
Load More Replies...I think it a beautiful and unique name but I'm a weirdo and most people don't like me. I love strange and weird names.
Better than Smithandwesson, Winchester, Glock, Uzi, or Colt. Well, maybe Colt would be okay... for a boy.
Uzi was the name of one of the kids in The Royal Tenenbaums.
Load More Replies...People shouldn't be joking about this. It's really Nutteya business.
Okay this one right here I understand. But it original and unique.
I had a friend who named her baby "Tamathy" instead of "Timothy". He changed it to just "Tam" as soon as he was old enough.
Again, why not the real feminine form of the name? Tomasina, with a good middle name for her to be called?
I had a '76 Chevy Cheyenne. I loved that truck. My child would be honored to share its name.
Load More Replies...I bet more than 50% of people who see her name for the first time pronounce it "Curtis". I honestly would pronounce it "Ker-'teece".
I was gonna change my stripper name to Mitsubishi as a joke, back in the day cos I always worked with a Mercedes and Lexus 😂 never got round to it but I wonder how popular ‘Mitsubishi’ could of been 😂
Load More Replies...It was the daughter of someone who worked with DMG. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz
Load More Replies...Mercedes is a legit Spanish name. Nothing strange or cringy about that.
At least it is not Sierra Mist After the soda (they have changed the soda's name to Starry)
Wait they did? When? (I'm living under a rock, sorry XD)
Load More Replies...It's really hard to picture a cute, tiny baby boy named Horace. Sorry, Horace.
It could've been worse. There was a young child at day camp many years ago named Xavier Plummet III. Dad must have hated his name and gave it to his kid so he could end up hating it too!
Load More Replies...Horace and Phoebe are classical Greek names, maybe it depends on the surname? I mean, you wouldn't have an Achilles Boggins, but you might have a Persephone Charlotte...
My dentist has a Japanese family name and an Ancient Greek given name. Apparently his Dad was a philosophy lecturer in Japan. (His brother is called Voltaire.)
Load More Replies...every time I hear the name "Horace" I think horace slughorn from hp...
I guess you're too fresh faced and energetic to remember Horace Goes Skiing.
Load More Replies...In the old days in Australia, every bloke named Horace, was called Horrie .... how horrie -ble.
When legal please fire both of them, unless they raised precious Daryl in a good way.
Without an E after the C though: should be pronounced, "Prick-less". Although, for a girl: maybe fitting ;)
Marissa is a nice name; I assume Morrisa is pronounced very similarly, though getting people to spell it right is probably a pain.
I feel for you. My GM wanted me named after my GF who passed away before I was born. His name was Morris Henry and she wanted Morrissa Henryetta. My Mom told her she would just have to be satisfied with the initials. Maureen Heather isn't bad
Nothing wrong with Geraldine, pretty common girls name, unless the OP is a boy! Geraldine Chaplin was a pretty well known actress. Of German origin, female version of Gerald meaning spear ruler.
For those old enough to remember, that name triggers the memory of Flip Wilson's drag character from his variety show. Hilarious at the time. Not sure it would pass muster today.
Geraldine is a beautiful name. It's a real name. Nothing wrong with it.
Google your name and Flip Wilson together. Your name is a beautiful name.
My niece's name is also Kylie, as she was born during the Neighbours boom.
It’s not about the names themselves, it’s just cultural appropriation.
Load More Replies...Im not categorically against people naming their kids things/names from other cultures, but i often think it won't do the kid any favors. Sometimes it is just cultural appropriation (I don't think this case is appropriation, but i think it doesn't do them any favors)
I can't imagine nobody's called Ghost Face Killer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🕠
Load More Replies...My best friend was adopted by a Dutch-Chinese couple; her adoptive dad was Chinese, and her adoptive mum was Dutch. This gave my very white friend the surname W**g.
So? Her new family name was W**g. If a white woman marries a man named W**g, she might take that as her new last name. Also totally fine.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of preschoolers who, when asked what they want the new baby to be, say "A puppy!"
That's awful! There should be a law in the US against really stupid names like there is in some European countries.
I had a cat named Fluffy. Were you particularly fluffy as a baby?
I feel sometimes people name a baby forgetting they are naming a person
Esperanza is a common and pretty name here, idk what have that with your colour skin or if you are Hispanic. Is just a great name , I don't see the problem here .
Load More Replies...Black people and Spanish people are not mutually exclusive groupings. I've been and I've seen. Your name should not HAVE to identify with skin color..
It's about culture, which happens to coincide with skin color.
Load More Replies...I have a black friend named Juan. Asked if he had any Hispanics and his family and he just shrugged.
I truly wonder about the emphasis some pay to their skin-color/name relation. I mean, Esperanza is a good name. You might not like it - okay, fine (I don't particularly like mine either) but it shouldn't matter because of your skin-color. There are a boat-load of "Kim"s in our country and bet you while the gender is not fixed with that name, I'd say 79% of them are Caucasian-white.
I love that name. It's so pretty. But I know it's usually associated with people of Hispanic heritage.
We have a famous Malcolm here and is català, and I love his name and I m sure he does it too . And not Anglo-Saxon heritage. So I agreed with you a lot .
Load More Replies...She's actually 'Luvly', not 'Lovly', if you read it.
Load More Replies...Friend of a friend is named Bruno. I heard he punched someone for singing We Don't talk About Bruno... I'm not sure though. Might be made up.
In Dumas' The Three Musketeers, there's a woman by the mane of Milady (M' Lady). She's conniving and dangerous. Did your dad ever read it? Or seen the movie?
It’s absolutely fabulous (as in Edwina and patsy but even she goes by Eddie)
Edwina is a perfectly legit name. And it's a beautiful one. Nothing cringe about it.
I agree. I've known 2 Edwinas, and never known of a problem.
Load More Replies...🎶 You don't want to call nobody else Send it off in a letter to yourself 🎶
Load More Replies...I'm feeling a mighty urge to find some of these chaps and give them a smart clip round the lughole
Ok here, take my upvote lol. Took me a minute, but it was def worth it!
Load More Replies...theres juan over there.... and look i think i see juan there
Load More Replies...My Grandma's sister was named Juanita. My Grandma, all the kids (my mom and her siblings), and later us (the grandkids) always called her "Aunt Neetie". 😊
I mean... at least the nicknames are pretty nice? "Lyn" and "alyn"?
I thought it was after the US national anthem...Oshay can you see, by the dawn's early light...
Can’t figure out what your attempting to say. Not cool. Maybe it’s back to school time.
Love this name, absolutely gorgeous… too bad the terrible connotation completely destroyed it for everyone but punk rockers, satanists and sex workers
LOL back when I worked at a certain pizza place with 3 dots on the sign, we had a gay (male) couple we delivered to often. They had a little Chihuahua. It was a female, and they'd named her Jezebel, because, and I quite, "All women are jezebels!" It was meant in good humor. We always had a good laugh with them. 😂
oh god, please tell me you're not from a Judaeo-Christian family.
Any number of parents call their daughters Jezebel, sooner or later.
That was my nickname (from a certain family) for a long time until I was about 13 and decided to look it up. I don't really talk to that family member anymore
Somehow, I am not sure how that would be a bad idea. Plus so many name variants she could go by: Pat, Patty, Andie etc.
Have these people never heard of female versions of male names?? Has this person never heard of Marie Antoinette?? French origin meaning highly praiseworthy.
Well for one, Marie Antoinette doesn't exactly illicit a positive imagery. But a lot of people don't like the entire concept of naming a kid after their parent since it smacks of narcissism and establishes, from birth, that a child is merely an extension of the parent with no identy of their own.
Load More Replies...I knew a woman in prison named Antoinette Marie. She didn't know why her parents turned it around.
They called the drink Sierra Mist because a mist is just water in a different form.
Jerica isn't too bad, kind of like Erica but with a J up front and has a nice ring to it. I think semi-active wrestler Jeff Jarrett has a daughter named Jerryn (side-note, I read somewhere that Taylor Swift babysat her elder sister Jaclyn).
Superiority in music depends vastly on personal taste. Band-Genesis is fine but if someone likes rap-music... *shrugs* Same outcome in the end. She can pick which musical genre her name is based on depending on the people she's talking to ;-)
Load More Replies...Maybe he called you Genesis because you were always starting something.
Genesis Rodriguez is a bombshell so I wouldn't knock on the name at all.
Another relatively common girls name and pretty one at that.Brianna is a girl's name of Irish origin, meaning “high,” “noble,” and “exalted.”
I think the problem that these girls have with their names is that some of the names are quite old fashioned, or the dad didn’t give her her own name, just feminised his name.
Load More Replies...I knew a guy who was a Brian, but legally it was Brain because spelling is hard.
Brianna was a VERY common girl's name given back in the 90's here in the US. I have a niece with that name.
I like Zelda. It makes me think of a badass woman with class and attitude.
It makes me think of a video game character. Almost as bad as the whole wave of people naming their kids daenerys.
Load More Replies...There are probably a lot of Zelda's of a certain age range. I'm sure my daughter would have named *her* daughter Zelda if she'd had one.
Robin Williams did the same thing - named his daughter after Legend of Zelda.
One of the cats I adopted was named Zelda. Sorry, I'm not big on that name so I changed her name to Abby.
Robin means "little Robert" Robert means "shining fame". So, you are "little shining fame"
Why are so many men so set on naming their children after themselves instead of letting them have their own identities? So weird.
I asked my husband to put his name as a second name for our son. He returned the favor by giving our daughter my name as her second name <3
Load More Replies...My brother is called Max, which is a pretty standard name, except that he was supposed to be named Bram (which is a regular Dutch name, derived from Abraham). My mum sent my dad to register my brother’s birth, and my dad somehow managed to forget the name when he was at the registry office, and so he put down the first male name he could think of, which was Max - the name of our dog.
I had a gf named Norma. When I pointed out that she was this >< close to being Normal she laughed.
Load More Replies...I live in Germany where you can't name your child anything. If a certain name is guaranteed to inflict harm to the child in his future life, they won't accept the name. Like you enter the name in the birth certificate but the officials can reject it. I guess, some names on that list would have been banned for the well-being of the child.... 😂😂
I am seriously starting to think that the guy who said you should have to have license to procreate might have had a point.
I wanted to name my youngest son William Robert. I almost got away with it until my wife realized he would be called Billy Bob all his life.
The only problem here is that their dads just had to name children after themselves
Reminds my of the famous (and lovely) TV chef Nigella Lawson. Her father was a very important MP and I think the chancellor of the exchequer called Nigel Lawson!
He called his other daughter Thomasina. What an incredible imagination.
Load More Replies...my dad wanted to name me Ransom...???? which, jokes on my mom who stopped him, its the PERFECT nonbinary name and i've begun to use it unironically
Why are so many men so set on naming their children after themselves instead of letting them have their own identities? So weird.
I asked my husband to put his name as a second name for our son. He returned the favor by giving our daughter my name as her second name <3
Load More Replies...My brother is called Max, which is a pretty standard name, except that he was supposed to be named Bram (which is a regular Dutch name, derived from Abraham). My mum sent my dad to register my brother’s birth, and my dad somehow managed to forget the name when he was at the registry office, and so he put down the first male name he could think of, which was Max - the name of our dog.
I had a gf named Norma. When I pointed out that she was this >< close to being Normal she laughed.
Load More Replies...I live in Germany where you can't name your child anything. If a certain name is guaranteed to inflict harm to the child in his future life, they won't accept the name. Like you enter the name in the birth certificate but the officials can reject it. I guess, some names on that list would have been banned for the well-being of the child.... 😂😂
I am seriously starting to think that the guy who said you should have to have license to procreate might have had a point.
I wanted to name my youngest son William Robert. I almost got away with it until my wife realized he would be called Billy Bob all his life.
The only problem here is that their dads just had to name children after themselves
Reminds my of the famous (and lovely) TV chef Nigella Lawson. Her father was a very important MP and I think the chancellor of the exchequer called Nigel Lawson!
He called his other daughter Thomasina. What an incredible imagination.
Load More Replies...my dad wanted to name me Ransom...???? which, jokes on my mom who stopped him, its the PERFECT nonbinary name and i've begun to use it unironically
