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deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fonderthud@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you’re an author. Perfect compromise.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We gave our daughter a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant. We just wanted a name that wasn’t religious but still normal enough that she wouldn’t get bullied for it (she got bullied anyway). We realized later that it actually made sense in terms of her ancestry because her mother has a plant name, her grandmother has a plant name and her great-grandmother has a plant name. One long lineage of plant names.

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    • crazyCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dude I see you around here on the regular, so I’ll mention that this is ironic for me to read this, because we also named our daughter an old, obscure but “real” name that is also a plant (a flower, specifically).

      It’s from France, so I asked a French friend before using it if it was ok to use and not a weird name, and they said “sure it’s ok, but it’s like an old grandma’s name no one uses anymore.” And that’s when I knew it was the one!

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep, that was basically our reasoning. Vintage name, so it’s memorable, but not a weird one and spelled normally.

        And absolutely not religious.

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    • whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, it’s all bullying?

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        She was bullied for other reasons. Most significantly being as eccentric as her parents.

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      • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Always has been.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant

      Describing it like that makes it really tempting to try and guess the name. Out of respect for your and her privacy, I won’t, though.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Okay, I admit it. Her name is Cannabis Indica.

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      • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Same boat. I think I guessed it, and it’s absolutely killing me knowing I’ll never know if I’m right. But also, my brain itch doesn’t trump doxxing a person (or even a squid) or their kid.

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  • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ngl having “Wolfgang” as an example for a weird name is baffling to me… but I’m German.

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  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a pretty common practice where I live for a kid to be named after someone for their first name, but go by their middle name. So I think it’s perfectly fine to have one normal name and one weird name in any order.

    A. John Smith is an accountant. Atreyu J. Smith is a musician who wears leather pants and some sort of studded headband.

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• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let me introduce you to Marijuana Pepsi:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck

  The kicker is her siblings have normal names.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the fall of 2019, Vandyck sponsored the Marijuana Pepsi Scholarship for first-generation African-American students at UW–Whitewater.

    If someone with a brand name… name… starts a same-industry business in their name, or offers a scholarship for nazis, I wonder what kind of recourse the original brand has.

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now I’m really curious about how people call her in day-to-day life.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That may be one case where a non medical PhD would be justified in just going by Doc

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      mari, or mary.

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• awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine you’re a seven years old little fat kid and your name is Leviathan

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  • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That one I actually like. It’s easy to short it to Levi in public, but still be able to flex among friends.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess if everyone has a weird name, that doesn’t matter. Maybe kids don’t make fun of weird names anymore. Who knows, maybe it’s the Johns and Marys who get made fun of for having uninteresting names.

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• ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My name is a standard name, but super uncommon here. It’s not that bad, since I got picked on about as much as anyone else. It’s not like they won’t just because your name is unremarkable.

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• Tolstoshev@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Narcissism

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• Adramis@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you don’t get bullied for your name, you’ll just get bullied for something else. At least with the name you can blame it on your parents, maybe. Kids are assholes.

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