Fuck you Wolfgang Atreides is money. I’d follow that baby into battle.
Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name.
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AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also, Leviathan? 100%. And my only problem with Dusti Rose is the “I”.
TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Dusti Rose sounds like a matricidal professional wrestler.
wellee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah it made me think they wanted to name their son Dusty but had a girl, and tried to feminize it lol
AA5B@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sounds like a bit actor for a Weight Watchers ad
root_beer@midwest.social 8 months ago
Good luck following into battle an asthmatic baby armed with a mall katana who is easily felled by a whiff of peanuts
deafboy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?
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.
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.
Korne127@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ngl having “Wolfgang” as an example for a weird name is baffling to me… but I’m German.
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.
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.
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.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Now I’m really curious about how people call her in day-to-day life.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Imagine you’re a seven years old little fat kid and your name is Leviathan
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.
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.
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.
Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Narcissism
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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
i’m so fucking happy sweden has laws preventing this stuff, names here have to be approved as not causing undue harm to the child
bestagon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I could see a system like that being used to racist ends in America. “Please select from the pre-approved list of biblical names”
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’m having trouble finding articles about it because search engines have become terrible, but I’ve heard trans people talk about how the Swedish law has been used to transphobic ends (and, yes, racist ones too because common names in immigrant communities weren’t on the list). There’s few gender neutral names on the approved list and getting a gendered name approved for a name change is difficult and leaves the for open for outright transphobia - and legally changing your gender required surgical sterilization in Sweden up until the end of 2012.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Spoiler alert: Swedes aren’t above that
fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
The Nazis did it
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-nazis-used-personal-names-to-spawn-the-holocaust-1.5818120KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
perhaps we have a list of “accepted variations of names” where that is what is legally recognized. Though the body will have to regulate it properly of course.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m proud to be an American, where at least I can name my kids Yungblud Founding Father Lee Awesome. I won’t forget the Kanyes and Jason Lee’s who named their kids weirdly. And I’ll gladly stand up next to Pilot Inspektor and Jermajesty!
Don’t mind me, I’m just the local idiot.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I dated a girl from Sweden named Saga. You guys got awesome names.
I should text her…
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Sounds pretty dumb, not gonna lie.
Harm doesn’t come from names, harms comes from people.
Last thing I need is government regulation for naming my child. (It is very strictly regulated where I’m from. So a classroom of 30 kids, has 6 “Johns”)
Every name was unique at some point.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Ok but Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides goes pretty hard.
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Well, it TRIES pretty hard 😜
CptEnder@lemmy.world 8 months ago
reinei@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Except a kid like that automatically has a free pass for eternally being pissed about their father and their father before them not also having had that name so they could be "… the third’!
Gabu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But now they can yell “I am Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides, First of my name”!
slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Definitely has some Rogue Trader energy to it.
AdmiralShat@programming.dev 8 months ago
I heard so much racism/making fun about black names growing up, but like, white people names are some of the absolute goofiest shit I’ve ever heard.
JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
That “leigh” suffix got the caucasians in a chokehold 😂😂
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Triniteigh
This one makes Jesus cry.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m not one to judge parents baby names, but Merricka??
Hikermick@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a child not a vanity plate
MagnyusG@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What irks me the most is the effort these idiot parents will go to give their baby as basic a name as “Allison” or "Ashley"
- Ashlie
- Ashlee
- Ashly
- Ashleigh
- Ashlea
- Ashli
- Ashely
- Ashlei
- Ashleah
- Asheleigh
- Ashelie
- Ahshlee
- the list goes on and on and on No amount of vowels is going to make your kid’s name stand out when at the end of the day it’s the same pronunciation as the most common, basic form of it.
Mötley might be weird but it’s at least unique.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Do these parents not realise that they are naming real humans that will also be adults one day. Like, just imagine a grown-ass woman named “Brexleigh”.
problematicPanther@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Personally, I prefer names that are forbidden, like Username, Null, Admin, 'SELECT * FROM Users;-- , example@contoso.com, Error, <FirstName>,
imbezil@feddit.de 8 months ago
Some of these names sound like those brands you only ever find on Amazon
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sigurd. Felix. Wolfgang. Atredies. No one can mess with that mf.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
There was a missing child report near me whose name was Mill’ionaire.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve always felt like the names we pick for ourselves are more valid than the ones others choose for us. We ought to choose names for ourselves at different stages of life, and just tack them on in whatever order we like. You want something more fun than mummy and daddy gave you? Knock yourself out. Were your parents drunk when they signed the papers? Well you can fix that at 12 if you like. We are who we choose to be and this the goddamn future.
poshKibosh@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You’re gonna look me in the eyes and tell me Raddix isn’t straight fire?
Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My daughter has a friend named Hayley. She is not amused when I spell it heighleigh
Badeendje@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well some of these will not require your daughter to think of her stripper name.
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
If I had been named Triniteigh I would have legally changed my name as soon as I was old enough. That’s an atrocity of a name.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 8 months ago
People really took “video game name genrator” to the real world.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To be fair, Leviathan is a banger middle name. Plus you can be called Levi for short :)
febra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Dusti Rose sounds like a 40 year old chain smoker that looks 65
Why would you name your kid that
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Agreed. Mötley can stay.
As someone whose name is an odd spelling that is close to something more conventional, life can be taxing. I’m not saying that there isn’t room for creativity or fun/romantic name choices here. But Triniteigh’s Parents are setting their kid up for a lifetime of bullying and inconvenience, followed by the shock of their kid going to the courthouse at 30 to undo things.
AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 8 months ago
Madden Raige.
Lmao. Accidentally named your kid into a contract with Khorne.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Leviathan is awesome. I’d trade that for my common but bad name.
novibe@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Coyote Bao just sounds like a health code violation lmao
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I highly agree with how they do it in Iceland. There is a list of 3000 or so names that you can pick from, that’s it.
Dumb people should not be allowed to pick names for human beings.
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Mericka is 1000% getting bullied in every single grade
Turun@feddit.de 8 months ago
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
Orbituary@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What a tragedeigh
DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Or tragideh if you’re Canadian
SeekPie@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Is there a similar community for these on here?
Gabu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This one is truly a… Mystereigh
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
You’re just sentencing your child to forever have to spell out their name to strangers
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Meh, depending on the last name that might happen anyway. I just spell out my last name by default now.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
“It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Reminds me of the article about black Americans visiting Africa and being devastated that they weren’t “welcomed home” but rather just treated as visiting Americans.
It’s cute
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It doesn’t even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I worked under someone at an old job who named his son Jaxon. And kept pictures Jaxon drew and signed on the wall of his office. So every time I needed something from him, I would have to see Jaxon’s name in his office. And I hated it.
raynethackery@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Was his middle name Mississippi?
manucode@feddit.de 8 months ago
Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?
uncreativechap@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We might have the same employer! Or at least I hope so, I can’t imagine two different sets of parents deciding that “Jackson” is just too boring
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Did Jason have cybernetic arms?
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It reminds Big Literacy that they can’t control our minds
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Because you hate your child but don’t believe in abortion. Just yesterday, I avoided spelling my preferred email on a phone call because a company already had a different address on file.
Ex and I once joked about this subject. We decided it’d be funny to named an unwanted child Paisley.
Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Payniese
Mike Hawk
Jenna Talya
Or just James, but spelled Chaymz
root_beer@midwest.social 8 months ago
To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!
esc27@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s to add a little uniqueness, and avoid them being the 14th Erica in the classroom, but not going so far as to not give them one of the “normal” names.
Or they just think it looks prettier. It doesn’t have to be about accomplishing something beyond “I like how that looks”.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I feel like “my child will be burdened by this for the rest of their life” wins over “it looks cool”
wellee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But the pronunciation of Triniteigh would have the sound like “neighbor” so wouldn’t be said like Trinity (tee)…
root_beer@midwest.social 8 months ago
Not necessarily. Think Leigh and its relatives (e.g., Ashleigh, Kayleigh, Charleigh*)
*made that one up but still,
rothaine@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Actually
it’s pronounced Trinitay
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
genuinely, i think committing crimes against parents of those names should be legal, to a degree.
It’s actually fucking obtuse.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.