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Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name.

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  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.

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    • Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      What a tragedeigh

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      • DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Or tragideh if you’re Canadian

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      • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Is there a similar community for these on here?

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      • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        This one is truly a… Mystereigh

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You’re just sentencing your child to forever have to spell out their name to strangers

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      • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Meh, depending on the last name that might happen anyway. I just spell out my last name by default now.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations

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      • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        “It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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      • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        It doesn’t even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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      • raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Was his middle name Mississippi?

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      • manucode@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?

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      • uncreativechap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.

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      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Did Jason have cybernetic arms?

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    • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It reminds Big Literacy that they can’t control our minds

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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      • Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Payniese

        Mike Hawk

        Jenna Talya

        Or just James, but spelled Chaymz

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      • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!

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    • esc27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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”.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I feel like “my child will be burdened by this for the rest of their life” wins over “it looks cool”

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    • wellee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      But the pronunciation of Triniteigh would have the sound like “neighbor” so wouldn’t be said like Trinity (tee)…

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      • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Not necessarily. Think Leigh and its relatives (e.g., Ashleigh, Kayleigh, Charleigh*)

        *made that one up but still,

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    • rothaine@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Actually

      it’s pronounced Trinitay

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      genuinely, i think committing crimes against parents of those names should be legal, to a degree.

      It’s actually fucking obtuse.

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.

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  • AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Fuck you Wolfgang Atreides is money. I’d follow that baby into battle.

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    • AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Also, Leviathan? 100%. And my only problem with Dusti Rose is the “I”.

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      • TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Dusti Rose sounds like a matricidal professional wrestler.

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      • wellee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Yeah it made me think they wanted to name their son Dusty but had a girl, and tried to feminize it lol

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Sounds like a bit actor for a Weight Watchers ad

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    • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Good luck following into battle an asthmatic baby armed with a mall katana who is easily felled by a whiff of peanuts

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  • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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?

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    • Fonderthud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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      • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Narcissism

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    • Adramis@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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    • bestagon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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”

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      • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Spoiler alert: Swedes aren’t above that

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      • fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        The Nazis did it
        www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-nazis-used-personal-names-to-spawn-the-holocaust-1.5818120

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I dated a girl from Sweden named Saga. You guys got awesome names.

      I should text her…

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    • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Ok but Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides goes pretty hard.

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    • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Well, it TRIES pretty hard 😜

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    • CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Image

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    • reinei@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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’!

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      • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        But now they can yell “I am Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides, First of my name”!

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    • slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Definitely has some Rogue Trader energy to it.

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  • AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      That “leigh” suffix got the caucasians in a chokehold 😂😂

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Triniteigh

    This one makes Jesus cry.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m not one to judge parents baby names, but Merricka??

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It’s a child not a vanity plate

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  • MagnyusG@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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”.

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  • problematicPanther@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Personally, I prefer names that are forbidden, like Username, Null, Admin, 'SELECT * FROM Users;-- , example@contoso.com, Error, <FirstName>,

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  • imbezil@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Some of these names sound like those brands you only ever find on Amazon

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Sigurd. Felix. Wolfgang. Atredies. No one can mess with that mf.

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    There was a missing child report near me whose name was Mill’ionaire.

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  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • poshKibosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You’re gonna look me in the eyes and tell me Raddix isn’t straight fire?

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  • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    My daughter has a friend named Hayley. She is not amused when I spell it heighleigh

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  • Badeendje@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Well some of these will not require your daughter to think of her stripper name.

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  • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    People really took “video game name genrator” to the real world.

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  • ZombieMantis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    To be fair, Leviathan is a banger middle name. Plus you can be called Levi for short :)

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  • febra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Dusti Rose sounds like a 40 year old chain smoker that looks 65

    Why would you name your kid that

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Madden Raige.

    Lmao. Accidentally named your kid into a contract with Khorne.

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  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Leviathan is awesome. I’d trade that for my common but bad name.

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  • novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Coyote Bao just sounds like a health code violation lmao

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Mericka is 1000% getting bullied in every single grade

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  • Turun@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Whenever I read Mötley Crüe I have to think of this:

    When we finally went to Germany, the crowds were chanting, “Mutley Cruh! Mutley Cruh! “ We couldn’t figure out why the fuck they were doing that.

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